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Interpreting in Armed Conflict : Lessons from the field
Jun 2026
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Interpreting in Armed Conflict: Lessons from the field offers a comprehensive analysis of interpreting across diverse conflict settings including humanitarian missions military operations war journalism human rights missions and international fact-finding missions. Adopting a cross-contextual perspective the book examines key dimensions such as communicative constraints interpreters’ positionality and agency trust and distrust intercultural communication training ethical challenges and the emotional and psychological impact of working in these settings. The volume brings together empirical research practitioner experience and insights from a wide range of sources including testimonies memoirs institutional guidelines and fictional representations. Combining academic rigour with narrative depth it offers a holistic account of interpreting in armed conflict and serves as a key reference for scholars practitioners and organisations engaged in multilingual communication in conflict settings.
Intralingual Translation : Beyond language and text
Feb 2026
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Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text offers an innovative wide-ranging exploration of translation within the same language bringing together leading international scholars from diverse linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds. Spanning theoretical reflections empirical studies and historical analyses the volume addresses the rich spectrum of intralingual practices from plain language and accessibility adaptations to diachronic rewritings of historical texts. The first section investigates various aspects of the “Intralingual Sphere” and its connections to other modes of translation. The second part explores the rapidly developing field of accessibility and simplification including Easy Language plain language and graded readers. The book concludes with in-depth studies of diachronic translation across different historical layers of the French Italian and Latin languages. Originating in an international workshop these contributions highlight intralingual translation as a multi-faceted and socially situated activity offering new insights into its theoretical boundaries practical challenges and cultural significance.
Italo-Romance Heritage Languages : Multiple approaches
Sept 2025
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This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas Australia Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art combining studies on relatively well-documented communities with investigations of lesser-known groups and linguistic phenomena. A distinctive feature of the book is its search for a shared framework for studying Italo-Romance heritage language communities namely one that takes into account the wide range of linguistic resources present in these settings. The chapters include in-depth studies of Italian and Italo-Romance heritage languages as well as analyses of more complex repertoires such as communities where both Italian and dialect are spoken and onward migrant communities in Berlin and London.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics : In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Sept 2025
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The study of Romance linguistics has long been a vibrant and dynamic field enriched by diverse theoretical perspectives and a range of methodological innovations. This volume gathers contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in the field to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of key issues in contemporary Romance linguistics. It offers a rich cross-section of the field’s current landscape with a particular focus on Spanish and French and explores how recent advancements in linguistic theory and methodology intersect with real-world language use in diverse social and cultural contexts.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> At the heart of this volume is a tribute to the distinguished careers of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio two scholars whose work has had a profound impact on the interdisciplinary study of Romance languages. Their groundbreaking research has not only shaped our understanding of key issues in syntax phonology and sociolinguistics but also set the stage for future innovations in the discipline. This collection brings together the legacy of their scholarship honoring their contributions while simultaneously advancing the field they have so profoundly influenced.<br/>
Identity Perspectives from Peripheries
Jun 2025
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Data dubbed “peripheral” or previously unaccounted for have inspired new methods new models and theories of language and new ways of understanding language and communication within pragmatics. The chapters in the volume extend this perspective to include language users and their identities as central taking into account the ideologies that mediate their perception of language use. Identities and peripheries are approached geographically (Europe North America Africa Asia; dialectal variation) socially (gender age social status) medially (traditional electronic and multimedia) occupationally (trade congregation) and from the points of view of healthcare and of professional relations. The volume includes the editors’ introductory overview of challenges in the field and chapters divided into three parts Building the Peripheral Stage; Identities in Interaction; and Gender Narratives and Peripheries. By particularizing a variety of linguistic peripheries the volume fosters a deeper understanding of human interaction.
Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
Apr 2025
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This book weaves together constructions imperatives dialogicity and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG) Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this cross-fertilising synergy the book singles out BELIEVE (YOU) ME BELIEVE IT OR NOT THINK AGAIN and MIND YOU as its objects of study offers an empirical analysis of their properties and situates them within an entrenched and far-reaching yet conveniently ‘camouflaged’ network of dialogic perspectivisation. In so doing the book provides novel insights into the mental state verbal fillers of the constructions alongside their imperative-induced non-compositionality and dialogicity which motivate their function as discourse unit framing agents and per extension discourse operators. The book thus makes a case for CxG’s ability to go beyond its word- or phrase-based ‘comfort zone’ and address phenomena at a micro- meso- and macro-discourse level with across-the-board benefits.
Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research : Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Apr 2025
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Researchers who study multilingual literacy development face the reality of complex and ever evolving conceptualizations of multilingualism and literacy across dynamic contexts languages and modalities. To unlock the full potential of continuous developments in Applied Linguistics innovative rethinking of methodological approaches is needed to keep pushing the boundaries of our understanding of multilingual literacy development and our ethical commitments to humanizing research. This book provides powerful and wide-ranging examples of qualitative research that foreground a rethinking of data theory and positionality in their exploration of multilingual literacy development. The volume showcases how qualitative research designs and tools can allow scholars not only to “study” the literacy development of multilingual learners from immigrant transnational and refugee backgrounds but also to engage in ethical research approaches to learn from and amplify literacy practices and experiences that cross borders languages and modalities.
Investigating Language Isolates : Typological and diachronic perspectives
Jan 2025
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Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates including a detailed in-depth up-to-date discussion of what it means to be a language isolate and the criteria by which languages should be classified as isolate. The book also provides a series of techniques some refined on the basis of former literature and others new in order to recover the histories of language isolates. In addition the papers in this volume advance our knowledge about each of the individual languages studied here which are for the most part endangered and under-documented. This book will appeal to a broad audience spanning typologists historical linguists descriptive linguists and teachers of linguistics.
Influencer Discourse : Affective relations and identities
Dec 2024
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The rise of influencers as power-players in the social media landscape is a defining feature of the digital era one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language along with other semiotic modes plays in the construction and communication of influencer selves discourse analytic and pragmatic research on the topic is lagging behind. This volume attempts to fill this void by offering contextually sensitive insights into influencers’ multi-modal communication on a range of platforms. The contributions rework established modes and tools of discourse analysis and pragmatics to shed empirical light on influencer identities and tensions (e.g. doing authenticity vis-à-vis promoting brands). We specifically attend to (a) the interplay between media affordances and communication practices and (b) the co-constructional interactive nature of influencer selves with networked audiences ranging from ‘affect’ to ‘hate’.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>In addition to linguists we hope that the volume will be of interest to scholars and students of social media communication from sociological cultural studies anthropological and/or social psychological perspectives.
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE : Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom
Dec 2024
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La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su lugar en el aula de lenguas integrada con los contenidos y destrezas presentes en la enseñanza de idiomas desde la ortografía el léxico y la gramática hasta la pragmática y las actividades comunicativas de la lengua. Este libro incluye además diversas consideraciones sobre metodología de enseñanza evaluación tecnología y factores sociales y afectivos que interactúan con el aprendizaje de la pronunciación del español. Todos los capítulos ofrecen una panorámica de su área de especialidad que contiene la investigación más reciente sobre pronunciación junto con recomendaciones de buenas prácticas docentes para llevar al aula de ELE estableciendo un fructífero puente entre los estudios sobre este tema y la didáctica del español.
This is a collective work by 23 specialists that addresses the teaching of Spanish pronunciation as an additional language from various perspectives to enhance its instruction. The aim is to show that pronunciation belongs in the language classroom integrated with the content and skills present in language teaching from spelling vocabulary and grammar to pragmatics and communicative activities. Furthermore the book includes considerations on teaching methodology assessment technology and social and affective factors that influence the learning of Spanish pronunciation. Each chapter offers an overview of its area of expertise containing the latest research on pronunciation along with recommendations for best teaching practices in the ELE classroom establishing a valuable bridge between studies on this subject and the didactics of Spanish.
This is a collective work by 23 specialists that addresses the teaching of Spanish pronunciation as an additional language from various perspectives to enhance its instruction. The aim is to show that pronunciation belongs in the language classroom integrated with the content and skills present in language teaching from spelling vocabulary and grammar to pragmatics and communicative activities. Furthermore the book includes considerations on teaching methodology assessment technology and social and affective factors that influence the learning of Spanish pronunciation. Each chapter offers an overview of its area of expertise containing the latest research on pronunciation along with recommendations for best teaching practices in the ELE classroom establishing a valuable bridge between studies on this subject and the didactics of Spanish.
