"an awe-inspiring project
of breath-taking scope, bringing together
a distinguished list of internationally
recognized editors and authors." Mark Steedman, University
of Edinburgh
Editor-in-Chief Keith Brown, Cambridge University, UK
Coordinating
Editors Anne H Anderson, University
of Glasgow, UK Laurie Bauer, Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand Margie Berns, Purdue University,
USA Graeme Hirst, University of
Toronto, Canada Jim Miller, University of
Auckland, New Zealand
Description
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming
reference work Encyclopedia
of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition,
to be published in print in late 2005,
and online in early 2006.
In 1993 the first edition of ELL
(Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as
“the field’s standard
reference work for a generation”.
Now the all-new second edition matches
ELL’s comprehensiveness and
high quality, expanded for a new generation,
while being the first encyclopedia
to really exploit the multimedia potential
of linguistics.
The most authoritative, up-to-date,
comprehensive, and international
reference source in its field
An entirely new work, with new
editors, new authors, new topics
and newly commissioned articles
with a handful of classic articles
The first Encyclopedia to exploit
the multimedia potential of linguistics
through the online edition
Ground-breaking and International
in scope and approach
Alphabetically arranged with extensive
cross-referencing
Available in print and online.
The online version will include
updates as subjects develop
ELL2 INCLUDES:
c. 7,500,000 words
c. 11,000 pages
c. 3,000 articles
c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones
and 150 colour
Supplementary audio, video and text files online
c. 3,500 glossary definitions
c. 39,000 references
Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations
List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers,
language
family, etc)
Indexes available: Full Subject
Index, Thematic Index, Name Index
(print) and Author Index (online)
Extensive list of commonly used
abbreviations
List of languages of the world
(including information on no. of
speakers, language family, etc)
Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists)
Over 100 language maps in print,
approx 200 online
ELL2 ONLINE HAS:
Access on ScienceDirect - the world’s leading provider of Scientific, Technical and Medical Information
Sophisticated navigation
Bibliographic linking to other content held on ScienceDirect and, via Cross Ref, to other publishers' holdings
Audience
Students, researchers and professionals
who are seeking an authoritative source
of information about any particular
aspect of linguistics or its applications.
Contents
Animal Communication
Marc Naguib, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Applied Linguistics
Margie Berns, Purdue University, USA
Biographies
Kurt Jankowsky, Georgetown University, USA
Brain & Language
Harry A. Whitaker, Northern Michigan University, USA
Cognitive Science
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, UK
Computational Linguistics & Natural Language Processing
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Allan Ramsay, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK
Countries & Languages
Lutz Marten, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK
Educational Linguistics
Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Foundations of Linguistics
Billy Clark, Middlesex University, UK
Historical & Comparative Linguistics
Mark Hale, Concordia University, Canada
History of Linguistics
Andrew Linn, University of Sheffield, UK
Language Acquisition
Elena Lieven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Languages of the World
Sarah Ogilvie, Oxford English Dictionary, UK
Law & Language
John Gibbons, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Dennis Kurzon, Haifa University, Israel
Lexicography
Patrick Hanks, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
Linguistic Anthropology
Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago, USA
Media & Language
Sue McKay, University of Queensland, Australia
Medicine & Language
Francoise Salager-Meyer, Merida, Venezuela
Morphology
Laurie Bauer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Philosophy & Language
Alex Barber, Open University, UK
Rob Stainton, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Phonetics
John H. Esling, University of Victoria, Canada
Phonology
Richard Wiese, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Politics & Language
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK
Pragmatics
Jacob Mey, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Psycholinguistics
Anne Anderson, University of Glasgow, UK
Religion & Language
Erik Fudge, University of Reading, UK
Semantics
Keith Allan, Monash University, Australia
Osten Dahl, Stockholm University, Sweden
Semiotics
Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto, Canada
Sign Language
Bencie Woll, City University, UK
Sociolinguistics
Raj Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Speech Technology
Jennifer Lai, IBM Research, New York, USA
Spoken Discourse
Rosanna Sornicola, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Syntax
Jim P. Blevins, University of Cambridge, UK
Text Analysis & Stylistics
Catherine Emmott, University of Glasgow, UK
Translation
Kirsten Malmkjaer, Middlesex University, UK
Typology & Universals
Bernd Heine, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Variation & Language
Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Edinburgh, UK
Writing Systems
Peter T. Daniels, Bronx, New York, USA
Glossary
Kathryn Allan, University of Glasgow, UK
Philip Durkin, Oxford English Dictionary, UK
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