Language & Linguistics

Lillis' reflective study of academic writing practices challenges current discourse on writing as 'skill'. Containing detailed studies, as well as theory and analysis from the UK and US, the book has a strong international focus._x000D_..

This collection of essays in honour of J.D. O'Connor, by an international list of contributors cover such subjects as rhythm, intonation, forensic linguistics, pronunciation, and sociological aspects of speech such as accents...

First published in 1990, this collection celebrates the life and work of Professor A. C. Gimson, four years after his untimely death in 1985. A. C. Gimson, Professor of Phonetics at University College London, 1966-83, was the most distinguished and influential phonetician of his day, concentrating s..

A lively introduction to the study of expression in relation to meaning, which encourages an interest in and sensitivity to words and structures. Examines an enormous variety of text types in addition to numerous exercises...

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying subje..

Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus-informed account describes swearing and its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse...

This compact and completely up-to-date, two-way dictionary provides a comprehensive and modern vocabulary, containing 85,000 headwords and phrases...

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight...

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight...

Interest in statistical natural language generation is rapidly increasing. This work sheds important light from theoretical linguistics on the type of information crucial to statistical NLG algorithms...

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

A highly readable collection of key articles and essays by a leading scholar on African American language and politics. Smitherman discusses the inter-relationship between African American language, culture and education...