Critical Concepts in Linguistics

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1. Language Evolution

   Edited by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Gesche Westphal Fitch

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   This new four-volume collection, part of Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Linguistics series, assembles the most important scholarly writings concerning the biological evolution of language, particularly those incorporating a Darwinian view of evolution. Including excerpts from ancient sources such...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Educational Linguistics

   Edited by Nancy H. Hornberger

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   What educational approaches best serve language-minority children? What policies, programmes, and circumstances encourage or contribute to minority-language maintenance? How do we make sense of the ecology of language development and socialization in non-traditional settings? And what is the...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Metaphor and Figurative Language

   Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Pragmatics II

   Edited by Asa Kasher

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Pragmatics II is a four-volume collection of the very best scholarship on pragmatics. It is an essential successor collection to the editor’s Pragmatics (6 vols.) (978-0-415-11734-0), published in 1998 and described...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. Endangered Languages

   Edited by Peter K. Austin, Stuart McGill

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   At least half of the seven thousand or so languages spoken today are in danger of disappearing during the 21st century. Although languages have always come and gone, the current rate of language extinction is unprecedented, a loss which not only affects individual communities but also diminishes...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. Cognitive Linguistics

   Edited by Adele Goldberg

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   This new addition to Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarly research on cognitive linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics is a broad approach to language that places psychological reality at the top of the list of...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Second-Language Acquisition

   Edited by Lourdes Ortega

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   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. Since then, it has expanded considerably in scope and methodology to the point that...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
8. Anthropological Linguistics

   Edited by Bambi Schieffelin, Paul Garrett

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   Viewing language as a dynamic semiotic system that shapes and is shaped by cultural, social, and cognitive factors alike, the materials gathered in this new Major Work collection from Routledge explore how people in communities worldwide think about language, talk about language, use language, and...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
9. Semiotics

   Edited by Peer F. Bundgaard, Frederik Stjernfelt

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   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 new Routledge collection helps to make sense of the subject’s huge interdisciplinary corpus of scholarly...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
10. Language Acquisition

    Edited by Charles Yang

    Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

    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 a century of language-acquisition research. The collection represents and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field, by...

    Published November 26th 2009 by Routledge