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Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research : Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Apr 2025
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Researchers who study multilingual literacy development face the reality of complex and ever evolving conceptualizations of multilingualism and literacy across dynamic contexts languages and modalities. To unlock the full potential of continuous developments in Applied Linguistics innovative rethinking of methodological approaches is needed to keep pushing the boundaries of our understanding of multilingual literacy development and our ethical commitments to humanizing research. This book provides powerful and wide-ranging examples of qualitative research that foreground a rethinking of data theory and positionality in their exploration of multilingual literacy development. The volume showcases how qualitative research designs and tools can allow scholars not only to “study” the literacy development of multilingual learners from immigrant transnational and refugee backgrounds but also to engage in ethical research approaches to learn from and amplify literacy practices and experiences that cross borders languages and modalities.
Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities : 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French
Apr 2025
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This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second it draws on non-traditional dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert” views on language but also the perspectives of the “audience” engaging with these texts. Using France and the French language as its case study the book explores the areas of stability and change in questions of linguistic authority insecurity and correctness. It sheds new light on the evolution of the long-established genre of language commentary and deepens our understanding of the language attitudes and ideologies that shape how language is viewed discussed and judged. This book will appeal to linguists interested in language attitudes and ideologies in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Apr 2025
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As digital advancements reshape communication researchers need interdisciplinary methods to understand the cognitive processes involved. This essential reference for advanced students and researchers provides a comprehensive introduction to innovative research methods in cognitive translation and interpreting studies (CTIS). International experts from diverse disciplines share best practices for investigating cognitive processes in multilectal mediated communication. They emphasize the application of these methods across research domains situated at the interface of cognition and communication. The book offers an in-depth analysis of key research methods explaining their rationales uses affordances and limitations. Each chapter focuses on one or two closely related research methods and their tools including surveys interviews introspective techniques keylogging eyetracking and neuroimaging. The book guides readers in planning research projects and in making informed methodological choices. It also helps readers understand the basics of popular tools fostering more rigorous research practices in data collection. Additionally it provides practical suggestions on study design participant profiling and data analysis to deepen our understanding of texts tasks and their users.
Historical Linguistics 2022 : Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022
Mar 2025
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This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting diversity of research questions theoretical approaches linguistic phenomena and languages explored. Data are drawn from Algonquian Arandic Bantu Cushitic Edoid Indo-European Manchu Tangkic Tungusic and Uralic—among other languages and language-families. In addition to addressing always with new insights more traditional concerns of historical linguistics such as reconstruction classification the effects of contact and borrowing the determinants of morphological syntactic phonological and semantic change this book presents studies on less conventional topics for example the diachrony of ideophones.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV : Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022
Mar 2025
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This volume contains nine chapters that cover a wide range of topics in Arabic linguistic research. The papers are organized into four parts; these are phonetics and phonology morphology syntax and semantics and decolonizing linguistics. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic varieties articles in this volume bring cross-dialectal data that shed light on critical issues in linguistic theory. This volume also includes a non-traditional paper that critiques the methodology and practices of Arabic linguistic research. Scholars and graduate students of Arabic and general linguistics will benefit from the cutting-edge research in this volume.
Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics
Mar 2025
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Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics moves the field of Applied Linguistics into new methodological territory. Applying both the newer reflexive methodologies of currere and duoethnography as well as the more established methodologies of autoethnography and narrative to the broad field of Applied Linguistics international authors in the field examine the affordances limitations and ethical challenges and benefits of these methodologies to Applied Linguistics from multiple perspectives. A parallel structure in the book encourages the reader to critically compare and contrast the uses of these methodologies within Applied Linguistics.
