The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences

Patrick Colm Hogan

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780521866897
• eBook ISBN: 9781139142281
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics, finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic operation? The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences addresses these issues, along with hundreds of others. It includes basic entries for those unfamiliar with a given topic and more specific entries for those seeking more specialized knowledge. It incorporates both well-established findings and cutting-edge research and classical approaches and new theoretical innovations. The volume is aimed at readers who have an interest in some aspect of language science but wish to learn more about the broad range of ideas, findings, practices, and prospects that constitute this rapidly expanding field, a field arguably at the center of current research on the human mind and human society.

Table of contents

• Cover
• THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES
• Title
• Copyright
• GENERAL EDITOR
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• ENTRIES
• A NOTE ON CROSS-REFERENCES AND THE ALPHABETIZATION OF THE ENTRIES
• PREFACE: ON THE VERY IDEA OF LANGUAGE SCIENCES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• 1: LANGUAGE STRUCTURE IN ITS HUMAN CONTEXT: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• 2: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC FORM
• 3: THE STRUCTURE OF MEANING
• 4: SOCIAL PRACTICES OF SPEECH AND WRITING
• 5: EXPLAINING LANGUAGE: NEUROSCIENCE, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
• 6: ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE
• 7: ELABORATING SPEECH AND WRITING: VERBAL ART
• THE CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX