Routledge Focus on Linguistics
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Linguistics showcases new and exciting research across different areas of linguistics in short book form. Featuring titles between 20,000 and 50,000 words in length, titles in the series, available in both hardback and ebook formats, offer concise treatments of a wide range of emergent topics, ongoing debates, and theoretical and methodological developments within linguistics research.
Composite Predicates in Late Modern English
1st Edition
By Ljubica Leone
October 26, 2025
This volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer evidence of ongoing language change using data less readily available in other corpora. While previous scholarship on CPs exists from a synchronic perspective...
The Discursive Construction of the Modern Political Self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Age of Social Media
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Aiello
August 26, 2024
This book explores the impact of new media on politicians’ construction, presentation, and dissemination of their political selves, focusing on the social media presence of US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to offer new insights into the landscape of contemporary political discourse. ...
Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts: From Psychology to Cinema and Literature
1st Edition
By Yair Neuman, Marcel Danesi, Dan Vilenchik
August 26, 2024
This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. The book outlines the affordances of new technologies for textual analysis,...
Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts
1st Edition
By Bien Klomberg, Theresa Schilhab, Michael Burke
January 29, 2024
This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals’ mental "vision," employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers’ drawings of their mental imagery during reading. The book engages in critical ...
Antonyms in Mind and Brain: Evidence from English and German
1st Edition
By Sandra Kotzor
September 25, 2023
Antonyms in Mind and Brain presents a multi-method empirical investigation of opposition with a particular focus on the processing of opposite pairs and their representation in the mental lexicon. Building on recent cognitive accounts of antonymy which highlight the fundamentally conceptual nature ...
Linguistic Description in English for Academic Purposes
1st Edition
By Helen Basturkmen
January 09, 2023
This volume provides a concise overview of linguistic description in the field of English for Academic Purposes, charting its evolution and categorizing the various strands of research interest. Given the increasing use of English as a lingua franca, there has been a corresponding upsurge into ...
Lexical Innovation in World Englishes: Cross-fertilization and Evolving Paradigms
1st Edition
By Patrizia Anesa
June 14, 2022
Winner of the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsLexical Innovation in World Englishes contributes to the investigation of World Englishes by offering insights into the lexical developments of selected English varieties and their cross-fertilization potential. Taking a ...
Multimodal Theory and Methodology: For the Analysis of (Inter)action and Identity
1st Edition
By Sigrid Norris
June 13, 2022
This concise guide outlines core theoretical and methodological developments of the growing field of Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis.The volume unpacks the foundational relationship between multimodality and language and the key concepts which underpin the analysis of multimodal action and ...
Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics: The Engineer and the Collector
1st Edition
By Margaret Thomas
March 31, 2021
This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The book grounds its comparisons between the two in both historical and contemporary contexts where, broadly speaking, formalists’ focus on structural ...
Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach
1st Edition
By Elżbieta Górska
March 31, 2021
This volume looks at spatialization of abstract concepts in verbo-pictorial aphorisms at work in the cartoons of a single artist. While extensive work has been done in studying spatialization of abstract concepts in grammar and lexicon within cognitive linguistics, this book is the first of its ...
Talking Donald Trump: A Sociolinguistic Study of Style, Metadiscourse, and Political Identity
1st Edition
By Jennifer Sclafani
December 18, 2020
Talking Donald Trump examines the language of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from the perspective of sociocultural linguistics. This book offers an insight into the many stages of Trump’s political career, from his initial campaign for the Republican nomination, up to his presidency. Drawing ...
The Pluricentricity Debate: On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties
1st Edition
By Stefan Dollinger
December 18, 2020
This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly allows for national standard varieties, and the notion of "pluri-areality," which seeks to challenge the former. ...