Intonation in Language Contact : The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Nov 2024
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The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish bilinguals this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the intonation of Spanish and Catalan as spoken in Girona with a focus on the speakers’ bilingualism. These contact varieties share numerous intonational properties with differences mainly in the frequency of specific tunes in certain contexts. However they also exhibit significant variation often linked to extralinguistic factors such as the bilinguals’ language dominance. Overall the intonation of these contact varieties results from substratum transfer and wholesale convergence between the prosodic systems of Spanish and Catalan.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book is particularly relevant to scholars researching prosody language contact variation and multilingualism.<br/>
Investigating Wikipedia : Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis
Nov 2024
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The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users it contains vast spaces of written discussions aka talk pages where Wikipedia authors negotiate the collaborative editing of articles make evaluations or discuss related topics. The proposed volume covers Wikipedia articles their revision histories and discussions with a focus on discussions which have not been studied extensively so far and have also been neglected in previous corpus building efforts. Wikipedia discussions are instances of computer-mediated communication (CMC) thus constituting a completely different interaction-oriented linguistic genre. Sophisticated tools and methods of linguistic annotation and corpus exploration are needed to exploit the huge and valuable corpus resources that can be constructed from the Wikipedia discussions. The present volume aims at encouraging and facilitating Wikipedia corpus studies providing standards recommendations and innovative methods to build and explore Wikipedia corpora and presenting corpus studies that make the most of the peculiarities of Wikipedia.
Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching
Jun 2024
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This volume consists of a collection of empirical studies and research syntheses investigating the role of individual difference (ID) variables in task-based language teaching (TBLT)—a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the importance of the performance of meaning-oriented tasks in facilitating second language learning. TBLT is subject to learner-external as well as learner-internal factors with the former referring to task- and context-related factors and the latter to ID factors pertaining to learner traits dispositions or propensities. To date the research has focused primarily on learner-external factors and there has been insufficient and unsystematic research on individual difference factors. This volume brings centre stage this important but under-researched dimension by means of a comprehensive in-depth examination of the role of key ID factors in TBLT. The volume integrates theory research and pedagogy by spelling out the mechanism through which IDs influence learning attainment behaviours and processes examining evidence for theoretical claims and discussing ways to apply research findings and cater to individual differences in the task-based classroom.
Investigating West Germanic Languages : Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
May 2024
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This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar mentor collaborator and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans Dutch English Flemish German and Pennsylvania Dutch each of the thirteen contributions in this volume explores one or more of the topics found in Howell’s work: (1) Linguistic structure and change (Page Sundquist Fagan De Vaan); (2) Migration contact and change (Fertig Louden Roberge); (3) Vernacular sources and change (Auer & Gordon Hendriks Van der Wal); (4) Historical sociolinguistics: past present and future (Van Bree Crombez Vandenbussche & Vosters Lauersdorf & Salmons).
Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution : Language and cognitive effects
Nov 2023
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Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects explores anaphora resolution from different perspectives and investigates various aspects of the phenomenon as contributions include research protocols that combine old and new experimental methodologies as well as theoretical and empirical approaches. A central theme across volume contributions are the multiple linguistic and extralinguistic factors that constrain anaphora resolution its processing and acquisition by a variety of populations (children and adults monolinguals bilinguals and second language learners) as well as the mechanisms underlying anaphora resolution. Anaphora resolution constitutes an ideal environment to test the interaction between domain-general cognitive systems and domain-specific linguistic sub-routines since variability in referential preferences is not related to binding constraints (an integral part of syntax per se) but is closely tied to processing (functional constraints) modulated by the integration of discourse-filtered information.
Interpreting Technologies – Current and Future Trends
Oct 2023
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While interpreting long remained unaffected by the technological progress that transformed the translation industry recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift such that interpreters increasingly interact with technological tools that the delivery of interpreting services becomes increasingly dependent on technologies and finally that technologies start to emerge that might some day compete with interpreters. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This volume brings together a series of contributions on interpreting technologies focusing on each of these aspects. Its goal is to inform and to empower interpreters as well as to spark new reflections on the future of technology in the interpreting industry. With this volume we want to encourage interpreters to participate in that reflection and to become partners of technology rather than its victims. The next generation of technologies will need a next generation of interpreters!
