The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics)

__The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics__ offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point 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 and drawing on interdisciplinary research in subjects such as anthropology, psychology and sociology. The 36 chapters, written by specialists from around the world, provide: * an overview of each topic; * an introduction to current hypotheses and issues; * future trajectories; * suggestions for further reading. With extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied linguistic topics, __The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics__ is an indispensable resource for students and researchers working in this area. Contents 6 Figures 9 Tables 10 Contributors 11 What is linguistics? 16 Evolutionary linguistics 32 Gesture and sign 48 Writing systems 62 Phonetics 77 Phonology 98 Morphology 119 Syntax 133 Syntax as the dynamics of language understanding 150 Semantics 168 Lexical semantics today 184 Lexicography 202 Pragmatics 220 The linguistics of politeness and social relations 236 Narrative and narrative structure 251 Anthropological linguistics and fi eld linguistics 265 Sociolinguistics 279 Psycholinguistics 296 Neurolinguistics 311 First language acquisition 326 Second language acquisition and applied linguistics 344 Historical linguistics and relationships among languages 359 Linguistic change in grammar 381 Language endangerment 400 Linguistic typology and language universals 416 Translating between languages 432 Structural linguistics 446 Biolinguistics 462 Cognitive linguistics 470 Functional linguistics 485 Computational linguistics 500 Corpus linguistics 517 Linguistics and philosophy 531 Linguistics and the law 547 Linguistics and politics 561 Linguistics and social media 576 Index 589 978-0-415-83257-1,-,The,Routledge,handbook,of,linguistics 978-0-415-83257-1 - The Routledge handbook of linguistics