BISAC Subject Headings List, Language Arts and Disciplines
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NON000000 NON-CLASSIFIABLE
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© 2012, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of the attached documents may be distributed or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
If you can't find the code you're looking for please go back and review other Major Subjects to find an alternate code or use our Contact Form to suggest revisions to the next version of the list.
Step 2: Determine the specific term which describes your book.
An asterisk (*) denotes a heading that is new for the 2012 Edition.
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 |
| LAN002000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship |
| LAN004000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies |
| LAN005000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing |
| LAN022000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Editing & Proofreading |
| LAN006000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation |
| LAN007000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Handwriting |
| LAN008000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism |
| 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 / 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 |
| LAN016000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics |
| LAN009050 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics |
| LAN009060 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax |
| LAN010000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy |
| LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Proofreading see Editing & Proofreading | |
| LAN026000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Public Speaking |
| LAN027000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishing |
| LAN012000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers |
| LAN013000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reading Skills |
| LAN014000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reference |
| LAN015000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric |
| LAN017000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language |
| LAN018000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Speech |
| LAN019000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling |
| LAN020000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching |
| LAN028000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Style Manuals |
| LAN023000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting |
| LAN021000 | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Vocabulary |
If your title does not have subject content, i.e. a blank book, please use the Non-Classifiable term below. Otherwise, use the Subject/General term in the closest descriptive area.
NON000000 NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Please note that the BISAC Subject Headings List is governed by the following copyright notice.
© 2012, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of the attached documents may be distributed or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.