Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts

By R.L. Trask Edited by Peter Stockwell

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ISBN: 978-0-415-15742-1
Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 15th October 1998
Pages: 400

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About the Book

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

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.

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'This is a brilliant book. It combines the readability of Pinker with the breadth and erudition of Crystal, and deserves a place of honour as a summary of the best of twentieth-century linguistics - liberal, scholarly, forward-looking, undogmatic, sensible, practical and above all wide-ranging. Every linguist will be pleased... every student of linguistics will cling to it and love it.' - Richard Hudson, University College London, UK

Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Key Concepts: Alphabetically Arranged. List of Key Concepts: Arranged by Linguistic Sub-Discipline. IPA Chart. Key Concepts. Bibliography. Index