Language: history & general works books

Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BC[1] - 15 March 44 BC), usually called Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and...  Read More >>

This book explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely...  Read More >>

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of language-focused research on digital communication....  Read More >>

Travelling Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century is about how ideas travel on the waves of cultural transfer. The...  Read More >>

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals who are studying English for...  Read More >>

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals who are studying English for...  Read More >>

Cicero was one of the most important figures of the late Roman Republic. This book explores what was remembered...  Read More >>

New B-format paperback edition. The story of over three thousand words that today are forgotten, unfamiliar and...  Read More >>

This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken...  Read More >>

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Diese Würdigung kann sich auf verschiedene Sprachbeschreibungsebenen beziehen: etwa auf das Wort und auf den Satz,...  Read More >>

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many...  Read More >>

The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to...  Read More >>

This book focuses on how Russia has perpetually redefined Russianness in reaction to the wider world. Treating culture...  Read More >>

The debate on Latin as a literary language in modern and contemporary times  Read More >>

This book focuses on how Russia has perpetually redefined Russianness in reaction to the wider world. Treating culture...  Read More >>

Talk to Text: Ancient Origins of Western Prose and the Transition from Oral to Written Culture examines the history...  Read More >>

This book provides students with the tools to effectively communicate in English without centering on native-speaker...  Read More >>

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"Le pataouète, ce truculent dialecte pied-noir, est considéré à tort par les analystes comme étant un patois. Le...  Read More >>

"This book introduces students to American English in detail, from parts-of-speech, phrases, clauses to punctuation,...  Read More >>

The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians...  Read More >>

We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general tendency to the resurgence...  Read More >>

In this book, leading scholars in the field of World Englishes offer fresh perspectives in re-thinking issues on...  Read More >>

The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization...  Read More >>