Language: history & general works books

The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America from French fries to Awesome, man! are...  Read More >>

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Rare Tongues is an enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world.  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media around the World offers a comprehensive overview of this growing...  Read More >>

This book explores how more than 100 communities who speak nearly fifty languages from five unrelated language phyla...  Read More >>

An accessible, well-researched guide to the Philadelphia dialect, including pronunciation, grammar, place names,...  Read More >>

An entertaining romp through bookish mishaps, exposing all the weird, wow! and wtf? moments that the literary world...  Read More >>

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A qualitative study of language learners in the Global South who overcame insurmountable odds to acquire English...  Read More >>

Based on the online blogs of acclaimed historian and author Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance provides a fresh...  Read More >>

An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited...  Read More >>

In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph devoted entirely to English dialect literature published between the sixteenth...  Read More >>

The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative...  Read More >>

This is the third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1927, The World of Imagery is a study of the use of metaphor, simile, and other forms of...  Read More >>

This is the third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics....  Read More >>

This volume, split into two parts, looks at varieties of English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Introductory...  Read More >>

This book compares how multilingualism is governed, managed, and imagined in nation-states in the Horn of Africa...  Read More >>

A History of the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural development of English from the Roman conquest...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western...  Read More >>

American English Grammar introduces students to American English, integrating its discussion of White Mainstream...  Read More >>

American English Grammar introduces students to American English, integrating its discussion of White Mainstream...  Read More >>