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Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home and the societally dominant language in most other domains. What exactly they know about their heritage language continues to fascinate the research community as well as teachers and other practitioners working with this group. The different contributions cover a large variety of studies into heritage languages spoken in Europe and North America (including Chinese Norwegian Russian Spanish and Turkish). The volume makes a key contribution to the description and explanation of variability in the outcomes of heritage language acquisition taking into account a wide range of factors which impact on language acquisition. As comparisons are frequently made with monolinguals and foreign language learners the volume is also highly relevant for researchers working in monolingual language acquisition and foreign language learning and teaching.

This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation restructuring clitic climbing aspectual structure subject focus marking code-switching lenition loanwords and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a variety of recent theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies and make important contributions to our current understanding of language acquisition theoretical and descriptive linguistics and language contact. This collection of articles is a testimony to the breadth and degree of specialization of the scholarly interest in the field. The selection of refereed chapters included in this volume were originally presented at the 20th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) hosted at Georgetown University 2016. The book should be read with interest by scholars and graduate students hoping to gain insight into the issues currently debated in Hispanic Linguistics.

Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ‒ children know the syntax of silence despite the fact that they do not have direct access to it throughout their language acquisition process. One of the issues that have been hotly discussed regarding silence in natural languages is whether it involves syntactic structure or not. This book is concerned with a particular instance of silence in natural languages what is called radical pro-drop showing that it is silently structured on the basis of novel data from Japanese as well as Chinese Korean Mongolian and Turkish. The discussion in this book also has consequences for the dichotomy between PF-deletion vs. LF-copying shedding a new light on the proper analysis of several syntactic phenomena in Japanese including wh-in-situ and control.

Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts recordings and videos this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science teaching of science and how scientific ideas are promoted and popularized. With an accessible introduction to theory and method this book prepares scientists science teachers and science writers to take advantage of recent shifts in metaphor theories and methods. Metaphor specialists will find theoretical issues explored in studies of bacteriology cell reproduction marine biology physics brain function and social psychology. We see the degree of conscious or intentional use of metaphor in shaping our conceptual systems and constraining inferences. Metaphor sources include social structure embodied experience abstract or mathematical formulations. The results are sometimes innovative hypotheses and robust conclusions; other times pedagogically useful if inaccurate stepping stones or at worst misleading fictions.<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.

The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way the diachronic multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis.

This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language be it from Old English to the present or a shorter time span in the immediate past the contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change. The cross-fertilization of cultural studies and corpus linguistics we hope is beneficial for both parties as corpus linguistics offers a vast array of materials and methods to investigate cultural and societal change while cultural studies provide the theoretical background on which to build our research. The studies included in the present volume illustrate the potential avenues and the merits of combining changing language and changing societies.

The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view deafness and sign language in negative terms i.e. as deficiency others present deafness essentially as difference i.e. as a set of competences that might provide some insights into how spoken language works. One of the arguments of the book is that these two views of deafness and sign language still represent two dominant paradigms present in the current debates on the issue. The aim of the book therefore is not only to provide a historical overview but to trace what might be called a “history of the present”.

This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics including comparisons with other languages (e.g. English German Turkish Arabic Spanish).<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Specifically the phonetics and phonology papers present experimental and corpus studies of /h/ voicing the acoustics of Hungarian word stress and vowel harmony in harmonically mixed stems. The papers on syntax and semantics discuss object agreement and its locality restrictions equative markers in German and Hungarian diachronically and synchronically anaphoric possessor strategies and definite article distribution and the semantics of various aspectual adverbs. Experimental studies of information structure examine the linear placement of textually given topical constituents post-verbally exhaustivity inferences with focus partitioning in German English and Hungarian and contextual factors licensing Hungarian structural focus.<br/>The broad range of topics ensures that this volume will interest scholars of Hungarian and theoretical linguists more generally.

