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The Second Language Acquisition of English Tense, Aspect and Modality
More LessAfter a comprehensive description of the French and English tense, aspect, mood/modality (TAM) systems in Chapter 1, an overview of key theoretical perspective and applied perspectives from the morpheme-order studies to examples of internal and external interfaces in monolingual child acquisition is presented in Chapter 2. The literature review of L2 studies illustrates the subtleties of TAM properties in Chapter 3. It is followed by the rigorous methodology of a cross-sectional empirical study designed to test the L2 acquisition of the English TAM system along with pretest results in Chapter 4. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of data obtained from written production tasks, cloze tests and completion tasks completed by French EFL and ESL learners and a NS comparison group appear in Chapters 5, 6 and 7. The results discussed in Chapter 8 address the explanatory power of the Interface and Feature Reassembly hypotheses while directions for future research are offered in Chapter 9. Scholars will appreciate how new data carefully analyzed in its nuances and complexities bring us closer to better understanding the challenges L2 learners face.
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Grammar in Action
More LessGrammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics, which analyzes instances of language use in naturally occurring interactions, and Descriptive Grammars, which describe the grammatical regularities of languages. The authors are skilled researchers in Interactional Linguistics. They analyze interactional phenomena in Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Swedish, making concrete proposals about how grammatical phenomena might be described in a comprehensive interactional grammar. The volume also proposes solutions to problems that an interactional grammar faces, for instance, the written language bias, the role of prosody and the body in the grammar, how to approach different target audiences, and how a web-based grammar could be useful for rendering the complexities of grammar in interaction.
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Love, Sex, and the Sacred
More LessMost Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE, and what does THE SACRED have to do with these?
Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this book reveals the profound connections between the three concepts, highlighting the spiritual roots of romantic love in a premodern, religious context. Within this framework, we can gain a better understanding of the true role of women in traditional religious societies – a role often misunderstood or perhaps misjudged by contemporary perspectives as unjust, oppressed, exploited, and pathetic. However, such perspectives might overlook valuable lessons that could still resonate today.
The volume cuts across linguistics, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and religious studies, by offering a compelling look at how metaphors in folk poetry serve as a window into a worldview where the concept of LOVE and SEXUALITY transcend the physical boundaries of life.
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Terminology throughout History
More LessTerminology throughout History: A discipline in the making is a collection of individual contributions by leading terminology scholars from around the globe who describe historical developments of terminology as a discipline and a field of practice. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive written record of the history of terminology as it evolves from a set of practices to a discipline in its own right. Terminology has witnessed considerable theoretical and methodological developments in recent decades. These changes need to be understood within the context of their historical foundations. The book has three main focus areas. The first examines the prehistory of terminology, going back to the Ancient World, leading to the second, where the pioneers of modern terminology, Eugen Wüster in particular, are placed in their historical context. The final section is an account of how terminology developed in some twenty countries and language communities.
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Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts
More LessThis volume presents state-of-the-art research in early foreign language (L2) education in instructed contexts with a special focus on primary school (ages 5-12). Over the past two decades, early language teaching has become an important factor in both academic inquiry and education policy. Studies have attested to the value of early L2 learning but also revealed specific features and challenges, which highlights the need for more high-quality empirical research. This book addresses this need by presenting current international research on early L2 teaching and learning in regular and CLIL contexts in the primary school setting. Uniting insights from 12 countries, the studies shed light on current issues such as teaching and assessment practice, emerging L2 literacy instruction, teaching materials, and teachers’, parents’ and learners’ perspectives. The volume thus contributes significantly to the advancement of early language education and is an essential resource for researchers and educators in the field.
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Field Research on Translation and Interpreting
More LessThis volume constitutes a significant step in establishing field research as a central methodological approach in translation and interpreting studies. Following an integrative approach, it addresses both translation and interpreting across professional, paraprofessional, and non-professional settings. The chapters in this volume focus on lived experiences in diverse, real-world contexts—including refugee centres, UN missions, NGOs, virtual environments, and the workplaces of specialised translators. They offer rich insights into the situated and dynamic nature of translation and interpreting practices and discuss common aspects and challenges such as the researchers’ reflexivity, ethical considerations, and the role of materiality in fieldwork. By shedding light on underexplored areas and offering critical reflections on field research methodology, the volume contributes to expanding the boundaries of translation and interpreting studies and deepening our understanding of translation and interpreting in their social and material contexts.
Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
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Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective
More LessThe volume Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective brings together theoretical and empirical contributions on missing object constructions, revealing a nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon that poses challenges to current theories of null objects. The selected papers highlight the significance of the interplay between formal constraints and semantic properties (namely definiteness and animacy) in the licensing of null objects cross-linguistically. The formally oriented papers contribute to ongoing discussions on the mechanisms underlying the derivation of null objects. The differences between null objects that are licensed by rich agreement and those that are agreement independent are also addressed. From a developmental perspective, the papers on null objects in language acquisition, including second language learning, further provide valuable insights into the intricate processes underlying the acquisition of referential expressions. The role of animacy emerges as a central question, particularly in the context of Portuguese varieties, where differences in pronominal systems contribute to variation in null object distribution.
