主编：
Keith Brown, Cambridge University, UK
合作编辑：
Anne H Anderson, University of Glasgow, UK
Laurie Bauer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Margie Berns, Purdue University, USA
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Jim Miller, University of Auckland, New Zealand
使用说明：
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming reference work Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, to be published in print in late 2005, and online in early 2006.
In 1993 the first edition of ELL (Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as “the field’s standard reference work for a generation”. Now the all-new second edition matches ELL’s comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics.
The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles
The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition
Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach
Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing
Available in print and online. The online version will include updates as subjects develop
ELL2 纸版内容包括:
c. 7,500,000 words
c. 11,000 pages
c. 3,000 articles
c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour
Supplementary audio, video and text files online
c. 3,500 glossary definitions
c. 39,000 references
Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations
List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc)
Indexes available: Full Subject Index, Thematic Index, Name Index (print) and Author Index (online)
Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations
List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc)
Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists)
Over 100 language maps in print, approx 200 online
ELL2 网络版具有:
Access on ScienceDirect - the world’s leading provider of Scientific, Technical and Medical Information
Sophisticated navigation
Bibliographic linking to other content held on ScienceDirect and, via Cross Ref, to other publishers' holdings
参考价格：
GBP 2,800
EUR 3,999
USD 5,600
详细介绍见：http://www1.elsevier.com/homepage/sal/ell2/
电子书内容展示：
建议语言和语言学爱好者下载这本绝对大部头的百科全书。第二版全书总共有10000多页，我们可以想象纸版的份量。因为是全英文，所以英文不太好的下载前得考虑下。
