Language & Linguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Figurative Language Comprehension

   Social and Cultural Influences

   Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz

   Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

   Edited by Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics provides a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in Forensic Linguistics. Forensic Linguistics is the study of language and the law, covering topics from legal language and courtroom discourse to...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Metaphor and Reconciliation

   The Discourse Dynamics of Empathy in Post-Conflict Conversations

   By Lynne Cameron

   Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

   Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo Berry had her first conversation with the man responsible. She had made a long journey, ‘walking the footsteps of the bombers’ as she put it, determined not to give in to anger and revenge but to try to understand his motivations and...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Practical Phonetics and Phonology

   A Resource Book for Students, 3rd Edition

   By Beverley S. Collins, Inger M. Mees

   Series: Routledge English Language Introductions

   Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings—all in...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals)

   By Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, it shows that this is not just a phenomenon left over from obsolete phonological processes but a subject deserving of respect in its own right. The book...

   Published January 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor

   Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. English Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context

   Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory

   By Michael Hadzantonis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary language learning in a Northeast Asian context. Hadzantonis contextualizes these salient domains through an engagement with social and cultural...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Textual Transformations in Children's Literature

   Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations

   Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book offers new critical approaches for the study of adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that occur internationally in contemporary children’s culture. It follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

    Symmetries in the Brain

    By Andrea Moro

    Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

    This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge