Linguistics

Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evol...

Both a companion to Introducing Sociolinguistics, Miriam Meyerhoff’s bestselling textbook, and a stand-alone Reader in sociolinguistics, this colle...

A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include: ...

The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies is an accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. Thi...

This book explores literary translation in a variety of contexts. The chapters showcase the research into literary translation in North America, Eu...

This volume seeks to extend and expand our current understanding of the processes of language standardization, drawing on both quantitative and qua...

Literacy educators and researchers at all stages of their careers face ethical issues whenever they embark on research studies. In this book experi...

In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive a...

A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include: ...

This book offers a theoretical framework for assessing translation quality grounded in supportive argumentation. The volume outlines a systematic f...

Now adopted by over 40 states, the Common Core State Standards provide a clear and consistent framework for public school systems as they develop s...

Originally published in 1979, this volume represented a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of ol...

Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication ...

The functional perspective on Chinese syntax has yielded various new achievements since its introduction to Chinese linguistics in the 1980s.This t...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of feminism and gender awareness in ...

The presence of students for whom the school language is not their first language creates unique challenges and opportunities for teachers. This bo...

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models ...

The Languages of Japan and Korea provides detailed descriptions of the major varieties of languages in the region, both modern and pre-modern, with...

In this volume, Soe Marlar Lwin proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and academic resear...

Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in the historical nexus of colonialis...

Feeling It brings together twelve chapters from researchers in Chicanx studies, education, feminist studies, linguistics, and translation studies t...

Análisis de la Conversación: fundamentos, metodología y alcances ofrece la primera introducción comprehensiva al Análisis de la Conversación (AC) e...

In Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, Farzad Karimzad and Lydia Catedral investigate migrants’ polycentric iden...

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was first and foremos...