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Mental Models across Languages : The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese
Dec 2018
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This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to baldness phenomena. These sets of visualizations are used to determine conceptual overlap or distance between expressions in the three languages resulting in lexical-conceptual 'maps' for MALE BALDNESS. The study is discussed against the background of an embodied perceptual symbol-based understanding of linguistic meaning. A section of the book further applies this perspective to the issue of translation developing a process model of translation based on the concept of cognitive equivalence.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book presents a novel approach to lexical semantics from a cognitive linguistic perspective tested through a methodologically innovative experiment. It is a compelling read to scholars in cognitive semantics contrastive semantics embodied cognition and cognitive translation studies.<br/>
Doing Politics : Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse
Dec 2018
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This edited volume explores the discursive performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by international authors (UK USA Italy Germany Austria Denmark) in political science discourse linguistic and social interaction research. The contributions represent a wide range of methodological approaches to political discourse analyzing a broad variety of genres some of which have been less analyzed to-date for example Wikipedia articles in combination with their discussion pages or the interaction between politicians and voters in the constituency office of a British Member of Parliament. The contributions also focus on political discourses of high and relevant topicality such as EU membership of Britain populism migration and xenophobia terrorism and narratives in international relations.
Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition : Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler
Dec 2018
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Language Learning Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these subfields and links between the studies are laid out in introductory and concluding chapters. This edited volume is intended for both researchers and graduate students in linguistics and second language learning and teaching.
On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance
Dec 2018
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This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII held in Bellaterra Catalonia Spain in September 2016. Part I of the volume is devoted to passives and related constructions. The results unveil domains in comprehension in which children are adult-like and other domains where there is delay. It is a challenge for current theoretical proposals to encompass such differences. Part II focuses on the TP-field including clitics and negation. Part III deals with the CP-field covering topics such as backward anaphora subjects and the left periphery and recursiveness. The volume includes studies carried out on a variety of populations: typically developing children bilinguals children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Specific Language Impairment and heritage speakers with a view to arriving at a general theory of language acquisition.
Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics : Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Dec 2018
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Dedicated to John B. Whitman this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages including Japanese Korean Chinese Austronesian Indo-Aryan and Thai. Ranging from syntax and morphology to semantics acquisition processing and phonology from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives this collection reflects the breadth of the honoree’s research interests which span multiple research subfields in numerous Asian languages.
The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals : Economy and bilingual first language acquisition
Dec 2018
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This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the properties of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish and test some of the current theoretical proposals to analyze the main syntactic properties and operations within the nominal phrase. The findings of the study suggest new directions to address some core questions about monolingual and bilingual language acquisition taking as a point of departure the notion of economy prevalent in the most recent theoretical discussion. Given the combination of empirical and theoretical discussions this monograph will be appealing to a broad range of researchers in syntax and language acquisition.
Constructions in Contact : Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Dec 2018
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The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together for the first time a broad range of original contributions providing insights into language contact phenomena from a constructionist perspective. Focusing primarily on Germanic languages the papers in this volume demonstrate how the notion of construction can be fruitfully applied to investigate how a range of different language contact phenomena can be systematically analyzed from the perspectives of both form and meaning.
Negation and Negative Concord : The view from Creoles
Dec 2018
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While universally present in languages negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages however negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language generally exhibit negative concord a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’ where several expressions each negative on its own come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.
Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond : In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Dec 2018
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Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages which together with Albanian were the main research domain of Leonardo M. Savoia. The volume covers areas as different as phonology morphology syntax and the lexicon. A broad range of Romance languages is considered as well as Albanian Greek and Hungarian shedding new light on many classical topics. The first section focuses on morphosyntax both in the narrow sense and with regard to its interfaces. The second section focuses on clitics and pronouns. The third section deals with a number of issues in phonology and syntax-phonology interface. The last section turns the reader’s attention beyond formal linguistics itself and examines variation in the light of neurosciences pathology historical linguistics and political discourse.
