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Critical Concepts in Linguistics

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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.

70 Series Titles


Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Randy LaPolla
October 22, 2018

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 ...

Language and Globalization v1 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v1: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Language and Globalization v2 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v2: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Language and Globalization v3 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v3: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Language and Globalization v4 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v4: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Biolinguistics

Biolinguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Maria Di Sciullo
December 12, 2017

Biolinguistics, the study of the relation between humans’ biology and the properties of the Language Faculty, is an emergent and lively field, and is central to linguistics. It gives rise to lively debates on the origin of language, and the specificity of human language in the animal kingdom as ...

Biolinguistics vol II

Biolinguistics vol II

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Maria Di Sciullo
December 12, 2017

Biolinguistics, the study of the relation between humans’ biology and the properties of the Language Faculty, is an emergent and lively field, and is central to linguistics. It gives rise to lively debates on the origin of language, and the specificity of human language in the animal kingdom as ...

Biolinguistics vol III

Biolinguistics vol III

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Maria Di Sciullo
December 12, 2017

Biolinguistics, the study of the relation between humans’ biology and the properties of the Language Faculty, is an emergent and lively field, and is central to linguistics. It gives rise to lively debates on the origin of language, and the specificity of human language in the animal kingdom as ...

Biolinguistics vol IV

Biolinguistics vol IV

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Maria Di Sciullo
December 12, 2017

Biolinguistics, the study of the relation between humans’ biology and the properties of the Language Faculty, is an emergent and lively field, and is central to linguistics. It gives rise to lively debates on the origin of language, and the specificity of human language in the animal kingdom as ...

Pronunciation

Pronunciation

1st Edition

Edited By John Levis, Murray J. Munro
June 26, 2017

Pronunciation is one of the core areas of linguistics, language teaching and applied linguistics. It is a salient aspect of spoken language and is of widespread interest to researchers because of the window it provides on questions involving spoken language, and to teachers because of its relevance...

Pidgins and Creoles

Pidgins and Creoles

1st Edition

Edited By Joseph Farquharson, Bettina Migge
May 26, 2017

This new four volume collection, Pidgins and Creoles, will showcase the major areas of research and their achievements in this multidisciplinary field. The collection will include both works that represent the status quo as well as those that are controversial in nature but which have nevertheless ...

Stylistics

Stylistics

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Burke
February 23, 2017

Stylistics is a multidisciplinary and stimulating field of scientific enquiry with an increasingly significant impact on society, especially in cognitive, civic and pedagogical domains. This new four volume collection will showcase the main developments and the major achievements in stylistics. ...

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