Linguistics

This bestselling introductory textbook examines the relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they employ. No...

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key rese...

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from Eng...

What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues...

Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study is the first book which takes a comprehensive systemic functional perspective ...

This book assembles contributions dealing with language contact and areal linguistics. The goal of the book is to investigate linguistic convergenc...

This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition – forgetting or loss of language proficiency...

"This is an era of extraordinary promise and support for addressing the needs of California’s English learners. That’s why this book, The Californi...

First published in 1994. The goal of this study is to find the correlations between the internal constituency of the syllable and the sonority of s...

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals what diffe...

This book is the first part of a comprehensive study of Wittgenstein’s conception of language description. Describing language was no pastime occup...

Mexican Spanish in the Twentieth Century explores the trends and patterns of sociolinguistic stratification and variation, providing a clearer unde...

Among thirteenth-century English devotional writings, the «Ancrene Wisse», the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group are central to debate about a p...

Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic theory, information structure, and several Native American languages (including Lu...

On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Sch...

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-c...

Internet has radically transformed our ways to communicate in an increasingly globalised world. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this book ai...

First published in 1979.The performance of West Indian children in British schools has been the subject of enquiries by both a parliamentary select...

Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the third edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-dat...

The book is designed as a comprehensive introduction to bilingual education for instructors, researchers and students and a companion to "Foundatio...

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book explores the learning and literacy dimensions of local volunteering for social change in the P...

Since its original publication in 1997, English with an Accent has inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, socia...

Donna Eder is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. She earned her Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin. She has written numerous...

An Introduction to Lexical Semantics provides a comprehensive theoretical overview of lexical semantics, analysing the major lexical categories in ...

The tenth volume in the TIRF-Routledge series, this book features research on the teaching and learning of English in the Middle East and North Afr...

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research. Authored by well-known scholars ...

Translating and interpreting in crises is emotionally and cognitively demanding, with crisis communication in intercultural and multilingual disast...

The second edition of this important and practical text provides specific information to guide teachers in planning and carrying out genre writing ...

This edited volume represents a collaborative effort from over 20 authors worldwide, who generously shared their expertise and insights on diversit...

The cultural discourse of theatrical performance defines the theatre sign interaction as an active semiosis. This, in turn, specifies the main obje...

This volume looks at different ways in which research and educational practice in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) can be linked. The cha...

In recent years, text and media linguistics have focused on genres in the new media. This is almost always accompanied by the question of the estab...

This book explores several topics in Cree morphology, syntax and discourse structure. Cree, an Algonquian language, is non-configurational: the gra...

Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organiza...

Translation and Literature in East Asia: Between Visibility and Invisibility explores the issues involved in translation between Chinese, Japanese ...

There are three fundamental issues in the field of screen translation, namely, the relationship between verbal output and pictures and soundtrack, ...

The purpose of this volume is to make easily available a representative selection of Charles-James N. Bailey's views on linguistic theory. Several ...

In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between simila...

On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Sch...

This first-of-its kind dictionary contains: 30,000 entries; Background notes on Pulaar; Introduction to Pulaar grammatical categories; Pronunciatio...

This book, first published in 1990, is a study of both the specific syntactic changes in the more recent stages of Greek and of the nature of synta...

The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Afric...

After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interacti...

This work examines the practice of reading aloud in the interactional context of adult participants engaging in an interface-mediated collaborative...

"A model of academic praxis." - Public BooksElena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferr...