Critical Concepts in Linguistics
About the Book Series
Routledge Critical Concepts in Linguistics series provides authoritative reprints of the discipline's best and most influential scholarship. This series looks at language from the point of view of the user, at the choices made and the constraints encountered when we use language. Edited by experts in the field, each set puts the development of fundamental concepts and themes into their historical context, as well as providing students and researchers with a snapshot of contemporary debates and current thinking.
Comparative Grammar: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Roberts
December 21, 2006
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, we might arrive at an idea of what does not vary, this study can be seen as one way of studying universals of grammar. Although it has antecedents in the...
Syntax
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Freidin, Howard Lasnik
August 09, 2006
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) to the present day. It makes available, in one place, key published material on important areas such as phrase ...
World Englishes
1st Edition
Edited
By Kingsley Bolton, Braj Kachru
December 09, 2005
The study of World Englishes has seen a revolutionary shift during the last twenty years. Before 1980, there was a general assumption within Britain, the United States and many other societies where English was taught, that the primary target was the 'Standard English' of Britain. However, during ...
Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Francis Katamba
December 11, 2003
This six-volume collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis which all serious students of morphology should be aware of. By comparing the stances taken by the different schools about the important issues, the reader will be able to judge the ...
Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Javier Gutirrez-Rexach
October 23, 2003
Semantics is a key concept in linguistic theory, concerning the analysis and description of the meaning of linguistic expressions. This collection contains a selection of the most important contributions to semantic theory ranging from Gottlob Frege's essay On Sense and Reference written in 1892, ...
Lexicography: Critical Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By R.R.K. Hartmann
June 26, 2003
Lexicography is a growing academic specialization, with both a practical and a theoretical branch, numerous perspectives, and interdisciplinary significance. This collection draws together the most important and influential work in the field of lexicography.As well as a new general introduction ...
Critical Discourse Analysis: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Toolan
May 23, 2002
Over the last decade, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has accrued an exceptional amount of attention across a wide number of academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.In almost every field of human activity, we are surrounded by and caught up in a network of texts and ...
Phonology: Critical Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles W. Kreidler
October 19, 2000
Phonology: Critical Concepts, the first such anthology to appear in thirty years and the largest ever published, brings together over a hundred previously published book chapters and articles from professional journals. These have been chosen for their importance in the exploration of theoretical ...
Pragmatics: Critical Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Asa Kasher
January 01, 1998
This timely collection, for the first time together in one place, gives students and researchers access to the major works of the history of pragmatics and the science of language use. Readers can now critically assess the subject matter, methods, theories and applications that have shaped this ...