Nuevos Enfoques Lingüísticos y Traductológicos del Discurso Turístico
Mar 2025
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El presente volumen explora la riqueza y pluralidad del turismo y su discurso a través de un análisis interdisciplinario que proporciona una visión integral del impacto del turismo en diversas esferas comunicativas sociales y culturales. Esta obra recopila un total de quince investigaciones que destacan la naturaleza intercultural multifacética y multilingüe de esta actividad así como la variedad de géneros discursivos que merecen un análisis detenido.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>El volumen aborda desde la influencia de las redes sociales y la creación de nuevos formatos del discurso turístico hasta la emoción y la subjetividad presentes en las comunicaciones promocionales. Ofrece una panorámica de cómo el turismo contemporáneo se entrelaza con múltiples dimensiones y formatos discursivos subrayando los desafíos estratégicos que enfrentan traductores terminólogos y lingüistas.<br/><br/> This volume explores the richness and plurality of tourism and its discourse through an interdisciplinary analysis providing a comprehensive view of the impact of tourism on various communicative social and cultural spheres. It compiles a total of fifteen investigations which highlight the intercultural multifaceted and multilingual nature of this activity as well as the variety of discursive genres that merit close analysis. <br/>The volume addresses everything from the influence of social networks and the creation of new formats of tourism discourse to the emotion and subjectivity present in promotional communications. It provides an overview of how contemporary tourism is intertwined with multiple dimensions and discursive formats highlighting the strategic challenges facing translators terminologists and linguists.
The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English : Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Feb 2025
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The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly surprisingly and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior narrow-scope adverbs e.g. adverbs modifying VPs. There is however disagreement about the mechanisms that brought the change about. Based on quantitative data the book tests various hypotheses involving reanalysis of potentially ambiguous narrow-scope adverbs (often referred to as grammaticalization) ellipsis lexicalization and analogy. The data provide no clear evidence in favour of any of the hypotheses tested but suggest that different mechanisms may have been at work for different lexemes and subsets of SOAs. The book should appeal to researchers interested in the development and licensing of SOAs but also to those with an interest in diachronic and syntactic change in general or in grammaticalization reanalysis or subjectification in particular.
Male Separatism : Discourse, ideology, and argumentation
Feb 2025
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This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’ the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative and discursive strategies used to justify and legitimise an antifeminist male separatist ideology. Methodologically the book draws on the discourse-historical approach to critical discourse studies and investigates how members of this online community represent themselves relationships with women and the broader gendered social order. It considers male separatism as part of the new antifeminist social media network known as the manosphere as well as part of a broader legacy of backlash against feminism and women’s rights. Overall the book contributes to the growing body of literature on the manosphere and should be of interest to scholars in discourse studies feminist media studies and digital communication.
The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon : Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Feb 2025
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All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies however is a question on which there is little consensus. This problem arises in particular with regard to the field of morphology with many morphologists taking all morpheme combinations to result from the operation of the syntactic computational system and many others assuming that morphological units like stems and words are either lexically listed or created by nonsyntactic means. The present study using Japanese and Ryukyuan verbal morphology as its primary database argues that evidence from the syntactic branch of the grammar and evidence from the phonological branch of the grammar converge on the conclusion that while inflectional morphology is fully syntactic derivational morphology has properties that militate against a syntactic treatment. The boundary between grammar and lexicon then falls at the boundary between inflection and derivation rendering morphology “split” between syntactic and nonsyntactic subparts. The book should be of interest not only to morphologists but to all concerned with the distinction between grammatical and lexical competence.
Pluricentricity and Pluriareality : Dialects, Variation, and Standards
Jan 2025
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This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states with more powerful national standard varieties affecting the less powerful) and pluriareality (the idea that standard varieties are not limited by national borders and instead overlap significantly across dialect boundaries). With chapters focused on English German and Dutch this book offers fresh perspectives on these theoretical constructs drawing on data from a variety of standards and a range of methodological approaches to their analysis. Researchers at all levels interested in standard language variation will find these discussions valuable especially due to the volume’s integrative approach to pluricentricity and pluriareality which seeks to demonstrate that these models heavily overlap rather than being in strict opposition.
