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The English Binominal Noun Phrase
The binomial noun phrase, or of-binomial, is an important phenomenon in the English language. De?ned as a noun phrase that contains two related nouns, linked by the preposition of, …
Conversation in World Englishes
Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mainly on American and British …
Borrowings in Informal American English
What do 'bimbo,' 'glitch,' 'savvy,' and 'shtick' all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal American English that have been taken from other languages. This …
Silence in English Language Pedagogy
Silence in language learning is commonly viewed negatively, with language teachers often struggling to interpret learner silence and identify whether it is part of communication, …
Consonantal Sound Change in American English
Research on sound change often focuses on vowels, yet consonantal sound change also offers fascinating insights into language development and variation. This pioneering book …
Language Policy and the New Speaker Challenge
'New speakers' is a term used to describe those who have learnt a minority language not within their home or community settings, but through bilingual education, immersion or …
Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law
Recent calls for justice reform have put a spotlight on how the police enforce the law in the United States. How a person's constitutional rights may be legally thwarted during …
The Cambridge Handbook of Language in Context
For more than a decade, linguistics has moved increasingly away from evaluating language as an autonomous phenomenon, towards analysing it 'in use', and showing how its function …
The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography
The study of orthography (spelling and writing systems), and its development over the history of language, is central to many areas of linguistic enquiry, offering insight into …
The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition
In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based …