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Introduction to Healthcare for Japanese-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Dec 2016
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This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee 2013) and has been supplemented with Japanese glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings familiarizing themselves with anatomy physiology medical terminology and frequently encountered conditions diagnostic tests and treatment options. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This is an exceptionally useful and easily accessible handbook in particular for English-speaking patients Japanese-speaking doctors first-language Japanese-speaking students in healthcare related programs. <br/>This book includes a special chapter on Japan’s shifting social structure and the hierarchies which exist within its medical system and gives concrete examples of patient expectations for hospital stays and physician visits. A further special chapter describes the Japanese insurance system and related regulations in a comprehensive fashion also discussing standards of third party accreditation. Also included is information regarding the establishment of the Aichi Medical Interpretation System the first of its kind in Japan which was launched thanks to the combined efforts of local municipal communities healthcare organizations and universities in the Aichi Prefecture.
Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters : Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras
Dec 2016
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The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax morphology pragmatics language processing and interface phenomena. This volume is a tribute to Juana M. Liceras’ fundamental and enduring contribution to the field of Spanish Second Language Acquisition (SLA). All the chapters in the volume are linked to or inspired by Juana’s extensive body of work and like Juana’s research they all stand at the crossroads of formal and experimental linguistics. Together the studies presented in this volume are a reflection of Juana’s impact both as a mentor and as a collaborative researcher while at the same time showcasing current trends and new directions in the field of generative SLA.
Spanish Learner Corpus Research : Current trends and future perspectives
Dec 2016
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The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR) which makes it unique since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English. In addition to an introductory appraisal of current SLCR as well as a wake-up call reminding us that learner corpus design still needs to be improved this volume features a selection of original studies ranging from general issues concerning learner corpora compilation to more specific aspects such as phonetic lexical grammatical and pragmatic features of the interlanguage of learners of Spanish as reflected in corpus data. This volume will undoubtedly be of significant interest to researchers involved in corpus linguistics second language acquisition research as well as to professionals in the field of Spanish as a second language including teachers and creators and publishers of teaching materials.
IntraLatino Language and Identity : MexiRican Spanish
Dec 2016
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The increasing diversity of the U.S. Latino population has given rise to a growing population of “mixed” Latinos. This is a study of such individuals raised in Chicago Illinois who have one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent most of whom call themselves “MexiRicans.” Given that these two varieties of Spanish exhibit highly salient differences these speakers can be said to experience intrafamilial dialect contact. The book first explores the lexicon discourse marker use and phonological features among two generations of over 70 MexiRican speakers finding several connections to parental dialect neighborhood demographics and family dynamics. Drawing from critical mixed race theory it then examines MexiRicans’ narratives about their ethnic identity including the role of Spanish features in the ways in which they are accepted or challenged by monoethnic monodialectal Mexicans and Puerto Ricans both in Chicago and abroad. These findings contribute to our understandings of dialect contact U.S. Spanish and the role of language in ethnic identity.
Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus
Dec 2016
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This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of stripping located at the syntax-information structure interface and argues for a licensing mechanism which is strongly tied to the focus properties of the construction. Under this view types of bare argument ellipsis such as stripping and pseudostripping which have received different treatments in the literature are shown to be subject to the same licensing mechanism. This analysis is also extended to instances of bare argument ellipsis in embedded contexts which have received little attention in the literature so far. Integrating theoretical and experimental reasoning this study presents a series of experiments investigating the extraction prosody and context properties of stripping and thus arrives at a comprehensive and unified account.
Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation
Dec 2016
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The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs within the same system. Nevertheless the triggers for language variation can be different and located at various levels of the language faculty. The novelty of the volume lies in exploring different loci of language variation by including wide-ranging empirical perspectives that cover different levels of analysis (syntax phonology and prosody) and deal with different kinds of data mostly from Romance and Germanic languages from dialects idiolects language acquisition language attrition and creolization analyzed from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives.
The volume is divided in three parts. The first part is dedicated to synchronic variation in phonology and syntax; the second part deals with diachronic variation and language change and the third part investigates the role of contact attrition and acquisition in giving rise to language change and language variation in bilingual settings.
This volume is a useful tool for linguistics of diverse theoretical persuasions working on theoretical and comparative linguistics and to anyone interested in language variation language change dialectology language acquisition and typology.
The volume is divided in three parts. The first part is dedicated to synchronic variation in phonology and syntax; the second part deals with diachronic variation and language change and the third part investigates the role of contact attrition and acquisition in giving rise to language change and language variation in bilingual settings.
This volume is a useful tool for linguistics of diverse theoretical persuasions working on theoretical and comparative linguistics and to anyone interested in language variation language change dialectology language acquisition and typology.
Gender, Language and the Periphery : Grammatical and social gender from the margins
Dec 2016
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This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures language uses and linguistic resistances. All of the 12 chapters included in this volume work on understudied languages such as Moldovan Lakota Cantonese Bajjika Croatian Hebrew Arabic Ciluba Cantonese Cypriot Greek Korean Malaysian Basque and Belarusian and they all explore from the margins different dimensions of social gender in grammar. The diversity of languages is reflected in the range of theoretical frameworks (linguistic anthropology systemic functional linguistics contrastive syntactical analysis to name a few) used by the authors in order to apprehend the fluidity of gender(-ed) language and identity to highlight the social constraints on daily discourse and to identify discourses that resist gender norms. This book will be highly relevant for students and researchers working on the interface of gender with morpho-syntax semantics pragmatics and discourse analysis.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>
Formal Studies in Slovenian Syntax : In honor of Janez Orešnik
Dec 2016
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Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models the attention it gets has subsequently grown so that by now it has contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data. With 13 chapters that all build on Slovenian data this book sets a new milestone. The topics discussed in the volume range from Slovenian clitics which are called on to shed new light on the intriguing Person-Case Constraint and to provide part of the evidence for a new generalization relating the presence of the definite article and Wackernagel clitics to functional elements such as the future auxiliary and possibility modals the latter of which are discussed also from the perspective of language change. Even within the relatively well-researched topics like wh-movement new findings are presented both in relation to the structure of the left periphery and to the syntax of relative clauses.
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition
Dec 2016
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Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing. The book brings together theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of cognitive IDs as well as empirical studies that investigate the mediating role of cognitive IDs in various linguistic domains. Chapters include contributions from researchers working within second language acquisition (SLA) psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology sharing a common interest in the application of cognitive IDs to their respective areas of study. The interdisciplinary understanding of cognitive IDs presented in this book makes the book of interest to a wide readership of graduate students faculty members and academic researchers in the fields of SLA psycholinguistics cognitive psychology and education.
Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations
Dec 2016
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This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts which allows the authors to tackle the problem of the apparent incomparability of OE and OHG textual records and to identify the areas of OE and OHG syntax potentially influenced by the Latin source texts. This is especially important from the point of view of OE research where Latin is rarely considered to be a significant variable. The book’s profile and content is of direct interest to historical linguists working on OE and/or OHG (and Old Germanic languages in general) but it can also greatly benefit several other groups of researchers: scholars applying corpus methods to the study of dead languages historical linguists generally linguists researching element order as well as specialists in translation studies.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10 : Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon
Dec 2016
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This volume contains a selection of papers of the 28th Going Romance conference which was organized by the Linguistics centers of Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in December 2014. It assembles the invited contributions by Alain Rouveret Guido Mensching Luigi Rizzi and Roberta D’Alessandro and eleven peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the conference or at the workshops on Constituent Order Variation Crosslinguistic Microvariation in Language Acquisition and Subordination in Old Romance.The volume covers a wide range of topics in syntax and its interfaces and brings to current linguistic theorizing new empirical grounding from Romance languages (including standard diachronic or regional varieties of Asturian Brazilian and European Portuguese Catalan French Galician Italian Romanian Sardinian and Spanish).<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This will be of interest to scholars in Romance and in general linguistics.
Professional Identity Constructions of Indian Women
Dec 2016
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This book analyzes the narratives of urban North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education – Hindi English or a combination of both – on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives. It examines how participants reinforce or interrogate firmly entrenched power heirarchies that have long elevated English in India. Adopting a social constructionist perspective and treating oral narratives as impacted both by local interactional contingencies and by larger social contexts this book provides an innovative framework for the analysis of narratives told in qualitative research interviews. Stylization mock languages similes and metaphors reported speech and varied interactional cues are some of the devices used to examine the intersectioanlity of power and identity within participants’ oral narratives.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of narrative analysis gender and identity studies postcolonialism and professional identity constructions of women.
Atypical predicate-argument relations
Dec 2016
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This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates especially verbal and their arguments have been long studied most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense indicative mood active voice with all arguments expressed. Recently linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties be they morphological or syntactic in one language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs arguments not foreseen in the verb valency and contributed by the construction verbs in idiomatic constructions valency-changing operations arguments in thetic sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages from more current languages like English Spanish French or German to Hebrew or lamaholot an Austronesian language.
Introduction to Healthcare for Arabic-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Dec 2016
Book
Arabic is a language of substantial cultural and religious importance. It is spoken by about 300 million people predominantly in the 22 countries of the Arab world as well as in several other regions where the Arab diaspora has settled. Arabic is also the language of Islam and underpins the religious practice of about 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide.
In view of the above the authors thought it important to create an easily accessible handbook for interpreters translators educators and other practitioners working between Arabic and English in healthcare settings. Introduction to Healthcare for Arabic-speaking Interpreters and Translators follows the seminal publication Introduction to Healthcare for Interpreters and Translators (Crezee 2013) and has been supplemented with Arabic glossaries and comments about health communication between Anglophones and Arabic speakers. This practical resource book will help inform interpreters and translators about healthcare settings anatomy physiology medical terminology and frequently encountered conditions diagnostic tests and treatment options.
Arabic is divided into two categories: formal (Classical Standard or literary) Arabic and local dialects (colloquial Arabic). Formal Arabic is the official language of all Arab countries. In each of these there are regional dialects which color formal Arabic and add character to a poetic and expressive language. Poetic nature is found in many daily expressions and not only in Arabic literature for example “Good morning” in Arabic is “Ssabah al khair” which in essence wishes others a morning of goodness; and the pan-Arab greeting “Salam Alaykum” which literally means “may peace be upon you”. Dialects once existed principally in spoken form but these days they are increasingly used in writing in social media and its paraphernalia (mobile phones tablets etc.). In this book formal Arabic is used in the glossaries simply because it is the recognized language of literacy across the Arabic-speaking world.
In view of the above the authors thought it important to create an easily accessible handbook for interpreters translators educators and other practitioners working between Arabic and English in healthcare settings. Introduction to Healthcare for Arabic-speaking Interpreters and Translators follows the seminal publication Introduction to Healthcare for Interpreters and Translators (Crezee 2013) and has been supplemented with Arabic glossaries and comments about health communication between Anglophones and Arabic speakers. This practical resource book will help inform interpreters and translators about healthcare settings anatomy physiology medical terminology and frequently encountered conditions diagnostic tests and treatment options.
Arabic is divided into two categories: formal (Classical Standard or literary) Arabic and local dialects (colloquial Arabic). Formal Arabic is the official language of all Arab countries. In each of these there are regional dialects which color formal Arabic and add character to a poetic and expressive language. Poetic nature is found in many daily expressions and not only in Arabic literature for example “Good morning” in Arabic is “Ssabah al khair” which in essence wishes others a morning of goodness; and the pan-Arab greeting “Salam Alaykum” which literally means “may peace be upon you”. Dialects once existed principally in spoken form but these days they are increasingly used in writing in social media and its paraphernalia (mobile phones tablets etc.). In this book formal Arabic is used in the glossaries simply because it is the recognized language of literacy across the Arabic-speaking world.
A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse : The Andalusian Parliament
Dec 2016
Book
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book written by experts in the field of discourse analysis covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification enumerative series non-literal quotations pseudo-desemantisation lexical colloquialisation emotion eye contact and time management. It provides a large number of examples from a balanced gender parliament the Andalusian Parliament and it focuses mainly on argumentation since parliamentary discourse is above all argumentative. This book will prove invaluable to students and teachers in the field of discourse analysis and more specifically of political discourse and will also be very useful to politicians and anyone interested in communication strategies.
As of January 2019 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
As of January 2019 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Passive Constructions in Lithuanian : Selected works of Emma Geniušienė
Nov 2016
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This unique volume comprises a monograph and a set of articles by renowned typologist Emma Geniušienė which all focus on the topic of morphologically passive constructions in Lithuanian. It is the first translation into English of the author’s original work from the 1970s. It offers a rich treasury of data a detailed structural description of all morphologically passive constructions and an examination of the functions which these constructions have in the discourse. The addition of modern interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses to hundreds of linguistic examples and expert editorial work have turned the hard-to-access material into a timeless resource available for the first time to a broad international readership. The volume will be of value to descriptive linguists typologists morphologists and formal syntacticians as well as to scholars of information structure and functional text analysis. It is an exciting addition to the linguistic literature and a fitting tribute to the author.
Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty
Nov 2016
Book
The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion and their connection with biology is open to important cross-disciplinary work. Advances have been made in human-animal studies to differentiate human language from animal communication. Contributions from neurosciences point to the exclusive properties of the human brain for language. Studies in genetically based language impairments also contribute to the understanding of the properties of the language organ. This volume brings together contributions on theoretical and experimental investigations on the Language Faculty. It will be of interest to scholars and students investigating the properties of the biological basis of language in terms the modeling of the language faculty as well as the properties of language variation language acquisition and language impairments.
Discourse Topics
Nov 2016
Book
Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics as clusterings of concepts this book examines and compares methods for investigating topic boundaries topic identification and topic development. The first book to be devoted to topics in extended discourse Discourse Topics examines topics in several genres and generates new insights into the nature of discourse topics that challenge the status quo. It is essential reading for researchers in linguistics discourse analysis natural language processing and psychology whose work concerns topics.
The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood
Nov 2016
Book
The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood presents recent research on the nature of language acquisition by typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children. The book summarises the most recent research findings on the acquisition of Turkish in childhood with a focus on (i) the acquisition of phonology morphology syntax and semantics (ii) the acquisition of discourse skills (iii) literacy development and (iv) atypical vs. typical development. The book also provides the reader with a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research on the acquisition of Turkish demonstrating how similar issues can be investigated in a range of various acquisition contexts. By grouping together the recent research on the acquisition of Turkish within a single volume this book provides a unique opportunity for readers to review the general developmental tendencies and the most prominent hypotheses put forward by scholars.
Designing Speech for a Recipient : The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'
Nov 2016
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This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees focusing on the potential roles of cognitive representations such as partner models automatic processes such as interactive alignment and social processes such as interactional negotiation. The nature of addressee orientation is investigated on three candidates for so-called ‘simplified registers’: speech to children (also called motherese or baby talk) speech to foreigners (also called foreigner talk) and speech to robots. The volume integrates research from various disciplines such as psychology sociolinguistics psycholinguistics and conversation analysis and offers both overviews of child-directed foreigner-directed and robot-directed speech and in-depth analyses of the processes involved in adjusting to a communication partner.
Insubordination
Nov 2016
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The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions insubordinated clause phenomena turn out to be surprisingly widespread and provide a vital empirical testing ground for various central theoretical issues in current linguistics – the interplay of langue and parole the emergence of structure the question of where productive syntactic rules give way to constructions the role of prosody in language change and the question of how far grammars are produced by isolated speakers as opposed to being collaboratively constructed in dialogue. This volume – the first book-length treatment on the topic – assembles studies of languages on all continents by scholars who bring a range of approaches to bear on the topic from historical linguistics to corpus studies to typology to conversational analysis.
À la recherche de la prédication : Autour des syntagmes prépositionnels
Nov 2016
Book
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.
Metapragmatics of Humor : Current research trends
Nov 2016
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Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context; Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes; and Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor. Thus this book provides an up-to-date panorama of this field where metapragmatic abilities are described in adults as well as in children on humorous and non-humorous genres — jokes cartoons humorous monologues parodies conversation Twitter — and using several approaches such as GTVH multimodality conversational analysis eye-tracking methodology etc.
Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics : From theory to empirical evidence
Nov 2016
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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.
Nicholas of Amsterdam : Commentary on the Old Logic. Critical edition with introduction and indexes
Oct 2016
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Master Nicholas of Amsterdam was a prominent master of arts in Germany during the first half of the fifteenth century. He composed various commentaries on Aristotle’s works. One of these commentaries is on the logica vetus the old logic viz. on Porphyry’s Isagoge and on Aristotle’s Categories and On Interpretation. This commentary is edited and introduced here.
Nicholas is a ‘modernus’ – as opposed to the ‘antiqui’ who were realists – which means that he is a conceptualist belonging to the university tradition that accepted John Buridan (ca. 1300-1360 or 1361) and Marsilius of Inghen (ca. 1340-1396) as its masters. In medieval philosophy a parallel between thinking and reality is generally upheld. Nicholas makes a sharp distinction between the two; this may be interpreted as a step towards a separation between the two realms as is common in philosophy in later centuries.
Other characteristics of Nicholas are that he defends the position that science has its place in a proposition and does not simply follow reality. Furthermore he emphasizes the part played by individual things.
Fifteenth-century philosophy has hardly been studied mainly because that century has long been considered unoriginal. Nicholas of Amsterdam certainly deserves the historian’s interest in order to evaluate how medieval philosophy prepared the way for modern philosophy.
Nicholas is a ‘modernus’ – as opposed to the ‘antiqui’ who were realists – which means that he is a conceptualist belonging to the university tradition that accepted John Buridan (ca. 1300-1360 or 1361) and Marsilius of Inghen (ca. 1340-1396) as its masters. In medieval philosophy a parallel between thinking and reality is generally upheld. Nicholas makes a sharp distinction between the two; this may be interpreted as a step towards a separation between the two realms as is common in philosophy in later centuries.
Other characteristics of Nicholas are that he defends the position that science has its place in a proposition and does not simply follow reality. Furthermore he emphasizes the part played by individual things.
Fifteenth-century philosophy has hardly been studied mainly because that century has long been considered unoriginal. Nicholas of Amsterdam certainly deserves the historian’s interest in order to evaluate how medieval philosophy prepared the way for modern philosophy.
Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace : The case of multilingual Switzerland
Oct 2016
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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.
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.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula : Volume II
Oct 2016
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Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made until now. In this volume the focus is placed on images (Section 1) genres (Section 2) forms of mediation (Section 3) and cultural studies and literary repertoires (Section 4). To these four sections an epilogue is added in which specialists in literatures in the Iberian Peninsula as well as in the (sub)disciplines of comparative history and comparative literary history search for links between Volumes 1 and 2 from the point of view of general contributions to the field of Iberian comparative studies and assess the entire project that now reaches completion with contributions from almost one hundred scholars.
Linguistics and Literary History : In honour of Sylvia Adamson
Oct 2016
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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.
Ugandan English : Its sociolinguistics, structure and uses in a globalising post-protectorate
Oct 2016
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Ugandan English is a variety that has scarcely been noticed in past research. This timely volume brings together African and European scholars in a first-ever collection of articles that offer comprehensive discussions of the historical and present-day sociolinguistics of English in Uganda and fine-grained analyses of the structural characteristics of and attitudes to this hitherto largely unknown variety. Using rich archive corpus and interview data as well as ethnographic and observational methods the various contributions paint a comprehensive picture of Ugandan English as distinct from other East African Englishes and as characterized by nativisation despite a still strong exonormative orientation reflecting the modern nation’s status as a post-protectorate under the influence of globalisation. Apart from advancing our understanding of Ugandan English itself the individual chapters contribute to theoretical debates on language contact and variation as regards the influence of substrate languages founder populations language ideologies and socio-economic factors.
The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence : A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations
Oct 2016
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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.
Relevance Theory : Recent developments, current challenges and future directions
Oct 2016
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How hearers arrive at intended meaning which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages how procedural meaning and prosody interact how diverse types of utterances are interpreted how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms how a critical attitude to information and informers develops when a second language is learnt or why some perlocutionary effects originate are some of the varied issues that have intrigued pragmatists and relevance theorists in particular and continue to fuel research. In this collection readers will discover new proposals based on the cognitive framework put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson three decades ago. Their gripping insightful and stimulating discussions combined in some cases with meticulous and in-depth analyses show the directions relevance theory has recently followed. Moreover this collection also unveils fruitful and promising interactions with areas like morphology prosody language typology interlanguage pragmatics machine translation or rhetoric and argumentation and avenues for future research.
Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry : John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman
Oct 2016
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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.
Mock Politeness in English and Italian : A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis
Oct 2016
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This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description of mock politeness and as such contributes to the growing field of impoliteness. The approach taken is methodologically innovative because it takes a first-order metalanguage approach basing the analysis on behaviours which participants themselves have identified as impolite. Furthermore it exploits the affordances of corpus pragmatics a rapidly developing field. Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students researching im/politeness and verbal aggression in particular those interested in im/politeness implicatures and non-conventional meanings.
New Approaches to English Linguistics : Building bridges
Oct 2016
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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.
Switch Reference 2.0
Oct 2016
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Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person or number marking. In the 50 years since William Jacobsen’s coinage of the term switch reference has evolved from an exotic phenomenon found in a handful of lesser-known languages to a widespread feature found in geographically and linguistically unconnected parts of the world. The growing body of information on the topic raises new theoretical and empirical questions about the development functions and nature of switch reference as well as the internal variation between different switch-reference systems. The contributions to this volume discuss these and other questions for a wide variety of languages from all over the world and endevaour to demonstrate the full functional and morphosyntactic range of the phenomenon.
The Conversation Frame : Forms and functions of fictive interaction
Oct 2016
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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.
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.
Outside the Clause : Form and function of extra-clausal constituents
Oct 2016
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This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance these elements can however no longer be dismissed as a marginal linguistic phenomenon. In recent years this awareness has resulted not only in more systematic treatments of extra-clausal constituents but has also highlighted the need to account for them in grammatical theory. Based on (mainly English) corpus data the volume investigates the discourse-pragmatic semantic syntactic and phonological features of a range of extra-clausal constituents including discourse markers free adjuncts left dislocands insubordinate clauses and various kinds of adverbials. The individual chapters adopt a number of different perspectives investigating the diachronic development of extra-clausal constituents their multi-functionality and their use in bilingual settings also addressing the question of how they can be incorporated into existing models of grammar.
Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning
Oct 2016
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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/"/>
Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts
Oct 2016
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This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer offering a different level of complexity by studying children who are trilingual and even learning a fourth language.
The collection of papers in this volume tried to capture the dynamic developmental changes in cross-linguistic transfer that include such factors as age of acquisition typological proximity of L1 and L2 (and L3 L4) intensity of exposure to language and reading in ambient and newly acquired language(s) quality of input and home literacy. More stringent methodological considerations allowed to isolate specific constructs that suggest either primary levels of children’s metalinguistic abilities (phonological awareness that can be applied cross-linguistically) or a more language-specific constructs (morphological awareness) that relies on various factors including typological proximity language proficiency and task demands.
Originally published in Written Language & Literacy Vol. 17:1 2014.
The collection of papers in this volume tried to capture the dynamic developmental changes in cross-linguistic transfer that include such factors as age of acquisition typological proximity of L1 and L2 (and L3 L4) intensity of exposure to language and reading in ambient and newly acquired language(s) quality of input and home literacy. More stringent methodological considerations allowed to isolate specific constructs that suggest either primary levels of children’s metalinguistic abilities (phonological awareness that can be applied cross-linguistically) or a more language-specific constructs (morphological awareness) that relies on various factors including typological proximity language proficiency and task demands.
Originally published in Written Language & Literacy Vol. 17:1 2014.
Reembedding Translation Process Research
Oct 2016
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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.
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger : Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights
Oct 2016
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This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today’s globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today such as extinction through dwindling speaker populations and lack of adequate preservation policies or inequality in different social contexts (e.g. access to justice education and research resources). There are examples of both loss and survival and discussion of multiple factors that condition these two different outcomes. We pose and answer difficult questions such as whether forced interventions in preventing loss are always warranted or indeed viable. The emerging shared perspective is that of hope to inspire action towards improving the position of different languages and their speakers through research of this kind.
Displaying Recipiency : Reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented interaction
Oct 2016
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This book is intended to address students researchers and teachers of spoken language. It presents an empirical study of task-oriented language data in which coparticipants display levels of recipiency through reactive tokens. An in-depth investigation of displaying recipiency is of interest primarily to conversation analysts and pragmaticians involved in the research on talk-in-interaction in general and Mandarin Chinese conversations in particular. The communicative aspect makes this book relevant to the areas of language use. While previous research has shown that one single reactive token has different discourse functions in different conversational environments this study shows that participants’ collaborative orientation to each other’s status of displayed recipiency seems decisive for the selection of reactive tokens rather than one specific reactive token being employed for specific conversational purposes in varying interactional contexts. This book also contributes to fields in linguistics pragmatics and sociology which specialize in the investigation of spontaneous human communication.
Intonation Units Revisited : Cesuras in talk-in-interaction
Sept 2016
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Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries lack of exhaustivity and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such problems: the ‘cesura’ approach. Cesuras or breaks in the flow of talk are created by discontinuities in the prosodic-phonetic parameters of speech that cluster to various extents at certain points in time. Using conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology the volume identifies the parameters creating cesuras in talk-in-interaction and proposes ways to notate them depending on the researcher’s goal. It also offers a way to study the role of cesuras at the prosody-syntax interface non-circularly which leads to new insights concerning language variation and change. The volume will thus be of major import to anyone working with natural spoken language its chunks its various dimensions and its variation and change.
Translating in Linguistically Diverse Societies : Translation policy in the United Kingdom
Sept 2016
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This work is the first book-length treatment on translation policy. Nearly everywhere in the world populations are multilingual and mobile; consequently language policies developed by the authorities must include choices about the use or non-use of translation. This book recognizes that these choices (or the absence thereof) become policies of their own in terms of translation. It builds upon the work of scholars in the fields of translation studies and language planning and policy in order to develop a new theoretical perspective on translation policy. In essence the book proposes that translation policy can be understood as the management practice and beliefs surrounding the use of translation. The book deals with these issues under European and international law and then explores such management practice and beliefs in the UK as a case study. Ultimately the reader can find a fuller appreciation of both the importance and complexity of translation policy.
Interrogative Strategies : An areal typology of the languages of China
Sept 2016
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This book deals with how to ask questions in the languages of China. The syntactic morphological and lexical forms for distinguishing interrogatives take centre stage; intonation is also dealt with but more peripherally than question particles disjunctive and negative constructions and word order. 140 languages spoken in China are covered coming from four major families: Sino-Tibetan Altaic Austronesian and Austro-Asiatic accompanied by a few mixed languages. The approach is areal-typological i.e. these focal languages are compared to the languages of the world as represented in typological samples and within China areal patterns of the structural variables are examined.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book will be an indispensable reference for future work on interrogatives in a typological context and for areal studies of the language situation in China and more generally East Asia.<br/> <br/>
Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist : The life histories of some applied linguists
Sept 2016
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Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists. Their professional autobiographies document the development of some of the key areas of applied linguistics – second language acquisition motivation grammar vocabulary testing second language writing second language classroom research practitioner research English as a lingua franca teacher cognition and computer-assisted language learning. The book tells how these applied linguists grew into their areas of specialization. It will be of interest to any would-be applied linguist. The book also provides a readable overview of the whole field that will be of value to students of applied linguistics.
Emotion in Multilingual Interaction
Sept 2016
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This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established converging traditions of conversation analysis discursive psychology and membership categorization analysis together with recent work on interactional storytelling stylization and multimodal analysis. By adopting a discursive approach to emotion in multilingual talk the volume breaks with the dominant view of emotions as cognitive and intra-psychological phenomena and their study through self-report. Through detailed analyses of original recorded data the chapters examine how participants produce emotion-implicative actions identities stances and morality through their interactional work in ordinary face-to-face conversation computer-mediated interaction institutional talk in medical educational and broadcast media settings and in research interviews. The volume addresses itself to students and researchers interested in language and emotion multilingual speakers and settings pragmatics and discourse analysis.
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
Sept 2016
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This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics including psycholinguistics sociolinguistics theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics as well as various methodological approaches such as the collection of naturalistic oral and written data the use of reading comprehension tasks the elicitation of acceptability judgments and computational methods. The volume surpasses the limits of different fields in order to enable a rich characterization of the cognitive linguistic and socio-pragmatic factors that affect codeswitching therefore leading interested students professors and researchers to a better understanding of the regularities governing Spanish-English codeswitches the representation and processing of codeswitches in the bilingual brain the interaction between bilinguals’ languages and their mutual influence during linguistic expression.
Be(com)ing a Conference Interpreter : An ethnography of EU interpreters as a professional community
Sept 2016
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This study offers a novel view of Conference Interpreting by looking at EU interpreters as a professional community of practice. In particular Duflou’s work focuses on the nature of the competence conference interpreters working for the European Parliament and the European Commission need to acquire in order to cope with their professional tasks. Making use of observation as a member of the community in-depth interviews and institutional documents she explores the link between the specificity of the EU setting and the knowledge and skills required. Her analysis of the learning experiences of newcomers in the professional community shows that EU interpreters’ competence is to a large extent context-dependent and acquired through situated learning. In addition it highlights the various factors which have an impact on this learning process.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Using the way Dutch booth EU interpreters share the workload in the booth as a case Duflou demonstrates the importance of mastering collaborative and embodied skills for EU interpreters. She thereby challenges the idea of interpreting competence from an individual cognitive accomplishment and redefines it as the ability to apply the practical and setting-determined know-how required to function as a full member of the professional community.
Language, Discourse, Style : Selected works of John McH. Sinclair
Sept 2016
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For the first time the works on stylistics by one of the most brilliant linguists of our times are collected in a single volume. This book highlights the evolution of John Sinclair’s theories and insights from studies on language teaching through detailed analyses of text and discourse and into his later works on corpus stylistics. More specifically Part I focuses on how theory can inform teaching practice. Part II is more directed towards linguistic analyses of specific texts and provides practical bases for stylistic approaches. In Part III Sinclair’s contributions to discourse analysis shed light on ways of looking and understanding literature. Written in his crisp clear straightforward style this book demonstrates Sinclair’s explicit concern for more systematic approaches to the integration of language and literature and shows why his works on stylistics have been both reference and inspiration to students language and literature teachers and researchers over many decades.
Border Crossings : Translation Studies and other disciplines
Sept 2016
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For decades Translation Studies has been perceived not merely as a discipline but rather as an interdiscipline a trans-disciplinary field operating across a number of boundaries. This has implied and still implies a considerable amount of interaction with other disciplines. There is often much more awareness of and attention to translation and Translation Studies than many translation scholars are aware of. This volume crosses the boundaries to other disciplines and explicitly sets up dialogic formats: every chapter is co-authored both by a specialist from Translation Studies and a scholar from another discipline with a special interest in translation. Sixteen disciplinary dialogues about and around translation are the result sometimes with expected partners such as scholars from Computational Linguistics History and Comparative Literature but sometimes also with less expected interlocutors such as scholars from Biosemiotics Game Localization Research and Gender Studies. The volume not only challenges the boundaries of Translation Studies but also raises issues such as the institutional division of disciplines the cross-fertilization of a given field the trends and turns within an interdiscipline.
Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque
Sept 2016
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This book is an endeavor to present and analyze some standard topics in the grammar of Basque from a micro-comparative perspective. From case and agreement to word order and the left periphery and including an incursion into determiners the book combines fine-grained theoretical analyses with empirically detailed descriptions. Working from a micro-parametric perspective the contributions to the volume address in depth some of the exuberant variation attested in the different dialects and subdialects of Basque. At the same time although the contributions focus mainly on Basque data cross-linguistic evidence is also presented and discussed. After all the goal pursued in this book is to attempt to explain variation in Basque as a particular instantiation of variation in human language at large. The volume presents and analyzes a wide range of empirical phenomena many typologically marked among European languages and will therefore be a welcome resource to linguists looking for detailed description and/or theoretical discussion.
Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar
Sept 2016
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This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only to usage-based theories but also to usage-based methodologies. Accordingly the chapters in this volume comprise a range of studies not based on synchronic contemporary English but include Dutch old English Italian and Spanish. This volume also features studies from a wider range of statistical sophistication: some chapters use more traditional frequency- and attestation-based approaches some chapters use inferential statistical techniques to explore lexically specific preferences and patterns in constructional slots and some chapters use multifactorial hypothesis-testing techniques or multivariate exploratory tools to discover patterns in corpus data that a mere eye-balling or simple statistical tools would not uncover.
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
Sept 2016
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Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading research on vocabulary load and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe the factors they need to consider when they create frequency-based word lists. These include the purpose for which the word list is to be used the design of the corpus from which the list will be made the unit of counting and what should and should not be counted as words. The book draws on research to show the current state of knowledge of these factors and provides very practical guidelines for making word lists for language teaching and testing. The writer is well known for his work in the teaching and learning of vocabulary and in the creation of word lists and vocabulary size tests based on word lists.
World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition : Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes
Sept 2016
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Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding Circle distinction and shed light on the genesis of postcolonial varieties of English. The study identifies and analyses more than thirty linguistic features in the categories phonology morphology syntax and discourse concluding that in spite of clear syntactic differences the distinction between the Outer and Expanding Circles is gradual rather than strictly categorical and should rely on current sociolinguistic realities rather than on historical criteria. The volume will be highly relevant for researchers interested in the dynamics of Outer Circle and Expanding Circle Englishes the structural and sociolinguistic aspects of English in Southeast Asia or the integration of the paradigms of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition.
Semantic Structure in English
Sept 2016
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Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must surely be a structure in the meaning that is expressed in the syntax and phonology. Some writers use the phrase “semantic structure” but are referring to conceptual structure; since we can express our conceptual thought in many different linguistic ways we cannot equate conceptual and semantic structures.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The research reported in this book shows semantic structure to be in part hierarchic fitting the syntax in which it is expressed and partly a network fitting the nature of the mind from which it springs. It is complex enough to provide for the emotive and imaginative dimensions of language and for shifts of standard meanings in context and the “rules” that control them. <br/>Showing the full structure of English semantics requires attention to many currently topical issues and since the underlying theory is fresh there are fresh implications for them. The most important of those issues is information structure which is given full treatment showing its overall structure and its relation to semantics and the whole grammar of English.
Constructing Languages : Norms, myths and emotions
Aug 2016
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As language historians we believe that the subject of our study is neither natural languages nor idiolects which speakers have always been able to develop individually (loosely what Chomsky calls L-i) but rather the social constructions of reference shared by all speakers (basically what Chomsky terms as L-e ). In this context the language historian essentially studies how a public L-e is built such that it can be understood as the language of all (i.e. hiding L-i variations) and also how L-e succeed in replacing the primary reality of idiolects even if only in the imagination.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> Writing represents a crucial turning point in language construction because it made it possible to materialize the abstraction that until then related speakers could only guess and besides it comes into competition with individual languages.<br/>In modern centuries the provision of grammars dictionaries and other such learning tools and systematizing instruments strengthens the idea that because of their normative character languages can be learned through study. Mythical stories encourage the achievement of prescriptive rules and lead speakers to link emotions to their language. Therefore the topics of reflection that we want to discuss in this volume are: Norms Myths and Emotions related to language construction.
A Middle English Syntax : Parts of speech
Aug 2016
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For a good orientation into the history of English grammar several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja’s A Middle English Syntax. However for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from the 1960 publication which appeared as volume XXIII in ‘Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki’ with a new Introduction by Elly van Gelderen.
Compared to Old English Middle English has fewer grammars and textbooks devoted to it. This book provides an interesting supplement by going deeper into certain questions and especially into exceptions. The book points out differences with Old English and certain peculiarities of the Middle English system. It was originally written for students of Middle English literature but serves a linguist well in detailed descriptions of the parts of speech the use of the various cases gender and number. Word order complex sentences and conjunctions were meant to be dealt with in a second volume which was never published.
Compared to Old English Middle English has fewer grammars and textbooks devoted to it. This book provides an interesting supplement by going deeper into certain questions and especially into exceptions. The book points out differences with Old English and certain peculiarities of the Middle English system. It was originally written for students of Middle English literature but serves a linguist well in detailed descriptions of the parts of speech the use of the various cases gender and number. Word order complex sentences and conjunctions were meant to be dealt with in a second volume which was never published.
Introduction to Healthcare for Chinese-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Aug 2016
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This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee 2013) and has been supplemented with Chinese glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings familiarizing themselves with anatomy physiology medical terminology and frequently encountered conditions diagnostic tests and treatment options.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> It is an exceptionally useful and easily accessible handbook in particular for English-speaking patients Chinese-speaking doctors and first language Chinese-speaking students in healthcare related programs. <br/>This book includes special comments on the medical system in some English- and Chinese-speaking countries and gives concrete examples of patient expectations for hospital stays or physician visits. Also included is information regarding the establishment of some health interpreting services the nature of Chinese medical terminology and specific culture-related concepts to be aware of. <br/>
Studies in Lexicogrammar : Theory and applications
Aug 2016
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The leitmotif but not exclusive theme of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon morphology and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts especially with mainstream generative grammar but also although less radically with other cognitive linguistic paradigms such as Construction Grammar. The contributors to this volume explore the lexicogrammar continuum and other issues of the architecture of language mostly from a cognitive linguistic perspective. A wide range of theoretical and methodological themes is covered such as the integration of discourse and interactional phenomena into Cognitive Grammar the status of introspective data figurative language and thought (i.e. metaphor and metonymy) morphosyntactic constructions and phonological structure. Besides English (including Old English) languages analyzed in some detail include Polish Czech Dutch Estonian Georgian German Danish and Portuguese.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in cognitive linguistics especially Cognitive Grammar Construction Grammar metaphor and metonymy and corpus linguistics.<br/>
Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas
Aug 2016
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In the growing field of address research Spanish emerges as one of the most complex Indo European languages. Firstly it presents second person variation in its nominal pronominal and verbal systems. Moreover several Spanish varieties have more than two address variants which compete and mix in intricate ways. Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas showcases current research into this unique linguistic situation by presenting the original research of twelve scholars from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. The articles cover diachronic change and regional variation pragmatics dialect contact attitudes and identity. The contributions are contextualized through an introduction and the responses of three established experts while a conclusion delineates a research agenda for the future. This collection in English is meant to reach scholars beyond the confines of Hispanic linguistics. It should be of interest to Romance linguists and specialists on second person variation across languages.
Finiteness Matters : On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages
Aug 2016
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"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims to shed some much needed light on this area of linguistic theorizing with eleven chapters approaching finiteness phenomena from the fields of syntax semantics language acquisition and Creole studies and providing data from a range of different languages. Traditionally approaches to finiteness within the Principles and Parameters framework have seen as their main aim to understand the relation between the morphological exponents of finiteness and the syntactic operations seemingly depending on these exponents. The papers in this volume mostly take their point of departure from this more traditional view on finiteness before elaborating on modifying and diverging from this tradition in novel and interesting ways.
History of Linguistics 2014 : Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014
Aug 2016
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This volume brings together a selection of 20 out of altogether 170 papers presented at the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII) held at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in Vila Real Portugal 25–29 August 2014. It is divided chronologically into four parts ranging from classical antiquity to the end of the 20th century. Part I deals with general and theoretical topics in the history of linguistics in the United States in Brazil and the fields of lexicography and the relation of gesture to thought and language. Part II examines aspects of ancient Greek and Latin grammars the concept of interjection from antiquity to humanism and the classification of the parts of speech in the classical Sanskrit grammars. Part III focuses on 16th-century Latin-Portuguese grammaticography the importance of 17th-century plurilingual textbooks as well as two papers dedicated to French idéologues and their participation in late 18th-century prize competitions. Part IV is devoted to the works of 19th to late 20th-century European grammarians philosophers logicians and linguists as well as some 19th-century Chilean grammarians and lexicographers of the Spanish language.
Metaphysik im Barockscotismus : Untersuchungen zum Metaphysikwerk des Bartholomaeus Mastrius. Mit Dokumentation der Metaphysik in der scotistischen Tradition ca. 1620-1750
Aug 2016
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Die Philosophie des Barockscotismus war einerseits durch die rückwärtsgewandte Anknüpfung an den mittelalterlichen Denker Johannes Duns Scotus andererseits durch die Anknüpfung an die Entwicklung in der zeitgenössischen Scholastik vor allem der Jesuitenscholastik geprägt. Welche Art von Metaphysik hat diese besondere philosophiehistorische Konstellation hervorgebracht? Um diese Frage zu beantworten analysiert die vorliegende Arbeit das Metaphysikwerk des wichtigsten Repräsentanten des frühneuzeitlichen Scotismus Bartholomaeus Mastrius (1602-1673); sie erschließt außerdem eine Vielzahl von kaum bis gar nicht erforschten Metaphysikwerken aus der Franziskanerscholastik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Das eigenartige erstaunliche Vielfalt einschließende Profil einer in Vergessenheit geratenen philosophischen Tradition wird deutlich. Durch den Fokus auf ein philosophiehistorisches Phänomen außerhalb des Mainstreams leistet die Arbeit einen Beitrag zu einer differenzierteren Sichtweise der intellektuellen Kultur der europäischen Frühmoderne.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Baroque-age Scotist philosophy was on the one hand characterised by recourse to the Medieval thinker John Duns Scotus and on the other hand by an adaptation to trends in contemporary scholasticism first of all that of the Jesuits. What kind of metaphysics did this particular constellation within the history of philosophy produce? In order to answer this question the present book analyses the work on metaphysics by the most important representative of early modern Scotism Bartolomeo Mastri (1602-1673). In addition the book investigates a multitude of scarcely or never studied works on metaphysics from the Franciscan scholastic tradition of the 17th and 18th centuries. The peculiar profile of a forgotten philosophical tradition with its astonishing plurality becomes apparent. By focusing on a phenomenon from the history of philosophy outside the mainstream this work contributes to a more differentiated view on the intellectual culture in early modern Europe.
Requests in American and British English : A contrastive multi-method analysis
Aug 2016
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This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved from the International Corpus of English (ICE) and the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. On the methodological dimension it systematically compares request strategies and their frequency distributions in the conversational data to questionnaire-based requests. Highlighting various instrument-induced effects the volume challenges the validity of one of the most widely used and accepted data collection tools in pragmatics research the DCT. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The extensive data analysis contained in the volume includes a wide range of linguistic variables including mitigating and aggravating modification strategies and their interaction with head act directness levels. While it focuses on the first-pair part the book also offers an analysis of request responses from a cross-cultural perspective.<br/>The findings of the study contribute new insights to research on requests politeness variational pragmatics and general research methodology.<br/>
Acquisition and Development of Hebrew : From infancy to adolescence
Aug 2016
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The volume addresses developing knowledge and use of Hebrew from the dual perspective of typologically specific factors and of shared cross-linguistic trends aimed at providing an overview of acquisition in a single language from infancy to adolescence while also shedding light on key issues in the field as a whole. Essentially non-partisan in approach the collection includes distinct approaches to language and language acquisition (formal-universalist pragmatic-usage based cognitive-constructivist) and deals with a range of topics not often addressed within a single volume (phonological perception and production inflectional and derivational morphology simple-clause structure and complex syntax early and later literacy writing systems) with data deriving from varied research methodologies (interactive conversations and extended discourse adult input and child output longitudinal and cross-sectional corpora structured elicitations). Each chapter provides background information on Hebrew-specific facets of the topic of concern but typically avoids ethno-centricity by relating to more general issues in the domain. The book should thus prove interesting and instructive for linguists psychologists and educators and for members of the child language research community both within and beyond the confines of Hebrew-language expertise.
Second-language Discourse in the Digital World : Linguistic and social practices in and beyond the networked classroom
Aug 2016
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Second-language Discourse in the Digital World illustrates a new practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online. With its rich set of examples from a number of different languages and a variety of digital platforms in and beyond the classroom this book provides a structured account of L2 computer-mediated discourse. The book is divided into four sections. Section I considers how new media have changed language learning. Section II is about L2 participation in digital forms and practices in online communities. Sections III centers around L2 linguistic and other semiotic practices including the use of multimodal and multilingual resources while section IV analyzes social practices to explore how networked L2 users build maintain and challenge relationships. Written in accessible style the volume will be an important read to anyone interested in L2 use and learning in Web 2.0.
Linguistic Purism : Language Attitudes in France and Quebec
Aug 2016
Book
This book represents the first in-depth comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation but they differ in their social political and economic history. Three different levels of society are examined (official group and individual) allowing a comparison of the ‘voice from above’ and the ‘voice from below’. This is a key element in recent discussions of language planning but is rarely provided in studies of French. The study is also the first to apply to empirical data Thomas’s widely cited theoretical framework for describing linguistic purism (1991) and has evaluated and refined this enhancing the theoretical underpinnings of the field. The book will be of interest not only to French scholars and sociolinguists but also to scholars of language planning language policy and language ideologies in all languages.
Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
Aug 2016
Book
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention memory and language processing. For multilinguals the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental exercise which may lead to cognitive benefits. Through an in-depth exploration of these issues Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism presents original studies and new perspectives which are cutting-edge and feature traditional and innovative methodologies such as ERPs fMRIs eye-tracking picture- and numeral naming the Simon flanker and oculomotor Stroop tasks among others. The studies in this book investigate prominent themes in multilingual language control for both comprehension and production and probe the notion of a cognitive advantage that may be a result of multilingualism. The growing number of researchers practitioners and students alike will find this volume to be an instrumental source of readings that illuminates how one mind accommodates and controls multiple languages and the consequences it has on human cognition in general.
Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language
Jul 2016
Book
Bringing together contributions from some of the leading experts in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language this volume aims to provide an in-depth understanding of current and emerging trends in research and praxis. To this end the volume is divided into three thematic units. The first unit surveys the study of Spanish heritage speaker bilingualism from a formal/theoretical linguistic point of view. The second unit focuses on issues shaping the current state of affairs in heritage language education. Finally the third unit maps out future lines of development within heritage language instruction. The wide topical scope within this single volume will undoubtedly provide a valuable resource for researchers students and professionals working in different areas of Spanish as a heritage language.
Literacy Acquisition in School in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism : A binational survey
Jul 2016
Book
This book presents the outcomes of a multi-methodical investigation of the processes of literacy acquisition. The focus is on mono- and bilingual first- and seventh-graders in schools in socially underprivileged areas of two major cities in Turkey and Germany. By means of extensive analyses of lesson videos linguistic tests interviews and ethnographic research social cultural linguistic pedagogic and didactic differences on the international national local and individual level are aligned with the momentary problem of exercising a school lesson and acquiring literacy on a daily basis. The results contradict to some degree that cultural and linguistic differences actually make a huge difference in the organisation and process of literacy acquisition. With the interdisciplinary background of the book it addresses academics concerned with migration sociology migration linguistics classroom research and bilingual education. In a broader perspective the book contributes to the pedagogically and politically significant question how social and cultural characteristics of specific groups are stereotyped and partly unjustly combined in order to reach symbolic solutions for actual problems.
Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar : The case of IMDb message boards
Jul 2016
Book
Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards represents a significant landmark. Not only is it the first in-depth corpus-based study to be based on Linear Unit Grammar it is also the first study to present a unified model of both Linear Unit Grammar and Linear Unit Discourse Analysis. To illustrate this model the book focuses on the role of discourse reflexivity in the linear structure of online message board discourse from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) webpage. It is shown that discourse reflexivity plays a central role in the linear structure and antagonism characteristic of this type of discourse. This book will particularly appeal to those who have an interest in carrying forward the innovations in the description of grammar lexis and discourse proposed by John Sinclair in his lifetime as well as to those with a specific interest in discourse reflexivity and computer-mediated communication.
A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure
Jul 2016
Book
This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes schematic conceptual structures for the major constructions in the language and defines Japanese case marking and grammatical relations in purely conceptual terms. The work thus makes a convincing case for the conceptual basis of grammar thereby constituting a strong argument against the autonomy of syntax hypothesis of Generative Grammar. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume should be of interest to any researcher wishing to know how Cognitive Grammar whose primary focus has been on the non-syntactic aspects of language can explain the clausal structure of a given language in a detailed comprehensive yet unifying manner. In addition to its theoretical findings the volume contains a number of revealing analyses and interpretations of Japanese data which should be of great interest to all Japanese linguists irrespective of their theoretical persuasions.<br/>
Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments
Jul 2016
Book
Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments is not just about what takes place in literary classrooms. Settings do have a strong influence on student learning both directly and indirectly. These spaces may include the home the workplace science centers libraries that is contexts that entail diverse social physical psychological and pedagogical variables that facilitate learning for example by grouping desks in specific ways utilizing audio visual and digital technologies. Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments puts together a series of empirical research studies on the different locations of teaching and learning. These studies represent literary learning environment throughout the world including Brazil the USA China Canada Japan and several European countries such as the Netherlands Ukraine the UK and Malta. The studies reported describe quantitative and/or qualitative research and cover pre-primary primary high school college university and lifelong learning environments. They refresh the enigmatic ambience that often surrounds the teaching and learning that goes on in literary studies and offer transparent useful and replicable research and practice. Students and teachers alike are encouraged to take them and own them.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII : Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013
Jul 2016
Book
The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in multiple areas of Arabic linguistics: Syntax and its interfaces; regional and sociolinguistic variation; and first language acquisition. The linguistic facts in the volume are drawn from the various Arabic dialects spoken in North Africa Egypt the Arabian Peninsula the Levant and Standard Arabic and the analyses proposed reflect current approaches in linguistic theory. The volume therefore should be of interest to formal linguists sociolinguists historical linguists dialectologists as well as researchers on first language acquisition. It is our hope that the papers in this volume will spur more interest in and research on further aspects of Arabic linguistics.
Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast
Jul 2016
Book
This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled multilingual parallel and comparable corpora to: (i) problematize cross-register variation in a multilingual perspective (ii) address methodological and theoretical issues raised by register-oriented contrastive and translation studies (iii) investigate the cross-linguistic and cross-genre variation of specific linguistic features such as lexical bundles sentence-initial adverbials and tag questions (iv) identify cross-cultural and cross-linguistic dissimilarities in expressing a functional category viz. Appraisal in the field of opinion mining. The book offers new cutting-edge research that should be of interest to specialists in contrastive linguistics translation studies and cross-cultural studies. Originally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014).
Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms : Syntactic properties and interpretative effects
Jul 2016
Book
This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume contributes to a better understanding of the interfaces between these different levels. By providing syntactic prosodic semantic psycholinguistic and corpus-based support this book underpins the claim that there exist different sentential proform types in German and Dutch that these proform types correlate with different verb classes and that their associated related clauses are located in different syntactic positions. The present volume also looks at a Hungarian sentential proform construction which is similar to the German(ic) structure but at the same time is different in its licensing conditions.
"Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures
Jul 2016
Book
In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology philosophy medicine and economics this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of talking and thinking about happiness and pain vary across cultures and seeks to answer this question by empirically examining the core vocabulary pertaining to “happiness” and “pain” in many languages and in different religious and cultural traditions. The authors not only probe the precise meanings of the expressions in question but also provide extensive cultural contextualization showing how these meanings are truly cultural. Methodologically while in full agreement with the view of many social scientists and economists that self-reports are the bedrock of happiness research the volume presents a body of evidence highlighting the problem of translation and showing how local concepts of “happiness” and “pain” can be understood without an Anglo bias. The languages examined include (Mandarin) Chinese Danish English French German Japanese Koromu (a Papua New Guinean language) and Latin American Spanish.
Originally published in International Journal of Language and Culture Vol. 1:2 (2014).
Originally published in International Journal of Language and Culture Vol. 1:2 (2014).
Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages
Jun 2016
Book
This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT) a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory development and theory application and focuses on theoretical developments within the framework of PT as well as issues related to second language teaching and assessment. In coordinating approaches to addressing both theoretical and applied aspects of SLA this volume aims at bridging the gap between theory and practice. It also reflects the richness of debate within the field of PT-based research. The volume is intended for postgraduate students SLA researchers as well as language teachers.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>As of January 2019 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics
Jun 2016
Book
This extensive well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers interpreters linguists learners and other sign language users and of course of the Deaf themselves.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Unique to this lexicon is not only the inclusion of many terms that are used especially for sign languages but also the fact that for the terms there are not only examples from spoken languages but there are also glossed and translated examples from several different sign languages.<br/>There are many interesting features to this lexicon. There is an immediate temptation to find examples of terms in the sign language one is studying as well as determining how many of the most used concepts would be signed in the local language. As there are to date still almost no reference grammars of sign languages the definitions of many of these concepts would be extremely helpful for those linguists planning to make a reference grammar of their sign language.
The Linguistics of Sign Languages : An introduction
Jun 2016
Book
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages. This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary some test-yourself questions and assignments as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading. The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments video clips and links to web resources.
Conceptualizations of Time
Jun 2016
Book
As time cannot be observed directly it must be analyzed in terms of mental categories which manifest themselves on various linguistic levels. In this interdisciplinary volume novel approaches to time are proposed that consider temporality without time on the one hand and the coding of time in language including sign language and gestures on the other. The contributions of the volume demonstrate that time is conceptualized not only in terms of space but in terms of other domains of human experience as well. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Renowned specialists in the study of time the authors of this volume investigate this fascinating topic from a variety of perspectives – philosophical linguistic anthropological (neuro)psychological and computational – demonstrating a familiarity with both classical and recent approaches to the study of time and including up-to-date corpus-based methods of study.<br/>The volume will be of interest to philosophers linguists (including specialists in cognitive linguistics corpus linguistics and computational linguistics) anthropologists (neuro)psychologists translators language teachers and graduate students.<br/>
Finiteness and Nominalization
Jun 2016
Book
This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite. The contributions analyze finiteness cross-linguistically from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives focusing on a number of topics that has not been thoroughly explored in the literature. First the correlation between finiteness and nominalization is also affected by a third factor information structure. Second there is a correlation between the continuum of finiteness and the scale from main/independent clauses to dependent clauses. Given that of nominalized constructions occur not only in dependent clauses but also in independent clauses it is possible to grade according to degree of nominalization which can then be related to the scale of finiteness. Finally each of these scales can also be seen as a product the diachronic process of re-finitization and of finitization.
Exploring Language Aggression against Women
Jun 2016
Book
Exploring Language Aggression against Women presents a collection of systematic studies that delve into the critical role of language in constructing violence creating inequality and justifying discrimination against women. Drawing on a range of discourse analytic methods this volume subjects to scrutiny mediated and non-mediated (re)tellings and reactions to rape and sexual assault newspaper reports of intimate partner abuse YouTube responses to public service advertising for abuse prevention and verbal sexism on Twitter and in legal and parliamentary contexts. Special attention is paid to the multiple forms that verbal violence against women can take and its pervasiveness in contemporary Western societies precisely at a time when the need for and usefulness of feminism are continuously being questioned. Exploring Language Aggression against Women will be of relevance to scholars and students interested in gender language and sexuality discourse media feminism and communication. Most articles were originally published in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict Vol. 2:2 (2014).
Indo-Aryan Ergativity in Typological and Diachronic Perspective
Jun 2016
Book
This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan language family. It contains an introduction drawing on the most important recent typological and theoretical contributions to this field plus seven papers about the origin development and distribution of ergative alignment in ancient and modern Indo-Aryan languages written by well-established expert authors. The articles provide detailed explorations of language-specific synchronic systems or patterns of change and large-scale studies of the distribution of ergative morphosyntax across the Indo-Aryan languages. The papers have a typological-functional approach and are based on thorough fieldwork experience and/or philological investigation. As the Indo-Aryan language family has played a paramount role in recent theories of Ergativity and of alignment typology and change this volume is highly relevant to experts working on these languages and to scholars interested in grammatical relations and it will figure in all future debates in these fields
Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape : Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan
Jun 2016
Book
Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape provides in-depth analyses of different aspects of Turkish in the domains of phonology morphology and syntax discourse and language acquisition relevant to recent theoretical discussions. While some of the papers in the volume offer new analyses to known linguistic puzzles others raise new questions which have not been addressed in the literature before. This collection of original articles written by colleagues and students of Prof. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan honoring her contribution to the field of linguistics features articles on vowel reduction consonant clusters negation conditionals voice morphology evidentiality acquisition of irregular morphology complementation and subordination in varieties of Turkish. It will be of interest to a wide audience ranging from theoreticians to typologists and is expected to generate further research on Turkish as well as to contribute to the cross-linguistic literature on the issues addressed in the volume.
Morphological Metatheory
Jun 2016
Book
The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor issues about technical implementation but rather are foundational issues that mold the underlying anatomy of any theory. The field has developed very rapidly both theoretically and methodologically giving rise to many competing theories and varied hypotheses. Many drastically different and often contradictory models and foundational hypotheses have been proposed. Theories diverge with respect to everything from foundational architectural assumptions to the specific combinatorial mechanisms used to derive complex words. Today these distinct models of word-formation largely exist in parallel mostly without proponents confronting or discussing these differences in any major forum. After forty years of fast-paced growth in the field morphologists are in need of a moment to take a breath and survey the drastically different points of view within the field. This volume provides such a moment.
Advances in Research on Semantic Roles
Jun 2016
Book
Especially in functional-typological linguistics semantic roles have been studied thoroughly because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems and there is still no consensus on how the roles are best defined. In this volume the notion will be discussed from novel perspectives with the aim of providing new insights into our understanding of semantic roles. Two of the papers deal with semantic role clusters one with semantic roles in verbless constructions one with diachrony of semantic roles and two with individual semantic roles that have not been studied in too much detail in previous studies. The book may not offer answers to all questions the readers may have but at least it raises interesting further questions relevant to arriving at a better understanding of semantic roles.
Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 38:3 (2014).
Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 38:3 (2014).
Sequential Voicing in Japanese : Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project
Jun 2016
Book
The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (‘sequential voicing’) the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include broad surveys of theoretical analyses and of psycholinguistic studies meticulous assessments (some relying on a new database) of many of the factors that putatively inhibit or promote rendaku an investigation of how learners of Japanese as foreign language deal with rendaku in-depth examinations of rendaku in a divergent dialect of Japanese and in a Ryukyuan language and a cross-linguistic exploration of rendaku-like compound markers in unrelated languages. Since rendaku is ubiquitous but recalcitrantly irregular it provides a challenge for any general theory of morphophonology. This collection should serve both to restrain oversimplified accounts of rendaku and to inspire to further research.
Conference Interpreting. A trainer's guide
Jun 2016
Book
This companion volume to Conference Interpreting – A Complete Course provides additional recommendations and theoretical and practical discussion for instructors course designers and administrators. Chapters mirroring the Complete Course offer supplementary exercises tips on materials selection classroom practice feedback and class morale realistic case studies from professional practice and a detailed rationale for each stage supported by critical reviews of the literature. Dedicated chapters address the role of theory and research in interpreter training with outline syllabi for further qualification in interpreting studies at MA or PhD level; the current state of testing and professional certification with proposals for an overhaul; the institutional and administrative challenges of running a high-quality training course; and designs and opportunities for further and teacher training closing with a brief speculative look at future prospects for the profession.
Redefining Trial by Media : Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface
Jun 2016
Book
Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface applies a range of linguistic models to recast trial by media not as a sensationalist and infrequent phenomenon but as a systematic and routine process. Using critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistic models this book builds a Spectrum of Trial by Media which views juries in criminal trials as moulded by ideological media-made constructions of crime. The role of these media constructions is enhanced by the isolation levied on jurors by the linguistic composition of trial language and reinforced by the language strategies of legal professionals in court. Critically deconstructing media portrayals of crime and forensically examining the language of criminal proceedings this book offers a redefinition of trial by media which casts the role of the press as much more prevalent in the courtroom trial than is presently appreciated.
Studies of Discourse and Governmentality : New perspectives and methods
Jun 2016
Book
This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms practices modes programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of Foucault’s annual lecture series at the Collège de France scholars have attempted to critically rethink Foucault’s ideas. This is the first volume that attempts to revisit and expand studies of governmentality by connecting it to the theories and methods of discourse analysis. The volume draws on different theoretical stances and methodological approaches including critical discourse analysis conversation analysis dialogic analysis multimodal discourse analysis the discourse-historical approach corpus analysis and French discourse analysis. The volume is relevant to students and scholars in the fields of critical discourse studies conversation analysis international studies environmental studies political science public policy and organisation studies.
Conference Interpreting. A complete course
Jun 2016
Book
The conference interpreting skillset – full consecutive and simultaneous interpreting – has long been in demand well beyond the multilateral intergovernmental organizations notably in bilateral diplomacy business international tribunals and the media. This comprehensive coursebook sets out an updated step-by-step programme of training designed to meet the increasingly challenging conditions of the 21st century and adaptable by instructors with the appropriate specializations to cover all these different applications in contemporary practice.
After an overview of the diverse world of interpreting and the prerequisites for this demanding course of training successive chapters take students and teachers through initiation and the progressive acquisition of the techniques knowledge and professionalism that make up this full skillset. For each stage in the training detailed carefully sequenced exercises and guidance on the cognitive challenges are provided in a spirit of transparency between students and teachers on their respective roles in the learning process. For instructors course designers and administrators more detailed and extensive tips on pedagogy curriculum design and management will be found in the companion Trainer’s Guide.
The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella : A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon
Jun 2016
Book
Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.
Language-Learner Computer Interactions : Theory, methodology and CALL applications
Jun 2016
Book
This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can enrich our comprehension of technology-mediated communication hence enhancing learners’ digital literacy skills. The book is based on the premise that in order to fully understand the nature of language and literacy development in digital spaces researchers and practitioners in linguistics sciences and engineering need to borrow from each others’ theoretical and practical toolkits. In light of this premise themes include such aspects as educational ergonomics affordances complex systems learning learner personas and corpora while also describing such data collecting tools as video screen capture devices eye-tracking or intelligent learning tutoring systems. The book should be of interest to applied linguists working in CALL language educators and professionals working in education as well as computer scientists and engineers wanting to expand their work into the analysis of human/learner interactions with technology communication devices with a view to improving or (re)developing learning and communication instruments.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>As of January 2019 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Queering Borders : Language, sexuality, and migration
May 2016
Book
In recent years migration has moved to the forefront of national and global debates intensifying discussions about borders security identity and citizenship. In this volume we ask how language and sexuality impact these discussions: how do sexuality and language contribute toward the construction and maintenance of varying scales of borders? How do sexuality and language figure in border crossings across time space embodied differences and culture? The contributors to this volume all anthropologists demonstrate how anthropological theories concepts and methods uniquely address the operations of sexuality and language in the making unmaking and remaking of these borders. In this volume terminology discourse language choice and other forms of linguistic practice are at the forefront of research on transnational queer im/migrant populations allowing us to better understand how language shapes and is shaped by queer peoples’ movements across borders.
Originally published in Journal of Language and Sexuality Vol. 3:1 (2014).
Originally published in Journal of Language and Sexuality Vol. 3:1 (2014).
Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext
May 2016
Book
The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there it moves much of Firth’s and Malinowski’s thinking into a computational method based upon the ability of language to govern and analyse itself using collocation to plot its scope and limits. With the assistance of analytic philosophy it parts logic (grammar) from metaphysics (vocabulary) along the lines of a non-computational formula of Bertrand Russell and so falsifies the major premise of the Vienna Circle using its own central tenet: the Principle of Verification. Having arrived at corpus-derived subtext (the semantic aura of grammar strings as distinguished from Semantic Prosody) the second half of the book proceeds to verify the theory on Slavic languages. The focus is on the poet Alexander Pushkin whose authorial intention becomes computationally recoverable. Prose is handled on samples authored by David Lodge where authorial (in)sincerity (Louw 1993) is viewed on a cline of inspiration and quality of discourse. Other applications in the volume include studies on translation negotiation humour and the reception of CPT.
Second Language Acquisition of Turkish
May 2016
Book
This book brings together the findings of current studies on the second language (L2) acquisition of Turkish an Altaic language with more than 140 million native speakers around the world. There is now a growing interest in learning and teaching Turkish as an L2 both in and outside Turkey. Coordinated efforts to produce theoretical and empirical work on the acquisition and teaching of L2 Turkish are therefore an urgent need. The compilation in this volume offers eleven L2 studies that explore the representation and/or processing of various linguistic properties in different domains of grammar (phonology morpho-syntax pragmatics) and their interfaces. All studies involve adult L2 Turkish learners with various first-language backgrounds at different proficiency levels. With extensive discussions on theoretical and pedagogical issues this title will appeal to an international readership that includes L2 Turkish researchers materials designers and teachers.
World Englishes : New theoretical and methodological considerations
May 2016
Book
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a low-frequency item represent an incipient change and examines the suitability of the sociolinguistics of globalisation theory for the study of non-traditional avenues for the spread of vernacular varieties of English (recent migrations the entertainment industry the web). It explores crucial aspects of language change and dialect evolution through the study of grammatical phenomena and the particular linguistic and socio-historical factors conditioning them. Together with theoretical questions the volume shows a concern for methodological issues such as sociolinguistic interviews map-task experiments metalinguistic comments acceptability judgments and corpus-based methods. This volume represents the latest trends in the field and will undoubtedly set the agenda for the years ahead.
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Embodiment in Latin Semantics
May 2016
Book
<i>Embodiment in Latin Semantics</i> introduces theories of embodied meaning developed in the cognitive sciences to the study of Latin semantics. Bringing together contributions from an international group of scholars the volume demonstrates the pervasive role that embodied cognitive structures and processes play in conventional Latin expression across levels of lexical syntactic and textual meaning construction. It shows not only the extent to which universal aspects of human embodiment are reflected in Latin’s semantics but also the ways in which Latin speakers capitalize on embodied understanding to express imaginative and culture-specific forms of meaning. In this way the volume makes good on the potential of the embodiment hypothesis to enrich our understanding of meaning making in the Latin language from the level of word sense to that of literary thematics. It should interest anyone concerned with how people including in historical societies create meaning through language.