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Summary
Summary
* Examines how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history
* Two comprehensive indexes of Topics and Technical Terms, and Names
* Carefully illustrated to explain key points in the text
`This rich repository of information on all aspects of language is a must for all libraries in higher education, schools and larger public libraries.' - Library Review
`Each article has an excellent bibliography. In addition, there are comprehensive indexes of topics and technical terms and names. Highly recommended for all college and general public libraries.' - Choice
`This important book is in many ways a state-of-the -art survey of current conceptions of, and approaches to, language, with generous references to more detailed sources. Each chapter has a good bibliography.' - Language International
`A comprehensive guide ... with very thorough bibliographies ... Collinge's Encyclopedia is recommended to academic libraries.' - Reference Reviews
`The bibliographies are an invaluable aid ... the editor is to be congratulated for having done an excellent job ... there are virtually no areas of language and linguistics that do not get a look in somewhere, and there is good signposting in the text itself.' - Nigel Vincent, Times Higher Education Supplement
Reviews 1
Choice Review
Complementary to the four-volume Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey (Linguistic Theory: Foundations and Linguistic Theory: Extensions and Implications, CH, Feb'89; Language: Psychological and Biological Aspects and Language: The Socio-cultural Context, CH, Mar'89), this collection of 26 essays by noted British linguists is divided into three major sections of approximately equal numbers of essays. "The Inner Nature of Language" covers phonetics, phonology, grammar, Chomskian mental structures, semantics, conversational interaction, and language universals. "The Larger Province of Language" examines psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language pathology, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, second-language learning, and the sub-topics of language in education, language and society, and language and computation. "Special Aspects of Language" explores the topics of language as words, language and writing, the history of linguistics, language engineering, language evolution, dialects and accents, and languages of the world. Scholarly but readable, these articles are written for an educated general audience, but should be informative to specialists. The book is well bound and each article has an excellent bibliography. In addition, there are comprehensive indexes of topics and technical terms and names. Highly recommended for all college and general public libraries. -M. D. Linn, University of Minnesota--Duluth
Table of Contents
| Editor's Introduction | p. xv |
| Part A The Inner Nature of Language | p. 1 |
| 1 Language as Available Sound: Phonetics | p. 3 |
| References | p. 28 |
| Further Reading | p. 29 |
| 2 Language as Organised Sound: Phonology | p. 30 |
| References | p. 66 |
| 3 Language as Form and Pattern: Grammar and Its Categories | p. 68 |
| References | p. 110 |
| 4 Language as a Mental Faculty: Chomsky's Progress | p. 112 |
| 5 Language, Meaning and Sense: Semantics | p. 139 |
| 6 Language, Meaning and Context: Pragmatics | p. 173 |
| References | p. 204 |
| 7 Language as a Written Medium: Text | p. 207 |
| 8 Language as a Spoken Medium: Conversation and Interaction | p. 244 |
| References | p. 277 |
| 9 Language Universalsand Language Types | p. 281 |
| Part B The Larger Province of Language | p. 331 |
| 10 Language and Mind: Psycholinguistics | p. 333 |
| Further Reading | p. 370 |
| 11 Language in the Brain: Neurolinguistics | p. 371 |
| 12 The Breakdown of Language: Language Pathology and Therapy | p. 422 |
| 13 Language and Behaviour: Anthropological Linguistics | p. 458 |
| References | p. 478 |
| 14 Language in Society: Sociolinguistics | p. 485 |
| References | p. 514 |
| Further Reading | p. 517 |
| 15 Second Languages: How They Are Learned and Taught | p. 518 |
| 16 Language in Education | p. 551 |
| 17 Language and Literature | p. 590 |
| References | p. 607 |
| 18 Language and Computation | p. 611 |
| Part C Special Aspects of Language | p. 669 |
| 19 Language as Words: Lexicography | p. 671 |
| References | p. 695 |
| 20 Language and Writing-Systems | p. 701 |
| References | p. 736 |
| 21 Sign Language | p. 740 |
| References | p. 781 |
| 22 Language and Its Students: The History of Linguistics | p. 784 |
| References | p. 836 |
| 23 Language Engineering: Special Languages | p. 843 |
| 24 Language as It Evolves: Tracing Its Forms and Families | p. 876 |
| Further Reading | p. 916 |
| 25 Language as Geography | p. 917 |
| References | p. 950 |
| 26 Languages of the World: Who Speaks What | p. 956 |
| Index of Topics and Technical Terms | p. 984 |
| Index of Names | p. 993 |
