Language: history & general works books

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's...  Read More >>

When something is in focus, light falls on it from different angles. The lexicon can be viewed from different sides....  Read More >>

This book discusses the phonetic make-up of the teenage speech in the Home Counties in order to verify the status...  Read More >>

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Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that...  Read More >>

This book provides an extensive history of British television, exploring a range of genres, from breakfast news...  Read More >>

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The first thorough study of discourse practices undertaken among Canadian Inuit, this book explores language usage...  Read More >>

For relevance theory, this theoretical commonplace merely demonstrates the inferential nature of language. This...  Read More >>

This study explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks....  Read More >>

This study explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks....  Read More >>

What is the precise linguistic nature of stretched verbs, and how many basic types are there? What kinds of grammatical...  Read More >>

Eine Fundgrube kulturgeschichtlichen Wissens mit insgesamt 120.000 Wortartikeln  Read More >>

This book deals with various indigenous traditions of grammatical thought across the globe. Its main perspective...  Read More >>

A masterful metaphor, like a picture, may be worth a thousand words. By comparing two unlike objects or ideas, it...  Read More >>

This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Alphabet to Email explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications...  Read More >>

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This accessible satellite textbook is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis...  Read More >>

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Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. drawing...  Read More >>