English Language

This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 9. New Englishes and Creolistics; 10. Second Language Acquisition. 11. English as a Lingua Franca; 12. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 13. Stylistics. Section 1 is by Robert A. Cloutier; section 2 is by Anita Auer; section 3 is by Radosław Święciński; sections 4 and 5 are by Phillip Wallage and Gea Dreschler; section 6 is by Beáta Gyuris; section 7 is by Kathryn Allan; section 8 is by Lieselotte Anderwald; section 9 is by Alexander Kautzsch; section 10 is by Tihana Kraš; section 11 is by Alessia Cogo, Tian Gan, and Ida Parise; section 12 is by Charlotte Taylor; section 13 is by Agnes Marszalek