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One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader’s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods and stylistic and narratological theory in the course of delineating the matrix of eight parameters that he sees as crucial to creating narrative progression and expectation. The book will be of interest to stylisticians narratologists corpus linguists and short story scholars.

This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism (Paradis 2004) the crucial and pervasive contributions made by declarative and procedural memory to the appropriation representation and processing of a second language. This requires careful consideration of a number of concepts associated with issues pertaining to second language research: consciousness interface modularity automaticity proficiency accuracy fluency intake ultimate attainment switching implicit linguistic competence and explicit metalinguistic knowledge. It is informed by data from a variety of domains including language pathology neuroimaging and from each side of the fence practical classroom experience. This book introduces four further proposals within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism: (1) There are two sets of cerebral representations those that are capable of reaching consciousness and those that are not; implicit grammar is inherently not capable of reaching consciousness. (2) The increased activation observed in neuroimaging studies during the use of a second language is not devoted to the processing of implicit linguistic competence. (3) Intake is doubly implicit. (4) Given the premise that metalinguistic knowledge cannot be converted into implicit competence there can be no possible interface between the two.

Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the advent of corpus techniques however there is potential to investigate lexical cohesion with reference to large corpora. This collection of papers illustrates a variety of corpus approaches to lexical cohesion. Contributions deal with lexical cohesion in relation to rhetorical structure lexical bundles and discourse signalling discourse intonation semantic prosody use of signalling nouns and corpus linguistic theory. The volume also considers implications that innovative approaches to lexical cohesion can have for language teaching. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics volume 11:3 (2006).

Panpsychism is the view that all things living and nonliving possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select ‘higher animals’. Though surprising at first glance panpsychism has a long and noble history in both Western and Eastern thought. Overlooked by analytical materialist philosophy for most of the 20^th century it is now experiencing a renaissance of sorts in several areas of inquiry. A number of recent books – including Skrbina’s Panpsychism in the West (2005) and Strawson et al’s Consciousness and its Place in Nature (2006) – have established panpsychism as respectable and viable. Mind That Abides builds on these works. It takes panpsychism to be a plausible theory of mind and then moves forward to work out the philosophical psychological and ethical implications. With 17 contributors from a variety of fields this book promises to mark a wholesale change in our philosophical outlook. (Series A)

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of foreign language teachers and applied linguists can be reconciled. A number of concrete examples are given of how authentic corpus material can be used for different learning activities in the classroom. It is also shown how specific learner problems for example in the area of phraseology can be studied on the basis of learner corpora and textbook corpora. On the basis of learner corpora of speech and writing it is further shown that even advanced learners of English are uncertain about stylistic and text type differences.

This volume is a collection of papers that highlights some recurring themes that have surfaced in the generative tradition in linguistics over the past 40 years. The volume is more than a historical take on a theoretical tradition; rather it is also a "compass" pointing to exciting new empirical directions inspired by generative theory. In fact the papers show a progression from core theoretical concerns to data-driven experimental investigation and can be divided roughly into two categories: those that follow a syntactic and theoretical course and those that follow an experimental or applied path. Many of the papers revisit long-standing or recurring themes in the generative tradition some of which seek experimental validation or refutation. The merger of theoretical and experimental concerns makes this volume stand out but it is also forward looking in that it addresses the recent concerns of the creation and consumption of data across the discipline.

This volume covers a wide range of topics in Interpreting and Translation Research. Some deal with scientometrics and the history of Interpreting Studies arguments about conceptual analysis meta-language and interpreters’ risk-taking strategies. Other papers are on research skills like career management writing communicative abstracts and the practicalities of survey research. Several contributions address empirical issues such as expertise in Simultaneous Interpreting the cognitive load imposed on interpreters by a non-native accent the impact of intonation on interpreting quality linguistic interference in Simultaneous Interpreting similarities between translation and interpreting and the relation between translation competence and revision competence. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> The collection is a tribute to Daniel Gile in appreciation of his creativity and his commitment to interpreting and translation research. All the contributions in some way show his influence or are related to the models and research he has shaped.