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This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description of mock politeness and as such contributes to the growing field of impoliteness. The approach taken is methodologically innovative because it takes a first-order metalanguage approach basing the analysis on behaviours which participants themselves have identified as impolite. Furthermore it exploits the affordances of corpus pragmatics a rapidly developing field. Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students researching im/politeness and verbal aggression in particular those interested in im/politeness implicatures and non-conventional meanings.

Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading research on vocabulary load and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe the factors they need to consider when they create frequency-based word lists. These include the purpose for which the word list is to be used the design of the corpus from which the list will be made the unit of counting and what should and should not be counted as words. The book draws on research to show the current state of knowledge of these factors and provides very practical guidelines for making word lists for language teaching and testing. The writer is well known for his work in the teaching and learning of vocabulary and in the creation of word lists and vocabulary size tests based on word lists.

Die Philosophie des Barockscotismus war einerseits durch die rückwärtsgewandte Anknüpfung an den mittelalterlichen Denker Johannes Duns Scotus andererseits durch die Anknüpfung an die Entwicklung in der zeitgenössischen Scholastik vor allem der Jesuitenscholastik geprägt. Welche Art von Metaphysik hat diese besondere philosophiehistorische Konstellation hervorgebracht? Um diese Frage zu beantworten analysiert die vorliegende Arbeit das Metaphysikwerk des wichtigsten Repräsentanten des frühneuzeitlichen Scotismus Bartholomaeus Mastrius (1602-1673); sie erschließt außerdem eine Vielzahl von kaum bis gar nicht erforschten Metaphysikwerken aus der Franziskanerscholastik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Das eigenartige erstaunliche Vielfalt einschließende Profil einer in Vergessenheit geratenen philosophischen Tradition wird deutlich. Durch den Fokus auf ein philosophiehistorisches Phänomen außerhalb des Mainstreams leistet die Arbeit einen Beitrag zu einer differenzierteren Sichtweise der intellektuellen Kultur der europäischen Frühmoderne.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Baroque-age Scotist philosophy was on the one hand characterised by recourse to the Medieval thinker John Duns Scotus and on the other hand by an adaptation to trends in contemporary scholasticism first of all that of the Jesuits. What kind of metaphysics did this particular constellation within the history of philosophy produce? In order to answer this question the present book analyses the work on metaphysics by the most important representative of early modern Scotism Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673). In addition the book investigates a multitude of scarcely or never studied works on metaphysics from the Franciscan scholastic tradition of the 17th and 18th centuries. The peculiar profile of a forgotten philosophical tradition with its astonishing plurality becomes apparent. By focusing on a phenomenon from the history of philosophy outside the mainstream this work contributes to a more differentiated view on the intellectual culture in early modern Europe.

This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More specifically this book analyses the identity work of these former slaves and considers how these identities are related to master narratives. The novelty of this book is that through using such a temporally diverse and relatively large corpus we show how master narratives change according to both the zeitgeist of the here-and-now of the interview world and the historical period that is related in the there-and-then of the story world. Moreover focusing on the active achievement of master narratives as socially-situated co-constructed discursive accomplishments we analyze how different inherently unstable and even contradictory versions of master narratives are enacted.

This revised edition of Memes of Translation includes updates that relate the book's themes to more recent research in Translation Studies. The book contributes to the debate about whether it is worth seeking a coherent theory of translation by proposing an approach based on norms strategies and values which are all seen as kinds of memes i.e. ideas that spread. The meme metaphor allows us to see translation in the context of cultural evolution and also highlights similarities with the philosopher Karl Popper's analysis of another kind of evolution: that of scientific knowledge. A translation is after all itself a theory – a theory about the source text. And as Popper stressed theories of all kinds are like nets we make in order to catch something of reality: never perfectly but always in the hope of better understanding.

The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc – written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century – keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas so closely related in past and present. The knight Joanot Martorell wrote a classic of universal literature despite the fact that he belonged to a minority culture. Nowadays after having been translated into numerous languages it is studied in many European and American universities and elicits great interest among researchers as proven by the contributions included in this book.

The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of the main approaches dealing with Multimodality – Cognitive Linguistics and multimodal metaphors (Forceville & Urios Aparisi 2009) social semiotics and systemic functional grammar and multimodal interactional analysis (Jewitt 2009) –highlighting the importance of multimodal resources and showing the close relationship between this field of study and Cognitive Linguistics applied to a variety of genres –ranging from comics films cartoons picturebooks or visuals in tapestry to name a few. Originally published in Review of Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 11:2 (2013).

Do the notions of “World Lingua Franca” and “World Literature” now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of languages and literatures this is the central dilemma to be faced in a world that is increasingly globalized. In this book the possible banes and benefits of globalization are illuminated from many different viewpoints by scholars based in Africa Asia Europe North America and Oceania. Among their more particular topics of discussion are: language spread language hegemony and language conservation; literary canons literature and identity and literary anthologies; and the bearing of the new communication technologies on languages and literatures alike. Throughout the book however the most frequently explored opposition is between languages or literatures perceived as “major” and others perceived as “minor” two terms which are sometimes qualitative in connotation sometimes quantitative and sometimes both at once depending on who is using them and with reference to what.

In recent years corpora have found their way into language instruction albeit often indirectly through their role in syllabus and course design and in the production of teaching materials and other resources. An alternative and more innovative use is for teachers and students alike to explore corpus data directly as part of the learning process. This volume addresses this latter application of corpora by providing research insights firmly based in the classroom context and reporting on several state-of-the-art projects around the world where learners have direct access to corpus resources and tools and utilize them to improve their control of the language systems and skills or their professional expertise as translators. Its aim is to present recent advances in data-driven learning addressing issues involving different types of corpora for different learner profiles in different ways for different purposes and using a variety of different research methodologies and perspectives.

This is an innovative and distinctive comparative monograph about new word creation in the different varieties of Catalan. In eight chapters it provides a panoramic analysis of the neologisms documented by the NEOXOC network. Each chapter is dedicated to the qualitative and quantitative analysis as well as the comparative territorial analysis of neologisms differentiated by formation sources: suffixation prefixation neoclassical compounding vernacular compounding and syntagmatic compounding Spanish loanwords English loanwords truncation and semantic change. Two annexes contain the neologisms cited as well as a sample of the data collected by NEOXOC from a corpus during 2008-2010 thus establishing a link with previous studies carried out by the Observatori de Neologia. This book is of interest to scholars of the Catalan language and to anyone involved in lexical neology or in more specific fields such as morphology or lexical semantics. Moreover the innovative approach (based on the analysis of diatopic variation in Catalan lexical neology) makes it relevant for those who are interested in the evolution of languages linguistic variation and language planning. The chapters are written in Catalan with extensive English summaries.