Books in the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series

* Provides a comprehensive and current account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize historical linguistics. * Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general.

The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics.

The Handbook of Educational Linguistics is a dynamic, scientifically grounded overview revealing the complexity of this growing field while remaining accessible for students, researchers, language educators, curriculum developers, and educational policy makers.* A single volume overview of educational linguistics, written by leading specialists in its many relevant fields* Takes into account the diverse theoretical foundations, core themes, major findings, and practical applications of educational linguistics* Highlights the multidisciplinary reach of educational linguistics* Reflects the complexity of this growing field, whilst remaining accessible to a wide audience

The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications being undertaken today in computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners.

* Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis. * Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach the analysis of discourse. * Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including political speeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts.

Provides a comprehensive view of issues in contemporary syntactic theory. The chapters include analyses of non-configurational languages, a cross-linguistic comparison of important grammatical features that interface with semantics, and discussions from the perspective of learnability theory.

This Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.

The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world.

The Handbook of Educational Linguistics is a dynamic, scientifically grounded overview revealing the complexity of this growing field while remaining accessible for students, researchers, language educators, curriculum developers, and educational policy makers.

The comparatively recent origins of pidgins and creoles provide them with a special place in linguistic theory. Debates about the origin and character of these languages have informed broader discussions within grammatical theory, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

* Provides a comprehensive and current picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. * Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to ameliorate social problems.

* Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. * Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics.

Presents an account of the numerous issues that characterize the work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics directly concerned with language change and language states. This title contains an introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general.

This Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.

* Presents an integrated discussion of key and sometimes controversial issues in second language acquisition research. * Discusses the biological underpinnings of SLA, the driving forces and constraints on SLA, research methods, and the status of SLA as a cognitive science.

* Contains over 30 newly--commissioned chapters. * Written by an international assembly of leading linguists. * Most up--to--date, comprehensive linguistic resource available. * Flagship volume for prestigious a Blackwell Handbooks in Linguisticsa series. .

This volume, in its 25 definitive chapters on normal and nonnormal language development, represents the authoritative and up--to--date complete sourcebook on child language development. All aspects of child language development are addressed, including phonetics, phonology, grammar, and lexical development.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the current issues in contemporary syntactic theory. Written by an international assembly of leading specialists in the field, these 23 original articles serve as a useful reference for various areas of grammar.

A 28-chapter up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics. Reflecting the main division within the discipline, the two key sections of the text deal with the social dimensions of language and the linguistic dimensions of society.

* Brings together articles by authors at the forefront of current morphology research. * Covers traditional issues as well as specific questions that have more recently become the focus of attention. * Explores the role of morphology in a wider perspective: language change, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition.

**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism.

The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics features 35 newly-written essays that explore how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be applied to the process of reconstruction of a language's past in order to account for diachronic linguistic changes and developments.

"The first edition of the Handbook of Historical Linguistics is the best-worn handbook among many in my office and even though it's almost 20 years old, I still consult it often. Still, historical linguistics is a very different field today than it was in 2003 and this new edition fully reflects and engages with the state of the art. It's a completely new volume, a worthy successor, and I look forward to wearing out this second edition." Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA "This is an important resource for right now and far into the future. In its breadth and depth it has everything we could ask for and more, a comprehensive survey in 24 chapters written by the world's foremost scholars. It unites time-honored fundamentals of historical linguistics and progressive lines of ongoing research." Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai'i at M noa, USA This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume, initially published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, the chapters of this Handbook cover new topics such as the origin of language, the evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, the relevance of the study of present-day language for studying language in the past, and the benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation. Unique to this volume is a chapter that discusses in detail a large number of highly specific predictions as to the future of a widely spoken language-variety, thereby focusing long-term attention on thirty changes in the lexicon, phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax of North American English. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II, is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers, and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.

The second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Discourse Analysis has been expanded and thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research to have developed since the original publication, including new theoretical paradigms and discourse-analytic models, in an authoritative two-volume set.

**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism.

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners.

The Handbook of Translation and Cognition is a pioneering, state-of-the-art investigation of cognitive approaches to translation and interpreting studies (TIS).* Offers timely and cutting-edge coverage of the most important theoretical frameworks and methodological innovations* Contains original contributions from a global group of leading researchers from 18 countries* Explores topics related to translator and workplace characteristics including machine translation, creativity, ergonomic perspectives, and cognitive effort, and competence, training, and interpreting such as multimodal processing, neurocognitive optimization, process-oriented pedagogies, and conceptual change* Maps out future directions for cognition and translation studies, as well as areas in need of more research within this dynamic field