The entries in this volume have been culled from Elsevier’s fourteen-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition (2006, ed. K. Brown). We have selected the topics that, in our view, are most likely to interest current or aspiring philosophers of language or those concerned with questions at the more philosophical end of linguistics. All but a handful of the entries we have settled on were new to
that edition. The majority are from the Philosophy of Language section of the larger work, for which we were sub-editors, but around aquarter are from other sections.