Linguistic Theory Books

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1. Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

   Edited by Randy LaPolla

   The Sino-Tibetan languages form the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers, of whom there are some 1.4 billion spread across East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. The family consists of two branches: Sinitic, consisting of the Chinese languages (including...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57739-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning

   By Andrea Tyler

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-80250-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Cognitive Linguistics

   Edited by ADELE GOLDBERG

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-57493-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Gestures in Second Language Acquisition

   By Marianne Gullberg

   Despite the popular conviction that gestures play an important role in second language use, both in production and comprehension, as well as for actual language acquisition, the topic has received remarkably little scholarly attention until recently. This one-of-a-kind volume presents a...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-80488-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Metaphor

   Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora

   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...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-39249-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Pragmatics II

   Edited by Asa Kasher

   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...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-47795-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature

   By Alison Gibbons

   Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-87361-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Anthropological Linguistics: Theories and Practices

   Edited by Bambi Schieffelin, Paul Garrett

   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...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-55178-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Derivational Regimes in Syntax and Morphology

   By Edwin Williams

   Princeton University Professor Edwin Williams presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-88723-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Semiotics

    Edited by Peer F. Bundgaard, Frederik Stjernfelt

    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...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-47681-2 | Hardback (Routledge)