It's different with you : Contrastive perspectives on address research
Sept 2023
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This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media registers geographical contexts and time – in more than 15 languages. The volume showcases the variety of approaches that exists in current address research including the breadth of contrastive methodologies harnessing surveys and questionnaires focus group discussions corpus linguistics discourse and conversation analysis to offer complementary perspectives on culture-specific address practice. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This volume is for students and researchers of address and social interaction in a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences including various sub-disciplines of linguistics (such as contrastive variational and intercultural pragmatics sociolinguistics and morphology) and intercultural communication as well as experts in individual languages and qualitative sociologists.
Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics : Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation
Jun 2023
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This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods together with a renewed focus on language variation have advanced our field. This volume is divided into three sections of original research with the first describing regional variation of Spanish the second synchronic variation and the third learner profile variation. Such nuanced descriptions and analyses would not be possible without new variationist research methods and big-data techniques such as the use of online corpora and data reduction analyses. These overarching themes represent a paradigm shift affecting the whole of Hispanic Linguistics and are therefore best appreciated in an edited volume composed of diverse manifestations of trends like those included herein. The data from these submissions were originally presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted by Wake Forest University in 2021.
Instrumentalising Foreign Language Pedagogy in Translator and Interpreter Training : Methods, goals and perspectives
Jun 2023
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This volume offers a wide array of cutting-edge original research on the implementation of Foreign Language Pedagogy in translator and interpreter training a still rather unexplored field of research in Translation Studies. It is divided in two distinct sections. The first section focuses on theoretical approaches to this topic. The chapters of this section will offer the reader valuable new knowledge and thoughts on how to update and enrich academic curricula as well as how to make use of cognitive linguistics and to implement a multicultural approach in the demanding domain of translator and interpreter training. The second practical section comprises a series of diverse methods and didactical means of Foreign Language Pedagogy which are creatively adapted to fit in language and translation/interpreting teaching for translation/interpreting trainees aiming at fostering their translational sub-competences. The volume’s overarching aim is to clearly emphasise that foreign language teaching for translation and interpreting trainees has to be approached and structured differently than conventional language teaching in other academic disciplines. It is useful for scholars and translation/interpreting teachers who want to enrich translator/interpreter training with new interdisciplinary ideas and knowledge which will significantly assist them in enhancing the translation/interpreting competence of their students.
Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching : Historical perspectives
Jun 2023
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By adopting a historical perspective this edited collection of papers takes a fresh look at a key concept in applied linguistics that of innovation. A substantial introduction advocates historical re-evaluation of this notion via exploration of its rise to prominence while the ten subsequent chapters present in-depth case studies of apparently successful as well as ineffective innovation(s) from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Language learning/teaching developments in Brazil China England France Germany and Italy are considered along with ‘global’ innovations in language learner lexicography while the languages considered include Chinese English French Italian Latin Portuguese and Spanish. Various types of primary source material are utilized illustrating the possibilities of applied linguistic historiography for both students and academics new to the field. The book questions ideas of perpetual innovation and progress supporting the adoption of more critical perspectives on change and innovation in applied linguistics and language teaching.
Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies) : A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker
Apr 2023
Book
The contributions in this volume are a reflection of the entire range of Interpreting Studies from explorations of research methodology and interpreting quality research to public service interpreting today and in the past risk management strategies in court interpreting and the interdependencies of interpreters in project networks. They address questions such as who can be called an interpreter present new approaches to interpreter education and discuss advances in technology both in terms of speech-to-text interpreting and the changes that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the lives of interpreters.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The breadth of this volume’s topics reflects the oeuvre of Franz Pöchhacker who has left his mark on Interpreting Studies over more than three decades. This tribute not only reflects the many strands of his work but also offers new research and insights by established scholars and young researchers in the ever growing field of Interpreting Studies.
Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods
Dec 2022
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Written for novice and established scholars alike Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering foundations of conducting ISLA research the subsequent chapters are organized by four skill areas (listening speaking reading writing) and four major linguistic features (grammar vocabulary pronunciation pragmatics). In each chapter authors define the target sub-domain of ISLA outline the basics of research design provide concrete guidance on crafting robust research questions identifying appropriate methodology and method(s) adapting an existing instrument or creating your own carrying out a study analyzing and interpreting data and determining how/where/when to share your work. The volume also dedicates chapters to addressing common inquiries of conducting ISLA research (e.g. obtaining ethics permission recruiting your own students working with small and heterogeneous sample sizes accounting for individual differences) and to maximizing research impact beyond academia. Written by leading experts on each topic this book is an essential resource for ISLA SLA and research methods scholars.
