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In this work the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective] which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that different types of states just like different types of events can be categorized based on their aspectual composition. Additionally the inherent semantic differences between events and states can be accounted for by analyzing aspect as applying to events internally and to states externally. A useful resource for the beginning linguist as well as the most seasoned analyst this work is written in language that is easy to understand while remaining faithful to all of the appropriate relevant technical terminology. Anyone who is seriously interested in exploring why the Spanish verbs ser and estar are used the way they are should read this book.

This book foregrounds practices and discourses of ‘translation’ in several non-Western traditions. Translation Studies currently reflects the historiography and concerns of Anglo-American and European scholars overlooking the full richness of translational activities and diverse discourses. The essays in this book which generally have a historical slant help push back the geographical and conceptual boundaries of the discipline. They illustrate how distinctive historical social and philosophical contexts have shaped the ways in which translational acts are defined performed viewed encouraged or suppressed in different linguistic communities. The volume has a particular focus on the multiple contexts of translation in India but also encompasses translation in Korea Japan and South Africa as well as representations of Sufism in different contexts.

Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database this work tests existing descriptions and characterizations of English in India and provides the first empirical account of register variation in Indian English (or indeed any international variety of English). Included in this survey are linguistic features that have been examined before and others that have not. From an empirical standpoint it comments on the process of Indianization of the English used in India. The book will be of interest to readers beyond specialists of Indian English as it is one of very few studies to undertake a large-scale corpus analysis for the purpose of dialect research. The book provides a model on which future studies of international Englishes can be based.

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are variable? In recent theorizing much of language variation is argued to stem from differences in the properties of features associated with functional heads. As such this volume can be viewed as a case study of one such category: the determiner (D). The contributions all investigate the status of D as a language universal by examining the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties associated with this category. This volume will appeal to researchers and students in syntax and semantics as well as to those who have more a specific interest in determiners and noun phrases.

The papers included in the volume Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations are concerned with some of the multiple possible forms of interactions and interrelations in phonetics and phonology: the phonetic and/or phonological nature of speech patterns segmental and prosodic interactions and interactions between segments and features both in child and in adult language combining perception and production data and doing so from theoretically as well as experimentally oriented perspectives. The book is unique in the universe of recent publications for its topic wide scope and coherent thematic content. It is of interest to all researchers teachers and students in the fields of phonetics and phonology as well as to those interested in the interplay between production and perception the organization of grammar and language typology. In general Phonetics and Phonology. Interactions and interrelations may be a useful companion to all those wishing to widen and deepen their knowledge of the sound structure of language(s).

The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism indirect realism and idealism the continual becoming of world is explained by a novel integration of process dynamics as formulated by Whitehead Heidegger and Bohm with the burgeoning field of quantum neurophilosophy. A rich ontological duality newly opened by quantum brain theory is exploited: the “between-two” of dual quantum modes. Existence as world-thrownness is between-two in waking and dreaming alike. This highly original interdisciplinary book may be of interest to philosophers psychologists neuroscientists consciousness researchers indeed anyone attracted to the enigma of their own lived existence. (Series A)

This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are learning language in diverse learning conditions including language contact as well as monolingual and bilingual Spanish Catalan Galician and Euskera. This expansion and diversification of the database for studying language development is important because it creates new opportunities for testing theoretical claims. Our contributors reconsider theoretical claims relating to the purported adult-like nature of young children’s grammars. While some conclude for example that children in Mexico possess very adult-like semantic-pragmatic competence in the domain of the pragmatic implicatures associated with existential quantifiers others conclude that in particular sociolinguistic registers of Chilean Spanish children are late to develop adult-like competence in plural marking. Taken together the contents of the volume illustrate how the linguistic diversity found in the distinct learning conditions in which language develops offers a wealth of opportunities to further our understanding of linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive development.

This book explores the meanings of educational interactions which aim to promote peace and positive relationships. This analysis is based on theories of communication and active participation in education systems in particular in intercultural settings. The book investigates the cultural presuppositions of dialogues which can empower participants’ expressions in interactions through the management of discussions and conflicts. These presuppositions are observed in the use of language in participants’ narratives and interactions. The book draws on the fine-grained analysis of a large corpus of questionnaires interviews and videotaped interactions collected in 12 camps promoted by CISV (Children’s International Summer Villages) an international organisation which is active in 70 countries. The analysis encompasses both organisational meetings and educational activities involving adults children and adolescents of several nationalities and shows the importance of the different ways in which the adults who coordinate these meetings and activities act and use language. These different ways of acting in interactions can promote both empowering dialogues and disempowering monologues with important consequences for the fulfilment of educational purposes. For its contents theoretical framework and methodology the book may be of interest for educators teachers experts in mediation scholars and students in cultural sociology sociolinguistics communication studies discourse studies and dialogue studies.

The Arab-Israeli struggle is not only a struggle over land but a struggle over language representations. Arab reporters as well as politicians believe that their political discourses about the Middle East conflict are objective accurate and credible. Arab News and Conflict critically examines the role of language in the representations of events and ideologies found in news media.

Drawing on socio-political-linguistic approaches combined with real-case studies the author offers a unique discourse analysis model for analysing politically sensitive language in the media. The focus in this study is on the Arab media discourse in times of conflict with Israel and the US spanning the years 2001 to 2009. Using rich examples from outspoken Arab media outlets the study explores ideological and language facts about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This book is compelling reading for students and researchers of media and cultural studies discourse analysis and sociolinguistics and translation. It is of equal interest to political analysts political speakers journalists and news editors who need to understand more about the ideological function of the language they use or the political-journalistic-linguistic nexus of power.

Metalanguage in Interaction is about the crystallization of metalanguage employed throughout interaction into the discourse markers which permeate talk. Based on close analysis of naturally-occurring Hebrew conversation it is a synchronic study of the grammaticization of discourse markers a phenomenon until now mostly studied from a diachronic perspective. It constitutes the first monograph in the fields of Hebrew interactional linguistics and Hebrew discourse markers. The book first presents what is unique to the present approach to discourse markers and gives them an operational definition. Discourse markers are explored as a system illuminating their patterning in terms of function structure and the moments in interaction at which they are employed. Next detailed analysis of four Hebrew discourse markers illuminates not only the functions and grammaticization patterns of these markers but also what they reveal about quintessential aspects of Israeli society identity and culture. The conclusion discusses commonalities and differences in the grammaticization patterns of the four markers and relates the grammaticization of discourse markers from interaction to projectability in discourse.