Encyclopaedia of Linguistics

Encyclopaedia of Linguistics covers all aspects of literary theory, from definitions of technical terms to characterizations of literary movements. Geared towards students, teachers, readers, and writers alike, this work explains critical jargon, schools of literary theory, literary forms, and genres and examines artifacts, historic locales, archetypes, origins of well-known phrases, and much, much more. Scholarly, straightforward, comprehensive, and even entertaining, this is a resource that no word lover should be without. The encyclopaedia contains new aspects of linguistics, research, terminology of principles, parameter theory in syntax, phonology, contemporary semantics, and speech recognition and synthesis, with associated acoustics terminology.