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Influencer Discourse : Affective relations and identities
Dec 2024
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The rise of influencers as power-players in the social media landscape is a defining feature of the digital era one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language along with other semiotic modes plays in the construction and communication of influencer selves discourse analytic and pragmatic research on the topic is lagging behind. This volume attempts to fill this void by offering contextually sensitive insights into influencers’ multi-modal communication on a range of platforms. The contributions rework established modes and tools of discourse analysis and pragmatics to shed empirical light on influencer identities and tensions (e.g. doing authenticity vis-à-vis promoting brands). We specifically attend to (a) the interplay between media affordances and communication practices and (b) the co-constructional interactive nature of influencer selves with networked audiences ranging from ‘affect’ to ‘hate’.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>In addition to linguists we hope that the volume will be of interest to scholars and students of social media communication from sociological cultural studies anthropological and/or social psychological perspectives.
Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943
Dec 2024
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The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43 thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen. The document unpublished so far is one-of-a-kind in its pedagogical dimension as it aims to introduce students and now readers to the glossematician’s workshop informally discussing its theoretical framework the operations employed in description and the reasons why such operations were devised via a concrete analysis of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy-tale “The Sweethearts”. Overall the document offers a unique glimpse into the machinery of one of the most epistemologically aware and rigorous theories of language developed in the 20th century.
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE : Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom
Dec 2024
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La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su lugar en el aula de lenguas integrada con los contenidos y destrezas presentes en la enseñanza de idiomas desde la ortografía el léxico y la gramática hasta la pragmática y las actividades comunicativas de la lengua. Este libro incluye además diversas consideraciones sobre metodología de enseñanza evaluación tecnología y factores sociales y afectivos que interactúan con el aprendizaje de la pronunciación del español. Todos los capítulos ofrecen una panorámica de su área de especialidad que contiene la investigación más reciente sobre pronunciación junto con recomendaciones de buenas prácticas docentes para llevar al aula de ELE estableciendo un fructífero puente entre los estudios sobre este tema y la didáctica del español.
This is a collective work by 23 specialists that addresses the teaching of Spanish pronunciation as an additional language from various perspectives to enhance its instruction. The aim is to show that pronunciation belongs in the language classroom integrated with the content and skills present in language teaching from spelling vocabulary and grammar to pragmatics and communicative activities. Furthermore the book includes considerations on teaching methodology assessment technology and social and affective factors that influence the learning of Spanish pronunciation. Each chapter offers an overview of its area of expertise containing the latest research on pronunciation along with recommendations for best teaching practices in the ELE classroom establishing a valuable bridge between studies on this subject and the didactics of Spanish.
This is a collective work by 23 specialists that addresses the teaching of Spanish pronunciation as an additional language from various perspectives to enhance its instruction. The aim is to show that pronunciation belongs in the language classroom integrated with the content and skills present in language teaching from spelling vocabulary and grammar to pragmatics and communicative activities. Furthermore the book includes considerations on teaching methodology assessment technology and social and affective factors that influence the learning of Spanish pronunciation. Each chapter offers an overview of its area of expertise containing the latest research on pronunciation along with recommendations for best teaching practices in the ELE classroom establishing a valuable bridge between studies on this subject and the didactics of Spanish.
Media as Procedures of Communication
Dec 2024
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The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted semiotic procedures that shape and are shaped by communicative practices. The book is structured around this central idea with four main sections.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Part I examines digital environments analyzing the interplay between multimodal approaches and mediality through case studies such as digital learning platforms and Zoom seminars. Part II focuses on journalistic procedures investigating how media shapes political debates and news presentation on platforms like Instagram. Part III delves into embodied processes particularly the role of the body movements and gestures in communication illustrated through analyses of yoga tutorials and family dinner conversations. Part IV combines diverse semiotic and medial resources with studies on historical data interpretation and virtual reality gaming practices. The book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of different media in constituting meaning and shaping social interactions.
Referencias culturales : Retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidad
Dec 2024
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Referencias culturales: retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidad aspira a ser una contribución seria a la problemática de la traducción de culturemas. Este volumen colectivo reune a investigadores con lenguas de trabajo distantes o enraizadas en un tronco común (francés-español inglés-español chino-español ruso-español rumano-francés e italiano-inglés) que basándose en corpus que abarcan géneros tan diversos como la prensa las redes sociales el cine el comic o los repositorios instucionales analizan desde una óptica comparativa y/o traductológica un amplio espectro de estructuras fraseológicas y terminológicas en las que las nociones de lengua y cultura son indisociables y plantean innumerables desafíos al traductor.
