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A full-length study of monocollocable words i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado) that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing along both general and language-specific lines monocollocable words in terms of their frequency lexical as well as morphosyntactic behaviour and various facets of their peripheral status. Each of the four langauges covered namely English Italian German and Czech also offers a short introduction of the respective languages written in English Italian German and Czech. A rare contribution to our knowledge of an as yet little studied field the book will attract the attention of and stimulate a new interest in all who are ready to acknowledge that collocation is a core phenomenon of language – lexicologists lexicographers with a focus on phraseology language typologists linguists with a contrastive and historical agenda and language teachers alike.

Up to now most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism second language learning and generalizations across different languages and language varieties. The contributions in this volume show that speakers entertain generalizations across their repertoire of languages which holds important implications for a multilingual Construction Grammar. <br />Originally published in <i>Constructions and Frames</i> 6:2 (2014).

<i>Grammatica</i> <i>Gramadach</i> and <i>Gramadeg</i> : <i>Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales</i> is concerned with the history of linguistic ideas and literary theory in the vernacular languages of medieval Ireland and Wales. While much good work especially by Vivian Law has been done on the Latin materials this volume is the first to engage with the vernacular texts. It consists of ten essays that explore a range of interconnected topics relating to these themes. Yet while the contributors offer a close analysis of the development of linguistic thought in these literary traditions they likewise seek to situate their discussions within the wider context of European grammatical learning during this period considering both the widespread influence of texts from classical linguistic tradition and also the significance of sources from other contemporary learned disciplines for our understanding of the history of linguistics in the medieval world.

This volume provides the first comprehensive investigation of the Netherlands in the World Englishes paradigm. It explores the history of English contact the present spread of English and attitudes towards English in the Netherlands. It describes the development and analysis of the Corpus of Dutch English the first Expanding Circle corpus based on the design of the International Corpus of English. In addition it investigates the applicability of Schneider’s (2003 2007) Dynamic Model concluding that this and other such models need to move away from a colonisation-driven approach and towards a globalisation-driven one to explain the continued spread and evolution of English today. The volume will be highly relevant to researchers interested in the status and use of English in the Netherlands. More broadly it provides a timely contribution to the debate on the relevance of the World Englishes framework for non-native non-postcolonial settings such as Continental Europe.

Internationally-adopted children are a unique population of language learners. They discontinue acquisition of their birth language when they are adopted by families that speak other languages. Their unique language learning history raises important practical clinical and theoretical issues. Practically speaking: what is the typical language learning trajectory of these children after adoption and what factors affect their language learning: age at adoption country of origin quality and nature of the pre-adoption learning environment and others. They also raise important theoretical questions: How resilient is their socio-emotional cognitive and language development following adoption? Does their language development resemble that of first or second language learners or something else? Do they experience total attrition of their birth language? Are there neuro-cognitive traces of the birth language after adoption and what neuro-cognitive processes underlie acquisition and processing of the adopted language; are they the same as those of monolingual native speakers or those of early second language learners? And how do we interpret differences if any between adopted and non-adoptive children? Chapters in this volume by leading researchers review research and provide insights on these issues.

The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics literary studies and picture theory the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that are common to the different levels of linguistic structure literary novels and narrative pictures. As such it is also a book on narrative perspectivization since its contributions examine in detail the perspectival principles in medieval romantic and postmodern literature in the micro-linguistic structure of language narrative pictures literary novels dramatic texts and everyday stories. In doing so it contributes both to the theoretical debate on the core definition of narrativity and offers new empirical investigations on perspectival principles in specific historical medial and genre constellations. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cognitive linguistics narrative research and (transmedial) narratology cognitive poetics and stylistics.

Though “pejoration” is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology morphology syntax semantics and pragmatics and deals with diverse languages and their variants. The collection will appeal to all those linguists with a genuine interest in locating pejoration at the grammar-pragmatics interface.

Who mediated intercultural exchanges in 9th-century East Asia or in early voyages to the Americas? Did the Soviets or the Americans invent simultaneous interpreting equipment? How did the US government train its first Chinese interpreters? Why is it that Taiwanese interpreters were executed for Japanese war crimes? Bringing together papers from an international symposium held at Rikkyo University in 2014 along with two select pieces this volume pursues such questions in an eclectic exploration of the practice of interpreting the recruitment of interpreters and the challenges interpreters have faced in diplomacy colonization religion war and occupation. It also introduces innovative use of photography artifacts personal journals and fiction as tools for the historical study of interpreters and interpreting. Targeted at practitioners scholars and students of interpreting translation and history the new insights presented in the ten original articles aim to spark discussion and research on the vital roles interpreters have played in intercultural communication through history.

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Isn’t translation all about saying exactly the same thing in another language? Aren’t national images totally outdated in this era of globalization? Most people might agree but this book amply illustrates how persistent and multifaceted clichés on translation and nation can be. Time and again translating involves making transfer choices and these choices are never neutral. Though globalization has seemingly all but erased national ideologies and cultural borders such ideologies and borders continue to play a determining role in conflicts identity politics and cultural profiles.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The place where transfer choices and forms of national and cultural representation come together is also the place where Translation Studies and Imagology meet. This book offers a wealth of chapters showing how decisive selection and transfer processes can be in representing national images both self-images and images of the other(s). It shows also how intensely the two disciplines can work together and mutually benefit from shared data and methodologies.

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of metaphor have specific features that differentiate it from its linguistic and cognitive dimensions? And how could these specific properties of communication change our understanding of the linguistic and cognitive dimensions of metaphor? The authors of the papers collected in this volume offer answers to these questions that raise new interests in metaphor and communication.