The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia: Edition 3
About this ebook
This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new entries on:
- attitudes to language
- conversation analysis
- English Language Teaching
- gesture and language
- idioms
- language and advertising
- language and new technologies
- linguistics in schools
- optimality theory
- research methods in linguistics
- slang.
The following entries have been recommissioned or substantially revised:
Animals and Language, Artificial Languages, Computational Linguistics to Language Engineering, Contrastive Analysis/Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Dialectology, Discourse Analysis, Dyslexia, Genre Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intonation, Language and Education, Language, Gender and Sexuality, Language Origins, Language Surveys, Language Universals, Linguistic Typology, Metaphor, Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Semantics, Semiotics, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics, Systemic-Functional Grammar, Writing Systems.
About the author
Kirsten Malmkjær studied English and Philosophy and completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham. She worked at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge before taking up her post as Professor of Translation Studies and Literary Translation at Middlesex University in 1999.
