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Visual Metaphor : Structure and process
Dec 2018
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Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication including gesture and body language sound and music and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical landslide however the wide range of nonverbal metaphor and its processing has neither been empirically investigated on the same scale nor with the same rigour as metaphor in language. The overarching goal of this book is to report on the findings of a research program aimed at exploiting the vast cognitive linguistic and psycholinguistic expertise on metaphor in language for a new behaviourally founded approach to the structure and processes of metaphor in one of these nonverbal manifestations namely static visuals. The book presents concepts and methods for the identification and analysis of metaphor in document structure as well as new approaches to the study of visual metaphor processing. Its results are intended to further the development of an encompassing and robust cognitive-scientific theory of metaphor by including visual metaphor while also enriching our understanding of the communicative possibilities and effects of visual metaphor in multimodal discourse.
Observing Eurolects : Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law
Dec 2018
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Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines including sociolinguistics legal linguistics corpus linguistics and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages (Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Italian Latvian Maltese Polish Spanish) are analyzed using corpus methodologies in order to investigate the variational dynamics and translation-induced patterns of the different languages. The underlying assumption is that within the sociolinguistic continua of the EU languages it is possible to single out specific legislative varieties (Eurolects) that originate at a supra-national level. This research hypothesis is strongly supported by the empirical findings derived from detailed corpus analyses of each language. This work represents the first systematic and comprehensive linguistic research conducted on a wide range of EU languages using the same protocol and applying corpus methodologies to the extensive Eurolect Observatory Multilingual Corpus.
The Corpus Linguistics Discourse : In honour of Wolfgang Teubert
Dec 2018
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With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools resources and applications it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that define the discourse of the field. Internationally renowned contributors address topics that range from the history of corpus linguistics to contrastive perspectives between languages to interpreting patterns in corpora as evidence of both mainstream discourses and individual voices within them. This collection not only adds to our understanding of the fundamentals of corpus linguistics it also brings innovative meanings to the corpus linguistics discourse. It has been edited in honour of Wolfgang Teubert who for decades has been a significant voice in this discourse.
Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Dec 2018
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This volume offers a fresh intercultural perspective on the discursive and rhetorical challenges non-Anglophone scholars face while writing and publishing in English for an international readership. The volume presents a wide spectrum of text-based intercultural analyses of academic texts written in L2 English. Placed in the context of a rapidly increasing role of English as the universal language of scientific and scholarly communication the contributions attempt to explore native language influence on L2 English academic texts or conversely the influence of rhetorical or discursive features of English on L2 texts. Covering texts from Chinese to Lithuanian authors the chapters in this volume offer a rich selection of lexico-grammatical discursive and rhetorical elements analysed and compared across genres disciplines and languages both within synchronic and diachronic perspectives. This volume will be of interest to both experienced and novice researchers in such fields as English for Academic Purposes Intercultural Rhetoric Genre Theory Corpus Linguistics and English as a Lingua Franca.
Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners : Making connections and building identities
Dec 2018
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This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context as well as to provide language educators and practitioners essential guidelines for designing community service-learning courses with particular attention paid to the characteristics and needs of Spanish heritage language learners. This book presents compelling evidence demonstrating the central role community service-learning plays in developing heritage language learners’ identities connections to the heritage language community language attitudes and social cultural and sociolinguistic awareness. Importantly this book also addresses the often-overlooked perspectives of community partners and liaisons. As the first original research monograph on community service-learning for Spanish heritage language learners this pioneering book will undoubtedly aid students instructors and administrators across all levels of language education.
The Discourse of Online Sportscasting : Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary
Dec 2018
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This book offers the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of live text commentary one of the most innovative online genres of modern news media. The study focuses on written sports commentaries in online newspapers that enable partial real-time audience involvement in the media text. Adopting an approach from interactional pragmatics the book identifies the genre’s characteristic micro-linguistic features as well as its unique narrative structure. Live text commentary is shown to be a hybrid and multimodal text format – an internally complex form of media communication that combines elements of live spoken broadcasting blogging informal conversation and online chat. It aims to inform as well as entertain the audience: by using humour banter and real or staged dialogue it seeks to create a sense of community among its readers – sports fans. The book will be of interest to many scholars in linguistic pragmatics discourse analysis and social sciences as well as to all others interested in modern online genres news media and sports discourse.
Mental Models across Languages : The visual representation of baldness terms in German, English, and Japanese
Dec 2018
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This book presents a study that triangulates the meanings of expressions across English German and Japanese via their perception-based conceptual representations. In an online experiment native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to baldness phenomena. These sets of visualizations are used to determine conceptual overlap or distance between expressions in the three languages resulting in lexical-conceptual 'maps' for MALE BALDNESS. The study is discussed against the background of an embodied perceptual symbol-based understanding of linguistic meaning. A section of the book further applies this perspective to the issue of translation developing a process model of translation based on the concept of cognitive equivalence.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book presents a novel approach to lexical semantics from a cognitive linguistic perspective tested through a methodologically innovative experiment. It is a compelling read to scholars in cognitive semantics contrastive semantics embodied cognition and cognitive translation studies.<br/>
Doing Politics : Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse
Dec 2018
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This edited volume explores the discursive performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by international authors (UK USA Italy Germany Austria Denmark) in political science discourse linguistic and social interaction research. The contributions represent a wide range of methodological approaches to political discourse analyzing a broad variety of genres some of which have been less analyzed to-date for example Wikipedia articles in combination with their discussion pages or the interaction between politicians and voters in the constituency office of a British Member of Parliament. The contributions also focus on political discourses of high and relevant topicality such as EU membership of Britain populism migration and xenophobia terrorism and narratives in international relations.
Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition : Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler
Dec 2018
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Language Learning Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these subfields and links between the studies are laid out in introductory and concluding chapters. This edited volume is intended for both researchers and graduate students in linguistics and second language learning and teaching.
On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance
Dec 2018
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This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII held in Bellaterra Catalonia Spain in September 2016. Part I of the volume is devoted to passives and related constructions. The results unveil domains in comprehension in which children are adult-like and other domains where there is delay. It is a challenge for current theoretical proposals to encompass such differences. Part II focuses on the TP-field including clitics and negation. Part III deals with the CP-field covering topics such as backward anaphora subjects and the left periphery and recursiveness. The volume includes studies carried out on a variety of populations: typically developing children bilinguals children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Specific Language Impairment and heritage speakers with a view to arriving at a general theory of language acquisition.
Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics : Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Dec 2018
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Dedicated to John B. Whitman this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages including Japanese Korean Chinese Austronesian Indo-Aryan and Thai. Ranging from syntax and morphology to semantics acquisition processing and phonology from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives this collection reflects the breadth of the honoree’s research interests which span multiple research subfields in numerous Asian languages.
The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals : Economy and bilingual first language acquisition
Dec 2018
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This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the properties of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish and test some of the current theoretical proposals to analyze the main syntactic properties and operations within the nominal phrase. The findings of the study suggest new directions to address some core questions about monolingual and bilingual language acquisition taking as a point of departure the notion of economy prevalent in the most recent theoretical discussion. Given the combination of empirical and theoretical discussions this monograph will be appealing to a broad range of researchers in syntax and language acquisition.
Constructions in Contact : Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Dec 2018
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The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together for the first time a broad range of original contributions providing insights into language contact phenomena from a constructionist perspective. Focusing primarily on Germanic languages the papers in this volume demonstrate how the notion of construction can be fruitfully applied to investigate how a range of different language contact phenomena can be systematically analyzed from the perspectives of both form and meaning.
