• ISBN13: 9780415351720
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: August 6, 2007
• Pages: 240
• Original Price: GBP 25.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 245 grams

About the Book Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, <em>The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies</em> is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader. From abbreviation to zero-article, via fricative and slang, the <em>Dictionary</em> contains over 600 wide ranging and informative entries covering: <ul> <li>the core areas of language description and analysis: phonetics and phonology, grammar, lexis, semantics, pragmatics and discourse</li> <li>sociolinguistics, including entries on social and regional variation, stylistic variation, and language and gender</li> <li>the history of the English language from Old English to the present-day</li> <li>the main varieties of English spoken around the world, covering the British isles, the Caribbean, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia</li> <li>stylistics, literary language and English usage.</li>