John McCarthy 
Hidden Generalizations [PDF ebook] 

Drawing on frameworks from applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this volume employs a linguistics approach to understanding race and racism in Latin America, with a particular focus o …

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like ”that wet blanket is a loose cannon”, but admire ”Life”s but a walking shadow, a poor player”, and all the metaphors packed into Macbeth”s ”Tomorrow, an …

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments — familial, local community, and broader cultural voices. Using past structures and paradigms of …

So far I may be permitted to speak without intrenching on the limits of criticism. A work containing more than 50, 000 words, many of which have never appeared even in scattered glossaries, and illus …

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in …

Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy an …

Written by leading experts in the area, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Translation Studies brings together original contributions representing a culmination of the extensive research to-date withi …

This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football ( …

American English has many word pairs and trios that are alike enough to be confusing. Word Choice Errors provides a novel way to empower writers of all levels to cut through the confusion to understa …

This book considers the work and influence of Charles Sanders Peirce, showing how the concepts and ideas he developed continue to impact and shape contemporary research issues. Written by a team of l …