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The Handbook of Linguistics (eBook, PDF)

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"The first edition of this Handbook is built on surveys by well-known figures from around the world and around the intellectual world, reflecting several different theoretical predilections, balancing coverage of enduring questions and important recent work. Those strengths are now enhanced by adding new chapters and thoroughly revising almost all other chapters, partly to reflect ways in which the field has changed in the intervening twenty years, in some places radically. The result is a magnificent volume that can be used for many purposes." David W. Lightfoot, Georgetown University "The Handbook of Linguistics, Second Edition is a stupendous achievement. Aronoff and Rees-Miller have provided overviews of 29 subfields of linguistics, each written by one of the leading researchers in that subfield and each impressively crafted in both style and content. I know of no finer resource for anyone who would wish to be better informed on recent developments in linguistics." Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University "Linguists, their students, colleagues, family, and friends: anyone interested in the latest findings from a wide array of linguistic subfields will welcome this second updated and expanded edition of The Handbook of Linguistics. Leading scholars provide highly accessible yet substantive introductions to their fields: it's an even more valuable resource than its predecessor." Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University "No handbook or text offers a more comprehensive, contemporary overview of the field of linguistics in the twenty-first century. New and thoroughly updated chapters by prominent scholars on each topic and subfield make this a unique, landmark publication."Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University This second edition of The Handbook of Linguistics provides an updated and timely overview of the field of linguistics. The editor's broad definition of the field ensures that the book may be read by those seeking a comprehensive introduction to the subject, but with little or no prior knowledge of the area. Building on the popular first edition, The Handbook of Linguistics, Second Edition features new and revised content reflecting advances within the discipline. New chapters expand the already broad coverage of the Handbook to address and take account of key changes within the field in the intervening years. It explores: psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology and ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistic theory, language variation and second language pedagogy. With contributions from a global team of leading linguists, this comprehensive and accessible volume is the ideal resource for those engaged in study and work within the dynamic field of linguistics.

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Autor

Mark Aronoff is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. His research touches on almost all aspects of morphology and its relation to other aspects of language. He is a member of a team studying a newly-created sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, and he has served as Editor of Language, the Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, and as President of the Society. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Janie Rees-Miller is professor emerita of Modern Languages at Marietta College.  Before retirement, she held the William R. and Marie Adamson Flesher Chair in the Humanities. She established the ESL Program at Marietta College, USA and served as its director for over 20 years. She also taught linguistics courses for undergraduates and acted as an editor with Mark Aronoff of Contemporary Linguistics (2017), now in its seventh edition. Her research interests include second language pedagogy, pragmatics, Native American languages, and making linguistics accessible to non-linguists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119072270
• Artikelnr.: 52578572

Rezensionen

"Linguistics has long been in need of a collection that summarizesthe nature of the field and its various aspects - something at onceaccessible enough to recommend to non-linguists and substantiveenough to give real answers to their questions. Aronoff andRees-Miller have given us just that, and a number of the surveysthey have included will be informative even for specialists. Thisbook should do a major service for the relations between linguistsand their colleagues, and among various flavors of linguist aswell." Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University

"The Blackwell Handbook is a considerableachievement. It addresses general readers, students of linguisticsand specialists in linguistic sub-disciplines. It shows both thefluidity of

the subject ... and also the large and growing areas ofcommon interest and importance. Students of literature, psychologyand philosophy could read many of these chapters with great profit,and it is to be hoped that there will be frequent updatings andfurther editions as research and understanding advance."Jonathan Katz, Times Literary Supplement

"How do Aronoff and Rees-Miller approach the task ofenlightenment (or perhaps even proselytization)? Successfully, inmy opinion, through a judicious combination of reports ontheoretical and applied domains, of items of general and morespecialized interest, of traditional and newly-relevant sub-areas,and through a selection of highly competent experts with excellentcomunicative skills... If given the broad exposure it deserves,this volume will clearly satisfy its announced goal of permittingthe insertion of linguistics topics into educated public discourse.As a result, the editors and authors are to be congratulated forextending this service to the discipline and to the public ingeneral." Canadian Journal of Linguistics