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An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook
Feb 2018
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An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers artists and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that first made them possible and then led to their demise. It argues that naturalistic models of the complex interactions of dynamic systems offer effective tools for understanding the fraught interrelations of art and censorship in the early Soviet period. Through illustrative case studies it mounts a close analysis of word and image and their synergistic interplay in avant-garde picturebooks while also recontextualizing them within the ecology of their original environment where extraordinary countervailing forces played out a drama of which these books survive as telling artifacts. Ultimately it argues that the Russian avant-garde picturebook offers a uniquely illustrative example of literary ecology that sheds light on issues of creativity and censorship politics and art more broadly as well.
Usage-inspired L2 Instruction : Researched pedagogy
Feb 2018
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This book presents a set of compelling essays collectively making a persuasive case for why a usage-based perspective on language is fast becoming a leading theoretical framework for investigating second language (L2) learning and the foundation for effective innovative engaging pedagogy. Drawing on 20 years of research in psychology psycholinguistics cognitive science and linguistic theory including discourse analytic approaches the combined contributions paint a picture of theoretically-informed L2 pedagogy which emphasizes all facets of language as meaningful embodied and socially situated. The introduction and conclusion offer an outline of five foundational tenets essential to a usage-inspired pedagogy and a heuristic for developing usage-inspired L2 research and pedagogy. Each essay provides a unique vantage on usage-inspired L2 instruction and a demonstration of the efficacy of usage-based pedagogy. This volume will be invaluable for SLA researchers graduate students and classroom teachers interested in exploring usage-inspired L2 pedagogy.
Bilingual Cognition and Language : The state of the science across its subfields
Feb 2018
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This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists psychologists cognitive scientists and neuroscientists. The breadth of coverage in this volume is a testament to the many different aspects of bilingualism that continue to generate phenomenal interest in the scholarly community. The bilingual experience is captured through a multifaceted prism that includes aspects of language and literacy development in child bilinguals with and without developmental language disorders language processing and mental representations in adult bilinguals across the lifespan and the cognitive and neurological basis of bilingualism. Different theoretical approaches – from generative UG-based models to constructivist usage-based models – are brought to bear on the nature of bilingual linguistic knowledge. The end result is a compendium of the state-of-the-art of a field that is in constant evolution and that is on an upward trajectory of discovery.
Explicitation in Consecutive Interpreting
Feb 2018
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Explicitation has been studied as a Translation Universal in corpus-based translation studies by several scholars yet its features in interpreting have only been mildly touched upon. Given the obvious differences between translation and interpreting it is worthwhile exploring whether explicitation has any distinct features in interpreting. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This study offers a novel view of explicitation in consecutive interpreting (CI) by investigating the effects of interpreters’ professional experience and interpreting direction on interpreters’ explicitation patterns. It not only validates but also quantifies the differences in explicitation patterns between professional and student interpreters as well as between interpreting from A (Chinese) to B (English) language and vice versa. The established theoretical frameworks (including a typology framework and a process-oriented explanatory framework) and the data collected from various channels may provide methodological and empirical support for further studies on explicitation or other shifts occurring in interpreting. The tendencies and principles of explicitation identified by the study may also shed light on the training of CI.<br/>This volume is intended to act as a useful reference for scholars practitioners interpreters graduate and advanced undergraduate students and anyone who shows interest in explicitation interpreting expertise interpreting directionality and interpreting training.<br/>
Crisis and the Media : Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres
Feb 2018
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How is ‘crisis’ one of the most resonating words in the modern world related to the mass media? Is crisis independent of the discourse practices of media text and talk? This book is a collection of studies that brings together current research into the ways in which crisis is constructed and communicated in contemporary media discourse. Studies in this book advance our understanding of crises as social events that are discursively constructed performed responded to but also ‘rehearsed’ as a form of social practice. Relying on the application of techniques of discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA) including visual analysis the book provides a wealth of empirical evidence on how crisis is mediated across a range of written oral and visual media. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of media who combine an interest in discourse analysis with disciplines as diverse as media and cultural studies political communication and sociology.
Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics : Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015
Feb 2018
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Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico Puerto Rico Spain Costa Rica Argentina Bolivia Peru Honduras) Catalan Brazilian Portuguese as well as varieties in contact with English and Purépecha. The first part of the volume focuses on the structural aspects and use of these languages in the areas of syntax semantics sociolinguistics diachrony phonetics phonology and morphology. The second part discusses the effect of interacting multiple grammars namely first language acquisition second language acquisition varieties in contact and bilingualism. As a whole the contributions in this volume provide a methodological balance between qualitative and quantitative approaches to Language and in this way represent contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.
