Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics

This fully updated second edition includes anew introduction, a wide range of new entries (reflecting developments in linguistics since the book's original release) and added specialized further reading for lecturers and more advanced students.

A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include:

• terms used in grammatical analysis


• branches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguistics


• approaches used in studying language from critical discourse analysis to systemic linguistics


• linguistic phenomena from code-switching to conversational implicature


• language varieties from pidgin to standard language.