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Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives : 21st century perspectives
Apr 2026
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Editor(s):
Cornelia Ilie
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 : Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson
Apr 2026
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Editor(s):
Clara Neary,
Simon Statham and
Peter Stockwell
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 : Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian
Mar 2026
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Author(s):
Alice Suozzi
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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Editor(s):
Gabrielle Klassen and
John W. Schwieter
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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Editor(s):
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,
Dolores González-Álvarez and
Esperanza Rama-Martínez
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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Editor(s):
Marco Coniglio,
Kalle Müller and
Markus Steinbach
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 New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax : Root-based and templatic morphosyntax
Mar 2026
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Author(s):
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
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
The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages
Mar 2026
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Editor(s):
Irene Capdevila and
Francesc Feliu
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.
Pardon my French?: Dutch-French language contact in the Netherlands (1500-1900) : Dutch-French language contact in the Netherlands (1500-1900)
Mar 2026
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Author(s):
Gijsbert Rutten,
Andreas Krogull,
Brenda Assendelft and
Jill Puttaert
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.
60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research : Toward more engaged research
Mar 2026
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Editor(s):
Grégory Miras,
Isabel Colón de Carvajal,
Nathalie Blanc and
Shona Whyte
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.
Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology : Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology
Feb 2026
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Editor(s):
Peter Herbeck and
Natascha Pomino
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.
Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges : Advances and challenges
Feb 2026
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Editor(s):
Noelia Ramón and
María Pérez Blanco
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.
Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text : Beyond language and text
Feb 2026
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Editor(s):
Hilla Karas and
Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot
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.
Cross-linguistic Register Variation
Feb 2026
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Editor(s):
Sylvi Rørvik and
Marlén Izquierdo
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 : Colour Expression and Cognition
Feb 2026
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Editor(s):
Carole P. Biggam,
Domicele Jonauskaite,
Mari Uusküla and
Dimitris Mylonas
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.
A (Re)turn to the Source Text
Feb 2026
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Editor(s):
Malin Carlström and
Richard Pleijel
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?
Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context : A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context
Feb 2026
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Editor(s):
Irene Leonardis
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.
The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach : A diachronic constructional approach
Feb 2026
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Author(s):
Fangqiong Zhan
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.
At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics
Jan 2026
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Editor(s):
Anna Rogos-Hebda and
Heli Tissari
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 : A cognitive linguistic approach
Jan 2026
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Editor(s):
Rita Brdar-Szabó and
Mario Brdar
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.