The Linguistics Encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised and updated and a substantial new introduction, which forms a concise history of the field, has been added. The volume offers comprehensive coverage of the major and subsidiary fields of linguistic study. Entries are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced, and include suggestions for further reading.

New entries include: applied linguistics cognitive linguistics contrastive linguistics cross-linguistic study forensic linguistics stratificational linguistics. Recommissioned or substantially revised entries include: bilingualism and multilingualism discourse genre analysis psycholinguistics language acquisition morphology articulatory phonetics grammatical models and theories stylistics sociolinguistics critical discourse analysis. For anyone with an academic or professional interest in language, The Linguistics Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference tool.