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This volume places topicality at the very heart of grammatical explanation drawing on richly annotated discourse corpora from lesser-studied languages across the Americas and beyond. Through nine original studies it demonstrates how aspects of discourse relevance (rather than just abstract syntactic relations) shape word order argument encoding case marking and voice systems in natural speech. Several chapters revisit and critically reassess Givón's seminal work on topic continuity and discourse motivation and re-examine classic frameworks such as “Preferred Argument Structure” through contemporary corpus-based work. The volume spans a remarkable typological range of linguistic systems combining methodological innovation with fine-grained empirical analysis. Essential reading for linguists working on information structure typology and language documentation this book demonstrates why topicality remains a powerful engine of grammatical design diversity and change.

The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major parts: Fundamental issues; Conceptualization of temporality across languages and cultures; Metaphor metonymy and time conceptualization; and Time and grammar. Following the two chapters that prefigure the main topics of the volume we move from chapters dealing with the cultural embeddedness of our conceptualizations of time to those discussing the instrumental role of figurativity in the conceptualization of time finishing with a series of chapters focusing on a range of phenomena revolving around the grammatical reflexes of temporality.

A prominent keyword of the 21st century humanities the concept of transmedia describes in essence an age-old phenomenon: texts tend to spread in a fragmented fashion in various media and be appropriated and further developed by multiple agents. However the concept of transmedia and the practices it describes have become especially foregrounded with the rise of the new digital technologies and the spread of globalization. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Transmedial practices more often than not span across languages and cultures; nevertheless the ways in which transmediality intersects with translation is an aspect that has so far received limited attention in the respective academic fields. <br/>The aim of this volume is to introduce the concept of transmedia to translation studies and to highlight the centrality of translation processes in transmedial phenomena. Both in its narrower sense as interlingual transfer and in its broader sense as intersemiotic transposition translation is of paramount importance in the study of transmedia.

Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive written record of the history of terminology as it evolves from a set of practices to a discipline in its own right. Terminology has witnessed considerable theoretical and methodological developments in recent decades. These changes need to be understood within the context of their historical foundations. The book has three main focus areas. The first examines the prehistory of terminology going back to the Ancient World leading to the second where the pioneers of modern terminology Eugen Wüster in particular are placed in their historical context. The final section is an account of how terminology developed in some twenty countries and language communities.

Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers literary theorists and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts as one such experience challenge readers and extend their imagination by means of complex or deviating plots. Reading literary narrative fiction helps readers develop imaginary selves in a safe way enhancing their theory of mind. It might also contribute to the development of readers’ interpersonal competencies and foster pro-sociality altruistic behaviour and empathy. This book uses empirical research methods to focus on the processes of literary reading revealing two pathways for the transformative powers of literature. It also reveals how an understanding of these pathways might be beneficial in educational settings – in schools in the workplace and in medical contexts.

Text and Wine: Approaches from terminology and translation collects part of the results of the research project WeinApp: Multilingual System of Information and Winegrowing-Resources (MINECO Ref. FFI2016-79785-R) carried out by researchers from the universities of Cordoba and Cadiz (Spain) on wine production the wine sector and its language and terminology in English French German and Spanish. The editors principal investigators of the project begin the volume which contains works on phytopathology lexical domains and subdomains wine tourism agro-legal texts Indo-European languages labelling tasting metaphors wine and literature interpretation wine and medicine oenological websites and lexical and morphosyntactic formation around the language of wine.

This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes marked Themes participant roles agency and identifiability and are tested statistically using regression analyses. The book sheds light on one of the most elusive concepts of the systemic functional linguistics framework Theme by comparing it with different approaches related concepts and realizations in different languages and by examining empirically different Theme models contrastive differences and translation effects. Given that Theme in English and German is realized formally by being the first clause constituent and is thus effectively a syntactic phenomenon this monograph is not only relevant for functional linguists but any interested in English and German word order differences and their effects on translations.

This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré’s articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole these articles aim to represent the author’s groundbreaking work on terminology both from a theoretical as from a methodological and applied point of view. Part I includes texts on three fundamental aspects of terminology as a field of knowledge: Firstly general articles on the rethinking of proposals made by other authors and on the bases for the formulation of the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT). Secondly articles that deal with the rethinking of the framework of this subject with emphasis on specialised languages and communication. And thirdly on the object of study: the terminological unit. Part II includes articles on methodology international standards and teaching terminology and texts that deal with the intersection of terminology with other fields: Documentation Translation Neology and Language Policy.

The aspiration of an Atlas is to cover the whole world by compiling cartographical material representing territories from across the five continents. This book intends to contribute to that ideally comprehensive yet always unfinished Atlas with pieces gathered from all of the Earth’s regions. However its focus is not so much of a geographical nature (although maps and geographical reflections are not absent in its pages) but of a historical-analytical one. As such the Atlas engages in the historical analysis of interpreters (of both language and cultures) in multiple interpreting settings and places including in zones which are less frequently studied in specialized literature in different historical periods and at various scales. All the interpreters described in the book share the ability to speak two or more languages and to use them as vehicles; otherwise their individual socio-professional statuses vary so much that there is no similarity between a Venetian dragoman in Istanbul and a prisoner of war or between a locally-recruited interpreter and a missionary. Each contributor has approached the specific spatial and temporal dimensions of their subject as perceived through their different methodological lenses. This multifaceted perspective which is expected to provide fertile soil for future interdisciplinary research has been possible thanks to a balanced combination of scholars from History and from Translation and Interpreting Studies.

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of different theoretical perspectives on Terminology from Wüster to other initiatives that have emerged since the beginning of the 1990s. The volume also covers important topics which have significantly influenced Terminology and its evolution. These include variation multidimensionality conceptual relations and equivalence among others. The twenty-two chapters of the volume all written by acknowledged experts in the field explore the questions that different approaches seek to answer. They also describe the theoretical and methodological principles that were devised over the years to characterize analyze and represent terminological data. The semi-chronological semi-thematic organization of chapters not only provides readers with a clear vision of the evolution of ideas in Terminology but also gives them an understanding as to why some of these ideas were initially challenged. In addition to being accessible to readers unfamiliar with the basic theoretical principles in the field the chapters provide a showcase of current research in the field the challenges looming on the horizon and finally future directions in terminological research. By bringing together work that is often disseminated in different forums and written in different languages this volume provides a unique opportunity to look at how different theoretical approaches to Terminology offer complementary perspectives on terms concepts and specialized knowledge and help to further a better understanding of the complex phenomena that terminologists must successfully deal with in their work.