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This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume …

Aus dem digitalen Alltagsleben sind Emojis nicht mehr wegzudenken. Doch wo und wann sind die bunten Bildzeichen entstanden, was erklärt ihre globale Beliebtheit? Und erfüllt sich …

In this lively, playful celebration of the joys and power of language, Gorrell points to all the signs that show English to be alive and well, and, like any other living thing, …

The -Handbook of Frisian Studies- is the first systematic overall description of Frisian studies from the early runes to Frisian as a European minority language. The central focus …

Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of …

Pull up a bollard and get to know the colourful language of the Royal Canadian Navy.Do you ever get channel fever so bad only a great homeward bounders will cure you? Have you ever …

The Indo-Aryan languages, spoken by at least 700 million people in the Republic of India, in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldive Islands, and in countries where …

Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how …

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they …

What is involved in acquiring a new dialect - for example, when Canadian English speakers move to Australia or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such …

Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. …