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Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by ‘crossers’. Taking sociolinguistic globalisation yet a step further this monograph investigates the use of Jamaican Creole in a web discussion forum by combining quantitative and qualitative methodology in a sociolinguistic ‘third wave’ approach. In the absence of standardised orthography one of the central aims of this study is to document the sociolinguistic styling and grassroots (anti-) standardisation of spelling norms for Jamaican Creole in the web forum as a virtual community of practice. An analysis of individual repertoire portraits demonstrates that conventionalised spelling variants co-occur with basilectal Jamaican Creole morphosyntax in ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ as the digital ethnolinguistic repertoire of the discussion forum. The enregisterment of this ethnolinguistic repertoire is closely tied to staged performance which establishes the link between ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ and the negotiation of sociolinguistic identity and authenticity via stance-taking.

Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an interest in the English of Ireland. Taking a broad definition of pragmatic markers (PMs) as items operating outside the structural limits of the clause that encode speakers’ intentions and interpersonal meanings this volume includes discussions of traditional PMs like sure that are strongly associated with Irish English recent globally-spreading innovations like quotative like and studies of tag questions vocatives and emoticons. The data sets used cover most of the existing and developing corpora of Irish English as well as historical legal depositions films advertising and recent fiction interviews recorded conversations and blogs. The authors address general issues such as what corpora of Irish English might add to the description of PMs in general the interaction of Irish and Irish English historical and contemporary uses of specific PMs and the usage of recent immigrants to Ireland.

The articles in this volume examine historical cultural literary and political facets of translation in Turkey a society in tortuous transformation since the 19th century from empire to nation-state. Some draw attention to tradition in Ottoman practices and agents of translation and interpreting while others explore the republican period starting in 1923 with the revolutionary change in script from Arabic to Roman coming in 1928 making a powerful impact on publication and translation practices. Areas covered include the German Jewish academic involvement in translation traditional and current practices of translating from Kurdish into Turkish censorship of translated literature intralingual translations from Ottoman into modern Turkish pseudotranslation ideological manipulation and resistance in translation imitativeness vs. originality and metonymics of literary reviewing.

In this stimulating collection of papers leading researchers from Europe and North America demonstrate the theoretical and methodological importance of corpus studies of phraseology and show how data-intensive case studies provide new perspectives on language use. One of the main theoretical findings of recent linguistics is that phraseology is central to language organization. The authors show how software and statistical techniques can reveal phraseological patterns in different text types – literary academic and commercial – and also typical paths of language change across the last 200 years. These patterns are revealed only when computational methods are applied to corpora consisting of hundreds of millions of running words collected from thousands of authentic texts. A major feature of the book is its critical comparison and evaluation of different quantitative and statistical tools which readers can use for their own empirical work. Originally published in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Vol. 18:1 (2013).

The ability to recognise discuss and evaluate one’s educational beliefs and working practices in metaphoric terms has for several years been seen as a highly valuable tool for increasing self-awareness facilitating learning (or teaching) and/or predicting behaviour. This is the first edited book solely devoted to the topic of researching elicited metaphor in education and brings together key researchers from China Poland Puerto Rico South America UK and USA. The 12 chapters involve overviews and state-of-the-art articles articles focussing on methodology and validation as well as reflections on the effectiveness of techniques and research reports of recent empirical studies. The bulk of the articles relate to literacy (L1 and L2) and teacher education but science education is also addressed. The book offers useful models for academics professionals and PhD students in these areas and provides solutions for improving the validity of elicited metaphor techniques in educational research.

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses as well as negative replies negative indefinites abessives/caritives/privatives scope polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation such as negative indefinites negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.

The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers) which exhibit considerable iconic motivation. Do such systems mark nouns formally? Do they share strategies for forming nominal expressions? Individual chapters consider formal criteria for a noun/verb distinction in sign languages with different socio-linguistic profiles strategies of “patterned iconicity” in a subcategory of nouns in both well-established and emerging sign languages grammatical markers for a nominal class in a first generation family homesign system from Mexico and the changing role of handshapes in signs referring to action and objects over the gradual development of a single deaf child’s homesign. The volume is of special interest to scholars of gesture sign languages linguistic typology and the evolution socialization and ethnography of language. Originally published in Gesture Vol. 13:3 (2013).

The Book of the Order of Chivalry was written in Catalan by Ramon Llull between 1274 and 1276 and is one of the author’s earliest works. After his death it achieved a wide dissemination throughout Europe in part because it was considered the theoretical manual on knighthood par excellence. The book was written in Catalan for knights who might not have a knowledge of Latin. Llull devotes his treatise to the definition of the duties of a perfect knight. In addition he is interested in delving into the religious and moral aspects of chivalry as well as in trying to reform this institution.

This edition is based on the Catalan text from Luanco’s Libro de la Orden de Caballería del B. Raimundo Lulio which is included here in facsimile format thanks to the generosity of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. To this are added new Spanish and contemporary English translations. In addition this volume includes an edition of Caxton’s 16th century English translation.

This volume contains revised and in some cases extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on themes pertaining to the aim and scope of the symposium. All papers cover central aspects of the early contact between Germanic and some of its Indo-European and non-Indo-European linguistic neighbours; and in certain cases aspects involving internal Germanic language contact.

This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns the syntax of case assigning adpositions sluicing in relative clauses generic/habitual readings in clauses containing a free choice item the argument structure of experiencer verbs in Hungarian and cataphoric propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian and German. The papers in morphosyntax analyze morphological alienability splits and the manifestation of the Inverse Agreement Constraint in Hungarian. The studies in phonetics and phonology inquire into regressive voicing assimilation in Hungarian and Slovak and explore the predictions of the Functional Load Hypothesis for stress-marking and the relationship between the phonetic and phonological properties of /a:/ in Hungarian.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume will appeal not just to scholars working on Hungarian but to a general audience of theoretical linguists.<br/>