I English Language.

This chapter has twelve 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. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; 12. Stylistics. Section 1 is by Teresa Fanego; section 2 is by Camilla Vasquez; section 3 is by Jeroen van de Weijer; sections 4 and 5 are by Bettelou Los and Wim van der Wurff; section 6 is by Beata Gyuris; section 7 is by Julie Coleman; section 8 is by Paul Cullen; section 9 is by Lieselotte Anderwald; section 10 is by Andrea Sand; section 11 is by Petra Bettig; section 12 is by Clara Calvo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]