Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics is the most authoritative, comprehensive and international reference work of its kind. Ground-breaking in its sheer scope – the 2nd edition had almost 3,000 chapters – no other linguistics reference work matches it for sheer broadness of coverage. Over the years it has been a much-loved and invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition and pathology, cognitive science, sociology and media/cultural studies. Led by a brand new and outstanding international editorial team, the 3rd edition will be thoroughly modernized to address the considerable growth and development in this field since the previous edition published in 2005. Existing chapters will be revised and updated, obsolete material removed and approximately 300 brand-new chapters will be commissioned to cover newer areas of research such as machine learning and natural language processing. Significant multimedia such as high-quality figures, audio files (highlighting differences in accent and dialects within languages) will be available to complement the text content, and chapters will follow a consistent chapter template in order to provide a logical reading experience for the user. The end-result will be an outstanding and market-leading reference work: modern, fully up to date, easy to navigate via its electronic platform, and logistically and consistently structured. Once again it will be the perfect resource for the modern-day language scholar.
- The most comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of language/linguistics knowledge available
- Thematically structured into 4 Parts and 40 sub-sections on specific areas of coverage
- Logical and consistent chapter template throughout including wide use of pedagogic features
- Significant level of multimedia such as high-quality figures, audio files (highlighting the different accents, dialect, etc within languages) to complement the text content
- Outstanding and hugely experienced international team of Editors in Chief and Section Editors
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Review of the previous edition: "An awe-inspiring project of breath-taking scope, bringing together a distinguished list of internationally recognized editors and authors." --Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
"An extraordinary resource, encompassing a comprehensive breadth of major topics in all aspects of language and linguistics, the perspectives of leading scholars, and regional viewpoints from around the world! It does look to be an impressive undertaking, allright." --Alister Cumming, Professor and Head, Modern Language Centre Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
"With over 3,000 articles and 39,000 references, this volume is vital to all college-level libraries as the most comprehensive language resource of its kind." -- John Aiello, The Electric Review, May 2005
Part A: General linguistics
EIC responsibility: Jim Blevins, Professor of Linguistics, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA, USA Structural linguistics Foundations Probabilistic
perspectives Theoretical perspectives Complex systems perspectives Sound
patterns Articulatory phonetics Acoustic phonetics Theoretical phonology
Laboratory phonology Grammar Derivational morphology Inflectional morphology
Word-based models Realizational approaches Models of morphemic analysis
Transformational approaches to syntax Constraint-based models of syntax
Models of cognitive grammar Meaning Sentential semantics Lexical semantics
Distributional semantics Pragmatics and communication Semiotics Dimensions of
linguistic variation Diachrony and language evolution Historical linguistics
Analogy Diachronic perspectives on synchronic systems Language evolution
Typology and universals Typological traditions Typological resources The
status of language universals History of ideas History of linguistics
Greco-Roman linguistics Sanskrit grammarians European structuralism American
descriptivism Generative linguistics Empiricist approaches
Part B: Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics
EIC responsible: Hilary Nesi, Professor in English Language, Coventry
University, UK Applied Linguistics Overview and history Critical applied
linguistics Applied linguistics in various parts of the world (Africa,
S.Asia, China, S.E Asia, N America, S, America, Europe, Australasia)
Linguistic anthropology Descriptive linguistics Ethnography Field linguistics
Language contact, language change Indigenous Languages Gender and sexuality
Identity ideology, linguistic ethnonationalism Speech genres in cultural
practice Taboo Language and society Language policy and planning, lingua
franca, English as an international language Language education policies,
general and regional Migration and language Gender-specific language
Discourse communities and communities of practice Subcultures and
counter-cultures Linguistic rights, discrimination Language use in primary,
secondary and tertiary education Cross-cultural pragmatics, language
identity, language socialization Contributions of civilisations to language
and discourses (e.g.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B0080448542047210 )
Education and language Mother tongue language education curriculum content,
teacher preparation Education and standard and non-standard varieties
grammar, correctness, purism Language education and social justice
Communicative competence Culture and language education Pedagogical grammars
Second and foreign language learning and teaching Second and foreign language
teaching technologies Second and foreign language curriculum development
Second and foreign language assessment Second and foreign language teacher
preparation Teaching minority languages Immigrant language education
Languages for specific purposes Corpus Linguistics Types of language corpora
Corpus linguistic techniques Corpus linguistic studies of language variation
2nd language corpus studies Language in: Business Genres of business
communication Advertising and marketing Traditional advertising methods
Advertising and the new media Wordplay Marketing semiotics, brands and logos
Education Educational linguistics, history, lines of enquiry (SFL etc) Law
Legal genres Language of legal texts Language of the lawcourt Language of the
police Applied forensic linguistics Media Methods of analysis Types of media
(radio, TV, press, computer-mediated) Media genres (documentary, news, sports
broadcasting, documentary) Media and panics, bias, spread of information
Medicine Inter- and Intra- professional communication Written medical
discourse Oral medical discourse Medical communication skills training
Politics Genres in political discourse The language of politics and diplomacy
Political rhetoric Parliamentary discourse The role of the internet in
political discourse Religion Genres of religious language Sacred texts
Religious beliefs about language Religion and the spread of literacy Ritual
language Religious languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Hebrew, of the Bible, Koran,)
Literature Literary language and literary discourse National literatures
Methods of studying the language of literature, e.g. metaphor. narrative.
narratology, reader research, reader response, schema theory, stylistics,
thematics Invented languages in literature The language of childrens
literature Science and Technology Genres of scientific and technical
discourse Audiences for scientific and technical discourse Grammatical
characteristics of scientific and technical discourse terminology Acquisition
of other languages Models of second language acquisition Second language
acquisition research methods Second language listening, speaking, reading,
writing Phonology, morphology, syntax Second language vocabulary acquisition
Motivation Attrition 3rd language acquisition Acquisition of the mother
tongue Models of language acquisition and language development Language
acquisition research methods Language development in infancy, school-age
children, adolescents, adults Discourse, pragmatic, narrative development
Bilingual language development Language disorders, dementia, recovery after
injury Language development and education of the deaf, blind
Part C: Data-driven and cross-disciplinary language research
EIC responsible: Petar Milin, Senior Lecturer in the Psychology of Language
and Language Learning, University of Birmingham, UK Linguistic/Language data
and resources Resources of Distributed Semantic Models (DSM) Resources from
General Psychology and Cognitive Psychology (experimental) Resources from
Educational Psychology and Pedagogy (normative, survey-based) Usage-based
linguistics Cognitive Linguistics Emergentism (e.g., McClelland, Tomaselo,
Bybee etc.; also, diachronic work) Network approach (including CAS)
Interactions with Engineering and Computer Sciences Speech technology Machine
translation Natural language processing Corpus-linguistics (in relations with
data and resources) Interactions with Neurobiology and Psychology
Neurolinguistics Brain and language Psychology of language (including
modelling) Psycholinguistics Interactions with Mathematics and Physics
Quantitative Linguistics Probability Theory and Statistics in language
research Interactions with Physics
Part D: Discourse, text analysis and stylistics
EIC: divided equally between 3 other EICs translation lexicography discourse
and conversation analysis the analysis of written discourse (genre analysis)
accent, dialect and register philosophy and language animal communication
Languages of the world Writing systems Corpus linguistics Stylistics