Negation and Negative Concord : The view from Creoles
Dec 2018
Book
While universally present in languages negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages however negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language generally exhibit negative concord a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’ where several expressions each negative on its own come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.
Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond : In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Dec 2018
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Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages which together with Albanian were the main research domain of Leonardo M. Savoia. The volume covers areas as different as phonology morphology syntax and the lexicon. A broad range of Romance languages is considered as well as Albanian Greek and Hungarian shedding new light on many classical topics. The first section focuses on morphosyntax both in the narrow sense and with regard to its interfaces. The second section focuses on clitics and pronouns. The third section deals with a number of issues in phonology and syntax-phonology interface. The last section turns the reader’s attention beyond formal linguistics itself and examines variation in the light of neurosciences pathology historical linguistics and political discourse.
Substance-based Grammar – The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson
Dec 2018
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The contributions of this volume centre around the (ongoing) work of John Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the British Academy who with detailed studies in phonology morphology semantics and syntax as well as careful discussions of historical and methodological issues in linguistics at large has been and still is the central figure in the development of a theory of language structure driven by the assumption of structural analogy between syntax and phonology and firmly grounded in the long-standing tradition of substantively based grammar behind it. The first contribution is a lengthy ‘interview’ based on a series of written interchanges by József Andor with John Anderson which focuses on the development of Anderson’s work and its relation to contemporaneous developments in linguistics. The following eight contributions centring on general issues concerning the historiography of localism the lexicon meaning and syntax and finally phonology deal with applications extensions answers to criticism and philosophical context of Anderson’s work.
Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time : Accusation of inconsistency in response to criticism
Dec 2018
Book
When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critic’s position a tricky political practice emerges. Turning the criticism back to the critic can be a constructive move that restores coherence but it may also be a disruptive move that silences the critical voice and obstructs accountability. What distinguishes constructive cases from disruptive ones? This is the question this book sets out to answer. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The question is addressed by adopting an argumentative perspective. Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time focuses on the turnabout employed by the British Prime Minister in response to the Leader of the Opposition. The turnabout is characterised as a particular way of strategic manoeuvring. The manoeuvring is analysed and evaluated by combining pragmatic dialectical and rhetorical insights with considerations from the realm of politics. The outcome is an account of the turnabout’s strategic functions and an assessment guide for evaluating its reasonableness. <br/>The book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of argumentation discourse analysis communication and rhetoric.<br/>
New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
Dec 2018
Book
The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models such as constructionalization the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers and reveal a renewed interest in the typological application of grammaticalization and in the cognitive motivations for unidirectionality. The contributors consider data from a wide range of languages including several that have not or marginally been looked at in terms of grammaticalization: Chinese Dutch (varieties of) English French German Japanese Maltese Old Saxon Spanish and languages of the South Caucasian and Zhuang Tai-Kadai families. The chapters range from theoretical discussions to fine-grained analyses of new historical and comparative language data. This volume will be of interest to linguists studying morphosyntactic changes in a range of languages and in particular to those interested in models for grammatical change.
Handbook of Pragmatics : 21st Annual Installment
Dec 2018
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This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language — to the different topics traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics broadly conceived as the cognitive social and cultural study of language and communication i.e. the science of language use.
The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.
Also available as Online Resource: https://www.benjamins.com/online/hop/
The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.
Also available as Online Resource: https://www.benjamins.com/online/hop/
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
Nov 2018
Book
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used.
As of 26 July 2021 the ebook edition is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
As of 26 July 2021 the ebook edition is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
The Biblical Book of Daniel : The Catalan Translation by the French Hebraist Maties Delcor
Nov 2018
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Delcor (1919-1992) is responsible for a translation of the Book of Daniel which is the only Catalan version of a book of the Bible produced by a North Catalan author to be included in Fundació Bíblica Catalana’s 1968 Bible. This unique circumstance was the inspiration to recover this translation and publish it in a scientific edition collated with the original texts from which Delcor worked. The introduction situates this singular work in the context of the long history of biblical translations in Catalan and offers an exegetical approach to this work that tradition has transmitted in three languages of the ancient world: Hebrew Aramaic and Greek. English equivalents of all of the texts have been added as a further point of comparison.
Un cançoner català del Renaixement a Roma : Les poesies de Joan Salom, astrònom valencià
Nov 2018
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This book contains an edited and contextualized collection of poetry that is preserved without an author's name in a manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library. The internal and external analysis of the manuscript has made it possible to attribute it to Joan Salom (or Salon) a Franciscan monk who in addition to being a noted hebraist and astronomer had an important role in reforming the Gregorian calendar and who is here also revealed as a poet. Beyond the interest of adding previously unknown lyrics to the Catalan literary production of the 1500s this songbook is important because it is situated at the time when the new Italian poetic forms of the Renaissance were being introduced in Catalan poetry.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Aquest llibre edita i contextualitza un petit recull de poesies que avui es conserva sense nom d’autor dins un manuscrit de la Biblioteca Apostòlica Vaticana. L’anàlisi interna i externa del manuscrit ha permès atribuir-lo amb tota seguretat a Joan Salom (o Salon) un frare franciscà que a més d’hebraista i astrònom reconegut –va tenir un paper important en la reforma del calendari gregorià– se’ns revela doncs també com a poeta. A les composicions hi ha elogis a alguns contemporanis algunes peces de caràcter devot i unes quantes poesies adreçades a un amor frustrat envers una monja barcelonina. Més enllà de l’interès que té augmentar la producció literària catalana del Cinc-cents amb uns textos desconeguts aquest cançoner és important perquè se situa en el moment en què les noves formes poètiques italianes del renaixement s’introdueixen en la poesia catalana.
Historical Pragmatics of Controversies : Case studies from 1600 to 1800
Nov 2018
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The book gives an introduction to the new research field of Historical Pragmatics of Controversies and provides seven case studies (from 1609 to 1796) on controversies in the fields of astronomy/astrology medicine chemistry philosophy and theology. The protagonists of these controversies include both famous authors like Kepler Hobbes and Leibniz and internationally less known authors like the German theologian A.H. Francke and the chemist F.A.C. Gren. The case studies examine the organizing principles of historical controversies language use moves and strategies topic management and text organisation and the adherence to communication principles in these controversies. At the same time they analyse the use of different text types and media in the course of controversies including pamphlets journal articles reviews scientific handbooks and letters. In addition the case studies demonstrate early modern writers’ resources from disputation practice dialectic and rhetoric and show developments of the practice of polemical writing during this period.
The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax : The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval
Nov 2018
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This book offers the most comprehensive up-to-date multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them is a philological gem that underwent numerous vicissitudes. The current volume comprises eighteen chapters dealing in depth with Codax’s work and the Vindel Parchment from five basic perspectives: literature; linguistics codicology and ecdotics; music; history and reception of the Vindel Parchment; and the historical background of medieval Vigo (at the time still a small town where Codax’s cantigas de amigo are set). Specialists from different disciplines and countries joined forces in a effort to improve our understanding of Martin Codax and his lyric poetry. The research included here tries to go beyond received knowledge in the field by using new approaches and perspectives delving deeper into areas that had not been sufficiently studied or by venturing into unexplored territories. Many hypotheses are put forward contributing to raising interest in a fascinating enigmatic author in his extraordinary cantigas and in a medieval parchment that is becoming less and less mysterious. The volume contains contributions in English Spanish Italian Portuguese and Galician each accompanied by a summary in English.
