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This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society.
Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world.
The tenth volume in the TIRF-Routledge series, this book features research on the teaching and learning of English in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
This book examines the rise of print culture during China’s Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). It offers the first extended narrative in English of how print became entrenched as a sustained mode of textual dissemination in China.
Chinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China.
Shakespeare Amazes supports the instruction of learners needing to be challenged with content that is complex, rich, and of high interest to students, whether they are gifted, high achieving, or just curious about Shakespeare.
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgia for audiences, particularly in the case of the third-century C.E. poet Quintus of Smyrna’s epic Posthomerica.
Samosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave (‘K-wave’) also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global stage.
With help from a global cast of scholars, Kumiko Murata explores the remodelling of the discipline of applied linguistics, which traditionally regarded Anglophone native-speaker English as the standard for English as a lingua franca (ELF).
Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse explores how recent language change in the third person pronoun system of Mandarin Chinese is harnessed by netizens to construct spaces of (non-) belonging along a fluid continuum in the context of pro and anti LGBTQ discourses.
This work breaks new ground by considering the ancient and medieval reception of Alexander the Great from a gender studies perspective.
First published in 1949, Kafka: His Mind and Art presents an extended analysis of the Kafka literature, with emphasis on its shortcomings and their effect on Kafka’s vogue. This is an important historical document for students of literature.