Language: history and general works

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses brings together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars on corpus-assisted analyses of multimodal data on austerity discourses in the United Kingdom, which extend and expand on the understanding of austerity but also of the methodologies used to analyse multimodal corpora.

Five hundred years ago Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five Theses, inaugurating the Protestant Reformation, and with it exemplified an unflinching devotion to return to the Word of God as the ultimate authority.

Provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin.

Doing a Research Project in English Studies is the essential guide to undertaking research and developing academic English literacy skills for students new to research.

This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890.

This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language.

The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions.

Adolescence is both universal and culturally constructed, resulting in diverse views about its defining characteristics.

Luther Refracted speaks to the currency that Luther’s life and thought continue to enjoy in today’s Christian reflection.

Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia.

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, die Vikare und jungen Pfarrer im Predigerseminar der Bekennenden Kirche in Finkenwalde lebten eine neue Form christlicher und theologischer Existenz.

Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources-verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic-to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining.

Ann Boushey's teenage son Jon was diagnosed with high-functioning autism in kindergarten.

Martin Luthers life was too exciting not to be written for teens and younger readers!

Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech.

This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context.

Bringing together a body of related research which has recently developed in Critical Discourse Analysis, this book is the first to address the role of perspective in socio-political discourse.

Language, Creativity and Humour Online offers new insights into the creative linguistic practices found in diverse digital contexts, such as social media platforms.

The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism.

An in-depth and far-reaching account of the study of ''African languages'' and ''language in Africa'' as an autonomous academic discipline.

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.

From award-winning author Tara L.

Life can be stressful, especially for teens, and this stress can have negative impacts on both physical and psychological health.

This book addresses the shape of English studies beyond the 'center' by analyzing how the discipline has developed, and by considering how lessons from this analysis relate to the discipline as a whole.

Since its founding in 1924, the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has grown to span five synods across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.

In the 21st century, Lutheran theology takes place on a global level.

Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States.

In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life.

This book offers rich critical perspectives on the marketing of a variety of toys, brands, and product categories.

Aspects of the 2017 Final Report of the South African Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) have drawn strong criticism, particularly from South African scholars, politicians and the public.

Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-a-vis other age groups.

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsThis monograph is the first comprehensive study of topicalization in Asian second-language varieties of English and provides an in-depth analysis of the forms, functions, and frequencies of topicalization in four Asian Englishes.

How do political regimes respond to the challenges emanating from youth mobilization?

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans.

This volume, first published in 1933, brings together a collection of Otto Jespersen's papers in English, German, and French, which he himself felt should be presented to an international public.

Originally published in 1994.

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this book offers new insights into language variation and contact-induced change.

Creativity in the English Curriculum is essential reading for anyone involved or interested in the teaching of English, offering both a detailed history of how creativity has informed the tradition of teaching English, and how it should be used to position this teaching in the future.

This work offers insight into the diversity, breadth, and complexity of the cultural influences that shaped Baptist identity.

A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric describes, explains, and argues the overarching theory of contemporary rhetoric.