Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Form and Function Mapping in English Syntax: A Construction Grammar Perspective
1st Edition
By Jong-Bok Kim
July 15, 2026
This book presents a construction-based approach to understanding English syntactic constructions that challenge traditional form-function relationships, exploring complex linguistic phenomena that have posed empirical and analytical puzzles in grammatical research. The volume establishes ...
The Sound of Text: Prosody and Typography in French Read-Aloud Speech
1st Edition
By Mari Wiklund
May 05, 2026
This book examines the dynamic relationship between speech prosody and typographical features, offering a framework for understanding how different linguistic systems mediate the interactions between written and spoken language. The volume charts how typographical features are interpreted ...
The Diversity and the Unity of Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Esa Itkonen
1st Edition
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By Aleksi Mäkilähde, Tommi Alho, Anneli Pajunen
February 24, 2026
Taking as its point of departure the research interests of Esa Itkonen, this volume draws together perspectives from linguistics, the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and the history of linguistics to encourage critical reflection and further understanding of the nature of and connections...
Decoding Korean Political Talk: From Data to Debate
1st Edition
By Sujin Kang
January 30, 2026
This book offers an illuminating exploration into the complex world of political communication in South Korea from 2016 to 2021. Through an in-depth analysis of 34 political conversations totalling over 275 hours, this book presents a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study combining quantitative ...
Independent Wh-Exclamative Constructions in the History of English
1st Edition
By Daniela Schröder
November 27, 2025
This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their development from 1500 through to the twenty-first century. The volume shines a light on independent wh-exclamatives in the history of English. In particular, Schröder calls attention to ...
Anglicisms around the Globe: Cross-linguistic Studies on the Impact of English
1st Edition
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By Henrik Gottlieb, Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin, Alicja Witalisz, Keisuke Imamura, Jaime W. Hunt
November 14, 2025
This collection explores the global impact of English through fact-based and contrastive analyses of different types of Anglicisms across a wide range of languages. This volume showcases the ways in which contact-induced language change operates across several different languages simultaneously. ...
Data Analytics for Discourse Analysis with Python: The Case of Therapy Talk
1st Edition
By Dennis Tay
August 29, 2025
This concise volume, using examples of psychotherapy talk, showcases the potential applications of data analytics for advancing discourse research and other related disciplines. The book provides a brief primer on data analytics, defined as the science of analyzing raw data to reveal new insights ...
Coordination and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
1st Edition
By Stefanie Bode
July 30, 2025
This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal for addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on Generative Grammar. The volume’s foundations are rooted in the SMT, which builds on the idea that laws of nature, such as ...
Ecolinguistics and Emplacement: Language, Languaging and Place
1st Edition
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By Stephen Cowley, Martin Döring, Sune Vork Steffensen
July 30, 2025
This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature. Through a dialogical interplay of theoretical and empirical work, the chapters apply ecological concepts of language, languaging, and emplacement to a multiplicity ...
Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: Developments by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
1st Edition
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By Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma
May 05, 2025
This collection reflects on developments in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as embodied in the work of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, highlighting his diverse contributions to the field from theoretical and applied perspectives. The book surveys Matthiessen’s academic career and ...
The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality: Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Languages
1st Edition
By Marie-Eve Ritz
April 13, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into the temporal systems of languages. The volume takes as its point of departure the notion ...
Discourse Particles in Asian Languages
1st Edition
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By Elin McCready, Hiroki Nomoto
December 19, 2024
Within linguistics, there has been a great deal of interest in discourse particles for some time now, especially within semantics and pragmatics. The term ‘discourse particles’ has been used to cover a broad range of phenomena, including such things as ‘sentence final particles,’ ‘discourse adverbs...