Introducing Chinese Linguistics : A handbook for Chinese language teachers and learners
Dec 2022
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of Chinese linguistics including the core components of phonetics and phonology morphology syntax writing system and social cultural aspects of the language. It also discusses key features of Chinese language acquisition in each of these areas highlighting common difficulties and obstacles adult learners encounter as revealed in language acquisition research. The integration of basic linguistic knowledge with language acquisition findings provides valuable resources for both current and aspiring Chinese language teachers and serious learners of Chinese as a second language. Exercise questions included in each chapter serve to reinforce the concepts of Chinese linguistics. The book is designed to not only enhance Chinese learners’ linguistic awareness but also provide language teachers with pedagogical preparation and assistance. While this book can be used as a textbook for an introductory Chinese linguistics course it is also beneficial to the broader range of readers who are interested in Chinese linguistics.
Introduction to Healthcare for Turkish-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Nov 2022
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Health interpreters and translators often face unpredictable assignments in the multifaceted healthcare setting. This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee 2013) and has been supplemented with commonly asked questions and glossaries in Turkish. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Turkish is the home language of a very significant number of (now often elderly) migrants in countries outside of Turkey and this book provides an invaluable resource to those interpreting for these migrants in the healthcare setting. The book will also be invaluable to those interpreting for medical tourists from Turkey travelling to other countries for treatment.<br/>In short this is an exceptionally useful and easily accessible handbook in particular for interpreters translators educators cultural mediators health professionals and other practitioners working between Turkish and English - or other languages.<br/>Speakers of Turkish represent a rich and diverse range of historical religious and cultural traditions. This book covers some of those while also describing the Turkish healthcare system and touching on cultural beliefs and traditional approaches to health.<br/>This unique book is an indispensable vade mecum ("go with me") for anyone wishing to navigate language access involving speakers of Turkish in the healthcare setting.
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Nov 2022
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This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language gesture pictures art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally historically and pragmatically different levels of iconicity with special focus on Cognitive Semiotics. Exploring the ubiquity of iconicity in verbal visual and gestural communication these contributions discuss it from the point of view of human meaning-making examined as a phenomenon that is experienced embodied and often polysemiotic in nature.
Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective : Implications for a general language theory
Sept 2022
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This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS) that can be extended also to other sign languages this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages which were often overlooked in the past and only recently have been brought to the fore and described. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>First the study of face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy between linguistic and enacted to develop a new approach to embodied language (Kendon 2004). <br/>Second all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic and pragmatic meaning as proposed by cognitive semantics which considers it impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge.<br/>Finally if speech from the point of view of its materiality is variable fragile and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete) also signs are not always segmentable into discrete invariable and meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties traditionally associated with human languages in general notably that of ‘duality of patterning’. <br/>These are only some of the main issues you will find in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages linguistic research.
Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Mar 2022
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This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic themes in cognitive linguistics and pragmatics are covered ranging from figurative language and thought e.g. conceptual metaphor and metonymy the role of inferencing in the construction of meaning in particular indirect speech acts to the conceptual and functional motivation of morphosyntactic structure. Finally the book offers many suggestions and ideas for student papers as well as larger research projects that promise to reveal new insights into conceptual structure communicative function and their influence on the grammatical structure of language.
Intersubjectivity in Action : Studies in language and social interaction
Nov 2021
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Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of intersubjectivity. The contributions show how language codes and creates intersubjectivity how interactants move towards shared understanding in interaction how intersubjectivity is central to phenomena and experiences often considered merely individual and how intersubjectivity evolves through learning. While the core methodology of the studies is Conversation Analysis the volume highlights the advantages of using several methods to tackle intersubjectivity.
Introduction to Healthcare for Russian-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Nov 2021
Book
Health interpreters and translators often face unpredictable assignments in the multifaceted healthcare setting. This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee 2013) and has been supplemented with commonly asked questions and glossaries in Russian. Just like the 2013 textbook this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings familiarizing themselves with anatomy physiology medical terminology and frequently encountered medical conditions diagnostic tests and treatment options.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This is an exceptionally useful and easily accessible handbook in particular for interpreters translators educators and other practitioners working between Russian and English.<br/>Russian-speakers represent a rich and diverse range of historical religious and cultural traditions. This book covers some of those while also describing the Russian health system and touching on cultural beliefs and natural medicine approaches.<br/>This unique book is an indispensable vade mecum (‘go with me’) for anyone wanting to navigate language access involving speakers of Russian in the health setting.
Input Processing and Processing Instruction : The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Sept 2021
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Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input processing strategies affect the acquisition of a particular linguistic feature and/or structure in the two languages. The studies use both offline (e.g. sentence and discourse-level tasks) and online tests (e.g. eye-tracking) to measure the effects of this instructional training.
Interpreting in Legal and Healthcare Settings : Perspectives on research and training
Jun 2020
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The importance of quality interpreting in legal and healthcare settings can never be stressed enough when any mistake – no matter how small – can compromise the delivery of justice or put someone’s health at risk. This book addresses issues arising from interpreting in legal and healthcare settings by presenting cutting-edge research findings in interpreting and interpreter education in a number of countries around the world – including those which are relatively new to the field. It contains selected papers from a conference dedicated to such themes – the First International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting – as well as other invited papers related to the fields of legal and healthcare interpreting. This book is useful not only to scholars and educators interpreters and translators working in legal or healthcare settings but also to legal and healthcare professionals who work with interpreters in their day-to-day work including judges lawyers police officers doctors midwives and nurses.
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language : A corpus-driven approach
Jun 2020
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What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian Hebrew Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California) French Japanese Italian and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples but looking at them from different perspectives using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge both prosodic and segmental.
Intermediate Language Varieties : Koinai and regional standards in Europe
Jun 2020
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The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different languages (Norwegian Dutch German Italian Spanish Greek) on speech communities with different (geo)political and sociolinguistic histories as well as on previously unexplored sociolinguistic situations. The contributions all share the twin characteristics of (a) robust scrutiny of structural variation and its links to both structural-systemic parameters and extralinguistic variables and (b) nuanced approaches to macro- and micro- level categories with the requisite theoretical and methodological fine-tuning. While focusing on different languages/language groups the papers in this volume share the common foci of bringing together structural and sociolinguistic considerations and of the concomitant necessary revisiting of methodologies. The data and analyses presented yield a firmer and more nuanced understanding of the dynamic permutations of cross-dialectal and dialect-to-standard convergence and the formation of intermediate varieties in different yet comparable contexts.
Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles
Mar 2020
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The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic antitopic contrastive topic focus verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles sentence-final particles and other medial sentential and illocutive particles. This book addresses three great questions in a variety of languages ranging from Japanese to Mohawk including Basque French German Italian Kazakh Spanish and Turkish with some insights from English and Russian. The first question is the role played by information-structural strategies such as left dislocations clefts or the morphological marking of focus in the rise of discourse particles. In the second part papers are concerned with the relevance of information structure for the study of polysemic and polyfunctional discourse particles. Finally the contribution of particles to the determination of the information-structural profile of the clause is examined as well as their role in the information-structural specification of illocutionary types. Language-specific papers alternate with comparative approaches in order to show how newer insights on information structure can help resolve some of the classical issues of the linguistic research on particles.
Intercultural Experience in Narrative : Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace
Nov 2019
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This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language intercultural communication collaboration learning and expatriate adjustment in the MNC. This approach offers new insights into intercultural experiences communication and cultural challenges faced by an under-researched group of professionals exposed to intensive collaborations with the local managers and employees. The findings also illustrate how the expatriates learned to better navigate the multicultural and multilingual business context and what factors facilitated and inhibited their learning and adjustment. Encouraging the qualitative context-sensitive examination of expatriate-local personnel interactions the book will be an invaluable source for scholars and practitioners interested in among others novel approaches to investigating language and intercultural communication in international business cross-cultural management qualitative cross-cultural research as well as for lecturers and students interested in Central Europe and China.
It’s not all about you : New perspectives on address research
Nov 2019
Book
The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume includes an overview followed by seventeen chapters organized in five sections covering new methodological and theoretical approaches variation and change address in digital and audiovisual media nominal address and self- and third-person reference. This collection includes work on Cameroonian French Czech Dutch English (from the US UK Australia and Canada) Finnish Italian Mongolian Palenquero Creole Portuguese Slovak and Spanish (in its Peninsular and American varieties). By presenting the work in English the book offers a bridge among researchers in different language families. It will be of interest to pragmatists sociolinguists typologists and anyone focused on the emergence and evolution of this central aspect of verbal communication.
