Language & Linguistics books

This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: J’écris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by...  Read More >>

Examining the portrayal of childhood and youth in a large sample of medieval French verse narratives, this study...  Read More >>

Franciscans in sixteenth-century New Spain were deeply ambivalent about their mission work. Fray Juan de Zumárraga,...  Read More >>

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Using five case studies set in fifteenth-century Naples, Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples investigates...  Read More >>

This collection examines ""regional rhetorics,"" or discourses relating to both geographical and imagined regional...  Read More >>

The 1930s policy of appeasement is still fiercely debated more than 70 years after the signing of the 1938 Munich...  Read More >>

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity,...  Read More >>

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The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhard’s work and comprise the first full length scholarly...  Read More >>

A controversial figure of the interwar period, with an enthusiasm for hiking, nudism, folk dancing and voluntary...  Read More >>

The oldest and most renowned Dutch university, Leiden was an attractive proposition for travelling foreign students...  Read More >>

Whilst the Protestant Reformation of 1560 is acknowledged as being a watershed moment in Scottish history, relatively...  Read More >>

By tracing the evolution of farce from Pantagruel and Gargantua through the Tiers and Quart livres, Bruce Hayes...  Read More >>

Picturing Scotland examines the genesis and production of the first author-approved illustrations for Sir Walter...  Read More >>

This collection is the first to concentrate attention on the actual relationship that existed between the Irish...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity,...  Read More >>

This volume investigates the policy and practice of medium of instruction at different levels of education in ten...  Read More >>

In 1705-1706, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI’s physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi,...  Read More >>

The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means...  Read More >>

Heinrich Heshusius (1556-97) became a leading church superintendent and polemicist during the early age of Lutheran...  Read More >>

Drawing on a rich, yet untapped source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight...  Read More >>

Between 1923 and 1934, Britain and Italy waged war by proxy in the Middle East. This book provides in-depth analysis...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the contribution of drama to second language learning. The potential for drama to provide strong...  Read More >>

This book collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical...  Read More >>