The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics, finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic operation? The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences addresses these issues, along with hundreds of others. It includes basic entries for those unfamiliar with a given topic and more specific entries for those seeking more specialized knowledge. It incorporates both well-established findings and cutting-edge research and classical approaches and new theoretical innovations. The volume is aimed at readers who have an interest in some aspect of language science but wish to learn more about the broad range of ideas, findings, practices, and prospects that constitute this rapidly expanding field, a field arguably at the center of current research on the human mind and human society.
- Systematic topical coverage, from discourse analysis to neurolinguistics, from acoustic phonetics to legal interpretation
- Seven overview essays and nearly 500 entries on specific topics that lay out basic principles for those unfamiliar with the field, but also incorporate recent research and theorization
- Provides an affordable, up-to-date, and accessible (but not reductive or overly simplified) one-volume reference resource for knowledge of language science
Product details
November 2010Hardback
9780521866897
1048 pages
286 × 222 × 42 mm
2.3kg
10 b/w illus. 12 colour illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introductory Essays:
- 1. Language structure in its human context: new directions for the language sciences in the twenty-first century William Croft
- 2. The psychology of linguistic form Lee Osterhout, Richard A. Wright and Mark D. Allen
- 3. The structure of meaning James Pustejovsky
- 4. Social practices of speech and writing Florian Coulmas
- 5. Explaining language: neuroscience, genetics and evolution Lyle Jenkins
- 6. Acquisition of language Barbara Lust
- 7. Elaborating speech and writing: verbal art Patrick Colm Hogan
- Part II. Entries.
