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Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition literatures and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s notion of “bilingual creativity” as an enculturated shaped discourse (a mutation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). Creative Writing (SL) a new subfield to emerge from Stylistics extends David Hanauer’s Poetry as Research (2010); situating a suite of methodologies and interdisciplinary pedagogies researchers in this book mobilize theories from Creativity Studies TESOL TETL Translation Studies Linguistics Cultural Studies and Literary Studies. Changing the relationship between L2 writers and canonized literary artefacts (from auratic to dialogic) each essay in this text is essentially Freirean; each chapter explores dynamic processes through which creative writing in a non-native language engages material and phenomenological modes toward linguistic pluricentricity and indeed emancipation.

This book is for both robot builders and scientists who study human behaviour and human societies. Scientists do not only collect empirical data but they also formulate theories to explain the data. Theories of human behaviour and human societies are traditionally expressed in words but today with the advent of the computer they can also be expressed by constructing computer-based artefacts. If the artefacts do what human beings do the theory/blueprint that has been used to construct the artefacts explains human behaviour and human societies. Since human beings are primarily bodies the artefacts must be robots and human robots must progressively reproduce all we know about human beings and their societies. And although they are purely scientific tools they can have one very important practical application: helping human beings to better understand the many difficult problems they face today and will face in the future - and perhaps to find solutions for these problems.

Despite a recent spate of publications the valency of nouns is a topic that still remains in the shadow of the valency of verbs. This volume aims to contribute to the discussion of noun valency not only from a theoretical point of view as is often the case but also from an empirical one by presenting a series of studies focusing on particular questions and based on data-driven research. It explores properties of valency nouns in a variety of languages including Bulgarian Czech German Latin Romanian and Spanish. The specificity of this book consists in the diversity of the methodological approaches used. It includes empirical studies and it explores different theoretical frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) the Minimalist Program within Generative Grammar Functional Generative Description (FGD) and Construction Grammar. Special attention is paid to deverbal nouns but nouns expressing quantity and “compound-like” constructions involving relationship and interactivity are also dealt with.

In recent decades linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2 2012) draws together complementary perspectives on the social and interactional life of evidentiality drawing on data from diverse languages including Albanian English Garrwa (Pama-Nyungan Australia) Huamalíes Quechua (Quechuan Peru) Nanti (Arawak Peru) and Pastaza Quichua (Quechuan Ecuador). The language-specific studies in this volume are all based on the close analysis of discourse or communicative interaction and examine both evidential systems of varying degrees of grammaticalization and 'evidential strategies' present in languages without grammaticalized evidentials. The analyses presented draw on conversational analysis ethnography of communication ethnopoetics pragmatics and theories of deixis and indexicality and will be of interest to students of evidentiality in a variety of analytical traditions.

In keeping with the profile of Pragmatics & Beyond New Series this volume presents and discusses issues that are central to aspects of social inequality power dominance and status as expressed in discourse in its broadest sense. The volume aggregates research efforts of the past years and it constitutes a point of departure for future studies. The contributions challenge the widespread assumption that concepts such as inequality power dominance and status are predetermined in discourse; the volume including contributions by international scholars from various disciplines such as linguistics sociology and social psychology rather emphasizes the co-constructedness of these concepts in ordinary discourse and thus advances the potential for insights into how aspects of inequality power dominance and status are both made and understood.

This volume has been designed to promote recent research on a classic topic relating discursive cognitive and social dimensions of inequality in most of the social sciences and the humanities.

The volume aims at an international readership making this book of interest to both researchers and advanced students in linguistic pragmatics usage-based linguistics ethnography of speaking sociology and social psychology.

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly pragmatic competence pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by distinct criteria and validated testing measures. More importantly genuine pragmatic inference is elicited in contexts of online interpretation where figurative speech plays a central role. Genre-specific discourse which occurs in editorials and news reports serves as a natural testbed for examining the role of advanced mind-reading abilities in developing pragmatic competence. Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory accommodates the findings of empirical assessment and yields new insights in the cognitive procedures activated during interpretation. The comprehensive theoretical and methodological treatment of pragmatic competence makes this book of interest to researchers and students in pragmatics L2 theory and applications genre studies and to those concerned with the cognitive underpinnings of communication in L2.

Sociophonetics is a privileged domain for the investigation of language variation and change. By combining theoretical reflections and sophisticated techniques of analysis – both phonetic and statistical – it is possible to extrapolate the role of individual factors (socio-cultural physiological communicative-interactional etc.) in the multidimensional space of speech variation.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This book investigates the fundamental relationship between speech variation and the social background of speakers from articulatory acoustic dialectological and conversational perspectives thus breaking new ground with respect to classical variationist and dialectological studies. Specialists from a broad range of disciplines – including phonetics phonology sociolinguistics psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics – will find innovative suggestions for multiple approaches to language variation. Although presuming some basic knowledge of experimental phonetics and sociolinguistics the book is addressed to all readers with an interest in speech and language variation mechanisms in social interaction.

How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception attention imagination and other cognitive activity and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young audience from picturebooks to young adult novels the combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive criticism the book provides convincing evidence that reading fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual emotional and social maturation.

This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa Cantonese Bulgarian Dene Dutch Eipo Frisian German Mandarin Chinese Māori Russian Spanish and Yukatek among others) they are typologically diverse and they are contrasted from a variety of perspectives such as cognitive development aging acquisition grammatical and lexical processing and memory. This collection also illustrates novel insights into the linguistic relativity debate that multilingual studies can offer such as new and revealing perspectives on some well-known topics (e.g. colour categorisation or language transfer). The critical and comprehensive discussions of theoretical and methodological considerations presented in this volume are fundamental for numerous current future empirical and interdisciplinary studies of linguistic diversity linguistic typology and multilingual processing.

Creative Confluence is a highly original work building bridges between physics biology technology economy organizations neuropsychology literature arts and cultural history. It is an attempt to explain the process of creativity as a universal principle of nature cutting through the composition of atoms as well as human design of novel combinations. Creative Confluence is yet another impressive book and a sequel to Epistemics of the Virtual indicating that perception and imagination operate in close contact. In a clear and light tone the work holds that rational problem-solving strategies are most relevant in deterministic problem spaces whereas creativity is pertinent in more probabilistic situations. Theories of creativity and innovation are explored by means of computer simulations. Conditionals that favor creativity such as diversity tolerance and openness are discussed forwarding a compelling vision of creative leadership.