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Terminology throughout History : A discipline in the making
May 2025
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Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive written record of the history of terminology as it evolves from a set of practices to a discipline in its own right. Terminology has witnessed considerable theoretical and methodological developments in recent decades. These changes need to be understood within the context of their historical foundations. The book has three main focus areas. The first examines the prehistory of terminology going back to the Ancient World leading to the second where the pioneers of modern terminology Eugen Wüster in particular are placed in their historical context. The final section is an account of how terminology developed in some twenty countries and language communities.
Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts : Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school
May 2025
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This volume presents state-of-the-art research in early foreign language (L2) education in instructed contexts with a special focus on primary school (ages 5-12). Over the past two decades early language teaching has become an important factor in both academic inquiry and education policy. Studies have attested to the value of early L2 learning but also revealed specific features and challenges which highlights the need for more high-quality empirical research. This book addresses this need by presenting current international research on early L2 teaching and learning in regular and CLIL contexts in the primary school setting. Uniting insights from 12 countries the studies shed light on current issues such as teaching and assessment practice emerging L2 literacy instruction teaching materials and teachers’ parents’ and learners’ perspectives. The volume thus contributes significantly to the advancement of early language education and is an essential resource for researchers and educators in the field.
Field Research on Translation and Interpreting
May 2025
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This volume constitutes a significant step in establishing field research as a central methodological approach in translation and interpreting studies. Following an integrative approach it addresses both translation and interpreting across professional paraprofessional and non-professional settings. The chapters in this volume focus on lived experiences in diverse real-world contexts—including refugee centres UN missions NGOs virtual environments and the workplaces of specialised translators. They offer rich insights into the situated and dynamic nature of translation and interpreting practices and discuss common aspects and challenges such as the researchers’ reflexivity ethical considerations and the role of materiality in fieldwork. By shedding light on underexplored areas and offering critical reflections on field research methodology the volume contributes to expanding the boundaries of translation and interpreting studies and deepening our understanding of translation and interpreting in their social and material contexts.
Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective
May 2025
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The volume Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective brings together theoretical and empirical contributions on missing object constructions revealing a nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon that poses challenges to current theories of null objects. The selected papers highlight the significance of the interplay between formal constraints and semantic properties (namely definiteness and animacy) in the licensing of null objects cross-linguistically. The formally oriented papers contribute to ongoing discussions on the mechanisms underlying the derivation of null objects. The differences between null objects that are licensed by rich agreement and those that are agreement independent are also addressed. From a developmental perspective the papers on null objects in language acquisition including second language learning further provide valuable insights into the intricate processes underlying the acquisition of referential expressions. The role of animacy emerges as a central question particularly in the context of Portuguese varieties where differences in pronominal systems contribute to variation in null object distribution.
Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century : Current trends and methodologies
May 2025
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This volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic phonetic phonological and lexical/pragmatic) within the Spanish-speaking world across diverse geographical areas such as Arizona New York City Puerto Rico Galicia Melilla Catalonia Philadelphia Colombia and Argentina. The collection highlights the dynamic evolution of 21st-century sociolinguistic methodologies from traditional sociolinguistic interviews and oral corpora to innovative approaches like social media analysis cutting-edge computational methods and natural language processing. The volume not only commemorates the achievements in the field since the inaugural 2002 Workshop but also provides accessible insights into the most current developments and techniques making it an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students linguists social scientists and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the evolving landscape of Spanish sociolinguistics today.
Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario / Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields
May 2025
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En todas las lenguas existen numerosos referentes y conceptos idiosincrásicos. Esas especificidades sociales lingüísticas gestuales materiales incluso ideológicas sometidas a continuas reescrituras e interpretaciones a través de los tiempos que no tienen a menudo equivalentes exactos o funcionales en otras lenguas y culturas suponen inevitables dificultades para comprenderlas desde otros horizontes y como no para traducirlas.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> En las últimas décadas la importancia de los referentes culturales en el mundo de la traducción y la interpretación viene generando mucho interés convirtiéndose en uno de los pilares teórico-prácticos fundamentales en traductología y dando origen por consiguiente a una inagotable a la par que variada producción científica. Este volumen pretende ser una aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario.<br/><br/>There are numerous idiosyncratic references and concepts in every language. These social linguistic gestural material and even ideological specificities are subject to continuous rewriting and interpretations through time which often do not have exact or functional equivalents in other languages and cultures. These specificities pose inevitable difficulties to understand these languages and cultures from other horizons and of course to translate them.<br/>The importance of cultural references in the world of translation and interpretation has generated much interest in recent decades. It has become one of the major theoretical-practical pillars in translation studies giving rise therefore to an inexhaustible and varied scientific production. This volume aims to be an approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields.
