Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics

• Author(s): Robert Lawrence Trask,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 378
• ISBN_10: 0415157412
  ISBN_13: 9780415157414
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... 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.