Substance-based Grammar – The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson
Dec 2018
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The contributions of this volume centre around the (ongoing) work of John Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the British Academy who with detailed studies in phonology morphology semantics and syntax as well as careful discussions of historical and methodological issues in linguistics at large has been and still is the central figure in the development of a theory of language structure driven by the assumption of structural analogy between syntax and phonology and firmly grounded in the long-standing tradition of substantively based grammar behind it. The first contribution is a lengthy ‘interview’ based on a series of written interchanges by József Andor with John Anderson which focuses on the development of Anderson’s work and its relation to contemporaneous developments in linguistics. The following eight contributions centring on general issues concerning the historiography of localism the lexicon meaning and syntax and finally phonology deal with applications extensions answers to criticism and philosophical context of Anderson’s work.
Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time : Accusation of inconsistency in response to criticism
Dec 2018
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When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critic’s position a tricky political practice emerges. Turning the criticism back to the critic can be a constructive move that restores coherence but it may also be a disruptive move that silences the critical voice and obstructs accountability. What distinguishes constructive cases from disruptive ones? This is the question this book sets out to answer. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The question is addressed by adopting an argumentative perspective. Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time focuses on the turnabout employed by the British Prime Minister in response to the Leader of the Opposition. The turnabout is characterised as a particular way of strategic manoeuvring. The manoeuvring is analysed and evaluated by combining pragmatic dialectical and rhetorical insights with considerations from the realm of politics. The outcome is an account of the turnabout’s strategic functions and an assessment guide for evaluating its reasonableness. <br/>The book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of argumentation discourse analysis communication and rhetoric.<br/>
New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
Dec 2018
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The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models such as constructionalization the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers and reveal a renewed interest in the typological application of grammaticalization and in the cognitive motivations for unidirectionality. The contributors consider data from a wide range of languages including several that have not or marginally been looked at in terms of grammaticalization: Chinese Dutch (varieties of) English French German Japanese Maltese Old Saxon Spanish and languages of the South Caucasian and Zhuang Tai-Kadai families. The chapters range from theoretical discussions to fine-grained analyses of new historical and comparative language data. This volume will be of interest to linguists studying morphosyntactic changes in a range of languages and in particular to those interested in models for grammatical change.
Handbook of Pragmatics : 21st Annual Installment
Dec 2018
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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://www.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://www.benjamins.com/online/hop/
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
Nov 2018
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The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used.
As of 26 July 2021 the ebook edition is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
As of 26 July 2021 the ebook edition is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
The Biblical Book of Daniel : The Catalan Translation by the French Hebraist Maties Delcor
Nov 2018
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Delcor (1919-1992) is responsible for a translation of the Book of Daniel which is the only Catalan version of a book of the Bible produced by a North Catalan author to be included in Fundació Bíblica Catalana’s 1968 Bible. This unique circumstance was the inspiration to recover this translation and publish it in a scientific edition collated with the original texts from which Delcor worked. The introduction situates this singular work in the context of the long history of biblical translations in Catalan and offers an exegetical approach to this work that tradition has transmitted in three languages of the ancient world: Hebrew Aramaic and Greek. English equivalents of all of the texts have been added as a further point of comparison.
Un cançoner català del Renaixement a Roma : Les poesies de Joan Salom, astrònom valencià
Nov 2018
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This book contains an edited and contextualized collection of poetry that is preserved without an author's name in a manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library. The internal and external analysis of the manuscript has made it possible to attribute it to Joan Salom (or Salon) a Franciscan monk who in addition to being a noted hebraist and astronomer had an important role in reforming the Gregorian calendar and who is here also revealed as a poet. Beyond the interest of adding previously unknown lyrics to the Catalan literary production of the 1500s this songbook is important because it is situated at the time when the new Italian poetic forms of the Renaissance were being introduced in Catalan poetry.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Aquest llibre edita i contextualitza un petit recull de poesies que avui es conserva sense nom d’autor dins un manuscrit de la Biblioteca Apostòlica Vaticana. L’anàlisi interna i externa del manuscrit ha permès atribuir-lo amb tota seguretat a Joan Salom (o Salon) un frare franciscà que a més d’hebraista i astrònom reconegut –va tenir un paper important en la reforma del calendari gregorià– se’ns revela doncs també com a poeta. A les composicions hi ha elogis a alguns contemporanis algunes peces de caràcter devot i unes quantes poesies adreçades a un amor frustrat envers una monja barcelonina. Més enllà de l’interès que té augmentar la producció literària catalana del Cinc-cents amb uns textos desconeguts aquest cançoner és important perquè se situa en el moment en què les noves formes poètiques italianes del renaixement s’introdueixen en la poesia catalana.
Historical Pragmatics of Controversies : Case studies from 1600 to 1800
Nov 2018
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The book gives an introduction to the new research field of Historical Pragmatics of Controversies and provides seven case studies (from 1609 to 1796) on controversies in the fields of astronomy/astrology medicine chemistry philosophy and theology. The protagonists of these controversies include both famous authors like Kepler Hobbes and Leibniz and internationally less known authors like the German theologian A.H. Francke and the chemist F.A.C. Gren. The case studies examine the organizing principles of historical controversies language use moves and strategies topic management and text organisation and the adherence to communication principles in these controversies. At the same time they analyse the use of different text types and media in the course of controversies including pamphlets journal articles reviews scientific handbooks and letters. In addition the case studies demonstrate early modern writers’ resources from disputation practice dialectic and rhetoric and show developments of the practice of polemical writing during this period.
The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax : The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval
Nov 2018
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This book offers the most comprehensive up-to-date multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them is a philological gem that underwent numerous vicissitudes. The current volume comprises eighteen chapters dealing in depth with Codax’s work and the Vindel Parchment from five basic perspectives: literature; linguistics codicology and ecdotics; music; history and reception of the Vindel Parchment; and the historical background of medieval Vigo (at the time still a small town where Codax’s cantigas de amigo are set). Specialists from different disciplines and countries joined forces in a effort to improve our understanding of Martin Codax and his lyric poetry. The research included here tries to go beyond received knowledge in the field by using new approaches and perspectives delving deeper into areas that had not been sufficiently studied or by venturing into unexplored territories. Many hypotheses are put forward contributing to raising interest in a fascinating enigmatic author in his extraordinary cantigas and in a medieval parchment that is becoming less and less mysterious. The volume contains contributions in English Spanish Italian Portuguese and Galician each accompanied by a summary in English.
Veritas et subtilitas : Truth and Subtlety in the History of Philosophy. Essays in memory of Burkhard Mojsisch (1944 – 2015)
Nov 2018
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The book provides a collection of scientific papers which are dedicated to the memory of Burkhard Mojsisch. The collection includes highly qualified papers on ancient medieval and early modern philosophy and demonstrates the importance of the historical research of philosophy at the beginning of the 21st century and its current trends. It documents historical aspects of important philosophical discussions of contemporaneity (e.g. in the fields of intercultural philosophy and interdisciplinary philosophy such as philosophy of neuroscience). The authors are leading specialists of philosophy especially of ancient and medieval philosophy. The collection includes papers in German English and French.
The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast : Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches
Nov 2018
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The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German and Dutch where prosody and assertive particles are systematically associated with polarity contrast. Recently the grammatical realization of polarity contrast has been at the center of investigations in a range of other languages as well. Core questions concern the formal repertoire and the exact meaning contribution of the relevant devices the kind of contrast they evoke and their relation to information structure and sentence mood. This volume brings together researchers from a theoretical an empirical and a typological orientation and enhances our understanding of polarity with the help of in-depth analyses and cross-linguistic comparisons dealing with the syntactic semantic pragmatic and/or prosodic aspects of the phenomenon.
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Nov 2018
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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics historical linguistics and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change linguistic changes that occur in particular genres and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.
Progress in Colour Studies : Cognition, language and beyond
Nov 2018
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This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines including vision science psychology psycholinguistics linguistics anthropology onomastics philosophy archaeology and design. The chapters have been developed from papers and posters presented at the Progress in Colour Studies (PICS2016) conference held at University College London in September 2016. The book continues the series from the earlier PICS conferences which have become renowned for their insights into colour in language and cognition. In the present book all chapters have been rigorously peer-reviewed and revised to ensure the highest standards throughout. The chapters are grouped into three sections: Colour Perception and Cognition; The Language of Colour; and The Diversity of Colour. Each section is preceded by a short introduction drawing together the themes of its chapters. There are over 120 colour illustrations.
Offers and Offer Refusals : A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes
Nov 2018
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This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research the book also contributes to theory formation on the emerging theoretical framework postcolonial pragmatics which is then applied to data from two World (postcolonial) Englishes Ghanaian and Cameroon Englishes. The copious examples used clearly illustrate how postcolonial societies realise various pragmatic phenomena in this case offers and offer refusals and how these could be fruitfully explained using an analytical framework designed on the complex internal set ups of these societies. For research on social interaction in these societies to be representative it has to take into account the complex history of their evolution contact with other systems during colonialism and the heritages thereof. This book does just that.
Fraseología, Diatopía y Traducción / Phraseology, Diatopic Variation and Translation
Nov 2018
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In all languages humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. These PUs are characterized by their institutionalized fixation and in many cases by their opacity. Traditionally the work on phraseology has placed the emphasis on the total fixing of components and structures of verbal expressions. Variation in PUs is currently an uncontested fact and has been extensively studied and analyzed. In addition in the case of languages like Spanish English French spoken in many countries new creations or diatopic variants arise. While these diatopic expressions have been collected or analyzed in their territory of influence no comprehensive collection showing all the expressions and contrastive analysis to observe the similarities and differences between these diatopic creations with all their idiosyncratic and cultural references have been made so far.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The content of this volume deals with numerous linguistic lexicographic and translational problems in the context of language variation in general as well as specifically related to diatopic variation. The aim is to make progress in these challenging and highly interesting areas which still pose many comprehension and translation problems.
Introduction to Discourse Studies
Nov 2018
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This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics from critical discourse analysis to stylistics and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by
- over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text;
- more than 150 test-yourself questions all elaborately answered which are ideal for self-study;
- nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses.
Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009 a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).
The previous (2004) edition can be found here.
Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar
Nov 2018
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This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions negation modification modality polysynthesis and transparency) from different perspectives language-specific comparative and typological. In addition to applying the theory to the topics in question these papers aim to contribute to the further development of the theory by modifying and extending it on the basis of new linguistic evidence from a range of languages thus providing the latest state-of-the-art in FDG. The volume as a whole however does more than this as separately and together the papers collected here aim to demonstrate how FDG with its unique architecture can provide new insights into a number of issues and phenomena that are currently of interest to theoretical linguists in general.
Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry : Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy
Nov 2018
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Across the world professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward further solidifying its position as a conduit of insight into the human condition it is essential to take stock of the theoretical primitives that have given linguistics its intellectual foundation. This volume does precisely that inspecting the load-bearing components of the edifice upon which contemporary linguistics has been constructed. The volume’s authors – whose expertise spans the Generativist Functionalist and Variationist research traditions – remind us of the need to revisit the conceptual bedrock of the field clarifying and assessing our primary theoretical moves including those relating to such elemental components as the ‘linguistic sign’ ‘a language’ ‘structural relations’ ‘grammatical category’ ‘acquisition’ ‘bilingual’ ‘competence’ and ‘sociolinguistic variable’.
Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom : Judicial interpreting in Hong Kong
Nov 2018
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This book takes you into a common-law courtroom which is in no way similar to any other courtroom where common law is practised. This uniqueness is characterised in particular by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society and by the presence of other bilinguals in court thus presenting specific challenges for the interpreters who work in it and at times rendering the interpretation service superfluous. This study inter alia problematises judges’ intervention in the court proceedings Chinese witnesses testifying in English as well as English-language trials heard by Chinese jurors. It demonstrates how the use of chuchotage proves to be inadequate and inappropriate in the Hong Kong courtroom where interpreting in an English-language trial is arguably provided to cater for the need of the linguistic majority. This book is useful to interpreters language educators legal professionals forensic linguists and policy makers alike.
Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Nov 2018
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What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody syntax and pragmatics the typology of word order and intonation languages the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages including French Italian Portuguese and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English German and Quechua.
Eye-tracking in Interaction : Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue
Nov 2018
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This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction including human-human and human-computer interaction. Approaching the phenomenon from different disciplinary and methodological angles the chapters in the volume are united through a shared technological approach viz. the use of eye-tracking technology for measuring speakers’ and hearers’ eye gaze patterns while engaged in interaction. Envisioned as an ‘innovating reader’ the volume addresses key questions of interdisciplinary relevance (e.g. to what extent can the analysis of fine-grained eye gaze data obtained with eye-tracking technology inform conversation analysis and vice versa?) positioning (e.g. what is the semiotic status of eye gaze in relation to linguistic signaling?) and methodology (e.g. can we strike a balance between experimental control and authenticity in setting up dialogue settings with eye-tracking technology?). The exploration of these and other questions contributes to the demarcation of a burgeoning research program.
Aspectuality across Languages : Event construal in speech and gesture
Oct 2018
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The book provides a nuanced multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France Germany and Russia including scholars from the Netherlands and the United States. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Aspect and gesture use are studied in three Indo-European languages i.e. French German and Russian. The book also summarizes the main points and arguments from French German and Russian works on aspect in relation to tense bringing these historical traditions together for an English-speaking reading audience. <br/>The work rekindles some fundamental theorizing about events and aspect reinvigorating it in a new light with the use of recent theorizing from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology as well as new research methods applied to new data from actual spoken interactive language use. It illustrates the value of researching the variably multimodal nature of communication – as well as theoretical issues in connection with thinking for speaking and mental simulation – from an empirical point of view.
Eye Tracking and Multidisciplinary Studies on Translation
Oct 2018
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Through cohesive yet wide-ranging contributions focused on the rapidly growing area of eye tracking in Translation Studies this volume provides readers with an insightful cross-section of the state of the art in this multidisciplinary field. Showcasing the great potential and challenges of this still nascent paradigm it offers novel practical methods and approaches to conduct ambitious experimental studies. Through a variety of methodologically-oriented chapters and case studies categorised into three key areas – ‘Method’ ‘Process’ and ‘Product’ – the book presents some of the most up-to-date eye-tracking methods and results in Translation Studies including experiment design statistical and analytical approaches the translation process audience and reader response and audiovisual translation. The reproducible research protocols re-iterative approaches and ambitious triangulations of data included in this volume seek to inspire new research using eye tracking in Translation Studies by providing the necessary methodological support and ideas for new avenues of inquiry.
Where is Adaptation? : Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Oct 2018
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Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures texts and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation both eminent and emerging. From insightful self-analyses by practitioners (a novelist a film director a comics artist) to analyses of adaptations of place culture and identity the authors brought together in this collection represent a broad cross-section of current work in adaptation studies. From the development of technologies impacting film festivals to the symbiotic potential of interweaving disability and adaptation studies censorship exploring the “glocal” and an examination of the Association for Adaptation Studies at its 10th anniversary the original contributions in this volume aim to trace the leading edges of this evolving field.
TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy
Oct 2018
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Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research. A defining part of the TBLT project has always been a dual concern – both with the nature and use of tasks in language teaching and with empirical research to guide and support classroom practitioners the two concerns suggesting a central and reciprocal relationship between research and pedagogy. However this relationship has at times been unbalanced and its centrality has sometimes gone by default problems which this volume aims to address. The introduction proposes criteria to improve the congruence between the research base of TBLT and the concerns and terms of reference of classroom practitioners. Using a range of methodologies the individual chapters illustrate and explore different aspects of this theme. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to further their understanding of – and/or investigate – the use of TBLT in educational contexts.
Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms
Oct 2018
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This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students but increasingly by multilingual students with highly diverse language backgrounds. This necessitates a new understanding of foreign language learning and teaching. The volume brings together an international group of researchers of high caliber who specialize in third language acquisition teaching English as an additional language and multilingual education. In addition to topical overview articles on the multilingual policies pursued in Europe Africa North America and Asia as well as several contributions dealing with theoretical issues regarding multilingualism and plurilingualism the volume also offers cutting edge case studies from multilingual acquisition research and foreign language classroom practice. Throughout the volume multilingualism is interpreted as a valuable resource that can facilitate language education provided it is harnessed in appropriate conditions.
Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation : Capturing transitions in the classroom
Oct 2018
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This volume brings together researchers in conversation analysis who examine the practice of alternating between English and German Italian Spanish Swedish and Vietnamese in the classroom. The collection shows that language alternation is integral to being and learning to become a bilingual and that being and learning to become a bilingual are accomplished through a remarkably common set of interactional objects and actions whose sequential organisations are quite similar across languages and educational sectors. This volume therefore shows that having recourse to more than one shared language provides an important resource for getting the work of language learning and teaching done through an orderliness that can be described and evaluated. The findings and the suggested pedagogical applications described in the volume will be of significant interest to researchers and teachers in a range of fields including second and foreign language teaching and learning conversation analysis teacher education and bilingualism. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>
Cognitive Rhetoric : The cognitive poetics of political discourse
Oct 2018
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This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective the volume draws on concepts from classical rhetoric alongside contemporary research in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistics (including schema theory Text World Theory Cognitive Grammar and mind-modelling amongst others). It examines the role played by the speaker’s identity the arguments they make and the emotions of the audience in the – often critical – reception of political text and talk using a diversity of examples to illustrate this three-dimensional approach – from political speeches interviews and newspaper articles to more creative text-types such as politicised rap music television satire and filmic drama. The result of this wide-ranging application is a holistic and systematic account of the rhetorical and ideological effects of political discourse in reception.
Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects : The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers
Oct 2018
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Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative. Their research was focused on Icelandic and South-Asian languages respectively and since then oblique subjects have been reported for language after language throughout the world. This newfangled recognition of the concept of oblique subjects at the time was followed by discussions of the role and validity of subject tests discussions of the verbal semantics involved as well as discussions of the theoretical implications of this case marking strategy of syntactic subjects. This volume contributes to all these debates making available research articles on different languages and language families additionally highlighting issues like language contact differential subject marking and the origin of oblique subjects.
Reorganising Grammatical Variation : Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants
Oct 2018
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With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic Romance Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change.
Attention to Metaphor : From neurons to representations
Sept 2018
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The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and consequently the development of the Embodied Simulation theory. Neuroscientific data on the mechanism of Embodied Simulation and its role in conceptual and linguistic processing figurative language included have stimulated a great deal of research on the embodied nature of conceptual metaphors. However the very definition of the notions of body and embodiment are today still controversial in the Embodied Cognition debate. This book addresses the issue of the specific contribution of the body to conceptual and linguistic processing and provides a new definition for the mechanism of Embodied Simulation. In this light and in consideration of a revision of the contemporary theory of metaphor recently introduced by Gerard Steen who distinguished between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphor processing the book also proposes a new model of metaphor processing that brings together the mechanism of Embodied Simulation on the one hand and the notion of deliberateness on the other. Modulation of attention during linguistic processing is a key component in explaining how they interact.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Potential readers of the book include linguists psychologists philosophers and any other cognitive scientists and communication scientists piqued by the topic of metaphor and embodiment.
Learning Language through Task Repetition
Sept 2018
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After more than 20 years of research this is the first book-length treatment of second language task repetition – the repetition of encounters with a task that involve re-using the same content with the same overall purpose. The topic links task performance with the growing mastery of both the task and of relevant language and constitutes a site with special potential to promote learning within and across language lessons and for preparing students for assessment and of course real-world language performance. The volume assembles chapters that complement each other in interesting ways: significant background reviews studies of patterns of change across task repetition iterations and reports on the use and nature of task repetition in language classes in on-going programmes. Contributors draw on a variety of interpretive frameworks and report from a range of language educational contexts. The volume will be of interest to language researchers teacher educators teachers and students as well as others interested in the contribution of task repetition to learning.
Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives
Sept 2018
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The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the contrastive lexical semantics of certain landscape words in a number of languages. The aim is to show how geographical vocabulary sheds light on the culturally and historically shaped ways people see and think about the land around them. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Notably the study presents landscape concepts as anchored in a human-centred perspective based on our cognition vision and experience in places. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach allows an analysis of meaning which is both fine-grained and transparent. The book is aimed first of all at scholars and students of linguistics. Yet it will also be of interest to researchers in geography environmental studies anthropology cultural studies Australian Studies and Australian Aboriginal Studies because of the book’s cultural take.