The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The presentation of original data from previously undescribed languages spoken by small communities in Africa and South America allows to discover unknown aspects of embodiment and to propose new interpretations. Well-known languages are analyzed from a new perspective relying on the benefits of linguistic corpora. Contrastive and theoretically oriented studies help to pinpoint similarities and differences among languages as well as tendencies in conceptualization patterns and semantic development of the lexis of body part terms. The volume contributes to the field of linguistics but also to cognitive science anthropology and cultural studies.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon – the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity – in synchronic diachronic and typological perspectives. It challenges the assumption common in the typological syntactic and semantic literature namely that so-called reciprocal constructions encode symmetric relations. Instead they are analyzed as constructions encoding unspecified relations. In effect it provides a new proposal for the truth-conditional semantics of these constructions. More broadly this book introduces new ways of bringing together historical linguistics and formal semantics demonstrating how on the one hand the inclusion of historical data concerning the sources of reciprocal constructions enriches their synchronic analysis; and how on the other hand an analysis of the syntax and the semantics of these constructions serves as a key for understanding their historical origins.

Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is however no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian creole language Palenquero spoken in bilingual contact with its historical lexifier Spanish. Although sharing largely cognate lexicons the languages are in general not mutually intelligible. For example Palenquero exhibits no adjective-noun or verb-subject agreement uses pre-verbal tense-mood-aspect particles and exhibits unbounded clause-final negation. The present study represents a first attempt at mapping the psycholinguistic boundaries between Spanish and Palenquero from the speakers’ own perspective including traditional native Palenquero speakers adult heritage speakers and young native Spanish speakers who are acquiring Palenquero as a second language. The latter group also provides insights into the possible cognitive cost of “de-activating” Spanish morphological agreement as well as the relative efficiency of pre-verbal vs. clause-final negation. In this study corpus-based analyses are combined with an array of interactive experimental techniques demonstrating that externally-imposed classifications do not always correspond to speakers’ own partitioning of language usage in their communities.

The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic antitopic contrastive topic focus verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles sentence-final particles and other medial sentential and illocutive particles. This book addresses three great questions in a variety of languages ranging from Japanese to Mohawk including Basque French German Italian Kazakh Spanish and Turkish with some insights from English and Russian. The first question is the role played by information-structural strategies such as left dislocations clefts or the morphological marking of focus in the rise of discourse particles. In the second part papers are concerned with the relevance of information structure for the study of polysemic and polyfunctional discourse particles. Finally the contribution of particles to the determination of the information-structural profile of the clause is examined as well as their role in the information-structural specification of illocutionary types. Language-specific papers alternate with comparative approaches in order to show how newer insights on information structure can help resolve some of the classical issues of the linguistic research on particles.

This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980 for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed descriptive analyses that the author provided are still fresh today and in some respects they anticipate insights into the nature of sign languages that were not further explored until much more recently. The monograph is accompanied by two essays: Sherman Wilcox comments on value and relevance of the author’s work in the light of much more recent work on the linguistics of sign languages. An essay by Lauren Reed and Alan Rumsey provides an up to date survey of what is now known about sign languages in Papua New Guinea. Information about sign languages in the Solomon Island is also included.

Starting with the premise that aesthetic choices reveal the ideological stances of translators the author of this research monograph examines works of fiction by postcolonial African authors writing in English or French the genesis and reception of their works and the translation of each one into French or English. Texts include those by Nuruddin Farah from Somalia Abdourahman Ali Waberi from Djibouti Jean-Marie Adiaffi from Côte d’Ivoire Ayi Kwei Armah from Ghana Chenjerai Hove from Zimbabwe and Assia Djebar from Algeria and their translations by Jacqueline Bardolph Jeanne Garane Brigitte Katiyo Jean-Pierre Richard Josette and Robert Mane and Dorothy Blair. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The author highlights the aural poetics of these works explores the sound motifs underlying their literary power and shows how each is articulated with the writer’s literary heritage. She then embarks on a close examination of each translator’s background followed by a rich analysis of their treatments of sound. The translators’ strategies for addressing sound motifs are contextualized in the larger framework of postcolonial literatures and changing reading materialities.

In this his latest book Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction based upon how linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness. At the rational level where signs are necessarily experienced in context they are primarily polysemic. At the transpersonal or pre-contextual level however they are monosemic constituting a dynamic and self-organizing relational structure capable of producing a potentially infinite variety of contextual applications. The two levels are united by a stochastic or somatic selection process called contextualization where feedback from experience assures the evolution of the system. The relational structure itself is composed of archetypes of space and time consciousness that derive from the evolution of the linguistic sign from the signaling behavior of antecedent species. Detailed analyses are provided to explain how the archetypes structure meaning in both the grammatical and lexical spheres as well as in syntax.

