EditedbyGregoryP.Trauth.PhD.UniversityofCalifornia.Berkeley.andKerstinKazzazi.UniversityofMunich,fromatranslationoftheLexikonderSprachwissenschaftbyHadumodBussmann.TheRoutledgeDictionaryofLanguageandLinguisticsisaninvaluablereferenceworkforstudents,instructorsandscholarsoflinguistics.ThehighlyregardedsecondsecondeditionoftheLexikonderSprachwissenschaftbyDrHadumodBussmannoftheUniversityofMunichhasbeenspecificallyadaptedbyateamofspecialistsinvariouslinguisticfieldstoformthemostcomprehensiveandup-to=dateworkofitskindintheEnglishlanguage.Inover2,000entries,theDictionaryprovidesacomprehensivesurveyofthesubdisciplinesoflinguisticsandcoversmanyoftheworldslanguages.Itisalphabeticallyorganized,witheachentryprovidingclearandconcisedefinitionsofkeylinguisticterminology,conceptsandthemes.SalientexamplesaregiveninEnglishandarangeofforeignlanguages,Entriesalsoincludebibliographicalreferences.Foreaseofuse.theDictionarycontainsextensivecross-referencestosynonymsandrelatedterms,andaccompanyingillustrations.Withisfocusonbasiclinguistictermsanditssuccinctpresentationoffundamentallinguisticissuesandprinciples,theDictionarycomplementsperfectlyRoutledgesestablishedrangeofreferencematerialinthefieldoflinguistics.