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Eugene Casad’s posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora – an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayarit Mexico – within the framework of Ronald Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar. The author provides an introduction to Cora speakers and their history and traces the evolution of Cora locative expressions comparing them with cognate or corresponding expressions in other Uto-Aztecan languages e.g. Huichol to reconstruct the development of Cora temporal meanings. Based on a meticulous analysis of synchronic and diachronic data Casad postulates distinct Cora models of time grammatical aspect and event structure among which the topographically based model of time is especially prominent. This important book can be regarded as the opus magnum of the author. It should be of interest to scholars working in conceptual metaphor theory grammaticalization and the history and typology of Uto-Aztecan languages.

In recent years researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition from L3/Ln acquisition is essential. From linguistic sociological psychological educational and cognitive viewpoints it has become increasingly apparent that the study of L3/Ln acquisition can provide new evidence to help resolve ongoing debates in these areas of study. This volume uniquely provides a wide-ranging overview of current trends in the study of adult additive multilingualism from formal psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives adding new insights into adult multilingual epistemology. This collection includes critical reviews of L3/Ln morphosyntax phonology and the lexicon as well as individual studies with unique language pairings including Romance Germanic Slavic and Asian languages.

There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an ‘empirical science’. This volume argues for a nuanced view highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of fact complement each other in linguistic research. Its contributions – ranging from experimental studies in psychology via linguistic fieldwork and cross-linguistic comparisons to the application of formal and logical approaches to language – exemplify the mutual relationship between empirical and theoretical work. The volume illustrates how selected topics are addressed by different contributions and methodological stances. Topics include the cognitive grounding of language social cognition and the construction of meaning in interaction and closely related pragmatics from a typological perspective and beyond. Anyone interested in these topics and more generally in meta-theoretical considerations will find great value in this volume.

Curial e Güelfa és una novel·la anònima del segle XV escrita en llengua catalana desconeguda fins al segle XIX i publicada por primera vegada el 1901. Es tracta d’una obra singular a cavall entre l’Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement en què es conjuminen magistralment els components cavalleresc i sentimental i la influència de l’Humanisme. Encara que el protagonista realitza les seues gestes per Itàlia Alemanya Hongria França Anglaterra Grècia Terra Santa Egipte i Tunis el seu ambient és bàsicament italià. El seu anonimat i la seva llengua han desorientat els lingüistes i els historiadors de la literatura que s’hi han acostat. La novel·la ara accessible en anglès espanyol francès portugués i italià — en traduccions promogudes per IVITRA basades en l’edició filològica del prof. Antoni Ferrando (2007) — atrau cada vegada més l’atenció dels estudiosos no sols per la seva redacció exquisida i la seva ben traçada estructura sinó pel seu ric rerefons cultural europeu. El present volum d’estudis intenta respondre a gran part d’aquests interrogants amb quaranta aportacions molt rellevants tant en l’aspecte lingüístic com en el cultural.

Curial e Güelfa is a 15th century anonymous romance written in Catalan unknown until the 19th century and first published in 1901. It is a singular work halfway between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in which the features of chivalry and sentimentalism and a touch of Humanism are brilliantly combined. Although the main character performs his heroic deeds in Italy Germany Hungary France England Greece the Holy Land Egypt and Tunisia the atmosphere is essentially Italian. Its anonymity and its language have always disconcerted the linguists and literary historians who have approached it. The novel now available in English Spanish French Portuguese and Italian — in translations sponsored by IVITRA based upon Prof. Antoni Ferrando’s philological edition (2007) — and in German is increasingly attracting the attention of scholars not only because of its delighting style and its wonderfully traced structure but also because of its rich cultural European background. This volume of studies tries to solve most of these questions with forty outstanding contributions all of them very important both from a linguistic and a cultural point of view.

As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. It joins the other signs of maturation such as Summer Schools the development of academic curricula historical surveys journals book series textbooks terminologies bibliographies and encyclopedias.

The HTS aims at disseminating knowledge about translation and interpreting and providing easy access to a large range of topics traditions and methods to a relatively broad audience: not only students who often adamantly prefer such user-friendliness researchers and lecturers in Translation Studies Translation & Interpreting professionals; but also scholars and experts from other disciplines (among which linguistics sociology history psychology). In addition the HTS addresses any of those with a professional or personal interest in the problems of translation interpreting localization editing etc. such as communication specialists journalists literary critics editors public servants business managers (intercultural) organization specialists media specialists marketing professionals.

