Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics (Routledge Reference)

Book Description:

This translation of the highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language.
In over 2,500 A-Z entries, this work provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. Entries include: applied linguistics, artificial intelligence, basic terminology, computational linguistics, conversational analysis, discourse analysis, graphemics, language change, logics, morphology, neurolinguistics, phonetics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, rhetoric, semantics, semiotics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, syntax, text linguistics, transformational grammar, typology, universals and much more.