Language: History & General Works

The Selections of Poems Beyond Time, written by Richard Gaete-Holmes Esquire depict the realms of youth, and his immense love of nature combined wi...

This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500. ...

This book examines some of the criteria against which translated fictional and non-fictional works are assessed. It not only provides a novel cross...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language cha...

Have you ever wondered where terms like 'end of your tether', 'gets my goat' or 'letting ones hair down' come from? Or why we call some people 'gee...

This book discusses issues of Welsh literature, history and the vernacular language of the devolved region of Wales (as a part of the United Kingdo...

The Romance languages offer unique potential for empirical analysis and methodological innovation within the vast field of linguistics, due to the ...

This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective teachers of English Language (EL), and teachers specializing in English as a foreign la...

This collection brings together a variety of essays by prominent academicians from around the world to project on the current trends in the vast ar...

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrase...

A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, tr...

For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf and her work is made available to a world-wide audie...

The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the u...

A warm, witty, passionate cry for living, vital, indigenous languages and the people who speak them.Despite the more than 200 Indigenous languages ...

What are words? They're the beginning of our stories: portals to treasured memories, to the strange sayings that seem to be unique to our own famil...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**Unmissable Stephen Fry'A delight' Katherine RundellIlluminating Susie Dent'Brilliant' Phili...

What do the longest-serving Canadian Prime Minister and a ketamine-injecting psychonaut have in common? What would a poltergeist mongoose say if yo...

From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is ...

Studies in LSP in Colombia began in the 1990s, mainly in the discipline of terminology. Since then, studies in translation, terminology, and LSP ha...

Everyone remembers the Queens Annus Horribilis, but what do 'quid pro quo' and 'habeas corpus' mean? Why do plants have Latin names? Why do familie...

Hence, old goat! Coriolanus Ever think of what you meant to say ten minutes after the argument ended? Never again! Consult the best, dust the rest,...

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dic...

Never be at a loss for words again! Mental Floss's Word Nerd 2025 Day-to-Day Calendar delivers the goods on historic curses and old insults, fun an...

In 1609, the first Dutch settlers arrived in America and established trading posts, small towns, and forts up and down what we now call the Hudson ...