This volume aims to be a serious contribution to the issue of translating culture-specific elements. It brings together researchers with distant or related working languages: French-Spanish English-Spanish Chinese-Spanish Russian-Spanish Romanian-French and Italian-English. Based on corpora covering diverse genres such as press social networks cinema comics or institutional repositories they analyze from a comparative and/or translation perspective a wide spectrum of phraseological and terminological structures in which the notions of language and culture are inseparable and pose countless challenges to the translator.
This volume aims to be a serious contribution to the issue of translating culture-specific elements. It brings together researchers with distant or related working languages: French-Spanish English-Spanish Chinese-Spanish Russian-Spanish Romanian-French and Italian-English. Based on corpora covering diverse genres such as press social networks cinema comics or institutional repositories they analyze from a comparative and/or translation perspective a wide spectrum of phraseological and terminological structures in which the notions of language and culture are inseparable and pose countless challenges to the translator.
Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Dec 2024
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This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which it is derived; (ii) derivation obscures the figurative origins of this lexis to varying degrees depending on differing processing strategies; (iii) lexicalisation is determined by Relevance (in Sperber and Wilson’s sense) to the needs of a culture or its powerful interest groups where culture following Norman Fairclough is characterised as an ensemble of recognised action/discourse genres. This volume is distinctive in exploring the relations between grammar and metonymy and providing numerous examples of metaphorical and metonymic lexis as it reflects society's changing needs and (contested) ideologies.
Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces : Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference
Dec 2024
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This volume comprises studies and keynote addresses presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference hosted by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU in Trondheim in 2022. The selection of cutting-edge studies presented covers a wide array of topics within generative linguistics including the acquisition of grammatical features challenges of functional morphology the impact of the native language on subsequently acquired languages and interfaces between linguistic domains. Other chapters address how non-native language processing differs from native processing while the volume also highlights internal and external factors affecting bi- and multilingual development and points to important avenues for further generative research on second language acquisition.
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery : The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions
Dec 2024
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The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century to the present and across regions languages media and genres. The seventeen chapters explore different framings of emotional life in terms of ‘sentiments’ and ‘affects’ and consider how emotions intersect with literary registers and movements such as melodrama and realism. They also examine how writers including some formerly enslaved people sought to activate the feelings of readers notably in the context of abolitionism. In addition to obvious psychological responses to slavery such as fear sorrow and anger they explore minor-key affects such as shame disgust and nostalgia and address the complexity of depicting love and intimacy in situations of domination. Two forthcoming volumes explore the literary history of slavery in relation to memory and to practices of authorship.
History of Linguistics 2021 : Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September
Nov 2024
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This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV). Originally scheduled to be held in Milan in 2020 the conference was postponed and moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Held from August 23-27 2021 it connected scholars from 30 countries across various time zones.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The volume is divided into three parts. The first part devoted to General and Particular Issues in the History of Linguistics recalls classical authors in relation to contemporary ones as well as newly established disciplines and subtle epistemological inquiries. The second part Antiquity mainly investigates the Sanskrit language and various descriptive and didactic studies approached from both ancient and contemporary metalinguistic frameworks. The third part deals with Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Works ranging from the Tamil language to American archives and from experimental phonostylistics to the history of monosemy.
Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship
Nov 2024
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This volume contributes to ongoing discussions of ethics in Applied Linguistics scholarship by focusing in depth on several different sub-areas within the field. The book is comprised of four sections: methodological approaches to research; specific participant populations and contexts of research; (language) pedagogy and policy; and personal and interactive aspects of research and scholarship. Moving beyond discussions of how ethics is conceptualized or defined the chapters in this volume explore ethics-in-practice by examining context-specific ethical challenges and offering guidance for current and future Applied Linguistics scholars. This volume responds to the need to provide context-specific research ethics training for graduate students and novice researchers interested in a variety of contexts and methodological approaches. After engaging with this volume new and experienced applied linguists alike will gain familiarity with specific ethical challenges and practices within particular sub-disciplines relevant to their work and across the field more broadly.
Historical Linguistics 2019 : Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019
Nov 2024
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This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24) which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at the conference with each chapter representative of a workshop or themed session. A striking aspect of ICHL24 was the three-day workshop on computational and quantitative approaches to historical linguistics and two of the chapters represent different aspects of this workshop. A number of chapters present research that explores mechanisms and processes of change within specific domains of language while others explore interactions of change across linguistic domains. Two chapters represent a common theme at the conference and consider the role of historical linguistics in explaining non-linguistic histories of language diversification.
A Construction Grammar of the English Language : CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis
Nov 2024
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The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types tense and aspect argument structure phrases idioms word and morphological constructions. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>In line with its usage-based approach all constructions are discussed using authentic corpus examples. In order to illustrate how constructions can be learnt the book draws on authentic data from child language. Furthermore corpus analysis is used to show which lexical items typically occur in the slots of constructions and make up their ‘collo-profile’.<br/>A key feature of the book is that it develops a systematic method for showing how constructions combine to form actual utterances. For this purpose so-called ‘construction grids’ are developed which contain all the constructions that make up even the most complex sentences and show points of overlap between them. <br/>
Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning
Nov 2024
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This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills such as vocabulary pronunciation and reading while also considering learner factors such as language learning aptitude and proficiency. Two distinctive features of this collective volume are 1) the inclusion of children and teenagers as participants in studies addressing the gap concerning young learners in this line of research and 2) an emphasis on longitudinal studies enhancing the ecological validity of the findings. The studies in this volume also showcase a diverse range of research instruments from eye-tracking to retrospective interviews enriching our comprehension of this innovative research area. A concluding chapter synthesizes these findings linking them to prior research and advancing our understanding of the role of audiovisual input in language acquisition.
English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers : A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions
Nov 2024
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Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study which examines how advanced learners from Czech German and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic phonological discourse-pragmatic and sociolinguistic perspectives - this book provides a comprehensive overview of L2 prosodic features highlighting patterns of intonational phrasing f0 range and the use of tones and uptalk. Building on foundational works by Pierrehumbert Mennen and Gut this work bridges significant gaps in the field by comparing different L1 and L2 varieties integrating diverse linguistic variables and proposing a multifactorial model of L2 prosody. Relevant for linguists language educators and researchers in SLA the findings offer valuable insights for reducing foreign accents and enhancing intelligibility making it an essential resource for improving language teaching methodologies and learner outcomes. Dive into this essential guide and elevate your understanding of L2 prosody and its impact on effective communication.
Investigating Wikipedia : Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis
Nov 2024
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The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users it contains vast spaces of written discussions aka talk pages where Wikipedia authors negotiate the collaborative editing of articles make evaluations or discuss related topics. The proposed volume covers Wikipedia articles their revision histories and discussions with a focus on discussions which have not been studied extensively so far and have also been neglected in previous corpus building efforts. Wikipedia discussions are instances of computer-mediated communication (CMC) thus constituting a completely different interaction-oriented linguistic genre. Sophisticated tools and methods of linguistic annotation and corpus exploration are needed to exploit the huge and valuable corpus resources that can be constructed from the Wikipedia discussions. The present volume aims at encouraging and facilitating Wikipedia corpus studies providing standards recommendations and innovative methods to build and explore Wikipedia corpora and presenting corpus studies that make the most of the peculiarities of Wikipedia.
A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
Nov 2024
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Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields this book charts a comparative history of the literary draft in Europe and beyond. It is organised according to eight categories of comparison distributed over the volume’s two parts devoted respectively to ‘Text’ (i.e. the textual aspects of creative processes) and ‘Beyond Text’ (i.e. aspects of creative processes that are not necessarily textual). Across geographical temporal linguistic generic and media boundaries to name but a few this book uncovers idiosyncrasies and parallels in the surviving traces of human creativity while drawing the reader’s attention to the materiality of literary drafts and the ephemerality of the writing process they capture.
This e-book is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology
Nov 2024
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The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals including translators interpreters terminologists lexicographers language instructors and learners. Computational Phraseology and in particular the computational analysis of multiword expressions (also known as multiword units) has gained prominence in recent years and is essential for a number of Natural Language Processing and Translation Technology applications. The failure to detect these units automatically could result in incorrect and problematic automatic translations and could hinder the performance of applications such as text summarisation and web search. Against this background the volume offers 13 articles carefully selected and organised into two parts: ‘Computational treatment of multiword units’ and ‘Corpus-based and linguistic studies in phraseology‘. The contributions not only highlight the latest advancements in computational and corpus-based phraseology but also reiterate its vital role in all areas of language technologies including basic and applied research.
Persuasion in Specialized Discourse : A multidisciplinary perspective
Nov 2024
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The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts with special regard for those with heightened public resonance: politics media and public debate in general. Furthermore it intends to explore the linguistic aspects of argumentation including both explicit codification with the related issue of indicators and the activation of implicit meanings.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Bringing together different paradigms to account for the relations between contextual factors and discourse realizations the contributions articulate around three foci placing emphasis on one or more of them: the communicative purpose within a given genre or activity type; the argumentative and linguistic features of the investigated discourses among which prototypical patterns argumentative styles and implicit meanings; the assessment of argumentation quality and strategies to cope with illegitimate practices.<br/>
Intonation in Language Contact : The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Nov 2024
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The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish bilinguals this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the intonation of Spanish and Catalan as spoken in Girona with a focus on the speakers’ bilingualism. These contact varieties share numerous intonational properties with differences mainly in the frequency of specific tunes in certain contexts. However they also exhibit significant variation often linked to extralinguistic factors such as the bilinguals’ language dominance. Overall the intonation of these contact varieties results from substratum transfer and wholesale convergence between the prosodic systems of Spanish and Catalan.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book is particularly relevant to scholars researching prosody language contact variation and multilingualism.<br/>
Accesibilidad, traducción y nuevas tecnologías
Nov 2024
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Accesibilidad traducción y nuevas tecnologías es un volumen académico esencial en el que se presentan nueve interesantes artículos escritos por expertos en los campos de la accesibilidad y la traducción. Esta completa colección ofrece análisis académicos rigurosos y perspectivas innovadoras sobre la lectura fácil la accesibilidad lingüística legal los enfoques educativos del subtitulado para el público sordo y con discapacidad auditiva y la intertextualidad en la audiodescripción. Cada artículo ofrece una exploración en profundidad y soluciones prácticas lo que convierte a este volumen en un recurso inestimable para investigadores profesionales y estudiantes preparado para hacer avanzar significativamente el mundo académico y la práctica en estos ámbitos dinámicos e interrelacionados.
This is a scholarly volume featuring nine insightful articles authored by experts in the fields of accessibility and translation. This comprehensive collection offers rigorous academic analyses and innovative perspectives on easy reading legal linguistic accessibility educational approaches to subtitling for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing audiences and intertextuality in audio description. Each article provides in-depth exploration and practical solutions making this volume an invaluable resource for researchers practitioners and students poised to significantly advance academic and practice in these dynamic and interrelated domains.
This is a scholarly volume featuring nine insightful articles authored by experts in the fields of accessibility and translation. This comprehensive collection offers rigorous academic analyses and innovative perspectives on easy reading legal linguistic accessibility educational approaches to subtitling for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing audiences and intertextuality in audio description. Each article provides in-depth exploration and practical solutions making this volume an invaluable resource for researchers practitioners and students poised to significantly advance academic and practice in these dynamic and interrelated domains.
Handbook of Pragmatics : 27th Annual Installment
Oct 2024
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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://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://benjamins.com/online/hop
Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Oct 2024
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Rapid changes in communication channels tools and conventions of interaction over the last two decades have paved the way for increasingly digital learning environments. In second language (L2) education shifts toward digital learning and teaching were intensified during the pandemic and many such formats are here to stay. At the same time a growing interest in socially oriented pedagogies in L2 learning and teaching is prompting many L2 researchers and practitioners to investigate new research areas and explore post-communicative language teaching pedagogies that engage learners more deeply with cultural texts using a range of semiotic and linguistic resources. Digital Social Reading (DSR) is a pedagogical approach that affords technology-mediated collaborative reading where texts are read through a digital platform that allows two or more readers to highlight the same virtual copy of a text and discuss it through a digital interface that affords synchronous or asynchronous margin dialogues anchored in specific passages. This book offers empirical studies demonstrating how DSR can foster–and illuminate–learner interactions that mediate learning and also work that focuses on language teaching perspectives in DSR environments including task design and assessment issues.
Crossing Boundaries through Corpora : Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics
Oct 2024
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This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation how tolerant English language teachers are about language variation or how natural language can be translated into corpus query language. The thematic scope encompasses four types of ‘boundary crossings’. These include the incorporation of innovative scientific methods specifically new statistical techniques acoustic analysis and stylistic investigations. Additionally temporal boundaries are crossed through the use of new methods and corpora to study diachronic data. New methodologies are also explored through the analysis of prosody variety-specific approaches and teacher attitudes. Finally corpus users can cross boundaries by employing a more user-friendly corpus query language.
Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest : Linguistic and pragmatic approaches
Oct 2024
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This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity as well as on their differences and similarities both in synchrony and diachrony and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts which address specific and broader research questions from different perspectives. The former part examines the differences between ambiguity and vagueness from a bird-eye perspective with a particular focus on their respective functions and roles in language change. It also presents innovative linguistic resources and tools for the study of these phenomena. The second part contains case studies on vagueness and ambiguity in language change and use. It considers different strategies and languages including English French German Italian Medieval Latin and Old Italian. The readership for this volume is broad encompassing scholars in a range of disciplines including pragmatics spoken discourse conversation analysis discourse genres (political commercial notarial discourse) corpus studies language change pragmaticalization and language typology.
Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer
Oct 2024
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Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed as did the way in which travel was reported.