The usability accessibility and flexibility of the HTS depend on the commitment of people who agree that Translation Studies does matter. All users are therefore invited to share their feedback. Any questions remarks and suggestions for improvement can be sent to the editorial team at [email protected].

Next to the book edition (in printed and electronic PDF format) HTS is also available as an online resource connected with the Translation Studies Bibliography. For access to the Handbook of Translation Studies Online please visit http://www.benjamins.com/online/hts/

The study of how words are represented and processed in the mind has served as a meeting ground for research in psychology linguistics and neuroscience. Right now this domain of study is in the midst of astonishing developments. At the core of these developments are the methodological and analytic advancements that have enabled researchers to address new phenomena and to ask new questions. These new methodologies have also raised fundamental questions concerning the nature of words in the mind the nature of language processing and the ways in which data can be understood.

This book provides a timely resource written by international leaders in methodological innovation. It offers fundamental insights into how innovative methodological approaches advance lexical research. It also offers the technical knowledge that is essential to that advancement but which is rarely found in journal reports. This is a methodologically oriented volume designed to be informative thought provoking innovative and perhaps also revolutionary. The contributions in this volume that originally appeared in The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010) and 6:1 (2011) are supplemented with several new chapters as well as with a new and timely introductory chapter titled "Embracing Complexity".

This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical social and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language use. Each chapter is based on original surveys conducted within the framework of the Phonology of Contemporary French project described in the Introduction. These surveys constitute an invaluable source of new data for researchers as many of the varieties included are otherwise undocumented in any systematic way. The chapters follow a similar format: presentation of the survey(s) and the sociolinguistic dimensions of the variety studied; description of the phonological inventory of the system(s) principal allophonic realizations phonotactic constraints behavior of schwa behavior of liaison consonants and other notable characteristics. The book opens with an informative introduction and closes with a chapter providing a synthesis of the major findings by continent.

This edited volume proposes key contributions addressing the connections between two important themes: dialogue and representation. These connections were approached or interpreted in three possible ways: 1. Dialogue as representation 2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues and 3. Representations of dialogue. The first interpretation -- Dialogue as representation -- consists of exploring dialogue as an activity where many things beings or voices can be made present whether we think in terms of ideologies cultures situations collectives roles etc. The second interpretation – Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues – leads scholars to explore questions of normativity which are often associated with the notion of dialogue when conceived as a morally stronger form of conversation. Finally the third interpretation – Representations of dialogue – invites us to address methodological questions related to the representation of this type of conversation. Echoing Bakhtin contributors were invited to explore the polyphonic heteroglot or dialogic character of any text discourse or interaction.

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being carried out interactionally. More specifically it explores how people evaluate each others’ cognitive competences as they deal with each others’ understandings knowings feelings doings hearings and learnings face-to-face. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The contributions focus on different evaluation activities in a variety of institutional settings in Denmark Finland Sweden Holland and the United States of America. <br/>All the contributions approach the theme by use of Ethnomethodology (EM) and/or Conversation Analysis (CA). Thus the analytic interests concern how participants organize activities of evaluating cognitive competences by means of recognizable interactional methods. This approach differs from other approaches and research interests within cognitive science as it concentrates on how people in interaction orient towards cognitive competence irrespective of scientific theories.

Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional communication allows multi- and interdisciplinary explorations on how workplace relationships and mechanisms are influenced by the use of certain linguistic patterns. The book approaches the topic of professional communication from multiple levels providing critical valuable insights into the dynamics of creating and maintaining professional relationships at work.

After outlining the theoretical and analytical frameworks the eleven chapters uncover and develop integrative themes that emerge within the three parts of the book: Dialogue and identity in professional settings Functions and strategies in professional communication and Specific issues in professional communication.

Scholars and students who are interested in research based on authentic data and case studies of efficient communication at work as well as those teaching courses on interpersonal communication discourse analysis pragmatics and sociolinguistics will find useful insights in this volume.

This volume brings together current research by international scholars on the varieties of English spoken in Ireland. The papers apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and frameworks to a range of topics. A number of papers explore the distribution of linguistic features in Irish English including the evolution of linguistic structures in Irish English and linguistic change in progress employing broadly quantitative sociolinguistic approaches. Pragmatic features of Irish English are explored through corpus linguistics-based analysis. The construction of linguistic corpora using written and recorded material form the focus of other papers extending and analyzing the growing range of corpus material available to researchers of varieties of English including diaspora varieties. Issues of language and identity in contemporary Ireland are explored in several contributions using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The volume will be of interest to linguists generally and to scholars with an interest in varieties of English.

