An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).

In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language.

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people's daily literate experience.

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

A comprehensive and very readable resource to help students of English language and linguistics write essays, projects and reports.

This completely revised and expanded edition of Crystal's acclaimed book incorporates developments in the lively field of language study.

This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups and the language varieties important to each group.