Language

Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the grea...

Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of classical and humanities. His Attic Nights contains information on many aspects of antiquity, and preser...

This edited book is about the rationale, practice and classroom implementation of English-medium instruction courses in Chinese universities. It sp...

Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

This collection brings together a series of empirical studies on topics surrounding classrooms of Chinese as a second language (L2) by drawing on a...

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religiou...

The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultura...

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France engages the question of remembering from a number of different perspectives. It examines the forma...

By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, whi...

This book, a collection of essays to honour Hilary Gatti, reflects her interest in the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. The...

This book explores the ways in which contemporary women writers have engaged with the negotiation and representation of identity following the rupt...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview...

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and timeWhile other ancient nonalphabetic scriptsSumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan...

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and timeWhile other ancient nonalphabetic scriptsSumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan...