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This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. The present volume testifies to the significance of the analysis of Romance languages for the field of linguistics in general and theoretical linguistics in particular. It contains eleven articles dealing with issues related to all core linguistic domains and interfaces and representing different empirical phenomena. The articles provide data from a significant range of Romance languages and language varieties (French standard Italian and Italian dialects Spanish Catalan Catalan Contact Spanish standard and non-standard European Portuguese Galician) as well as from Latin English and German.

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese Korean and Japanese- originated developed and are used today. Uniquely this book: (1) examines the three East Asian scripts (and English) together in relation to each other and (2) discusses how these scripts are and historically have been used in literacy and how they are learned written read and processed by the eyes the brain and the mind. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>In this second edition the authors have included recent research findings on the uses of the scripts added several new sections and rewritten several other sections. They have also added a new Part IV to deal with issues that similarly involve all the four languages/scripts of their interest. <br/>The book is intended both for the general public and for interested scholars. Technical terms (listed in a glossary) are used only when absolutely necessary.

The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region typologists historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.

Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A sociological study is the first comprehensive study of literary translation in modern Iran covering the period from the late 19th century up to the present day. By drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture this work investigates the people behind the selection translation and production of novels from English into Persian. The choice of novels such as Morier's The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World provides insights into who decides upon titles for translation motivations of translators and publishers and the context in which such decisions are made.The author suggests that literary translation in Iran is not a straightforward activity. As part of the field of cultural production literary translation has remained a lively game not only to examine and observe but also often a challenging one to play. By adopting hide-and-seek strategies and with attention to the dynamic of the field of publishing Iranian translators and publishers have continued to play the game against all odds.

The book is not only a contribution to the growing scholarship informed by sociological approaches to translation but an essential reading for scholars and students of Translation Studies Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.

This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels syllables templates syntax-morphology interface and Afro-Asiatic languages. Specific topics are the internal structure of vowels and its relation to harmony; the logic of recurrent vocalic patterns; syllabic prominence; the interaction of syllabic and templatic structure and segmental realization; the innateness of templates and paradigms; the limits of phonology; and various morpho-syntactic implications on phonological form.<br/>The volume renders homage to Jean Lowenstamm’s work by underlining the importance of seeking structural and intermodular insight in the study of linguistic form.

The book examines women’s language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate by delineating a genealogy of Japanese women’s language that to deconstruct and denaturalize the relationships between gender and any language and to account for why and how they are related as they are we must consider history discourse and ideology. The book analyzes multiple discourse examples spanning the premodern period of the thirteenth century to the immediate post-WWII years mostly translated into English for the first time locating them in political social and academic developments and describing each historical period in a manner easily accessible for those readers not familiar with Japanese history. This is the first book that describes a comprehensive development of Japanese women’s language and will greatly interest students of Japanese language gender and language studies linguistics anthropology sociology and history as well as women’s studies and sexuality studies.

After several paradigm changes and even more turns after fights about scholarly territories and methodological renewal after intra- and interdisciplinary discussions Translation Studies continues to produce a large number of publications dealing with the challenge of defining itself and its object with the borderlines of both the discipline and the object with ways of interacting with related (sub)disciplines. This publication gathers contributions from established TS scholars (all former CETRA Chair professors) about the topics that will very probably dominate the near future of the discipline.

This is an extended and updated version of a Target special issue with the same title that was published in 2012 (24:1).

This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases such as modality number neutrality narrow scope incorporation predication and case marking and that in a range of languages (Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Catalan German Papiamentu Russian). Other papers deal with weakly referential definite noun phrases in various languages (Basque Dutch English French) involving scrambling modification possession and accessibility. The papers demonstrate a range of empirical methods and theoretical models. This volume will not only be of interest to researchers and students in syntax and semantics but also in psycholinguistics and language typology.

The urge to understand all aspects of human experience more and better seems to be one of the motives underlying cognitive development in many domains of human existence. Understanding more and better is at the basis of knowledge creation and extension. One way of getting access to how understanding comes about and how knowledge is the result of a continuous dynamics of understanding and misunderstanding is by studying the cognitive potential and the development of natural language(s) and more particularly of terminology in specialized domains. In this volume on dynamics and terminology thirteen contributors illustrate that human cognition is a dynamic process in a variety of socio-cognitive and cultural settings. The case studies encompass a panoply of methodologies and deal with subjects ranging from the dynamics of legal understanding in multilingual Europe over financial economic and scientific terminology in several cultural and linguistic settings to language policy issues in multilingual environments. All thirteen contributors link the dynamics of cognition to the creative potential of language as a repository of past and present experience in cultural settings and to the creation of neologisms in domain-specific languages. Attention is given to the functionality of indeterminacy vagueness polysemy ambiguity synonymy metaphor and phraseology. In this volume terminology is researched and discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective combining insights developed over the last decades in communicative terminology socio-terminology socio-cognitive terminology cultural terminology with tools and methods from cognitive linguistics corpus linguistics sociolinguistics frame semantics semiotics knowledge engineering and statistics.

This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and general models on the topic and its relations with modality subjectivity inter-subjectivity epistemicity evidentiality hedging mitigation and speech acts. In the second part results from empirical studies in medical and supportive contexts are presented all of which are based on a conversational analysis approach. These papers report on professional dialogues including advice giving in gynecological consultations breaking diagnostic bad news to patients emergency calls addiction therapeutic community meetings and bureaucratic-institutional interactions. The final part concerns the qualitative and quantitative analysis of corpora addressing scientific writing (both research and popular articles) and academic communication in English German Spanish and Romanian. The collection is addressed to scholars concerned with the topical issues from a theoretical and analytical perspective and to health professionals interested in the practical implications of communicating certainty or uncertainty.