Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
About the Book Series
Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics provide overviews of a whole subject area or sub-discipline in linguistics, and survey the state of the discipline including emerging and cutting edge areas. Edited by leading scholars, these volumes include contributions from key academics from around the world and are essential reading for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
1st Edition
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By Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukač, Robin Straaijer
July 31, 2025
This Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of...
The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics
1st Edition
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By Joachim Grzega
March 31, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the typical features among European languages in cultural, geographical, or political definitions. Bringing together the latest research in the field, the handbook showcases European traditions of linguistic research on ...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion
1st Edition
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By Jeanne Fahnestock, Randy Allen Harris
March 13, 2025
This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion – sound, words, syntax, and discourse – and the rhetorical basics that they...
The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain
1st Edition
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By Adolfo M. García, Agustín Ibáñez
August 26, 2024
This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture. Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological ...
The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research
1st Edition
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By Josep Quer, Roland Pfau, Annika Herrmann
August 26, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research bridges the divide between theoretical and experimental approaches to provide an up-to-date survey of key topics in sign language research. With 29 chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, ...
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
1st Edition
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By Wen Xu, John R. Taylor
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns
1st Edition
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By Laura L. Paterson
December 07, 2023
This original volume provides the first state-of-the-art overview of research on pronouns in the 21st century. With its dedicated sections on grammar, history, and change, language learning/acquisition, cognition and comprehension, power, politics, and identity, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns ...
The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages
1st Edition
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By Umberto Ansaldo, Miriam Meyerhoff
September 25, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. Providing unique and equal coverage of nearly all parts of the world where such languages are found, as well as situating each area within a...
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact
1st Edition
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By Evangelia Adamou, Yaron Matras
June 30, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion
1st Edition
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By Sonya Pritzker, Janina Fenigsen, James Wilce
January 21, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which ...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science
1st Edition
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By David R. Gruber, Lynda C. Olman
January 21, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science provides a state-of-the-art volume on the language of scientific processes and communications. This book offers comprehensive coverage of socio-cultural approaches to science, as well as analysing new theoretical developments and incorporating ...
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages
1st Edition
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By Daniel Siddiqi, Michael Barrie, Carrie Gillon, Jason Haugen, Eric Mathieu
January 21, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different theories and at ...