Pidgins and Creoles
`A marvellous feat of culling major issues and synthesising complex arguments.'- Journal of...
EAN: 9780415053112
Language of Jokes
Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive...
EAN: 9780415030908
Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn
This volume explores an era of change in the history of West European thought, the period between...
EAN: 9780199249879
Spoken Here
Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and...
EAN: 9780099460220
Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland
Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland offers a much-needed exploration into the problem...
EAN: 9781118294963
Conrad, Language, and Narrative
In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and...
EAN: 9780521120845
Postcolonial Translation
This innovative collection of essays explores ways in which postcolonial theory interconnects...
EAN: 9780415147453
History of English Negation
Analyses English negation over the evidence from the sample of Old English documents, and from...
EAN: 9780582381858
Variation in English
Multi-dimensional studies (MD) is a statistical approach to language variation. This book shows...
EAN: 9780582307414
London Jamaican
This case study aims to provide an insight into the language use of Afro-Caribbeans in London. It...
EAN: 9780582080959
English Corpus Linguistics
This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field....
EAN: 9780582059306
When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's the Devil to Pay: Seafaring Words in Everyday Speech
Intended for sailors and language enthusiasts, this is a collection of nautical metaphors and...
EAN: 9780070328778
History of Reading
This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of...
EAN: 9780006546818
Psychology of Reading
This volume provides a framework for the research accomplished on the reading process over the...
EAN: 9780805818727
Rise and Fall of Languages
Professor Dixon challenges many of the views held by linguists, archaeologists and geneticists...
EAN: 9780521626545
History of the French Language Through Texts
This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for...
EAN: 9780415100007
But I Digress
This study explores how poets and writers have used lunulae (the marks of parenthesis) through...
EAN: 9780198112471
Swearing
Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages,...
EAN: 9780140267075
Dialects of English
This is a study of the grammatical variations to be found in English dialects. It looks at...
EAN: 9780582021945
Watching English Change
A ground-breaking text which examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It...
EAN: 9780582210899
Narrative Development
In this volume, six researchers describe their very different ways of viewing and studying...
EAN: 9780805820577
Real English
Aims to make available accurate information on regional variation in the use of the grammatical...
EAN: 9780582081765
Slavic Languages
The Slavic group of languages - which includes Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Slovak - is one of...
EAN: 9780521223157
Stories of English
This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language...
EAN: 9780141015934
