1 online resource (xviii, 378 pages) :

Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics is an A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics. The book includes definitions of: terms used in grammatical analysis from phoneme to componential 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. Each entry begins with a brief definition of the term followed by a more detailed description. Entries trace the origin of the concept, mention the key associated individuals, provide a guide to further reading and are extensively cross-referenced

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and index

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Cover -- KEY CONCEPTS SERIES -- KEY CONCEPTS IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgements -- KEY CONCEPTS -- A -- accent -- adjective -- adverb -- affix -- agreement -- airstream mechanism -- alternation -- ambiguity -- analogy -- anaphor -- animal communication -- anthropological linguistics -- aphasia -- apparent time -- applied linguistics -- arbitrariness -- argument -- artificial language -- aspect -- autonomy of language -- auxiliary -- B -- basic word order -- behaviourism -- bilingualism -- bioprogram hypothesis -- Black English -- C -- caregiver speech -- case -- clause -- code-switching -- cognitive linguistics -- cognitive science -- coherence -- cohesion -- colloquial speech -- communicative competence -- comparative reconstruction -- competence -- complement -- componential analysis -- computational linguistics -- conjunction -- connotation -- consonant -- constituent structure -- control -- conversational implicature -- conversation analysis -- cooperative principle -- coordinate structure -- copula -- corpus -- creole -- critical discourse analysis -- critical period hypothesis -- D -- dead language -- deep structure -- deficit hypothesis -- deictic category -- denotation -- dependency -- derivation -- descriptivism -- design features -- determiner -- diachrony -- dialect -- diglossia -- discourse -- discourse analysis -- displacement -- distinctive feature -- distribution -- duality of patterning -- dyslexia -- E -- ellipsis -- entailment -- ethnography of speaking -- etymology -- experimental approach -- F -- finite -- focus -- folk linguistics -- functionalism -- functions of language -- G -- gap -- gender -- generative grammar -- genetic hypothesis of language -- genetic relationship -- genre -- given/new -- government -- Government-and-Binding Theory -- grammar -- grammatical category -- grammatical relation -- grapheme -- H -- head -- historical linguistics -- I -- iconicity -- idiom -- immigrant language -- Indo-European -- inflection -- innateness hypothesis -- internal reconstruction -- international language -- International Phonetic Alphabet -- intertextuality -- intonation -- intuition -- K -- kinship terms -- knowledge about language -- L -- language -- language acquisition -- language acquisition device -- language and ethnicity -- language and identity -- language and ideology -- language and power -- language areas -- language change -- language contact -- language death -- language disability -- language faculty -- language family -- t