Book Series in English Language and Linguistics
Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics
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Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition
A History
From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning.… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31037-6 (Routledge)
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Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs
A Study of Sematology
Jürgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico's 'sematology' as both a spirited rejection of Cartesian philosophy and an early critique… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30987-5 (Routledge)
Toward a History of American Linguistics
Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30060-5 (Routledge)
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The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000
Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals
This book examines the way in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries discussed the concept of… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-25256-0 (Routledge)
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Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary
This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-22074-3 (Routledge)
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Women, Language and Linguistics
Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-13315-9 (Routledge)
Linguistics and the Third Reich
Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language
This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18954-5 (Routledge)