The Intricacy of Languages
Oct 2019
Book
If as we believe the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and making us identify it with a social community and a territory then it must be agreed that languages are extremely complex entities.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The new linguistic diversity that cultural globalisation and recent population movements have installed in most traditional linguistic territories has probably put the ideology of the national language into a state of crisis and as a consequence has made the ancient intrinsic diversity of all languages visible at least to the extent that this is still possible. <br/>Nowadays then the old linguistic diversity of dialects of parlances of local lexicons and the cultural forms that are reflected in these of varieties and previously unsuccessful linguistic entities has been given a new opportunity in a world where the cohesion of societies and the welfare of citizens must be guaranteed using all available means. Looked at this way the intricacy of languages may even open up an opportunity for local economic and social development.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
Oct 2019
Book
This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book offers the reader a closely edited collection of papers representing a wide spectrum of frameworks approaches and methods from traditional fieldwork studies of non-standard dialects to corpus-based discussions of language and gender to formal syntactic and semantic analyses of key functional morphemes to laboratory experiments and work in first language acquisition. Many of the papers present detailed analyses of original data as well as novel treatments of established facts; considered together – as well as in contrast to one another – they make a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of how Vietnamese is structured acquired and put to use. The papers should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary approaches to Vietnamese linguistics and Southeast Asian languages more generally.
Intertextuality in Practice
Sept 2019
Book
The books we’ve read the films we’ve seen the stories we’ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven’t – form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a reference’s possible significance can lead to alienation from a text or conversation. Intertextuality in Practice offers readers a cognitively-grounded framework for hands-on analysis of intertextuality both in written texts and spoken discourse. The book offers a historical overview of existing research highlighting that most of this work focuses on what intertextuality ‘is’ conceptually rather than how it can be identified described and analysed. Drawing on research from literary criticism neuroscience linguistics and sociology this book proposes a cognitive stylistic approach presenting the ‘narrative interrelation framework’ as a way of operationalising the concept of intertextuality to enable close practical analysis.
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
Aug 2019
Book
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction between dedicated linguistic systems and the other modules of the human mind. The latter provide the 'internal context' of bilingual processing. This internal context involves goals value emotion self and representations of the external context. The book combines all these elements into a coherent picture of the bilingual's internal context and the way it shapes processing. It then shows how some central concepts in cognitive science and bilingualism fit in with – and follow from – this view. These concepts include working memory consciousness attention effort codeswitching and the possible cognitive benefits of being bilingual. The book should be of interest to professionals in the field as well as postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates.
Imagining the Peoples of Europe : Populist discourses across the political spectrum
Aug 2019
Book
The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum. It shows how a unitary representation of 'the people' is a central element in a vast range of very diverse political discourses today acting to anchor identities and project antagonisms in a multitude of settings. The chapters in this book explore commonality and contrast in representations of ‘the people’ in both radical and mainstream political movements looking in depth at recent political discourses in the European sphere. The authors draw on approaches ranging from Essex-style discourse theory over critical discourse studies corpus analysis and linguistic pragmatics to investigate how historically situated categories such as the people and populism become fixed through local linguistic textual and narrative practices as well as through wider ideological and discursive patterns.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>As of January 2023 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
May 2019
Book
This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones mimetics and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism marked morphophonology and grammatical status in individual languages. Drawing on data from Asian (especially Japanese) African American and European languages the twelve chapters in this volume aim to establish common grounds for theoretical and crosslinguistic discussions of the phonology morphology syntax semantics pragmatics acquisition and variation of iconic lexemes. Not only researchers who are interested in linguistic iconicity but also theoretical linguists and typologists will benefit from the updated insights presented in each study.
Interfaces in Grammar
Apr 2019
Book
This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical components in Chinese and other languages. With contributions by Edward L. Keenan Henk van Riemsdijk Alain Rouveret and scholars in Chinese Linguistics this volume investigates the common structural properties that may be considered as possible candidates for UG. It addresses syntactic and semantic issues such as anaphora universals over non-isomorphic languages the role that the forces of attraction and repulsion play in the grammar of natural languages computational and semantic aspects of resumption the dichotomy between inner and outer reflexive adverbials system repairing strategies at interfaces the v-copy construction in Chinese the scope of disjunction interactions between focus negation and event quantification null object constructions and VP-Ellipsis child language acquisition of nominal structure word order and referentiality as well as second language acquisition of interface properties in Chinese double NP constructions. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of syntax semantics theoretical linguistics and language acquisition as well as scholars in Chinese linguistics.
Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews
Mar 2019
Book
Methodological accounts of research interviews find that how researchers use this tool in their work varies widely: there are many “ways” of interviewing. This edited collection unpacks the interactional dynamics of qualitative research interviews from studies conducted in education second language acquisition applied linguistics and disability studies from scholars in the UK USA Italy Portugal and Korea. These studies explore the interactional details of how the identities of researchers and their participants matter for the generation of interview data as well as the kinds of discursive resources and social actions that occur in tandem with the production of data for research projects. Given the widespread use of qualitative interviews for social research this book provides a robust contribution to what Tim Rapley has called the “social studies of interviewing.” This book is relevant to audiences across disciplines who use the interview as a primary research method.
Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces
Feb 2019
Book
Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf. Chomsky 2001; 2008) and the cartographic enterprise (cf. Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999). In this respect the dialects of Italy are no exception in that they present comparative Romance linguists and theoretical linguists alike with many valuable opportunities to study the linguistic interfaces as highlighted by the many case studies presented in this volume which provide a series of original insights into how different components of the linguistic system – syntactic phonetic phonological morphological semantic and pragmatic – do not necessarily operate in isolation but rather interact to license phenomena whose nature and distribution can only be fully understood in terms of the formal mapping between the interfaces.
Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Dec 2018
Book
This volume offers a fresh intercultural perspective on the discursive and rhetorical challenges non-Anglophone scholars face while writing and publishing in English for an international readership. The volume presents a wide spectrum of text-based intercultural analyses of academic texts written in L2 English. Placed in the context of a rapidly increasing role of English as the universal language of scientific and scholarly communication the contributions attempt to explore native language influence on L2 English academic texts or conversely the influence of rhetorical or discursive features of English on L2 texts. Covering texts from Chinese to Lithuanian authors the chapters in this volume offer a rich selection of lexico-grammatical discursive and rhetorical elements analysed and compared across genres disciplines and languages both within synchronic and diachronic perspectives. This volume will be of interest to both experienced and novice researchers in such fields as English for Academic Purposes Intercultural Rhetoric Genre Theory Corpus Linguistics and English as a Lingua Franca.
Introduction to Discourse Studies
Nov 2018
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This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics from critical discourse analysis to stylistics and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by
- over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text;
- more than 150 test-yourself questions all elaborately answered which are ideal for self-study;
- nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses.
Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009 a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).
The previous (2004) edition can be found here.
Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages : Studies in prosody and syntax
Aug 2018
Book
The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely if ever taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory and which belong to the Afroasiatic Amerindian Australian Caucasian and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.
Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research
Jan 2018
Book
Cognitive research in translation and interpreting has reached a critical threshold of maturity that is triggering rapid expansion along exciting new paths that potentially lead to deeper connections with other disciplines. Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research reflects this broadening scope and reach emphasizing ongoing methodological innovations diversification of research topics and questions and rich interactions with adjacent fields of research. The contributions to the volume can be grouped within four loosely defined themes: advances in traditional topics in translation process research including problems in translation translation competence or expertise and specialization of translators; advances in research into the emotional or affective aspects of translating and translator training; innovations in machine translation and post-editing; expansion of cognitively-oriented translation studies to include editing processes and reception studies. This timely volume highlights the burgeoning growth diversification and connectivity of translation process research.
Irony in Language Use and Communication
Dec 2017
Book
The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively the papers examine irony from psychology embodiment studies philosophy cognitive linguistics the connection and impact of irony on culture and (media) communication different approaches to verbal irony and others—ultimately attempting to model the mechanisms underlying ironic forms and the psycholinguistic motivations for their investigation. The comprehensive treatment of these issues is fundamental for future research on irony and related phenomena particularly on questions of its usage the diversity and/or unity of irony and ultimately the interrelationships between figurative thought and language.
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