Book Series

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

New & Published Titles:

Language Acquisition

Edited by Charles Yang

This new addition to Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarly research in over half…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43709-7 (Routledge)

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Clinical Linguistics

Edited by Thomas W. Powell, Martin J. Ball

Clinical Linguistics involves the application of linguistic theories and procedures to the study, characterization, and treatment of communicative disorders. Although linguists have long applied their…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48125-0 (Routledge)

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Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Edited by Li Wei

Although scientific studies of the language behaviour of polyglots began to appear in the nineteenth century, it is only in the last fifty years or…

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July 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46267-9 (Routledge)

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Translation Studies

Edited by Mona Baker

Translation Studies has emerged as a thriving interdisciplinary and international area of scholarship. Its rapid growth has been accompanied by diverse forms of translation research…

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July 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34422-7 (Routledge)

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Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Edited by Philip Hubbard

Serious work using computers to support language teaching and learning began in the 1960s, but it was not until the beginning of the 1980s when…

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May 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46539-7 (Routledge)

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Sociolinguistics

Edited by Nikolas Coupland, Adam Jaworski

This title is a new collection in the Routledge Critical Concepts in Linguistics series. In six volumes, it provides a critical synthesis of the key…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40849-3 (Routledge)

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Lexicology

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Patrick W. Hanks

This new Routledge Major Work is a six-volume collection of nearly one hundred papers, articles, and extracts covering every aspect of lexicology. It ranges over…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70098-6 (Routledge)

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Corpus Linguistics

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Wolfgang Teubert, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Corpora—large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically—provide the means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. Corpora…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33895-0 (Routledge)

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Comparative Grammar

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Ian Roberts

The study of comparative grammar has long been a concern of linguistic theory. To the extent that, by studying the aspects of grammar which vary,…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34199-8 (Routledge)

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Syntax

Edited by Robert Freidin, Howard Lasnik

This collection covers the fundamental concepts and analytic tools of generative transformational syntax of the last half century, from Chomsky's Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (1951)…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24672-9 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Second-Language Acquisition
Edited by Lourdes Ortega
To be published March 15th 2010

Historical Linguistics
Edited by Brian D. Joseph, Hope Dawson
To be published July 15th 2010

Pragmatics II
Edited by Asa Kasher
To be published September 15th 2010

Metaphor and Figurative Language
Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora
To be published September 15th 2010