Travel as both factual and fictional— with authors and narratives moving between different worlds— is one of the many devices that demonstrate the fluidity of the genre. This fluidity accounts for the manifold and powerful influence of travel writing on processes of cultural transfer. This volume also illustrates that cultural transfer is frequently linked to issues of power colonialism and politics. The various chapters investigate the transmission of other cultures ideas and ideologies to the writer’s own cultural sphere and consider how the processes of cultural transfer interact with the forms and functions of travel writing.
Travel as both factual and fictional— with authors and narratives moving between different worlds— is one of the many devices that demonstrate the fluidity of the genre. This fluidity accounts for the manifold and powerful influence of travel writing on processes of cultural transfer. This volume also illustrates that cultural transfer is frequently linked to issues of power colonialism and politics. The various chapters investigate the transmission of other cultures ideas and ideologies to the writer’s own cultural sphere and consider how the processes of cultural transfer interact with the forms and functions of travel writing.
Ruptured Commons
Oct 2024
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At a time when we have all lived through profound and unexpected disruptions to our shared spaces routines economies societies and work-lives this book considers the nature and implications of rupture the commons and their conjoining. Addressing rupture and disruption through the lens of literary and cultural studies this volume traverses genres — film fiction theatre poetry and the graphic novel — and continents and addresses histories and identities as ecologies. The focus is resolutely contemporary with nearly all of the texts being analyzed produced within the last decade. Beginning with the history of and debates about Garrett Hardin’s famous “tragedy of the commons” Ruptured Commons engages with texts and cultures of disaster wherein artistic expression becomes a form of protest and a path to change. This collection both critically examines our arrival at and understanding of this moment and explores diverse and hopeful visions for the future embedded within contemporary culture.
Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics : Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism
Oct 2024
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This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium the editors track the development of the field in the last quarter century and have organized the volume into three sections (linguistic structure and variation US Spanish and heritage speakers applied linguistics) reflecting current research trends. This edited volume will be a welcome resource for advanced undergraduate students incoming and advanced graduate students and researchers in the field as well as Spanish language educators at all levels.
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Sept 2024
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Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach speech writing and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense narrative. An in-depth comparative analysis reveals previously undiscovered innovative features specific to how character discourse is presented in modern narratives. Notably narrative tenses have an impact on thought presentation; in present-tense narrative Free Direct Thought (FDT) emerges as frequently as Free Indirect Thought (FIT) a departure from the dominance of FIT in modern past-tense narrative. This book will be of interest to stylisticians narratologists corpus linguists and those who have found themselves absorbed in a 21st-century work of present-tense fiction.
Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition : Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll
Sept 2024
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Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The volume pays homage to the scholarly contributions of Susanne E. Carroll delving into the impact she has had on the field of language acquisition. The central themes of input evidence and exposure – found throughout Carroll’s work – are explored in this volume. The contributions cover a range of topics such as the emergence of linguistic theorizing in language acquisition research the acquisition of grammatical gender classroom language learning learning on first exposure asymmetries between developmental trajectories in first and second language acquisition and the effects of grammatical complexity on language development.
Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue : Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools
Sept 2024
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Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children engaging in multifarious activities (conflict gossip play humor task-related activities) that gradually come to constitute the local culture and social organization of their peer group. The book illustrates the multimodal and sequential organization of these mundane peer choreographies describing the resources through which children co-ordinate their social actions in the complex linguistic and socio-material landscape of diverse classrooms. Moving beyond the focus on teacher-led socialization in previous literature the analyses shed light on the relevance of everyday peer practices to the negotiation of children’s social roles and identities and to their overall developmental trajectories in the community. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and addresses scholars from different academic fields including sociology linguistics anthropology social and developmental psychology and education.
The Frequency–Grammar Interface : Rules and regularities in first and second languages
Sept 2024
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Speakers and learners based on memory and experience implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However they also understand through abstract and frequency-independent categories why some combinations are possible and others are not. The frequency-grammar interface (FGI) bridges these two types of information in human cognition. Due to this interface the sediment of statistical calculations over the order distribution and associations of items (the regularities) and the computation over the abstract principles that allow these items to join together (the rules) are brought together in a speaker’s competence feeding into one another and eventually becoming superposed. In this volume it is argued that a specific subset of both first and second language grammar (termed ‘combinatorial grammar’) is both innate and learned. While not derived from language usage combinatorial grammar is continuously recalibrated by usage throughout a speaker’s life. In the domain of combinatorial grammar both generative and usage-based theories are correct each shedding light on just one component of the two that are necessary for any language to function: rules and regularities.
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective
Sept 2024
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Linguistic Literary and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles. This volume explores the intricate connections between language culture and identity across the globe.
