Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
About the Book Series
Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics provide overviews of a whole subject area or sub-discipline in linguistics, and survey the state of the discipline including emerging and cutting edge areas. Edited by leading scholars, these volumes include contributions from key academics from around the world and are essential reading for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture
2nd Edition
Edited
By Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen
December 30, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents a comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. Now in its second edition, it has been fully revised to provide a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of...
The Routledge Handbook of Transdisciplinary Systemic Functional Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebekah Wegener, Anne McCabe, Akila Sellami Baklouti, Lise Fontaine
November 28, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Transdisciplinary Systemic Functional Linguistics offers a groundbreaking exploration of how M.A.K. Halliday's influential work extends beyond traditional linguistic boundaries to address today's most complex problems. A key barrier to transdisciplinary research is ...
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukač, Robin Straaijer
July 31, 2025
This Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of...
The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Joachim Grzega
March 31, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the typical features among European languages in cultural, geographical, or political definitions. Bringing together the latest research in the field, the handbook showcases European traditions of linguistic research on ...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeanne Fahnestock, Randy Allen Harris
March 13, 2025
This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion – sound, words, syntax, and discourse – and the rhetorical basics that they...
The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain
1st Edition
Edited
By Adolfo M. García, Agustín Ibáñez
August 26, 2024
This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture. Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological ...
The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Josep Quer, Roland Pfau, Annika Herrmann
August 26, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research bridges the divide between theoretical and experimental approaches to provide an up-to-date survey of key topics in sign language research. With 29 chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, ...
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Wen Xu, John R. Taylor
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Shi- xu
March 29, 2024
In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication—cultural discourses—by experts from around the world. A culturalist programme in ...
The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Benedict Lin
March 21, 2024
This Handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the delivery of EMI in diverse contexts across the world. The...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Pihlaja, Helen Ringrow
December 14, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion is the first ever comprehensive collection of research on religion and language, with over 35 authors from 15 countries, presenting a range of linguistic and discourse analytic research on religion and belief in different discourse contexts. The ...
The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura L. Paterson
December 07, 2023
This original volume provides the first state-of-the-art overview of research on pronouns in the 21st century. With its dedicated sections on grammar, history, and change, language learning/acquisition, cognition and comprehension, power, politics, and identity, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns ...