Browse Books

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond is a unique anthology that centers dialogue as practice and challenge of medical encounters taking up Mishler's famous provocation of a dichotomy between the voice of the lifeworld and the voice of medicine or an awareness of the asymmetries of knowledge and authority in clinical encounters. First the authors in this book aim to define dialogue beyond interaction and to conduct a close analysis of empirical data from clinical consultations as diverse as visits in oncology pediatrics psychotherapy medical student training and speech language therapy. In doing so they argue for the many possibilities and missed opportunities for clinicians in diverse cultural settings to engage dialogically while constantly managing the multiple contingencies of personal organizational and institutional voices texts and artifacts. Dialogue and discourse scholars clinical practitioners and academics from the humanities and social sciences will appreciate this collection on how to approach dialogue conceptually and empirically in clinical practice.

This publication is the first and long-awaited critical edition of the Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary) by the Franciscan missionary Basilio Brollo (1648–1704; Chinese name Ye Zunxiao 葉尊孝). This publication thoroughly researches for the first time a lexicographical milestone copied and plagiarised for centuries as a fundamental linguistic instrument. It is aimed not only at scholars of missionary linguistics lexicography and lexicology but also represents an essential reference for researchers of cultural interaction between Europe and China and of conceptual history.Based on the edition stored in Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence known as “Rinuccini 22” (1694) this volume opens with a variety of research articles on different linguistic historical and cultural aspects of the Dictionarium followed by the transcription of the whole dictionary including Chinese characters and their variants romanisations Latin definitions examples and Chinese glosses. This is one of the results of the PRIN 2022 PNRR project “CHIN-DICTIONARY” led by Gabriele Tola.

This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of children’s literature and culture who apply various theoretical perspectives to capture transcultural and interdisciplinary links between global and local canons. The chapters are divided into three thematic clusters: School Canons Children’s Literature and Young People’s Reading Practices and The Canon and Popular Culture. The twelve chapters by international researchers illuminate the distinctiveness of the canon(s) in Poland Ukraine Russia and Croatia while positioning them within a global discourse. This volume addresses the key question of what determines canon formation and legitimization namely whether the canon is established by experts affiliated with institutions such as universities scholarly journals and literary awards or whether it is perhaps formed by readers – the wider reading public and their literary preferences. The study also raises further questions that merit in-depth examination including the relationship between global and local canons the presence of both international classics and contemporary authors in school curricula crossover literature and the blurring of the line between popular culture and the canon(s).

This edited volume offers a critical examination of research synthesis in Applied Linguistics at a time when such work is increasingly influential and increasingly misunderstood. The volume brings together reflective accounts of conducting and editing different types of research syntheses. Instead of a procedural manual the book foregrounds the ethical and methodological decisions that shape research syntheses in practice. Across the book contributors discuss opportunities constraints and tensions between standardisation and innovation. The book is written for researchers postgraduate students journal editors and methodologists who are interested in research synthesis as a reflexive situated and collaborative form of scholarship.

In the daily life of multilingual and multinational organizations knowledge ideas and practices are constantly crossing borders and boundaries. To make this movement happen employees of many fields beyond professional translation participate in translating across languages organizational and national cultures as well as epistemes and communities of practice. This paraprofessional translation is a longstanding phenomenon but it has not yet received much scholarly attention. This volume brings translation studies international business and organization studies scholars together to theorize conceptualize and empirically study the practices and beliefs of these actors at varying levels of organizational hierarchies who create meaning and extend knowledge and understanding across boundaries at work.

Human language in its performances is not to be considered without taking into account the environment in which it takes place i.e. its physical social or cultural setting. A description of the regularity or pattern driven character of this relationship is however still a desideratum for modern pragmatics. The contributions of the book in hand set out to show how such a conception may be achieved. In so doing they enhance the pragmatic agenda by regarding the context-based nature of utterances from a variety of perspectives in which the identification of pairs of utterance type and utterance situation as well as the interactive build-up of shared scenarios for interpretation are viewed as part of the linguistic and cultural competence of the speaker / hearer.The approaches united in this volume have in common that they all model the complex dynamic relationship between the utterance the context and common ground using patterns templates or schemas as core notions. It is assumed that such dynamic scalable models are fundamental units of human interaction and they are described in terms of forming relatively stable entities. The emergence usage and scope of these complex entities is elaborated in a variety of theoretical and analytical approaches including corpus studies on modern day communication and online communication.

