Traditions
A
Accommodation theory
Nikolas Coupland
Action theory
Jens Allwood
Analytical philosophy
Marina Sbisà
Anthropological linguistics
Ben G. Blount
Applied linguistics
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
Argumentation theory
Frans H. van Eemeren & Rob Grootendorst
Artificial intelligence
Steven Gillis, Walter Daelemans & Koenraad De Smedt
Autonomous vs. non-autonomous syntax
Jan Nuyts
B
Behaviorism
Marc De Mey
C
Case grammar
John Anderson
Catastrophe theory
Wolfgang Wildgen
Chomskyan linguistics
Henk van Riemsdijk
Clinical pragmatics
Mick Perkins
Cognitive anthropology
Stephen C. Levinson
Cognitive grammar
Ronald Langacker
Cognitive linguistics
Dirk Geeraerts
Cognitive psychology
Jean Caron
Cognitive science
Seana Coulson & Teenie Matlock
Cognitive sociology
Barry Saferstein
Componential analysis
Cliff Goddard
Computational linguistics
Anne De Roeck
Computational pragmatics
Kristiina Jokinen & Koenraad De Smedt
Conceptual semantics
Urpo Nikanne
Connectionism
Ton Weijters & Antal van den Bosch
Constructional analysis
Kiki Nikiforidou
Construction grammar
Paul Kay
Contact linguistics
Michael Meeuwis & Jan-Ola Östman
Contextualism
Claudia Bianchi
Contrastive pragmatics
Jef Verschueren
Conversational logic
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Conversation analysis
Ian Hutchby & Paul Drew
Correlational sociolinguistics
Norbert Dittmar
Creole linguistics
Pieter Muysken
Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis
Ruth Wodak
Critical theory
Koenraad Geldof
D
Deontic logic
Gustaaf C. Cornelis
Dependency and valency grammar
Rudi Gebruers
Developmental psychology
Susan Ervin-Tripp
Dialectology
Georges De Schutter
Dialectology and geolinguistic dynamics
Reinhild Vandekerckhove
Discourse analysis
Jan-Ola Östman & Tuija Virtanen
Discourse representation theory
Hans Kamp
E
Emergent grammar
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Epistemic logic
Gustaaf C. Cornelis
Epistemology
Filip Buekens
Epistemology of testimony
Paul Faulkner
Ethnography of speaking
Kristine L. Fitch & Gerry Philipsen
Ethnomethodology
Alan Firth
Evolutionary Pragmatics
Wolfgang Wildgen
F
Firthian linguistics
Jan-Ola Östman & Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Folk Pragmatics
Nancy Niedzielski & Dennis R. Preston
Forensic linguistics
Elisabeth Carter
Formal pragmatics
Harry Bunt
Frame semantics
Miriam R. L. Petruck
Functional discourse grammar
Mike Hannay & Kees Hengeveld
Functional grammar
J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Functionalism vs. formalism
Jan Nuyts
G
Game-theoretical semantics
Walter De Mulder
General semantics
Keith Allan
Generative semantics
James D. McCawley
Geneva school
Eddy Roulet
Gesture research
Jürgen Streeck
Grammaticalization and pragmatics
Kasper Boye & Peter Harder
H
Historical linguistics
Louis Goossens
Historical politeness
Dániel Z. Kádár
Historical pragmatics
Andreas H. Jucker
Historical sociolinguistics
J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre
I
Integrational linguistics
Roy Harris
Intensional logic
Paul Gochet
Interactional linguistics
Jan Lindström
Interactional sociolinguistics
Jef Verschueren
Interlanguage pragmatics
Gabriele Kasper
Interpretive semantics
Urpo Nikanne
L
Language psychology
Jacob Thøgersen, Søren Beck Nielsen, Lian Malai Madsen & Christina Fogtmann Fosgerau
Legitimation Code Theory
Erika Matruglio
Lexical field analysis
Dirk Geeraerts
Lexical functional grammar
Farrell Ackerman
Lexical semantics
Robert E. MacLaury
Linear Unit Grammar
Anna Mauranen
Linguistic Landscape studies
Durk Gorter
Literary pragmatics
Dirk de Geest
Logical semantics
Roger Vergauwen
M
Marxist linguistics
Niels Helsloot
Membership categorisation analysis
Karin Idevall Hagren
Mentalism
Jan Nuyts
Metapragmatics
Jef Verschueren
Modal logic
Paul Gochet
Model-theoretic semantics
Paul Gochet
Montague and categorial grammar
Helmut Frosch
Morphopragmatics
Wolfgang U. Dressler & Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi
N
Neurolinguistics
Marcella Bertuccelli Papi
Neuropragmatics
Valentina Bambini & Bruno G. Bara
Nexus analysis
Pia Lane
O
Objectivism vs. subjectivism
Hans Julius Schneider
Ontology
Roger Vergauwen
P
Phenomenology
Peter Reynaert & Jef Verschueren
Philosophy of action
Filip Buekens
Philosophy of language
Asa Kasher
Philosophy of mind
Stefaan E. Cuypers
Possible worlds semantics
Paul Gochet
Postcolonial pragmatics
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Pragmatism
Filip Buekens
Prague school
Petr Sgall
Psycholinguistics
Gary D. Prideaux
R
Relevance theory
Diane Blakemore
Rhetoric
Manfred Kienpointner
Role and reference grammar
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
S
Semantics vs. pragmatics
Ken Turner
Semiotics
Christiane Pankow
Signed language pragmatics
Terry Janzen, Barbara Shaffer & Sherman Wilcox
Situation semantics
Walter De Mulder
Social media research
Brook Bolander
Social psychology
Jonathan Potter
Social semiotics
Jeff Bezemer & Carey Jewitt
Sociolinguistics
Suzanne Romaine
Sociology of language
Amado Alarcón
Socio-onomastics
Terhi Ainiala
Speech act theory
Marina Sbisà
Structuralism
Dominique Willems
Stylistics
Elena Semino & Jonathan Culpeper
Symbolic interactionism
Rod Watson
Systemic functional grammar
Chris Butler
T
Tagmemics
Kenneth L. Pike
Text and discourse linguistics
Jan-Ola Östman & Tuija Virtanen
Text linguistics
Robert de Beaugrande
Translanguaging pedagogy
Anne Holmen
Translation studies
Christina Schäffner
Truth-conditional pragmatics
Jacques Moeschler
Truth-conditional semantics
Robyn Carston
Typology
Bernard Comrie
U
Universal and transcendental pragmatics
Joachim Leilich
V
Variational pragmatics
Klaus P. Schneider