Language: history & general works books

A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia....  Read More >>

This Routledge Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, both in its current iteration...  Read More >>

Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Wozu diente ein Reilenagel? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch,...  Read More >>

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

This volume shows the significance of rhetorical construction of knowledge in the public sphere. It addresses the...  Read More >>

The Letter and the Cosmos is a sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and...  Read More >>

The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English...  Read More >>

The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English...  Read More >>

This up-to-date survey investigates the origins of runes and the reasons for their creation. Who used them, when...  Read More >>

In this zany, one-of-a-kind memoir, former executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association John D. Williams...  Read More >>

A book about Welsh idioms and phrases.  Read More >>

Ka ngaro te reo, ka ngaro taua, pera i te ngaro o te moa. If the language be lost, man will be lost, as dead as...  Read More >>

Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Examines the...  Read More >>

Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical introduction to using...  Read More >>

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This book brings together contributions by a number of distinguished scholars that shed new light on current developments...  Read More >>

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

A pioneering critic, educator, and poet, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) helped the English-speaking world decide not...  Read More >>

‘Pragmatics’ could be informally defined as the study of relationships between language and its users. This volume,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A–Z guide to the appropriate use of English in academic...  Read More >>

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A–Z guide to the appropriate use of English in academic...  Read More >>

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"The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives...  Read More >>

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Illustrated with the best examples of inscriptions from the British Museum's Roman collection, this book explores...  Read More >>