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This encyclopaedia reviews current knowledge in the fields of linguistics and language studies. The work makes a systematic attempt to take into account the many different views and perspectives encountered in research and thinking in these fields, emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. Alhabetically-organized, the work consists of 10 volumes, each containing more than 500 large-format pages, together with an index volume which includes a contributor index, a three-level subject index, a systematic outline of the "Encyclopedia", an article on the bibliographic sources of information, and a glossary of technical terms used in the field.

Table of Contents:
Academics and standards. Ageing and language. Alphabet - religious beliefs. Alternate sign languages. Aphasia. Australian languages. Automatic speech recognition - stochastic techniques. Black English in education. Blasphemy. Burushaski. Caddoan languages. Cargo cults. Case grammar. Chart parsing and WFSSTs. Chomsky's philosophy of grammar. Classroom language - observation and research. Cognitive grammar. Cohesion and coherence in literature. Communicative intention. Computers and language use. Conservation analysis. Counterfactuals. Deaf community and culture. Deconstruction. Dependency phonology. Dictionaries, rhyming. Diderot, Denis. Dravidian languages. Dysarthrias, developmental. Ethnicity and language. Ethnopoetics. Factivity. Fluency - disorders. Formal semantics. Formalization and functionalism in linguistic criticism. Formulaic speech. Generative grammar. Gestures. Grammar - typological and areal issues. Historiography of linguistics. Immigrant languages in education - Sweden. Indirect speech acts. Information theory. Interjections. Intonation - pragmatics. Irish bardic grammarians. Italic languages. Japanese writing system. Journalism. Language as a platonic reality. Language death. Language promotion by governments. Language - Hindu views. Lexical semantics. Lexicography, post-classical Greek. Linguistic philosophy. Logical positivism. Mesoamerican writing. Metaphor in language. Mood and modality. Morphological universals. Multilingual states - political implications of language policies. Namibia - language situation. Naming of children. Natural language generation. New Englishes. Occitan. Ogden, Charles Kay. Origins of language - recent theories. Oxford English dictionary. Palaeontology, linguistic. Pathology of language - evaluation. Performative hypothesis. Philosophy of linguistics. Phonology - redundancy rules. Picture theory of meaning. Planudes, maximus. Pragmatic presuppositions. Preaching. Procedural semantics. Pronoun systems. Propositional calculus. Proxemics. Pseudolinguistics. Puns. Rajasthani. Reading processes in adults. Shorthand. Sign bilingualism - applications to education. Slang - sociology. Social networks and language. South America - sign languages. Speaker-characterization in speech technology. Speech aerodynamics. Structuralism and semiotics, literary. Subcategorization. Syntax and semantics - relationship. Technical vocabulary - medieval and renaissance English. Telegraph and telephone. Tense. Text pragmatics. Text-to-speech conversion systems. Thought and language. Translation, machine-aided. Translinguistics. Ugaritic. Universals of language. Urban dialectology. Valency changing alternations. Voice quality. Whistles and whistled speech. Word-formation processes. (Part contents).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780080359434
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
  • Publisher Imprint: Pergamon
  • Height: 297 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 210 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0080359434
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 20412 gr


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