Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
About the Book Series
Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics provide overviews of a whole subject area or sub-discipline in linguistics, and survey the state of the discipline including emerging and cutting edge areas. Edited by leading scholars, these volumes include contributions from key academics from around the world and are essential reading for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics
2nd Edition
Edited
By Howard Manns, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts
December 29, 2026
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive reference point and introduction to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspectives, covering all the key areas of linguistics. The second edition of this handbook has been ...
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Descriptive Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Otto Zwartjes, Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
December 14, 2026
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Descriptive Linguistics provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the history of the language sciences, focusing on the structure of languages from a global perspective, including both European and non-European traditions, and how they intersected...
The Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Andy Chin, Shin Kataoka, Bit-Chee Kwok
September 15, 2026
In traditional Chinese dialectology, Cantonese is widely regarded as the standard variety of the Yue (粵) dialect group. According to Ethnologue 2025, Cantonese has an estimated 86 million native speakers worldwide. It is predominantly spoken in the southernmost regions of China, including Hong Kong...
The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandrine Zufferey, Pascal Gygax
August 27, 2026
The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of various ways in which experiments are used across all domains of linguistics and surveys the range of state-of-the-art methods that can be applied to analyse the language of populations with a wide ...
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Shi-xu
May 22, 2026
In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication—cultural discourses—by experts from around the world. A culturalist programme in ...
The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Benedict Lin
May 22, 2026
This Handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the delivery of EMI in diverse contexts across the world. The...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture
2nd Edition
Edited
By Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen
March 20, 2026
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents a comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. Now in its second edition, it has been fully revised to provide a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies in...
The Routledge Handbook of Transdisciplinary Systemic Functional Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebekah Wegener, Anne McCabe, Akila Sellami Baklouti, Lise Fontaine
December 28, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Transdisciplinary Systemic Functional Linguistics offers a groundbreaking exploration of how M.A.K. Halliday's influential work extends beyond traditional linguistic boundaries to address today's most complex problems. A key barrier to transdisciplinary research is ...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Pihlaja, Helen Ringrow
December 26, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion is the first ever comprehensive collection of research on religion and language, with over 35 authors from 15 countries, presenting a range of linguistic and discourse analytic research on religion and belief in different discourse contexts. The ...
The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Strelluf
December 26, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics is the definitive guide to sociophonetics. Offering a practical and accessible survey of an unparalleled range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, this is the first handbook devoted to sociophonetic research and applications of sociophonetics ...
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukač, Robin Straaijer
July 31, 2025
This Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of...
The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Joachim Grzega
March 31, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the typical features among European languages in cultural, geographical, or political definitions. Bringing together the latest research in the field, the handbook showcases European traditions of linguistic research on ...