Del manuscrit a la paraula digital / From Manuscript to Digital Word : Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes / Studies of Catalan language and literature
Sept 2018
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This collection which transports readers from the age of manuscripts to the digital word is a good demonstration not only of the current vitality of studies of Catalan language and literature but also of the variety of interests and theoretical approaches and the diversity of origin of Catalan researchers. The studies are focused primarily on three thematic areas: a) culture and language between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries; b) one hundred years of Catalan literature: 1859-1959; and c) multilingualism and interculturality. The collected studies will prove to make a solid contribution to the unstoppable progress that Catalan philology has been making for decades.
The Locus of Linguistic Variation
Sept 2018
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This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variation in several domains addressing intra- and inter-dialectal patterns using diverse sources of data including corpora of naturally-occurring speech and judgment studies and drawing on lesser-studied varieties of familiar languages such as Northwest British Englishes and varieties of Canadian French. Ultimately the contributions serve to expand our understanding of the nature of the mental representations and abstract processes required to support variation in language. Originally published as special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:2 (2016)
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
Sept 2018
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Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages with particular attention to Gothic Old Norse / Icelandic Old English Old Frisian Old Saxon and Old High German along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.
The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction
Sept 2018
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This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers as their name indicates are among the explicit signals of coherence while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly the discourse used for purposes of evaluation stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This in general terms is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation comparing languages analysing different registers studying the openings of Skype conversations and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis interaction studies semantics and pragmatics.
Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition : In honor of Roumyana Slabakova
Sept 2018
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This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova 2008 2016) the Scalpel Model (Slabakova 2017) and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice 2009) to name a few. The studies explore a variety of linguistic properties (e.g. functional morphology linguistic properties at the syntax-discourse interface) by focusing on distinct populations (L2 acquisition L3/LN acquisition Heritage Speakers) while also considering the links between experimental linguistic research generative linguistics and in some cases language pedagogy. Dedicated to Roumyana Slabakova each chapter can be directly linked to her work in terms of the empirical testing of extant hypotheses the formulation of new models and ideas and her efforts to advance the dialogue between different disciplines and frameworks. Overall the contributions in the volume bear evidence of Slabakova’s enduring influence in the field as a collaborator teacher and researcher.
Conceptual Semantics : A micro-modular approach
Sept 2018
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In this book the micro-modular approach known as Tiernet within Conceptual Semantics is introduced. Constructions make up an important part in the approach but in this approach constructions are considered to be exceptions licensed links between micro-modules one of the kinds of symbolic modules in the approach. Similar to construction grammar approaches the micro-modular approach takes a solid interest in the ‘periphery’ and thus also studies irregular linking principles like constructions.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book details particulars in the development of generative grammar and the relation of Conceptual Semantics to this development and then introduces the micro-modular approach and shows its usefulness for the description of language generally by not only using examples from English but also and in particular by applying the micro-modular approach of Conceptual Semantics to data from Finnish.
Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition
Sept 2018
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This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g. pragmatics corrective feedback phonology) and approaches (e.g. corpus linguistics concept-oriented analyses variationism) have come together to identify challenges researchers face when collecting coding and analyzing data and to provide guidance for making advancements regarding these aspects of research method. This volume also showcases three types of critical reflection. One involves building a relevant corpus of published investigations and using that database to identify methodological issues in existing research. Another consists of recoding and reanalyzing published work before reflecting on the impact that these decisions have on observations made about interlanguage. The third begins with a particular area of or approach to second language acquisition and then offers a critical examination on the challenges that characterize the selected area or approach. Researchers and graduate students alike will benefit from an open discussion on methodological issues that are in need of improvement.
From Pragmatics to Dialogue
Sept 2018
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This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two ‘circles’ which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object ‘language use’. Pragmatics means the study of natural language use. There is however no clear answer as to what language use means. We are instead confronted with multiple and diverse models in an uncircumscribed field of language use. When trying to transform such a puzzle of pieces into a meaningful picture we are confronted with the complexity of language use which does not mean ‘language’ put to ‘use’ but represents the unity of a complex whole and calls for a total change in methodology towards a holistic theory. Human beings as dialogic individuals use language as dialogue which allows them to tackle the vicissitudes of their lives. Dialogue and its methodology of action and reaction can be traced back to human nature and provides the key to the unstructured field of pragmatics. The contributions to this volume share this common ground and address various perspectives in different types of action game.