Language: history and general works

This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Bearn, southwestern France.

Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.

Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.

This book examines service-learning - a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community.

This book examines service-learning - a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community.

Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity: The Adolescentia Project explores music consumption, self-discovery, media culture, and memory through autoethnographic essays on albums we loved during adolescence covering three decades (1980-2010) as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes in the United States significantly changed.

The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture: Prom Queen Profiles explores the nuanced relationship between femininity and power and provides a scholarly framework for understanding the evolution of the prom queen's archetypal ubiquity.

This book argues that Middle English - and hence Modern English - is a direct descendent of Anglo Norse, the language of Viking settlers who invaded and ruled the north and east of England (the so-called Danelaw) for about 200 years preceding the Norman conquest.

This lively and revealing study explores a sociologically invisible but important social relationship: girls' friendships.

This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States.

This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States.

The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity: The Adolescentia Project explores music consumption, self-discovery, media culture, and memory through autoethnographic essays on albums we loved during adolescence covering three decades (1980-2010) as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes in the United States significantly changed.

The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture: Prom Queen Profiles explores the nuanced relationship between femininity and power and provides a scholarly framework for understanding the evolution of the prom queen's archetypal ubiquity.

Swedish children's cinema has a long and rich history.

Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it.

South Africa's Gen Z is currently navigating a dynamic landscape of social, cultural, and political change, balancing issues of identity, belonging, and connecting in a diverse world.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), covering key concepts and contributions to the field and instructing beginners to apply SFL to different areas.

This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "e;Global Anglophone"e; in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.

Digital World Englishes aims to be an introduction to and exposition of the universe of world Englishes as represented in online spaces.

Guide to Reporting Verbs is an accessible guide to citing sources in academic writing across the disciplines.

Digital World Englishes aims to be an introduction to and exposition of the universe of world Englishes as represented in online spaces.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), covering key concepts and contributions to the field and instructing beginners to apply SFL to different areas.

This book asks readers to rethink youth activism in the political field as a lifestyle whose sense goes beyond the logic of political action.

This book asks readers to rethink youth activism in the political field as a lifestyle whose sense goes beyond the logic of political action.

This handbook provides a systematic overview firstly of the basic concepts and secondly of current research topics and trends in Applied Romance Linguistics from a theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective.

This volume interrogates the role of the manuscript medium in conveying history to medieval and early modern readers.

This volume interrogates the role of the manuscript medium in conveying history to medieval and early modern readers.

This ground-breaking book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on time-based multimodal forms of communication including speech, music, and film.

If you're anything like me, you've heard or read Jesus' parable of the prodigal son and thought to yourself, "e;How come the Faithful Brother was the recipient of the father's correction?

From landfill to lifesaving - for more than twenty years a groupof northern Canadian volunteers has been saving tons ofredundant (but still useful) medical equipment.

This ground-breaking book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on time-based multimodal forms of communication including speech, music, and film.