This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors to examine some crucial connections between postcolonial theory and translation studies. As English becomes an increasingly g ...more on ebook "Postcolonial Translation..."

"Literature," the latest volume in the highly successful "New Critical Idiom" series, is at once a compact mine of information about the development and more recent discrediting of the conce ...more on ebook "Literature..."

Language is central to the process of teaching and learning. Greater knowledge about the uses of language informs teaching throughout the curriculum, not just in those lessons describes as E ...more on ebook "Use of Language Across the Secondar..."

Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book ...more on ebook "Bilingualism and the Latin Language..."

This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into ...more on ebook "Motives for Language Change..."

The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consist ...more on ebook "The Dravidian Languages..."

From the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE, the landmark developments of Greek culture and the critical works of Greek thought and literature were accompanied by an explosive growth in ...more on ebook "Written Texts and the Rise of Liter..."

The debates surrounding "Standard English," grammar and correctness are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context, as shown by the Ebonics controversy in Oakland, Ca ...more on ebook "Standard English..."

This study uses evidence from early English verse to reconstruct the course of some central phonological changes in the history of the language. It builds on the premise that alliteration re ...more on ebook "Alliteration and Sound Change in Ea..."

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This book shows that even in a core cogn ...more on ebook "Space in Language and Cognition..."