Language and Linguistics

The Key Concepts
2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-41359-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

Reihe: Routledge Key Guides

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trask, R. L.

Stockwell, Peter

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Key Concepts (alphabetically arranged), List of Key Concepts (arranged by linguistic sub-discipline), Preface to the revised edition, The International Phonetic Alphabet, KEY CONCEPTS, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

R.L. Trask (1994-2004) was the highly regarded Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. His numerous publications included Language: the Basics (1995) and A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology (1995).

Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and the editor of the Routledge English Language Introductions Series.