Language & Linguistics

This ten year study presents a comprehensive analysis of focus particles and related function words. They play an important role but their characteristics pose numerous problems for current syntactic frameworks and semantic theories...

Based on examples from German and English, this study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Originally published in 1956, this volume presents a survey of the non-Bantu languages in the area extending south of the Sahara from Lake Chad to the Indian Ocean, together withj those of South Africa. The arrangement is primarily linguistic, in as much as larger units which show some indisputable ..

Originally published in 1940, this book was the result of 3 years'  worth of phonetic research and analysis with the aim of laying foudnations for improved methods of teaching and ascertaining the most scientific basis for current orthography of the Kikuyu language of Kenya...

This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories...

This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories...

The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The Power of Tests applies a critical perspective of language tests by examining their uses and consequences in education and society and by viewing tests not as isolated events but rather as embedded in social, educational and political contexts...

The Power of Tests applies a critical perspective of language tests by examining their uses and consequences in education and society and by viewing tests not as isolated events but rather as embedded in social, educational and political contexts...

This book will provide an introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) for beginners...