lINGUISTICS

This page contains a list of words that help frame the study of linguistics and the words, and definitions change over time. 

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Blending

A word formed from the parts of 2 others.

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Cognitive Stylistics

Collocation

Conversationalist Maxims

Corpus Stylistics

Critical Stylistics


Dialect

Dictionary

Eco-Stylistics

Ethics

Foreground

General Stylistics

A cover term to cover the analyses of non-literary varieties of language or registers.

Grammar

Index

Key

Linguist

Literary Criticism

Literary Stylistics

Medium

Metrics (Poetry)

Poetry

Performatuity

Peter Stockwell

Phonemic

Phonetic

Phonological

Politeness Theory

Rhetoric

Ronald Carter

Semiotics Discourse Analysis

Speech Act Theory

Stylistics

Style

Technical Prose

Technical Communication

Thesaurus

Variation

Bibliography

Wales, K. (2014). A Dictionary of Stylistics (Longman Linguistics) (3rd ed.). Routledge.