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This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies the author exposes consistent and robust subject/object asymmetries in German – a surprisingly unequivocal result given that the existence of these effects is controversial. This finding raises important questions: how can one account for the discrepancy between the clear experimental evidence on the one hand and the lack of consensus in the linguistic literature on the other? And secondly it raises again the old question of why subject extractions are dispreferred. This work also provides intriguing new insights into the long-standing question on how to analyse German constructions such as Wer glaubst du hat recht? – the ‘parenthesis versus extraction debate'. In this work decisive evidence points in favour of the parenthetical analysis.

In the European tradition parliaments are central political institutions that play a crucial role in the development of democratic societies. No other institution regularly offers a public arena for open deliberation and dissent for discussing opposite points of view and for reaching compromise solutions between political adversaries. However in spite of the growing visibility of modern parliaments the study of parliamentary language use interaction practices and discourse strategies has long been under-researched. Based on extensive parliamentary data this book integrates a rich variety of innovative analytical approaches that explore the far-reaching impacts of parliamentary practices and linguistic strategies on current political action and interaction. Individual chapters problematise and re-evaluate the discourse-shaped identities and roles of Members of Parliament the structure and functions of parliamentary discourse genres interpersonal behaviour and intertextual meaning co-construction in post-Communist parliaments. They offer broad cross-cultural perspectives on parliamentary discursive psychology and argumentation. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of language and linguistics rhetoric political and social sciences as well as for anyone interested in language and politics.

This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language primary or secondary-school education English stylistics theoretical and applied linguistics or speech pathology. The emphasis is on empirical facts of English rather than any particular theory of linguistics; the text does not assume any background in language or linguistics. In this newly revised edition numerous example sentences are taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. A full glossary of key terms an additional chapter on pedagogy and new sections on cognitive semantics and politeness have been added. Other changes include: completely updated print references; web links to sites of special interest and relevance; and a revised reader-friendly layout. A companion website that includes a complete workbook with self-testing exercises and a comprehensive list of web links accompanies the book. The website can be found at the following address: https://doi.org/10.1075/z.156.workbook.





Students completing the text and workbook will acquire: a knowledge of the sound system of contemporary English; an understanding of the formation of English words; a comprehension of the structure of both simple and complex sentence in English; a recognition of complexities in the expression of meaning; an understanding of the context and function of use upon the structure of the language; and an appreciation of the importance of linguistic knowledge to the teaching of English to first and second-language learners.

Laurel J. Brinton is Professor of English Language at the University of British Columbia.

Donna M. Brinton is Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education.

The Linguistic Structure of Modern English is a revised edition of The Structure of Modern English by Laurel J. Brinton (2000).

If it is bilingualism that transfers information and ideas from culture to culture it is the translator who systematizes and generalizes this process. The translator serves as a mediator of cultures. In this collection of essays based on a conference held at the University of Hartford a group of individuals – professional translators linguists and literary scholars – exchange their views on translation and its power to influence literary traditions and to shape cultural and economic identities. The authors explore the implications of their views on the theory and craft of translation both written and oral in an era of unsettling globalizing forces.

This volume focuses on work situations in Europe North America and South-Africa such as academic medical and public sector or business settings in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners clients or colleagues. Central questions are how the social and linguistic organization of work is adapted to the necessity of using different languages and how multilingualism impinges on the communicative outcome of different types of discourse or genres. Thus the authors are all interested in multilingual practices 'at work' which is to say how different forms of multilingual communication are managed flexibly adjusted to acquired and/or improved in a given workplace setting that often calls for particular implicit or explicit language policies. Thus this volume contributes to the study of workplace communication in a globalized world by drawing on different types of authentic data.

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings utilizing some innovative approaches to the study of recurrent features and patterns in the languages of economics history linguistics politics and other fields. The papers critically examine contemporary discourses in which experts and laypersons are equally involved showing that the spoken and written texts selected from various specialized corpora can be seen as collective memory banks. The series of reflections and specialized meanings uncovered in these texts are closely tied to particular sequences of patterned chunks in language and offer exciting insights into the inseparability of lexis and grammar.

The contributions to this volume were previously published in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:3 (2008).

This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages. It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised construction of synonymy and antonymy in discourse. It shows that research on language and cognition calls for empirical evidence from different sources. This volume demonstrates how the internet corpus data as well as psycholinguistic methods contribute profitably to gain insights into the nature of the paradigmatics in actual language use. Furthermore the volume is concerned with practical and application-oriented research on lexical databases and it includes explorations of sense-related items in dictionaries from both a text-technological and lexicographic perspective.

This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies functional fields including CP pragmatic markers at the syntax-pragmatic interface and on the possible parameterization of these properties. The papers in this volume bring to the fore the role of the edges (specifier and adjuncts) heads and projections in the grammar and at the interfaces. They address the question to what extent the relevant configurations at the level of edges head and projections determine the syntax/semantic semantic/pragmatic connections. The contributions clarify the notion of edge and bring evidence that this notion is core to the analysis of various phenomena at the left periphery of clauses and phrases. This volume also discusses functional heads and their projections particularly insofar as the properties of these heads determine the composition of the CP field and cases where a CP may or may not be projected.

Dialogue in Spanish provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of dialogue. This edited collection of twelve original studies contributes to a broad comprehension of dialogue in two general contexts: personal interactions among friends and family; and public speech such as political debates medical interviews court translations and service encounters. The studies written by authors from Canada Mexico Spain Sweden the United States and Venezuela present an in-depth look at issues and elements of dialogue such as irony narrativity discourse markers coherence conflict and expectations. Background research on dialogue grounds the articles in such areas as discourse analysis pragmatics philosophy sociology anthropology and linguistics. The book will prove useful to those who study conversational interaction pragmatics and discourse analysis as applied to various functions and contexts and it will be of particular interest to researchers and students of linguistics anthropology sociology philosophy communications and education.

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Proposing a macro-micro approach to discourse analysis and transformation it examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history with its ‘interpreters’; changes in political bodies and the media policies of the Catholic Church and the Institute of National Remembrance; xenophobia and anti-Semitism with the emergence of unemployment and homelessness; experiences of new gender relations and migrations. In effect drawing upon unique sets of data the book shows how post-communist transformation can be understood through analyses of the changing public and private discourses. It shows Polish post-communism as a fragile and uneasy transformation with people and institutions struggling to make sense of it and of life within it. The volume will be of interest to a broad range of social scientists: discourse analysts sociologists modern historians and political scientists as well as to the informed lay public.