The Oxford Handbook of the History of English

This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, a

Leading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurol

English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Han

The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent y

Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of th

The unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, synt

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how s

Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The

The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics offers a comprehensive survey of the subdiscipline of Forensic Linguistics, with this new edition providing both