Starting in 1498 contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume the first one dedicated to the Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creoles of Asia brings together comparative studies on various issues across the Ibero-Asian creoles and beyond by specialists in these languages. This type of cross-linguistic analysis allows progress on many fronts including the reconstruction of past stages of the languages the explanation of observed similarities and differences the identification and consolidation of typological/taxonomic clusters or the assessment of the linguistic effects of different contact equations. The volume provides a timely window onto aspects of current research on the Ibero-Asian creoles including unsettled debates and ways in which their study can contribute to advance several areas of linguistic enquiry.

The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16) held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can be combined in the historical investigation of the English language what insights and exact information can be obtained about language change in the history of English with the help of tools like historical corpora or with inter- and transdisciplinary methods. The volume is arranged around five thematic headings. The first discusses dialects and regional variation from the viewpoint of contact linguistics and phonological morphological and lexical change. The second has syntactic variation and grammaticalization as its focus. Papers on grammatical changes in nominal and pronominal constructions are presented in part three. The integration of loanwords in Middle English is discussed in part four and the last investigates communicative intentions in historical discourse. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume should appeal to linguists interested in historical aspects of dialect and discourse studies historical pragmatics contact linguistics grammaticalization theory corpus linguistics and of course language change.

Dialogue interpreting which takes place in institutional settings such as legal proceedings healthcare contexts work meetings or media talk has attracted increasing attention in translation language and communication studies. Drawing on transcribed sequences of authentic talk this volume raises questions about aspects of interpreting that have been taken for granted challenging preconceived notions about differences between professional and non-professional interpreting and pointing in new directions for future research. Collecting contributions from major scholars in the field of dialogue interpreting and interaction studies the volume offers new insights into the relationship between interpreting and mediating. It addresses a wide readership including students and scholars in translation and interpreting studies mediation and negotiation studies linguistics sociology communication studies conversation analysis discourse analysis.

Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and perceptive interpretations of the conveyance of social-relational meaning in times (long) past and across historical cultures.

A collection of essays from the pens of authoritative historical (pragma)-linguistics researchers the volume examines the forms and functions of historical (im)politeness varying from single utterances and act sequences to fully-fledged (im)polite speech encounters and genres with a focus on their period- and culture-bound appraisal. What is more the book sheds light on what is still very dimly seen: diachronic trends in ‘relational work’ and the cultural-societal factors behind patterns of sociopragmatic change.

The volume reviews theoretical concepts methods and analytical approaches to improve our present-day understanding of the historical understanding of relational practices of the distant as well as the more recent past. Since it includes newly established themes and positions and breaks new ground this collection furthers considerably the field of historical (im)politeness research.

This volume was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011).

How do readers make sense of a picture a photograph or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to provide their readers with the means for orienting themselves there? This book investigates the dynamics of the imaginary diagrams created by cartographers photographers and writers of narratives giving ample evidence of how mapping practices have inspired the imagination of a vast number of authors from Thomas More up to contemporary writers. A special focus is on the effects created by the projection of photographs into the narrative space and how our seemingly effortless interpretation of photographs and even maps masks complex cognitive processes. The theoretical horizon of this study encompasses the fields of cartography mental maps iconicity research and the spatial turn in cultural studies.

This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality supplemented by three book reviews on the same topic. The contrastive method based on monolingual or translation corpora does not only provide interesting insights about differences with respect to the semantics and the formal encoding of semantics between cognate elements in different languages but also appears to be a very useful tool to refine the semantic analysis of markers within a given language. The reader will also discover among the results of the original empirical research collected in this volume insights that contribute to typological and theoretical issues surrounding pragmatic markers such as the bottom-up identification of cross-linguistic pragmatic or discourse functions the establishment of semantic maps and the formulation of hypotheses about implicational hierarchies in the diachronic development of pragmatic markers on the basis of synchronic evidence especially in the framework of grammaticalization/pragmaticalization theory. This volume was orginally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 10:2 (2010).

Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax in which sentence patterns are introduced as constructions within the general framework of Construction Grammar. Drawing on naturally occurring data collected from the Internet the study challenges the prevailing view of predication as the sole mechanism of sentence formation and introduces the idea of patterning as a complementary sometimes even alternative mechanism. Major sentence patterns of English and Hebrew are systematically presented targeting both their form and their function. A contrastive analysis of the sentence patterns in these two languages results in postulating a typological group in which cognitive motivations are shown to account for both similarities and differences within the typology.

Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew will appeal to scholars of constructional approaches cognitive linguistics typology syntax as well as anyone interested in English and Hebrew.

Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders the notion of context and its challenges for linguistics from different theoretical and empirical angles. Part I offers insights into a wide range of current approaches to context including theoretical pragmatics neurolinguistics clinical pragmatics interactional linguistics and psycholinguistics. Part II presents new empirical findings on the role of context from case studies on idioms unarticulated constituents argument linking and numerically-quantified expressions. Bringing together different theoretical frameworks the volume provides thought-provoking discussions of how the notion of context can be understood modeled and implemented in linguistics. It is essential for researchers interested in theoretical and applied linguistics the semantics/pragmatics interface and experimental pragmatics.

Multiple interrogatives questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?) have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between superiority effects subject-auxiliary inversion and the distribution of pair-list and single-pair readings cross-linguistically. The author examines multiple interrogatives under sluicing (i.e. clausal ellipsis) presenting new arguments for the deletion analysis of sluicing. The author also reports the results of several experimental studies on how children acquire the language-specific properties of multiple interrogatives in English Russian and Malayalam. The results suggest a correlation between the acquisition of multiple interrogatives and the acquisition of contrastive focus which has been independently motivated in the syntactic literature. The monograph will be of interest to linguists concerned with syntax semantics and language acquisition as well as readers who are interested in a comprehensive theory of language in general.

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and researched in diverse educational contexts particularly where English is not the dominant language. By including contributions from settings as varied as Japan China Korea Venezuela Turkey Spain and France this collection of 13 studies provides strong indications that the research and implementation of TBLT in EFL settings is both on the rise and interestingly diverse not least because it must respond to the distinct contexts constraints and possibilities of foreign language learning. The book will be of interest to SLA researchers and students in applied linguistics and TESOL. It will also be of value to course designers and language teachers who come from a broad range of formal and informal educational settings encompassing a wide range of ages and types of language learners.

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon but it is also complex and multi-faceted varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression languages cultures or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers affect the way metaphors are produced or interpreted? Are the methods employed to explore metaphors in one context applicable in others? The sixteen chapters that make up this volume offer not only detailed studies of the situated use of metaphor in language gesture and visuals around the world – providing important insights into the different factors that produce variation – but also careful explication and discussion of the methodological issues that arise when researchers approach metaphor in diverse ‘real world’ contexts. The book constitutes an important contribution to applied metaphor studies and will prove an invaluable resource for the novice and experienced metaphor researcher alike.

Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part work we show that empiricism is false. In the second part we identify the psychology-relevant consequences of this fact. Five of these are of special importance: (i) Whereas some psychopathologies (e.g. obsessive-compulsive disorder) corrupt the activity mediated by one’s psychological architecture others (e.g. sociopathy) corrupt that architecture itself. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> (ii) The basic tenets of psychoanalysis are coherent.<br/> (iii) All propositional attitudes are beliefs. <br/>(iv) Selves are minds that self-evaluate. <br/>And: <br/>(v) It is by giving our thoughts a perceptible form that we enable ourselves to evaluate them and it is by expressing ourselves in language and art that we give our thoughts a perceptible form. (Series A)

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008) representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts. The objectives are to: (1) examine variation in such areas of pragmatics as speech acts conventional expressions metapragmatics stance frames mitigation communicative action (im)politeness and implicature; and (2) critically review central methodological concerns relevant for research in pragmatic variation such as coding ethical issues qualitative and quantitative methods and individual variation. Theoretical frameworks vary from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics to variational pragmatics. This collection contains eleven chapters by leading scholars including two state-of-the art chapters on key methodological issues of pragmatic variation study. Given the theoretical perspectives methodological focus and analyses the book will be of interest to those who study pragmatics discourse analysis second language acquisition sociolinguistics corpus linguistics and language variation.

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. Thus here it is not the talk in the medium itself but naturally occurring interactions in different media reception situations that are analysed. The idea that media function like a hypodermic needle injecting messages into the masses has long been questioned. Still the actual moment when people use media in their daily lives has largely been ignored in media studies. This book analyses the minutiae of the moment when people actively appropriate media for their own purposes in different fashions. The reception communities analysed include families watching television girls gossiping about a talent show teenagers playing video games a team of fire-men implementing a new medium in their workplace radio listeners´ phone ins and others. The languages studied comprise English German French Swedish and Finnish.