Language: history & general works books

Viele Begriffe wie Obsentropf , Birngericht oder Mundraub bekamen im Gebrauch der Rechtssprache ihre besondere Bedeutung....  Read More >>

We bring into full light some excerpts on musical subjects which were until now scattered throughout the most famous...  Read More >>

We bring into full light some excerpts on musical subjects which were until now scattered throughout the most famous...  Read More >>

The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than...  Read More >>

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This is a collective book where historians, sociologists, linguistics and scientists offer a diachronic and interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research...  Read More >>

Anne Curzan demonstrates the important role prescriptivism plays in the history of the English language. Starting...  Read More >>

Armenian Philology in the Modern Era: From Manuscripts to the Digital Text provides an overview of the main achievements...  Read More >>

For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf and her work is made...  Read More >>

The book includes 20 chapters that deal with linguistic, phraseological, terminological, didactic, and textual issues...  Read More >>

For over fifty years this book has proven indispensible as a reference guide for genealogists, historians, or indeed...  Read More >>

From Alphabets to Zipcodes, the surprising story of our 26 letters from million-selling author and Radio 4 language...  Read More >>

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

A comprehensive field guide to the Gaelic landscape. Helps people read and understand the Highland landscape through...  Read More >>

The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest ""across many disciplines...against...  Read More >>

Just how intriguing these results (or conjectures?) seem to us may be seen from some brief quotations: (1) Judson...  Read More >>

Both the crudest and most sophisticated forms of writing tools act as mediators of human written communication for...  Read More >>

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This collection is in honour of E.G. Stanley. They apply Stanley's approach of 'wise scepticism' to provide new...  Read More >>

The contributions assembled in this volume illustrate the band-width of applications of the Linked Data paradigm...  Read More >>

This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead...  Read More >>

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in...  Read More >>