E-book: An Encyclopaedia of Language (1990)

An Encyclopaedia of Language

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N. E. Collinge “An Encyclopaedia of Language" 
Routledge | 1990-01-12 | ISBN: 0415020646 | 1011 pages | PDF | 5,1 MB

In this indispensable reference, twenty-nine leaders in the field describe how language works--accounting for its nature, use, study, and history. An Encyclopaedia of Language provides a truly comprehensive overview of how the various branches of linguistic study have arrived at their current positions. It divides the subject into three logical sections: 1) the "inner nature" of language; 2) its interaction with other disciplines; and 3) some special aspects of its study and use.
Readers will find detailed coverage of: how language works; how language is taught and learned; phonetics; grammar and semantics; how linguists research their subjects and interpret results; second languages; language and computation; writing systems; the history of language study; the evolution of language; the distribution of languages around the world; lexicography; dialectology; and other topics.

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E-book: A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics (2006)

A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics

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Alan Cruse “A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics" 
Edinburgh University Press | 2006-07-30 | ISBN: 0748624058 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

This easy-to-use guide illuminates key concepts and terms in semantics and pragmatics and the study of meaning as it is conveyed through language.

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E-book: Shorter Slang Dictionary (1993)

Shorter Slang Dictionary

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Paul Beale “Shorter Slang Dictionary" 
Routledge | 1993-12-28 | ISBN: 0415088666 | 241 pages | PDF | 1,08 MB

Long before Orwell mourned the corruption of the English language, his mother tongue was fast becoming a motley one, absorbing new colloquialisms by the minute. The Shorter Slang Dictionary, the latest compilation of English slang from freelance lexicographer Rosalind Fergusson, is proof that even colloquial English has achieved a certain degree of lexicographical legitimacy in the undiscriminating 20th century. Incorporating idioms, linguistic informalities, and indecipherable curse words from the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Shorter Slang Dictionary throws linguistic propriety to the wind in its fervent pursuit of off-color terms. Defining everything from "ash-cash" to "pillock" to the ever-popular "zit," the Shorter Slang Dictionary will be of interest to lexicographers, linguists, and general readers.

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