Language: history and general works

This book offers readers a new way of thinking about the unique syntactic, semantic and phonological structure of Singapore English.

This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book is a social-emotional education manual for middle and high school educators.

'If you're up for an adventure through the back alleys of English, The Stories of Slang will not disappoint.

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study.

Translinguistics represents a powerful alternative to conventional paradigms of language such as bilingualism and code-switching, which assume the compartmentalization of different 'languages' into fixed and arbitrary boundaries.

A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs.

First published in 1979, this book develops a grammatically orientated semantics (as opposed to a semantically orientated grammar) of mood and condition in English.

The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "e;across many disciplines.

Most biographers of Luther are faced with a choice—focus on Luther’s life or focus on his thought.

This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact.

This book employs new interdisciplinary approaches to understand multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds, East and West, Classical and medieval.

We use language everyday in every aspect of our lives, whether at school, work, or home, with friends, colleagues or family.

One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a rich ecumenical resource designed to help Catholic and Lutheran communities mark the approaching 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences offers a comprehensive overview of translation in the context of young audiences.

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in the historical nexus of colonialism, colonial nostalgia, and the rise of narcissistic nationalism in contemporary Europe.

This volume engages with the contested concept of 'active citizenship'.

This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to create sustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual art organisations and youth organisations.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies provides a state-of-the-art overview of the important and rapidly developing field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS).

This book focuses on the emergence of gender difference, summarizing the most up-to-date interdisciplinary research.

A perfect storm of factors are brewing that will redefine dependent care in the coming decades.

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation.

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct.

This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries that revolutionized the way we think about our city centres.

Against a background of the ongoing crisis of global capitalism and the fracturing of the neoliberal project, this book provides a detailed account of the ways in which language is profoundly imbricated in the neoliberalising of the fabric of social life.

The first edition of A Guide To Assessments That Work provided a much needed resource on evidence-based psychological assessment.

Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517.

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct.

Periods are a fact of life for roughly half the population, yet discussions of the menstrual cycle are often shrouded in confusion and embarrassment.

This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence.

This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse.

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

Since the publication of the first edition of Technology and Society: A Canadian Perspective in 1997, awareness of the pervasive effects of new and emerging technologies on our lives is, if anything, even more pronounced.

This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.

A rich and informative biography of one of the most important and influential figures of analytic philosophy.

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973.

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.

This book investigates a paradox of creative yet scripted play-how LEGO invites players to build 'freely' with and within its highly structured, ideologically-laden toy system.

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Is the Bible contradictory?

This graduated Hellenistic Greek reader includes within-passage translation support and helps intermediate/advanced students of Greek improve their reading ability.

This book engages non-digital role-playing games-such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays-in and from Japan, to sketch their possibilities and fluidities in a global context.

The Discourse of YouTube explores the cutting edge of contemporary multimodal discourse through an in-depth analysis of structures, processes and content in YouTube discourse.

Singleness isn't a problem to be solved.