In recent years a number of authors (De Vries 2009 Truckenbrodt 2015 Ott and de Vries 2016 inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures where the “dislocated” constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under identity with an antecedent clause. Although Romance RD is a fertile area of research the consequences of the biclausal analysis remain unexplored in these languages. This monograph intends to fill this gap. Adopting this approach not only solves some issues that have always been at the core of dislocation structures in general; it also allows us to uncover novel sets of data and to provide straightforward explanations for well-known generalizations. Further it brings RD along with a set of phenomena which are structurally very similar like afterthoughts or split questions which have been independently argued to display a bisentential structure. Under alternative monoclausal approaches to RD the striking similarities between these phenomena must be rendered anecdotal.

This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages such as Catalan English and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g. United States Puerto Rico Colombia Brazil Argentina); and varied participant groups ranging from dialect contacts second-language learners and heritage speakers to balanced bilinguals and code-switchers. Taken together the chapters provide rich empirical descriptions of data pertaining to different levels of language diverse – naturalistic and experimental – methodological approaches to data collection as well as theoretical implications of the findings. The interdisciplinary perspective adopted by the authors contributes to the linguistic analysis and offers important insights into theoretical linguistics in general and into theories of sociolinguistics language variation bilingualism and second language acquisition.

This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach sociocultural theory the variationist approach and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to each approach is written by a preeminent scholar in the framework and each overview is followed by an empirical study that demonstrates how interlocutor IDs can be fruitfully researched within that framework. To maximize readability and impact the chapters follow common organizing questions inviting the engagement of L2 researchers students and teachers alike.Collectively the chapters in the current volume initiate a cohesive discussion of the theoretical roles of the interlocutor within these four popular approaches to SLA; illustrate how interlocutor IDs influence L2 opportunities and/or development; present innovative original empirical research on interlocutors and their IDs within each approach; and provide theoretical empirical and methodological guidance for future research on interlocutors and their IDs. A powerful contribution of this volume highlighted in the concluding chapter’s synthesis is the common call across all four approaches for the irrefutable role and need for research on interlocutors and their IDs. The volume also demonstrates how despite theoretical and methodological differences the four approaches are advancing congruently toward a more robust understanding of the multifaceted and dynamic nature of all interlocutors and their IDs and thus toward a more complete and accurate picture of their influence on L2 development.

This volume is intended as an innovating reader for both interpreting practitioners as well as scholars engaging with the multifaceted question addressed in the title “Why linking up with video?”. The chapters in this volume deal with this question from different perspectives. On the one hand the volume continues the ongoing discussion on the pros and cons of video-based interaction for the interpreting profession exploring the implications and applications when interpreters and their clients link up through video technology. On the other hand the chapters also explore the potential of video technology for research on interpreting hence raising the question in which way high-quality video recordings of interpreters in the booth participants involved in interpreter-mediated talk etc. may be instrumental in gaining new insights. In this sense the volume strongly ties in with the fast-growing field of multimodal (interaction) studies which makes use of video recordings to study the relationship between verbal and nonverbal resources such as gestures postural orientation gaze and head movements in the construction of meaning in communication.

This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters address a range of issues from general questions about ontology epistemology and methodology to aspects of particular subfields (such as semantics and historical linguistics) or phenomena (such as construal and code-switching). The volume aims to further our understanding of language and linguistics as well as to encourage further discussion on the metatheory of linguistics. Due to the fundamental nature of the issues under discussion this volume will be of interest to all linguists regardless of their background or fields of expertise and to philosophers concerned with language or other normative domains.

Due to the Treaty of Trianon – which was signed at the end of World War 1 in 1920 – Hungary lost two thirds of its former territory as well as the inhabitants of these areas. The book aims to reveal why the treaty still plays a role in Hungarian national identity construction by studying the alternative conceptualization of the treaty and its consequences. The cognitive linguistic research explores Hungarian politicians’ conceptual system about Trianon with special interest on conceptual metaphors. It also analyzes the factors that may motivate the emergence of the conceptual system as well as its synchronic diversity and diachronic changes. The monograph provides a niche insight into the conceptual basis of how contemporary citizens of Hungary interpret the treaty of Trianon and its consequences. The book will be of interest to cognitive and cultural linguists cultural anthropologists or any professionals working on national identity construction.

