37.1527, Books: Affixes and Derivatives Across the Humanities and Social Sciences: Twardzisz (2026)

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Date: 21-Apr-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Affixes and Derivatives Across the Humanities and Social Sciences: Twardzisz (2026)


Title: Affixes and Derivatives across the Humanities and Social
Sciences
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/affixes-and-derivatives-across-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-9781350569003/

Author(s): Piotr Twardzisz

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350569003, £95.00

Abstract:

Providing a systematic approach to English academic writing for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, this book examines the word-formation
patterns typical of discourse across distinct academic disciplines.
Academic writing for research requires lexical sophistication, as it
often addresses abstract concepts needing unique names, and a skilful
use of complex derived/affixed words. The author provides data that
allows for addressing the issues of expanding the learners'
vocabulary, the development of vocabulary skills and the cultivation
of derivational awareness in a targeted manner.
The book consists of eight chapters. The first two provide a general
overview of written academic English for research and publication
purposes across the Humanities and Social Sciences and present the
whole derivational system of contemporary English. English affixes are
introduced through syntactic categories, such as derived nouns,
derived verbs and derived adjectives. Chapters 3 to 5 contain the
results of analyses conducted with the Corpus of Contemporary American
English (COCA). In chapters 6 and 7, the methodology adopted shifts
from automatic corpus search to manual data collection resulting from
the close reading of specialist texts. Finally, chapter 8 shows how
the analyses can be transferred to areas such as academic writing for
research, writing for specific/professional purposes, creative
writing, and translation.
Offering rich insights into English derivation, this book will benefit
researchers engaged in the Humanities and Social Sciences and appeal
to linguists specializing in morphological theory, as well as language
teaching professionals and EAP curriculum designers.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax




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