Language: history and general works

This lively textbook introduces readers to the formal theory of syntax, presenting contemporary insights without unnecessary technical detail.

First published in 1816 and revised in 1916, this edition of George Crabb's English Synonyms contains the entirety of his most enduring work.

The unprecedented growth and recognition of new world Englishes, call for English language teaching programs to consider the place and relevance of the paradigm of World Englishes to the content and delivery of their curricula.

There is much controversy about the dangers of a free media when it comes to children and adolescents.

Does Martin Luther have anything to say to us today?

Youth delinquency, involving behaviours such as smoking, drinking, and premature sexual misconduct, is an ongoing issue in Southeast Asia.

In this book, Goundar explores how educational inequalities are responsible for the way students perform in English language-mediated school settings.

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

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics.

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS.

First published in 1939, English Speech from an Historical Point of View presents the history of the English language under three major components: Old English, Middle English and Modern English.

Drawing on approaches from critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this book critically examines metaphorical language used in global media coverage and political statements on the events of the Arab Spring.

In this companion to his acclaimed and inspirational bestseller, Heroes for My Son, national bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer brings together the stories of fifty-five remarkable individuals, from intellectual explorers such as Marie Curie, Sally Ride, and Jane Goodall to cultural champions like Billie Jean King; from implacable public figures such as Rosa Parks and Winston Churchill to artistic icons such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Stevie Wonder; and beyond.

Barry Harvey provides a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ.

Potsdam war in der SED-Diktatur Sitz von Verwaltungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen, Standort von Militär und Staatssicherheit, aber auch von Einrichtungen der Evangelischen Kirche.

This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500.

The authors examine youths' practices in digital culture affecting social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices.

An important study of how signs and sign relations create social and linguistic differences - and unities.

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

How can sociology inform our understanding of young people's experiences?

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang.

Despite being widely recognized as John Wesley's key moment of Christian conversion, Aldersgate has continued to mystify regarding its exact meaning and significance to Wesley personally.

The teaching of English in the Expanding Circle, traditionally called EFL countries, has long been regarded as having no choice but to follow Inner Circle or Anglo-American norms, both in pedagogy and language models.

Dawn of Memories is a journey into the realm of early recollections of childhood and a search for the meaning of the remembrances.

This balanced and comprehensive study of Christian conservative thinking focuses on the 1980s, when the New Christian Right appeared suddenly as an influential force on the American political scene, only to fade from the spotlight toward the end of the decade.

This volume explores Chinese identity through the lens of both the Chinese and English languages.

Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past.

Despite a history of hundreds of years of research analysing aspects of English grammar, there are still open problems which continue to baffle language researchers today.

This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of contemporary Christianity and youth culture, focusing on evangelical engagements with punk, hip hop, surfing, and skateboarding.

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon.

Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wann in der Reichsstadt Speyer die Reformation offiziell eingeführt wurde und der Prozess der evangelischen Konfessionsbildung einsetzte und wie bzw.

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented.

This text provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the essential aspects of youth substance abuse-an important contemporary personal, social, and public health issue.

Die Autorin vertieft die empirischen Ergebnisse der bundesweiten Studie "Realität und Reichweite von Jugendverbandsarbeit", bei der über 2.

This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated.

English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) in communicative situations the world over with the acceleration of globalisation.

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.

This book examines how gender and class discourses shape 'musical mothering' by incorporating knowledges from sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and education.

Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the agenda of decolonising knowledge in language study.

English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today.

Integrating findings from bilingualism research with the study of endangered languages, this book gives new perspectives for both fields.

Kein kirchliches Fest, kein politisches Ereignis, kein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs in den vergangenen Jahren, zu dem in der Öffentlichkeit nicht die klare Stimme Wolfgang Hubers zu hören gewesen ist.

Baptists have at times been tempted to dismiss liturgy as formulaic.

This set reissues 29 books on the English language, originally published between 1932 and 2003.

Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work.

First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet.