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New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition : Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference
Apr 2026
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This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers and make connections between second language acquisition bilingualism psycholinguistic methods and computational methods. The chapters ask theoretically informed questions about the underlying grammars of language learners and bilinguals use experimental methods to arrive at answers to those questions and consider the value of using ‘big data’ to address questions in generative second language acquisition. This volume is intended for scholars and students of generative second language acquisition and related fields. It builds on prior literature by addressing the acquisition of a variety of phenomena (in syntax semantics pragmatics and phonology) by a variety of populations and using a variety of data collection methods.
Discourses of War and Peace : 21st century perspectives
Apr 2026
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The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war peace and neutrality across time and space in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles political polarizations divergent goal settings and ideological confrontations (from the Russo-Japanese war 1904–1905 to Russia’s war against Ukraine 2022-present). Through a broad range of cutting-edge case studies (Finland Germany India Japan Poland Romania Russia/Soviet Union/Russian Federation Slovakia Sweden The Netherlands Ukraine USA) the authors go beyond mainstream studies on war and peace by challenging existing paradigms and undergoing in-depth scrutiny of discourse argumentation strategies historical metanarratives reflective storytelling and visual mediatization. Readers are called upon to reflect on evaluate and discuss issues raised by questions like the following: To what extent are dogmatic and power-based discourse practices consequential in the evolution of political language and the language of international diplomacy regarding processes of war peace and neutrality? In what ways have the mainstream and alternative news media changed the war reporting style the audience-oriented verbal and visual communication strategies and the emotion-triggering narratives?Reaching beyond the boundaries of pragmatics and discourse analysis this book should be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners of rhetoric argumentation media studies history social and political sciences.
Practising Stylistics : Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson
Apr 2026
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Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since its earliest days and Baines Professor of English Language at the University of Liverpool Simpson has been a leading light and a steady hand on the stylistics tiller across his career. In this volume his friends colleagues co-authors and former students offer a series of essays that speak to the range and importance of Simpson’s influence.In its contribution and design this book reflects the artisanal ethos of stylistics itself. Each contribution includes a detailed illustrative example of stylistics practice with argument and method open to examination replication and constructive critical discussion. In this volume full-length stylistics essays are interspersed with shorter ‘vignettes’ that demonstrate practical applications of stylistics which are anchored by strong theoretical awareness. As such each chapter is representative of the rigorous stylistic analysis championed by Simpson.Demonstrating the value of stylistic approaches to literary criticism and discourse analysis by illustrating its workings is the most accessible way of reaffirming the discipline and so this book will likely be a key resource for scholars seeking the sort of exemplary stylistic practice inspired by Paul Simpson.
Silent Instruments : Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian
Mar 2026
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This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax semantics and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they remain semantically present.Combining theoretical analysis with experimental evidence corpus data and innovative methodologies the study redefines the status of Instruments with respect to the argument-adjunct distinction and introduces a new principled account of their syntactic omission based on semantic recoverability. It proposes a refined typology of Instruments grounded in verb meaning and contextual factors and tests its predictions through behavioral experiments and large-scale corpus analyses.The book also breaks new ground in acquisition research presenting the first experimental investigation of how Italian-speaking children acquire Instruments. The results reveal a striking dissociation between early syntactic mastery and the slower development of Instrument semantic recoverability shedding new light on the acquisition of syntactically optional elements.By integrating syntax semantics and acquisition Silent Instruments provides a robust and empirically grounded framework that is readily applicable to cross-linguistic research and to other phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface. It will be of interest to linguists working on argument structure optionality language acquisition and experimental and corpus-based approaches to grammar.
Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing
Mar 2026
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The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in recent years. This volume discusses methodologies used in first second and bi/multilingual language acquisition and processing with practical guidance on how to employ the different methodologies and accompanying possible statistical analyses. The chapters in this volume deal with the ever-changing field of language acquisition and processing as examined by an array of offline behavioural measures online reaction methods and physiological measures. This volume focuses on connecting the practical elements of key methodologies to the theoretical questions they are used to answer guiding the reader through best practices in examining different linguistic questions.
Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Mar 2026
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Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies Speech Act Theory and Local Grammar – the volume showcases how qualitative and quantitative corpus-driven methods illuminate the interplay between linguistic form communicative function and contextual embedding. Across eleven chapters contributors examine a breadth of linguistic features from swearing syntactic fragments prenominal modification nonstandard forms and phraseology to interruption and humour expressive acts epistemic presupposition expertise and predictive stance. The studies span diverse settings – teen talk Reddit forums news media historical newspapers workplace interaction political debate and economic discourse – and incorporate synchronic and diachronic perspectives as well as cross-linguistic comparisons. Collectively the chapters demonstrate how register and discourse intersect as mutually informing dimensions of language use enriching established research traditions and offering practical models for future inquiry. Their insights extend beyond corpus linguistics resonating with scholarship in sociolinguistics pragmatics World Englishes and applied linguistics.
Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface
Mar 2026
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Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range including Germanic Romance Basque and Heritage Greek this volume sheds new light on the role of adverbs and particles at the interfaces between morphology syntax semantics and pragmatics from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Contributions from both established and emerging scholars offer original theoretical methodological and empirical research addressing diverse topics such as the internal structure of adverbs external syntax grammaticalization from adverbs to particles and their specific role in discourse. This volume will be highly relevant to theoretical and historical linguists particularly those interested in the interaction of form and meaning.
The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages
Mar 2026
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The modern world to the extent that it disassociates us from the secular traditional world from the “primordial” jobs and words that support the cultural particularity forged over the centuries weakens the borders between languages. Neologisms bring languages closer together irreversibly and the loss of primordial words (the local ways of designating a plant or a bird the words that designated instruments that are no longer used) often accelerated by standardization processes which impose a term above all other possibilities weakens the distinctions and singularity of languages. From this point of view linguistic diversity seems typical of a less globalized world and languages with less communicative influence seem doomed to dissolution. The ideology of the national language has weakened and almost extinguished in many cases the internal dialectal diversity of the languages. Could it be that now for this same reason these national languages specially those with reduced dimensions and lacking a projection beyond their historical territories are in danger? What role can the preservation of the primordial language play in the attempt to combat the dynamics of linguistic globalization? These reflections are the focus of the contributions included in this volume.
The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words : Root-based and templatic morphosyntax
Mar 2026
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Root syntax with roots as primitive lexical units is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory typically in Distributed Morphology and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon the book presents a comprehensive view of word formation and argument structure providing robust evidence that favors root-based rather than stem-based derivations of words. Tested on Arabic a language wearing DM ‘on its sleeve’ the DM model gains substantial support and refinement. Significant templatic affixes turn out to be roots. Valency changing causatives anti-causatives reflexives or nominalizations implicate root complexity not category change. Psych perception and cognition eventuality classes are born as root subtypes not ‘verb’ classes. Category changing deverbalizations deadjectivations or denominalizations are supplemented by complex root derivations. Melodic templates operate ‘templatization’ (e.g. with adjectives) or act as functional templates for Voice and Aspect (e.g. with passives) or gradation (with synthetic comparatives) after category typing. The book is of interest to generative and comparative linguists cognitivists typologists lexicographers and students teachers and researchers of Arabic or Semitic
60 Years of Applied Linguistics : Toward more engaged research
Mar 2026
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For sixty years applied linguistics has stood at the crossroads of language and society by meeting real-world needs. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research offers a compelling reflection on the field’s evolution while calling for a renewed commitment to socially responsive ethically grounded scholarship. Inspired by the momentum of the 2023 AILA World Congress in France this collective volume brings together leading international applied linguists to examine how applied linguistics has transformed in response to shifting political landscapes technological change and global challenges. From different perspectives the contributors explore how research has both shaped—and been shaped by—the world we live in. Looking ahead the book advocates for research that reaches beyond academic borders engaging with communities policymakers and practitioners to confront contemporary issues. This book is an essential reference for scholars students and practitioners. It celebrates a rich intellectual legacy while charting bold new directions.
Pardon my French? : Dutch-French language contact in the Netherlands (1500-1900)
Mar 2026
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This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets this volume not only delves deeply into an intriguing case study in historical multilingualism and language contact but also offers detailed theoretical and methodological background information on how to analyse such an enduring contact situation from a historical-sociolinguistic perspective. The Dutch–French case is approached from three interrelated angles focusing on the Netherlands between 1500 and 1900: contact-induced change in historical Dutch language choice and language shift in the private and the public domain and language-ideological change.
Null or Nothing : Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology
Feb 2026
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Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero there are also a whole series of works that explicitly reject a description with zero or allow them only under restricted circumstances. This volume aims at getting a more complete picture of zero elements as a theoretic construct its empirical necessity and its nature in different components of grammar by focusing on Romance languages. The volume presents multi-facetted viewpoints and methodologies such as formal theoretic and data-based ones addressing researchers advanced students and everyone interested in linguistics. Furthermore this volume deals with various Romance languages and varieties such as Catalan (Old and Modern) French Italian and Sicilian (Brazilian and European) Portuguese and Spanish.
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.
A (Re)turn to the Source Text
Feb 2026
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The source text is an unescapable part of any translation or translation process. Without source text no translation. Yet it is only recently that scholars in the field of translation studies have begun exploring theorizing and conceptualizing the source text in a more systematic fashion. The present volume builds on and expands this work exposing how source texts are never merely given but always constructed by translators and used for various purposes. The seven case studies by researchers working in translation studies or at the intersection of translation studies and other disciplines explore the role and function of the source text in journalistic translation pseudotranslation indirect translation children’s literature and biblical translation. The authors ask questions such as: How do translators turn specific texts into source texts? How do translators conceptualize their originals? How do source texts of the ‘same’ work change over time?
Multilingual Corpus Research : Advances and challenges
Feb 2026
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Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research utilising parallel comparable and novel types of corpora beyond this traditional two-fold distinction. The first part of the volume draws on specialised comparable corpora of newspaper opinion articles social media texts and economic discourse. Parallel corpora are the focus of the second part and are used to shed light on diverse areas such as translation history bilingual phraseology extraction and lexico-grammatical contrastive analysis. Recently the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has implied a dramatic shift in corpus-based cross-linguistic research. This book offers valuable insights for scholars in contrastive linguistics and translation studies delineating potential uses of parallel and comparable corpora in Machine Translation automated translation quality assessment post-editing and other AI-enhanced applications.
Cross-linguistic Register Variation
Feb 2026
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A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine studies comparing English to five other languages in a wide variety of registers representing written spoken and written-to-be-spoken modes of communication. The volume starts with a semi-systematic review of previous research on corpus-based register variation comparing English with the other languages represented in the volume’s studies which are Dutch French German Norwegian and Spanish. In the subsequent nine chapters a variety of topics are explored ranging from verb and noun phrases to adverbials and other lexico-grammatical constructions. This book will be of interest to scholars experts and novices in the fields of contrastive corpus linguistics register studies and translation studies.
Progress in Colour Studies : Colour Expression and Cognition
Feb 2026
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This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference held at Tallinn University Estonia. Building on the results of earlier PICS meetings and publications this book continues the series’ tradition of offering fresh perspectives on colour across languages and cultures.The contributions examine colour in linguistic contexts ranging from semantics and pragmatics to translation lexicography and discourse employing approaches such as corpus-based analysis and experimental methods. Some chapters formulate broad discussions on colour and its role in language and culture while others present in-depth studies of single colour terms such those denoting red green grey orange or beige. The volume’s international scope is reflected in the diversity of languages represented.The book opens with an editorial preface situating the contributions within the broader field. It also includes a comprehensive subject index and numerous illustrations. Taken together these studies make the volume an essential resource for scholars interested in the linguistic dimensions of colour and their broader cognitive and cultural implications.
The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction : A diachronic constructional approach
Feb 2026
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This book explores the development of the Chinese cleft construction through the lens of Diachronic Construction Grammar. Focusing on shi as an invariant copula it examines the VP de cleft the V de O cleft and the bare shi cleft showing how each signals contrastive and specificational meaning. Tracing their origins from the copular construction in Middle Chinese the study reveals distinct developmental paths and semantic-pragmatic uses for each cleft type. Offering the first diachronic constructional analysis of Chinese cleft sentences it sheds light on the evolution of focus structures the expansion of constructional networks and the typology of focus devices across languages making a key contribution to historical linguistics and Chinese grammar research.
Crises We Live By : A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context
Feb 2026
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After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By (1980) and speaks to the unprecedented awareness of the theme of crisis and its conceptualization that has emerged in contemporary media and discourse. The book makes an innovative contribution to crisis studies and to Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT) by extending its historical reach back to antiquity and by adopting a transdisciplinary approach that takes into account the specific cultural context and framing of each metaphor for crisis.
At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics
Jan 2026
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This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language particularly metaphor and metonymy it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and evolution of meaning across time with chapters addressing among other topics diachronic changes in the semantics of nouns (e.g. for emotions) and speech act verbs. Beyond lexical and grammatical change the volume engages with broader issues such as belief systems the conceptualization of the future intersubjectification etymology and prototype theory. The contributors employ a variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks including diachronic morphology cultural history and both exploratory and confirmatory statistics. Together these studies exemplify the potential of interdisciplinary approaches and invite further dialogue on the tools and theories suited to tracing the evolution of figurative thought and language over time.
Thinking and Speaking About Time : A cognitive linguistic approach
Jan 2026
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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.
Speaking of Writing Romani : Language attitudes, text editing, and variability
Jan 2026
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As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities their communicative functions and use and editing behaviour in writing texts. Importantly it allows a direct comparison of spoken and written language use of individuals. Thus while Romani writing has been studied before this book adds unique data and aspects of metalinguistic knowledge to the discussion. Moreover broadening the empirical coverage of smaller languages within experimental research it comprises the first study on implicit attitudes towards the Romani language. This makes it possible for insights from minority languages to bear on theories of orality and literacy. Beyond Romani linguistics the book will appeal to researchers interested in minority language research variability language attitudes and frameworks of spoken and written language.
New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages : Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang
Jan 2026
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This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. Generative syntactic theory has regularly been influenced by discoveries made in Asian languages and the present volume connects a broad range of striking patterns found in Asian languages with Minimalist syntactic theory and provides arguments for fresh approaches to a variety of fundamental problems and puzzles within formal syntax. The volume has also been created as a tribute to Professor C.-T. James Huang one of the most influential of generative linguists active in the study of Chinese and other Asian languages.
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Jan 2026
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Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature starting from the questions of what literature is how it works and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely experienced – it is “experience-inviting discourse” meant for “experience-oriented reading”. This central idea leads to a number of important literary-theoretical topics. Among the issues addressed in depth are the structure of verbal communication the makeup of the concept of literature the psychology of literary reading and the relationship between literary criticism and experience-oriented reading. On this last point the author underlines the difference in purpose between critical and experience-oriented reading. What we typically call literature is written for offering worthwhile experiences not for being made the object of literary-critical observations no matter how valuable these may be in their own way.
A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English : Structural, functional, and typological perspectives
Jan 2026
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The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural functional and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages including for example typological features the phonological system the writing system morphological structure syntactic structure and information structure. The book often relates the comparison of the two languages to linguistic typology and language universals. Moreover the conceptions of some of the linguistic notions (e.g. “word” “subject” and “(im)perfective”) touched upon in this work have theoretical implications. This book is intended for researchers instructors and students who are interested in language comparison and linguistic typology in general and/or in the comparison of Chinese and English in particular. It can be used both as a reference and as a textbook.
A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions
Jan 2026
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Habitual constructions such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category but rather a family of related meanings which differ in their scopal position within the clause. The volume contains a detailed account of habitual meaning from the perspective of Functional Discourse Grammar as well as in-depth empirical studies of habitual constructions in ten languages: Coptic Plains Cree Dolgan Ancient Greek Kwaza Mandarin Portuguese Russian Slovak and Spanish. It will be of interest not just to specialists of these languages but to anyone working on habituality and other aspectual categories in the languages of the world.
Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Jan 2026
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This edited volume examines topics related to digital and internet-based research methods in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics. The book brings together internationally recognized experts with diverse interests from across the field. Covered are key approaches methods tools and sites that are commonly leveraged when performing research that involves digital tools or online spaces. This text is intended to be introductory and to be accessible to graduate students and faculty who may be new to a given area. As such each chapter introduces readers to the focal topic explains frequently asked research questions outlines common procedures showcases example studies and discusses key ethical considerations. The goal is for readers to walk away with an advanced understanding of how to conduct different types of research as well as develop their own ideas for future directions.
This is the Thing : A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of `thinghood'
Jan 2026
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This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some for instance the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words into indefinite ‘something’ ‘anything’ ‘nothing’ as in English. As regards Indo-European languages Buck (1988) points out that such words typically derive from a more abstract source than that of simple material objects. In the case of ‘thing’ the earliest source usually given is the Germanic word for a ‘judicial assembly’. How does such a word develop the most general sense of ‘thing’ today? Do all languages follow this kind of pattern? These questions lead into an investigation of the concept of ‘thing’ in a wide range of contexts and in a wide variety of languages involving both typological and cognitive aspects. The results have sometimes been unexpected. Buck C. D. 1988. A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo -European Languages. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Emancipatory Pragmatics : Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”
Dec 2025
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Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages as is done in this volume has led to a broader understanding of language use. Here thirteen articles each break new ground by discussing the application of ba theory to pragmatics research. Ba and basho which are Japanese terms often translated as “field” or “context” are central to expanding the theory of pragmatics to explain features not only of non-Western languages but of all languages. By presenting an introduction to the perspective of Emancipatory Pragmatics and discussing ba theory in detail it becomes obvious that this is an innovative approach to questions relevant for the study of all languages. Thus it is useful both for students new to the field as well as for seasoned researchers.
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Morphology by Serial Optimization
Nov 2025
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Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory that has widely been pursued for phonology and syntax but so far much less for morphology. The harmonic serialist approach to inflectional morphology underlying the contributions to the present volume is virtually unique in that it combines from the perspective of the minimalist program a cyclic approach to morphological structure-building with an optimality-theoretic approach to optimization; in a general taxonomy of morphological theories it qualifies as lexical realizational Merge-based and pre-syntactic.<br/>Following a comprehensive introduction to the new theory the book brings together eight case studies from typologically different languages (like Potawatomi Itelmen Acoma Modern Greek Lithuanian Urarina Irarutu and Hill Mari) that address a number of morphological phenomena which can all be shown to empirically support a cyclic optimality-theoretic approach (among them extended exponence disjunctive blocking impoverishment deponency portmanteau marking and morphological movement). The book will be of use to all scholars and students interested in morphological theory.
Varieties of German in Contact Settings : Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Nov 2025
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This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world including Midwestern varieties of Low German Pennsylvania Dutch Texas German Zarzer German in Slove-nia and the use of different varieties of Standard German in the second language classroom. The contributions span multiple domains of linguistic inquiry such as phonology morphosyntax syntax and second language acquisition. Collectively they contribute to ongoing research on contact varie-ties of Germanic language and how they impact sociolinguistic and generative/theoretical theory as well as pedagogical choices involving varieties of German in instructed second language acquisition. The contributions thus are a fitting tribute to William D. Keel’s far-reaching legacy in research on bilingualism and in particular German-Sprachinseln throughout the world.
Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation
Nov 2025
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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.
Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages
Nov 2025
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Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages. Covering four Mediterranean Romance languages – French Italian Spanish and Catalan – the volume provides a thematically structured exploration of applying corpora with sections on spoken language writing and translation data-driven learning acquisition and classroom practice. The chapters making up the volume engage critically with both historical issues and contemporary methodologies serving to illustrate how corpora can enhance language teaching and student engagement. With its broad scope and range of insightful research findings this volume lays the foundations for further research in applying corpus linguistics to Romance languages. A must-read for researchers and teachers wishing to engage with corpus use in the teaching and learning of Romance languages.
The Ziggurat of Grammar : In honor of Ur Shlonsky
Nov 2025
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What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume organized in terms of successively expanding domains leading contributors report research into the complex edifice of grammatical structure of human language that one might liken to the terraced layers of a ziggurat. Following the heuristics of reverse-engineering the chapters in this collection draw on theoretical and experimental analyses from Taqbaylit Berber to the sign language Cena from the Romance language family to the Semitic family in a kind to ‘reverse-architecture’ effort to understand the modes that compose multiple planes of morphosyntax. The volume presented to honor the work and influence of Ur Shlonsky within linguistics is aimed at a readership accessible to advanced undergraduates as well as specialists placed at distinct vantage points.
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries
Nov 2025
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Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail e.g. regarding their inflectional behaviour. In many cases one can identify within a word class a large number of lexemes that conform to a certain morphological or syntactic pattern (often referred to as “core members”) whilst there is only a comparatively small number of deviants (“peripheral members”). Examples abound: borrowings (in several word classes) may differ grammatically from native words some complex verbs evade certain syntactic slots (such as verb-second position in German) mass and proper nouns differ grammatically from (other) nouns and so on. In this volume we focus on the diachrony of such phenomena. We consider that the study of change and stability can be particularly helpful in furthering our understanding of the diversity within word classes concerning for example the motivation for divergent grammatical properties.
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Variation in Language Acquisition : Unity in diversity
Nov 2025
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This volume resulting from the fifth edition of the conference series Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA) brings together research at the intersection of language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Work within the ViLA tradition explores how learners—from preschoolers to adult second-language users— produce perceive and evaluate socially meaningful language variation. Divided in two main parts the contributions to this volume highlight a rich diversity of linguistic settings methodological approaches and learner profiles. Where Part I focuses on the acquisition of variation in children from age three to adolescence Part II shifts the focus to the role of linguistic input and exposure in the acquisition process. Both parts showcase a broad methodological spectrum from observational and experimental studies to qualitative and mixed-methods research. By deepening our understanding of the interplay between social context and linguistic development the chapters in this volume both consolidate and inspire the growing research field of developmental sociolinguistics.
Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality : Concepts and expressions of modality
Nov 2025
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Researchers in the fields of logic philosophy and linguistics have for many years been pondering over the elusive nature of modality and grappled with ways of capturing it. This book provides a broad overview of issues relevant to the study of modality and reflects the diversity of theoretical frameworks and the heterogeneity of linguistic phenomena included under the general heading of modality a concept which in one of its most frequent definitions corresponds to the fields of possibility and necessity. The key concepts dealt with are the structure of the semantic notion of modality and of modal subcategories force dynamics evidentiality mirativity modal auxiliaries and verbs modal uses of verbs and constructions (hedged performatives capacitive structures conditional constructions) and modal polyfunctionality across languages. Articles deal with observations taken from a variety of languages including Danish English French Italian Latin and Slovak. The wealth of data and the critical evaluation of existing analyses of modality will be of interest for researchers and graduate students alike.
Framing in Interaction : Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis
Oct 2025
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This volume invites its readers to rethink the linguistic basis for framing analysis by problematizing the existing foundation and presenting eight new pragmatically based framing analyses.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book challenges the assumption that there is a unilateral one-to-one relationship between words and frames such that framing occurs when a language user is exposed to a word that activates a frame.<br/>Conversely it is assumed that framing emerges in social interaction through a complex interplay between the participants the semiotic resources employed the circumstances and the multiple frames of interaction. This assumption calls for the relationship between words and frames to be analyzed in pragmatics including in cross-fertilization with other disciplines such as discourse analysis interaction analysis sociolinguistics psycholinguistics and social psychology.<br/>The assumption is operationalized in eight different exemplary framing analyses. Each analysis has its own focus drawing on its own disciplines and utilizing its own concepts tools and methods.<br/>The results of the analyses are noteworthy and demonstrate how a pragmatic approach to framing analysis can enhance the validity and reliability of the analysis.
What makes a Figure : Rethinking figurativity
Oct 2025
Book
This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures but also attempting to expand upon the current scope of figurative theorizing. The works presented here investigate a wider array of figures than the typically-studied tropes of metaphor irony and metonymy and they address broad issues such as figurativity writ large (what figurativity actually is and does including how embodied it is) multimodality contiguity of figurative forms and furthering our consideration of the ingredients of irony. It should appeal to any scholar interested in figurativity in all its expansive guises.
Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition : Connecting research and pedagogy
Oct 2025
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This book brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the rich intersection of technology and second language (L2) learning and teaching. This innovative volume offers a unique blend of cutting-edge empirical research pedagogy-informed perspectives and practical applications for educators administrators and researchers alike. From digital games interactive fiction and chatbots to multimedia input online collaboration and vocabulary tools each chapter shows how technology can foster more effective equitable and purposeful L2 learning. Importantly the contributors avoid framing technology as a collection of isolated tools; instead they view technology as a set of adaptable resources for designing rich multimodal and socially-informed instructional practices. This forward-thinking comprehensive volume aims to empower L2 educators and researchers to leverage technology’s full potential in a way that resonates with pedagogy context and the growing need for justice equity and inclusion in L2 education; thereby preparing them to successfully navigate the ever-increasing array of technology for L2 teaching and learning.
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns : A spring-loaded door
Oct 2025
Book
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on MUTs and goes on to expand our understanding of the ‘natural history’ of MUTs by showing how speakers and recipients deploy linguistic and embodied behaviours in intricate ways from the launch of an extended turn of talk to beyond the end of the MUT. The chapters report on the diverse ways in which speakers secure a second turn-constructional unit and show how grammatical prosodic gestural and postural resources as well as gaze direction are deployed to extend the speaker’s floor in a long MUT. Further investigating how speakers and their recipients transition out of the MUT and return to turn-by-turn talk and how recipients sometimes disrupt an extended MUT this book aims to provide a fresh understanding of the orderliness which underlies our everyday interactions.
The Grammar of Interaction : Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use
Oct 2025
Book
This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is how language originates within the space shared by the speaker and the addressee(s). The first part (“Grammar and Interaction”) concerns how interaction may intervene in grammar; the second part (“The Grammar of Interaction”) approaches both notions and linguistic structures which are anchored in interaction while revolving around epistemicity evidentiality and modality. The third part (“Interaction as a Model for Discourse”) concerns how certain constructions emerge from interaction and are further used to model discourse. Finally the fourth and last part of the book (“Interaction as a Driver for Change”) focuses on how interaction may help to delimit linguistic categories.
Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis : Theory and applications
Oct 2025
Book
This book is a panorama of contemporary quantitative linguistics as developed over decades. It highlights the main topics of QL: statistical laws of language taxonomy of linguistic phenomena authorial attribution quantitative analysis of syntax (e.g. dependency grammar) measurement of text difficulty and other phenomena at the intersection of linguistics literary studies semiotics and information science. It also reflects on the relevance of these time-honoured approaches in our new reality increasingly dominated by AI – both in terms of text material and methodology. Before our very eyes computers are achieving human-level linguistic competence. The era of LLMs and the growing dominance of machine-generated text is becoming reality. The scale of these changes initiated by the replacement of print with the digital universe is enormous. Today linguistics is closer than ever to mathematics and computer science and thus quantitatively-oriented linguists are particularly well-suited to address questions about the boundary between humans and machines in scientific research.
First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages
Oct 2025
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This book is the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the first language acquisition of four Finno-Ugric languages: Estonian Finnish Hungarian and North Saami. Ten chapters review research on phonological lexical and grammatical development bringing the research within the language family into one source enabling easy access to topics touching upon acquisition of the key linguistic domains cross-linguistic comparisons between the languages and discussion of the ways in which Finno-Ugric languages contribute to theory in the field of first language acquisition. The volume will appeal to students and scholars of language acquisition linguists psychologists clinicians and educational professionals.
Constructions in Contact 3 : Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Oct 2025
Book
Over the last decade Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed constructional approaches including Diasystematic Construction Grammar not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies but also provide a fresh look at fundamental questions in contact linguistics. This volume continues the series of works on Constructions in Contact (the first two volumes were published in 2018 and 2021). It presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomena the impact of multilingualism on argument structure constructions and the role of phonological units in language contact. The volume thus combines classical areas of constructional research with innovative ones demonstrating the broad applicability of Construction Grammar for contact linguistics.
COVID-19 : Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures
Oct 2025
Book
The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social cultural and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and contrasts between different cultures’ conceptions of the illness and its aftermath. The contributions examine a variety of genres including newspaper articles storefront signs artistic creations personal interviews social media comments and political speeches. They look at communication in various domains—business media politics economics art and psychiatry. And they compare past and present showing how the modern pandemic both continued and interrupted previous patterns of discourse around illness and disease. These diverse analyses show how Cognitive Linguistics on the cutting edge of quantitative sociocultural and interdisciplinary turns in linguistics can be a powerful theoretical tool in uncovering parallels and variations in how different cultures communicate in times of crisis.
Footprints of Phrase Structure : Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell
Oct 2025
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This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the field of Linguistics since his dissertation Origins of Phrase Structure defended at the MIT in 1981. Stowell’s work established the principles that replaced individual phrase structure rules from previous generative models with general universal constraints setting off the articulation of formal grammars on a new journey. The papers gathered here demonstrate how that principled approach runs in the field today. The empirical evidence discussed in the papers comes from 15 different languages which makes the volume a point of reference for cross-linguistic analyses and testimony to the wealth of descriptive knowledge brought to the scientific community.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>A wide array of linguistic generations contributed to this volume ranging from legendary ones who established the field as we’ve known it to some who have only recently received their doctorates. This plainly demonstrates the time spanning impact of Stowell’s work and the deep footprint he has left in the field and in our lives.
Handbook of Terminology : Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe
Sept 2025
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This book provides an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively the authors attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe starting from an examination of the organizations engaged in terminology planning in different European linguistic contexts. Each chapter focuses on a specific language or language landscape focusing on issues such as:<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>- the defining features of these terminology planning institutions including their size structure funding sources specialization public recognition publication methods and collaborations with other organizations;<br/>- the responsibilities and operational procedures for example as regards standardization description evaluation quantification of results dissemination and terminometry;<br/>- terminology planning versus general language planning;<br/>- the historical development of these institutions and the future prospects for terminology planning in each language or language landscape.<br/>The individual authors provide an independent overview of one language landscape. Overall the book tells a fascinating story about how each language handles terminology as an essential linguistic factor in everyday society.
English across Borders : A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Sept 2025
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This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal in an environment where linguistic competence is routinely under scrutiny. The book traces how linguistic practices participate in the construction of socially meaningful spaces and images of personhood and how discourse about language enables participants to position themselves in relation to these constructions. In the process notions of languages and varieties themselves are used in surprising and sometimes conflicting ways. While these are at odds with descriptive linguistic terminology the book takes them seriously as expressing local understandings of the relationship among ways of speaking and social positions. At the theoretical level the book advances a shift in World Englishes research towards a reflexive approach grounded in linguistic anthropological perspectives.
Handbook of Pragmatics : 28th Annual Installment
Sept 2025
Book
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics broadly conceived as the cognitive social and cultural study of language and communication i.e. the science of language use.
The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.
Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop
The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.
Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop
Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English
Sept 2025
Book
This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this cultural values political ideology language models and reported self- and other-perception as constitutive elements of the speech community’s cultural cognition are explored for the understanding of the cultural model of the SELF. Rooted in the disciplinary synthesis of Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes and its corpus-based approach this book offers new applications and methodological extensions in the study of the acculturation processes of Englishes around the world and the cognitive substrates that inform them. The present study showcases that human experience is fundamentally cultural. Hence this book will enlighten anyone interested in the workings of cognition as connected to language and culture i.e. researchers and students working in the fields of Cultural Linguistics Cognitive Linguistics World Englishes (linguistic) anthropology critical discourse analysis social science sociolinguistics cultural studies and political science.
Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
Sept 2025
Book
The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews multimodal film material and an online survey the study scrutinises cultural conceptualisations such as culture-specific conceptual metaphors or schemas and shows how they combine to larger interconnected cultural models which provide speakers with a conceptual logic for understanding and interpreting gender and homosexuality. The book further provides visualizations of these cultural models in the form of complex network representations. This scholarly work caters to readers interested in the culturally oriented strands of Cognitive Linguistics in sociolinguistics in World Englishes research and in questions on language gender and homosexuality. It offers valuable insights into the intricate connections between language culture and cognition.
The Progressive Revisited : Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages
Sept 2025
Book
This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks these studies provide valuable insights into the development grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures across two subgroups of the Indo-European family. The progressive constructions under scrutiny range from widely studied and seemingly well understood constructions to relatively infrequent and obscure ones. Most chapters investigate a specific function of a particular progressive structure or a change affecting it. Some chapters cast new light on the pragmatic non-aspectual functions fulfilled by the progressive. All the chapters present a substantial amount of new empirical work. This collection thus provides a unique opportunity for linguists working on Romance languages to get an instant insight into similar phenomena in Germanic languages and vice versa. At the same time the volume addresses contemporary theoretical and methodological issues in corpus contact and historical linguistics showing that research on the progressive remains today as relevant and inspiring as ever.
Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Approaches to Second Language Development
Sept 2025
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This edited volume is a timely and significant contribution to second language development research from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective. The book addresses the growing need for consistent and practical methodologies for CDST research. Each chapter presents an innovative method or approach illustrating its use in concrete applications to empirical studies and highlighting its value in capturing the dynamic time-sensitive and interconnected nature of L2 development. The volume emphasizes a shift from static outcomes to developmental processes offering tools to explore intra-learner variability network analysis dynamic modeling and more. By bridging theory and practice it equips researchers with methodological guidance to investigate the process of second language development. Building on and extending previous volumes on CDST research methods by Verspoor et al. (2011) and Hiver and Al-Hoorie (2019) this book serves as a crucial reference for future CDST-informed research in Applied Linguistics.
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.
Eyes on Text : Eye movements in reading and language processing
Sept 2025
Book
Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science which consists of linguistics neuroscience philosophy anthropology artificial intelligence education in its corners. The book consists of four parts: basics methodology perspectives and bridging the gaps. After introducing the basic terminology in the first two chapters the book introduces the methodology of the research on eyes on text focusing on factors that shape experiment designs and data analysis. The book then introduces modeling perspectives (models of human text processing and eye movement control) empirical perspectives (eyes on text at various levels of language processing) and reader-oriented perspectives (children elderly readers reading disorders and nonnative reading processes) to the study of eyes on text. The final chapters of the book discuss the diversity of the current approaches and introduce several frontiers that allow bridging the gaps between the domains that conduct studies on eyes on text. It emphasizes the incorporation of the Human-in-the-Loop (HitL) paradigm into Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications as a promising approach to bridge the gaps between the domains also allowing designing personalized interfaces.
Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research
Sept 2025
Book
In recent years child-centered research has garnered increasing attention among scholars working with children. However it remains under-explored within the field of applied linguistics. This gap is partly attributable to the conceptual complexity of the notion itself; “child-centered research” encompasses multiple interpretations and each significantly shapes research design and implementation. This edited volume offers a collection of reflective essays by leading scholars in the field of additional language learning and teaching with children. The contributors draw on their own research experiences to explore the complexities ethical dilemmas and methodological challenges they have encountered. They also propose future directions for the field emphasizing the importance of engaging more deeply with child-centered approaches. By bringing together voices from diverse research traditions this book aims to provoke critical discussion and inspire new thinking about research ethics and methodologies among researchers teacher educators and postgraduate students alike.
The Rhetorical Mind : Current issues
Sept 2025
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This book comprehends a unique collection of articles on the rhetorical tools with special reference to both discursive and verbo-visual metaphor. It focuses on monomodal and multimodal figurative representations in wine discourse in political discourse and in the sports media. Moreover it encompasses a discussion of the questionable role played by metaphor in scientific discourse concerning climate issues. The art and cognition and multimodality issues are empowered in this volume through the cognitive-oriented analysis of Andre Varda’s films Banksy’s graffiti and a comprehensive typological approach of the Tromp l’oeil technique.
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/>
Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States
Sept 2025
Book
Storytelling is a means of fostering a sense of identity belonging and continuity. Through stories Indigenous peoples understand and interpret the world and learn how to survive in spite of external forces such as colonialism. Storytelling has been studied by many scholars across myriad disciplines; however its importance in dealing with trauma and in shaping identity demand further study. This volume contributes to an understanding of the importance of storytelling in shaping identity and healing trauma and as a method of resistance among Indigenous peoples in North America. The book will attract readers interested in Native North American studies Canadian studies and cultural studies. In particular the audience will include scholars investigating the importance of storytelling and its impact on healing and resistance among Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of media: fiction and non-fiction works documentaries poetry activist work movies and TV series.
Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics
Aug 2025
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This book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus a collection of authentic verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research it broadens both the scope of data and the methodological framework by integrating the Grammar of Graphics to facilitate the interpretation of linguistic findings. The study addresses the longstanding debate on the authenticity of scripted dialog demonstrating the textual and linguistic proximity between movie language and spontaneous conversation. It includes genre-based and diachronic analyses offering a rigorous data-driven perspective on movie language as both a linguistic resource and a tool for teaching spoken grammar. Bridging corpus linguistics applied linguistics and media studies the book provides valuable insights for scholars educators and learners interested in spoken language ELT and telecinematic discourse while contributing a novel visualized approach to empirical language analysis.
The Person in Politics : Pronouns and political personalization in U.S. presidential campaigns
Aug 2025
Book
Personalization has become a central feature of political communication. Politicians appear on late-night talk shows smile from billboards and post family photos on social media – placing themselves at the heart of public discourse. As individual personalities take center stage abstract political ideologies and political collectives fade into the background. The Person in Politics explores the linguistic dimension of this shift through the cognitive semantic analysis of pronominal references. Drawing on a thorough account of how pronouns are used in American presidential nomination acceptance speeches and with what purpose this work investigates how politicians emphasize individual leadership and craft collective identities with personal pronouns. Offering valuable insights into the intersection of language and political campaign rhetoric this book is relevant for scholars of cognitive linguistics and political communication as well as practicioners seeking to navigate the evolving field of political discourse.
Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies : Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Aug 2025
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This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for investigating speech acts namely a local grammar approach to annotating speech acts developing local grammars of speech acts identifying speech act constructions via the lens of local grammars and applying local grammars into contrastive speech act studies. These directions are illustrated with studies on apology in contemporary spoken British English which shows that local grammar can be an innovative approach to advance speech act studies and that such research has significant implications and applications. The book should be of interest to researchers and students in corpus linguistics pragmatics construction grammar and L2 speech act research and teaching.
Evaluative Discourse Metaphor in Online Communities
Aug 2025
Book
This monograph introduces the Evaluative Discourse Metaphor model which argues that participants in public and semi-public online discourse (re)use evaluative metaphors to construct and maintain communities. We explore how such metaphors trigger others with similar forms though not necessarily the same evaluative targets generating discourse spaces unified by a shared evaluative ethos. The model draws on a discourse-based view of metaphor Hallidayan metafunctions Du Bois’s stance triangle and insights from computer-mediated communication with a focus on affordances and community-building. We define or redefine key concepts including single evaluative metaphors metaphorical complexes triggers bondicons and chains. Rather than departing from existing literature we integrate it into a framework valuable to scholars in metaphor studies digital ethnography discourse analysis and online communication.
Beyond Binaries in Address Research : Politeness and identity practices in interaction
Jul 2025
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Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly within the formal/informal duality. The chapters explore several languages including European Portuguese Spanish varieties Caribbean Dutch Swedish German Bosnian Hungar-ian and Syrian Arabic. The analytical approaches are equally diverse challenging binary dis-tinctions through quantitative methods such as survey response analysis attitudinal experi-ments using the Matched Guise Test data clustering and qualitative analyses of interaction and metadiscourse. The ten chapters are accompanied by an introduction that situates the discussion within the broader critique of binary approaches to address over time.
This book will interest scholars engaged in address research broadly defined to include socio-linguistics language variation and change pragmatics politeness studies comparative linguis-tics and intercultural communication.
This book will interest scholars engaged in address research broadly defined to include socio-linguistics language variation and change pragmatics politeness studies comparative linguis-tics and intercultural communication.
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact
Jul 2025
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This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical sociocultural and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish contact as well as Judeo-Spanish in linguistic research shedding light on the enduring global relevance of the study of these languages and their contexts.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> With contributions employing diverse methodologies – quantitative qualitative and mixed-methods approaches – this collection examines topics such as multilingualism identity language variation and language ideologies and attitudes. The volume also features research regarding the contemporary sociolinguistic dynamics of Arabic and Spanish in education familial and religious contexts. This volume is essential for scholars of sociolinguistics historical and contemporary linguistics language policy and planning and language education. Finally the volume offers novel insights that expand the field and inspire new directions in Spanish and Arabic linguistics.<br/>
Metaphors in Audiovisual Translation
Jul 2025
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As metaphors are fascinating linguistic and cultural phenomena and as they have a great potential to cause translation problems it is no wonder that a great deal has been written about them both in metaphor studies and in translation studies. They are severely under-researched from the perspective of audiovisual translation however. This is surprising considering the added layers of complexity caused by the multimodality of audiovisual texts and the special conditions and constraints of dubbing and subtitling. This monograph seeks to remedy this as it investigates how metaphors are handled in three different genres of televisual light entertainment. If a metaphor is verbalized in the dialogue while being visualized on screen and if that metaphor is not normally used in the target language the task of the audiovisual translator becomes very challenging indeed. The research shows that audiovisual translators go to great lengths of creativity and complexity to do metaphors justice and maintain harmony with sound and image.
Dutch and Contact Linguistics : The Dutch language outside the Low Countries
Jul 2025
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Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English Spanish Portuguese or French the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars from across the globe to showcase the many varied outcomes of contact between Dutch and other languages in Europe Africa Asia and the Americas. These outcomes include language learning translation multilingualism codeswitching lexical borrowing grammatical interference the emergence of contact varieties such as creoles and language shift or ‘first-language attrition’. Other subjects that the volume covers include the circulation of Dutch loanwords translanguaging sprachbund studies taboo words animal names call names language beliefs Dutch as a heritage language and Dutch in online spaces. In short the contributions in this volume tell the story of the many outcomes of contact between Dutch and other languages across the centuries and across the world.
Semantic-Pragmatic Change from Intersubjective to Textual Meanings
Jun 2025
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This is the first comprehensive volume to explore the tendency from ‘intersubjective’ to ‘textual’ functions in semantic-pragmatic change. It challenges the influential hypothesis based on the pioneering works by Traugott i.e. the unidirectionality of change from objective to subjective and then to intersubjective meanings. In this framework textual meanings precede (inter)subjective ones. Questioning this established trajectory the contributions in this volume offer fresh perspectives on the development of intersubjective and textual functions. The chapters provide new empirical data about different constructions (modals conditionals discourse markers non-lexical items etc.) across a variety of largely unrelated languages (Ainu Mandarin Chinese English German Japanese Italian Sicilian Spanish).<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This book collects a multifaceted reflection for researchers interested in language change especially at the interface of semantics and pragmatics providing readers with an opportunity to better understand the crucial processes of textualization and intersubjectification.
Dialect on Air : Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Jun 2025
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Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a source of historical creole data. It presents the first real-time analysis of selected grammatical and phonological features of Bahamian Creole English. Situated within the framework of comparative sociolinguistics the study provides quantitative variationist analyses of the zero copula BE-levelling verbal negation low vowels (i.e. the lexical sets of BATH PALM START and TRAP) and the closing diphthongs of MOUTH and PRICE. This book will appeal not only to those interested in the analysis of creole and non-standard varieties but also to those studying language variation and change more broadly.
Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics : Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin
Jun 2025
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This volume honors the scholarly legacy of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Geeslin’s pioneering work on variation in the Spanish copula system united and extended research in the fields of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Geeslin laid the foundation for a growing subfield of investigation that explores how interlanguages vary in systematic and socially meaningful ways across various modules of language; how variation in learner language relates to the speakers contexts and experiences learners are in contact with; and how variable features develop over learning trajectories. This volume connects established and up-and-coming scholars conducting research on second language sociolinguistic variation and exemplifies the present and future of this line of inquiry. Together these chapters reconsider important questions pose and test new methods and challenge long-standing practices to advance both second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. The volume’s collaborative format also pays homage to Kim Geeslin’s unparalleled mentorship and field-wide influence.
Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity : A research synthesis
Jun 2025
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This book addresses the topic of cognitive task complexity as it has been investigated in second language (L2) task-based research. This interest is premised on the notion that communication tasks may differ systematically in the types and amounts of cognitive complexity they present to L2 learners and these differences may have predictable effects on L2 performance learning and other outcomes. Adopting a research synthetic approach the authors pursued the first ever comprehensive review of experimental and quasi-experimental studies published over the first 30 years of relevant research that drew comparisons between tasks designed to differ in levels and types of cognitive complexity. Findings from included studies (N = 296) illuminated critical patterns and gaps in the tasks cognitive complexity operationalizations outcome measures and moderating variables investigated. Meta-analytic comparisons of the most replicated variables identified substantial beneficial as well as detrimental effects between a few task designs and certain measures of performance uncovering heretofore unknown patterns of cause and effect. The book concludes with a detailed consideration of what is now known about L2 cognitive task complexity as well as the ways in which research should be improved providing an essential interpretive benchmark and a foundation for future investigations.
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.
The Second Language Acquisition of English Tense, Aspect and Modality
Jun 2025
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After a comprehensive description of the French and English tense aspect mood/modality (TAM) systems in Chapter 1 an overview of key theoretical perspective and applied perspectives from the morpheme-order studies to examples of internal and external interfaces in monolingual child acquisition is presented in Chapter 2. The literature review of L2 studies illustrates the subtleties of TAM properties in Chapter 3. It is followed by the rigorous methodology of a cross-sectional empirical study designed to test the L2 acquisition of the English TAM system along with pretest results in Chapter 4. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of data obtained from written production tasks cloze tests and completion tasks completed by French EFL and ESL learners and a NS comparison group appear in Chapters 5 6 and 7. The results discussed in Chapter 8 address the explanatory power of the Interface and Feature Reassembly hypotheses while directions for future research are offered in Chapter 9. Scholars will appreciate how new data carefully analyzed in its nuances and complexities bring us closer to better understanding the challenges L2 learners face.
Grammar in Action : Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction
Jun 2025
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Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics which analyzes instances of language use in naturally occurring interactions and Descriptive Grammars which describe the grammatical regularities of languages. The authors are skilled researchers in Interactional Linguistics. They analyze interactional phenomena in Danish English Finnish French German Italian and Swedish making concrete proposals about how grammatical phenomena might be described in a comprehensive interactional grammar. The volume also proposes solutions to problems that an interactional grammar faces for instance the written language bias the role of prosody and the body in the grammar how to approach different target audiences and how a web-based grammar could be useful for rendering the complexities of grammar in interaction.
Love, Sex, and the Sacred : A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs
Jun 2025
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Most Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE and what does THE SACRED have to do with these? <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory this book reveals the profound connections between the three concepts highlighting the spiritual roots of romantic love in a premodern religious context. Within this framework we can gain a better understanding of the true role of women in traditional religious societies – a role often misunderstood or perhaps misjudged by contemporary perspectives as unjust oppressed exploited and pathetic. However such perspectives might overlook valuable lessons that could still resonate today.<br/>The volume cuts across linguistics philosophy cultural anthropology and religious studies by offering a compelling look at how metaphors in folk poetry serve as a window into a worldview where the concept of LOVE and SEXUALITY transcend the physical boundaries of life.
Terminology throughout History : A discipline in the making
May 2025
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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.
Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts : Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school
May 2025
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This volume presents state-of-the-art research in early foreign language (L2) education in instructed contexts with a special focus on primary school (ages 5-12). Over the past two decades early language teaching has become an important factor in both academic inquiry and education policy. Studies have attested to the value of early L2 learning but also revealed specific features and challenges which highlights the need for more high-quality empirical research. This book addresses this need by presenting current international research on early L2 teaching and learning in regular and CLIL contexts in the primary school setting. Uniting insights from 12 countries the studies shed light on current issues such as teaching and assessment practice emerging L2 literacy instruction teaching materials and teachers’ parents’ and learners’ perspectives. The volume thus contributes significantly to the advancement of early language education and is an essential resource for researchers and educators in the field.
Field Research on Translation and Interpreting
May 2025
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This volume constitutes a significant step in establishing field research as a central methodological approach in translation and interpreting studies. Following an integrative approach it addresses both translation and interpreting across professional paraprofessional and non-professional settings. The chapters in this volume focus on lived experiences in diverse real-world contexts—including refugee centres UN missions NGOs virtual environments and the workplaces of specialised translators. They offer rich insights into the situated and dynamic nature of translation and interpreting practices and discuss common aspects and challenges such as the researchers’ reflexivity ethical considerations and the role of materiality in fieldwork. By shedding light on underexplored areas and offering critical reflections on field research methodology the volume contributes to expanding the boundaries of translation and interpreting studies and deepening our understanding of translation and interpreting in their social and material contexts.
Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective
May 2025
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The volume Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective brings together theoretical and empirical contributions on missing object constructions revealing a nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon that poses challenges to current theories of null objects. The selected papers highlight the significance of the interplay between formal constraints and semantic properties (namely definiteness and animacy) in the licensing of null objects cross-linguistically. The formally oriented papers contribute to ongoing discussions on the mechanisms underlying the derivation of null objects. The differences between null objects that are licensed by rich agreement and those that are agreement independent are also addressed. From a developmental perspective the papers on null objects in language acquisition including second language learning further provide valuable insights into the intricate processes underlying the acquisition of referential expressions. The role of animacy emerges as a central question particularly in the context of Portuguese varieties where differences in pronominal systems contribute to variation in null object distribution.
Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century : Current trends and methodologies
May 2025
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This volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic phonetic phonological and lexical/pragmatic) within the Spanish-speaking world across diverse geographical areas such as Arizona New York City Puerto Rico Galicia Melilla Catalonia Philadelphia Colombia and Argentina. The collection highlights the dynamic evolution of 21st-century sociolinguistic methodologies from traditional sociolinguistic interviews and oral corpora to innovative approaches like social media analysis cutting-edge computational methods and natural language processing. The volume not only commemorates the achievements in the field since the inaugural 2002 Workshop but also provides accessible insights into the most current developments and techniques making it an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students linguists social scientists and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the evolving landscape of Spanish sociolinguistics today.
Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario / Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields
May 2025
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En todas las lenguas existen numerosos referentes y conceptos idiosincrásicos. Esas especificidades sociales lingüísticas gestuales materiales incluso ideológicas sometidas a continuas reescrituras e interpretaciones a través de los tiempos que no tienen a menudo equivalentes exactos o funcionales en otras lenguas y culturas suponen inevitables dificultades para comprenderlas desde otros horizontes y como no para traducirlas.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> En las últimas décadas la importancia de los referentes culturales en el mundo de la traducción y la interpretación viene generando mucho interés convirtiéndose en uno de los pilares teórico-prácticos fundamentales en traductología y dando origen por consiguiente a una inagotable a la par que variada producción científica. Este volumen pretende ser una aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario.<br/><br/>There are numerous idiosyncratic references and concepts in every language. These social linguistic gestural material and even ideological specificities are subject to continuous rewriting and interpretations through time which often do not have exact or functional equivalents in other languages and cultures. These specificities pose inevitable difficulties to understand these languages and cultures from other horizons and of course to translate them.<br/>The importance of cultural references in the world of translation and interpretation has generated much interest in recent decades. It has become one of the major theoretical-practical pillars in translation studies giving rise therefore to an inexhaustible and varied scientific production. This volume aims to be an approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields.
Mobile Eye Tracking : New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction
May 2025
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Situated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication. Readers will find a comprehensive balanced exploration of the benefits and challenges associated with taking eye tracking out of the lab to record authentic interaction in real-life settings. By integrating insights from pragmatics the contributions highlight the function of gaze as a resource for coordination cooperation and joint sense-making in human interaction. The chapters are written by leading scholars in the field as well as younger researchers. They offer in-depth methodological discussions alongside detailed case studies from static and mobile interaction settings. The book makes a strong case for the use of mobile eye tracking in addition to video cameras. It provides researchers with a solid and state-of-the-art foundation on which to make informed choices about recording technologies for their own work. The volume is a must-read for scholars in multimodal conversation analysis interactional linguistics as well as cognitive linguists linguistic anthropologists and psychologists with a strong interest in new ways of studying gaze in social interaction.<.p>
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research
May 2025
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This book serves as an introduction to corpus linguistics (CL) for graduate students and researchers in Applied Linguistics especially in the domains of language learning and teaching. It provides a structured and accessible approach for those new to CL equipping readers with the foundational concepts and tools required to analyse language corpora autonomously in research related to language learning and teaching. It also contextualises CL’s development over the past four decades offering critical reflections on its practices and applications. Each chapter integrates recommended readings and highlights central concepts guiding readers in applying CL methods to their own studies. By the end of the book readers will have gained the knowledge and practical expertise needed to apply corpus linguistics methods in conducting robust and innovative research.
Style as Motivated Choice : In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021)
May 2025
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This volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Verdonk was Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam and one of the founding members of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Many of his colleagues from PALA have contributed chapters to this volume. Each author has chosen as their starting point one of Verdonk’s ideas on literary and linguistic style. Through his many nuanced and illuminating stylistic analyses Verdonk’s works explore questions pertaining to: How can we recognise styles and stylistic features? How is style used in literary and non-literary contexts? What is the relationship between text and discourse and between production and reception? And centrally how can we consider ‘style’ as ‘motivated choice’. The chapters in this volume are erudite and inspirational. Reflecting Verdonk's own influence on the discipline of stylistics and his career-long support of younger scholars they will motivate new stylistics researchers and students for decades to come.
Germanic Interrelations : Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen
May 2025
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This volume celebrates Hans Frede Nielsen’s contribution to the field of Germanic studies and his work as founding editor of the journal and book series North-Western European Language Evolution. Twenty peer-reviewed articles explore a broad range of topics involving North and West Germanic languages. Some studies focus on early runic inscriptions others deal with features of modern varieties. All align in one way or another with Nielsen’s fields of interest especially historical linguistics and cover aspects of phonology syntax morphology etymology toponyms ethnonyms dialectology text linguistics linguistic historiography and language contact.
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery : The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature
Apr 2025
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The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work of literature to central questions of cultural memory testimony and the formation of archives. ‘Literature’ here as in the other volumes of this series is understood in the broadest sense as textual visual auditory cinematic and performative genres. The volume asks: What are the central metaphors storylines and topoi of literary representations of slavery? What kind of identities and political realities are created or enabled by the texts? What are the performative effects of literary language? Post-slavery literature is caught in a double endeavor: vivifying the past making identification possible while acknowledging the moral distance and the difficulties of remembering that past. The volume is divided into six sections that take up different aspects and problems of literary memory of slavery: counter-memories/memories of resistance the body as material archive fictionality of history writing the bricolage of history authorship/authenticity and the necessity of creative approaches to a history that is troublesome and full of accumulated erasures. A previous volume Vol. 1 explored slavery and the emotions. The next volume Vol. 3 will explore authorship and literary culture in relation to slavery.
Broadening the Horizon of TBLT : Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching
Apr 2025
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First launched in 2005 the biennial International Conferences on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) have become an established event for a broad range of participants and a key feature of the conferences has been the invited plenary (keynote) addresses. This edited volume brings together a selection of plenaries given at conferences between 2015 and 2023 and exemplifies the contributions being made by prominent and internationally recognised TBLT scholars on a variety of issues pertinent to TBLT theory and practice. The volume is framed around how the horizon of TBLT has broadened over the past decade and how the plenaries presented during this past decade have helped to take our knowledge and understanding of TBLT further. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders including teachers researchers and postgraduate students who would like to gain an overview of key dimensions of the field in the last decade.
World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Apr 2025
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World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions with different interlocutors and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are heterogenous manifesting only partial overlap regarding language repertoires use proficiencies and attitudes. The languages in multilingual ecologies may shift in status over time. Some languages may be lost while new languages appear. Strong regional languages and English typically persist. The volume explores multilingual ecologies around the globe and the position of English within them. Case studies are drawn from Africa East South and Southeast Asia the Middle East and Europe all written by distinguished scholars in the field who consider both standardized and non-standardized forms of English. The volume argues for a more inclusive study of World Englishes incorporating speakers’ social backgrounds as well as the other languages in their repertoires.
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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.
New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole : Standardization, grammar and language use
Apr 2025
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In the South-West Indian Ocean Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some structural properties of their grammars. Both languages also differ in the degree to which they are standardized and used in education and in public spaces. One of the goals of this volume is to examine their social status and their use in writing especially after the introduction of Mauritian Creole as a subject in schools as one of the ancestral languages. French and Bhojpuri are also part of the multilingual Mauritian context. One chapter in this volume analyses the role of Bhojpuri in the formation of Mauritian Creole while another studies the pronunciation of Mauritian French.
Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research
Apr 2025
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Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as second language (L2) within contemporary SLA research. The presentation problematises those approaches and methods as a critique of what has been done identifying a methodological roadmap of what needs to be done in order to advance the methodological agenda in L2 French and its contribution to wider SLA research. The discussion further aims to bridge the interface between methodological issues and the research investigation of a specific LOTE French such as in terms of its linguistic characterisation and developmental issues underpinning its acquisition. The analysis extends to approaches and methods across different theoretical paradigms in L2 French in different areas of linguistic development among learners in different learning contexts.
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.
Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities : 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French
Apr 2025
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This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second it draws on non-traditional dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert” views on language but also the perspectives of the “audience” engaging with these texts. Using France and the French language as its case study the book explores the areas of stability and change in questions of linguistic authority insecurity and correctness. It sheds new light on the evolution of the long-established genre of language commentary and deepens our understanding of the language attitudes and ideologies that shape how language is viewed discussed and judged. This book will appeal to linguists interested in language attitudes and ideologies in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Apr 2025
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As digital advancements reshape communication researchers need interdisciplinary methods to understand the cognitive processes involved. This essential reference for advanced students and researchers provides a comprehensive introduction to innovative research methods in cognitive translation and interpreting studies (CTIS). International experts from diverse disciplines share best practices for investigating cognitive processes in multilectal mediated communication. They emphasize the application of these methods across research domains situated at the interface of cognition and communication. The book offers an in-depth analysis of key research methods explaining their rationales uses affordances and limitations. Each chapter focuses on one or two closely related research methods and their tools including surveys interviews introspective techniques keylogging eyetracking and neuroimaging. The book guides readers in planning research projects and in making informed methodological choices. It also helps readers understand the basics of popular tools fostering more rigorous research practices in data collection. Additionally it provides practical suggestions on study design participant profiling and data analysis to deepen our understanding of texts tasks and their users.
Historical Linguistics 2022 : Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022
Mar 2025
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This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting diversity of research questions theoretical approaches linguistic phenomena and languages explored. Data are drawn from Algonquian Arandic Bantu Cushitic Edoid Indo-European Manchu Tangkic Tungusic and Uralic—among other languages and language-families. In addition to addressing always with new insights more traditional concerns of historical linguistics such as reconstruction classification the effects of contact and borrowing the determinants of morphological syntactic phonological and semantic change this book presents studies on less conventional topics for example the diachrony of ideophones.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV : Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022
Mar 2025
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This volume contains nine chapters that cover a wide range of topics in Arabic linguistic research. The papers are organized into four parts; these are phonetics and phonology morphology syntax and semantics and decolonizing linguistics. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic varieties articles in this volume bring cross-dialectal data that shed light on critical issues in linguistic theory. This volume also includes a non-traditional paper that critiques the methodology and practices of Arabic linguistic research. Scholars and graduate students of Arabic and general linguistics will benefit from the cutting-edge research in this volume.
Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics
Mar 2025
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Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics moves the field of Applied Linguistics into new methodological territory. Applying both the newer reflexive methodologies of currere and duoethnography as well as the more established methodologies of autoethnography and narrative to the broad field of Applied Linguistics international authors in the field examine the affordances limitations and ethical challenges and benefits of these methodologies to Applied Linguistics from multiple perspectives. A parallel structure in the book encourages the reader to critically compare and contrast the uses of these methodologies within Applied Linguistics.
Nuevos Enfoques Lingüísticos y Traductológicos del Discurso Turístico
Mar 2025
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El presente volumen explora la riqueza y pluralidad del turismo y su discurso a través de un análisis interdisciplinario que proporciona una visión integral del impacto del turismo en diversas esferas comunicativas sociales y culturales. Esta obra recopila un total de quince investigaciones que destacan la naturaleza intercultural multifacética y multilingüe de esta actividad así como la variedad de géneros discursivos que merecen un análisis detenido.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>El volumen aborda desde la influencia de las redes sociales y la creación de nuevos formatos del discurso turístico hasta la emoción y la subjetividad presentes en las comunicaciones promocionales. Ofrece una panorámica de cómo el turismo contemporáneo se entrelaza con múltiples dimensiones y formatos discursivos subrayando los desafíos estratégicos que enfrentan traductores terminólogos y lingüistas.<br/><br/> This volume explores the richness and plurality of tourism and its discourse through an interdisciplinary analysis providing a comprehensive view of the impact of tourism on various communicative social and cultural spheres. It compiles a total of fifteen investigations which highlight the intercultural multifaceted and multilingual nature of this activity as well as the variety of discursive genres that merit close analysis. <br/>The volume addresses everything from the influence of social networks and the creation of new formats of tourism discourse to the emotion and subjectivity present in promotional communications. It provides an overview of how contemporary tourism is intertwined with multiple dimensions and discursive formats highlighting the strategic challenges facing translators terminologists and linguists.
The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English : Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Feb 2025
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The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly surprisingly and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior narrow-scope adverbs e.g. adverbs modifying VPs. There is however disagreement about the mechanisms that brought the change about. Based on quantitative data the book tests various hypotheses involving reanalysis of potentially ambiguous narrow-scope adverbs (often referred to as grammaticalization) ellipsis lexicalization and analogy. The data provide no clear evidence in favour of any of the hypotheses tested but suggest that different mechanisms may have been at work for different lexemes and subsets of SOAs. The book should appeal to researchers interested in the development and licensing of SOAs but also to those with an interest in diachronic and syntactic change in general or in grammaticalization reanalysis or subjectification in particular.