Linguistics

Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. (Lay people sometimes use the term linguistician, but as Aitchison 2003 points out, this is "too much of a tongue-twister to become generally accepted.")

References

Textbooks

• Aitchison, Jean (1995) Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Hodder & Stoughton; London: Hodder Headline, 1999, 2nd Edition.
• Akmajian, Adrian et al (2001), Linguistics, 5th ed., MIT Press. (ISBN 0262511231)
• Hudson, G. (2000) Essential Introductory Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Lyons, John (1995), Linguistic Semantics, Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 0521438772)
• Napoli, Donna J. (2003) Language Matters. A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language. Oxford University Press.
• O'Grady, William D., Michael Dobrovolsky & Francis Katamba (2001), Contemporary Linguistics, Longman. (ISBN 0582246911) - Lower Level
• Taylor, John R. (2003), Cognitive Grammar, Oxford University Press. (ISBN 0198700334)
• Trask, R. L. (1995) Language: The Basics. London: Routledge.
• Ungerer, Friedrich & Hans-Jorg Schmid (1996), An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics, Longman. (ISBN 0582239664)

Academic works

• Fauconnier, Gilles
• (1995), Mental Spaces, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 0521449499)
• (1997), Mappings in Thought and Language, Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 0521599539)
• & Mark Turner (2003), The Way We Think, Basic Books. (ISBN 0465087868)
• Rymer, p. 48, quoted in Fauconnier and Turner, p. 353
• Geoffrey Sampson|Sampson, Geoffrey (1982), Schools of Linguistics, Stanford University Press. (ISBN 0804711259)
• Sweetser, Eve (1992), From Etymology to Pragmatics, repr ed., Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 0521424429)

Popular works

• Burgess, Anthony (1964), Language Made Plain
• Deacon, Terrence (1998), The Symbolic Species, WW Norton & Co. (ISBN 0393317544)
• Hayakawa, Alan R & S. I. (1990), Language in Thought and Action, Harvest. (ISBN 0156482401)
• Burgess, Anthony (1992), A Mouthful of Air
• Pinker, Steven
• (2000), The Language Instinct, repr ed., Perennial. (ISBN 0060958332)
• (2000), Words and Rules, Perennial. (ISBN 0060958405)
• Rymer, Russ (1992), Annals of Science in "The New Yorker", 13th April

Reference books

• Aronoff, Mark & Janie Rees-Miller (2003), The Handbook of Linguistics, Blackwell Publishers. (ISBN 1405102527)
• Asher, R. (ed.) (1993) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 10 vols.
• Bright, William (Ed) (1992) International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 4 Vols.
• Bussmann, H. (1996) Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. Routledge (translated from German).
• Crystal, David (1987) The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language. Cambridge University Press.
• Crystal, David (ed.) (1991) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Blackwell.
• Crystal, David (1992) An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Language and Languages. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Frawley, William (ed.) (2003) International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. (2d ed.) Oxford University Press.
• Malmkjaer, Kirsten (1991) The Linguistics Encyclopaedia. Routledge (ISBN 0415222109)
• Trask, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. Routledge.
• Trask, R. L. (1996) Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. Routledge.
• Trask, R. L. (1997) A student's dictionary of language and linguistics.
• Trask, R. L. (1999) Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics. London: Routledge.