The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary English Pronunciation provides a comprehensive survey of this field covering both theoretical and practical perspectives

A comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English in one volume. It presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day Engl

This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.

This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more material. Thi

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance histo

This newly up-dated second edition provides a concise and comprehensive exploration of the complex variations to which a language is subject. The English langua

This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of