The routledge handbook of linguistics

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Allan, Keith , 1943- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group c2016
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What is linguistics?
  • 2. Evolutionary linguistics: how language and languages got to be the way they are
  • 3. Gesture and sign: utterance uses of visible bodily action
  • 4. Writing systems: methods for recording language
  • 5. Phonetics: the sounds humans make when speaking / Andrew Butcher
  • 6. Phonology
  • 7. Morphology: the structure of words
  • 8. Syntax: putting words together
  • 9. Syntax as the dynamics of language understanding
  • 10. Semantics: the meaning of words and sentences
  • 11. Lexical semantics today
  • 12. Lexicography: the construction of dictionaries and thesauruses
  • 13. Pragmatics: language use in context
  • 14. The linguistics of politeness and social relations
  • 15. Narrative and narrative structure
  • 16. Anthropological linguistics and field linguistics
  • 17. Sociolinguistics: language in social environments
  • 18. Psycholinguistics: language and cognition
  • 19. Neurolinguistics: mind, brain, and language
  • 20. First language acquisition
  • 21. Second language acquisition and applied linguistics
  • 22. Historical linguistics and relationships among languages
  • 23. Linguistic change in grammar
  • 24. Language endangerment
  • 25. Linguistic typology and language universals
  • 26. Translating between languages
  • 27. Structural linguistics
  • 28. Biolinguistics
  • 29. Cognitive linguistics
  • 30. Functional linguistics
  • 31. Computational linguistics
  • 32. Corpus linguistics
  • 33. Linguistics and philosophy
  • 34. Linguistics and the law
  • 35. Linguistics and politics
  • 36. Linguistics and social media