Mobile Eye Tracking : New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction
May 2025
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Situated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication. Readers will find a comprehensive balanced exploration of the benefits and challenges associated with taking eye tracking out of the lab to record authentic interaction in real-life settings. By integrating insights from pragmatics the contributions highlight the function of gaze as a resource for coordination cooperation and joint sense-making in human interaction. The chapters are written by leading scholars in the field as well as younger researchers. They offer in-depth methodological discussions alongside detailed case studies from static and mobile interaction settings. The book makes a strong case for the use of mobile eye tracking in addition to video cameras. It provides researchers with a solid and state-of-the-art foundation on which to make informed choices about recording technologies for their own work. The volume is a must-read for scholars in multimodal conversation analysis interactional linguistics as well as cognitive linguists linguistic anthropologists and psychologists with a strong interest in new ways of studying gaze in social interaction.<.p>
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research
May 2025
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This book serves as an introduction to corpus linguistics (CL) for graduate students and researchers in Applied Linguistics especially in the domains of language learning and teaching. It provides a structured and accessible approach for those new to CL equipping readers with the foundational concepts and tools required to analyse language corpora autonomously in research related to language learning and teaching. It also contextualises CL’s development over the past four decades offering critical reflections on its practices and applications. Each chapter integrates recommended readings and highlights central concepts guiding readers in applying CL methods to their own studies. By the end of the book readers will have gained the knowledge and practical expertise needed to apply corpus linguistics methods in conducting robust and innovative research.
Style as Motivated Choice : In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021)
May 2025
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This volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Verdonk was Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam and one of the founding members of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Many of his colleagues from PALA have contributed chapters to this volume. Each author has chosen as their starting point one of Verdonk’s ideas on literary and linguistic style. Through his many nuanced and illuminating stylistic analyses Verdonk’s works explore questions pertaining to: How can we recognise styles and stylistic features? How is style used in literary and non-literary contexts? What is the relationship between text and discourse and between production and reception? And centrally how can we consider ‘style’ as ‘motivated choice’. The chapters in this volume are erudite and inspirational. Reflecting Verdonk's own influence on the discipline of stylistics and his career-long support of younger scholars they will motivate new stylistics researchers and students for decades to come.
Germanic Interrelations : Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen
May 2025
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This volume celebrates Hans Frede Nielsen’s contribution to the field of Germanic studies and his work as founding editor of the journal and book series North-Western European Language Evolution. Twenty peer-reviewed articles explore a broad range of topics involving North and West Germanic languages. Some studies focus on early runic inscriptions others deal with features of modern varieties. All align in one way or another with Nielsen’s fields of interest especially historical linguistics and cover aspects of phonology syntax morphology etymology toponyms ethnonyms dialectology text linguistics linguistic historiography and language contact.
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery : The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature
Apr 2025
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The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work of literature to central questions of cultural memory testimony and the formation of archives. ‘Literature’ here as in the other volumes of this series is understood in the broadest sense as textual visual auditory cinematic and performative genres. The volume asks: What are the central metaphors storylines and topoi of literary representations of slavery? What kind of identities and political realities are created or enabled by the texts? What are the performative effects of literary language? Post-slavery literature is caught in a double endeavor: vivifying the past making identification possible while acknowledging the moral distance and the difficulties of remembering that past. The volume is divided into six sections that take up different aspects and problems of literary memory of slavery: counter-memories/memories of resistance the body as material archive fictionality of history writing the bricolage of history authorship/authenticity and the necessity of creative approaches to a history that is troublesome and full of accumulated erasures. A previous volume Vol. 1 explored slavery and the emotions. The next volume Vol. 3 will explore authorship and literary culture in relation to slavery.
