Forthcoming Language & Literature Books

Forthcoming Books

1. What is Enlightenment?

   By Samuel Fleischacker

   Series: Kant's Questions

   "Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosophy. The problems it addressed, such as the proper extent of individual freedom and the challenging...

   To Be Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Khoesan Languages

   Edited by Rainer Vossen

   Series: Routledge Language Family Series

   The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development. According to a widely accepted hypothesis, the Khoesan languages represent the...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

   By James Loxley, Mark Robson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can enable...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Critical ELT in Action

   Foundations, Promises, Praxis

   By Graham V. Crookes

   Uniquely bridging theory and practice, this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts, values, curriculum, instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for...

   To Be Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
5. Talking Criminal Justice

   Language and the Just Society

   By Michael Coyle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This...

   To Be Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. Typological Studies

   Word Order and Relative Clauses

   By Guglielmo Cinque

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. International Life Writing

   Memory and Identity in Global Context

   Edited by Paul Longley Arthur

   Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. English for International Journalists

   By Mike Gandon

   Edited by Heather Purdey

   English for International Journalists is a clear and engaging step-by-step guide for non-native speakers using English in journalism across all forms of media. In-depth language analysis is provided in the specialised context of journalism, as well as a comprehensive approach to the rules and...

   To Be Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics

   Edited by James Simpson

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics. The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives: applied linguistics in action language learning, language...

   To Be Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
10. Retelling Stories, Framing Culture

    Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature

    By John Stephens, Robyn McCallum

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    To Be Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge