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Focusing on the conventions of academic writing in English linguistics and literary and cultural studies, this guide connects writing practices to research and thought processes. It offers clear examples and quotes that provide elegant solutions to common writing challenges. Both students and educators will find practical strategies for understanding and editing texts within the field of English Studies.

Chronologically exploring the development of the English language, this book delves into its linguistic, social, and cultural evolution from its origins in Britain around 450 to contemporary times. Each chapter highlights a distinct stage in the language's transformation, offering insights into how historical events and societal changes have shaped English over the centuries.

The Bielefeld Introduction to Applied Linguistics is designed to provide a wide-ranging and substantial overview of the field for beginning students. It comprises twenty-seven well-documented contributions based on some of the most salient topics in research and teaching done at the Department of Linguistics and Literature at Bielefeld University. In four major sections this book looks at questions involving the user/learner (teaching/learning aids; learning processes and methods of gauging them); mental processes (language acquisition and loss); studies involving the linguistic code (metaphor, translation, empirical methods, approaches to texts); and the language community (bilingualism and code-switching, language policy, pragmatics, speaker groups and their languages). Each contribution offers – on sometimes varying levels of detail – a starting point for the young student and provides a useful selection of literature for further reading. Many of the chapters include a selection of do-able exercises based on the material presented.

A comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English in one volume. It presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender and ethnic variations.