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Starting in 1498 contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume the first one dedicated to the Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creoles of Asia brings together comparative studies on various issues across the Ibero-Asian creoles and beyond by specialists in these languages. This type of cross-linguistic analysis allows progress on many fronts including the reconstruction of past stages of the languages the explanation of observed similarities and differences the identification and consolidation of typological/taxonomic clusters or the assessment of the linguistic effects of different contact equations. The volume provides a timely window onto aspects of current research on the Ibero-Asian creoles including unsettled debates and ways in which their study can contribute to advance several areas of linguistic enquiry.

This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in Irish English including the evolution of linguistic structures in Irish English and linguistic change in progress employing broadly quantitative sociolinguistic approaches. Pragmatic features of Irish English are explored through corpus linguistics-based analysis. The construction of linguistic corpora using written and recorded material form the focus of other papers extending and analyzing the growing range of corpus material available to researchers of varieties of English including diaspora varieties. Issues of language and identity in contemporary Ireland are explored in several contributions using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The volume will be of interest to linguists generally and to scholars with an interest in varieties of English.

The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16) held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can be combined in the historical investigation of the English language what insights and exact information can be obtained about language change in the history of English with the help of tools like historical corpora or with inter- and transdisciplinary methods. The volume is arranged around five thematic headings. The first discusses dialects and regional variation from the viewpoint of contact linguistics and phonological morphological and lexical change. The second has syntactic variation and grammaticalization as its focus. Papers on grammatical changes in nominal and pronominal constructions are presented in part three. The integration of loanwords in Middle English is discussed in part four and the last investigates communicative intentions in historical discourse. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume should appeal to linguists interested in historical aspects of dialect and discourse studies historical pragmatics contact linguistics grammaticalization theory corpus linguistics and of course language change.

Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and perceptive interpretations of the conveyance of social-relational meaning in times (long) past and across historical cultures.

A collection of essays from the pens of authoritative historical (pragma)-linguistics researchers the volume examines the forms and functions of historical (im)politeness varying from single utterances and act sequences to fully-fledged (im)polite speech encounters and genres with a focus on their period- and culture-bound appraisal. What is more the book sheds light on what is still very dimly seen: diachronic trends in ‘relational work’ and the cultural-societal factors behind patterns of sociopragmatic change.

The volume reviews theoretical concepts methods and analytical approaches to improve our present-day understanding of the historical understanding of relational practices of the distant as well as the more recent past. Since it includes newly established themes and positions and breaks new ground this collection furthers considerably the field of historical (im)politeness research.

This volume was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011).

In our everyday life we are flooded by a pandemonium of information which consciousness organizes into more easily manageable phonetic and semantic categories. In poetry reading however the total effect of a poem is not only obtained by some of these categories but also by precategorial information for which there is a growing body of empirical evidence of its psychological reality. In the Tip of the Tongue phenomenon a great amount of diffuse precategorial information is present but fails to “grow together” into a compact word generating a feeling of some dense undifferentiated mass. Poetic language typically exploits such precategorial information for its effects. By way of theoretical considerations and close readings this book explores the semantic and phonetic strategies by which a text may increase or decrease the impact of such information. It investigates the conditions that boost or inhibit overtone fusion in rhyme and alliteration. By seeking empirical evidence for the claims he makes in different fields such as music art literature linguistics experiments in the speech laboratory the author provides ample and sound examples (ambiguity intended) in an almost conversational tone which makes us really anticipate reading each new chapter.

This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality supplemented by three book reviews on the same topic. The contrastive method based on monolingual or translation corpora does not only provide interesting insights about differences with respect to the semantics and the formal encoding of semantics between cognate elements in different languages but also appears to be a very useful tool to refine the semantic analysis of markers within a given language. The reader will also discover among the results of the original empirical research collected in this volume insights that contribute to typological and theoretical issues surrounding pragmatic markers such as the bottom-up identification of cross-linguistic pragmatic or discourse functions the establishment of semantic maps and the formulation of hypotheses about implicational hierarchies in the diachronic development of pragmatic markers on the basis of synchronic evidence especially in the framework of grammaticalization/pragmaticalization theory. This volume was orginally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 10:2 (2010).

The book Post-Socialist Translation Practices explores how Communism and Socialism through their hegemonic pressure found expression in translation practice from the moment of Socialist revolution to the present day. Based on extensive archival research in the archives of the Communist Party and on the interviews with translators and editors of the period the book attempts to outline the typical and defining features of the Socialist translatorial behaviour by re-reading more than 200 translations of children's literature and juvenile fiction published in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Despite the variety of different forms of censorship that the translators in all Socialist states were subject to the book argues that Socialist translation in different cultural and linguistic environments especially where the Soviet model tried to impose itself purged the translated texts of the same or similar elements in particular of the religious presence. The book also traces how ideologically manipulated translations are still uncritically reprinted and widely circulated today.

This is about people not texts – a translator ethics seeks to embrace the intercultural identity of the translatory subject in its full array of possible actions.

Based on seminars originally given at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris this translation from French has been fully revised by the author and extended to include critical commentaries on activist translation theory non-professional translation interventionist practices and the impact of new translation technologies. The result takes the traditional discussion of ethics into the way mediators can actively create cooperation between cultures while at the same time addressing very practical questions such as when one should translate or not translate how much translators should charge or whose side they should be on.

On Translator Ethics offers a point of reference for the key debates in contemporary Translation Studies.

Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders the notion of context and its challenges for linguistics from different theoretical and empirical angles. Part I offers insights into a wide range of current approaches to context including theoretical pragmatics neurolinguistics clinical pragmatics interactional linguistics and psycholinguistics. Part II presents new empirical findings on the role of context from case studies on idioms unarticulated constituents argument linking and numerically-quantified expressions. Bringing together different theoretical frameworks the volume provides thought-provoking discussions of how the notion of context can be understood modeled and implemented in linguistics. It is essential for researchers interested in theoretical and applied linguistics the semantics/pragmatics interface and experimental pragmatics.

Research into complexity accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope multiple objectives and lack of clarity as to how complexity accuracy and fluency should be defined operationalized and measured. The present volume showcases current research on CAF by bringing together eleven contributions from renowned international researchers in the field. These contributions not only add to the body of empirical knowledge about L2 use and L2 development by bringing new research findings to light but they also address fundamental theoretical and methodological issues by responding to questions about the nature manifestation development and assessment of CAF as multifaceted constructs. Collectively the chapters in this book illustrate the converging and sometimes diverging approaches that different disciplines bring to CAF research.