Tani Akinobu Tani & Suzuki Hironori Suzuki 
Phases of the History of English [PDF ebook] 
Selection of Papers Read at SHELL 2012

Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration represents the first comprehensive study of second-generation transnationalism, exploring the manner in which the children of migrants grow up a …

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have shaped their identities according to pa …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and …

As the last leader of the Chartist movement, Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69) is a significant historical figure, but he is just as well-known for his political verse. His prison-composed epic The New …

This book investigates the lexico-grammatical complementarity in language in its construal of person as a semantic system. Given the vast and wide spectrum of resources for expressing distinctions in …

This book focuses on women and translation in cultures ”across other horizons” well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have as …

There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of …

This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation – commonly referred to as ”speech reporti …

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on” or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers toge …

* Examines how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history * Two comprehensive indexes of Topics and Technical Terms, and Names * Carefully illustrated to explain ke …