Linguistic Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Generative Grammar

   Theory and its History

   By Robert Freidin

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar. The essays collected here display Freidin's role in moving the theory forward in terms of new proposals,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

   An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

   By Michael Burke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning

   Theoretical Basics and Experimental Evidence

   By Andrea Tyler

   This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first part of the book introduces the basics of cognitive linguistic theory in a way that is geared toward second language...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
4. Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order

   By Shigeru Miyagawa

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Introducing Translation Studies

   Theories and Applications, 3rd Edition

   By Jeremy Munday

   This is the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the dynamic field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and fully up-to-date overview of key movements and theorists within an expanding area of study, this textbook has become a key source for generations of...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Language Evolution

   Edited by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Gesche Westphal Fitch

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   This new four-volume collection, part of Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Linguistics series, assembles the most important scholarly writings concerning the biological evolution of language, particularly those incorporating a Darwinian view of evolution. Including excerpts from ancient sources such...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. Applied Linguists Needed

   Cross-disciplinary Networking in Endangered Language Contexts

   Edited by Lida Cope

   It is a fact that the world’s languages are dying at an alarming rate. This comprehensive volume aspires to raise awareness among applied linguists and language practitioners about the needs and concerns of endangered language communities. It suggests that the way forward lies in building language...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Metaphor and Figurative Language

   Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
9. Pragmatics II

   Edited by Asa Kasher

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Pragmatics II is a four-volume collection of the very best scholarship on pragmatics. It is an essential successor collection to the editor’s Pragmatics (6 vols.) (978-0-415-11734-0), published in 1998 and described...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
10. Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature

    By Alison Gibbons

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer...

    Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge