Language: history & general works books

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This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of languages used in 17 Diaspora Jewish communities, along...  Read More >>

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Intended to bridge the gap between two languages of the Indo-European family, this is the first comprehensive bifocal...  Read More >>

Did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce?...  Read More >>

From aback to ZizEX, the second edition of Jackspeak of the Royal Canadian Navy gives readers a chance to fill their...  Read More >>

Based on over 20 years’ experience teaching English courses to Chinese learners, this book highlights key findings...  Read More >>

This includes obligations and prohibitions in Talmudic deontic logic, the handling of loops in Talmudic logic, Temporal...  Read More >>

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 and consist of prefixed...  Read More >>

Based on over 20 years’ experience teaching English courses to Chinese learners, this book highlights key findings...  Read More >>

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The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural...  Read More >>

A step-by-step introduction to the history of the English language that teaches both students and instructors about...  Read More >>

For armchair travellers and language nerds: the surprising stories behind places that have become words.  Read More >>

A step-by-step introduction to the history of the English language that teaches both students and instructors about...  Read More >>

This book was first published in 1925 and was intended to be a dictionary of first world war slang. In the 1920s,...  Read More >>

Encompassing eponyms from medicine, botany, invention, science, fashion, food and literature, this book uncovers...  Read More >>

The book presents the first systematic investigation of the four types of authorship which were attributed in the...  Read More >>

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This book draws an updated Euro-American conceptual map, starting from a limited number of strategic terms whose...  Read More >>

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This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English written by leading researchers goes well beyond the traditional...  Read More >>

Founded in 1961, Studia Hibernica is devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history...  Read More >>

First published in 1907, this transcribed text provides insight into the social, legal and political lives of the...  Read More >>