Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Advancing Language Education through Linguistics: Honoring the Career of Alan Juffs
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By Patti Spinner, Katherine I. Martin
October 19, 2026
Inspired by the pioneering work of Alan Juffs, this collection makes the case for the value of the field of linguistics as a key contributor to the understanding of second language development and the improvement of language education. This volume builds on Juffs’s career-spanning efforts to ...
Machine Learning Meets Discourse: Algorithms, Performance, and Interpretation
1st Edition
By Dennis Tay
October 19, 2026
Tay explores the Performance-Interpretability Trade-off (PIT) as a critical tension in AI and machine learning, and shows its distinctive form in discourse analysis where predictive success and interpretive meaning are inseparable. Rather than treating PIT as a technical obstacle, this book ...
Form and Function Mapping in English Syntax: A Construction Grammar Perspective
1st Edition
By Jong-Bok Kim
July 29, 2026
This book presents a construction-based approach to understanding English syntactic constructions that challenge traditional form-function relationships, exploring complex linguistic phenomena that have posed empirical and analytical puzzles in grammatical research. The volume establishes ...
Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics: How Language Emerges from Use
1st Edition
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By Ines Adornetti, Francesco Ferretti
May 22, 2026
This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field. The volume adopts a broad view of pragmatics, providing a ...
Benjamin Franklin's English: Form to Function Analyses
1st Edition
By Yoko Iyeiri
May 21, 2026
This book delves into Benjamin Franklin’s English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English. Utilizing corpus methodologies, it offers researchers in historical sociolinguistics unique insights. Benjamin Franklin...
The Sound of Text: Prosody and Typography in French Read-Aloud Speech
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By Mari Wiklund
May 05, 2026
This book examines the dynamic relationship between speech prosody and typographical features, offering a framework for understanding how different linguistic systems mediate the interactions between written and spoken language. The volume charts how typographical features are interpreted ...
The Diversity and the Unity of Linguistics: Studies in Honour of Esa Itkonen
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By Aleksi Mäkilähde, Tommi Alho, Anneli Pajunen
February 23, 2026
Taking as its point of departure the research interests of Esa Itkonen, this volume draws together perspectives from linguistics, the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and the history of linguistics to encourage critical reflection and further understanding of the nature of and connections...
Decoding Korean Political Talk: From Data to Debate
1st Edition
By Sujin Kang
January 30, 2026
This book offers an illuminating exploration into the complex world of political communication in South Korea from 2016 to 2021. Through an in-depth analysis of 34 political conversations totalling over 275 hours, this book presents a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study combining quantitative ...
Independent Wh-Exclamative Constructions in the History of English
1st Edition
By Daniela Schröder
November 27, 2025
This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their development from 1500 through to the twenty-first century. The volume shines a light on independent wh-exclamatives in the history of English. In particular, Schröder calls attention to ...
Anglicisms around the Globe: Cross-linguistic Studies on the Impact of English
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By Henrik Gottlieb, Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin, Alicja Witalisz, Keisuke Imamura, Jaime W. Hunt
November 14, 2025
This collection explores the global impact of English through fact-based and contrastive analyses of different types of Anglicisms across a wide range of languages. This volume showcases the ways in which contact-induced language change operates across several different languages simultaneously. ...
Data Analytics for Discourse Analysis with Python: The Case of Therapy Talk
1st Edition
By Dennis Tay
August 29, 2025
This concise volume, using examples of psychotherapy talk, showcases the potential applications of data analytics for advancing discourse research and other related disciplines. The book provides a brief primer on data analytics, defined as the science of analyzing raw data to reveal new insights ...
Coordination and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
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By Stefanie Bode
July 30, 2025
This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal for addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on Generative Grammar. The volume’s foundations are rooted in the SMT, which builds on the idea that laws of nature, such as ...