KEY CONCEPTS IN LANGUAGE AND
                     LINGUISTICS
          ‘This is brilliant book. It combines the readability of Pinker with the
          breadth and erudition of Crystal, and deserves a place of honour as a
          summary  of  the  best  of  twentieth-century  linguistics—liberal,
          scholarly,  forward-looking,  undogmatic,  sensible,  practical  and
          above all wide ranging. Every linguist will be pleased with most of
          it…and every student will cling to it and love it.’
                      Richard Hudson, University College London
       Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics is an A-Z guide to the main terms and
       concepts  used  in  the  study  of  language  and  linguistics.  The  book  includes
       definitions of:
       • terms used in grammatical analysis from phoneme to componential 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.
       Each entry begins with a brief definition of the term followed by a more detailed
       description. Entries trace the origin of the concept, mention the key associated
       individuals,  provide  a  guide  to  further  reading  and  are  extensively  cross-
       referenced.
       R.L.Trask is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. His numerous
       publications  include  The  History  of  Basque  (1996),  Language:  The  Basics
       (1995), A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology (1995) and A Dictionary of
       Grammatical Terms (1993). 
                  KEY CONCEPTS SERIES
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        KEY CONCEPTS IN
         LANGUAGE AND
          LINGUISTICS
              R.L.Trask
           London and New York