Selected by Choice magazine as an outstanding academic book of the year

"It is rare to find a translation that surpasses the original, [this] is such a work This new translation, accessible to all American scholars, will become an indispensable research tool for those concerned with the his-torical development of the sciences of language or with contemporary critical theories"-Choice

"All of [the] articles are well-informed and useful and many are models of lucidity and acumen. Porter's translation is stylish, accu-rate, and highly readable A truly outstanding achievement"-MLN

"An indispensable book for scholars and advanced students in all literary fields-Library Journal

The Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language is a wide-ranging and thorough study of language and its functions Ducrot and Todorov, two eminent French theorists, cover such major trends in the develop-ment of modern linguistics as general grammars and Saussurianism, as well as methodological and descriptive concepts. Combining the breadth of a dictionary (800 terms are listed in an alphabetical index) with the depth of an encyclopedia (50 articles provide sustained discussions of specific topics or areas), this is a definitive reference for the study of linguistics, semiotics, poetics, and literary theory

Oswald Ducrot is Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Tzvetan Todorov, author of The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre and other books, is Attaché de Recherches, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques. Catherine Porter is professor of French at the State University of New York, College at