Malmkjaer The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia

3. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-134-10370-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 600 Seiten

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field. Entries are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced so the reader can see how areas interrelate. Including a substantial introduction which provides a potted history of linguistics and suggestions for further reading, this is an indispensable reference tool for specialists and non-specialists alike.

This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new entries on:

- attitudes to language

- conversation analysis

- English Language Teaching

- gesture and language

- idioms

- language and advertising

- language and new technologies

- linguistics in schools

- optimality theory

- research methods in linguistics

- slang.

The following entries have been recommissioned or substantially revised:

Animals and Language, Artificial Languages, Computational Linguistics to Language Engineering, Contrastive Analysis/Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Dialectology, Discourse Analysis, Dyslexia, Genre Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intonation, Language and Education, Language, Gender and Sexuality, Language Origins, Language Surveys, Language Universals, Linguistic Typology, Metaphor, Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Semantics, Semiotics, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Writing Systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malmkjaer, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsten Malmkjær studied English and Philosophy and completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham. She worked at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge before taking up her post as Professor of Translation Studies and Literary Translation at Middlesex University in 1999.