Language: reference and general

Explores how early Christianity sought to define its relationship to speakers of foreign languages.

Bringing together Trudgill''s columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.

Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.

Explores how early Christianity sought to define its relationship to speakers of foreign languages.

Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.

Bringing together Trudgill''s columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.

This book focuses on the techniques of good prose writing, suitable for students of English literature and of creative writing.

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.

This book focuses on the techniques of good prose writing, suitable for students of English literature and of creative writing.

Is there one Indian English accent?

This Element shows how modern cognitive linguistics can explain the evolution of New Englishes spoken all over the world.

This Element shows how modern cognitive linguistics can explain the evolution of New Englishes spoken all over the world.

Is there one Indian English accent?

This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation, exploring writings that deflect attention from language.

With step-by-step instructions, this guide shows how to get the best from EDD Online, a freely available English dialect dictionary.

This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation, exploring writings that deflect attention from language.

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

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

A thorough guide to all stages of preparing, writing and publishing high-quality scientific research papers in academic journals.

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

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

A thorough guide to all stages of preparing, writing and publishing high-quality scientific research papers in academic journals.

Concepts of being, learning and doing have potential to form a holistic practice-led pedagogy for students of editing and publishing.

Concepts of being, learning and doing have potential to form a holistic practice-led pedagogy for students of editing and publishing.

Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.

A review of recent computational (deep learning) approaches to understanding news and nonfiction stories.

Provides the fundamental features of the Tiberian Hebrew accents, focusing on their divisions and exegetical roles.

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

Provides the fundamental features of the Tiberian Hebrew accents, focusing on their divisions and exegetical roles.

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

Providing clear, practical explanations of research methods in business studies, this guide is indispensable for students writing reports.

Providing clear, practical explanations of research methods in business studies, this guide is indispensable for students writing reports.

This Element considers the role of culture in the complex interactions of teenagers with technology.

This Element considers the role of culture in the complex interactions of teenagers with technology.

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

Explores language, culture, and education among immigrants in the United States.

Presents a beginner''s introduction to the history of the English language, incorporating complex systems, the scientific model behind human speech.

Explores how global youth push the boundaries of standard language and exploit the potential of their multilingual repertoires online.

Presents a beginner''s introduction to the history of the English language, incorporating complex systems, the scientific model behind human speech.

A fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of phrasal verbs covering almost 400 years, based on large amounts of empirical evidence.

With contributions from renowned scholars, this book explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages.

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

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

Offers the first systematic study of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts.

Provides non-native students and heritage speakers with the necessary tools to write effectively in Spanish.

A brilliant analysis of colloquial English, both its syntax and its variations, using novel data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts and the internet.

A comprehensive and engaging overview of English language dictionary-making from the first monolingual English dictionary to the current day.

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