Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts (Key Guides)

✍ Scribed by R.L. Trask, Peter Stockwell

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 393
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include:

terms used in grammatical analysis
branches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguistics
approaches used in studying language from critical discourse analysis to systemic linguistics
linguistic phenomena from code-switching to conversational implicature
language varieties from pidgin to standard language.

This fully updated second edition includes a new introduction, a wide range of new entries (reflecting developments in linguistics) and added specialized further reading for lecturers and more advanced students.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS......Page 7
LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS......Page 12
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION......Page 19
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: The Key Concepts, Second Edition......Page 24
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 353
INDEX......Page 374

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