This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions. The author argues that the case forms in Korean reflect patterns of the human cognitive process. While this approach may seem rather obvious to non-linguists it is indeed a novel claim in contemporary linguistic theory. In order to provide technical analyses of Korean case phenomena such as multiple nominative/accusative non-nominative subject and adverbial case constructions this book adopts an independently established descriptive construct known as reference point in the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author demonstrates that the notion of reference point not only explains a substantially wider set of data but also leads to a more reasonable generalization. The intended readership of this book are researchers who are interested in case phenomena irrespective of their theoretical orientation.

Décio Torres Cruz approaches connections between literature and cinema partly through issues of gender and identity and partly through issues of reality and representation. In doing so he looks at the various ways in which people have thought of the so-called cinematic novel tracing the development of that genre concept not only in the French ciné-roman and film scenarios but also in novels from the United States England France and Latin America. The main tendency he identifies is the blending of the cinematic novel with pop literature through allusions to Pop Art and other postmodern cultural trends. His prime exhibits are a number of novels by the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth; Heartbreak Tango; The Buenos Aires Affair; Kiss of the Spider Woman; and Pubis angelical. Bringing in suggestive sociocultural and psychoanalytical considerations Cruz shows how in Puig’s hands the cinematic novel resulted in a pop collage of different texts films discourses and narrative devices which fused reality and imagination into dream and desire.

This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores how some traditional print genres have become digital how some genres have evolved into new digital hybrids and how and why new genres have emerged and are emerging in response to new rhetorical exigences and communicative demands. Because social actions are in constant change and ensuing from this genres evolve faster than ever it is important to gain insight into the interrelations between old genres and new genres and the processes underpinning the construction of new genre sets chains and assemblages for communicating scientific research to both expert and diversified audiences. In examining scientific genres on the Internet this book seeks to illustrate the increasing diversification of genre ecologies and their underlying social disciplinary and individual agendas.

The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a “fetishizing process” as Graham Huggan has called it which separates a “first world” from a “third world” the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the “exotic” to the comparatively “familiar” space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples of literatures and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and in so doing to make a significant critical intervention.

Heritage languages such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles are non-dominant languages often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language contact perspective: we consider heritage languages from the perspective of their history their structural properties and their interaction with other surrounding languages.

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality social relationships and collective identity. If language culture and cognition are major roads this book is the junction that unites them by arguing that selfhood occurs at their interface. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to unpack manifestations and perceptions of ‘self’ in the contemporary Chinese diaspora discourse from the perspectives of Sociolinguistics Cognitive Linguistics and the newly developed Cultural Linguistics. This book not only discusses empirical and theoretical issues on the conceptualisation and communication of social identity in a cross-cultural context it also reveals how traditional and modern ideas in Chinese culture are interacting with those of other world cultures. Considering the power of language enduring and emerging beliefs and stances that permeate these speakers’ views on their social being and outlooks on life impart their significance in cross-cultural communication and pragmatics.<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.

Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth century with essays not only on Ben Jonson but also on university drama on grammar school drama and on humanist literary taste. Part II responds to his pioneering flights of culture-imagological time-travel to other periods with essays on riddles through the ages on Matthew Arnold’s doubts about Homeric pictorialism and on anciently comic elements in George Gissing’s urban fiction. Part III celebrates his importance both as scholar and artist for the present day with essays extending imagological analysis to the singer Nick Drake to the avant-garde Danish poet Morten Søkilde and to Sean S. Baker’s film Tangerine plus a climactic celebration of Johnson’s own performances on solo violin and guitar as augmented by self-recording.

Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers within a cognitive-linguistic framework this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language including noun-verb inclusion the conceptual spatialization of actions existential constructions conceptual structures and coherence idioms and metaphors language acquisition of caused motion etc. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The contributions are committed to the principle of “converging evidence” that has been advocated in Cognitive Linguistics since its inception. Some studies in this volume combine introspective methods with theoretical analysis while others rely on corpus-based experimental and neuroscientific methods. Featuring diverse topics and multiple methods this collection will be useful to readers who are interested in the grammatical and conceptual structure of Chinese as well as in the state-of-the-art of Cognitive Linguistics in China.

Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All have a shared focus on applying ideas from specific pragmatic frameworks to understanding the production interpretation and evaluation of literary texts. A full-length introductory chapter highlights distinctions and contrasts between pragmatic theories but also brings out complementarities shared aims and assumptions and ways in which different pragmatic theories can make different contributions to our understanding of literary texts. The book as a whole encourages a sense of coherence for the field and presents insights from various approaches for systematic comparison. Building on previous work by the editors the contributors and others it makes a significant contribution to the growing field of pragmatic literary stylistics.

Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology it is only addressed indirectly in phenomenology (Husserl Heidegger Levinas) with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney; it is reduced to a break in cognition by cognitivists (Dennett). Only recently was it broached in linguistics with a focus on lexico-syntactic categories. As for the expression of surprise it has been studied in connection with evidentiality in languages that encode surprise morphosyntactically. However how surprise is encoded in languages that lack an evidential morphosyntactic system has been largely unexplored. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This book provides new insights into the dynamics of surprise based on a heuristic hypothesis tested against the investigation of time language and emotion. It is intended to arouse the interest of a multidisciplinary audience keen on crossing the disciplinary borders of phenomenology cognitive sciences and pragmatics. <br/>The theoretical approaches adopted in this collection of articles rely on experiments and corpus data. They advance knowledge by building on robust empirical results coming from psychology microphenomenology linguistics and physiology.

This collection aims to provide answers regarding what the most recent trends are in research in literary reading. Based on that premise it contains a rigorously selected and varied roster of investigations that focus on presenting and attempting to interpret and understand the most recent literary trends or tendencies as well as the reasons for the propensities they create among the masses of young and adult readers. This selection of texts in English Catalan and Spanish will give the reading specialist an idea of where today’s trends are headed and how they point towards the formation of a new paradigm in matters of literature.

Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social dimension sensory impressions remain eminently private. This contrast explains why the language used to represent wine or winespeak is the object of increasing crossdisciplinary interest.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This book analyzes the many different forms / many of the different forms of representing wine in present-day society with a special emphasis on winespeak starting from the premise that such study demands a genre approach to the many different communities involved in the wine world: producers/ critics/ merchants/ consumers. By combining the methodologies of Cognitive Linguistics and discourse analysis the authors analyze extensive real-life corpora of wine reviews and multimodal artifacts (labels advertisements documentaries) to reflect on the many inherent difficulties but also to highlight the rich and creative figurative strategies employed to compensate for the absence of a proper wine jargon of a more unambiguous nature.

Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness. Analysing data from corpora reality television and interviews in Australian and British cultural contexts this book contributes to cross-cultural and intercultural research on humour and its role in social interaction. Although in both contexts jocular verbal practices are highly valued and a positive response – the ‘preferred reaction’ – can be expected the conceptualisation of what is seen as humorous can vary especially in terms of what ‘goes too far’. By examining how attempts at humour can occasion offence presenting a distinction between ‘frontstage’ and ‘backstage’ perceptions of jocularity and looking at how language users evaluate jocular behaviours in interaction this study shows how humour and (im)politeness are co-constructed and negotiated in discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in pragmatics conversational humour (im)politeness intercultural communication discourse analysis television studies and interaction in English-speaking contexts.

This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis. It takes a transdisciplinary stance and combines analytical tools from linguistic discourse analysis (keywords metaphors argumentation genre) and political science (political culture comparative politics ideologies). It is comprehensive in its introduction of approaches from the German tradition of politico-linguistics. This tradition has not thus far been accessible to a non-German speaking readership and hence the volume adds insights into the mechanics of political discourse from a diverse set of viewpoints. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book analyses the modernisation discourses in social democratic parties in Britain and Germany between 1994 and 2003 a project that was named ‘Third Way’. It demonstrates how political language and political culture are related and how politicians will adapt a global ideology to local political circumstances in order to convince the electorate. At the same time the book presents new insights into the German political culture and the version of Third Way discourses in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) under the leadership of Gerhard Schröder which have played a key role in shaping current political discourse in Germany. It concludes with a model for the study of political discourse which makes the work relevant to scholars in Social Sciences and beyond.

This collection is the fifth volume of selected papers to emerge from Columbia School (CS) linguistics conferences. A radically functionalist approach CS shares with Cognitive linguistics the view that grammar is composed of form-meaning correspondences. CS views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its users. The volume includes papers on methodological issues and innovative analyses on English Spanish and Mandarin that illustrate the value of the strict application of clearly spelled out theoretical principles to the execution of linguistic analysis. Four of the volume’s eleven papers are written in Spanish and all papers have abstracts in both English and Spanish. An introduction highlights the theoretical and analytical premises of CS and their differences from and similarities with cognitive-functional approaches. The collection will be of interest to researchers and laymen who aim to understand the role of language in human communication.

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological morphological syntactic and semantic devices languages use to form color terms.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> The aim of this volume is to approach color data from a relativist and typological perspective and to address some novel viewpoints in the research of color terms such as: (a) the focus on language structure per se in the study of lexicalization data; (b) investigation of inter- and intra-language structural variation; (c) culture and language contact as reflected in language structure.<br/>Topics of this book have a broad appeal to researchers working in the fields of linguistics anthropology sociology and psychology.

Construction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists typologists psycholinguists and language educators because it puts meaning and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to conceive and implement operational parsing and production systems which could be used as a basic component of a wide range of Artificial Intelligence applications such as dialog systems language tutoring applications or translation assistants. The book focuses on a particular formalism Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) that has emerged recently as a solid platform for writing and testing grammars from a constructional point of view. It introduces the basics of FCG and illustrates its use through a number of case studies all centering around the verb phrase. The case studies consider the verb phrase in different languages (Dutch English Spanish Russian) and examine different challenging linguistic phenomena ranging from word order flexibility language change and language acquisition to the complex semantics of the verb phrase particularly for aspect. The book is intended for those who want a first contact with FCG and see how different non-trivial analyses of language phenomena can be expressed. It is also an excellent first step for those who want to explore FCG to build language applications.

Originally published as special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017).

Argumentation in Actual Practice contains a collection of topical studies about argumentative discourse in context written by argumentation scholars from a diversity of academic backgrounds. Some contributions provide general perspectives other contributions deal with specific issues particular types of argumentative discourse or individual argumentative speech events. The contexts in which argumentation is examined vary from politics and the media to medical juridical educational commercial or military contexts a specific academic discipline a special issue or pertain to all kinds of contextualised argumentative discourse. The issues discussed include the interpretation and analysis of argumentation strategic manoeuvring argument schemes the stock issues the fallacies the principle of charity and the persuasiveness of argumentative discourse. A common feature is that they are all empirically-oriented and that virtually all of them are strongly concerned with an adequate understanding of contextualised argumentative discourse and the factors that may increase or decrease its reasonableness and effectiveness.

The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology (ii) morphology (iii) morphosyntax (iv) syntax (v) diachronic typology (vi) semantics and pragmatics and (vii) language contact variation and diffusion. The topics discussed often in a comparative perspective feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data — also from less known and under-investigated languages — are provided to the debate on the principles mechanisms paths and models of language change as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.

This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies all reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current research such as the role and nature of task complexity and the distinct dimensions of L2 task performance. Collectively these chapters celebrate Professor Skehan’s seminal influence on TBLT and second language acquisition research and they bear witness to the sustained academic mentoring and collaboration that have characterised his career. Contributed both by senior academics and more recent participants in SLA and TBLT research the chapters variously explore conceptual frameworks and methodological insights on central issues in TBLT research theoretical debates innovative research paradigms and methodologies as well as practical pedagogical proposals. The book provides a wide-ranging and balanced account of Skehan’s work and its impact on other researchers serving as an introduction as well as a critical review for both seasoned and novice researchers and for interested practitioners.

This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline (published experimental research articles case reports and novice/professional research reports within the Dental Public Health domain) before integrating these features into ESAP pedagogy in the form of corpus-based ESAP materials that promote student-led direct engagement with disciplinary corpora – an approach known as 'data-driven learning'. This book is a timely and relevant addition to the field of corpus linguistics and ESAP and is especially targeted at ESAP professionals who are required to teach disciplinary discourses but who may struggle to know what to teach as non-experts of the target discipline.