Broadening the Horizon of TBLT : Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching
Apr 2025
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First launched in 2005 the biennial International Conferences on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) have become an established event for a broad range of participants and a key feature of the conferences has been the invited plenary (keynote) addresses. This edited volume brings together a selection of plenaries given at conferences between 2015 and 2023 and exemplifies the contributions being made by prominent and internationally recognised TBLT scholars on a variety of issues pertinent to TBLT theory and practice. The volume is framed around how the horizon of TBLT has broadened over the past decade and how the plenaries presented during this past decade have helped to take our knowledge and understanding of TBLT further. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders including teachers researchers and postgraduate students who would like to gain an overview of key dimensions of the field in the last decade.
World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Apr 2025
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World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions with different interlocutors and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are heterogenous manifesting only partial overlap regarding language repertoires use proficiencies and attitudes. The languages in multilingual ecologies may shift in status over time. Some languages may be lost while new languages appear. Strong regional languages and English typically persist. The volume explores multilingual ecologies around the globe and the position of English within them. Case studies are drawn from Africa East South and Southeast Asia the Middle East and Europe all written by distinguished scholars in the field who consider both standardized and non-standardized forms of English. The volume argues for a more inclusive study of World Englishes incorporating speakers’ social backgrounds as well as the other languages in their repertoires.
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
Apr 2025
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This book weaves together constructions imperatives dialogicity and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG) Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this cross-fertilising synergy the book singles out BELIEVE (YOU) ME BELIEVE IT OR NOT THINK AGAIN and MIND YOU as its objects of study offers an empirical analysis of their properties and situates them within an entrenched and far-reaching yet conveniently ‘camouflaged’ network of dialogic perspectivisation. In so doing the book provides novel insights into the mental state verbal fillers of the constructions alongside their imperative-induced non-compositionality and dialogicity which motivate their function as discourse unit framing agents and per extension discourse operators. The book thus makes a case for CxG’s ability to go beyond its word- or phrase-based ‘comfort zone’ and address phenomena at a micro- meso- and macro-discourse level with across-the-board benefits.
New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole : Standardization, grammar and language use
Apr 2025
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In the South-West Indian Ocean Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some structural properties of their grammars. Both languages also differ in the degree to which they are standardized and used in education and in public spaces. One of the goals of this volume is to examine their social status and their use in writing especially after the introduction of Mauritian Creole as a subject in schools as one of the ancestral languages. French and Bhojpuri are also part of the multilingual Mauritian context. One chapter in this volume analyses the role of Bhojpuri in the formation of Mauritian Creole while another studies the pronunciation of Mauritian French.
Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research
Apr 2025
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Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as second language (L2) within contemporary SLA research. The presentation problematises those approaches and methods as a critique of what has been done identifying a methodological roadmap of what needs to be done in order to advance the methodological agenda in L2 French and its contribution to wider SLA research. The discussion further aims to bridge the interface between methodological issues and the research investigation of a specific LOTE French such as in terms of its linguistic characterisation and developmental issues underpinning its acquisition. The analysis extends to approaches and methods across different theoretical paradigms in L2 French in different areas of linguistic development among learners in different learning contexts.
Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research : Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Apr 2025
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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.
Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities : 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French
Apr 2025
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This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second it draws on non-traditional dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert” views on language but also the perspectives of the “audience” engaging with these texts. Using France and the French language as its case study the book explores the areas of stability and change in questions of linguistic authority insecurity and correctness. It sheds new light on the evolution of the long-established genre of language commentary and deepens our understanding of the language attitudes and ideologies that shape how language is viewed discussed and judged. This book will appeal to linguists interested in language attitudes and ideologies in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Apr 2025
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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.
Historical Linguistics 2022 : Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022
Mar 2025
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This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting diversity of research questions theoretical approaches linguistic phenomena and languages explored. Data are drawn from Algonquian Arandic Bantu Cushitic Edoid Indo-European Manchu Tangkic Tungusic and Uralic—among other languages and language-families. In addition to addressing always with new insights more traditional concerns of historical linguistics such as reconstruction classification the effects of contact and borrowing the determinants of morphological syntactic phonological and semantic change this book presents studies on less conventional topics for example the diachrony of ideophones.