Veritas et subtilitas : Truth and Subtlety in the History of Philosophy. Essays in memory of Burkhard Mojsisch (1944 – 2015)
Nov 2018
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The book provides a collection of scientific papers which are dedicated to the memory of Burkhard Mojsisch. The collection includes highly qualified papers on ancient medieval and early modern philosophy and demonstrates the importance of the historical research of philosophy at the beginning of the 21st century and its current trends. It documents historical aspects of important philosophical discussions of contemporaneity (e.g. in the fields of intercultural philosophy and interdisciplinary philosophy such as philosophy of neuroscience). The authors are leading specialists of philosophy especially of ancient and medieval philosophy. The collection includes papers in German English and French.
The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast : Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches
Nov 2018
Book
The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German and Dutch where prosody and assertive particles are systematically associated with polarity contrast. Recently the grammatical realization of polarity contrast has been at the center of investigations in a range of other languages as well. Core questions concern the formal repertoire and the exact meaning contribution of the relevant devices the kind of contrast they evoke and their relation to information structure and sentence mood. This volume brings together researchers from a theoretical an empirical and a typological orientation and enhances our understanding of polarity with the help of in-depth analyses and cross-linguistic comparisons dealing with the syntactic semantic pragmatic and/or prosodic aspects of the phenomenon.
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Nov 2018
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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics historical linguistics and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change linguistic changes that occur in particular genres and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.
Progress in Colour Studies : Cognition, language and beyond
Nov 2018
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This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines including vision science psychology psycholinguistics linguistics anthropology onomastics philosophy archaeology and design. The chapters have been developed from papers and posters presented at the Progress in Colour Studies (PICS2016) conference held at University College London in September 2016. The book continues the series from the earlier PICS conferences which have become renowned for their insights into colour in language and cognition. In the present book all chapters have been rigorously peer-reviewed and revised to ensure the highest standards throughout. The chapters are grouped into three sections: Colour Perception and Cognition; The Language of Colour; and The Diversity of Colour. Each section is preceded by a short introduction drawing together the themes of its chapters. There are over 120 colour illustrations.
Offers and Offer Refusals : A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes
Nov 2018
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This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research the book also contributes to theory formation on the emerging theoretical framework postcolonial pragmatics which is then applied to data from two World (postcolonial) Englishes Ghanaian and Cameroon Englishes. The copious examples used clearly illustrate how postcolonial societies realise various pragmatic phenomena in this case offers and offer refusals and how these could be fruitfully explained using an analytical framework designed on the complex internal set ups of these societies. For research on social interaction in these societies to be representative it has to take into account the complex history of their evolution contact with other systems during colonialism and the heritages thereof. This book does just that.
Fraseología, Diatopía y Traducción / Phraseology, Diatopic Variation and Translation
Nov 2018
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In all languages humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. These PUs are characterized by their institutionalized fixation and in many cases by their opacity. Traditionally the work on phraseology has placed the emphasis on the total fixing of components and structures of verbal expressions. Variation in PUs is currently an uncontested fact and has been extensively studied and analyzed. In addition in the case of languages like Spanish English French spoken in many countries new creations or diatopic variants arise. While these diatopic expressions have been collected or analyzed in their territory of influence no comprehensive collection showing all the expressions and contrastive analysis to observe the similarities and differences between these diatopic creations with all their idiosyncratic and cultural references have been made so far.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The content of this volume deals with numerous linguistic lexicographic and translational problems in the context of language variation in general as well as specifically related to diatopic variation. The aim is to make progress in these challenging and highly interesting areas which still pose many comprehension and translation problems.
Introduction to Discourse Studies
Nov 2018
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This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics from critical discourse analysis to stylistics and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by
- over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text;
- more than 150 test-yourself questions all elaborately answered which are ideal for self-study;
- nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses.
Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009 a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).
The previous (2004) edition can be found here.
Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar
Nov 2018
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This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions negation modification modality polysynthesis and transparency) from different perspectives language-specific comparative and typological. In addition to applying the theory to the topics in question these papers aim to contribute to the further development of the theory by modifying and extending it on the basis of new linguistic evidence from a range of languages thus providing the latest state-of-the-art in FDG. The volume as a whole however does more than this as separately and together the papers collected here aim to demonstrate how FDG with its unique architecture can provide new insights into a number of issues and phenomena that are currently of interest to theoretical linguists in general.
Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry : Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy
Nov 2018
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Across the world professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward further solidifying its position as a conduit of insight into the human condition it is essential to take stock of the theoretical primitives that have given linguistics its intellectual foundation. This volume does precisely that inspecting the load-bearing components of the edifice upon which contemporary linguistics has been constructed. The volume’s authors – whose expertise spans the Generativist Functionalist and Variationist research traditions – remind us of the need to revisit the conceptual bedrock of the field clarifying and assessing our primary theoretical moves including those relating to such elemental components as the ‘linguistic sign’ ‘a language’ ‘structural relations’ ‘grammatical category’ ‘acquisition’ ‘bilingual’ ‘competence’ and ‘sociolinguistic variable’.
Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom : Judicial interpreting in Hong Kong
Nov 2018
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This book takes you into a common-law courtroom which is in no way similar to any other courtroom where common law is practised. This uniqueness is characterised in particular by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society and by the presence of other bilinguals in court thus presenting specific challenges for the interpreters who work in it and at times rendering the interpretation service superfluous. This study inter alia problematises judges’ intervention in the court proceedings Chinese witnesses testifying in English as well as English-language trials heard by Chinese jurors. It demonstrates how the use of chuchotage proves to be inadequate and inappropriate in the Hong Kong courtroom where interpreting in an English-language trial is arguably provided to cater for the need of the linguistic majority. This book is useful to interpreters language educators legal professionals forensic linguists and policy makers alike.
Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Nov 2018
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What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody syntax and pragmatics the typology of word order and intonation languages the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages including French Italian Portuguese and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English German and Quechua.
Eye-tracking in Interaction : Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue
Nov 2018
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This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction including human-human and human-computer interaction. Approaching the phenomenon from different disciplinary and methodological angles the chapters in the volume are united through a shared technological approach viz. the use of eye-tracking technology for measuring speakers’ and hearers’ eye gaze patterns while engaged in interaction. Envisioned as an ‘innovating reader’ the volume addresses key questions of interdisciplinary relevance (e.g. to what extent can the analysis of fine-grained eye gaze data obtained with eye-tracking technology inform conversation analysis and vice versa?) positioning (e.g. what is the semiotic status of eye gaze in relation to linguistic signaling?) and methodology (e.g. can we strike a balance between experimental control and authenticity in setting up dialogue settings with eye-tracking technology?). The exploration of these and other questions contributes to the demarcation of a burgeoning research program.
Aspectuality across Languages : Event construal in speech and gesture
Oct 2018
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The book provides a nuanced multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France Germany and Russia including scholars from the Netherlands and the United States. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Aspect and gesture use are studied in three Indo-European languages i.e. French German and Russian. The book also summarizes the main points and arguments from French German and Russian works on aspect in relation to tense bringing these historical traditions together for an English-speaking reading audience. <br/>The work rekindles some fundamental theorizing about events and aspect reinvigorating it in a new light with the use of recent theorizing from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology as well as new research methods applied to new data from actual spoken interactive language use. It illustrates the value of researching the variably multimodal nature of communication – as well as theoretical issues in connection with thinking for speaking and mental simulation – from an empirical point of view.
