Language: history & general works books

This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on...  Read More >>

These books are so bad they're brilliant and they'll never exist (we hope), except in these fully developed, engagingly...  Read More >>

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Global Englishes offers a clear and comprehensive overview of key areas of the topic, encompassing both World Englishes...  Read More >>

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This book explores first-hand Dunhuang manuscripts from a period of over 700 years, from 220 to 960, and as such...  Read More >>

Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates...  Read More >>

Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates...  Read More >>

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

This book provides a detailed description and a cross-dialectal comparison of the major dialects of Myanmar.  Read More >>

We Irish have enriched the English language with a slew of snazzy gems. Did you know we're the ones behind quarks,...  Read More >>

Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community...  Read More >>

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject...  Read More >>

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject...  Read More >>

An official BBC Weather book and a charming tour around the UK, celebrating our very British obsession with rain....  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book explores the function of charms in Early English by situating them...  Read More >>

This book delves into Benjamin Franklin’s English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English...  Read More >>

Captivating and quirky, Australia in 100 Words takes readers chronologically through Australian history to tell...  Read More >>

The series Perspectives on the Linguistics of Ancient Languages publishes research papers presented at the annual...  Read More >>

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching is both an accessible and engaging introductory textbook and a handy...  Read More >>

Now in its third edition, this book provides an up-to-date overview of all the major spoken and signed varieties...  Read More >>

Are you tired of sounding like a textbook when you speak French? Do you wish you could understand and use the lively...  Read More >>

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching is both an accessible and engaging introductory textbook and a handy...  Read More >>

Now in its third edition, this book provides an up-to-date overview of all the major spoken and signed varieties...  Read More >>

Are you tired of sounding like a textbook when you speak French? Do you wish you could understand and use the lively...  Read More >>