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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.

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The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews multimodal film material and an online survey the study scrutinises cultural conceptualisations such as culture-specific conceptual metaphors or schemas and shows how they combine to larger interconnected cultural models which provide speakers with a conceptual logic for understanding and interpreting gender and homosexuality. The book further provides visualizations of these cultural models in the form of complex network representations. This scholarly work caters to readers interested in the culturally oriented strands of Cognitive Linguistics in sociolinguistics in World Englishes research and in questions on language gender and homosexuality. It offers valuable insights into the intricate connections between language culture and cognition.

This edited volume is a timely and significant contribution to second language development research from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective. The book addresses the growing need for consistent and practical methodologies for CDST research. Each chapter presents an innovative method or approach illustrating its use in concrete applications to empirical studies and highlighting its value in capturing the dynamic time-sensitive and interconnected nature of L2 development. The volume emphasizes a shift from static outcomes to developmental processes offering tools to explore intra-learner variability network analysis dynamic modeling and more. By bridging theory and practice it equips researchers with methodological guidance to investigate the process of second language development. Building on and extending previous volumes on CDST research methods by Verspoor et al. (2011) and Hiver and Al-Hoorie (2019) this book serves as a crucial reference for future CDST-informed research in Applied Linguistics.

Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science which consists of linguistics neuroscience philosophy anthropology artificial intelligence education in its corners. The book consists of four parts: basics methodology perspectives and bridging the gaps. After introducing the basic terminology in the first two chapters the book introduces the methodology of the research on eyes on text focusing on factors that shape experiment designs and data analysis. The book then introduces modeling perspectives (models of human text processing and eye movement control) empirical perspectives (eyes on text at various levels of language processing) and reader-oriented perspectives (children elderly readers reading disorders and nonnative reading processes) to the study of eyes on text. The final chapters of the book discuss the diversity of the current approaches and introduce several frontiers that allow bridging the gaps between the domains that conduct studies on eyes on text. It emphasizes the incorporation of the Human-in-the-Loop (HitL) paradigm into Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications as a promising approach to bridge the gaps between the domains also allowing designing personalized interfaces.

This book comprehends a unique collection of articles on the rhetorical tools with special reference to both discursive and verbo-visual metaphor. It focuses on monomodal and multimodal figurative representations in wine discourse in political discourse and in the sports media. Moreover it encompasses a discussion of the questionable role played by metaphor in scientific discourse concerning climate issues. The art and cognition and multimodality issues are empowered in this volume through the cognitive-oriented analysis of Andre Varda’s films Banksy’s graffiti and a comprehensive typological approach of the Tromp l’oeil technique.

Storytelling is a means of fostering a sense of identity belonging and continuity. Through stories Indigenous peoples understand and interpret the world and learn how to survive in spite of external forces such as colonialism. Storytelling has been studied by many scholars across myriad disciplines; however its importance in dealing with trauma and in shaping identity demand further study. This volume contributes to an understanding of the importance of storytelling in shaping identity and healing trauma and as a method of resistance among Indigenous peoples in North America. The book will attract readers interested in Native North American studies Canadian studies and cultural studies. In particular the audience will include scholars investigating the importance of storytelling and its impact on healing and resistance among Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of media: fiction and non-fiction works documentaries poetry activist work movies and TV series.

Personalization has become a central feature of political communication. Politicians appear on late-night talk shows smile from billboards and post family photos on social media – placing themselves at the heart of public discourse. As individual personalities take center stage abstract political ideologies and political collectives fade into the background. The Person in Politics explores the linguistic dimension of this shift through the cognitive semantic analysis of pronominal references. Drawing on a thorough account of how pronouns are used in American presidential nomination acceptance speeches and with what purpose this work investigates how politicians emphasize individual leadership and craft collective identities with personal pronouns. Offering valuable insights into the intersection of language and political campaign rhetoric this book is relevant for scholars of cognitive linguistics and political communication as well as practicioners seeking to navigate the evolving field of political discourse.

This monograph introduces the Evaluative Discourse Metaphor model which argues that participants in public and semi-public online discourse (re)use evaluative metaphors to construct and maintain communities. We explore how such metaphors trigger others with similar forms though not necessarily the same evaluative targets generating discourse spaces unified by a shared evaluative ethos. The model draws on a discourse-based view of metaphor Hallidayan metafunctions Du Bois’s stance triangle and insights from computer-mediated communication with a focus on affordances and community-building. We define or redefine key concepts including single evaluative metaphors metaphorical complexes triggers bondicons and chains. Rather than departing from existing literature we integrate it into a framework valuable to scholars in metaphor studies digital ethnography discourse analysis and online communication.

This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical sociocultural and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish contact as well as Judeo-Spanish in linguistic research shedding light on the enduring global relevance of the study of these languages and their contexts.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/> With contributions employing diverse methodologies – quantitative qualitative and mixed-methods approaches – this collection examines topics such as multilingualism identity language variation and language ideologies and attitudes. The volume also features research regarding the contemporary sociolinguistic dynamics of Arabic and Spanish in education familial and religious contexts. This volume is essential for scholars of sociolinguistics historical and contemporary linguistics language policy and planning and language education. Finally the volume offers novel insights that expand the field and inspire new directions in Spanish and Arabic linguistics.<br/>

Whilst the Dutch language cannot be considered a world language in the manner of English Spanish Portuguese or French the fact that speakers of Dutch have sailed to the four corners of the earth means that it cannot be overlooked in language-contact studies. This volume brings together scholars from across the globe to showcase the many varied outcomes of contact between Dutch and other languages in Europe Africa Asia and the Americas. These outcomes include language learning translation multilingualism codeswitching lexical borrowing grammatical interference the emergence of contact varieties such as creoles and language shift or ‘first-language attrition’. Other subjects that the volume covers include the circulation of Dutch loanwords translanguaging sprachbund studies taboo words animal names call names language beliefs Dutch as a heritage language and Dutch in online spaces. In short the contributions in this volume tell the story of the many outcomes of contact between Dutch and other languages across the centuries and across the world.