English Language & Linguistics News & Updates
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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Coming Soon: English Phonetics: Twentieth-Century Development
Making readily available materials which have until now been very difficult for phoneticians, phonologists, and other linguists to locate and use, English Phonetics: Twentieth-Century Developments is a veritable treasure-trove. The gathered works are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. And with a substantial introduction, newly written by the editors, the collection is destined to be welcomed as a vital reference and research resource.
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June Author of the Month: David Crystal
David Crystal has been a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster since 1984. Based in Holyhead, Crystal is Honorary Professor at Bangor University, UK. In 1995 he received an OBE for services to the English language, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2000.
He is author of numerous books, including David Crystal's Introduction to Language (2011), Internet Linguistics (2011), Just a Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language (2009) and The Future of Language DVD (2009), all Routledge.
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Understanding Intercultural Communication - Negotiating a Grammar of Culture
Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help students analyze intercultural communication. Underpinned by a new grammar of culture developed by Adrian Holliday, this book incorporates examples and activities to enable students and professionals to investigate culture on very new, entirely non-essentialist lines. Read more here.
Follow this link if you are teaching and would like to request a complimentary exam copy to consider adopting for your course.
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June Series of the Month: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Corpus based linguistics is a dynamic area of linguistic research. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics aims to reflect the diversity of approaches to the subject, and thus to provides a forum for debate and detailed discussion of the various ways of building, exploiting and theorizing about the use of corpora in language studies. Series editored by Tony McEnery and Michael Hoey.
Add the code JUA13 to your basket to receive 20% discount on titles in this series throughout June.
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June Book of the Month: Translation and Web Localization
Translation and Web Localization provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview into this emerging field of study. The book covers the key areas and main theoretical and practical approaches of the subject, rather than a step by step practical guide. Topics covered include the oftentimes controversial definition of localization, how the process develops, what constitutes a text in this process, digital genre theory and its implications, and how to conduct research or training in this field.
This text is an indispensable book for researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of translation studies, as well as practitioners and researchers in related fields.
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Understanding Semantics, 2nd Edition
"...a rare treat for both seasoned researchers in semantics and novices to the field, and I believe this book should be on every semantics curriculum as it has been on mine since it first appeared." - Luna Filipovic, University of East Anglia, UK
Follow this link if you are teaching and would like to receive a complimentary exam copy to consider adopting for your course.
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Language Online - Investigating Digital Texts and Practices
In Language Online, authors David Barton and Carmen Lee explore the impact of the online world on the study of language.
Teaching a course? Order your complimentary exam copy here
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Second Language Acquisition - An Introductory Course, 4th Edition
"The coverage is broad and current, the style accessible, the discussions of theory and research findings balanced and insightful. Highly recommended." - Mike Long*
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May Book of the Month: Discourse in English Language Education
"This text will be an important resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in applied linguistics, language education, and TESOL. It is a unique and welcome addition to the field." Jane Jackson, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Engaging, accessible and comprehensive, Discourse in English Language Education richly demonstrates how Discourse Studies can inform the teaching of English and other languages, both as a foreign language and in the mother tongue.
If this text is relevant to a course that you teach click here to order your complimentary inspection copy today.
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May Series of the Month: Routledge Leading Linguists
The books in this series, Routledge Leading Linguists, draw together some of the seminal essays from the most important linguists of the last decades. Each book covers one scholar, making the best of his or her work readily accessible and available in one place for the first time. Series edited by Carlos Otero, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, USA
Add the code MYB13 to your basket to receive 20% discount on titles in this series throughout May.