Language: history & general works books

The triumphant third volume in David Crystal's classic series on the English language combines the first history...  Read More >>

"""This innovative work attempts to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica’s precolonial codices....  Read More >>

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you...  Read More >>

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From ex-professional bank robber, this is a dictionary of criminal slang out there - and an absorbing journey, through...  Read More >>

The book outlines a new approach to motivation in language. The approach proposes a cognitive theory of the linguistic...  Read More >>

The first of its kind, Donald Favareau's ""Essential Readings in Biosemiotics"" constitutes a valuable resource...  Read More >>

This study presents a new perspective on small talk and its crucial role in everyday communication.  Read More >>

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

Multi-Dimensional studies (MD) is a new statistical approach to language variation developed by Doug Biber.  Read More >>

“Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments...  Read More >>

Der Spracherwerb ist ein Phänomen, das die Philosophie sowie die Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften zu immer neuen...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2015 in Great Britain by Ebury Press.  Read More >>

In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of...  Read More >>

Zeichen sind nicht nur in der menschlichen Kommunikation und Kultur zu beobachten, sondern auch in der Orientierung...  Read More >>

tsundoku: (noun, Japanese) buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors...  Read More >>

This is an essential introductory textbook which, by using many examples from the texts encountered in everyday...  Read More >>

"Frank Fodderwestje ist Hesse mit Leib und Seele und babbelt wie ihm die ""Schnuud"" gewachsen ist - oft zum Leidwesen...  Read More >>

Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources—verbal,...  Read More >>

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Critical overviews of the interface between language, social structure and social action. A range of theoretical...  Read More >>

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally...  Read More >>

The English language varies in a number of ways, depending on the people who use it, how it is used and in what...  Read More >>