Language: Reference & General

This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a ra...

As the fifth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the development of monosyllables and polysyllables in Middle C...

As the sixth volume of a multivolume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the influence of foreign culture on Middle Chinese lexicon and ...

This innovative volume provides a new analytic framework for understanding how meaning-making resources are deployed in images designed for knowled...

Know your Arbroath smokies from your wynds, your trews from your sporran, and . . . lang may yer lum reek! Some say that Scots use more Scottish sl...

Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse...

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

The dialects of English still spoken in Yorkshire, known collectively as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke or Yorkie, are both colourful and instantly recognis...

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing...

For courses in Writing. Applying the fundamentals of good writing to a modern world The Writers Brief Handbook, 6th Edition continues the long cel...

This volume presents an introspective study of writing pedagogy, explored through the lens of theatre and performance. The chapters explore assessm...

For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together i...

Why Study Linguistics is designed to help anyone with an interest in studying language understand what linguistics is, and what linguists do. Explo...

From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection o...

This invaluable guide helps social workers develop the writing skills necessary for a successful career. Actual examples drawn from all arenas of s...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

This book examines the language policies in the constitutions, legal statutes, and regulations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islan...

Die internationale Nachwuchstagung Deutsch als Fremdsprache, die im Januar 2024 an der Technischen Universität Berlin stattfand, bot jungen Forsche...