Language: History & General Works

Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our isla...

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political...

This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their c...

We Irish have enriched the English language with a slew of snazzy gems. Did you know were the ones behind quarks, electrons and vectors, Sudocrem a...

This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation ...

This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The con...

Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; ...

This collection of essays connects Lion Feuchtwangers work to the gendered experience of exile during the period of National Socialism. The article...

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented. English functions as a language of education, bu...

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization offers a coherent system of terms and categories for the study of the complex phenome...

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented. English functions as a language of education, bu...