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This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish French Italian Portuguese Romanian Catalan Occitan Sardinian and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and continuity attested in the data can be accounted for in cognitive linguistic terms. At the same time the study illustrates how the insights gained from Latin and Romance historical data have profound implications for the cognitive approaches to language — in particular for Leonard Talmy’s motion-framing typology and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory. The book should appeal to scholars interested in historical Romance linguistics cognitive linguistics and lexical change.

Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau the book adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality. It combines a social anthropological approach to postcolonial studies in which local and trans-national communicative practices related to governance and conflict management are analysed as different language games. The book offers an experience-near approach to local modes of conflict management and patterns of leadership and documents how micro-level communicative practices have an impact on macro-political processes.

Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wüster and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science which seems to have reached adulthood thanks to integrating multiple contributions not only from different linguistic schools including computer corpus variational socio-cognitive and socio-communicative linguistics and frame-based semantics but also from engineering and formal language developers. In this ever changing and diverse context Terminology offers a wide range of opportunities ranging from standardized and prescriptive to prototype and user-based approaches. At this point of its road map Terminology can nowadays claim to offer user-based and user-oriented hence user-friendly approaches to terminological phenomena when searching extracting and analysing relevant terminology in online corpora when building term bases that contribute to efficient communication among domain experts in languages for special purposes or even when proposing terms and definitions formed on the basis of a generally agreed consensus in international standard bodies.

Terminology is now ready to advance further thanks to the integration of meaning description taking into account dynamic natural language phenomena and of consensus-based terminology management in order to help experts communicate in their domain-specific languages. In this Handbook of Terminology (HoT) the symbiosis of Terminology with Linguistics allows a mature and multi-dimensional reflection on terminological phenomena which will eventually generate future applications which have not been tested yet in natural language.

The HoT aims at disseminating knowledge about terminology (management) and at providing easy access to a large range of topics traditions best practices and methods to a broad audience: students researchers professionals and lecturers in Terminology scholars and experts from other disciplines (among which linguistics life sciences metrology chemistry law studies machine engineering and actually any expert domain). In addition the HoT addresses any of those with a professional or personal interest in (multilingual) terminology translation interpreting localization editing etc. such as communication specialists translators scientists editors public servants brand managers engineers (intercultural) organization specialists and experts in any field.

Moreover the HoT offers added value in that it is the first handbook with this scope in Terminology which has both a print edition (also available as a PDF e-book) and an online version. For access to the Handbook of Terminology Online please visit https://benjamins.com/online/hot/ .

The HoT is linked to the Handbook of Translation Studies not in the least because of its interdisciplinary approaches but also because of the inevitable intertwining between translation and terminology.

All chapters are written by specialists in the different subfields and are peer-reviewed.

The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties such as Australian Canadian and Irish English and eight on ‘Outer Circle’ varieties such as Philippine Indian and Nigerian English. Contributors examine a range of topics including the progressive aspect modal auxiliaries do-support verb morphology and quotatives using a wide variety of corpus resources. Overarching research questions addressed include the following: Do diachronic tendencies observed in a particular variety converge with diverge from or run in parallel with those in the parent variety? What are the possible causes of changes observed (e.g. English teaching traditions Americanisation internal changes in registers)? This book will appeal to linguists particularly those interested in grammatical description corpus linguistics and World Englishes.

This book written for both seasoned and novice researchers presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC) a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical. The first part of the book provides background for and explication of the theory as well as an agenda for future research while the second part reports on selected studies of language proficiency in native speakers as well as non-native speakers and studies of the relationship between literacy in a first and second language. Conceptual and methodological problems in measuring language proficiency in research on second language acquisition and bilingualism are also discussed. Further the notion of levels of language proficiency as rendered by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is critically examined suggesting ways of empirically investigating a number of questions that the CEFR raises but is not capable of answering.

Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary texts; and iconic motivation in grammar the chapters show the diversity and dynamics of iconicity research ranging from iconicity as a driving force in language structure and change to the various uses of images diagrams and metaphors at all levels of the literary text in both narrative and poetic forms as well as on all varieties of discourse including the visual and the oral.

This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of sociolinguistics discourse analysis ethnography historical linguistics and syntax. It concentrates on mainland St Vincent and the Grenadine island of Bequia. The volume will appeal to a broad audience including not just specialists in linguistics but also teacher trainers and educators.

This volume appears now finally in English sixty years after the death of its author Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German Spanish Italian and Russian and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern study of syntax and grammar. This stream is known today as dependency grammar (DG). Drawing examples from dozens of languages many of which he was proficient in Tesnière presents insightful analyses of numerous phenomena of syntax. Among the highlights are the concepts of valency and head-initial vs. head-final languages. These concepts are now taken for granted by most modern theories of syntax even by phrase structure grammars which represent in a sense the opposite sort of approach to syntax from what Tesnière was advocating.

Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.

The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power i.e. of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of such communities. Some receive strong government support while others receive none. For some indigenous languages the same government schools that once tried to stamp out indigenous languages are now the vehicles of language revival. As the various chapters in this book show some parents strongly support the use of languages other than the national language in education while others are actively against it and perhaps a majority have ambivalent feelings. The overall meta-theme that emerges from the collection is the need to view the teaching and learning of these languages in relation to the different needs of the speakers within a sociolinguistics of mobility.

Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Inquiries into Translation and Interpreting presents perspectives and original studies that aim to diversify traditional approaches in translation and interpreting research and improve the quality and generalizability of the field. The volume is divided into two parts: Part I includes an introductory discussion on the input of psycholinguistics and cognitive science to translation and interpreting along with two state-of-the-art chapters that discuss valid experimental designs while critically reviewing and building on existing work. Part II subsequently presents original studies which explore the performance of expert and novice translators using a variety of methodologies such as eye tracking keystroke logging retrospective protocols and post-editing machine translation. It also presents contributions for exploratory studies on interpreting and for testing several constructs such as language competence and the role of expertise redundancy and working memory capacity. This volume is intended to act as a valuable reference for scholars practitioners translators graduate and advanced undergraduate students and anyone wishing to gain an overview of current issues in translation and interpreting from psycholinguistic and cognitive domains.