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Covering the various differing academic traditions within the subject, this collection also addresses theoretical approaches to the field. It provides students and researchers with access to the key articles on the subject.

This new four volume collection on Linguistic Typology will be an essential source of reference for linguists of all theoretical convictions. It will provide a state-of-the-art overview of work on linguistic typology, its history, its methodology, theoretical foundations and major achievements.

This multidisciplinary collection gathers together the most influential writings adopting a critical discourse analysis approach, along with the most important antecedent essays and articles from the earlier 20th century.

This collection examines the development of pragmatics as a science of language enabling the reader to critically assess its theoretical development.

A collection of articles on endangered languages. It features four volumes and deals with various topics including: Language Ecology and Endangerment; Speakers and Communities of Endangered Languages; Endangered Language Situations around the World; What is lost when a language is lost?; and, Structural aspects of Language Endangerment.

This new four-volume collection from Routledge highlights key research, thinking, and developments in pedagogy and documents the concepts and debates that have impacted on EAP over the last three and a half decades.

A collection of some of the best scholarship on pragmatics.

Semiotics (the study of sign processes - 'semiosis' - and sign systems) embraces linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, as well as linking to anthropology, art, psychology, and biology. This title illustrates the development of semiotics and its applications.

Second-language acquisition was born in the late 1960s as an interdisciplinary enterprise that borrowed equally from the feeder fields of linguistics, language teaching, child language acquisition, and psychology. This title offers a comprehensive survey of this burgeoning field.

With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this collection focuses on metaphor and figurative language.

The study of comparative grammar has been a concern of linguistic theory. Our notion of how grammatical systems vary and our ability to provide sophisticated analyses of this variation is greater than it has been at any time in the past. Concentrating on principles-and-parameters theory, this work presents an overview of what has been achieved.

Corpora - large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically - provide the means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. This six-volume collection brings together significant articles in the field of corpora, and is arranged thematically.

This new five-volume collection from Routledge focuses on the foundational papers underlying SFL theory and practice and illustrative papers that have inspired succeeding work.

This collection draws together the most significant contributions to morphological theory and analysis, including foundational articles of the 20th century and more recent articles which cover the concept within a wider context.

Semantics is a key concept in linguistic theory, concerning the analysis and description of the meaning of linguistic expressions. This collection contains contributions to semantic theory ranging from Gottlob Frege's essay 'On Sense and Reference' (1892) to present-day thinkers in the field.

Lexicography is a growing academic specialization, with both a practical and a theoretical branch, numerous perspectives, and interdisciplinary significance. This collection draws together the most important and influential work in the field.

Covers the key concepts and analytic tools of generative syntax, starting from Chomsky's "Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew" (1951).

Phonology is the study of the properties of sound systems - the principles that govern how speech sounds are organized to express meanings. This volume brings together book chapters and articles from professional journals that explore relevant theoretical questions, related to this subject.

This four volume Major Work on Bilingualism and Multilingualism will showcase the major achievements in this multidisciplinary field, through the inclusion of the most important, as well as controversial, works that lie at the forefront of bilingualism and multilingualism research.

Clinical Linguistics involves the application of linguistic theories and procedures to the study, characterization, and treatment of communicative disorders. Despite its youth, this specialist area has quickly evolved into a highly productive field of inquiry. From its inception, Clinical Linguistics has had a strong international presence.

A collection in Routledge's "Critical Concepts in Linguistics" series. It provides a critical synthesis of the key ideas, findings, methods, and approaches that make up the interdisciplinary field of sociolinguistics. It is fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction suitable for scholars and students alike.

Part of the "Routledge Major Works" series, "Critical Concepts in Linguistics", this is a four-volume collection of research in the field.

Contact has always been a normal part of the development of languages. This title provides students with an overview of how insights about the languages that emerged as a result of European expansion to Africa, Asia, the New World and the Pacific have led to a view of what language is.

A six-volume collection of papers, articles, and extracts covering various aspect of lexicology. It ranges over philosophy of language, prototype theory, artificial intelligence, cognitive linguistics, systemic linguistics, structuralism, generative lexicon theory, meaning-text theory, natural semantic metalanguage theory, and more.

A four-volume collection that provides the key writings on language acquisition. It highlights models and methodologies from - and implications for - adjacent fields such as psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, computer science, and comparative cognition.