This translation of the highly regarded second edition of the "Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft" by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language.
In over 2,500 A-Z entries, this work provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. Entries include: " applied linguistics, artificial intelligence, basic terminology, computational linguistics, " "conversational analysis, discourse analysis, graphemics, language change, logics, morphology, neurolinguistics, phonetics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, rhetoric, semantics, semiotics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, syntax, text linguistics, transformational grammar, typology, universals" "and much more."