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This book provides an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively the authors attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe starting from an examination of the organizations engaged in terminology planning in different European linguistic contexts. Each chapter focuses on a specific language or language landscape focusing on issues such as:<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>- the defining features of these terminology planning institutions including their size structure funding sources specialization public recognition publication methods and collaborations with other organizations;<br/>- the responsibilities and operational procedures for example as regards standardization description evaluation quantification of results dissemination and terminometry;<br/>- terminology planning versus general language planning;<br/>- the historical development of these institutions and the future prospects for terminology planning in each language or language landscape.<br/>The individual authors provide an independent overview of one language landscape. Overall the book tells a fascinating story about how each language handles terminology as an essential linguistic factor in everyday society.

This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting diversity of research questions theoretical approaches linguistic phenomena and languages explored. Data are drawn from Algonquian Arandic Bantu Cushitic Edoid Indo-European Manchu Tangkic Tungusic and Uralic—among other languages and language-families. In addition to addressing always with new insights more traditional concerns of historical linguistics such as reconstruction classification the effects of contact and borrowing the determinants of morphological syntactic phonological and semantic change this book presents studies on less conventional topics for example the diachrony of ideophones.

This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24) which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at the conference with each chapter representative of a workshop or themed session. A striking aspect of ICHL24 was the three-day workshop on computational and quantitative approaches to historical linguistics and two of the chapters represent different aspects of this workshop. A number of chapters present research that explores mechanisms and processes of change within specific domains of language while others explore interactions of change across linguistic domains. Two chapters represent a common theme at the conference and consider the role of historical linguistics in explaining non-linguistic histories of language diversification.

As a core component of legal language used to draft enforce and practice law legal terms have fascinated lawyers linguists terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. It is the first attempt to bring together perspectives from the domains of Terminology Translation Studies Linguistics Law and Information Technology in a single place. This interdisciplinary endeavour comprises systematic reviews case studies and research papers which overview key properties of legal terms and concepts terminological tools and resources training aspects as well as translation in national contexts and multilingual organizations. The Handbook attests to the complex multifaceted nature of legal terminology and showcases its cultural communicative cognitive and social contexts in diverse legal systems. It is a rich resource for scholars practitioners trainers and students presenting vibrant research and practice in this area.

This e-book is made available as Open Access under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license.

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics broadly conceived as the cognitive social and cultural study of language and communication i.e. the science of language use.

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.

Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop

This book explores an important aspect of human existence: humor in self-translation a virtually unexplored area of research in Humour Studies and Translation Studies. Of the select group of international scholars contributing to this volume some examine literary texts from different perspectives (sociological philosophical or post-colonial) while others explore texts in more extraneous fields such as standup comedy or language learning. This book sheds light on how humour in self-translation induces thoughts on social issues challenges stereotypes contributes to recast individuals in novel forms of identity and facilitates reflections on our own sense of humour. This accessible and engaging volume is of interest to advanced students of Humour Studies and Translation Studies.

The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) is a collection of articles describing traditions methods and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains all topical articles. The first edition of the Manual was published in 1995. This second edition includes a large number of new traditions and methods articles from the 24 annual installments of the Handbook that have been published so far. It also includes revised versions of some of the entries in the first edition. In addition a cumulative index provides cross-references to related topical entries in the annual installments of the Handbook and the Handbook of Pragmatics Online (at https://benjamins.com/online/hop/) which continues to be updated and expanded. This second edition of the Manual is intended to facilitate access to the most comprehensive resource available today for any scholar interested in pragmatics as defined by the International Pragmatics Association: “the science of language use in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive social and cultural) perspective on language and communication.”

This book provides a comprehensive research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part the book provides up-to-date insights into the cognitive motivational and emotional dimensions of learning an additional language. In the second part ten principles of high-quality additional language teaching are introduced and illustrated by a wealth of authentic classroom-based examples. The book also explores implications for curriculum design and the assessment of additional language competences. A separate chapter is devoted to the ways in which innovation in language education can be fostered. Throughout the book the question is addressed whether additional language teaching should primarily focus on meaningful tasks form-based practice or the integration of both. This book is a must-read for all those who are interested in improving the quality of second and foreign language education.

Up to now the Handbook of Translation Studies (HTS) consisted of four volumes all published between 2010 and 2013. Since research in TS continues to grow and expand this fifth volume was added in 2021. The HTS aims at disseminating knowledge about translation interpreting localization adaptation etc. and providing easy access to a large range of topics traditions and methods to a relatively broad audience: not only students who prefer such user-friendliness but also researchers and lecturers in Translation Studies Translation & Interpreting professionals as well as scholars and experts from other adjacent disciplines. All articles in HTS are written by specialists in the different subfields and are peer-reviewed.

How Emotions Are Made in Talk brings together an exciting collection of cutting-edge interactional research examining emotions and affectivity as social actions. The international selection of scholars draw on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis applied to a range of settings including sports workplaces telephone calls classrooms friends and healthcare. The aim of the book is to provide new insights into how emotions are produced as social actions in relation to for example encouragement responsibility crying objects empathy joy surprise touch and pain. This volume should be of interest to interactional scholars and researchers interested in social approaches to emotion and addresses a range of scholarship across the disciplines of sociology communication psychology linguistics and anthropology.