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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Referencias culturales: retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidad aspira a ser una contribución seria a la problemática de la traducción de culturemas. Este volumen colectivo reune a investigadores con lenguas de trabajo distantes o enraizadas en un tronco común (francés-español inglés-español chino-español ruso-español rumano-francés e italiano-inglés) que basándose en corpus que abarcan géneros tan diversos como la prensa las redes sociales el cine el comic o los repositorios instucionales analizan desde una óptica comparativa y/o traductológica un amplio espectro de estructuras fraseológicas y terminológicas en las que las nociones de lengua y cultura son indisociables y plantean innumerables desafíos al traductor.

This volume aims to be a serious contribution to the issue of translating culture-specific elements. It brings together researchers with distant or related working languages: French-Spanish English-Spanish Chinese-Spanish Russian-Spanish Romanian-French and Italian-English. Based on corpora covering diverse genres such as press social networks cinema comics or institutional repositories they analyze from a comparative and/or translation perspective a wide spectrum of phraseological and terminological structures in which the notions of language and culture are inseparable and pose countless challenges to the translator.

This volume comprises studies and keynote addresses presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference hosted by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU in Trondheim in 2022. The selection of cutting-edge studies presented covers a wide array of topics within generative linguistics including the acquisition of grammatical features challenges of functional morphology the impact of the native language on subsequently acquired languages and interfaces between linguistic domains. Other chapters address how non-native language processing differs from native processing while the volume also highlights internal and external factors affecting bi- and multilingual development and points to important avenues for further generative research on second language acquisition.

This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV). Originally scheduled to be held in Milan in 2020 the conference was postponed and moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Held from August 23-27 2021 it connected scholars from 30 countries across various time zones.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume is divided into three parts. The first part devoted to General and Particular Issues in the History of Linguistics recalls classical authors in relation to contemporary ones as well as newly established disciplines and subtle epistemological inquiries. The second part Antiquity mainly investigates the Sanskrit language and various descriptive and didactic studies approached from both ancient and contemporary metalinguistic frameworks. The third part deals with Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Works ranging from the Tamil language to American archives and from experimental phonostylistics to the history of monosemy.

This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24) which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at the conference with each chapter representative of a workshop or themed session. A striking aspect of ICHL24 was the three-day workshop on computational and quantitative approaches to historical linguistics and two of the chapters represent different aspects of this workshop. A number of chapters present research that explores mechanisms and processes of change within specific domains of language while others explore interactions of change across linguistic domains. Two chapters represent a common theme at the conference and consider the role of historical linguistics in explaining non-linguistic histories of language diversification.

This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills such as vocabulary pronunciation and reading while also considering learner factors such as language learning aptitude and proficiency. Two distinctive features of this collective volume are 1) the inclusion of children and teenagers as participants in studies addressing the gap concerning young learners in this line of research and 2) an emphasis on longitudinal studies enhancing the ecological validity of the findings. The studies in this volume also showcase a diverse range of research instruments from eye-tracking to retrospective interviews enriching our comprehension of this innovative research area. A concluding chapter synthesizes these findings linking them to prior research and advancing our understanding of the role of audiovisual input in language acquisition.

The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users it contains vast spaces of written discussions aka talk pages where Wikipedia authors negotiate the collaborative editing of articles make evaluations or discuss related topics. The proposed volume covers Wikipedia articles their revision histories and discussions with a focus on discussions which have not been studied extensively so far and have also been neglected in previous corpus building efforts. Wikipedia discussions are instances of computer-mediated communication (CMC) thus constituting a completely different interaction-oriented linguistic genre. Sophisticated tools and methods of linguistic annotation and corpus exploration are needed to exploit the huge and valuable corpus resources that can be constructed from the Wikipedia discussions. The present volume aims at encouraging and facilitating Wikipedia corpus studies providing standards recommendations and innovative methods to build and explore Wikipedia corpora and presenting corpus studies that make the most of the peculiarities of Wikipedia.