This book describes methods risks and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources. The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists psychologists and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience. Throughout the volume a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions.

The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present day. The volume presents a collection of in-depth studies on a broad spectrum of phonetic lexical grammatical and discourse variation drawing on historical corpora dictionaries metalinguistic commentary ego-documents spoken language and survey data.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Apart from advancing our knowledge of processes of language change in varieties of English including British English Irish English Australian English South African English American English and Canadian English the individual chapters contribute to the theoretical debates on variation and change in Late Modern as well as Present-day English.

The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum. It shows how a unitary representation of 'the people' is a central element in a vast range of very diverse political discourses today acting to anchor identities and project antagonisms in a multitude of settings. The chapters in this book explore commonality and contrast in representations of ‘the people’ in both radical and mainstream political movements looking in depth at recent political discourses in the European sphere. The authors draw on approaches ranging from Essex-style discourse theory over critical discourse studies corpus analysis and linguistic pragmatics to investigate how historically situated categories such as the people and populism become fixed through local linguistic textual and narrative practices as well as through wider ideological and discursive patterns.<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.

This volume presents recent research that follows translators interpreters and translation project managers into their various work contexts and environments. It extends the scope of analysis of translation research from individuals and texts to collectives in their social and material worlds. Particular attention is paid to current translation and interpreting practice the genesis of translations the handling and completion of translation projects in real workplaces and the factors that shape these translation/interpreting situations.

Covering fields as diverse as technical and literary translation transcreation and church interpreting the chapters show just how varied translation and interpreting processes and workplaces can prove to be. They provide new insights into the effects of the increasing use of technology in the translation workplace and the manifold requirements placed on translators and interpreters in a heterogeneous and fast-changing field of practice.

Originally published as special issue of Translation Spaces 6:1 (2017).

Despite a long tradition of scholarship and the vast amount of dubbed audiovisual products available on the global market dubbing is still relatively underrepresented in audiovisual research. The aim of this volume is to give dubbing research its due by showing that far from being a doomed or somewhat declining form of AVT it is being exploited globally in the most diverse and fruitful ways. The contributions to this collection take up the diverse strands that make up the field to offer a multi-faceted assessment of dubbing on the move embracing its important historical past as well as present and future developments thus proving that dubbing has really come a long way and has not been less ready than other AVT modes to respond to the mood of the times. The volume will be of interest for scholars and students of translation studies audiovisual translation linguistics film television and game studies.

This edited volume offers new insights into contemporary political discourses in Slavic speaking countries by focusing on discursive and linguistic means deployed in relevant genres such as parliamentary discourse commemorative and presidential speeches mediated communication and literal and philosophical essays. The depth of the linguistic analysis reflects different levels of linkage between language and social practice constituting the discourse. The theoretical and methodological approaches discussed range from interactional pragmatics over corpus linguistics to CDA. The chapters contain original language material in Russian Polish Czech Croatian Serbian and Macedonian and the authors address issues such as the affiliation to different political and social groups within parliamentary settings national identity gender and minorities as well as cultural memory and reconciliation.

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extraordinary and vibrant status of the English language in South Korean society (demonstrated for example by the notion of English Fever) research on the forms of English in the South Korean context has been sadly neglected in the study of World Englishes. This monograph is the first to provide a rich and contextualized description of the Korean English morpho-syntactic repertoire. It draws on the specifically compiled Spoken Korean English (SPOKE) corpus to shed light on Korean uses of plural marking articles pronouns prepositions and verbs in spoken English and demonstrates that English is indeed the language of those who use it. This volume will be highly relevant for researchers interested in Expanding Circle Englishes Asian Englishes spoken language corpora and morpho-syntactic variation.

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously signal the gender of speakers as parts of utterances or in their anaphoric roles. They also prominently indicate with a range of degrees the kind of social relationships that hold between speakers from intimacy to indifference from dominance to submission and from solidarity to hostility. Languages greatly vary in the number of pronouns and other address terms they offer to their users with a distinct range of social values. Children learn their relative position in their family and in their society through the “correct” use of pronouns. When languages come into contact because of population migrations or through the process of translation pronouns are the most sensitive zone of tension both psychologically and politically. This volume endeavours to probe the comparative pragmatics of pronominal systems as social processes in a representative set from different language families and cultural areas.