Language

Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of lingu...

This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published ...

Linguistics investigates the systems underlying language, speech, and language use. Linguists seek to develop an understanding of the rules and law...

Why do we have so many dialects in England? Why do we not all speak in standard English? How has our history shaped and influenced the language w...

Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecolog...

Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape provides in-depth analyses of different aspects of Turkish in the domains of phonology, morphology and s...

Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work provides students with helpful tools for learning the pronunciation of the ka...

Although millions of slaves were forcibly transported from Africa to Brazil, the languages the slaves brought with them remain little known. Most s...

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1, the third volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by...

In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception...

This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at ...

This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships establ...

The concept of reflective practice has proliferated over the last few decades in many professions such as medicine, law, business and education. Wi...

In Word Hunters, eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up t...

The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which...

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016 The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing will provide a comprehensive account of the area of language as...

To gain a full understanding of the literature and history of early modern England, students need to study the prose of the period. Aiming to make ...

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right...