Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics

Selected articles: Academics and standards. Aging and language. Al-Khalil. Alphabet: religious beliefs. Alternate sign languages. Aphasia. Archaism. Australian languages. Automatic speech recognition: stochastic techniques. Autosegmental phonology. Black english in education. Blasphemy. Bolivia: language situation. Burushaski. Caddoan languages. Cargo cults. Case grammar. Chart parsing and WFSSTs. Chatterji, S. K. Children's invented spellings. Chomsky's philosophy of grammar. Classroom language: observation and research. Cognitive grammar. Cohesion and coherence in literature. Communicative intention. Computers and language use. Conservation analysis. Counterfactuals. Curriculum and syllabus design. Cybernetics. Deaf community and culture. Deconstruction. Dependency phonology. Dialect maps and atlases. Dictionaries, rhyming. Diderot, Denis. Dravidian languages. Dysarthrias, developmental. English from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing. Estonian. Ethiopia: language situation. Ethnicity and language. Ethnopoetics. Factivity. Fluency: disorders. Foregrounding. Formal semantics. Formalisation and functionalism in linguistic criticism. Formulaic speech. Fujioka, Katsuji. Gematria. Generative grammar. Gestures. Grammar: typological and areal issues. Historiography of linguistics. Husserl, Edmund. illocutionary act/force. Immigrant languages in education: Sweden. Indirect speech acts. Information theory. Interjections. Intonation: pragmatics. Irish bardic grammarians. Italic languages. Japanese writing system. Journalism. Language as a platonic reality. Language death. Language in the workplace. Language loss: intervention.Language promotion by governments. Language: Hindu views. Legal language: vagueness. Lexical semantics. Lexicography, post-classical Greek. Linguistic philsophy. Linguistics and semiotics in music. Literacy and phonological awareness. Logical positivism. McLuhan, Marshall. Mesoamerican writing. Metaphor in language. Military terminology. Mood and modality. Morphological Universals. Mounin, Georges. Multilingual states: political implications of language policies. Multiplicative expressions. Namibia: language situation. Naming of children. Natural language generation. Navajo. Neo-Humboldtian linguistics in Germany. New englishes. Non-Sumerian cuneiform. Occitan. Ogden, Charles Kay. Origins of language: recent theories. Oxford english dictionary. Paleontology, linguistic. Pathology of language: evaluation. Performative hypothesis. Philosophy of linguistics. Phonology: redundancy rules. Picture theory of meaning. Planudes, maximus. Pragmatic presuppositions. Preaching. Procedural semantics. Pronounn systems. Proper names: linguistic aspects. Propositional calculus. Proxemics. Pseudolinguistics. Puns. Rajasthani. Reading processes in adults. Ritual insult. Semantic specialization and generalization. Shorthand. Sign bilingualism: applications to education. Slang: sociology. Social networks and language. South America: sign languages. Speaker-characterization in speech technology. Speech aerodynamics. Structuralism and semiotics, literary. Subcategorization. Subtitles, silent film to teletext. Syntax and semantics: relationship. Taboo, religious. Teaching english as a mother tongue: Australia. Technical vocabulary: medieval and renaissance english. Telegraph and telephone. Tense. Text pragmatics. Text-to-speech conversion systems. Thought and language. Translation, machine-aided. Translinguistics. Ugaritic. Universals of language. Upside-down phonology. Urban dialectology. Valency changing alternations. Varro and early language science. Voice quality. Whistles and whistled speech. Word-formation processes. Writing materials and their influence on writing.

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