Language: History & General Works

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on ...

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classi...

This volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer eviden...

If you've ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book ...

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.D. manuscript residing in Salisbury Cathedral. As a penitential manual, it joi...

This book offers a systematic, bottom-up account of irony across both everyday contexts and literary and linguistic texts, using an empirically rig...

Viral Language considers a range of different types of public communication and their discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to investigate h...

Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in the historical nexus of colonialis...

Due to the competitive edge it confers on students, educational institutions, and non-English speaking nations in a globalized economy, English as ...

This accessible textbook introduces concepts and frameworks from linguistics and uses them in the analysis of language on social media. Assuming no...

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities serves as a reference point for key developments related to the ways in which the...

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is an increasingly popular educational approach given its dual focus on enabling learners to acquir...

This collection re-envisions the academic study of institutional translation and interpreting (ITI), uncovering the ways in which institutional pra...

This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph...

How Texts Work: explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts an...

This groundbreaking collection explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks.Orthodox h...

Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done. Examining everyday l...

Routledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. They provide comprehensive coverage ...

Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar a...

This groundbreaking collection explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks.Orthodox h...

In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descrip...

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to address the rol...

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduc...

This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide...