Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics (Routledge Key Guides) - Softcover

Trask, R.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415157420 ISBN 13: 9780415157421

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This fully updated second edition includes anew 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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Review

'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

Synopsis

From best-selling author R.L. Trask comes Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics , an A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics. The book includes definitions of: terms used in grammatical analysis from to phoneme to componential 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. Each entry begins with a brief definition of the term followed by a more detailed description. Entries trace the origin of the concept, mention the key associated individuals, provide a guide to further reading and are extensively cross-referenced.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415157420
• ISBN 13: 9780415157421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Stockwell Peter