EditedbyGregoryP.Trauth.PhD.UniversityofCalifornia.Berkeley.andKerstinKazzazi.UniversityofMunich,fromatranslationoftheLexikonderSprachwissenschaftbyHadumodBussmann.TheRoutledgeDictionaryofLanguageandLinguisticsisaninvaluablereferenceworkforstudents,instructorsandscholarsoflinguistics.ThehighlyregardedsecondsecondeditionoftheLexikonderSprachwissenschaftbyDrHadumodBussmannoftheUniversityofMunichhaeenspecificallyadaptedbyateamofspecialistsinvariouslinguisticfieldstoformthemostprehensiveandup-to=dateworkofitskindintheEnglishlanguage.Inover2,000entries,theDictionaryprovidesaprehensivesurveyofthesubdisciplinesoflinguisticsandcoversmanyoftheworld'slanguages.Itisalphabeticallyorganized,witheachentryprovidingclearandconcisedefinitionsofkeylinguisticterminology,conceptsandthemes.SalientexamplesaregiveninEnglishandarangeofforeignlanguages,Entriesalsoincludebibliographicalreferences.Foreaseofuse.theDictionarycontainsextensivecross-referencestosynonymsandrelatedterms,andacpanyingillustrations.Withisfocusonbasiclinguistict
