Kirsten Malmkjaer – The Linguistics Encyclopedia (3rd Edition, 2010)

Автор: Kirsten Malmkjaer
Название книги: The Linguistics Encyclopedia (3rd Edition, 2010)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Лингвистика
Страницы: 763
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a singlevolume
encyclopedia covering all major and
subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics.
The seventy nine entries provide in-depth
coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field.
Entries are alphabetically arranged and extensively
cross-referenced so the reader can see how
areas interrelate. Including a substantial introduction
which provides a potted history of linguistics
and suggestions for further reading, this
is an indispensable reference tool for specialists
and non-specialists alike.
This third edition has been thoroughly revised
and updated, with new entries on:

Attitudes to Language

Conversation Analysis

English Language Teaching

Gesture and Language

Idioms

Language and Advertising

Language and New Technologies

Linguistics in Schools

Optimality Theory

Research Methods in Linguistics

Slang
The following entries have been recommissioned
or substantially revised:
Animals and Language, Artificial Languages,
Computational Linguistics to Language Engineering,
Contrastive Analysis/Contrastive Linguistics,
Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse
Analysis, Dialectology, Discourse Analysis, Dyslexia,
Genre Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intonation,
Language and Education, Language,
Gender and Sexuality, Language Origins, Language
Surveys, Language Universals, Linguistic
Typology, Metaphor, Pragmatics, Rhetoric,
Semantics, Semiotics, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics,
Systemic-Functional Grammar, Writing Systems.

You are reading something, or listening to a
lecture, or taking part in a conversation about
language. You notice an unfamiliar term, or
realise that you don’t know enough about what is
being said to understand. At this point, you should
seek out this encyclopedia. Strategies for the use
of encyclopedias differ, but this one is designed
to allow you to proceed in one of three ways:

You can consult the index at the back of the
book, where you will find the term or subject
in question appearing in its alphabetically
determined place, with a page reference, or
several, which will tell you where in the
main body of the work it is defined, described
and/or discussed.

If you are looking for a major field of linguistic
study, you can consult the List of
Entries immediately before this Preface.

You can simply dive into the body of the work.
The entries are designed to be informative and
easy to access. They do not provide as much
information as you will find in a full book on any
given topic, but they contain sufficient information
to enable you to understand the basics and to
decide whether you need more. Each entry ends
by listing some suggestions for further reading
and draws on many more works than those listed
as further reading. These are mentioned in the
text by author and year of publication, and a full
reference can be found in the Bibliography at the
end of the book. Almost all the entries contain
cross-references to other entries.
The first edition of this book was published in
1991 and the second, revised and updated edition,
some ten years later. The changes to the
present, third edition reflect the rapid expansion
and developments that have taken place in linguistics
and language studies in the current millennium;
many entries are new, and many have
been recommissioned and substantially updated.
This volume demonstrates the many facets of
linguistics, and the Introduction provides a view
of its history. But it is likely that people have
taken a theoretical interest in language for much
longer than the time span covered there. Having
language is probably concomitant with wondering
about language, and so – if there is one thing
that sets linguistics apart from other disciplines –
it is the fact that its subject matter must be used
in the description. There is no metalanguage for
language that is not translatable into language,
and a metalanguage is, in any case, also a language.
According to one view, language creates
reality for us. According to another, it reflects,
more or less adequately, what there is. Probably
both are true. At least it seems certain that we use
our language prolifically to create and change
our momentary values, and that, in seeking
to understand language, we are seeking to
understand the cornerstone of human cognition