Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (The Language Library) - Hardcover

Crystal, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631189971 ISBN 13: 9780631189978

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

This is a completely revised and updated edition of the Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The new edition adds around 300 new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the 1980s, chiefly in relation to the newer models of linguistic theory, including a full account of the terminology of government-binding theory. Special attention is paid to recent phonological theories such as metrical phonology, and to pragmatics. This new edition is approximately 20 per cent larger in coverage than the previous edition.

About this title

Book Description

Completely revised and updated in its fifth edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics is the standard single-volume reference for its field. The fifth edition incorporates new words or senses that have developed in linguistics recently, based on recommendations by a team of experts in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and sociolinguistics. The dictionary now includes more than 5,000 terms, grouped into over 3,000 entries. The layout has been modified to increase the effectiveness of cross-referencing, all abbreviations have been included in a separate list at the beginning of the book, and a table of symbols has been added.

About the Author

David Crystal was professor of Linguistic Science at the University of Reading from 1975 to 1985, and is currently a Professorial Fellow at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He is the author of Linguistic Encounters with Language Disability (Blackwell, 1984) and edits the Blackwell journal Linguistic Abstracts and also the extensive series The Language Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631189971
• ISBN 13: 9780631189978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400