2nd Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics

Edited By Howard Manns, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts Copyright 2027
596 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive reference point and introduction 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. The second edition of this handbook has been completely revised and reorganised to feature 33 chapters with new authors representing diverse... Read more

1 What is linguistics now? Diversifying, digitising and undeniably impactful

Howard Manns, Alice Gaby and Anna Margetts

2 Evolutionary linguistics

Marek Placiński, Monika Boruta, Marta Sibierska, Svetlana Kuleshova, Elizabeth Qing Zhang, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Slawomir Wacewicz and Michael Pleyer

3 Grapholinguistics and the typology of writing systems 

Hilário de Sousa

4 Phonetics: an intersection of science and culture

Molly Babel and Line Lloy

5 Phonology: Cross-modal evidence for emergent grammar

Samuel Akinbo

6 Morphology

Rik van Gijn, Victoria Nyst and Roberto Zariquiey

7 Syntax

Rui P. Chaves and Adele E. Goldberg

8 Semantics

Sihwei Chen

9 Typologies and universals: Traditional and new approaches

Jesus Olguín Martinez

10 Sign language linguistics

Kristin Snoddon and Erin Wilkinson

11 Language contact

Felicia Bisnath and Savithry Namboodiripad

12 Cognitive linguistics

Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg and Poppy Siahaan

13 Gesture and multimodality

Lauren Gawne

14 Language in social interaction

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Margret Selting

15 Pragmatics

Tahmineh Tayebi

16 Sociolinguistics: Language variation and change and its social context

Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and James N. Stanford

17 Linguistic anthropology

Sherina Feliciano-Santos and Kathleen C. Riley

18 Language, gender and sexuality

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales and Mie Hiramoto 

19 Discourse analysis

Viviane de Melo Resende and Raylton Carlos de Lima Tavares

20 Indigenous linguistic futurity: A critical response to language endangerment

Christopher Hammerly, Julia C. Fine and Bernard Perley

21 Decolonizing linguistics

Wesley Y. Leonard

22 First language acquisition

Bhuvana Narasimhan, Aoju Chen and Carmel O’Shannessy

23 Second language acquisition

Ward Peeters and Hui Huang

24 Multilingualism

Jill Vaughan

25 Language policy discourse: Decolonising ethno-tales of economic rationalism

Finex Ndhlovu and Torun Reite

26 Corpus linguistics

Winnie Cheng and Phoenix Lam

27 Digital discourse

Daria Dayter, Theresa Heyd and Britta Schneider

28 Psycholinguistics

Ethan Kutlu

29 Language and technology

Hadas Kotek

30 Linguistics in education

Alice Corr, Michelle Sheehan, Anna D. Havinga, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Norma Schifano and Sascha Stollhans

31 Forensic linguistics: Diverse perspectives

Georgina Heydon and R. Dian Dia-an Muniroh

32 Looking forward: linguistic theory and methods

John Mansfield and Ethan G. Wilcox

33 Looking forward: The impact of linguistics

Sender Dovchin

Index

Biography

Howard Manns is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.

Alice Gaby is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.

Anna Margetts is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.