Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts
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Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts

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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.

This fully updated second edition includes a new introduction, a wide range of new entries (reflecting developments in linguistics) and added specialized further reading for lecturers and more advanced students.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS
  6. LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS
  7. PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
  8. ACCENT
  9. ADJACENCY PAIR
  10. ADJECTIVE
  11. ADVERB
  12. AFFIX
  13. AFFRICATE
  14. AGREEMENT
  15. AIRSTREAM MECHANISM
  16. ALTERNATION
  17. AMBIGUITY
  18. ANALOGY
  19. ANAPHOR
  20. ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
  21. ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
  22. APHASIA
  23. APPARENT TIME
  24. APPLIED LINGUISTICS
  25. ARBITRARINESS
  26. ARGUMENT
  27. ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE
  28. ASPECT
  29. AUTOLEXICAL GRAMMAR
  30. AUTONOMY
  31. AUXILIARY
  32. BASIC WORD ORDER
  33. BEHAVIOURISM
  34. BILINGUALISM
  35. BIOPROGRAM HYPOTHESIS
  36. BLACK ENGLISH
  37. BORROWING
  38. CASE
  39. CLAUSE
  40. CLITIC
  41. CLOZE
  42. CODE-SWITCHING
  43. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
  44. COHESION
  45. COLLIGATE
  46. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
  47. COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
  48. COMPARATIVE RECONSTRUCTION
  49. COMPETENCE
  50. COMPLEMENT
  51. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
  52. CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION
  53. CONJUNCTION
  54. CONNOTATION
  55. CONSONANT
  56. CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE
  57. CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR
  58. CONTROL
  59. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
  60. CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE
  61. COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE
  62. COORDINATE STRUCTURE
  63. COPULA
  64. CREOLE
  65. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
  66. CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS
  67. DEAD LANGUAGE
  68. DEEP STRUCTURE
  69. DEFICIT HYPOTHESIS
  70. DEICTIC CATEGORY
  71. DENOTATION
  72. DEPENDENCY
  73. DERIVATION
  74. DESCRIPTIVISM
  75. DESIGN FEATURES
  76. DETERMINER
  77. DIACHRONY
  78. DIALECT
  79. DIGLOSSIA
  80. DIRECT OBJECT
  81. DISCOURSE
  82. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
  83. DISPLACEMENT
  84. DISTINCTIVE FEATURE
  85. DISTRIBUTION
  86. DUALITY OF PATTERNING
  87. DYSLEXIA
  88. ELICITATION TECHNIQUES
  89. ELLIPSIS
  90. ENTAILMENT
  91. ETHICS
  92. ETHNICITY
  93. ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION
  94. ETYMOLOGY
  95. EUPHEMISM
  96. FINITE
  97. FOCUS
  98. FOLK LINGUISTICS
  99. FOREGROUNDING
  100. FORENSIC LINGUISTICS
  101. FORMAL GRAMMAR
  102. FRAME
  103. FUNCTIONALISM
  104. FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
  105. GAP
  106. GENDER
  107. GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
  108. GENETIC HYPOTHESIS OF LANGUAGE
  109. GENETIC RELATIONSHIP
  110. GENRE
  111. GIVEN/NEW
  112. GOVERNMENT
  113. GOVERNMENT-AND-BINDING THEORY
  114. GRAMMAR
  115. GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
  116. GRAMMATICAL RELATION
  117. GRAPHEME
  118. HEAD
  119. HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
  120. ICONICITY
  121. IDENTITY
  122. IDEOLOGY
  123. IDIOM
  124. INDICATOR
  125. INDIRECT OBJECT
  126. INDO-EUROPEAN
  127. INFINITIVE
  128. INFLECTION
  129. INNATENESS HYPOTHESIS
  130. INTEGRATIONALISM
  131. INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION
  132. INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE
  133. INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET
  134. INTERTEXTUALITY
  135. INTONATION
  136. INTUITION
  137. IRREALIS
  138. KINSHIP TERMS
  139. LANDMARK
  140. LANGUAGE
  141. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
  142. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE
  143. LANGUAGE AREAS
  144. LANGUAGE CHANGE
  145. LANGUAGE CONTACT
  146. LANGUAGE DEATH
  147. LANGUAGE DISABILITY
  148. LANGUAGE FACULTY
  149. LANGUAGE FAMILY
