The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?In this Very Short Introduction
For over a decade, The Language of Composition has been the most successful textbook written for the AP® English Language and Composition Course. Now, its esteemed author team is back, giving practica
As English is a universally spoken language, it is taught as a second language across the world. The phonology, vocabulary and grammar are the most significant aspects of teaching English as a languag
This book examines how neoliberalism finds expression in foreign language textbooks. Moving beyond the usual focus on English, Pau Bori explores the impact of neoliberal ideology on Catalan textbooks.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this growing area, the linguistic analysis of interaction in superdiverse cities. Developed a
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need
This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining
From 1995 to 2006, eight New Zealand composers were invited to give an annual public address at Massey University: John Ritchie, Edwin Carr, David Farquhar, Jack Body, Lyell Cresswell, John Cousins, J
The definitive reference in the field of English language teachingThe TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching explores the theoretical and practical aspects of English language instruction by
In this handbook, Victor Ginsburgh and ShlomoWeber bring together methodological, theoretical, and empirical studies in theeconomics of language in a single framework of linguistic diversity thatrefle
Peterson's(R) Master the AP(R) English Language & Composition Exam offers three full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations to help students score high and earn college credit. Featu
The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to
The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to
Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M. Gass’s Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner has become a classical text in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This new pr
Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey’s The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon offers a comprehensive grammar, transcribed and glossed texts, and a dictionary of Kurux, an isolated Dravidian triba
Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive o
The Tcl Programming Language is a comprehensive guide to the current version (8.6) of this immensely flexible and versatilelanguage. Starting with the basic features, it expands its scope toinclude th
According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Ideas are understood as pure phenomenal 'feels' which are momentarily had by a single p
The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity
The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity
Tangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan language spoken by 150 hilltribespeople in the Far Eastern Himalaya. This work presents a cultural, historical and grammatical introduction to the Tan
First published in Great Britain in 1973, Main Trends in the Science of Language was part of a series of books that resulted from a study carried out by UNESCO in collaboration with national and inter
Seeing Flannery O'Connor in the company of poets, rather than realistic prose writers, this work shows how she uses recurring figures of speech to transform or re-create the external world.Originally
Seeing Flannery O'Connor in the company of poets, rather than realistic prose writers, this work shows how she uses recurring figures of speech to transform or re-create the external world.Originally
Language teachers are often afraid to teach pronunciation because they lack essential, basic knowledge or training in phonetics and phonology. To correct this situation, this lively, interactive book
In the context of recent forms of globalization, migration has engendered profound social changes and challenged scholars to rethink their disciplinary constructs. The Routledge Handbook of Migration
Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or prior knowledge of psychology. Written in an accessible
Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or prior knowledge of psychology. Written in an accessible
Terms such as "Third World", "developing countries" and "Global South" are ubiquitous in the discipline of development studies, but they are often poorly defined, ideologically weighted and misleading
The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching is the definitive reference volume for postgraduate students of Applied Linguistics, ELT and TESOL. 39 chapters cover inter-related themes progressi
Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point,Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are
This guide to Tonga language collects the most common Tonga phrases and expressions as well as an English-Tonga/Tonga-English dictionary. This phrasebook includes greetings, food items, directions, si
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as ne
