Language & Linguistics books

Global Englishes offers a clear and comprehensive overview of key areas of the topic, encompassing both World Englishes...  Read More >>

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Constructions of Illiteracy in Twentieth Century Ireland: Contesting the Narrative of Full Literacy offers new insights...  Read More >>

This book explores rhetorics produced about and by the women involved in the World War II era Women Airforce Service...  Read More >>

Charting the rise of one of the great families of late sixteenth-century France, the Gondi, this book unravels the...  Read More >>

The theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of ‘Mobilities’. The chapters represent...  Read More >>

This volume takes up the question of transnational interactions in the Romantic period and the possibilities they...  Read More >>

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically...  Read More >>

In this first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram casts new light...  Read More >>

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available the theories of the respected French text/image specialist Professor Liliane...  Read More >>

Of interest to scholars in translation studies, gender and sexuality, and comparative literary and cultural studies,...  Read More >>

Natasha Gill offers the first comprehensive analysis of French educational thought before Rousseau. She situates...  Read More >>

Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary...  Read More >>

Discourse on translation, at once a term referring to any text (works of translation included) that expresses the...  Read More >>

Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese...  Read More >>

This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry...  Read More >>

Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and...  Read More >>

Firmly grounded in archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain transforms our knowledge regarding...  Read More >>

The history of medieval Germany, particularly that of the lower social orders, has thus far remained largely unknown...  Read More >>

Going far beyond laboratory experiments, the International Handbook of Language Acquisition examines a wide range...  Read More >>

Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government....  Read More >>

Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall...  Read More >>

Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the...  Read More >>

This Special Issue on Morphological Processing is based on the 6th MOrphological PROcessing Conference MOPROC (Turku)...  Read More >>

At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written...  Read More >>