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 Humor
1st Edition
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By Salvatore Attardo
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, ...
The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Webb
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, ...
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics
1st Edition
Edited
By William F. Katz, Peter F. Assmann
June 14, 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With contributions from 41 prominent authors from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and including over 130 figures to illustrate key points, this ...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Wodak, Bernhard Forchtner
June 30, 2021
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying, legitimatising and coordinating action as well as negotiating conflict and, as such, is intrinsically...
The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography
1st Edition
Edited
By Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera
June 30, 2021
The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to lexicography and their applications within the field. This Handbook features key case studies and cutting-edge contributions from an international range of practitioners, teachers, and researchers. ...
The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory
1st Edition
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By S.J. Hannahs, Anna Bosch
June 30, 2021
The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary approaches to phonology. Phonology is frequently defined as the systematic organisation of the sounds of human language. For some, this includes aspects of both the surface phonetics together ...
The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
1st Edition
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By Tom Bartlett, Gerard O'Grady
December 18, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it includes description of the three main strands ...
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language
1st Edition
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By Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén
June 30, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view of the field of metaphor and language, ...
The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System
1st Edition
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By Vivian Cook, Des Ryan
June 30, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System provides a comprehensive account of the English writing system, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. Twenty-nine chapters written by specialists from around the world cover core ...
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Keith Allan
December 12, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspectives, covering all the key areas of linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary research in ...
The Routledge Handbook of Semantics
1st Edition
Edited
By Nick Riemer
December 12, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Semantics provides a broad and state-of-the-art survey of this field, covering semantic research at both word and sentence level. It presents a synoptic view of the most important areas of semantic investigation, including contemporary methodologies and debates, and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
1st Edition
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By Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans
April 23, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. Divided into five sections, the ...