Parliament’s second chamber may no longer be home to hereditary peers, but elitism remains. This detailed analysis of the financial and... Læs mere
How does memory both divide and unite an increasingly globalized European populace? This book presents a range of case studies across... Læs mere
Disappearance has become a defining problem of our times – the disappearance of humans, communities, cultures and life-sustaining ecosystems. This book... Læs mere
The first comprehensive case study of how a multilingual learner approaches a new language.
The first book-length scholarly monograph to address all of the important aspects of phonetic transcription.
The volume proposes a stylistics perspective to investigate the discourse of professional communities. It provides an overview of the evolving field of... Læs mere
This book considers various theoretical and methodological issues in relation to a representative sample of fishing communities along Scotland’s east coast. Can the lexical variation and change found in these communities be perceived as primary evidence for dialect death?
A study of language planning using Norwegian as a case study.
Stevenson and Carl investigate the dynamics of language and social change in contemporary central Europe.
A theory of diachronic change based on studies of language acquisition.
This volume explores the impact of French on Russian language attitudes, especially among the literary community. It examines the... Læs mere
This is the first of two companion volumes which examine language use and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, focusing on the transitional period from the Enlightenment to the age of Pushkin.