The encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Editor-in-Chief: R. E. Asher, Co-ordinating Editor: J. M. Y. Simpson Oxford & New York: Pergamon Press, 1994. 10 volumes. Pp. xlvii, 5644. 2975. 00.

Academics and standards. Ageing and language. Alphabet - religious beliefs. Alternate sign languages. Aphasia. Australian languages. Automatic speech recognition - stochastic techniques. Black English in education. Blasphemy. Burushaski. Caddoan languages. Cargo cults. Case grammar. Chart parsing and WFSSTs. Chomsky's philosophy of grammar. Classroom language - observation and research. Cognitive grammar. Cohesion and coherence in literature. Communicative intention. Computers and language use. Conservation analysis. Counterfactuals. Deaf community and culture. Deconstruction. Dependency phonology. Dictionaries, rhyming. Diderot, Denis. Dravidian languages. Dysarthrias, developmental. Ethnicity and language. Ethnopoetics. Factivity. Fluency - disorders. Formal semantics. Formalization and functionalism in linguistic criticism. Formulaic speech. Generative grammar. Gestures. Grammar - typological and areal issues. Historiography of linguistics. Immigrant languages in education - Sweden. Indirect speech acts. Information theory. Interjections. Intonation - pragmatics. Irish bardic grammarians. Italic languages. Japanese writing system. Journalism. Language as a platonic reality. Language death. Language promotion by governments. Language - Hindu views. Lexical semantics. Lexicography, post-classical Greek. Linguistic philosophy. Logical positivism. Mesoamerican writing. Metaphor in language. Mood and modality. Morphological universals. Multilingual states - political implications of language policies. Namibia - language situation. Naming of children. Natural language generation. New Englishes. Occitan. Ogden, Charles Kay. Origins of language - recent theories. Oxford English dictionary. Palaeontology, linguistic. Pathology of language - evaluation. Performative hypothesis. Philosophy of linguistics. Phonology - redundancy rules. Picture theory of meaning. Planudes, maximus. Pragmatic presuppositions. Preaching. Procedural semantics. Pronoun systems. Propositional calculus. Proxemics. Pseudolinguistics. Puns. Rajasthani. Reading processes in adults. Shorthand. Sign bilingualism - applications to education. Slang - sociology. Social networks and language. South America - sign languages. Speaker-characterization in speech technology. Speech aerodynamics. Structuralism and semiotics, literary. Subcategorization. Syntax and semantics - relationship. Technical vocabulary - medieval and renaissance English. Telegraph and telephone. Tense. Text pragmatics. Text-to-speech conversion systems. Thought and language. Translation, machine-aided. Translinguistics. Ugaritic. Universals of language. Urban dialectology. Valency changing alternations. Voice quality. Whistles and whistled speech. Word-formation processes. (Part contents).