BISAC Subject Headings List
Language Arts & Disciplines
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Use subjects in this section for general works on language, for works about the English language in particular, or for works on disciplines closely related to language arts. For works about specific languages other than English, or about English as a second language, use subjects in the FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY section.
LAN000000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
LAN001000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems
LAN004000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
LAN022000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Editing & Proofreading
LAN006000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation
LAN007000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Handwriting
LAN008000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
LAN029000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography
LAN025000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
LAN025010 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Administration & Management
LAN025020 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries
LAN025030 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Cataloging & Classification
LAN025040 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Collection Development
LAN025060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Digital & Online Resources
LAN025050 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / School Media
LAN009000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Computational see COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing
LAN024000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Etymology
LAN009010 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
LAN009020 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Morphology
LAN011000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology
LAN009030 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
LAN009040 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / General
LAN009070 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / Language Acquisition
LAN009080 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics
LAN016000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics
LAN009050 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
LAN009060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
LAN010000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy
LAN030000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Orality *
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Proofreading see Editing & Proofreading
LAN026000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Public Speaking & Speech Writing
LAN027000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishers & Publishing Industry
LAN012000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers
LAN013000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reading Skills
LAN015000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
LAN017000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language
LAN018000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Speech & Pronunciation
LAN021000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary
LAN020000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching
LAN028000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Style Manuals
LAN023000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting
LAN005000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General
LAN005010 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Academic & Scholarly
LAN002000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Authorship
LAN005020 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Business Aspects
LAN005030 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Children's & Young Adult
LAN005040 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Composition
LAN005050 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Fiction Writing
LAN005060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs)
LAN005070 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Poetry
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