Newshounds and Wordsmiths

Jean Aitchison

Modern journalism is often the subject of criticism and opposition. This fascinating new account argues that journalists are in fact ...

Varieties around the world

Edgar W. Schneider

The global spread of English has resulted in the emergence of a diverse range of postcolonial varieties around the world. ...

A Critical Survey

P. H. Matthews

Accounts of syntax are usually based on two assumptions: firstly, that a sentence comprises a hierarchy of phrases, forming a ...

A Primer in Conversation Analysis

Emanuel A. Schegloff

Much of our daily lives are spent talking to one another, in both ordinary conversation and more specialized forms of ...

Wayne Harbert

Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 ...

William Labov

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the ...

Asif Agha

Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of ...

Taboo and the Censoring of Language

Keith Allan, Kate Burridge

This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ...

Edited by Ricardo Mairal, Juana Gil

The attempt to discover "linguistic universals" - the properties that all languages have in common - is a fundamental goal ...

An Introduction

J. C. Wells

Intonation - the rise and fall of pitch in our voices - plays a crucial role in how we express ...

A Linguistic Introduction

Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Douglas Kibbee, Frederic Jenkins

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the structure of French. It clearly introduces the language's history, phonetics (pronunciation), ...

Carmen Fought

What is ethnicity? Is there a "white" way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's ...

Jenny Cook-Gumperz

Literacy - the ability to produce and interpret written text - has long been viewed as the basis of all ...

A Linguistic Introduction

Chaofen Sun

Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language in the world, and has a rich social, cultural and ...

A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns

John Algeo

Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? ...

Greville G. Corbett

Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. ...

R. E. Batchelor

Written for those with a basic competence in Spanish, this comprehensive, user-friendly synonyms guide is designed to help the learner ...

Ralph Fasold, Jeffrey Connor-Linton

This accessible new textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who ...

David Lightfoot

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to ...

Muriel Saville-Troike

This accessible new textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition (SLA). Designed for students with just ...

George Yule

Unrivalled in its popularity, The Study of Language is quite simply the best introduction to the field available today. It ...

Dilworth Parkinson

Designed for those who have already developed a basic competence in Arabic, this comprehensive guide aims to broaden and improve ...

Laurel J. Brinton, Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of ...

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

R. E. Batchelor, C. J. Pountain

Using Spanish is a guide to Spanish usage for those who have already acquired the basics of the language and ...

John Coleman

This major new textbook provides a clearly-written, concise and accessible introduction to speech and language processing. Assuming knowledge of only ...

William O'Grady

This engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children, discussing how they learn to produce ...

Eckehard Schulz

This accessible grammar provides a concise and user-friendly guide to the structure of Modern Standard Arabic. Using familiar terminology and ...

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

J. J. Kinder, V. M. Savini

Reviewing key points, this guide to Italian usage is intended for students who have acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their fluency and ...

Sarah M. B. Fagan

This textbook provides a comprehensive and thematically structured vocabulary for undergraduate students of German. Divided into 20 manageable units, it ...

A Lexical-Functional Approach

Paul R. Kroeger

Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach is a comprehensive and accessible textbook on syntactic analysis, designed for students of linguistics at ...

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

Ana Sofia Ganho, Timothy McGovern

This guide to Portuguese usage covers both the Brazilian and the European varieties of Portuguese, and differentiates clearly between them. ...

Ingo Plag

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, focusing specifically on English. Assuming no prior Linguistic knowledge, ...

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

Martin Durrell

This is a new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Using German, first published in 1992. It provides guidance for ...

Marcel Danesi

Using Italian Vocabulary provides the student of Italian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. It can ...

Paul J. Hopper, Elizabeth Closs Traugott

This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to ...

R. E. Batchelor, Miguel Ángel San José

This book provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate Spanish courses. It offers a broad coverage ...

Explorations in Cognitive Diversity

Stephen C. Levinson

Spatial orientation and direction are core areas of human and animal thinking. But unlike animals, human populations vary considerably in ...

From Plato to 1600

Vivien Law

Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from ancient Greece up to ...

William Croft

William Croft presents a comprehensive introduction to the method and theory used in studying typology and universals. The second edition ...

An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis

Florian Coulmas

During its long history the problem of reducing language to writing, and conversely that of interpreting written signs as language, ...

Sarah Smyth, Elena V. Crosbie

This comprehensive foundation course offers a highly interactive approach to learning Russian. Designed for beginners, it covers all the material ...

An Introduction

Charles F. Meyer

English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It discusses the role that corpus linguistics ...

History and Structure

Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova

English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical ...

Marianne Mithun

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These several ...