English Language Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English

   Structure and Use

   By Christine Günther

   Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

   This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis on...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Translingual Practice

   Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations

   By Suresh Canagarajah

   Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads

   Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman

   By Hilda J Koopman

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education

   A Bibliographic Resource

   By John R. Rickford, Julie Sweetland, Angela E. Rickford, Thomas Grano

   Series: NCTE-Routledge Research Series

   More than 50 years of scholarly attention to the intersection of language and education have resulted in a rich body of literature on the role of vernacular language varieties in the classroom. This field of work can be bewildering in its size and variety, drawing as it does on the diverse methods,...

   Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference

   By Laura A. Michaelis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

   This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics

   Edited by Anne O'Keeffe, Michael McCarthy

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Through the electronic analysis of large bodies of text, corpus linguistics demonstrates and supports linguistic statements and assumptions. In recent...

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes

    Edited by Andy Kirkpatrick

    Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

    The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of World Englishes drawing on the expertise of leading authors within the field. The Handbook is structured in nine sections covering historical perspectives, core issues and topics and new debates...

    Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge