Language: history & general works books

What can you say after you say that the world - or at least human life on it - looks like it's nearing its end?...  Read More >>

The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the...  Read More >>

An introduction by leading experts in the field to the fascinating subject of translating audiovisual programmes...  Read More >>

This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature...  Read More >>

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Employing a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate...  Read More >>

Words change, they emigrate and immigrate, they arrive with invading armies and embrace changing fashions; they...  Read More >>

This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature...  Read More >>

The Kitan language and script have disappeared from history for more than 800 years. Recent research has partially...  Read More >>

This unique and authoritative collection contains over 1,100 of the most widely-used proverbs in English with research...  Read More >>

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Language is an essential part of our everyday lives. This book presents an introduction into the inner workings...  Read More >>

Language is an essential part of our everyday lives. This book examines the origins of language, how language produces...  Read More >>

Using evidence from the world's largest language databank, the Oxford English Corpus, Butterfield uncovers fascinating...  Read More >>

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This volume presents the articles published in the first two issues of the online periodical Mikroglottika – An...  Read More >>

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yiddish was widely viewed as a corrupt form of German that Jews had to...  Read More >>

Social Differentiation in Cameroon English investigates the correlation between some extra-linguistic variables...  Read More >>

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The second volume (volume 1, 1567-1784, published in January 2004) of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining...  Read More >>

,,Überzeugungsstrategien"" bestehen im bewußten und planvollen Einsatz sprachlicher und nicht-sprachlicher Mittel...  Read More >>

The volume presents a set of invited papers based on analyses of legal discourse drawn from a number of international...  Read More >>

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat takes a humorous tour through the fascinating, sometimes tragic, and often surprising...  Read More >>

Turns cliches back into history by telling the life stories of the words that have served as our most powerful battle...  Read More >>

Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century...  Read More >>