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While we tend to divide the world into Us and Them a number of grey nuances exist beyond this white and black distinction. The purpose of this book is to address the fuzzy areas between Us and Them through the study of European belonging as it is represented in the French elite daily Le Monde. Corpora collected from 2014 to 2017 are used for case studies in the framework of Discourse Analysis to look at the use of “Europe” in headlines and the representation of the United Kingdom Poland Hungary Romania Ukraine Belarus and Turkey. The combination of these case studies allows to present a conceptual framework for the representation of Europe by Le Monde. However beyond the study of what belonging to Europe means for Le Monde this book is about the legitimacy of being “in-between” i.e. belonging neither totally to Us nor to Them.

This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese Dalabon English French Spanish Romanian Kurdish Khmer Polish Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view namely argument structure lexical semantics and event structure role marking in the three argument construction and in other constructions lexicalization grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar point of view and central and extended meanings. It is proposed that a continuum approach to grammar and lexicon is needed in order to describe the typological and historical facts. The volume argues for a concrete and abstract transfer ‘cluster model’ involving coverage of lexical and grammatical extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic extensions (metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various portions of this schema. The volume is deeply anchored in the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical movement and proposes analyses of constructional phenomena to illustrate a grammar to lexicon continuum in synchrony and diachrony: language change grammaticalization chains constructionalization analysis and an invariant hypothesis of giving as a basic activity in human cognition.

OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages. The collected work showcases the importance of a holistic analysis: prosodic realization and the placement of OKAY in its larger sequential and multimodal context emerge as constitutive for distinct uses in individual languages. An inductive approach makes it possible to identify practices not previously documented for example OKAY used for ‘qualified acceptance’ or as a ‘continuer’ and to document a core of recurrent similar uses across languages. This work also outlines new research directions for comparative analysis by offering first insights into the diachronic development of OKAY’s uses and the relationship of OKAY to other particles in specific languages.

The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual such as those found in global companies and institutions. It describes the needs of large corporations and how those needs demand a new pragmatic approach to terminology management. The repurposability of terminology resources is a fundamental criterion that motivates the design selection and use of terminology management tools and has a bearing on the definition of termhood itself. The Corporate Terminologist describes and critiques the theories and methods informing terminology management today and practical considerations such as preparing an executive proposal designing a termbase and extracting terms from corpora are also covered. This book is intended for readers tasked with managing terminology in today’s challenging production environments for those studying translation and business communication and indeed for anyone interested in terminology as a discipline and practice.

Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation recognition of intentions and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and principled human adaptability in interaction form and meaning. Working on different strands of such a socially oriented pragmatics the authors gathered in this volume study the adaptability of language as shaped by the conditions of society culture and cognition. Grouped in four sections the book’s chapters explore the embedding of adaptability in language ideology text communicative practice and learning. Adopting these various perspectives the authors gauge how language users navigate the different layers of societal cognitive and communicative constraints while adapting their communicative practices language ideologies and technologies of interaction to their everyday living conditions.

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on singular address pronouns tu voi and lei. It offers a thorough examination of distance and power dynamics between waiters and customers in a wide range of restaurant types. This book marks the introduction of Italian to the field of regional pragmatic variation and it will be of interest to linguists Italianists and researchers more broadly working on service encounters. The author offers a new dimension to the understanding of social interaction and language use in contemporary Italy uncovering cultural and linguistic differences between even adjacent geographical areas within a modern European nation state.

This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature of language use the volume explores diverse manifestations of high-level second language Spanish including performance on standardized proficiency assessments acquisition of late-acquired linguistic structures sophisticated language use in context and individual differences. Chapters relate empirical findings to current definitions of advancedness challenging scholars and practitioners to re-consider existing conceptualizations and propose possible directions for future research and teaching with second language speakers of Spanish. By addressing larger issues in the field of second language learning the volume is a valuable reference for language teachers scholars professionals and students with an interest in second language acquisition generally and second language Spanish more specifically.

This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by traditional dialectology. This volume investigates the nature of contested languages the role language ideologies play in the perception of these languages the contribution of academic discourse to the formation and perpetuation of language contestedness and the damage contestedness causes to linguistic communities and ultimately to linguistic diversity. Various situations and degrees of language contestedness are presented and analysed along with theoretical considerations exploring potential roads to recognition and issues in language planning that arise from language contestedness. Addressing the “language vs dialect” question head on the volume opens up new perspectives that are relevant to all students and researchers interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity.

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics combining theoretical approaches with empirical data collection. Overall these chapters address topics concerning language variation and change sound production and perception contact linguistics language teaching language policy and ideologies. The authors urge us as linguists to take a stand on important issues and to continue applying theory to praxis so as to advance the frontiers of research in the field. This edited volume in honor of Professor Terrell A. Morgan is a means of celebrating an amazing friend advisor and human being who has dedicated his career to teaching graduate and undergraduate students performed key research in the field and helped to further pedagogy in the classroom through his textbooks seminars and websites.