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This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs. The first half of the monograph deconstructs the most relevant approaches to modal categories and shows how the traditional concept of modality is a problematic notion how it relates to other concepts such as evidentiality and mitigation and how it ought to be conceived of in order to become a more useful instrument for linguistic analysis. A new way of understanding modality is explored and illustrated through Galician examples. The second half of the book zooms in on six epistemic adverbs which are exhaustively studied from both a formal and a functional perspective. Combining a quantitative and a qualitative perspective the book shows that adverbs make up a rich semantic scale and establishes several factors that condition their occurrence in discourse challenging previous conceptions of this grammatical domain.

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English including efforts to prescribe and regulate language in texts that share specific forms functions and audiences. They feature both quantitative and qualitative analyses of changing language use often in relation to trends of language advice in such metalinguistic works as grammars spelling books and usage guides. The authors showcase work on pragmatics and prescriptivism (understatement between Middle and Late Modern English capitalization of common nouns from Early to Late Modern English and the use of stigmatized grammatical variants in eighteenth-century plays) specific text types (case studies of political legal and medical English) and the language of late modern letters (diachronic stylistic changes letter-copying practices the role of letter-writing manuals and changing spelling practices). This volume will be of interest to those working on pragmatics prescriptivism and sociolinguistics of English historical linguistics language change computational historical linguistics and related sub-disciplines.

Die Rezeption der Texte von Aristoteles in verschiedenen Welten hat zu Umformungen geführt von denen manche noch heute als Meinung des Aristoteles selbst behauptet werden. Wenn es möglich ist diese aus verschiedenen Welten herkommenden Umgestaltungen ausdrücklich zu machen können sie methodisch ausgeschaltet werden. Beispiele solcher Sedimente der Rezeption betreffen zentrale Themen beispielsweise dass Aristoteles eine Substanz-Metaphysik entwickelt habe aus welcher letztlich eine theologische Ausrichtung oder mindestens ein theologischer Höhepunkt folge. Dass dies eine der Wirkungen der durch verschiedene pseudo-aristotelische Texte bestimmten Rezeption ist wird heute kaum mehr wahrgenommen weil die moderne Lektüre des Corpus Aristotelicum schon entsprechend gesteuert ist.

Die vorliegende Studie versucht an Hand der Kommentare von Albertus Magnus und von Thomas von Aquin zu Metaphysik XII diese Wirkung der Rezeption zu belegen. Ein Nebenprodukt der Arbeit besteht in der Einsicht in den Paradigmenwechsel in der Theologie bei den zwei Genannten.

The reception of Aristotle’s texts in different worlds has led to transformations some of which are still claimed today as the opinions of Aristotle himself. If it is possible to make these transformations coming from different worlds explicit they can be methodically eliminated. Examples of such reception sediments concern central themes for example that Aristotle developed a metaphysics of substance from which a theological orientation or at least a theological climax ultimately follows. The fact that this is one of the effects of the reception determined by various pseudo-Aristotelian texts is hardly noticed today because the modern reading of the Corpus Aristotelicum is already steered accordingly.

The present study attempts to demonstrate this effect of reception using the commentaries of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics XII. A by-product of the work is the insight into the paradigm shift in theology among the two mentioned.

This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are defined. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>In this monograph the reader will find a detailed empirical description of suffixes for gender mereological properties of nouns scalar properties of adjectives and a variety of nominal suffixes expressing actions measures or locations as well as an integral Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic structure of the resulting formations. Framed within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework this book sheds light on the nature of lexical categories and the components of the low syntactic structure of nouns and adjectives. The book will be useful both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoretical morphology and to advanced students of Spanish interested in learning more about the expressive devices that nouns and adjectives allow.<br/>

The chapters in this volume study the construction representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective and show how positioning the self and other varies what kind of reference choices language users make and what follows from these choices. The data come from a variety of public texts private encounters and questionnaires and the methodologies range from macro to micro perspectives including combinations of qualitative close-reading and quantitative corpus methods and synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The findings enhance our understanding and use of reference practices in the context of global institutional political and multicultural as well as media texts.

This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics of Africa has yet been published. This volume seeks to fill this gap. The chapters address a broad range of topics in anthropological linguistics including classic themes such as spatial reference color kin terms and emotion as well as emerging interests in the linguistic expression of personhood sociality and language ideology. All contributions are based on original empirical research and present insights into African language practices from a sociocultural perspective. The volume showcases research on dozens of African languages spoken across the continent with particular emphasis on languages of East Africa. This book will be of interest to areal specialists as well as to anthropological linguists worldwide.

This e-book is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Pantomime is a unique form of communication which we improvise “on the fly” to transmit information when unable to use language for example during intercultural contacts or when the use of language is blocked or constrained as in the case of some medical conditions or the game of charades. Pantomimic communication has been investigated from a number of perspectives including neuropsychological developmental and gesture research. Recently pantomime has come under the attention of evolutionary linguistics as a strong candidate for a precursor of verbal communication. The volume Perspectives on pantomime: evolution development interaction brings together authors who are at the forefront of these studies which challenge the notion that pantomime is merely a fallback mode of expression. This multidisciplinary journey traverses language evolution cognitive science cognitive semiotics sign language linguistics psychology and gesture studies to unveil the profound role that pantomime plays in human communication.

Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference” these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD which has its own corresponding frames of reference. The aim of relating and unifying these concepts and their expression across languages constitutes the unique thrust of the present book which will represent a significant extension of earlier approaches. Among its main conclusions will be that the complete separation of terms for SPACE and TIME is a relatively recent cultural phenomenon rather than just a metaphorical extension of the latter from the former. The book will be of interest to all students and practitioners of Linguistics in particular Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic typology but also to a more general readership interested in the historical evolution of concepts of SPACE and TIME.

Research methodology plays a pivotal role in generating new knowledge in any academic discipline. Applied Linguistics (AL) researchers use a variety of research methodologies to address different research problems and research questions given its interdisciplinary nature. Notwithstanding the plethora of research methodologies used by AL researchers there are some methodologies that are used less frequently. The aim of this volume is to introduce and discuss these less frequently used methodologies. Each methodology is discussed in two chapters a theoretical and a practical chapter. In the theoretical chapters the theoretical foundations methodological orientation ethical issues and critiques and responses are discussed. In the practical chapters a showcase study is presented and discussed including why the methodology was used how it was implemented the challenges the researchers faced and the insights they gained. The volume contributes to the current methodological discussion in AL and provides early-career and seasoned researchers with the necessary discussion about these methodological orientations. Future AL researchers may use these methodologies to investigate research questions in their areas of interest. In addition the volume can complement current methodological resources in postgraduate research methodology courses.

Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news) public policy mismanagement deceptive online and offline communication tactics and conspiracy narratives which end up disrupting community social cohesion. In addition to targeting manipulation-driven dissent across discourse genres through corpus-based investigations a major strength of this volume consists in debunking manipulation while foregrounding compelling acts of counter-manipulation. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume’s breadth of topics depth of analytical insights and range of methodological frameworks provide unique perspectives by capturing crisis-related manipulations across a worldwide political and cultural spectrum (Austria Brazil China the Czech Republic Portugal Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States) with a focus on the scale and extent of multifaceted repercussions. Reaching beyond the boundaries of pragmatics and discourse analysis this book should be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners of rhetoric argumentation media studies social and political sciences.