Language: Reference & General

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to digl...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied lin...

English Grammar:* helps users to understand grammatical concepts * encourages the reader to practise applying newly discovered concepts to everyday...

The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditiona...

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to digl...

A sharp, funny book about comedy screenwriting from a successful screenwriter that uses recent – as in this century – movies you've actually seen a...

This book studies the use of an automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems in research paper revision for publication purposes by Chinese doctoral ...

Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the wo...

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

In the period A.D. 400-1100, perhaps more than in any other, it is necessary to bring together the results of historical, archaeological and place-...

This book equips pre-service teachers, research postgraduate students, teacher educators, and language specialists with specific knowledge and skil...

This innovative guidebook is an accessible and concise introduction to discipline-specific academic language. Using authentic texts written by both...

This engaging step-by-step guide prescribes effective strategies and tactics for translating a wide range of songs and other vocal music, from clas...

This thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates s...

This book is based on the Khapalu and Skardu dialects of Balti, a member of the Tibeto-Burman family, spoken in Baltistan. The work is distinguishe...

Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, ...

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis of conversat...

In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities a...

The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active enga...

A Framework for Cognitive Sociolinguistics attempts to lay out the epistemological system for a cognitive sociolinguistics—the first book to do so ...

Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philoso...

A Framework for Cognitive Sociolinguistics attempts to lay out the epistemological system for a cognitive sociolinguistics—the first book to do so ...

This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno’s character...

Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within translation studies.This book addresses the need for more robust theoretical framework...

Now in its second edition, this internationally best-selling book has been revised and updated. It focuses on helping people overcome some of the m...

What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition? How are men and masculinit...

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

Although the grammatical expression of reciprocal (or ‘mutual’) situations in the languages of the world has received a surprising amount of attent...

Translation and Migration examines the ways in which the presence or absence of translation in situations of migratory movement has currently and h...

The Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes introduces core areas of sociolinguistics and explores how each one has been transformed by the current e...

It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ’dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argue...

German Grammar in Context presents an accessible and engaging approach to learning grammar. Each chapter opens with a real-life extract from a Germ...

Muslims believe that the Koran is God’s message in Arabic, revealed through the medium of the Prophet Muhammad for the guidance of the Arabs and su...

Success with Languages is designed to help all students develop the skills they need to become an effective language learner and to make the most o...

Engaged Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and e...

The Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes introduces core areas of sociolinguistics and explores how each one has been transformed by the current e...

A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the la...

Success with Languages is designed to help all students develop the skills they need to become an effective language learner and to make the most o...

A Fundamental Greek Course is designed primarily for those who aim at laying a sound foundation for the study of Classical Greek, and for use by ev...

A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the la...

The History of Late Modern Englishes provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from the begin...

More than 22 million people speak Dutch-primarily in Holland, Belgium, Suriname, and the Antilles. This book offers a well-researched and highly re...

Engaged Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and e...

This second edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages has been completely revised to provide up-to-date and accurate des...

Drawing on the advice of experts in the field, The Web Writer's Guide serves as the ideal sourcebook for tips and ideas for freelance and staff wri...