Language: History & General Works

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...