News with an Attitude : Ideological perspectives in the historical press
Jan 2025
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This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents such as uprisings independence and genocide but also of pervasive socio-cultural aspects like gender and language. For this they rely on a wide range of sources from handwritten news letters via general daily papers to specialized magazines and from classical editorial content to letters published in newspapers. The geographical and linguistic focus of the texts investigated comprises British American Italian German and Polish discourse. The articles use both qualitative and quantitative corpus-based methodology such as keyword or collocational analysis. The book is of interest for scholars in (historical) linguistics history and journalism studies.
Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective
Jan 2025
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The volume is of direct interest to scholars from senior academics to PhD students interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new dynamic and exploratory field that is receiving a lot of attention namely the relation of multimodal communication with grammatical frameworks notably Construction Grammar. Drawing on case studies in different languages (English Modern Greek Czech Hebrew Italian) the chapters provide both the necessary theoretical discussion and solid empirical evidence (corpus-based or experimental) for integrating multimodal interactional features with grammatical description and analysis. This timely collection of studies highlights the recent marriage of cognitive/constructional and interactional approaches and addresses head-on questions and challenges like: which multimodal features are systematic and conventional enough to be integrated into grammar and what are appropriate ways of achieving the integration.
Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy
Jan 2025
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The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical psychological and social-discursive.
It shows how vagueness can be strategically employed to elude recipients’ critical evaluation of intended contents to deresponsibilize the source and make their arguments unchallengeable.
It explores the semiotic semantic pragmatic and psycholinguistic nature of vagueness and looks at its use in contemporary public (with a focus on Italian) discourse.
It also delves into under-explored aspects of the phenomenon such as: the continuum of intentionality in the use of vague expressions; the evolutionary significance of vagueness; its implicitating and persuasive functions; the phenomenon of vagueness by implicature; the interaction between vague expressions and context precisation; the cognitive functioning of vague expressions; the use of vagueness in contemporary persuasive vs. non-persuasive text types; gender-based differences in the use of vagueness in public discourse.
It shows how vagueness can be strategically employed to elude recipients’ critical evaluation of intended contents to deresponsibilize the source and make their arguments unchallengeable.
It explores the semiotic semantic pragmatic and psycholinguistic nature of vagueness and looks at its use in contemporary public (with a focus on Italian) discourse.
It also delves into under-explored aspects of the phenomenon such as: the continuum of intentionality in the use of vague expressions; the evolutionary significance of vagueness; its implicitating and persuasive functions; the phenomenon of vagueness by implicature; the interaction between vague expressions and context precisation; the cognitive functioning of vague expressions; the use of vagueness in contemporary persuasive vs. non-persuasive text types; gender-based differences in the use of vagueness in public discourse.
Investigating Language Isolates : Typological and diachronic perspectives
Jan 2025
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Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates including a detailed in-depth up-to-date discussion of what it means to be a language isolate and the criteria by which languages should be classified as isolate. The book also provides a series of techniques some refined on the basis of former literature and others new in order to recover the histories of language isolates. In addition the papers in this volume advance our knowledge about each of the individual languages studied here which are for the most part endangered and under-documented. This book will appeal to a broad audience spanning typologists historical linguists descriptive linguists and teachers of linguistics.
Our People’s Language : Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs
Jan 2025
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This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g. identity-marking). Over six years and with more than 150 participants the monograph integrates contemporary community-focused and critical sociolinguistic frameworks to explore and document linguistic variation as well as change signaling attrition challenging reductive academic views. Employing diverse methodologies—surveys elicitation interviews computational modeling and ethnography— the work offers a nuanced depiction of Lánnang-uè’s diversity. A decolonial stance is advocated emphasizing the complex practices that define the language and its speakers’ identity. It critiques the idea of a uniform linguistic standard presenting Lánnang-uè as shaped by local diverse and inclusive practices urging a reevaluation of language ownership and authenticity. This monograph is crucial for scholars in sociolinguistics language variation and contact linguistics informing language revitalization efforts and enriching global discussions on linguistic diversity and discrimination.