Eye Tracking and Multidisciplinary Studies on Translation
Oct 2018
Book
Through cohesive yet wide-ranging contributions focused on the rapidly growing area of eye tracking in Translation Studies this volume provides readers with an insightful cross-section of the state of the art in this multidisciplinary field. Showcasing the great potential and challenges of this still nascent paradigm it offers novel practical methods and approaches to conduct ambitious experimental studies. Through a variety of methodologically-oriented chapters and case studies categorised into three key areas – ‘Method’ ‘Process’ and ‘Product’ – the book presents some of the most up-to-date eye-tracking methods and results in Translation Studies including experiment design statistical and analytical approaches the translation process audience and reader response and audiovisual translation. The reproducible research protocols re-iterative approaches and ambitious triangulations of data included in this volume seek to inspire new research using eye tracking in Translation Studies by providing the necessary methodological support and ideas for new avenues of inquiry.
Where is Adaptation? : Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Oct 2018
Book
Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures texts and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation both eminent and emerging. From insightful self-analyses by practitioners (a novelist a film director a comics artist) to analyses of adaptations of place culture and identity the authors brought together in this collection represent a broad cross-section of current work in adaptation studies. From the development of technologies impacting film festivals to the symbiotic potential of interweaving disability and adaptation studies censorship exploring the “glocal” and an examination of the Association for Adaptation Studies at its 10th anniversary the original contributions in this volume aim to trace the leading edges of this evolving field.
TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy
Oct 2018
Book
Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research. A defining part of the TBLT project has always been a dual concern – both with the nature and use of tasks in language teaching and with empirical research to guide and support classroom practitioners the two concerns suggesting a central and reciprocal relationship between research and pedagogy. However this relationship has at times been unbalanced and its centrality has sometimes gone by default problems which this volume aims to address. The introduction proposes criteria to improve the congruence between the research base of TBLT and the concerns and terms of reference of classroom practitioners. Using a range of methodologies the individual chapters illustrate and explore different aspects of this theme. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to further their understanding of – and/or investigate – the use of TBLT in educational contexts.
Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms
Oct 2018
Book
This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students but increasingly by multilingual students with highly diverse language backgrounds. This necessitates a new understanding of foreign language learning and teaching. The volume brings together an international group of researchers of high caliber who specialize in third language acquisition teaching English as an additional language and multilingual education. In addition to topical overview articles on the multilingual policies pursued in Europe Africa North America and Asia as well as several contributions dealing with theoretical issues regarding multilingualism and plurilingualism the volume also offers cutting edge case studies from multilingual acquisition research and foreign language classroom practice. Throughout the volume multilingualism is interpreted as a valuable resource that can facilitate language education provided it is harnessed in appropriate conditions.
Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation : Capturing transitions in the classroom
Oct 2018
Book
This volume brings together researchers in conversation analysis who examine the practice of alternating between English and German Italian Spanish Swedish and Vietnamese in the classroom. The collection shows that language alternation is integral to being and learning to become a bilingual and that being and learning to become a bilingual are accomplished through a remarkably common set of interactional objects and actions whose sequential organisations are quite similar across languages and educational sectors. This volume therefore shows that having recourse to more than one shared language provides an important resource for getting the work of language learning and teaching done through an orderliness that can be described and evaluated. The findings and the suggested pedagogical applications described in the volume will be of significant interest to researchers and teachers in a range of fields including second and foreign language teaching and learning conversation analysis teacher education and bilingualism. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>
Cognitive Rhetoric : The cognitive poetics of political discourse
Oct 2018
Book
This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective the volume draws on concepts from classical rhetoric alongside contemporary research in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistics (including schema theory Text World Theory Cognitive Grammar and mind-modelling amongst others). It examines the role played by the speaker’s identity the arguments they make and the emotions of the audience in the – often critical – reception of political text and talk using a diversity of examples to illustrate this three-dimensional approach – from political speeches interviews and newspaper articles to more creative text-types such as politicised rap music television satire and filmic drama. The result of this wide-ranging application is a holistic and systematic account of the rhetorical and ideological effects of political discourse in reception.
Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects : The Reykjavík-Eyjafjallajökull papers
Oct 2018
Book
Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative. Their research was focused on Icelandic and South-Asian languages respectively and since then oblique subjects have been reported for language after language throughout the world. This newfangled recognition of the concept of oblique subjects at the time was followed by discussions of the role and validity of subject tests discussions of the verbal semantics involved as well as discussions of the theoretical implications of this case marking strategy of syntactic subjects. This volume contributes to all these debates making available research articles on different languages and language families additionally highlighting issues like language contact differential subject marking and the origin of oblique subjects.
Reorganising Grammatical Variation : Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants
Oct 2018
Book
With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic Romance Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change.
Attention to Metaphor : From neurons to representations
Sept 2018
Book
The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed a fundamental scientific discovery: the identification of mirror neurons and consequently the development of the Embodied Simulation theory. Neuroscientific data on the mechanism of Embodied Simulation and its role in conceptual and linguistic processing figurative language included have stimulated a great deal of research on the embodied nature of conceptual metaphors. However the very definition of the notions of body and embodiment are today still controversial in the Embodied Cognition debate. This book addresses the issue of the specific contribution of the body to conceptual and linguistic processing and provides a new definition for the mechanism of Embodied Simulation. In this light and in consideration of a revision of the contemporary theory of metaphor recently introduced by Gerard Steen who distinguished between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphor processing the book also proposes a new model of metaphor processing that brings together the mechanism of Embodied Simulation on the one hand and the notion of deliberateness on the other. Modulation of attention during linguistic processing is a key component in explaining how they interact.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Potential readers of the book include linguists psychologists philosophers and any other cognitive scientists and communication scientists piqued by the topic of metaphor and embodiment.
Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives
Sept 2018
Book
The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the contrastive lexical semantics of certain landscape words in a number of languages. The aim is to show how geographical vocabulary sheds light on the culturally and historically shaped ways people see and think about the land around them. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Notably the study presents landscape concepts as anchored in a human-centred perspective based on our cognition vision and experience in places. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach allows an analysis of meaning which is both fine-grained and transparent. The book is aimed first of all at scholars and students of linguistics. Yet it will also be of interest to researchers in geography environmental studies anthropology cultural studies Australian Studies and Australian Aboriginal Studies because of the book’s cultural take.
Del manuscrit a la paraula digital / From Manuscript to Digital Word : Estudis de llengua i literatura catalanes / Studies of Catalan language and literature
Sept 2018
Book
This collection which transports readers from the age of manuscripts to the digital word is a good demonstration not only of the current vitality of studies of Catalan language and literature but also of the variety of interests and theoretical approaches and the diversity of origin of Catalan researchers. The studies are focused primarily on three thematic areas: a) culture and language between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries; b) one hundred years of Catalan literature: 1859-1959; and c) multilingualism and interculturality. The collected studies will prove to make a solid contribution to the unstoppable progress that Catalan philology has been making for decades.
The Locus of Linguistic Variation
Sept 2018
Book
This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variation in several domains addressing intra- and inter-dialectal patterns using diverse sources of data including corpora of naturally-occurring speech and judgment studies and drawing on lesser-studied varieties of familiar languages such as Northwest British Englishes and varieties of Canadian French. Ultimately the contributions serve to expand our understanding of the nature of the mental representations and abstract processes required to support variation in language. Originally published as special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:2 (2016)
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
Sept 2018
Book
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages with particular attention to Gothic Old Norse / Icelandic Old English Old Frisian Old Saxon and Old High German along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.
The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction
Sept 2018
Book
This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers as their name indicates are among the explicit signals of coherence while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly the discourse used for purposes of evaluation stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This in general terms is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation comparing languages analysing different registers studying the openings of Skype conversations and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis interaction studies semantics and pragmatics.
Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition : In honor of Roumyana Slabakova
Sept 2018
Book
This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova 2008 2016) the Scalpel Model (Slabakova 2017) and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice 2009) to name a few. The studies explore a variety of linguistic properties (e.g. functional morphology linguistic properties at the syntax-discourse interface) by focusing on distinct populations (L2 acquisition L3/LN acquisition Heritage Speakers) while also considering the links between experimental linguistic research generative linguistics and in some cases language pedagogy. Dedicated to Roumyana Slabakova each chapter can be directly linked to her work in terms of the empirical testing of extant hypotheses the formulation of new models and ideas and her efforts to advance the dialogue between different disciplines and frameworks. Overall the contributions in the volume bear evidence of Slabakova’s enduring influence in the field as a collaborator teacher and researcher.
Conceptual Semantics : A micro-modular approach
Sept 2018
Book
In this book the micro-modular approach known as Tiernet within Conceptual Semantics is introduced. Constructions make up an important part in the approach but in this approach constructions are considered to be exceptions licensed links between micro-modules one of the kinds of symbolic modules in the approach. Similar to construction grammar approaches the micro-modular approach takes a solid interest in the ‘periphery’ and thus also studies irregular linking principles like constructions.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book details particulars in the development of generative grammar and the relation of Conceptual Semantics to this development and then introduces the micro-modular approach and shows its usefulness for the description of language generally by not only using examples from English but also and in particular by applying the micro-modular approach of Conceptual Semantics to data from Finnish.
Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition
Sept 2018
Book
This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g. pragmatics corrective feedback phonology) and approaches (e.g. corpus linguistics concept-oriented analyses variationism) have come together to identify challenges researchers face when collecting coding and analyzing data and to provide guidance for making advancements regarding these aspects of research method. This volume also showcases three types of critical reflection. One involves building a relevant corpus of published investigations and using that database to identify methodological issues in existing research. Another consists of recoding and reanalyzing published work before reflecting on the impact that these decisions have on observations made about interlanguage. The third begins with a particular area of or approach to second language acquisition and then offers a critical examination on the challenges that characterize the selected area or approach. Researchers and graduate students alike will benefit from an open discussion on methodological issues that are in need of improvement.
From Pragmatics to Dialogue
Sept 2018
Book
This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two ‘circles’ which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object ‘language use’. Pragmatics means the study of natural language use. There is however no clear answer as to what language use means. We are instead confronted with multiple and diverse models in an uncircumscribed field of language use. When trying to transform such a puzzle of pieces into a meaningful picture we are confronted with the complexity of language use which does not mean ‘language’ put to ‘use’ but represents the unity of a complex whole and calls for a total change in methodology towards a holistic theory. Human beings as dialogic individuals use language as dialogue which allows them to tackle the vicissitudes of their lives. Dialogue and its methodology of action and reaction can be traced back to human nature and provides the key to the unstructured field of pragmatics. The contributions to this volume share this common ground and address various perspectives in different types of action game.
Pragmatics and its Interfaces
Sept 2018
Book
This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing and cross-pollination between disciplines is natural as well as necessary but at times it seems important to take a pause and reflect on and problematize the role of pragmatics at these interfaces. In an age when disciplinary boundaries are being blurred we need to investigate the relationship and interplay between pragmatics and related or complementary fields of enquiry with the goal of broadening and deepening our understanding of the contributions and boundaries of pragmatics as such. Here in twelve original contributions internationally recognized authorities explore the current state and future trends in Pragmatics vis-à-vis adjacent disciplines.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>
Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions : In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo
Sept 2018
Book
This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language within a coherent theoretical framework; second they understand that a complete theory of the human language needs to include data from bilinguals’ I-languages; and third they are committed to obtaining reliable data following experimental protocols.
Learning Language through Task Repetition
Sept 2018
Book
After more than 20 years of research this is the first book-length treatment of second language task repetition – the repetition of encounters with a task that involve re-using the same content with the same overall purpose. The topic links task performance with the growing mastery of both the task and of relevant language and constitutes a site with special potential to promote learning within and across language lessons and for preparing students for assessment and of course real-world language performance. The volume assembles chapters that complement each other in interesting ways: significant background reviews studies of patterns of change across task repetition iterations and reports on the use and nature of task repetition in language classes in on-going programmes. Contributors draw on a variety of interpretive frameworks and report from a range of language educational contexts. The volume will be of interest to language researchers teacher educators teachers and students as well as others interested in the contribution of task repetition to learning.
Time in Embodied Interaction : Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources
Sept 2018
Book
This is the first book dedicated to the study of the complexities that arise in embodied interaction from the multiplicity of time-scales on which its component processes unfold. It shows in microscopic detail how people synchronize and sequence modal resources such as talk gaze gesture and object-manipulation to accomplish social actions. The studies show that each of these resources has its own temporal trajectory affordances and restrictions which enable and constrain the fine-grained work of bodily self-organization and interaction with others. Focusing on extended interactional time scales some of the contributors investigate ways in which larger interactional episodes and relationships between actions are brought about and how actions build on shared interactional histories. The book makes a strong case for the use of video in the study of social interaction. It proposes an enlarged vision of Conversation Analysis that puts the body and its interactive temporalities center stage.
Modeling World Englishes : Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties
Sept 2018
Book
At a time when globalization and the advent of the internet have accelerated the spread and diversification of English varieties worldwide this book provides a constructive assessment of the theoretical models that best account for the development and use of Englishes in the early 21st century. In this endeavor the present book brings together cutting-edge contributions by leading scholars who explore the notion of linguistic globalization based on a wide range of ESLs EFLs and ELF synchronic and diachronic data different methodological approaches (corpus-based sociolinguistic ethnographic) and a variety of data resources (social media multiplayer online games journalistic data GloWbE Corpus of Historical Singapore English thematic blogs). Collectively these studies serve as a springboard for future research on the globalization of Englishes and they contribute to a timely and necessary scholarly conversation on what constitutes adequate theoretical models of World Englishes in the 21st century.
The Politics of Multilingualism : Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance
Sept 2018
Book
This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand and the dynamics of transnationalism globalisation and Europeanisation on the other. This interplay confronts contemporary societies with unprecedented questions as they face the need to come to grips with increasingly varied and pervasive manifestations of linguistic and cultural diversity. This volume develops an integrative approach that identifies the key social and political dimensions at hand offering an innovative contribution to the ongoing conversation on the manifestations and management of multilingualism.
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English : A sociolinguistic approach
Sept 2018
Book
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence including the auxiliary do verbal -s and the progressive aspect and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have been minimal.
The studies are contextualized by discussions of the normative tradition and the correspondence corpus and of eighteenth-century English society and culture. Basing their work on a variationist sociolinguistic approach the authors introduce the models and methods they have used to trace the progress of linguistic changes in the “long” eighteenth century 1680–1800. Aggregate findings are balanced by analysing individuals and their varying participation in these processes. The final chapter places these results in a wider context and considers them in relation to past sociolinguistic work.
One of the major findings of the studies is that in most cases the overall pace of change was slow. Factors retarding change include speaker evaluation and repurposing outgoing features in particular for certain styles and registers.
The studies are contextualized by discussions of the normative tradition and the correspondence corpus and of eighteenth-century English society and culture. Basing their work on a variationist sociolinguistic approach the authors introduce the models and methods they have used to trace the progress of linguistic changes in the “long” eighteenth century 1680–1800. Aggregate findings are balanced by analysing individuals and their varying participation in these processes. The final chapter places these results in a wider context and considers them in relation to past sociolinguistic work.
One of the major findings of the studies is that in most cases the overall pace of change was slow. Factors retarding change include speaker evaluation and repurposing outgoing features in particular for certain styles and registers.