An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by Liliana Sikorska and Shin-ichi Morimoto establish the scope and stakes of the book as a whole. Chapters by Eri Ohashi Ruth Karachi Benson Oji Liliane Hodieb Zheng Yang Zhifang Li and Wanwarang Softic investigate cultural diversity in film. Chapters by Mai Hussein Wang Chutong and Darja Zorc Maver offer insights into the linguistic and literary creativity of diasporic and immigrant communities and a new global context for German literature is developed in chapters by Ekaterina Riabykh Muharrem Kaplan and Tomás Espino Barrera.
Appealing to scholars researchers and students this interdisciplinary work sheds light on the complexities of our globalized world. Linguistic Literary and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a valuable addition to the field offering fresh perspectives on language culture and identity.
An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by Liliana Sikorska and Shin-ichi Morimoto establish the scope and stakes of the book as a whole. Chapters by Eri Ohashi Ruth Karachi Benson Oji Liliane Hodieb Zheng Yang Zhifang Li and Wanwarang Softic investigate cultural diversity in film. Chapters by Mai Hussein Wang Chutong and Darja Zorc Maver offer insights into the linguistic and literary creativity of diasporic and immigrant communities and a new global context for German literature is developed in chapters by Ekaterina Riabykh Muharrem Kaplan and Tomás Espino Barrera.
Appealing to scholars researchers and students this interdisciplinary work sheds light on the complexities of our globalized world. Linguistic Literary and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a valuable addition to the field offering fresh perspectives on language culture and identity.
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics : Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis
Sept 2024
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This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics namely the compilation annotation and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data some old issues persist while at the same time new problems have emerged. As the compilation and study of language corpora gets increasingly sophisticated and complex continuous attention on ways of dealing with the data in question and challenges in text selection and interpretation is needed. The contributions to this volume address problems relating to a variety of areas in corpus linguistic study including corpus annotation data variability learner language social media texts and database utilization. The authors provide critical overviews and research-based analyses discuss the nature of some of the common pitfalls and offer solutions to existing problems.
Structures in Discourse : Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions
Aug 2024
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This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety of communication forms from written to spoken to visual in old and new media. It presents a collection of case studies ranging in focus from the micro-level discourse functions of pronouns and emojis to the macro-level structure of online interaction all from their different perspectives drawing inspiration from the notion of text as structure and process. In a world of proliferating media and discourse types the papers collected here reflect the latest scholarship in text and discourse studies highlighting the value of combining multiple approaches and suggesting future directions and possibilities for research.
Structures in Discourse will be of interest to students and researchers in pragmatics discourse analysis media studies and digitally mediated communication.
Structures in Discourse will be of interest to students and researchers in pragmatics discourse analysis media studies and digitally mediated communication.
Transformative Reading
Aug 2024
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Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers literary theorists and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts as one such experience challenge readers and extend their imagination by means of complex or deviating plots. Reading literary narrative fiction helps readers develop imaginary selves in a safe way enhancing their theory of mind. It might also contribute to the development of readers’ interpersonal competencies and foster pro-sociality altruistic behaviour and empathy. This book uses empirical research methods to focus on the processes of literary reading revealing two pathways for the transformative powers of literature. It also reveals how an understanding of these pathways might be beneficial in educational settings – in schools in the workplace and in medical contexts.
Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese : The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans
Aug 2024
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This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their efforts to understand and disseminate knowledge of the Chinese language during this historical period. Ample attention is dedicated to the evolution of Chinese grammars and dictionaries by these authors. Central to the monograph is the manuscript “Marsh 696” which comprises a Chinese-Spanish dictionary and a fragmentary Spanish grammar of Mandarin Chinese a hitherto unknown and unpublished anonymous and undated text entitled Arte de lengua mandarina. This text is probably a fragment of the earliest grammar written by a Westerner of Mandarin Chinese (completed in Manila in c.1641) previously presumed lost. It is presented here as a facsimile a transcription of the Spanish text and an English translation alongside a detailed linguistic analysis. The historical framework outlined in this monograph spans from the predecessors of Francisco Díaz (1606–1646) around 1620 including the Jesuit linguistic production in mainland China and Early Manila Hokkien sources to the era wherein Antonio Díaz (1667–1715) finalized his revised version of Francisco Díaz’s dictionary. The monograph scrutinizes these texts in relation to the linguistic contributions of Francisco Varo (1627–1687). Additionally the monograph incorporates other unpublished texts that are significant for reconstructing the educational curriculum for teaching and learning Chinese by Dominican friars during this period.
