ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspectives, covering all the key areas of linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary research in subjects such as anthropology, psychology and sociology.

The 36 chapters, written by specialists from around the world, provide:

  • an overview of each topic;
  • an introduction to current hypotheses and issues;
  • future trajectories;
  • suggestions for further reading.

With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area.

chapter |16 pages

Evolutionary linguistics

How Language and languages got to be the way they are

chapter |14 pages

Gesture and sign

Utterance uses of visible bodily action

chapter |15 pages

Writing systems

Methods for recording language

chapter |21 pages

Phonetics

The sounds humans make when speaking

chapter |21 pages

Phonology

chapter |14 pages

Morphology

The structure of words

chapter |17 pages

Syntax

Putting words together

chapter |16 pages

Semantics

The meaning of words and sentences

chapter |18 pages

Lexicography

The construction of dictionaries and thesauruses

chapter |16 pages

Pragmatics

Language use in context 1

chapter |17 pages

Sociolinguistics

Language in social environments

chapter |15 pages

Psycholinguistics

Language and cognition

chapter |15 pages

Neurolinguistics

Mind, brain, and language

chapter |8 pages

Biolinguistics