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The New Edition Of This A-z Guide Explores The Main Concepts And Terms Used In The Study Of Language And Linguistics. Containing Over 300 Entries, Thoroughly Updated To Reflect The Latest Developments In The Field, This Book Includes Entires In: Cognitive Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Phonology And Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; And Syntax And Semantics. Beginning With Brief Definition, Each Entry Is Followed By A Comprehensive Explanation Of The Origin And Usage Of The Term. The Book Is Cross-referenced Throughout And Includes Further Reading For Academics And Students Alike.--jacket. 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 Areas -- Language Change -- Language Contact -- Language Death -- Language Disability -- Language Faculty -- Language Family -- Language Instinct -- Language Myths -- Language Planning -- Language Processing -- Langue -- Laterlization -- Lemma -- Lexical-function Grammar -- Lexicography -- Lexicon -- Lingua Franca -- Linguistic Area -- Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis -- Linguistic Sign -- Linguistics -- Literacy -- Loan Word -- Localization -- Logonomic Rules -- Manner Of Articulation -- Markedness -- Markers -- Meaning -- Medium -- Mental Space -- Mentalism -- Metalanguage -- Metaphor -- Minimal Pair --^ Minimialist 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 -- Transivity -- 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. 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.