MetaNet
Sept 2018
Book
The papers in this collection document the work of the first research project on metaphor that incorporates the findings of Frame Semantics Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Construction Grammar with Corpus Linguistics techniques for the analysis of linguistic expressions of metaphor in very large natural language corpora. Under severe constraints the MetaNet project based at the International Computer Science Institute designed and populated a sophisticated and accessible repository of conceptual metaphors developed a formalization for Conceptual Metaphor Theory and created tools and techniques for the automatic identification and analysis of the linguistic expression of metaphor. For those interested in metaphor be that from a linguistic literary poetic cognitive or computational perspective this book is a must-read. Originally published in Constructions and Frames 8:2 (2016).
Learning to Read in a Digital World
Aug 2018
Book
With digital screens becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the lives of children from their homes to their classrooms understanding the influence of these technologies on the ways children read takes on great importance. The aim of this edited volume is to examine how advances in technology are shaping children’s reading skills and development. The chapters in this volume explore the influence of various aspects of digital texts the child’s cognitive and motivational skills and the child’s environment on reading development in digital contexts. Each chapter draws upon the expertise of scientists and researchers across countries and disciplines to review what is currently known about the influence of technology on reading how it is studied and to offer new insights and research directions based on recent work.
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Aug 2018
Book
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena from the history of core arguments to complements and non-finite clauses elements in the clause periphery as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another however they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so they show that historical syntax and historical linguistics in general is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14 : Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY
Aug 2018
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This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY) New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism historical linguistics morphology phonology semantics sociolinguistics and syntax can be found in its pages. This collection will be of interest to Romance linguists and general linguists as well.
Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
Aug 2018
Book
This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into TBLT. The TBLT-pragmatics connection is illustrated in a variety of constructs (e.g. speech acts honorifics genres interactional features) methods (e.g. quantitative quasi-experimental conversation analysis) and topics (e.g. instructed SLA heritage language learning technology-enhanced teaching assessment and discursive pragmatics). Chapters in this volume collectively demonstrate how the two fields can together advance the current practice of teaching language for socially-situated real-world communicative needs.
Complement Clauses in Portuguese : Syntax and acquisition
Aug 2018
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This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses focusing on Portuguese (European Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge about the topic. The articles are organized in two sections each one followed by a comment paper: the first section more theoretical in its nature gathers contributions analyzing major syntactic aspects of complementation in Portuguese from a synchronic and a diachronic point of view; the second section includes articles on L1 and L2 acquisition of Portuguese complementation. Both sections especially focus on infinitival structures; mood selection and the interpretation of subjects in finite complement clauses are also topics of particular relevance. The volume is meant for researchers and students interested in formal syntax and acquisition in general and Portuguese syntax and acquisition in particular.
Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages
Aug 2018
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This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of verbal predication; on the other it provides a wealth of new data and analyses of Amazonian languages which are still poorly represented in existing typologies. Several contributions offer historical insights either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar. The introduction provides a modern typological overview and also proposes a new diachronic typology to explain how distinct types of nonverbal predication arise.
Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality : Crosslinguistic perspectives
Aug 2018
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After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense aspect modality and evidentiality this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the evolution of TAM systems through quantitative methods while others carry out a collostructional analysis of past-tensed verbs using inferential statistics to explore the lexical grammar of verbs. A common goal is to uncover semantic regularities and variation in the TAM systems of the languages under study by taking a close look at context. Such a fine-grained approach contributes to our understanding of the TAM systems from a typological perspective. The focus on well-known Indo-European languages (e.g. French German English Spanish) and also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian Estonian Avar Andi Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.
Persuasion in Public Discourse : Cognitive and functional perspectives
Aug 2018
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This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of cognitive and functional linguistics. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses of authentic data (including English Czech Spanish Slovene Russian and Hungarian) are grounded in the frameworks of functional grammar facework and rapport management classical rhetoric studies and multimodal discourse analysis and are linked to the constructs of (re)framing conceptual metaphor and blending mental space and viewpoint. In addition to traditional genres such as political speeches news reporting and advertising the book also studies texts that examine book reviews medieval medical recipes public complaints or anonymous viral videos. Apart from discourse analysts pragmaticians and cognitive linguists this book will appeal to cognitive musicologists semioticians historical linguists and scholars of related disciplines.
Assessing L2 Listening : Moving towards authenticity
Aug 2018
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This book is relevant for language testers listening researchers and oral proficiency teachers in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs; the use of audio-visual texts; and assessing listening as part of an interactive speaking/listening construct. Each theme is introduced with a review of the relevant literature and then is examined through either two or three empirical studies. The notion of authenticity underlies each of these four themes. By creating more authentic test tasks that are similar to real world language tasks test developers can create listening assessments that not only more effectively assess test takers’ communicative competence but can also have a positive washback effect on educational systems.
Applying Cognitive Linguistics : Figurative language in use, constructions and typology
Aug 2018
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In recent years Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented studies – analyses of figurative language (both metaphor and metonymy) in use constructions and typology – and present high-quality research papers that illustrate best practices in the research foci identified and their application to different fields including intercultural communication the psychology of emotions second and first language acquisition discourse analysis and translation studies. It is also shown how different methodologies –the use of linguistic corpora psycholinguistic experiments or discourse analytic procedures– can shed some light on the basic premises of CL as well as providing insights into how CL can be applied in real world contexts. Finally all the studies included in the volume are based on empirical data and there are some analyses of languages other than English (Japanese Russian Spanish Danish German and Polish) thus overcoming the contentions that CL-theoretically-based research is often based on linguistic intuition and focused only on the English language.
We hope that the present volume will not only contribute to a better understanding of how CL can be applied but that it will also help to encourage even further more robust empirical research in this field.
Originally published as a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016).
We hope that the present volume will not only contribute to a better understanding of how CL can be applied but that it will also help to encourage even further more robust empirical research in this field.
Originally published as a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016).
Exploring the Situational Interface of Translation and Cognition
Aug 2018
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The contributions of this volume explore the dynamics of the interface between the cognitive and situational levels in translation and interpreting. Until relatively recently there has been an invisible line in translation and interpreting studies between cognitive research (e.g. into mental processes or attitudes) and sociological research (e.g. concerning organization status or institutions). However rapid developments in translation and interpreting practices (professional non-professional) have brought to the fore the need to rethink theoretical perspectives and to apply new research methods. The chapters in this volume aim to contribute to this discussion through conceptual and/or empirical research. Drawing on different theoretical and methodological frameworks they offer insights into diverse translation and interpreting situations in a number of different countries and cultures and their consequences for individual and collective cognition. Originally published as special issue of Translation Spaces 5:1 (2016).
Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages : Studies in prosody and syntax
Aug 2018
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The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely if ever taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory and which belong to the Afroasiatic Amerindian Australian Caucasian and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.
Semantics in Language Acquisition
Aug 2018
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This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface and the relation between logical content and inferences on language meaning (semantics and pragmatics) the papers in this volume introduce the reader to the variety of ways in which children come to realize that semantic content is encoded in word meaning (for example in the event semantics of the verbal domain or the scope of logical operators) and at the level of the sentence which requires the composition of semantic meaning. The authors represent some of the most established and promising researchers in this domain demonstrating collective expertise in a range of methodologies and topics relevant to the acquisition of semantics. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for students and faculty and junior and seasoned researchers alike.
