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Language Change in the 20th Century : Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages
Jan 2024
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Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages including Spanish Italian French and Portuguese the book advocates for the adoption of innovative methodologies to enhance the nuanced retrieval of research data: the use of speaker’s attitudes questionnaires apparent time constructions and S-curves. Additionally new materials are addressed as diachronic data sources: mass-media recordings from radio and TV colloquial conversations and sociolinguistic corpora. Results focus on the evolution of discourse markers address terms as well as on the influence of specific processes such as colloquialization or external mechanisms on the language changes developed during this period. In sum the 20th century is presented in this book as a new strand in diachronic studies rather than another time span.
Beyond Disfluency : The interplay of speech, gesture, and interaction
Jan 2024
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This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency evaluating fluency across three different dimensions mainly speech gesture and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English the present research goes beyond traditional production-oriented models of so-called ‘disfluency’ phenomena and aims to unravel the complexities of human multimodal production and interactive processes. Designed for linguists communication scholars and researchers this work resonates with the latest trends in different fields (Second Language Acquisition Interactional Linguistics and Gesture studies). It introduces a fresh perspective on disfluency by integrating visual-gestural features such as hand gestures gaze and facial expressions captured in situated interaction.