Language: History & General Works

First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a wa...

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...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and underst...

Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention o...

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...

A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language s...

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

From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating jour...

Multimodality is an innovative approach to representation, communication and interaction which looks beyond language to investigate the multitude o...

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal wor...

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores the possible reasons behind ...

What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilization without language? Such were the ...

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theologi...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and underst...

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-...

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

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particul...

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a c...

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

The genius of Shakespeare is not always accessible or easily understandable to readers and audiences. Leon Kellner points out that sometimes Shakes...

First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The b...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...