Language Acquisition in Romance Languages
Aug 2024
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The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition second language acquisition language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods such as eye-tracking elicitation tasks production tasks administered off-line and untimed transcriptions of spontaneous speech production elicitation Truth Value Judgement tasks standardized tests and multiple choice tasks. The studies included in this book try to cover most of the methods used in first and second language acquisition in typical and atypical populations. This book will be useful for linguists speech therapists and psycholinguists working on first second and impaired language acquisition.
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
Aug 2024
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This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have been more conservative than dialects to their east and west; that the first split in proto-Japanese was the separation of proto-Ryūkyūan; and so on. De Boer brings together evidence from recent fieldwork premodern texts and other sources to establish a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems these assumptions entail. Building on De Boer 2010 this book brings the author’s theory up to date with research published in the interim explains why Japanese is best understood as a restricted tone language and why mergers in the large tone classes of nouns and verbs are especially reliable markers of dialect divergence.
This e-book is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
The COLT Observation Scheme : Digital versions and updated research applications. Second revised edition
Aug 2024
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This volume presents the second edition of the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme. Since the book’s original publication COLT has become well established as a research instrument in L2 teaching and learning. This new edition brings COLT into the 21st century by introducing digital versions of the scheme and describing how advances in technology have made the collection coding analysis and synthesis of classroom data faster and more efficient. Enhancements include the availability of web-based platforms for the coding sharing and storage of data the application of artificial intelligence in the coding of classroom observation data numeric coding systems and ongoing work in the use of automatic speech recognition for faster transcription. The volume has a similar organizational structure to the original COLT book with the addition of a new chapter on Digital COLT (Part A) a new section on Numeric COLT (Part B) and an expanded final chapter that includes updated summaries reporting on the use of COLT for a wide range of research purposes in diverse L2 contexts. As with the first edition the material is presented in a user-friendly manner with examples illustrations and hands-on activities throughout. It is intended for both novice and experienced researchers investigating teaching and learning in L2 classrooms and in teacher education/reflective practice research.
The companion web site with interviews and a video tour can be found at: https://benjamins.com/sites/lllt.60
The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger : Cross-linguistic perspectives
Aug 2024
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This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry. Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic Chinese Danish English German Japanese and Spanish. Focusing on global and local contexts surrounding “living in dangerous times” this book showcases how the new model of cultural pragmatics can be used to illuminate cultural meanings in discourse. Unlike the universalist approaches to pragmatics cultural pragmatics focuses on understanding the linguacultural logics of discourse and in the case of “danger” the multiple cultural logics around which the themes and domains of “danger” revolve. The approach makes use of natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) as its principal analytical tool and concepts such as “cultural keywords” and “cultural scripts” figure prominently as bearers of culture-specific meanings. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book will be of interest to students of pragmatics and discourse studies researchers in cultural and cognitive semantics anthropological linguistics global humanities political rhetoric and environmental studies as well as linguists working in applied areas such as risk and disaster studies crisis and emergency communication.
Variation in University Student Writing : A communicative text type approach
Aug 2024
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This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and Humanities Social Sciences Physical Sciences and Life Sciences) the book combines corpus-based analyses of linguistic features with analyses of communicative purposes and text characteristics. Variation in University Writing takes a new approach to register variation by grouping assignments by their communicative purpose (to argue to explain to compare to describe to narrate a personal event to give a procedural recount to give personal advice and to propose) rather than register categories. A multidimensional analysis provides a detailed description of the linguistic patterns of undergraduate writing. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to teachers of writing instructors of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and researchers of university writing.
New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research
Aug 2024
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This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century it has prospered internationally. Recently however new developments have opened up new perspectives for interactional linguistic research.
IL continues to study the details of talk in social interaction with a focus on linguistic resources and structures of verbal and vocal interaction in bodily-visible interactional settings. Increasingly though it embraces methods supported by new technology and broadens its data and research questions to applications in teaching therapy etc.
The volume comprises three parts with 14 contributions: (1) Studying linguistic resources in social interaction; (2) Studying linguistic resources in embodied social interaction; and (3) Studying social interaction in institutional contexts and involving speakers with specific proficiencies.
This e-book is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
(Non)referentiality in Conversation
Aug 2024
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Although there is a large literature on referentiality going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality through naturalistic data in context. Taking an interactional approach to (non)referentiality contributors to this volume ask how participants talk in real time about persons and things as individuals or as categories and what distinguishes ‘referential’ from ‘nonreferential’ ‘specific’ from ‘nonspecific’ and ‘generic’ from ‘nongeneric’. Crucially we ask whether these distinctions even matter to participants in conversation and if they do what the evidence for that would be. Contributors investigate these issues using data from conversational interaction in a variety of social contexts – including between close friends and family to more casual acquaintances in service encounters and between adults and children – and in a range of languages: English Finnish French Indonesian Japanese and Mandarin. Collectively the chapters develop insights showing that reference is often fluid dynamic and indeterminate that referential indeterminacy is typically unproblematic for participants that shifts in referentiality tend to be tied to specific social goals and that reference and referentiality emerge dialogically and interactionally.
Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness : Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures
Jul 2024
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This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency dispersion association and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then the book makes three main proposals: First that many measures of dispersion association and keyness are too confounded with frequency and how to 'take frequency out of them' to obtain conceptually cleaner and more interpretable measures. Second that many existing measures can be replaced by the simple information-theoretic measure of the Kullback-Leibler divergence and that it too can have frequency 'removed' from it. Third that corpus linguistics should abandon the tradition of trying to describe its findings with a single number and adopt a tupleization approach instead where we use several separate dimensions of information for description and interpretation. The book is written in an informal hands-on style and comes with its own R package featuring functions example data and several thousand lines of code exemplifying all applications.
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond : A millennium heritage
Jul 2024
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The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern Central and Northern Europe Africa the Middle East Asia and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation adaptation and exchange and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality as evidenced in manuscripts maps scientific treatises and iconotexts and its performativity in narrations theatre sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture both early modern and modern such as the legends about King Arthur Faust and Hamlet.
Elementary Predicates and Related Categories
Jul 2024
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This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations by delving into the interplay between oblique cases adpositions serial verbs and applicatives. This book reveals through a series of case studies the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across diverse linguistic contexts. Departing from traditional views that obliques lack interpretive content this work presents a unified conceptual framework of relations in grammar. Drawing on minimalist principles the book posits a preeminence of the lexicon in syntactic projection shedding light on the underlying ontology of language. By exploring cross-categorial variation and syncretism it outlines an inventory of primitives shaping morpho-syntactic derivations.
Textbook English : A multi-dimensional approach
Jul 2024
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This book provides a systematic empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine linguistic variation both within textbooks and compared to corpora representing ‘real-life’ English as used outside the EFL classroom. The results highlight the characteristics of Textbook English that define it as a distinct variety of English. In light of the study's pedagogical implications this book proposes a range of corpus-based approaches to improve the naturalness of textbook texts. It also contributes to advancing quantitative corpus linguistics methodology: its detailed online supplements aim for methodological transparency and reproducibility in line with the principles of Open Science. This book will be of interest to linguistics and language education students and researchers as well as EFL teachers textbook authors and editors and those involved in curriculum development and teacher training.
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings
Jul 2024
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Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings explores an innovative proposal: that linguistic similarities identified in different forms of contact-influenced varieties of language use (including translation native and non-native varieties of English and language use of bilinguals more generally) can be accounted for in a coherent framework grounded in the notion of ‘constrained communication’. These varieties have hitherto been studied in independent scholarly traditions especially translation studies and world Englishes leaving the potential underlying unity underexplored both conceptually and empirically.
The chapters collected in this volume aim to develop such a unified perspective by drawing on corpus data across a range of languages and language varieties with a focus on written language a neglected data source in research on multilingual contact settings. The findings point to shared general characteristics across individual contact settings which result from (probabilistically conditioned) manifestations of the same deeper regularities – constraints – present in diverse language-contact settings.
The chapters collected in this volume aim to develop such a unified perspective by drawing on corpus data across a range of languages and language varieties with a focus on written language a neglected data source in research on multilingual contact settings. The findings point to shared general characteristics across individual contact settings which result from (probabilistically conditioned) manifestations of the same deeper regularities – constraints – present in diverse language-contact settings.
Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor
Jul 2024
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This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of humor and hence to its sociopragmatic analysis. The model is employed for addressing research questions such as the following: Why may an utterance/text be intended and perceived as humorous by some speakers and fail for others? How and why may speakers attempt to regulate language use through humor? Why and how may the same humorous utterance/text engender diverse and contradictory interpretations? How do speakers create social groups and project social identities through humor? How could the sociopragmatic analysis of humor form the basis for teaching about humor within a critical literacy framework?
Predication in African Languages
Jul 2024
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This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages including locative predication expressions of tense aspect and mood in relation to verbal complexes and verb serialisation verb semantics and nominalization of predicates. The chapters take inspiration from Felix Ameka’s approach to the study of language according to which the main task of a linguist is to collaborate with language users to understand communicative practices in different contexts and to uncover how these practices impact grammatical and semantic aspects of the language. Accordingly the descriptions and analyses in this book serve to understand language variation in different ecologies rather than to impose pre-established descriptive frames on less described languages. Together the chapters in the book represent a bird’s eye view of predication strategies in various African languages and can therefore serve as readings for both introductory and advanced level courses on predication from a typological or comparative perspective.