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Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics
More LessThis book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus, a collection of authentic, verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research, it broadens both the scope of data and the methodological framework by integrating the Grammar of Graphics to facilitate the interpretation of linguistic findings. The study addresses the longstanding debate on the authenticity of scripted dialog, demonstrating the textual and linguistic proximity between movie language and spontaneous conversation. It includes genre-based and diachronic analyses, offering a rigorous, data-driven perspective on movie language as both a linguistic resource and a tool for teaching spoken grammar. Bridging corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and media studies, the book provides valuable insights for scholars, educators, and learners interested in spoken language, ELT, and telecinematic discourse, while contributing a novel, visualized approach to empirical language analysis.
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Dutch and Contact Linguistics
More LessWhilst 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.
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Dialect on Air
More LessDespite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a source of historical creole data. It presents the first real-time analysis of selected grammatical and phonological features of Bahamian Creole English. Situated within the framework of comparative sociolinguistics, the study provides quantitative variationist analyses of the zero copula, BE-levelling, verbal negation, low vowels (i.e., the lexical sets of BATH, PALM, START, and TRAP), and the closing diphthongs of MOUTH and PRICE. This book will appeal not only to those interested in the analysis of creole and non-standard varieties but also to those studying language variation and change more broadly.
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The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English
More LessThe book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior narrow-scope adverbs, e.g. adverbs modifying VPs. There is, however, disagreement about the mechanisms that brought the change about. Based on quantitative data, the book tests various hypotheses involving reanalysis of potentially ambiguous narrow-scope adverbs (often referred to as grammaticalization), ellipsis, lexicalization, and analogy. The data provide no clear evidence in favour of any of the hypotheses tested but suggest that different mechanisms may have been at work for different lexemes and subsets of SOAs. The book should appeal to researchers interested in the development and licensing of SOAs, but also to those with an interest in diachronic and syntactic change in general, or in grammaticalization, reanalysis, or subjectification in particular.
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