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Le présent recueil rassemble douze études consacrées à des problèmes de syntaxe verbale et à certains faits fondamentaux de lexique et de grammaire. Au-delà de la diversité des approches l'originalité de l'ouvrage tient au fait que les contributions concernent plusieurs phénomènes peu ou pas décrits auparavant. On y trouvera des études générales portant sur la classification des constructions verbales et sur la notion de prédicat et d'autres approches plus particulières décrivant : des constructions causatives irrégulières ou transitives et causative attributive du verbe faire les constructions impersonnelles les attributs de devenir et l'objet indirect en de de changer. A la frontière de la construction et de l’interprétation verbales sont présentées deux études portant sur la diathèse : verbes pronominaux passifs en français et en italien. Enfin une étude contrastive entre français et japonais sur les déterminations temporelles dans les récits au passé.

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This collection assembles twelve studies devoted to problems of verbal syntax and certain fundamental facts of lexicon and grammar. Beyond the diversity of approaches the originality of the work is due to the fact that the contributions relate to several phenomena little or not described before. One will find general studies relating on the classification of verbal constructions and the concept of predicate and other approaches more particular describing : irregular causative constructions or transitive and causative complements of the verb faire complements of devenir impersonal constructions and complements and indirect object with de of the verb changer. On the border of verbal construction and interpretation two studies are presented relating to the diathesis : passive reflexive verbs in French and in Italian. And also a contrastive study between French and Japanese on the temporal determinations in past tense.

Video games are part of the growing digital entertainment industry for which game localization has become pivotal in serving international markets. As well as addressing the practical needs of the industry to facilitate translator and localizer training this book seeks to conceptualize game localization in an attempt to locate it in Translation Studies in the context of the technologization of contemporary translation practices. Designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the topic of game localization the book draws on the literature in Game Studies as well as Translation Studies. The book’s readership is intended to be translation scholars game localization practitioners and those in Game Studies developing research interest in the international dimensions of the digital entertainment industry. The book aims to provide a road map for the dynamic professional practices of game localization and to help readers visualize the expanding role of translation in one of the 21st century's key global industries.

How do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human interface in the fieldwork situation when collecting placenames on islands? This book offers answers relevant to toponymists linguists island studies scholars and anthropologists. It focuses on two island environments within Australia – Norfolk Island South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula Kangaroo Island South Australia – and puts forward a number of novel findings relevant to Australian linguistics and the linguistics and toponymy of islands anywhere.

The Selected Papers from the 6th Congress Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies (TS) held at the University of Leuven Belgium in 2010 congregated scholars and practitioners presenting their ideas and research in this thriving domain. This volume includes fifteen carefully selected articles which represent the diversity and breadth of the topics dealt with in Translation Studies today increasingly bolstered by its interaction with other disciplines. At the same time it aims to provide a balance between process and product oriented research and training and professional practice. The authors cover both Translating and Interpreting from a myriad of approaches touching upon topics such as creativity pleasant voice paratext and translator intervention project-based methodologies revision corpora and individual translation styles to name but a few. This volume will hopefully contribute to further fruitful interaction and cohesion which are essential to the international status of TS.

Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.

The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2 learners is constrained semantically syntactically and mnemonically. This hypothesis is formalised as the Multiple Constraints Hypothesis. The empirical test of the Multiple Constraints Hypothesis is based on a large database including cross-sectional and longitudinal data from square-one ESL beginners. The study demonstrates that the postulated constraints are relaxed successively as learning progresses. The book is intended for postgraduate students as well as SLA researchers.

This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure word order alternations and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations focus fronting and other reordering phenomena are analyzed taking into account their morphosyntactic and prosodic properties. It is argued that a restricted set of discourse-related properties are inserted in the numeration as formal features. These discourse-related features drive the syntactic derivation and the formation of the prosodic representation in compliance with the T-model of grammar. Based on the cartographic approach this study proposes a model of the syntax–prosody interface in which the phonological computation of prosody is fed by syntactically encoded properties of information structure. However this computation is also governed by structural requirements intrinsic to the phonological domain and thus a bijective relation between information structure and prosodic representation is not guaranteed. The monograph will be of interest to any linguist concerned with syntax information structure and prosody.

The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects. The volume illustrates diversification of theory and method refinement of approaches to social interactive language use and expansion in the range of populations and languages under scrutiny. Part I offers a topical orientation outlining the rationale for the project. Part II presents six qualitative case studies adopting sociocultural activity theoretical postructuralist or discourse analytic methodologies. The four chapters in Part III illustrate a variety of approaches and foci in research on the pragmatic capabilities of study abroad participants in relation to second language identities. The volume will be of interest to a broad audience of applied linguistics researchers language educators and professionals engaged in the design oversight and assessment of study abroad programs.

Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology historical linguistics and function-based approaches to language description define this volume as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All of the papers appeal in one way or another to functional-historical approaches to explanation. Behind this appeal lies an assumption that languages are selective in their development in ways that are dependent upon the communicative tasks to which they are put. As such language function accounts for both variation and historical development over time.

The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters diaries and autobiography this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods from the sixteenth century to World War I. The volume stands out by its consistent application of the most recent developments in historical-sociolinguistic methodology in research on first-person writings.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Some of the articles concentrate on social differences in relation to linguistic variation in the historical context. Others hone in on self-representation writer-addressee interaction and identity work. The key issue of the relationship between speech and writing is addressed when investigating the hybridity of ego-documents which may contain both “oral” features and elements typical of the written language.<br/>The volume is of interest to a wide readership ranging from scholars of historical linguistics sociolinguistics sociology and social history to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to the accusation that the position they currently hold is inconsistent with a position they advanced before. The politicians’ responses to such charges are examined for their strategic function by concentrating on a number of concrete cases and explaining how the arguers try to enhance their chances of winning the discussion. In addition the soundness criteria are formulated for judging properly when the politicians’ responses are indeed reasonable.This book is important to argumentation theorists discourse analysts communication scholars and all other researchers and students interested in the way in which language is used for the purpose of persuasion in a political context.

Corina Andone is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.