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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 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.

Referencias culturales: retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidad aspira a ser una contribución seria a la problemática de la traducción de culturemas. Este volumen colectivo reune a investigadores con lenguas de trabajo distantes o enraizadas en un tronco común (francés-español inglés-español chino-español ruso-español rumano-francés e italiano-inglés) que basándose en corpus que abarcan géneros tan diversos como la prensa las redes sociales el cine el comic o los repositorios instucionales analizan desde una óptica comparativa y/o traductológica un amplio espectro de estructuras fraseológicas y terminológicas en las que las nociones de lengua y cultura son indisociables y plantean innumerables desafíos al traductor.

This volume aims to be a serious contribution to the issue of translating culture-specific elements. It brings together researchers with distant or related working languages: French-Spanish English-Spanish Chinese-Spanish Russian-Spanish Romanian-French and Italian-English. Based on corpora covering diverse genres such as press social networks cinema comics or institutional repositories they analyze from a comparative and/or translation perspective a wide spectrum of phraseological and terminological structures in which the notions of language and culture are inseparable and pose countless challenges to the translator.

This volume comprises studies and keynote addresses presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference hosted by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU in Trondheim in 2022. The selection of cutting-edge studies presented covers a wide array of topics within generative linguistics including the acquisition of grammatical features challenges of functional morphology the impact of the native language on subsequently acquired languages and interfaces between linguistic domains. Other chapters address how non-native language processing differs from native processing while the volume also highlights internal and external factors affecting bi- and multilingual development and points to important avenues for further generative research on second language acquisition.

This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV). Originally scheduled to be held in Milan in 2020 the conference was postponed and moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Held from August 23-27 2021 it connected scholars from 30 countries across various time zones.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume is divided into three parts. The first part devoted to General and Particular Issues in the History of Linguistics recalls classical authors in relation to contemporary ones as well as newly established disciplines and subtle epistemological inquiries. The second part Antiquity mainly investigates the Sanskrit language and various descriptive and didactic studies approached from both ancient and contemporary metalinguistic frameworks. The third part deals with Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Works ranging from the Tamil language to American archives and from experimental phonostylistics to the history of monosemy.

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

This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills such as vocabulary pronunciation and reading while also considering learner factors such as language learning aptitude and proficiency. Two distinctive features of this collective volume are 1) the inclusion of children and teenagers as participants in studies addressing the gap concerning young learners in this line of research and 2) an emphasis on longitudinal studies enhancing the ecological validity of the findings. The studies in this volume also showcase a diverse range of research instruments from eye-tracking to retrospective interviews enriching our comprehension of this innovative research area. A concluding chapter synthesizes these findings linking them to prior research and advancing our understanding of the role of audiovisual input in language acquisition.

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.

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals including translators interpreters terminologists lexicographers language instructors and learners. Computational Phraseology and in particular the computational analysis of multiword expressions (also known as multiword units) has gained prominence in recent years and is essential for a number of Natural Language Processing and Translation Technology applications. The failure to detect these units automatically could result in incorrect and problematic automatic translations and could hinder the performance of applications such as text summarisation and web search. Against this background the volume offers 13 articles carefully selected and organised into two parts: ‘Computational treatment of multiword units’ and ‘Corpus-based and linguistic studies in phraseology‘. The contributions not only highlight the latest advancements in computational and corpus-based phraseology but also reiterate its vital role in all areas of language technologies including basic and applied research.

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/>