The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies provides a comprehensive overview of English Language Studies. The book takes a three-pronged approach to examine what constitutes the phenomenon of the English language; why and in what contexts it is an important subject to study; and what the chief methodologies are that are used to st

Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK.
Ann Hewings is Director of Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK.
Stephen Pihlaja is Reader in Stylistics at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.