Böcker i Critical Concepts in Linguistics-serien

Contact has always been a normal part of the development of languages. This title provides students with an overview of how insights about the languages that emerged as a result of European expansion to Africa, Asia, the New World and the Pacific have led to a view of what language is.

Part of the "Routledge Major Works" series, "Critical Concepts in Linguistics", this is a four-volume collection of research in the field.

A collection in Routledge's "Critical Concepts in Linguistics" series. It provides a critical synthesis of the key ideas, findings, methods, and approaches that make up the interdisciplinary field of sociolinguistics. It is fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction suitable for scholars and students alike.

Clinical Linguistics involves the application of linguistic theories and procedures to the study, characterization, and treatment of communicative disorders. Despite its youth, this specialist area has quickly evolved into a highly productive field of inquiry. From its inception, Clinical Linguistics has had a strong international presence.

This four volume Major Work on Bilingualism and Multilingualism will showcase the major achievements in this multidisciplinary field, through the inclusion of the most important, as well as controversial, works that lie at the forefront of bilingualism and multilingualism research.

Phonology is the study of the properties of sound systems - the principles that govern how speech sounds are organized to express meanings. This volume brings together book chapters and articles from professional journals that explore relevant theoretical questions, related to this subject.

This new five-volume collection from Routledge focuses on the foundational papers underlying SFL theory and practice and illustrative papers that have inspired succeeding work.

Lexicography is a growing academic specialization, with both a practical and a theoretical branch, numerous perspectives, and interdisciplinary significance. This collection draws together the most important and influential work in the field.

Semantics is a key concept in linguistic theory, concerning the analysis and description of the meaning of linguistic expressions. This collection contains contributions to semantic theory ranging from Gottlob Frege's essay 'On Sense and Reference' (1892) to present-day thinkers in the field.

This collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis, including foundational articles of the 20th century and more recent articles which cover the concept within a wider context.

Covering the various differing academic traditions within the subject, this collection also addresses theoretical approaches to the field. It provides students and researchers with access to the key articles on the subject.

The study of comparative grammar has been a concern of linguistic theory. Our notion of how grammatical systems vary and our ability to provide sophisticated analyses of this variation is greater than it has been at any time in the past. Concentrating on principles-and-parameters theory, this work presents an overview of what has been achieved.

With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this collection focuses on metaphor and figurative language.

Second-language acquisition was born in the late 1960s as an interdisciplinary enterprise that borrowed equally from the feeder fields of linguistics, language teaching, child language acquisition, and psychology. This title offers a comprehensive survey of this burgeoning field.

Semiotics (the study of sign processes - 'semiosis' - and sign systems) embraces linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, as well as linking to anthropology, art, psychology, and biology. This title illustrates the development of semiotics and its applications.

A collection of some of the best scholarship on pragmatics.