Language: history and general works

From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

This dissertation, first published in 1980, is concerned with the role of the syllable in generative grammar.

This book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds.

The third edition of World Englishes provides an engaging overview of the global variations in vocabulary, grammar, phonology and pragmatics of English as it is used worldwide.

Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, fostering greater awareness of how linguistic choices become political ones and encouraging the search for practices that promote social justice.

Many European countries, their imperial territories, and rapidly Europeanising imitators like Japan, established a powerful zone of intellectual, ideological and moral convergence in the projection of state power and collective objectives to children.

This book examines the rise of English in Rwanda, offering critical insights into the links between language, colonialism, and capitalism, with implications for our understanding of global English.

La lengua espanola hablada por los moriscos antes de ser expulsados de su pais de nacimiento y del de sus antepasados pervivio en el exilio, en una diaspora principalmente establecida en paises de lengua arabe gobernados por el Imperio turco-otomano o por el sultanato de Marruecos.

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

This book provides practical guidance for a wide range of professionals working with parents and families, answering common questions such as 'How can parents facilitate their child's transition to secondary school?

An original volume focusing on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences.

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This title, first published in 1979, is a glossary of the bawdy vocabulary that was used in Renaissance Drama.

While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders.

Analysing data from 1978-1988 / 2003-2013, this book explores recent change in the practices of quoting at parliamentary question time.

During the 1990s lone mothers reached the top of the political agenda, viewed as both a drain on public expenditure and a moral threat.

The story of Lutherans in America is one of mutual influence.

During the chaos and devastation of armed conflict, children and youth often emerge as powerful agents of change and resilience.

More than 22 million people speak Dutch-primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, and the Antilles.

Der Thesenanschlag Martin Luthers jährte sich 2017 zum 500.

American English Grammar introduces students to American English in detail, from parts of speech, phrases, and clauses to punctuation and explaining (and debunking) numerous "e;rules of correctness,"e; integrating its discussion of Standard American grammar with thorough coverage of the past sixty years' worth of work on African American English and other ethnic and regional non-Standard varieties.

From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of “story” our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole.

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 presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF).

Radical youth work is gaining popularity as a means of teaching adults how, in collaboration with youth, they can challenge dominant ways of knowing.

Is British English becoming more like American English?

The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develops.

How Texts Work: explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts analyzes a wide variety of texts from a range of genres and periods, from Ibsen's A Doll's House to an 18-30s brochure, Internet chatrooms and George Bush's September 11 speech offers a step-by-step guide to approaching texts and structuring a response can be used as both a course stimulus and a revision tool.

Pop Culture in Language Education provides comprehensive insight on how studies of pop culture can inform language teaching and learning.

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 provides an analysis of persuasive genres in the domain of media, ranging from traditional to new media genres on the internet.

A study of the motivations, mechanisms and regularities in the evolutionary history of Chinese grammar over the past three millennia.

A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history.

This innovative collection builds on current multimodal research to showcase image-centric practices in contemporary media, unpacking the increasing extent to which the visual plays a principal role in modern day communication.

Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure.

The Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology is a comprehensive handbook for mental health professionals working with juveniles in the criminal justice system and in family and dependency courts.

Based on proven theory and real-life experience, this guidebook provides a one-stop resource for educators, librarians, and storytellers looking to introduce storytelling programs for young adults.

In this book, John O'Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the endless accumulation of capital in a capitalist world-system.

In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success.

Makes the case that the social dynamics and turbulence of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school.

"e;The nature of laughter has recently attracted the attention of a number of different disciplines.

This textbook is the only one of its kind to introduce the study of Canadian English in the context of basic concepts of linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Explores the relationship between the present tense and the conceptualisation of ''presence'' in Greek from a cognitive perspective.

Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and Tavi Gevinson are hardly representative of typical youth experiences, but their origins highlight many of the realities of youth doing independent creative work.

A reader for intermediate students of ancient Greek, introducing three of ancient Greece''s most important authors, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles.