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Une thématique commune le statut prédicatif de certains syntagmes prépositionnels dans différentes langues fédère les dix études rassemblées dans le présent recueil qui tire son originalité du sujet lui-même. À ce jour en effet rares sont les études qui ont abordé la nature prédicative du syntagme prépositionnel. C’est d’autant plus inédit que ces syntagmes sont courants dans des structures comme les phrases à copule. Pour y parvenir des chercheurs provenant d’horizons théoriques aussi variés que la grammaire de construction le lexique-grammaire la grammaire générative la psychomécanique et la linguistique appliquée examinent les aspects théoriques de ces syntagmes sollicitent de vastes corpus ou encore confrontent le français et une autre langue (anglais grec moderne grec ancien russe). De quoi intéresser non seulement la communauté des chercheurs travaillant en linguistique descriptive mais aussi dans d’autres domaines qu’il s’agisse de linguistique informatique de linguistique contrastive ou de typologie des langues.

Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence showcases eighteen chapters from formal and empirical approaches related to Spanish syntax and semantics phonetics and phonology and language contact and variation. Drawing on data from a number of monolingual and contact Spanish varieties this volume represents the most current themes and methods in the field of Hispanic linguistics. The book brings together both established and emerging scholars and readers will appreciate the variety of theoretical approaches ranging from generative to variationist perspectives. The book is geared towards researchers and students in Spanish and Romance linguistics. Given its scope and quality this volume is also well-suited for graduate courses in Spanish morphosyntax phonetics sociolinguistics and language contact and change.

The contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity is managed in companies and institutions in Switzerland. Characterised by official quadrilingualism but also by new dimensions of multilingualism resulting from massive immigration important workforce mobility and increasing globalisation Switzerland offers an ideal laboratory for studying phenomena linked to multilingualism and cultural diversity.

On the one hand a special focus is put on the best practices of diversity management and language regimes with particular attention paid to the interplay between official languages and English and to ways of leveraging diversity awareness fostering cultural inclusiveness and enhancing intercultural learning in vocational education and training.

On the other hand the chapters examine at close range the way actors' plurilingual repertoires are developed and how their use is adapted to particular objectives and specific conditions. Being observed in several types of multilingual professional settings the plurilingual strategies including English as lingua franca are particularly examined in terms of power relations and processes of inclusion or exclusion.

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological descriptive and interpretative levels. This unique combination makes this volume on historical stylistics an important work for international scholars and postgraduate students working on the interface between literary history and language change both from corpus-based and qualitative perspectives. The chapters written by leading scholars in these various fields are an appropriate reference work for teaching and research purposes in the areas of stylistics historical linguistics English language and literature corpus linguistics and literary history.

This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective the study is one of the very few in the field to incorporate corpora of the learner’s L1 to investigate the effects of L1 influence. The book provides a highly detailed and multi-faceted analysis of delexical verb + noun collocations in terms of frequency of occurrence lexical preferences and morphosyntactic patterns. Quantitative and qualitative results on overuse underuse and errors are presented with linguistically and pedagogically relevant interpretations that include cultural and discourse aspects. More importantly the book throws light on how L2 learners may alternate between the open-choice principle and the idiom principle as well as the extent and nature of L1 influence on their collocational use.

The poems of John Ashbery Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression observation thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to the next. But as Elina Siltanen shows here this extraordinary flow of uncoordinated detail can stimulate readers to join the poets in a delightful exploration of ordinary language. When readers take a poem in this spirit they actually begin to read as members of a community: the community not only of themselves and other readers but also including the poet and other poets plus all the speakers of the language in which the poem is written. For all these different parties that language is indeed a shared resource and the way for readers to get started is simply by recalling or imagining some of the numerous kinds of context in which the given poem’s words-phrases-sentences could or could not be successfully used. The rewards for such proactive readers are on the one hand a heightened sense of the subtle interweavings of language and life and on the other hand a freshly empowered self-confidence. The point being that within the community of contemporary experimental poetry poets have no more authority than readers. Rejecting older cultural hierarchies they present themselves as teasing out the idiomatic serendipities of their own poems together with their readers.

This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology and by documenting the on-going emphasis shift within the discipline of English linguistics from the study of dominant language varieties to that of post-colonial minority non-standardised learner and L2 varieties. Among the key focus areas that define research in the field of English linguistics today this selection concentrates on four: corpus linguistics English as a global language cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition. Most of the articles in this volume concentrate on at least two of these areas and at the same time bring in their own suggestions towards building bridges within and across sub-disciples of linguistics and beyond.

This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself) discourse (monologues organized as dialogues) and grammar (“why me? attitude”). This follows prior work on the subject by Esther Pascual and other authors most of whom are also contributors to this volume. The 17 chapters in the volume explore fictive interaction as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon as a ubiquitous discourse-structuring device as a possibly universal linguistic construction and as an effective communicative strategy in persuasion and language pathology. The data discussed involve a wide variety of unrelated languages (spoken and signed) and modes of communication (oral written visual) across cultural contexts and historical time.

The research presented combines linguistics and cognitive science while bridging the gap between core grammatical studies and modern conversation and discourse analysis. The volume further reaches across what may be the most basic divide in linguistics: that between descriptive theoretical and applied linguistics.

Linguistic research and language teaching have generally been viewed as two separate types of academic endeavor. While linguists have been preoccupied with pattern finding and theory building language teachers often encounter issues that are not readily addressed by theoretical linguistic research. This collection with eleven papers touching upon a wide range of issues stands out as one of the rare concerted efforts toward a meaningful integration of the two endeavors. Subject matters include tone stress word structure grammatical categories (e.g. classifiers) syntactic structures (including argument structure) discourse particles implicit and explicit knowledge conversational repair and learner corpus. With a diverse range of theoretical orientations this collection serves to showcase some of the productive ways to create synergy between Chinese linguistic research and language education. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>

Reembedding Translation Process Research is a rich collection of empirical research papers investigating important new facets of the relationship between translation and cognition. The common thread running through the collection is the notion of “re-embedding” the acts of translating and interpreting—and the ways we understand them. That is they all aim to re-situate these acts within what we now know about the brain the powerful relationship of brain and body and the complex interaction between cognition and the environment in which it is embedded. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of the overall notion of re-embedding thereby expanding the breadth of empirical research about translating. This book refuses Descartes' distinction between mind and brain and reaffirms the highly dynamic emergent and interactive nature of cognitive processes in translation. The overarching conclusion is that translation studies should reconsider re-embed any model of translation processes that arises without properly accommodating the interdependence of brain body and environment in the emergence of cognition.