Threatening in English : A mixed method approach
Jan 2018
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Threatening is among the less pleasant “things we do with words” but together with other conflictive speech acts it seems to play a central role in communication. Yet little is still known about how and when exactly speakers threaten. The present volume addresses this void by giving an in-depth analysis of the form and function of this speech act. A set of authentic threat utterances is used to probe questions on the linguistic repertoire employed and the different objectives speakers pursue with their threats. Based on the central findings a classification of two types of threats is proposed each with distinctive formal and functional properties. The analysis employs a mixed method approach with a two-fold aim; by combining a qualitative discussion of examples with the application of innovative statistical methodology the findings allow new insights into research on threats and simultaneously offer new perspectives on general research methodology.
The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature
Jan 2018
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How does the concept of time elusive and inconceivable as it may be lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of time challenging everyday linguistic patterns and manipulating mental representations in unforeseen ways. Drawing on empirical evidence from Modern Greek poetry the book offers a unified account of time conceptualization along a continuum of various degrees of non-conventionality. It also shows unlike what has been traditionally assumed in the literature that creativity in the expression of time is not limited to metaphor but extends to other figurative tropes that are perhaps specific to poetry. Poetry thus transpires as an ideal testing frame for exploring temporal cognition and meaning construction alike.
Translating the Female Self across Cultures : Mothers and daughters in autobiographical narratives
Jan 2018
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Translating the Female Self across Cultures examines contemporary autobiographical narratives and their Italian and French translations. The comparative analyses of the texts are underpinned by the latest developments in Translation Studies that place emphasis on identity construction in translation and the role of translation in moulding various types of identity. They focus on how the writers’ textual personae make sense of their sexual artistic and post-colonial identities in relation to the mother and how the mother-daughter dyad survives translation into the Italian and French social political and cultural contexts. The book shows how each target text activates different cultural literary linguistic and rhetorical frames of reference which cast light on the facets of the protagonists’ quest for identity: the cult of the Madonna; humour and irony; gender and class; mimesis and storytelling; performativity and geographical sense of self. The book highlights the fruitfulness of studying women’s narratives and their translations and the polyphonic dialogue between the translations and the literary and theoretical productions of the French and Italian cultures.
Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research
Jan 2018
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Cognitive research in translation and interpreting has reached a critical threshold of maturity that is triggering rapid expansion along exciting new paths that potentially lead to deeper connections with other disciplines. Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research reflects this broadening scope and reach emphasizing ongoing methodological innovations diversification of research topics and questions and rich interactions with adjacent fields of research. The contributions to the volume can be grouped within four loosely defined themes: advances in traditional topics in translation process research including problems in translation translation competence or expertise and specialization of translators; advances in research into the emotional or affective aspects of translating and translator training; innovations in machine translation and post-editing; expansion of cognitively-oriented translation studies to include editing processes and reception studies. This timely volume highlights the burgeoning growth diversification and connectivity of translation process research.
Afroasiatic : Data and perspectives
Jan 2018
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The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests from the analysis of data from scarcely known varieties to the reappraisal of old debates (such as the value of the Classical Arabic verbal forms).<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Reflecting a great diversity of language structures and functions the articles are grouped into three broad areas: the phylum as such in its classificatory and typological aspects; the analysis of the intricate morphology of Afroasiatic and its developments; and the syntax of Afroasiatic in its widest sense from the clause to the sentence and beyond. They witness how Afroasiatic with its unsurpassed historical depth and immense geographical breadth keeps representing a constant source of fascinating data and implications for linguistic theory.
The Dynamics of Interactional Humor : Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters
Jan 2018
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This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral written and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and most importantly the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of communication including scripted and non-scripted situations. The chapters analyze humor-related issues in such genres as spontaneous conversations broadcast dialogues storytelling media blogs bilingual conversations stand-up comedy TV documentaries drama series family sitcoms Facebook posts and internet memes. The individual authors trace how speakers collaboratively circulate reconstruct and (re)frame either personal or public accounts of reality aiming –among other things– to produce and/or reproduce humor. Rather than being “finished” products with a “single” interpretation humorous texts are thus approached as dynamic communicative events that give rise to diverse interpretations and meanings. The book draws on a variety of up-to-date approaches and methodologies and will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis conversation analysis interactional sociolinguistics pragmatics ethnography of communication and social semiotics.