Linguistics

This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this...

A Longman Topics Reader that considers food in the social context.   Starting from the assumption that eating is about a whole lot more than fo...

'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic....

Delivering facts and findings from a variety of multilingual settings, this textbook systematically covers the diverse dimensions of multilingualis...

Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and cr...

Reissued to publish alongside New Hart's Rules and the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, the New Oxford Spelling Dictionary is the au...

Spellbound considers the history of English spelling and provides suggestions for modern day reform of its irregularities.The first half of the boo...

Between 1907 and 1911, Ferdinand de Saussure gave three series of lectures on the topic of general linguistics. After his death, these lecture note...