The Linguistics Encyclopedia

The Linguistics Encyclopedia is a practical and stimulating resource, featuring contributions from international leaders in the field, such as Nicholas Coupland, Malcolm Coulthard, Adam Jaworski and Molly Mack. Entries are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced, and include suggestions for further reading. This A-Z encyclopedia covers over 150 areas of linguistics such as phonetics, dyslexia, semantics, grammar, phonology, rhetoric, stylistics, the origin of languages, writing systems, historical linguistics, pidgins, psycholinguistics, speech therapy, and lexicography.For anyone with and academic or professional interest in language, The Linguistics Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference tool.