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Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century
More LessThis volume features the latest advancements in Spanish sociolinguistics, drawing from the 10th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics (WSS10). Organized into three sections, its nine chapters explore crucial issues in bilingualism and sociolinguistic variation (morpho-syntactic, phonetic, phonological and lexical/pragmatic) within the Spanish-speaking world, across diverse geographical areas such as Arizona, New York City, Puerto Rico, Galicia, Melilla, Catalonia, Philadelphia, Colombia, and Argentina. The collection highlights the dynamic evolution of 21st-century sociolinguistic methodologies, from traditional sociolinguistic interviews and oral corpora to innovative approaches like social media analysis, cutting-edge computational methods, and natural language processing. The volume not only commemorates the achievements in the field since the inaugural 2002 Workshop but also provides accessible insights into the most current developments and techniques, making it an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, linguists, social scientists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the evolving landscape of Spanish sociolinguistics today.
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Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario / Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields
More LessEn todas las lenguas existen numerosos referentes y conceptos idiosincrásicos. Esas especificidades sociales, lingüísticas, gestuales, materiales, incluso ideológicas, sometidas a continuas reescrituras e interpretaciones a través de los tiempos, que no tienen a menudo equivalentes exactos o funcionales en otras lenguas y culturas, suponen inevitables dificultades para comprenderlas desde otros horizontes y, como no, para traducirlas.
En las últimas décadas, la importancia de los referentes culturales en el mundo de la traducción y la interpretación viene generando mucho interés, convirtiéndose en uno de los pilares teórico-prácticos fundamentales en traductología y dando origen, por consiguiente, a una inagotable, a la par que variada, producción científica. Este volumen pretende ser una aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario.
There are numerous idiosyncratic references and concepts in every language. These social, linguistic, gestural, material, and even ideological specificities are subject to continuous rewriting and interpretations through time, which often do not have exact or functional equivalents in other languages and cultures. These specificities pose inevitable difficulties to understand these languages and cultures from other horizons, and of course to translate them.
The importance of cultural references in the world of translation and interpretation has generated much interest in recent decades. It has become one of the major theoretical-practical pillars in translation studies, giving rise therefore to an inexhaustible and varied scientific production. This volume aims to be an approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields.
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Mobile Eye Tracking
More LessSituated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics, this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction, with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication. Readers will find a comprehensive, balanced exploration of the benefits and challenges associated with taking eye tracking out of the lab to record authentic interaction in real-life settings. By integrating insights from pragmatics, the contributions highlight the function of gaze as a resource for coordination, cooperation and joint sense-making in human interaction. The chapters are written by leading scholars in the field as well as younger researchers. They offer in-depth methodological discussions alongside detailed case studies from static and mobile interaction settings. The book makes a strong case for the use of mobile eye tracking in addition to video cameras. It provides researchers with a solid and state-of-the-art foundation on which to make informed choices about recording technologies for their own work. The volume is a must-read for scholars in multimodal conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, as well as cognitive linguists, linguistic anthropologists, and psychologists with a strong interest in new ways of studying gaze in social interaction.<.p>
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research
More LessThis book serves as an introduction to corpus linguistics (CL) for graduate students and researchers in Applied Linguistics, especially in the domains of language learning and teaching. It provides a structured and accessible approach for those new to CL, equipping readers with the foundational concepts and tools required to analyse language corpora autonomously in research related to language learning and teaching. It also contextualises CL’s development over the past four decades, offering critical reflections on its practices and applications. Each chapter integrates recommended readings and highlights central concepts, guiding readers in applying CL methods to their own studies. By the end of the book, readers will have gained the knowledge and practical expertise needed to apply corpus linguistics methods in conducting robust and innovative research.
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Style as Motivated Choice
More LessThis volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Verdonk was Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam and one of the founding members of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Many of his colleagues from PALA have contributed chapters to this volume. Each author has chosen as their starting point one of Verdonk’s ideas on literary and linguistic style. Through his many nuanced and illuminating stylistic analyses, Verdonk’s works explore questions pertaining to: How can we recognise styles and stylistic features? How is style used in literary and non-literary contexts? What is the relationship between text and discourse and between production and reception? And, centrally, how can we consider ‘style’ as ‘motivated choice’. The chapters in this volume are erudite and inspirational. Reflecting Verdonk's own influence on the discipline of stylistics and his career-long support of younger scholars, they will motivate new stylistics researchers and students for decades to come.
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Germanic Interrelations
More LessThis volume celebrates Hans Frede Nielsen’s contribution to the field of Germanic studies and his work as founding editor of the journal and book series North-Western European Language Evolution. Twenty peer-reviewed articles explore a broad range of topics involving North and West Germanic languages. Some studies focus on early runic inscriptions, others deal with features of modern varieties. All align in one way or another with Nielsen’s fields of interest, especially historical linguistics, and cover aspects of phonology, syntax, morphology, etymology, toponyms, ethnonyms, dialectology, text linguistics, linguistic historiography and language contact.
