Language arts & disciplines / Linguistics

Introducing Language in Use: A Course Book

by Aileen Bloomer, Patrick Griffiths & Andrew John Merrison

Drawing on a vast range of data and examples of language in its many forms, this book provides students with the tools they need to analyze real language in diverse contexts. Designed to be highly adaptable...

Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

by Gunther Kress

The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication...

Speech Sounds

by Patricia Ashby

Speech Sounds:

* helps develop the fundamental skills of the phonetician

* investigates the various aspects involved in the production of speech sounds

* uses data-based material to reinforce each new concept...

English Language Pedagogies for the Northeast Asian Learner: Developing and Contextually Framing The Transition Theory

by Michael Hadzantonis

This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary language learning in a Northeast Asian context. Hadzantonis...

Analysing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Tex

by Ruth Wodak & John E. Richardson

This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of...

Women as Translators in Early Modern England

by Deborah Uman

This book considers both the practice and representation of translation in works penned by early modern women including Margaret Tyler, Mary Sidney Herbert, Anne Lock, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn.

The Clinical Effectiveness of Neurolinguistic Programming: A Critical Appraisal

by Lisa Wake, Richard Gray & Frank Bourke

Despite widespread use, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is a topic of much debate, often receiving criticism from academic and professional sectors. In this book international academics, researchers and therapists...

Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students

by Beverley S. Collins & Inger M. Mees

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

Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject,...

The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World

by Philip Gooden

Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from...

Word Court: Wherein verbal virtue is rewarded, crimes against the language are punished, and poetic justice is d

by Barbara Wallraff

In 1993, the Atlantic Monthly's senior editor Barbara Wallraff began answering grammar questions on America Online. Instantaneously the site became one of AOL's most popular forums, as questions, and responses...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Second Language Acquisition

by Ernesto Macaro

Bloomsbury Companion To Second Language Acquisition, this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics.

It offers a comprehensive reference resource: it features...

Interviews with M. A. K. Halliday: Language Turned Back on Himself

by J. R. Martin

A collection of interviews with M. A. K. Halliday, the founder of systemic-functional linguistics, is long overdue. Halliday's unique standing in SFL is documented by the many interviews and discussions with...

Materials and Methods in ELT

by Jo McDonough & Christopher Shaw

This is a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principle and practice of Teaching English as a foreign/second Language. It is written both for teachers and for those taking professional...

Syntax: A Generative Introduction

by Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie’s bestselling textbook on syntax has guided thousands of students through the discipline of theoretical syntax; retaining its popularity due to its combination of straightforward language, comprehensive...

The Interpretation of Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale in China

by Chiara Romagnoli

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Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry: Despatches from the hospice of fading words

by Ruth Wajnryb

From wordmeister Ruth Wajnryb, a witty and thought provoking examination of the words that once peppered our language but are now fading from use.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonology

by Nancy C. Kula & Bert Botma

Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Phonology, this book offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. It covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches...

Walking English: A Journey in Search of Language

by David Crystal

A fascinating and insightful romp through the language we speak every day, by the linguistic expert who ?succeeds again and again with clarity, wit and enthusiasm? (New York Times)

In this discursive jaunt through...

Language and Citizenship in Japan

by Nanette Gottlieb

The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: 'Japanese citizenship' means 'Japanese ethnicity,' which in turn means 'Japanese as one's first...

Exploring Professional Communication: Language in Action

by Stephanie Schnurr

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking...