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.