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A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery
More LessThe second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work of literature to central questions of cultural memory, testimony, and the formation of archives. ‘Literature’ here, as in the other volumes of this series, is understood in the broadest sense as textual, visual, auditory, cinematic, and performative genres. The volume asks: What are the central metaphors, storylines and topoi of literary representations of slavery? What kind of identities and political realities are created or enabled by the texts? What are the performative effects of literary language? Post-slavery literature is caught in a double endeavor: vivifying the past, making identification possible while acknowledging the moral distance, and the difficulties of remembering that past. The volume is divided into six sections that take up different aspects and problems of literary memory of slavery: counter-memories/memories of resistance, the body as material archive, fictionality of history writing, the bricolage of history, authorship/authenticity, and the necessity of creative approaches to a history that is troublesome and full of accumulated erasures. A previous volume, Vol. 1, explored slavery and the emotions. The next volume, Vol. 3, will explore authorship and literary culture in relation to slavery.
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Broadening the Horizon of TBLT
More LessFirst launched in 2005, the biennial International Conferences on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) have become an established event for a broad range of participants, and a key feature of the conferences has been the invited plenary (keynote) addresses. This edited volume brings together a selection of plenaries given at conferences between 2015 and 2023, and exemplifies the contributions being made by prominent and internationally recognised TBLT scholars on a variety of issues pertinent to TBLT theory and practice. The volume is framed around how the horizon of TBLT has broadened over the past decade, and how the plenaries presented during this past decade have helped to take our knowledge and understanding of TBLT further. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders, including teachers, researchers and postgraduate students, who would like to gain an overview of key dimensions of the field in the last decade.
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World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
More LessWorld Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are heterogenous manifesting only partial overlap regarding language repertoires, use, proficiencies, and attitudes. The languages in multilingual ecologies may shift in status over time. Some languages may be lost while new languages appear. Strong regional languages and English typically persist. The volume explores multilingual ecologies around the globe and the position of English within them. Case studies are drawn from Africa, East, South, and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, all written by distinguished scholars in the field who consider both standardized and non-standardized forms of English. The volume argues for a more inclusive study of World Englishes incorporating speakers’ social backgrounds as well as the other languages in their repertoires.
This ebook is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research
More LessAgainst the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as second language (L2) within contemporary SLA research. The presentation problematises those approaches and methods as a critique of what has been done, identifying a methodological roadmap of what needs to be done in order to advance the methodological agenda in L2 French and its contribution to wider SLA research. The discussion further aims to bridge the interface between methodological issues and the research investigation of a specific LOTE, French, such as in terms of its linguistic characterisation and developmental issues underpinning its acquisition. The analysis extends to approaches and methods across different theoretical paradigms in L2 French, in different areas of linguistic development, among learners in different learning contexts.
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Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
More LessThis book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this cross-fertilising synergy, the book singles out BELIEVE (YOU) ME, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THINK AGAIN and MIND YOU as its objects of study, offers an empirical analysis of their properties and situates them within an entrenched and far-reaching, yet conveniently ‘camouflaged’, network of dialogic perspectivisation. In so doing, the book provides novel insights into the mental state verbal fillers of the constructions alongside their imperative-induced non-compositionality and dialogicity which motivate their function as discourse unit framing agents and, per extension, discourse operators. The book thus makes a case for CxG’s ability to go beyond its word-, or phrase-based ‘comfort zone’ and address phenomena at a micro-, meso- and macro-discourse level with across-the-board benefits.
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Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research
More LessResearchers who study multilingual literacy development face the reality of complex and ever evolving conceptualizations of multilingualism and literacy across dynamic contexts, languages, and modalities. To unlock the full potential of continuous developments in Applied Linguistics, innovative rethinking of methodological approaches is needed to keep pushing the boundaries of our understanding of multilingual literacy development and our ethical commitments to humanizing research. This book provides powerful and wide-ranging examples of qualitative research that foreground a rethinking of data, theory, and positionality in their exploration of multilingual literacy development. The volume showcases how qualitative research designs and tools can allow scholars not only to “study” the literacy development of multilingual learners from immigrant, transnational, and refugee backgrounds, but also to engage in ethical research approaches to learn from and amplify literacy practices and experiences that cross borders, languages, and modalities.
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Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities
More LessThis book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First, it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second, it draws on non-traditional, dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert” views on language but also the perspectives of the “audience” engaging with these texts. Using France and the French language as its case study, the book explores the areas of stability and change in questions of linguistic authority, insecurity, and correctness. It sheds new light on the evolution of the long-established genre of language commentary and deepens our understanding of the language attitudes and ideologies that shape how language is viewed, discussed and judged. This book will appeal to linguists interested in language attitudes and ideologies in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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