Language and linguistics : the key concepts / R.L. Trask ; edited by Peter Stockwell.

1st ed. published in 1999 under title: Key concepts in language and linguistics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-350) and index.

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LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Title Page
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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS
LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
ACCENT
ADJACENCY PAIR
ADJECTIVE
ADVERB
AFFIX
AFFRICATE
AGREEMENT
AIRSTREAM MECHANISM
ALTERNATION
AMBIGUITY
ANALOGY
ANAPHOR
ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
APHASIA
APPARENT TIME
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
ARBITRARINESS
ARGUMENT
ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE
ASPECT
AUTOLEXICAL GRAMMAR
AUTONOMY
AUXILIARY
BASIC WORD ORDER
BEHAVIOURISM
BILINGUALISM
BIOPROGRAM HYPOTHESIS
BLACK ENGLISH
BORROWING
CASE
CLAUSE
CLITIC
CLOZE
CODE-SWITCHING
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
COHESION
COLLIGATE
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
COMPARATIVE RECONSTRUCTION
COMPETENCE
COMPLEMENT
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION
CONJUNCTION
CONNOTATION
CONSONANT
CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE
CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR
CONTROL
CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE
COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE
COORDINATE STRUCTURE
COPULA
CREOLE
CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS
DEAD LANGUAGE
DEEP STRUCTURE
DEFICIT HYPOTHESIS
DEICTIC CATEGORY
DENOTATION
DEPENDENCY
DERIVATION
DESCRIPTIVISM
DESIGN FEATURES
DETERMINER
DIACHRONY
DIALECT
DIGLOSSIA
DIRECT OBJECT
DISCOURSE
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
DISPLACEMENT
DISTINCTIVE FEATURE
DISTRIBUTION
DUALITY OF PATTERNING
DYSLEXIA
ELICITATION TECHNIQUES
ELLIPSIS
ENTAILMENT
ETHICS
ETHNICITY
ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION
ETYMOLOGY
EUPHEMISM
FINITE
FOCUS
FOLK LINGUISTICS
FOREGROUNDING
FORENSIC LINGUISTICS
FORMAL GRAMMAR
FRAME
FUNCTIONALISM
FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
GAP
GENDER
GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
GENETIC HYPOTHESIS OF LANGUAGE
GENETIC RELATIONSHIP
GENRE
GIVEN/NEW
GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT-AND-BINDING THEORY
GRAMMAR
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
GRAMMATICAL RELATION
GRAPHEME
HEAD
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
ICONICITY
IDENTITY
IDEOLOGY
IDIOM
INDICATOR
INDIRECT OBJECT
INDO-EUROPEAN
INFINITIVE
INFLECTION
INNATENESS HYPOTHESIS
INTEGRATIONALISM
INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE
INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET
INTERTEXTUALITY
INTONATION
INTUITION
IRREALIS
KINSHIP TERMS
LANDMARK
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE
LANGUAGE AREAS
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE CONTACT
LANGUAGE DEATH
LANGUAGE DISABILITY
LANGUAGE FACULTY
LANGUAGE FAMILY
LANGUAGE INSTINCT
LANGUAGE MYTHS
Primitive languages
Stadialism
Those Eskimo words for ‘snow’
Basque
The land that time forgot
LANGUAGE PLANNING
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
LANGUE
LATERALIZATION
LEMMA
LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR (LFG)
LEXICOGRAPHY
LEXICON
LINGUA FRANCA
LINGUISTIC AREA
LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY HYPOTHESIS
LINGUISTIC SIGN
LINGUISTICS
LITERACY
LOAN WORD
LOCALIZATION
LOGONOMIC RULES
MANNER OF ARTICULATION
MARKEDNESS
MARKER
MEANING
MEDIUM
MENTAL SPACE
MENTALISM
METALANGUAGE
METAPHOR
MINIMAL PAIR
MINIMALIST PROGRAM(ME)
MINORITY LANGUAGE
MIRROR NEURONS
MODALITY
MODIFIER
MOOD
MORPHEME
MORPHOLOGY
MOTHERESE
MOVEMENT
NAME
NARRATIVE
NATIONAL LANGUAGE
NATURAL CLASS
NATURAL-LANGUAGE PROCESSING
NEUROLINGUISTICS
NEUTRALIZATION
NOMINALIZATION
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
NOTATIONAL CONVENTION
NOUN
NOUN PHRASE
NUMBER
NUMBER OF LANGUAGES
OBSERVER’S PARADOX
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
ONOMASTICS
OPEN-ENDEDNESS
OPTIMALITY THEORY
ORACY
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
ORTHOGRAPHY
PARADIGM
PARADIGMATIC RELATION
PARALANGUAGE
PAROLE
PARSING
PART OF SPEECH
PERCEPTUAL STRATEGY
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMATIVE
PERSON
PHILOLOGY
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
PHONATION TYPE
PHONEME
PHONETICS
PHONOLOGY
PHONOTACTICS
PHRASE
PHRASE-STRUCTURE GRAMMAR
PIDGIN
PLACE OF ARTICULATION
POLITENESS
POLYSYNTHESIS
POSSIBLE WORLDS THEORY
POWER
PRAGMATICS
PREDICATE
PREPOSITION
PRESCRIPTIVISM
PRESTIGE
PRESUPPOSITION
PRODUCTIVITY
PRONOUN
PROSODY
PROTO-LANGUAGE
PROTO-LANGUAGE HYPOTHESIS
PROTOTYPE
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
PUNCTUATION
PURISM
QUALITATIVE APPROACH
QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
RAISING
RANK SCALE
RECONSTRUCTION
RECURSION
REFERENCE
RELEVANCE
RHETORIC
ROOT
RULE
SAUSSUREAN PARADOX
SCHEMA
SEGMENT
SELECTION RESTRICTION
SEMANTIC ROLE
SEMANTICS
SEMIOTICS
SENSE
SENSE RELATION
SENTENCE
SEX DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE
SEXIST LANGUAGE
SIGN LANGUAGE
SLANG
SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE
SOCIAL NETWORK
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION OF LANGUAGE
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
SOUND SYMBOLISM
SPEECH
SPEECH ACT
SPEECH COMMUNITY
SPEECH EVENT
SPEECH SOUND
SPEECH THERAPY
SPELLING
STANDARD LANGUAGE
STEM
STEREOTYPE
STIMULUS-FREEDOM
STRESS
STRUCTURALISM
STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE-DEPENDENCE
STYLISTICS
SUBCATEGORIZATION
SUBJECT
SUBORDINATION
SUPRASEGMENTAL
SURFACE STRUCTURE
SYLLABLE
SYMBOLIC SYSTEM
SYNCHRONY
SYNTACTIC CATEGORY
SYNTAGMATIC RELATION
SYNTAX
SYSTEM
SYSTEMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
SYSTEMIC LINGUISTICS
TAGMEMICS
TENSE
TEXT
TEXT LINGUISTICS
TEXT WORLD THEORY
TEXTUALITY
TONE LANGUAGE
TOPIC
TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR
TRAJECTOR
TRANSCRIPTION
TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR
TRANSITIVITY
TREE
TROPE
TURN-TAKING
TYPOLOGY
UNIVERSAL
UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR
USAGE
UTTERANCE
VARIABLE
VARIATION
VERB
VERB PHRASE
VERNACULAR
VOCAL TRACT
VOICE
VOICING
VOWEL
WELL-FORMEDNESS
WORD
WORD-FORMATION
WRITING SYSTEM
X-BAR
Bibliography

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.