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    • Constructional Approaches to Language

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      The series brings together research conducted within different constructional models and makes them available to scholars and students working in this and other, related fields.

      The topics range from descriptions of grammatical phenomena in different languages to theoretical issues concerning language acquisition, language change, and language use. The foundation of constructional research is provided by the model known as Construction Grammar (including Frame Semantics). The book series publishes studies in which this model is developed in new directions and extended through alternative approaches. Such approaches include cognitive linguistics, conceptual semantics, interaction and discourse, as well as typologically motivated alternatives, with implications both for constructional theories and for their applications in related fields such as communication studies, computational linguistics, AI, neurology, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

      This peer reviewed series is committed to innovative research and will include monographs, thematic collections of articles, and introductory textbooks.

    • Contact Language Library

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      Contact Language Library (CoLL) presents descriptive and theoretical studies on contact languages. The series takes a wide definition of contact languages that includes not only pidgin, creole and mixed languages, but also other languages and varieties which have emerged in high contact situations. The series welcomes empirical studies based on either synchronic or diachronic data of language use in contact situations world-wide. This includes historical archive-based studies of individual varieties or groups of contact languages. CoLL particularly welcomes grammars and in depth descriptions of grammatical aspects of living contact varieties or those no longer spoken. All CoLL publications are anonymously and internationally refereed.

      Contact Language Library (CoLL), is a continuation of the former Creole Language Library.

    • Controversies

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      Controversy is a ubiquitous phenomenon in human theoretical and practical life. It manifests itself in various forms, ranging from virulent polemics to polite and well-ordered discussion. It expresses dissent, and may either lead to irreconcilable conflict or pave the way to conflict resolution. It occurs in private and everyday social life, in the courtroom and in politics, as well as in science, the arts, philosophy, and theology. Wherever it occurs, controversy sharpens critical thinking and prevents mental and social stagnation. Rather than a peripheral phenomenon, controversy is the engine of intellectual and practical progress.

      The proper study of controversy is inevitably interdisciplinary, requiring the cooperation of practitioners of the art of controversy as well as of researchers in conflict resolution, mediation, diplomacy, communication, linguistics, logic, rhetoric, history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, etc. The book series is predicated upon the belief that interdisciplinary research is a must in the investigation of complex phenomena such as controversy, and that it is feasible, even though it is not easy to achieve.

      Controversies includes studies in the theory of controversy or any of its salient aspects, studies of the history of controversy forms and their evolution, case-studies of particular historical or current controversies in any field or period, edited collections of documents of a given controversy or a family of related controversies, and other controversy-focused books. The series also acts as a forum for ‘agenda-setting’ debates, where prominent discussants of current controversial issues take part. Since controversy involves necessarily dialogue, manuscripts focusing exclusively on one position will not be considered.

    • Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research

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      Language and communication research centers around the question how linguistic and discursive phenomena shape our understanding of communication processes.
      Over the past decades, language and communication scholars have increasingly taken a broad view of these phenomena, by integrating methods and findings from other research disciplines, such as cognition and computer sciences, neurology, biology, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. This development has enriched our knowledge of language and communication, while simultaneously contributing important insights to other fields of study. At the same time, the shift to a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of linguistic and discursive principles, brings about the risk that important scholarly contributions are published in a wide array of (more general) outlets, diffusing the knowledge that is central to our field.
      CELCR seeks to address this gap by offering a platform for research that takes a cross- or interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and communication. The books in this series (monographs or edited) either adopt an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to study a linguistic or discursive topic, or study this topic systematically from different disciplinary angles. Thereby, all books in the series take converging evidence in language and communication research as its theoretical and methodological approach.

    • Dialogue Studies

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      The series "Dialogue Studies" takes the notion of dialogicity as central; it starts from the classical view of ‘language as dialogically directed’ and encompasses every type of language use, workaday, institutional and literary.

      By covering the whole range of language use, the growing field of dialogue studies comes close to pragmatics and studies in discourse or conversation. The concept of dialogicity, however, provides a clear methodological profile and allows us to structure the pragmatic ‘perspective’ and the ‘pan-discipline’ of discourse. It focuses on methodological premises such as: action and reaction; the integration of the human abilities of speaking, thinking and perceiving; dialogic interaction as the intentional effort to pursue definable goals and interests.

      The series aims to cross disciplinary boundaries and considers a genuinely interdisciplinary approach necessary for addressing the complex phenomenon of dialogic language use. All disciplines that deal with the human ability of dialogic interaction from different perspectives, in everyday interaction as well as in institutional contexts, are addressed: linguistics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, rhetoric, anthropology, applied linguistics, culture sciences, the media sciences, economics, jurisprudence.

