Filled with real examples of the way people use English in differentcontexts <strong>The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies</strong> is anindispen... » 

Filled with real examples of the way people use English in differentcontexts The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is anindispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language forboth students and the general reader.From abbreviation to zeroarticle via fricative and slang the Dictionarycontains over 600 wide ranging and informative entries coveringthe core areas of language description and analysis phonetics andphonology grammar lexis semantics pragmatics and discoursesociolinguistics including entries on social and regional variationstylistic variation and language and genderthe history of the English language from Old English to the presentdaythe main varieties of English spoken around the world covering the Britishisles the Caribbean North America Africa Asia and Australasiastylistics literary language and English usage. «