Language & Linguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Language and Identity in Englishes

   By Urszula Clark

   Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international examples from the UK, US, China and India, Clark uses both cutting-edge fieldwork and her own original research to give a...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Framing Languages and Literacies

   Socially Situated Views and Perspectives

   Edited by Margaret R. Hawkins

   In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly articulate and explicate major social perspectives and approaches in the fields of language and literacy studies. Each approach draws on distinct bodies of literature and traditions and uses distinct identifiers, labels, and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms

   Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education

   Edited by Luciana C. de Oliveira, Tony Silva

   Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

   Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Bilingual Education and Language Policy in the Global South

   Edited by Jo Arthur Shoba, Feliciano Chimbutane

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This volume considers a range of ways in which bilingual programs can make a contribution to aspects of human and economic development in the global South. The authors examine the consequences of different policies, programs, and pedagogies for learners and local communities through recent...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Pronominal Gender in English

   A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

   By Peter Siemund

   Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

   This book investigates the use of English third person pronouns (he, she, it) across different varieties of English, where we frequently find he and she used for inanimate objects (the tree – he, the house – he, the bucket – he, but the water – it). It is the first book-length study of this subject...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Telicity and Durativity

   A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German

   By Andrea Luise Wilhelm

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Language and History

   Integrationist Perspectives

   Edited by Nigel Love

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were to be treated as historical objects, evolving through gradual but constant processes of change over long periods of time. In recent years,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Pointing

   Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

   Edited by Sotaro Kita

   Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been very limited. The editor's aim is to provide...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
9. Children's Language

   Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

   Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

   These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
10. Children's Language

    Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

    Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

    These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press