Date: 30-May-2007 From: Emilia Ayon <Emilia.Ayontaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: Language and Lingustics: Trask, Stockwell (Ed)
Title: Language and Lingustics
Subtitle: The Key Concepts
Series Title: Routledge Key Guides
Published: 2007
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Author: R.L. Trask
Editor: Peter Stockwell
Paperback: ISBN: 0415413591 Pages: 370 Price: U.S. $ 26.95
Abstract:
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.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discipline of Linguistics
General Linguistics
Sociolinguistics