Linguistics

Comprehensive and international reference source in the field of linguistics. Includes list of languages of the world and language maps.

Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques.

This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspectives, covering all the key areas of linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary research in subjects such as anthropology, psychology and sociology.

Provides accessible and concise explanations of key concepts and terms related to research methods in applied linguistics. Encompassing the three research paradigms of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, this volume is an essential reference for any student or researcher working in this area.

Explores how ethical issues are negotiated in different areas of language research, illustrating for graduate students in applied linguistics the ethical dilemmas they might encounter in the research methodology classroom and how they might be addressed.

This book explores the different types of parallel corpora available, and shows how to use basic and advanced search procedures to analyse them and explains how to compile a parallel corpus, and discusses their uses for translation purposes and to research linguistic phenomena across languages.

Bringing together the expertise and voices of well-established as well as emerging scholars from around the world, the handbook offers over thirty authoritative and critical explorations of methodologies and contexts of educational linguistics, issues of instruction and assessment, and teacher education, as well as coverage of key topics such as advocacy, critical pedagogy, and ethics and politics of research in educational linguistics.

Documents on the regional aspects of American English in words, phrases and pronunciations that vary from one place to another. Built upon a survey of spoken English across America.