      The current state of research in science in general is characterized by a turning point from closed rule-governed models to open models of probability. In this sense, Dialogue Studies aims to support new ways of theorizing and opens up innovative cross-disciplinary advances in the complex. The series will be of interest to existing theoretical approaches to competence as well as empirical approaches to performance, bridging the gap between competence and performance by focusing on human beings and their competence-in-performance.

      This peer reviewed series will include monographs, thematic collections of articles, and introductory textbooks in the relevant areas.

    • Dialogues on Work and Innovation

      The book series presents empirically based studies as well as theoretical discussions on the practice of organizational renewal. Its publications reflect the increasingly urgent need for the development of new forms of work organization. In today’s interdependent world workplace reform and orgnizational effectiveness are no longer solely the concern of individual organizations; the local and the global have become closely connected.

      Dialogues on Work and Innovation mirrors the fact that enterprise development and societal development cannot be kept separate. Furthermore, the series focuses on the dialogue between theory and practice, and thus on the mutuality of knowledge and action, of research and development. The dialogues stress the critical significance of joint reflexivity in action-oriented research and the necessity for participatory processes in organizational change.

      This series was discontinued after volume 15.

    • Document Design Companion Series

      This series focuses on the internal and external communication of medium-sized to multinational corporations, governmental bodies, non-profit organizations, as well as media, health care, educational and legal institutions, etc.

      Monographs in the series cover aspects of (electronic) discourse – written, spoken and visual – combined with aspects of text quality (function, institutional setting, culture). They will be problem driven, methodologically innovative, and focused on effectivity of communication.

      Document Design is ‘designed’ for: information managers, researchers in discourse studies and organization studies, text analists, and communication specialists.

      This series was discontinued after volume 7.

    • Figurative Thought and Language

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      The aim of the series is to publish theoretical and empirical research on Figuration broadly construed. Contributions to the study of metaphor, metonymy, irony, hyperbole, understatement, idioms, proverbs and other understudied figures as well as figurative blends will be considered. Works on figuration in gesture and multi-modal expression, embodiment and figuration, pragmatic effects of figurativity and other topics relevant to the production, use, processing, comprehension, scope, underpinnings and theoretical accounts involving figuration, will also be considered.

      The broad scope of the series is envisioned to afford multiple approaches to figurative processes from a variety of perspectives, but to present them collectively, enabling cross-fertilization of ongoing and future research. Perspectives include: cognitive scientific, philosophical, psychological (cognitive, social, developmental, clinical, embodied, etc.), linguistic, social (cultural, ideological, commercial, etc.), pedagogical and others. The potential variety of included methods is also broad: among others lexicogrammatical, discourse analytic, corpus-based, experimental, observational and neurological.

      Volumes in the series may be collective works, monographs and reference books, in the English language.

    • FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures

      The main aim of the UNESCO-affiliated Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes (FILLM) is to encourage dialogue between scholars from all over the world. (Full details of how the Federation goes about this are to be found at www.fillm.org.)

      By the end of the twentieth century, FILLM’s mission was taking on considerable urgency. Linguistic and literary research had become steadily more professional and specialized, a development which, though significantly raising overall standards, also tended to divide scholars into many separate and often smallish groupings between which communication was rather sporadic. Over the years this amounted to a serious handicap, not only in terms of new ideas and findings which never got cross-fertilized, but also in terms of the hard economic facts of disciplinary survival. Scholars who concentrated all their attention on just some single area of expertise sometimes found it difficult to convince the holders of governmental or university purse-strings that education and research in languages and literatures was a worthwhile investment.

      In the world’s current phase of hyper-rapid globalization, the relative lack of contact between scholars in different subject-areas is a more glaring anomaly than ever. In setting up FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, FILLM is intensifying still further its efforts to foster a world-wide community of scholars within which a rich diversity of interests will be upheld by a common sense of human relevance. Books published in the series will be about languages and literatures anywhere in the world, and will be written in an English that is immediately understandable and attractive to any likely reader. Every book will present original findings – including new theoretical and methodological developments – which will be of prime interest to those who are experts in its particular field of discussion, but it will do so in a way that can also engage readers who are not experts.

      This dual address is the series’ chief hallmark. The overall goals are, on the one hand, to spread detailed insights on particular phenomena from many different countries and, on the other hand, to guard against scholarly provincialism and overspecialization. In this way FILLM is hoping to promote a universal dialogue about linguistic and literary studies which, by clarifying their human raison d’être, will consolidate their professional legitimation.

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