文档介绍：KEY CONCEPTS IN LANGUAGE AND
LINGUISTICS
‘This is brilliant book. bines 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 with most of
it…and every student will cling to it and love it.’
Richard Hudson, University College London
Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics is 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 phoneme ponential 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.
is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. His numerous
publications include The History of Basque (1996), Language: The Basics
(1995), A Dictionary of ics and Phonology (1995) and A Dictionary of
Grammatical Terms (1993).
KEY CONCEPTS SERIES
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