  150. LANGUAGE INSTINCT
  151. LANGUAGE MYTHS
  152. LANGUAGE PLANNING
  153. LANGUAGE PROCESSING
  154. LANGUE
  155. LATERALIZATION
  156. LEMMA
  157. LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR (LFG)
  158. LEXICOGRAPHY
  159. LEXICON
  160. LINGUA FRANCA
  161. LINGUISTIC AREA
  162. LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY HYPOTHESIS
  163. LINGUISTIC SIGN
  164. LINGUISTICS
  165. LITERACY
  166. LOAN WORD
  167. LOCALIZATION
  168. LOGONOMIC RULES
  169. MANNER OF ARTICULATION
  170. MARKEDNESS
  171. MARKER
  172. MEANING
  173. MEDIUM
  174. MENTAL SPACE
  175. MENTALISM
  176. METALANGUAGE
  177. METAPHOR
  178. MINIMAL PAIR
  179. MINIMALIST PROGRAM(ME)
  180. MINORITY LANGUAGE
  181. MIRROR NEURONS
  182. MODALITY
  183. MODIFIER
  184. MOOD
  185. MORPHEME
  186. MORPHOLOGY
  187. MOTHERESE
  188. MOVEMENT
  189. NAME
  190. NARRATIVE
  191. NATIONAL LANGUAGE
  192. NATURAL CLASS
  193. NATURAL-LANGUAGE PROCESSING
  194. NEUROLINGUISTICS
  195. NEUTRALIZATION
  196. NOMINALIZATION
  197. NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
  198. NOTATIONAL CONVENTION
  199. NOUN
  200. NOUN PHRASE
  201. NUMBER
  202. NUMBER OF LANGUAGES
  203. OBSERVER’S PARADOX
  204. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
  205. ONOMASTICS
  206. OPEN-ENDEDNESS
  207. OPTIMALITY THEORY
  208. ORACY
  209. ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
  210. ORTHOGRAPHY
  211. PARADIGM
  212. PARADIGMATIC RELATION
  213. PARALANGUAGE
  214. PAROLE
  215. PARSING
  216. PART OF SPEECH
  217. PERCEPTUAL STRATEGY
  218. PERFORMANCE
  219. PERFORMATIVE
  220. PERSON
  221. PHILOLOGY
  222. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
  223. PHONATION TYPE
  224. PHONEME
  225. PHONETICS
  226. PHONOLOGY
  227. PHONOTACTICS
  228. PHRASE
  229. PHRASE-STRUCTURE GRAMMAR
  230. PIDGIN
  231. PLACE OF ARTICULATION
  232. POLITENESS
  233. POLYSYNTHESIS
  234. POSSIBLE WORLDS THEORY
  235. POWER
  236. PRAGMATICS
  237. PREDICATE
  238. PREPOSITION
  239. PRESCRIPTIVISM
  240. PRESTIGE
  241. PRESUPPOSITION
  242. PRODUCTIVITY
  243. PRONOUN
  244. PROSODY
  245. PROTO-LANGUAGE
  246. PROTO-LANGUAGE HYPOTHESIS
  247. PROTOTYPE
  248. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
  249. PUNCTUATION
  250. PURISM
  251. QUALITATIVE APPROACH
  252. QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
  253. RAISING
  254. RANK SCALE
  255. RECONSTRUCTION
  256. RECURSION
  257. REFERENCE
  258. RELEVANCE
  259. RHETORIC
  260. ROOT
  261. RULE
  262. SAUSSUREAN PARADOX
  263. SCHEMA
  264. SEGMENT
  265. SELECTION RESTRICTION
  266. SEMANTIC ROLE
  267. SEMANTICS
  268. SEMIOTICS
  269. SENSE
  270. SENSE RELATION
  271. SENTENCE
  272. SEX DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE
  273. SEXIST LANGUAGE
  274. SIGN LANGUAGE
  275. SLANG
  276. SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE
  277. SOCIAL NETWORK
  278. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION OF LANGUAGE
  279. SOCIOLINGUISTICS
  280. SOUND SYMBOLISM
  281. SPEECH
  282. SPEECH ACT
  283. SPEECH COMMUNITY
  284. SPEECH EVENT
  285. SPEECH SOUND
  286. SPEECH THERAPY
  287. SPELLING
  288. STANDARD LANGUAGE
  289. STEM
  290. STEREOTYPE
  291. STIMULUS-FREEDOM
  292. STRESS
  293. STRUCTURALISM
  294. STRUCTURE
  295. STRUCTURE-DEPENDENCE
  296. STYLISTICS
  297. SUBCATEGORIZATION
  298. SUBJECT
  299. SUBORDINATION
  300. SUPRASEGMENTAL
  301. SURFACE STRUCTURE
  302. SYLLABLE
  303. SYMBOLIC SYSTEM
  304. SYNCHRONY
  305. SYNTACTIC CATEGORY
  306. SYNTAGMATIC RELATION
  307. SYNTAX
  308. SYSTEM
  309. SYSTEMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
  310. SYSTEMIC LINGUISTICS
  311. TAGMEMICS
  312. TENSE
  313. TEXT
  314. TEXT LINGUISTICS
  315. TEXT WORLD THEORY
  316. TEXTUALITY
  317. TONE LANGUAGE
  318. TOPIC
  319. TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR
  320. TRAJECTOR
  321. TRANSCRIPTION
  322. TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR
  323. TRANSITIVITY
  324. TREE
  325. TROPE
  326. TURN-TAKING
  327. TYPOLOGY
  328. UNIVERSAL
  329. UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
  330. USAGE
  331. UTTERANCE
  332. VARIABLE
  333. VARIATION
  334. VERB
  335. VERB PHRASE
  336. VERNACULAR
  337. VOCAL TRACT
  338. VOICE
  339. VOICING
  340. VOWEL
  341. WELL-FORMEDNESS
  342. WORD
  343. WORD-FORMATION
  344. WRITING SYSTEM
  345. X-BAR
  346. Bibliography