Influencer Discourse : Affective relations and identities
Dec 2024
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The rise of influencers as power-players in the social media landscape is a defining feature of the digital era one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language along with other semiotic modes plays in the construction and communication of influencer selves discourse analytic and pragmatic research on the topic is lagging behind. This volume attempts to fill this void by offering contextually sensitive insights into influencers’ multi-modal communication on a range of platforms. The contributions rework established modes and tools of discourse analysis and pragmatics to shed empirical light on influencer identities and tensions (e.g. doing authenticity vis-à-vis promoting brands). We specifically attend to (a) the interplay between media affordances and communication practices and (b) the co-constructional interactive nature of influencer selves with networked audiences ranging from ‘affect’ to ‘hate’.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>In addition to linguists we hope that the volume will be of interest to scholars and students of social media communication from sociological cultural studies anthropological and/or social psychological perspectives.
Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943
Dec 2024
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The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43 thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen. The document unpublished so far is one-of-a-kind in its pedagogical dimension as it aims to introduce students and now readers to the glossematician’s workshop informally discussing its theoretical framework the operations employed in description and the reasons why such operations were devised via a concrete analysis of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy-tale “The Sweethearts”. Overall the document offers a unique glimpse into the machinery of one of the most epistemologically aware and rigorous theories of language developed in the 20th century.
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE : Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom
Dec 2024
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La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su lugar en el aula de lenguas integrada con los contenidos y destrezas presentes en la enseñanza de idiomas desde la ortografía el léxico y la gramática hasta la pragmática y las actividades comunicativas de la lengua. Este libro incluye además diversas consideraciones sobre metodología de enseñanza evaluación tecnología y factores sociales y afectivos que interactúan con el aprendizaje de la pronunciación del español. Todos los capítulos ofrecen una panorámica de su área de especialidad que contiene la investigación más reciente sobre pronunciación junto con recomendaciones de buenas prácticas docentes para llevar al aula de ELE estableciendo un fructífero puente entre los estudios sobre este tema y la didáctica del español.
This is a collective work by 23 specialists that addresses the teaching of Spanish pronunciation as an additional language from various perspectives to enhance its instruction. The aim is to show that pronunciation belongs in the language classroom integrated with the content and skills present in language teaching from spelling vocabulary and grammar to pragmatics and communicative activities. Furthermore the book includes considerations on teaching methodology assessment technology and social and affective factors that influence the learning of Spanish pronunciation. Each chapter offers an overview of its area of expertise containing the latest research on pronunciation along with recommendations for best teaching practices in the ELE classroom establishing a valuable bridge between studies on this subject and the didactics of Spanish.
This is a collective work by 23 specialists that addresses the teaching of Spanish pronunciation as an additional language from various perspectives to enhance its instruction. The aim is to show that pronunciation belongs in the language classroom integrated with the content and skills present in language teaching from spelling vocabulary and grammar to pragmatics and communicative activities. Furthermore the book includes considerations on teaching methodology assessment technology and social and affective factors that influence the learning of Spanish pronunciation. Each chapter offers an overview of its area of expertise containing the latest research on pronunciation along with recommendations for best teaching practices in the ELE classroom establishing a valuable bridge between studies on this subject and the didactics of Spanish.
Media as Procedures of Communication
Dec 2024
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The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted semiotic procedures that shape and are shaped by communicative practices. The book is structured around this central idea with four main sections.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Part I examines digital environments analyzing the interplay between multimodal approaches and mediality through case studies such as digital learning platforms and Zoom seminars. Part II focuses on journalistic procedures investigating how media shapes political debates and news presentation on platforms like Instagram. Part III delves into embodied processes particularly the role of the body movements and gestures in communication illustrated through analyses of yoga tutorials and family dinner conversations. Part IV combines diverse semiotic and medial resources with studies on historical data interpretation and virtual reality gaming practices. The book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of different media in constituting meaning and shaping social interactions.