Book Series
Critical Concepts in Linguistics
New & Published Titles:
Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Although scientific studies of the language behaviour of polyglots began to appear in the nineteenth century, it is only in the last fifty years or…
read moreJuly 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46267-9 (Routledge)
Translation Studies
Translation Studies has emerged as a thriving interdisciplinary and international area of scholarship. Its rapid growth has been accompanied by diverse forms of translation research…
read moreJuly 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34422-7 (Routledge)
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Serious work using computers to support language teaching and learning began in the 1960s, but it was not until the beginning of the 1980s when…
read moreMay 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46539-7 (Routledge)
Sociolinguistics
This title is a new collection in the Routledge Critical Concepts in Linguistics series. In six volumes, it provides a critical synthesis of the key…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40849-3 (Routledge)
Lexicology
Critical Concepts in Linguistics
This new Routledge Major Work is a six-volume collection of nearly one hundred papers, articles, and extracts covering every aspect of lexicology. It ranges over…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70098-6 (Routledge)
Corpus Linguistics
Critical Concepts in Linguistics
Corpora—large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically—provide the means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. Corpora… read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33895-0 (Routledge)
Comparative Grammar
Critical Concepts in Linguistics
The study of comparative grammar has long been a concern of linguistic theory. To the extent that, by studying the aspects of grammar which vary,…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34199-8 (Routledge)
Syntax
This collection covers the fundamental concepts and analytic tools of generative transformational syntax of the last half century, from Chomsky's Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (1951)…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24672-9 (Routledge)
World Englishes
The study of World Englishes has seen a revolutionary shift during the last twenty years. Before 1980, there was a general assumption within Britain,… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31505-0 (Routledge)
Japanese Linguistics
Critcal Concepts in Linguistics
Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European language family - particularly English - and languages like Japanese and Chinese have not been pursued in…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33235-4 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Language Acquisition
Edited by Charles Yang
To be published November 12th 2009
Clinical Linguistics
Edited by Thomas W. Powell, Martin J. Ball
To be published November 13th 2009
Second-Language Acquisition
Edited by Lourdes Ortega
To be published March 15th 2010
Metaphor and Figurative Language
Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora
To be published April 15th 2010
Pragmatics II, 4-vol. set
Edited by Asa Kasher
To be published June 15th 2010
Historical Linguistics
Edited by Brian D. Joseph, Hope Dawson
To be published July 15th 2010