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics Phraseology and Conversational Humor Studies. Based upon a self-compiled corpus of 34 television series (4214 episodes; 19.4 million words) it adopts a corpus-assisted exploratory mixed-method approach to analyze 13 types of humorous formulae across 146 samples. A conversation-analytical lens reveals how these formulaic patterns are systematically embedded in fictional dialogue and how they pragmatically shape scripted interaction.The study’s key contributions include a typology of humorous formulae an account of their discursive functions and new insights into their role in the stylistics of telecinematic discourse. Of special interest is its demonstration of how scripted talk employs formulaicity to generate humor efficiently and effectively. This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students in Linguistics Pragmatics Humor Studies and media discourse while extending existing knowledge on formulaicity in language use.

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a corpus-based linguistic analysis of emotion terms with empirical studies using both questionnaire-based data and online sorting tasks. It identifies several distinct clusters in both languages such as "sadness/ grief" and "joy/ happiness/love" but also highlights divergences. For instance the Polish concept of żal (often translated as regret or sorrow but with unique connotations of grievance and longing) forms a cluster without a direct English equivalent suggesting a distinct emotional nuance in Polish culture.The book builds upon existing psychological theories of emotion particularly those emphasising the role of language in shaping emotional experience (constructionist theories). It also engages with cross-cultural psychology research on emotion recognition and expression providing a linguistic lens to complement existing behavioural studies. By meticulously comparing the semantic fields of emotion words the book enriches our understanding of how language both reflects and influences our emotional worlds offering valuable contributions to psycholinguistics cultural psychology cognitive and corpus linguistics as well as to translation studies.

Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe which take a philosopher's or even a logician's point of view. For this collection Krabbe selected twenty of what in his opinion were his best philosophical essays about argumentation. Four of them were written with Jan Albert van Laar. All of these essays are in one way or another concerned with argumentative dialogue. Their focus is sometimes on particular kinds of fallacious reasoning such as non-argumentation non sequitur quasi logical argument or the fallacies described by Aristotle sometimes on theoretical problems encountered when one tries to construct a model for reasonable dialogue such as the problem of retraction the retreat to dialogues about dialogues the tension between cooperation and competition in dialogue or the responsibilities of the party that is taking a critical stance. Though these essays were written from a logical point of view only a few of them contain logical technicalities. They were also to a great extent influenced by the work of the pragma-dialecticians (the Amsterdam School) and one will find many references to their rules for Critical Discussion. Standing in between the formal and the informal there is the semiformal method of profiles of dialogue which method is often used to illustrate possible courses of dialogues. Some essays use a more rigorous formalization in order to make their point: for instance to compare ancient and contemporary dialectic or to explore the possibility of formalizing the pragma-dialectic model of Critical Discussion. Finally there are some essays about argumentation in special contexts: mathematical proof and public controversy.

Interpreting in Armed Conflict: Lessons from the field offers a comprehensive analysis of interpreting across diverse conflict settings including humanitarian missions military operations war journalism human rights missions and international fact-finding missions. Adopting a cross-contextual perspective the book examines key dimensions such as communicative constraints interpreters’ positionality and agency trust and distrust intercultural communication training ethical challenges and the emotional and psychological impact of working in these settings. The volume brings together empirical research practitioner experience and insights from a wide range of sources including testimonies memoirs institutional guidelines and fictional representations. Combining academic rigour with narrative depth it offers a holistic account of interpreting in armed conflict and serves as a key reference for scholars practitioners and organisations engaged in multilingual communication in conflict settings.