This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and
brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so.
The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and
sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words; lexical
borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri; word origins and
change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word
acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders;
and word games, puns, and puzzles. Words are the most basic of all
linguistic units, the aspect of language of which everyone is
likely to be most conscious. A 'new' word that makes it into the
OED is prime news; when baby says its first word its parents reckon
it has started to speak; knowing a language is often taken to mean
knowing its words; and languages are seen to be related by the
similarities between their words. Up to the twentieth century
linguistic description was mainly an account of words and all the
current subdivisions of linguistics have something to say about
them. A notable feature of human languages is the sheer vastness of
their word inventories, and scholars and writers have sometimes
deliberately increased the richness of their languages by coining
or importing new items into their word-hoards. The book presents
scholarship and research in a manner that meets the interests of
students and professionals and satisfies the curiosity of the
educated reader.
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