The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspectives, covering all the key areas of linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary research in subjects such as anthropology, psychology and sociology.

1. What is linguistics? Keith Allan   2. Evolutionary linguistics: how Language and languages got to be the way they are James R. Hurford   3. Gesture and sign: utterance uses of visible bodily action Adam Kendon  4. Writing systems: methods for recording language Geoffrey Sampson   5. Phonetics: the sounds humans make when speaking Andrew Butcher   6. Phonology Harry van der Hulst   7. Morphology: the structure of words Geert Booij   8. Syntax: putting words together Kersti Borjars   9. Syntax as the dynamics of language understanding Ruth Kempson   10. Semantics: the meaning of words and sentences John Saeed   11. Lexical semantics today Nicholas Asher, Tim van de Cruys & Marta Abrusan   12. Lexicography: the construction of dictionaries and thesauruses Pam Peters   13. Pragmatics: language use in context Yan Huang   14. The linguistics of politeness and social relations Marina Terkourafi   15. Narrative and narrative structure Michael Toolan   16. Anthropological linguistics and field linguistics William A. Foley   17. Sociolinguistics: language in social environments Maya Ravindranath & Suzanne Evans Wagner   18. Psycholinguistics: language and cognition Matthew J. Traxler   19. Neurolinguistics: mind, brain, and language David Kemmerer   20. First language acquisition Eve V. Clark & Marisa Casillas   21. Second language acquisition and applied linguistics Susan M. Gass   22. Historical linguistics and relationships among languages Kate Burridge   23. Linguistic change in grammar Walter Bisang   24. Language endangerment Simon Musgrave   25. Linguistic typology and language universals Jae Jung Song   26. Translating between languages Anthony Pym   27. Structural linguistics John E. Joseph   28. Biolinguistics Cedric Boeckx   29. Cognitive linguistics John R. Taylor   30. Functional linguistics J. Lachlan Mackenzie   31. Computational linguistics Ann Copestake   32. Corpus linguistics Andrew Hardie   33. Linguistics and philosophy Kasia M. Jaszczolt   34. Linguistics and the law Kate Haworth    35. Linguistics and politics George Lakoff   36. Linguistics and social media Ana Deumert