Language: history & general works books

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Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of Zadie Smith’s illustrious career as a dynamic,...  Read More >>

Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of Zadie Smith’s illustrious career as a dynamic,...  Read More >>

This book presents a unique collection of fairy tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the first...  Read More >>

The book provides new insights into written corrective feedback by describing students’ expectations as well as...  Read More >>

This edited book brings together contributions from different educational contexts across the Middle East and North...  Read More >>

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Toss another shrimp on the barbie, crack open a tinny or pour yourself a chardy while you traverse Australia's vast...  Read More >>

Bejaysus and begorrah! The next best thing for anyone not blessed with the gift of the gab - a grand tour through...  Read More >>

We're chuffed to bits to present this tour of Ole Blighty's lingo. It's the dog's bollocks! Try it out on the lads...  Read More >>

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This ground-breaking work calls into question the exclusive use of academic English in internationalising higher...  Read More >>

Based on the idea that language and meaning making are central to the political process, the authors present research...  Read More >>

They draw on Biber and Conrad’s (2009) model for contextualising interaction in specialised discourses, Bell’s (1997)...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic and relatively comprehensive account of the system of MODALITY in Modern Chinese...  Read More >>

This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical)...  Read More >>

This ethnographic dictionary is the result of Hans Fischer's long-term fieldwork among the Wampar, who occupy the...  Read More >>

Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of 'Post-Colonial Englishes' is the Dynamic...  Read More >>

Explores the gradual transformation of the virtually monolingual edifice of classical culture in late antiquity...  Read More >>

This book investigates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical...  Read More >>

This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of science and scientific writing...  Read More >>

The book includes a new theoretical synthesis of William Stern’s classic personology published in the 1930s with...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic, contrastive analysis of the segmentation and representation of English and Chinese...  Read More >>

This book analyses the letters of marginalised groups of World War I soldiers - including Black, Indian and disabled...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look...  Read More >>