Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies

The title of this handy, modestly priced paperback in two‐column format understates its scope and utility. Not only does the dictionary range widely through the field of English language studies, but equally widely through linguistics and phonetics. Dr Michael Pearce, Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Sunderland, assembles, defines, and illustrates over 600 terms in phonology and phonetics, grammar, lexis, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, sociolinguistics, varieties of English, dialectology, stylistics, usage and the history of English and of languages which have influenced the evolution of English or been in contact with it. Given the luxuriant richness and endless...