Language Learning & Linguistics
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Zed Books
Male Daughters, Female Husbands Ifi Amadiume
19th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781350507791
Seminal work for queer theory and non- Western feminism that challenges the historical universality of Western conceptions of gender and uncovers precolonial African alternatives.
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism Ifi Amadiume
19th February, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350509085
Polemic contrast of the idea of a collectivist, humanist culture of traditional African matriarchal heritage with a corrupt, oppressive imperialist culture that is the heritage of contemporary, elite-led women’s organisations.
Re-inventing Africa Ifi Amadiume 19th February, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350509207
A challenge to Western anthropologists to recognise their own class- based, patriarchal ways of thinking about Africa. From a major figure of radical African feminism.
Atlantic Books
Rare Tongues Lorna Gibb 5th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781838951801
Enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world.
Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes Robert Blackwood (ed), Stefania Tufi (ed), Will Amos (ed)
23rd July, pb, eb, £42.99, 9781350273078
State-of-the art reference providing a guide to a growing sub-area of linguistics.
Language in Business, Language at Work Erika Darics, Veronika Koller, Bernard De Clerck 11th June, pb, eb, £28.99, 9781350399266 Contemporary examples from the business world demonstrate how language works in business, how to analyse it and how to use it in an informed, creative way.
Speaking in Pictures Neil Cohn 5th February, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781350402164
Humorous and accessible, Cohn’s latest book takes the form of a graphic novel to do as the title suggests. Introduces fresh research into how pictures communicate and the nature of language.
Foundations of Grammar: Beyond Standardized American English Trini Stickle, Veronika Drake
5th March, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781350462861
Fundamentals of American English dialects, particularly those that have been stigmatised in the past, complete with supportive exercises and online resources.
A Practical Guide to System Networks JR Martin, Pin Wang
5th March, pb, eb, £27.99, 9781350523579
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Introducing Sociolinguistics Joan Swann, Rajend Mesthrie, Rebecca Lurie Starr
April 2026, pb, 3rd edition, £29.99, 9781474498388
Sociolinguistics is a central branch of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This introductory textbook expertly synthesises the main approaches to the subject.
For Dummies
Series All-in-One pb, eb, £30.99, 97813943
Plenty of practice opportunities and online audio for those interested in learning how to speak, write and understand another language. Spanish Gail Stein 8th April, 85201 German Wendy Foster 29th April, 93084
John Murray Languages
Politics and Identities in Language Teaching and Learning Inma Alvarez (ed), Mara Fuertes Gutierrez (ed), Various
23rd April, pb, eb, £49.99, 9781399816175
Timely interrogation of the politics of language
Language
Learning & Linguistics
Practical, step-by- step to a key aspect of systemic functional linguistics theory and analysis Introduction by MAK Halliday.
Edinburgh University Press
Research Methods for Applied Linguistics Angela M Gayton (ed), Kenneth Fordyce (ed), Mairin Hennebry-Leung (ed)
30th April, pb, eb, £29.99, 9781399528993
Practical guide for graduate students undertaking independent research.
teaching and learning in higher education.
Series
Teach Yourself Beginners’ Language Learning 21st April, pb, £14.99, 978139982 Trusted by language learners for over 85 years. Hungarian Zsuzsa Pontifex 2060 British English Cindy Cheetham 4880 Danish Dorte Nielsen Al-Gailani 4965 Dutch
Dennis Strik, Gerdi Quist 5085
Hebrew
Shula Gilboa 5160
Series
50 Coffee Breaks 16th June, pb, £10.99, 978139982 Short activities to improve language learning one cup at a time. 50 Gaelic Coffee Breaks 2589
50 Chinese Coffee Breaks 3357
MIT Press
How Deeply Human is Language? Yosef Grodzinsky
21st April, pb, £29, 9780262052009
Explanation of linguistic theory and large language models – the top contenders for understanding human language – in the context of the brain. Grodzinsky is a leading neurolinguist.
Oxford University Press
The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages Sebastian Fedden (ed), Nicholas Evans (ed)
15th April, hb, £224, 9780198849483
Wide-ranging survey of the indigenous languages spoken on the island of New Guinea, which make up about 12% of the world’s languages.
A Course in First Language Acquisition Tyler Knowlton, Jeffrey Lidz
26th March, pb, £35, 9780198882466
Textbook introduces fundamental concepts and results in the theory of first language acquisition.
Palgrave Macmillan
Literary Life Histories Valarie Lee, Marjorie Madden, Susan Browne
27th May, pb, eb, £32.99, 9783031971693
Framework for deepening student understandings of text to promote classroom engagement through collaborative writing and performance. For undergraduate and graduate education students as well as practising teachers.
Penguin
How to Own the Room Viv Groskop 5th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781804999004
From great political leaders and stand-up comedians to campaigners and feminist activists a powerful book about what happens when women find their voice.
Princeton University Press
Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda
24th March, pb, eb, £13.99, 9780691262314
Spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms, for good or ill.
Small Things Writ Large Henry D Zhao, Xin Zou, Jincheng Liu, Chih-p’ing Chou
3rd March, pb, eb, £58, 9780691276748
An engaging way for students of modern Chinese to hone their language skills while learning about contemporary China.
Sparsile Books
How to Avoid Being Published LM Affrossman
5th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781914399343
Written from a publisher’s perspective, this book describes the many pitfalls writers encounter when approaching a publisher and gives expert advice on how to fall into all of them.
Tuttle
Vietnamese for Beginners Tri C Tran, Tuyet Nguyen (illus), Le Nguyen (illus)
10th April, pb, £15.99, 9780804857727
Complete Vietnamese language guide designed to get you
speaking, reading and writing quickly.
Learning Japanese Emiko Konomi 3rd April, pb, £13.99, 9784805317549
Complete language learning package with online audio recordings and printable flash cards.
UCL Press
A Grammar of Gaddi Preeti Kumari, Shreya Mehta, Anjali Nair, Anusuya Nayak, Yangchen Roy, Vyom Sharma
1st February, digital, eb, £0.99, 9781800089945
First long-form descriptive grammar of the Pahari Indo-Aryan language Gaddi (also called Bharmauri).
University of Toronto Press
Teamwork and Team Talk Srikant Sarangi 17th February, pb, £36, 9781049800523
Bringing together original, empirically grounded studies, Teamwork and Team Talk offers a state- of-the-art perspective on team-based decision- making in complex health and social care settings.
Voltaire Foundation
The Publication of Bayle and the Origins of Hume’s Skepticism: The Mackie- Johnson Correspondence Jacopo Agnesina
14th July, pb, £85, 9781805968306
Exploration of the intellectual, cultural and commercial intersections between Scotland and the Netherlands during the Enlightenment.
William Collins Proto
Laura Spinney 12th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008626563
One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. Proto is a revelatory portrait of world history in its own words.
How to Kill a Language Sophia Smith Galer 7th May, hb, eb, £22, 9780008723729
Globe-spanning investigation into the disappearance of languages that asks: what do we lose,— culturally, politically and personally, when a language dies?
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