Essays on Linguistic Realism
Jul 2018
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This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism this approach distinguishes between use of language knowledge of language and language as such. The latter is conceived as part of the realm of abstract objects. The authors show how adopting Linguistic Realism overcomes entrenched problems with other frameworks and suggest that Linguistic Realism will best serve those interested in formal linguistics the cognitive dimension of natural language and linguistic philosophy. The essays offer different perspectives on Linguistic Realism either supporting this paradigm or taking it as a starting point for developing modified conceptions of linguistics and for further tying linguistics to the kind of formal theories of sensory cognition that were pioneered in visual perception by David Marr—whose work is predicated on exactly the object/knowledge distinction made by Linguistic Realists.
Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish : Explorations across genres
Jul 2018
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Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish. Adopting a discursive perspective all of the chapters examine how the functional category of evidentiality is brought into discourse which set of linguistic strategies evidentiality makes explicit what counts as evidence in certain contexts and in certain textual genres and what particular pragmatic meanings these mechanisms acquire invoke and project onto the on-going discourse. In particular this book is concerned with the relationship between evidential expressions and the pragmatic meaning(s) triggered by those expressions and the role of genre in shaping the evidential meanings. The volume is addressed to both theoretically and empirically minded scholars in the disciplines of Pragmatics Discourse Analysis Sociolinguistics Communication Studies and Psychology.
The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline : Personal - group - collective
Jul 2018
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This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human identity each of which can be thought of as an aggregative abstraction with its own complexities: personal identity group identity and collective identity. The contributions pay special attention to the interplay between the public and private dimensions of the interactions and audiences as well as the potential impact of social and technical affordances of different communicative settings and online and offline modes of identity construction. The volume is aimed at all researchers concerned with the complex notion of identity both in linguistics and in neighbouring disciplines.
Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes
Jul 2018
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At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In this endeavour this volume unveils the many facets of linguistic innovations in non-native English varieties and explores the fine line between learners’ erroneous versus creative use of a target language. Adopting empirical corpus-based approaches to portray linguistic innovations characteristic of EFL and ESL varieties the contributions show how the interaction of linguistic and social forces influences the development of novel linguistic forms in both endonormative ESL contexts and exonormative EFL contexts. This volume is of relevance to linguists who are interested in the features of non-native English and who wish to gain a better understanding of the nature of innovations along the EFL – ESL continuum.Originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpora Research 2:2 (2016).
Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation : Speech acts and address forms in context
Jul 2018
Book
On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference. Variational pragmatics is the study of such uses according to region gender age ethnicity and socioeconomic status among national and sub-national varieties of pluricentric languages. Despite the wide focus just outlined this volume provides the first study of pragmatic variation across different social classes using naturally occurring interactional data. The discourse analyzed here was collected in over twenty restaurant service encounters spanning three price points. The aim of this study is two-fold: to provide a potential framework for how pragmatic variables and their context can be defined using the concept of a communicative activity and to investigate socioeconomic variation in pragmatics by taking offers thanks responses and address forms as examples. This study contributes both on a methodological and empirical level to the growing body of research in variational pragmatics as well as speech acts terms of address relational work and sociolinguistics.
Evidence for Evidentiality
Jul 2018
Book
Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception inference from other information ‘hearsay’ etc. Such expressions grammatical or lexical have been studied in recent years under the cover term of evidentiality research. The present volume contributes 11 new studies to this flourishing field all exploring evidential phenomena in a range of languages (Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Khalkha Mongolian Spanish Tibetan Yurakaré) using a variety of methodologies. Evidential meaning is discussed in relation to other semantic dimensions such as epistemic modality semantic roles commitment quotative meaning and tense. The volume is of interest to scholars and students who are interested in up-to-date methods and frameworks for studying evidential meaning and the various ways it is expressed in the languages of the world.
Compliments and Positive Assessments : Sequential organization in multi-party conversations
Jul 2018
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Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics. The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context considering compliment form as part of a Positive Remark continuum with the respective Response Strategy uttered in response. Analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively in multi-party conversations of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English the sequences suggest a connection between the address and reference terms in the Positive Remarks and the strategies chosen as a response.
Constructicography : Constructicon development across languages
Jul 2018
Book
In constructionist theory a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of constructions”. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically means combining principles of both construction grammar and lexicography and is probably best characterized as a blend between the two traditions. We call this blend constructicography.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The present volume is a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of constructicography. After a general introduction follow six chapters presenting constructicon projects for English German Japanese Brazilian Portuguese Russian and Swedish respectively often in relation to a framenet of the language. In addition there is a chapter addressing the interplay between linguistics and language technology in constructicon development and a final chapter exploring the prospects for interlingual constructicography.<br/>This is the first major publication devoted to constructicon development and it should be particularly relevant for those interested in construction grammar frame semantics lexicography the relation between grammar and lexicon or linguistically informed language technology.
Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
Jul 2018
Book
The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social ‘labels’ and attitudes (conservative religious ideological endearing or other) thereby focusing on their dynamic and historical dimension. Changes in these are analyzed in order to explain morphological lexical and textual changes that would otherwise be hard to account for. Together they provide a varied window on the effect of historical versions of a dynamic society on lexis and text. Examining lexical and textual change in history from a sociocultural perspective teaches us a great deal – not just about the past but it also makes us think about similar phenomena in the present enhancing our knowledge about how universally human some of these phenomena are. This volume will be of great interest to (English) historical linguists sociolinguists and scholars of sociohistorical and cultural studies.
Between Turn and Sequence : Turn-initial particles across languages
Jul 2018
Book
The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in what are variously termed discourse markers or discourse particles. The greatest area of growth has centered on particles that occur in sentence-initial or turn-initial position and this interest intersects with a long-standing focus in Conversation Analysis on turn-taking and turn-construction. This volume brings together conversation analytic studies of turn-initial particles in interactions in fourteen languages geographically widely distributed (Europe America Asia and Australia). The contributions show the significance of turn-initial particles in three key areas of turn and sequence organization: (i) the management of departures from expected next actions (ii) the projection of the speaker's epistemic stance and (iii) the management of overall activities implemented across sequences. Taken together the papers demonstrate the crucial importance of the positioning of particles within turns and sequences for the projection and management of social actions and for relationships between speakers.
Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
Jul 2018
Book
The correct interpretation of Multiword Units (MWUs) is crucial to many applications in Natural Language Processing but is a challenging and complex task. In recent years the computational treatment of MWUs has received considerable attention but there is much more to be done before we can claim that NLP and Machine Translation (MT) systems process MWUs successfully. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This volume provides a general overview of the field with particular reference to Machine Translation and Translation Technology and focuses on languages such as English Basque French Romanian German Dutch and Croatian among others. The chapters of the volume illustrate a variety of topics that address this challenge such as the use of rule-based approaches compound splitting techniques MWU identification methodologies in multilingual applications and MWU alignment issues.
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
Jul 2018
Book
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies however are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology historical linguistics and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community but also historical linguists cognitive linguists and psycholinguists.
Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences : Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages
Jul 2018
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This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese Japanese and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer. Distinctively broad in scope topics addressed in this volume include word reading with respect to orthographic phonological morphological and semantic processing as well as cross-linguistic influences on reading in English as a second language or a foreign language. Given that the three focal scripts have unique orthographic features not found in other languages – Chinese as logography Japanese with multi-scripts and Korean as non-Roman alphasyllabary – chapters expound script-universal and script-specific reading processes. As a means of scaling up the body of knowledge traditionally focused on Anglocentric reading research the scientific accounts articulated in this volume importantly expand the field’s current theoretical frameworks of word processing to theory building with regard to these three languages.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13 : Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 29, Nijmegen
Jul 2018
Book
In the three decades of its existence the annual Going Romance conference has turned out to be the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current theoretical ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are exchanged. The twenty-ninth Going Romance conference was organized by the Radboud University and took place in December 2015 in Nijmegen. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The present volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed articles dealing with syntax phonology morphology semantics and acquisition of the Romance languages. They represent the wide range of topics at the conference and the variety of research carried out on Romance languages within theoretical linguistics and will be of interest to scholars in Romance and in general linguistics.
Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax
Jul 2018
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This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the (Ibero-)Romance languages and diverse in terms of the approaches considered ranging from cognitive-functionalist to generativist to variationist they combine in this volume to showcase the merits of different yet complementary perspectives in understanding linguistic variation and language change. The gamut of phenomena scrutinised varies from morpho-phonological puzzles and word-formation to syntax and interface-related phenomena to as a coda methodological suggestions for future research in old Ibero-Romance; thus making it ideal reading for scholars and postgraduate students alike.
Positioning the Self and Others : Linguistic perspectives
Jul 2018
Book
Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on address terms pragmatic markers code switching/choice and orthography the indexicalities of which are explored in different communicative activities. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume is unusual in: i) the range of languages which are covered: Bergamasco Brazilian Portuguese English Finnish French Georgian Greek Italian Latin Russian Spanish and Swedish; ii) the inclusion of different communicative settings and text-types: workplace emails everyday and institutional conversations interviews migrant narratives radio phone-ins dyadic and group settings road-signs service encounters; iii) its consideration of both synchronic and diachronic factors; iv) its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches.<br/>The volume illustrates some of the linguistic means speakers draw on to position themselves and others and hopes to stimulate further research studies in this vein.
Arabic in Contact
Jul 2018
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The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change the emergence of contact languages codeswitching as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics sociolinguistics ethnolinguistics and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>As of January 2023 this e-book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge : Sources, concepts, effects
Jun 2018
Book
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge is the first attempt to map the coming into being of modern thinking about translation. It breaks with the well-established tradition of viewing history through the reductive lens of schools theories turns or interdisciplinary exchanges. It also challenges the artificial distinction between past and present and it sustains that the latter’s historical roots go back far beyond the 1970s. Translation Studies is but part of a broader set of discourses on translation we propose to label “translation knowledge”. This book concentrates on seven processes that make up the history of modern translation knowledge: generating mapping internationalising historicising analysing disseminating and applying knowledge. All processes are covered by 58 domain experts and allocated over 55 chapters with cross-references. This book is indispensable reading for advanced Master- and PhD-students in Translation Studies who need background information on the history of their field with relevance for Europe the Americas and large parts of Asia. It will also interest students and scholars working in cultural and social history.
The Noun Phrase in English : Past and present
Jun 2018
Book
Building on a substantial earlier literature the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data with the two often shedding light on each other in a process of mutual illumination. The topics addressed are: the structure of nounless NPs like the poor and the obvious; the article/zero alternation in expressions like go to (the) church; developments in the early history of adjective stacking; the semantics of N + clause units in present-day English; the history of N + BE + clause constructions; and the decline of two anaphoric NPs in Early Modern English. The volume will appeal to scholars working in this area and will also help those interested in the general field of English grammar to keep abreast of recent methods and results in NP-related work.
Audiovisual Translation : Theoretical and methodological challenges
Jun 2018
Book
The exponential growth of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) in the last three decades has consolidated its place as an area of study within Translation Studies (TS). However AVT is still a young domain currently exploring a number of different lines of inquiry without a specific methodological and theoretical framework.
This volume discusses the advantages and drawbacks of ten approaches to AVT and highlights the potential avenues opened up by new methods. Our aim is to jumpstart the discussion on the (in)adequacy of the methodologies imported from other disciplines and the need (or not) for a conceptual apparatus and framework of analysis specific to AVT.
This collective work relates to recent edited volumes that seek to take stock on research in AVT but it distinguishes itself from those publications by promoting links in what is now a very fragmented field. Originally published as a special issue of Target 28:2 (2016).
This volume discusses the advantages and drawbacks of ten approaches to AVT and highlights the potential avenues opened up by new methods. Our aim is to jumpstart the discussion on the (in)adequacy of the methodologies imported from other disciplines and the need (or not) for a conceptual apparatus and framework of analysis specific to AVT.
This collective work relates to recent edited volumes that seek to take stock on research in AVT but it distinguishes itself from those publications by promoting links in what is now a very fragmented field. Originally published as a special issue of Target 28:2 (2016).
Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation
Jun 2018
Book
The coming of age of audiovisual translation studies has brought about a much-needed surge of studies focusing on the audience their comprehension appreciation or rejection of what reaches them through the medium of translation. Although complex to perform studies on the reception of translated audiovisual texts offer a uniquely thorough picture of the life and afterlife of these texts. This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of reception studies related to audiovisual translation and accessibility from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Focusing on all audiovisual translation techniques and encompassing theoretical and methodological approaches from translation media and film studies it aims to become a reference for students and scholars across these fields.
Event Structure Metaphors through the Body : Translation from English to American Sign Language
Jun 2018
Book
How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who work from English to American Sign Language (ASL). It describes how Event Structure Metaphors are handled across languages of two different modalities. Through the use of corpus-based evidence several specific questions are addressed: are the main branches of Event Structure Metaphors – the Location and Object branches – exhibited in ASL? Are these two branches adequate to explain the event-related linguistic metaphors identified in the translation corpus? To what extent do translators maintain shift add and omit expressions of these metaphors? While answering these specific questions this book makes a significant elaboration to the two-branch theory of Event Structure Metaphors. It raises larger questions of how bilinguals handle competing conceptualizations of events and contributes to emerging interest in how body specificity linguistic modes and cultural context affect metaphoric variability.
Dialogic Ethics
Jun 2018
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Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local regional national and international disputes each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication ethics understood as an answer to problems often creates them. If we understand communication ethics as a good protected and promoted by a given set of communicators we can understand how acts of colonialism and totalitarianism could move forward legitimized by the assumption that “I am right.” This volume eschews such a presupposition recognizing that we live in a time of narrative and virtue contention. We dwell in an era where the one answer is more often dangerous than correct.
The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse
Jun 2018
Book
This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the exchanges they are engaged in are problematic in terms of the vulnerability of their own and/or each other’s face and the role-identities assumed throughout the interactions.
The volume contributors examine a range of activities. In some of these an orientation to interpersonal sensitivity is expected such as citizens’ encounters with traffic police officers negotiations with a line manager political news interviews or public inquiries. Other types of activity such as service calls or guided tours involve no such expectations in and of themselves. In some cases the situated vulnerabilities studied here whether expected or not lead to deviation from the expected trajectory of the communicative event with implications for goal achievement.
The collection of papers draws on diverse analytic perspectives. These include interactional discourse analysis interactional linguistics and conversation analysis. The diversity of languages and institutional environments examined will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in face-to-face interaction and serve to stimulate debate in the field of pragmatics and beyond.
Originally published as special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016).
The volume contributors examine a range of activities. In some of these an orientation to interpersonal sensitivity is expected such as citizens’ encounters with traffic police officers negotiations with a line manager political news interviews or public inquiries. Other types of activity such as service calls or guided tours involve no such expectations in and of themselves. In some cases the situated vulnerabilities studied here whether expected or not lead to deviation from the expected trajectory of the communicative event with implications for goal achievement.
The collection of papers draws on diverse analytic perspectives. These include interactional discourse analysis interactional linguistics and conversation analysis. The diversity of languages and institutional environments examined will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in face-to-face interaction and serve to stimulate debate in the field of pragmatics and beyond.
Originally published as special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016).