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals including translators interpreters terminologists lexicographers language instructors and learners. Computational Phraseology and in particular the computational analysis of multiword expressions (also known as multiword units) has gained prominence in recent years and is essential for a number of Natural Language Processing and Translation Technology applications. The failure to detect these units automatically could result in incorrect and problematic automatic translations and could hinder the performance of applications such as text summarisation and web search. Against this background the volume offers 13 articles carefully selected and organised into two parts: ‘Computational treatment of multiword units’ and ‘Corpus-based and linguistic studies in phraseology‘. The contributions not only highlight the latest advancements in computational and corpus-based phraseology but also reiterate its vital role in all areas of language technologies including basic and applied research.

The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish bilinguals this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the intonation of Spanish and Catalan as spoken in Girona with a focus on the speakers’ bilingualism. These contact varieties share numerous intonational properties with differences mainly in the frequency of specific tunes in certain contexts. However they also exhibit significant variation often linked to extralinguistic factors such as the bilinguals’ language dominance. Overall the intonation of these contact varieties results from substratum transfer and wholesale convergence between the prosodic systems of Spanish and Catalan.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book is particularly relevant to scholars researching prosody language contact variation and multilingualism.<br/>

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics broadly conceived as the cognitive social and cultural study of language and communication i.e. the science of language use.

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.

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This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation how tolerant English language teachers are about language variation or how natural language can be translated into corpus query language. The thematic scope encompasses four types of ‘boundary crossings’. These include the incorporation of innovative scientific methods specifically new statistical techniques acoustic analysis and stylistic investigations. Additionally temporal boundaries are crossed through the use of new methods and corpora to study diachronic data. New methodologies are also explored through the analysis of prosody variety-specific approaches and teacher attitudes. Finally corpus users can cross boundaries by employing a more user-friendly corpus query language.

Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed as did the way in which travel was reported.

Travel as both factual and fictional— with authors and narratives moving between different worlds— is one of the many devices that demonstrate the fluidity of the genre. This fluidity accounts for the manifold and powerful influence of travel writing on processes of cultural transfer. This volume also illustrates that cultural transfer is frequently linked to issues of power colonialism and politics. The various chapters investigate the transmission of other cultures ideas and ideologies to the writer’s own cultural sphere and consider how the processes of cultural transfer interact with the forms and functions of travel writing.

This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium the editors track the development of the field in the last quarter century and have organized the volume into three sections (linguistic structure and variation US Spanish and heritage speakers applied linguistics) reflecting current research trends. This edited volume will be a welcome resource for advanced undergraduate students incoming and advanced graduate students and researchers in the field as well as Spanish language educators at all levels.

Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The volume pays homage to the scholarly contributions of Susanne E. Carroll delving into the impact she has had on the field of language acquisition. The central themes of input evidence and exposure – found throughout Carroll’s work ­– are explored in this volume. The contributions cover a range of topics such as the emergence of linguistic theorizing in language acquisition research the acquisition of grammatical gender classroom language learning learning on first exposure asymmetries between developmental trajectories in first and second language acquisition and the effects of grammatical complexity on language development.

Speakers and learners based on memory and experience implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However they also understand through abstract and frequency-independent categories why some combinations are possible and others are not. The frequency-grammar interface (FGI) bridges these two types of information in human cognition. Due to this interface the sediment of statistical calculations over the order distribution and associations of items (the regularities) and the computation over the abstract principles that allow these items to join together (the rules) are brought together in a speaker’s competence feeding into one another and eventually becoming superposed. In this volume it is argued that a specific subset of both first and second language grammar (termed ‘combinatorial grammar’) is both innate and learned. While not derived from language usage combinatorial grammar is continuously recalibrated by usage throughout a speaker’s life. In the domain of combinatorial grammar both generative and usage-based theories are correct each shedding light on just one component of the two that are necessary for any language to function: rules and regularities.

This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics namely the compilation annotation and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data some old issues persist while at the same time new problems have emerged. As the compilation and study of language corpora gets increasingly sophisticated and complex continuous attention on ways of dealing with the data in question and challenges in text selection and interpretation is needed. The contributions to this volume address problems relating to a variety of areas in corpus linguistic study including corpus annotation data variability learner language social media texts and database utilization. The authors provide critical overviews and research-based analyses discuss the nature of some of the common pitfalls and offer solutions to existing problems.