The Celtic World

Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (set)

Edited by Raimund Karl, David Stifter

The Celtic World, a new title in the Routledge Critical Concepts in Historical Studies series, brings together canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship in Celtic...

Published February 28th 2007 by Routledge.

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Asian Englishes

Edited by Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru

In recent decades, the cultural and linguistic legacies of the colonial era have been superseded by the globalization of English through the international mass media,...

Published November 16th 2006 by Routledge.

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Phonetics of English in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Beverly Collins, Inger Mees

Work on speech sound and the sound systems of languages can be traced back in the British Isles at least as far as the sixteenth...

Published November 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Book of World Proverbs

By Jon R. Stone

The Routledge Book of World Proverbs invites the reader to travel the globe in search of the origins of such words of wisdom, experiencing the...

Published September 12th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Book of World Proverbs

By Jon R. Stone

The Routledge Book of World Proverbs invites the reader to travel the globe in search of the origins of such words of wisdom, experiencing the...

Published September 8th 2006 by Routledge.

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Language and History

Integrationist Perspectives

Edited by Nigel Love

When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were to be...

Published March 9th 2006 by Routledge.

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Language and Region

By Joan Beal

Language and Region:

• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines...

Published January 24th 2006 by Routledge.

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Language and Region

By Joan Beal

Language and Region:

• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines...

Published January 23rd 2006 by Routledge.

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Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion

Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic

By Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani

The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at...

Published July 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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A History of the German Language Through Texts

By Thomas Gloning, Christopher Young

A History of the German Language Through Texts examines the evolution of German, from the Early Medieval period to the present day.
Written in a lively...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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