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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.

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.

This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language within a coherent theoretical framework; second they understand that a complete theory of the human language needs to include data from bilinguals’ I-languages; and third they are committed to obtaining reliable data following experimental protocols.

This is the first book dedicated to the study of the complexities that arise in embodied interaction from the multiplicity of time-scales on which its component processes unfold. It shows in microscopic detail how people synchronize and sequence modal resources such as talk gaze gesture and object-manipulation to accomplish social actions. The studies show that each of these resources has its own temporal trajectory affordances and restrictions which enable and constrain the fine-grained work of bodily self-organization and interaction with others. Focusing on extended interactional time scales some of the contributors investigate ways in which larger interactional episodes and relationships between actions are brought about and how actions build on shared interactional histories. The book makes a strong case for the use of video in the study of social interaction. It proposes an enlarged vision of Conversation Analysis that puts the body and its interactive temporalities center stage.

This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand and the dynamics of transnationalism globalisation and Europeanisation on the other. This interplay confronts contemporary societies with unprecedented questions as they face the need to come to grips with increasingly varied and pervasive manifestations of linguistic and cultural diversity. This volume develops an integrative approach that identifies the key social and political dimensions at hand offering an innovative contribution to the ongoing conversation on the manifestations and management of multilingualism.

The papers in this collection document the work of the first research project on metaphor that incorporates the findings of Frame Semantics Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Construction Grammar with Corpus Linguistics techniques for the analysis of linguistic expressions of metaphor in very large natural language corpora. Under severe constraints the MetaNet project based at the International Computer Science Institute designed and populated a sophisticated and accessible repository of conceptual metaphors developed a formalization for Conceptual Metaphor Theory and created tools and techniques for the automatic identification and analysis of the linguistic expression of metaphor. For those interested in metaphor be that from a linguistic literary poetic cognitive or computational perspective this book is a must-read. Originally published in Constructions and Frames 8:2 (2016).

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena from the history of core arguments to complements and non-finite clauses elements in the clause periphery as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another however they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so they show that historical syntax and historical linguistics in general is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.

This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into TBLT. The TBLT-pragmatics connection is illustrated in a variety of constructs (e.g. speech acts honorifics genres interactional features) methods (e.g. quantitative quasi-experimental conversation analysis) and topics (e.g. instructed SLA heritage language learning technology-enhanced teaching assessment and discursive pragmatics). Chapters in this volume collectively demonstrate how the two fields can together advance the current practice of teaching language for socially-situated real-world communicative needs.

This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of verbal predication; on the other it provides a wealth of new data and analyses of Amazonian languages which are still poorly represented in existing typologies. Several contributions offer historical insights either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar. The introduction provides a modern typological overview and also proposes a new diachronic typology to explain how distinct types of nonverbal predication arise.

This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of cognitive and functional linguistics. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses of authentic data (including English Czech Spanish Slovene Russian and Hungarian) are grounded in the frameworks of functional grammar facework and rapport management classical rhetoric studies and multimodal discourse analysis and are linked to the constructs of (re)framing conceptual metaphor and blending mental space and viewpoint. In addition to traditional genres such as political speeches news reporting and advertising the book also studies texts that examine book reviews medieval medical recipes public complaints or anonymous viral videos. Apart from discourse analysts pragmaticians and cognitive linguists this book will appeal to cognitive musicologists semioticians historical linguists and scholars of related disciplines.

In recent years Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented studies – analyses of figurative language (both metaphor and metonymy) in use constructions and typology – and present high-quality research papers that illustrate best practices in the research foci identified and their application to different fields including intercultural communication the psychology of emotions second and first language acquisition discourse analysis and translation studies. It is also shown how different methodologies –the use of linguistic corpora psycholinguistic experiments or discourse analytic procedures– can shed some light on the basic premises of CL as well as providing insights into how CL can be applied in real world contexts. Finally all the studies included in the volume are based on empirical data and there are some analyses of languages other than English (Japanese Russian Spanish Danish German and Polish) thus overcoming the contentions that CL-theoretically-based research is often based on linguistic intuition and focused only on the English language.

We hope that the present volume will not only contribute to a better understanding of how CL can be applied but that it will also help to encourage even further more robust empirical research in this field.

Originally published as a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016).

The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely if ever taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory and which belong to the Afroasiatic Amerindian Australian Caucasian and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.

This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism this approach distinguishes between use of language knowledge of language and language as such. The latter is conceived as part of the realm of abstract objects. The authors show how adopting Linguistic Realism overcomes entrenched problems with other frameworks and suggest that Linguistic Realism will best serve those interested in formal linguistics the cognitive dimension of natural language and linguistic philosophy. The essays offer different perspectives on Linguistic Realism either supporting this paradigm or taking it as a starting point for developing modified conceptions of linguistics and for further tying linguistics to the kind of formal theories of sensory cognition that were pioneered in visual perception by David Marr—whose work is predicated on exactly the object/knowledge distinction made by Linguistic Realists.

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and audiences as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and online and offline modes of identity construction. The volume is aimed at all researchers concerned with the complex notion of identity both in linguistics and in neighbouring disciplines.

On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference. Variational pragmatics is the study of such uses according to region gender age ethnicity and socioeconomic status among national and sub-national varieties of pluricentric languages. Despite the wide focus just outlined this volume provides the first study of pragmatic variation across different social classes using naturally occurring interactional data. The discourse analyzed here was collected in over twenty restaurant service encounters spanning three price points. The aim of this study is two-fold: to provide a potential framework for how pragmatic variables and their context can be defined using the concept of a communicative activity and to investigate socioeconomic variation in pragmatics by taking offers thanks responses and address forms as examples. This study contributes both on a methodological and empirical level to the growing body of research in variational pragmatics as well as speech acts terms of address relational work and sociolinguistics.

Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics. The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context considering compliment form as part of a Positive Remark continuum with the respective Response Strategy uttered in response. Analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively in multi-party conversations of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English the sequences suggest a connection between the address and reference terms in the Positive Remarks and the strategies chosen as a response.

The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative religious ideological endearing or other) thereby focusing on their dynamic and historical dimension. Changes in these are analyzed in order to explain morphological lexical and textual changes that would otherwise be hard to account for. Together they provide a varied window on the effect of historical versions of a dynamic society on lexis and text. Examining lexical and textual change in history from a sociocultural perspective teaches us a great deal – not just about the past but it also makes us think about similar phenomena in the present enhancing our knowledge about how universally human some of these phenomena are. This volume will be of great interest to (English) historical linguists sociolinguists and scholars of sociohistorical and cultural studies.

The correct interpretation of Multiword Units (MWUs) is crucial to many applications in Natural Language Processing but is a challenging and complex task. In recent years the computational treatment of MWUs has received considerable attention but there is much more to be done before we can claim that NLP and Machine Translation (MT) systems process MWUs successfully. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This volume provides a general overview of the field with particular reference to Machine Translation and Translation Technology and focuses on languages such as English Basque French Romanian German Dutch and Croatian among others. The chapters of the volume illustrate a variety of topics that address this challenge such as the use of rule-based approaches compound splitting techniques MWU identification methodologies in multilingual applications and MWU alignment issues.

This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese Japanese and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer. Distinctively broad in scope topics addressed in this volume include word reading with respect to orthographic phonological morphological and semantic processing as well as cross-linguistic influences on reading in English as a second language or a foreign language. Given that the three focal scripts have unique orthographic features not found in other languages – Chinese as logography Japanese with multi-scripts and Korean as non-Roman alphasyllabary – chapters expound script-universal and script-specific reading processes. As a means of scaling up the body of knowledge traditionally focused on Anglocentric reading research the scientific accounts articulated in this volume importantly expand the field’s current theoretical frameworks of word processing to theory building with regard to these three languages.

This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the (Ibero-)Romance languages and diverse in terms of the approaches considered ranging from cognitive-functionalist to generativist to variationist they combine in this volume to showcase the merits of different yet complementary perspectives in understanding linguistic variation and language change. The gamut of phenomena scrutinised varies from morpho-phonological puzzles and word-formation to syntax and interface-related phenomena to as a coda methodological suggestions for future research in old Ibero-Romance; thus making it ideal reading for scholars and postgraduate students alike.

The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change the emergence of contact languages codeswitching as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics sociolinguistics ethnolinguistics and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>As of January 2023 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Building on a substantial earlier literature the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data with the two often shedding light on each other in a process of mutual illumination. The topics addressed are: the structure of nounless NPs like the poor and the obvious; the article/zero alternation in expressions like go to (the) church; developments in the early history of adjective stacking; the semantics of N + clause units in present-day English; the history of N + BE + clause constructions; and the decline of two anaphoric NPs in Early Modern English. The volume will appeal to scholars working in this area and will also help those interested in the general field of English grammar to keep abreast of recent methods and results in NP-related work.

The coming of age of audiovisual translation studies has brought about a much-needed surge of studies focusing on the audience their comprehension appreciation or rejection of what reaches them through the medium of translation. Although complex to perform studies on the reception of translated audiovisual texts offer a uniquely thorough picture of the life and afterlife of these texts. This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of reception studies related to audiovisual translation and accessibility from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Focusing on all audiovisual translation techniques and encompassing theoretical and methodological approaches from translation media and film studies it aims to become a reference for students and scholars across these fields.

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local regional national and international disputes each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication ethics understood as an answer to problems often creates them. If we understand communication ethics as a good protected and promoted by a given set of communicators we can understand how acts of colonialism and totalitarianism could move forward legitimized by the assumption that “I am right.” This volume eschews such a presupposition recognizing that we live in a time of narrative and virtue contention. We dwell in an era where the one answer is more often dangerous than correct.

This book is the first on Cantonese that deals with the grammaticalization phenomenon systematically. Focusing on a group of twelve directional particles this book tracks their grammaticalization pathways from full-fledged directional verbs to directional particles indicating meanings relating to tense-aspect modality and quantification in the post-verbal position. Some of these particles have undergone further grammaticalization to convey speaker’s subjective as well as intersubjective stances.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This book is also unique in its diachronic component. Examples in the book are drawn from various sources including early Cantonese pedagogical texts Cantonese films and contemporary Cantonese corpora with data ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. This book will be a valuable resource not only for all linguists interested in the development of grammatical forms but also for teachers and students in conversation/discourse analysis psychology and anthropology interested in deepening their understanding of the interaction between language structure and use.<br/>