SubjectsLinguistics / Multilingualism
Book series
ISSN 2352-0531
Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism
Edited by Christoph Gabriel, Kurt Braunmüller and Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber
ISSN 1571-4934
Multilingualism and Diversity Management
Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi
ISSN 2210-7010
Yearbooks
Annual Review of Language Acquisition
Edited by Clara Levelt, Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen
ISSN 1568-1467 | E‑ISSN 1569‑965X
Journals
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Edited by Peter Crosthwaite
ISSN 0155-0640 | E‑ISSN 1833‑7139
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Edited by Elke Peters
ISSN 0019-0829 | E‑ISSN 1783‑1490
Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes
Edited by Pejman Habibie and Sue Starfield
ISSN 2590-0994 | E‑ISSN 2590‑1001
Journal of English-Medium Instruction
Edited by Diane Pecorari and Hans Malmström
ISSN 2666-8882 | E‑ISSN 2666‑8890
Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education
Edited by Susan Ballinger, Ana Llinares and Yuen Yi Lo
ISSN 2212-8433 | E‑ISSN 2212‑8441
Language Teaching for Young Learners
Edited by Dingfang Shu and Jonathan Newton
ISSN 2589-2053 | E‑ISSN 2589‑207X
Language, Interaction and Acquisition
Langage, Interaction et Acquisition
Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Marion Blondel, Helen Engemann, Marianne Gullberg, Henriëtte Hendriks, Martin Howard, Fabian Santiago, Anita Thomas and Georges Daniel Véronique
ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch
ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
ISSN 2214-9953 | E‑ISSN 2214‑9961
The Mental Lexicon
Edited by Harald Baayen, Melanie J. Bell, Jessica Nieder and Vito Pirrelli
ISSN 1871-1340 | E‑ISSN 1871‑1375
Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Maria González-Davies and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
ISSN 2352-1805 | E‑ISSN 2352‑1813
60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research
Edited by Grégory Miras, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc and Shona Whyte
For sixty years, applied linguistics has stood at the crossroads of language and society, by meeting real-world needs. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research offers a compelling reflection on the field’s evolution while calling for a renewed commitment to socially responsive,… read more
Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Matt Kessler
This edited volume examines topics related to digital and internet-based research methods in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics. The book brings together internationally recognized experts with diverse interests from across the field. Covered are key approaches, methods, tools, and… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] 2026. xii, 433 pp.
Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.
New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference
Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul
This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers, and make connections between second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] 2026. vi, 389 pp.
Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing
Edited by Gabrielle Klassen and John W. Schwieter
The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 16] 2026. xv, 314 pp.
Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4
Edited by Thorsten Piske and Thomas Herbst
Special issue of Pedagogical Linguistics 7:1 (2026) v, 219 pp.
Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability
Melanie Schippling
As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning
Edited by Robyn Ober, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 49:2 (2026) v, 166 pp.
Task-Based Approaches to Teaching Additional Languages in Primary School
Veronika Timpe-Laughlin and Yuko Goto Butler
How can primary school children develop real communicative ability in an additional language? How can teachers move beyond isolated vocabulary and grammar practice toward meaningful language use that aligns with children’s cognitive, social, and developmental needs? This volume provides the first… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 19] 2026. xv, 208 pp.
Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heike Behrens
Edited by Karin Madlener-Charpentier, Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Mirjam Weder and Annelies Häcki Buhofer
Over the last three decades, usage-based (UB) approaches have developed into a leading paradigm in research on language, language use, and (first and second) language acquisition. This volume shows how current UB approaches—embracing diverse perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies—place… read more
Virtual Reality in Inclusive Language Learning: Enhancing vocabulary acquisition for dyslexic university students
Giulia Staggini
This monograph offers a timely and original contribution to applied linguistics by bringing into dialogue second language acquisition, inclusive language learning, and immersive technologies. The volume addresses a persistent gap in current research by focusing on specific language needs and… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 23] 2026. xiii, 323 pp. + index
Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.
Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research
Edited by Martin Howard
Against 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… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 9] 2025. xi, 379 pp.
Approaches to Machine Translation
Edited by Mahdieh Fakhar, Monica Vilhelm and Paz Díez-Arcón
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 11:1 (2025) v, 126 pp.
Becoming a Member in Social Worlds
: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactionsEdited by Klara Skogmyr Marian and Simona Pekarek Doehler
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:1 (2025) v, 198 pp.
Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research
Edited by Máiréad Moriarty and Maida Kosatica
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 11:2 (2025) v, 100 pp.
Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research
Edited by Yuko Goto Butler and Annamaria Pinter
In recent years, child-centered research has garnered increasing attention among scholars working with children. However, it remains under-explored within the field of applied linguistics. This gap is partly attributable to the conceptual complexity of the notion itself; “child-centered research”… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 13] 2025. ix, 202 pp.
Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.
Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school
Edited by Stefanie Frisch and Karen Glaser
This 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… read more
Emerging Issues in Content-Based Minority Language Immersion Education Contexts
Edited by Laurent Cammarata and Pádraig Ó Duibhir
Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 13:1 (2025) vi, 192 pp.
English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Axel Bohmann
This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
Epistemological issue: Translanguaging
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 (2025) vi, 116 pp.
From Disruptions to New Beginnings: The evolution of translation (studies) through technologies
Edited by Federico Gaspari and Silvia Bernardini
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 11:3 (2025) v, 147 pp.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Writing for Scholarly Publication
Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi
Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:2 (2025) vi, 194 pp.
Historical Linguistics at School
Edited by Theodore Markopoulos and Brian D. Joseph
Special issue of Pedagogical Linguistics 6:2 (2025) v, 145 pp.
Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam
Researchers 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… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 11] 2025. ix, 268 pp.
Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches
Edited by Eugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo
This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.
Questionable Research Practices in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Luke Plonsky
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 (2025) vi, 240 pp.
Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Approaches to Second Language Development
Edited by Wander Lowie, Rosmawati and Vanessa De Wilde
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… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 14] 2025. x, 222 pp.
Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin
Edited by Megan Solon, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad
This volume honors the scholarly legacy of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Geeslin’s pioneering work on variation in the Spanish copula system united and extended research in the fields of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Geeslin laid the foundation for a growing subfield of investigation… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 43] 2025. ix, 370 pp.
Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis
Shoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka and John M. Norris
This book addresses the topic of cognitive task complexity as it has been investigated in second language (L2) task-based research. This interest is premised on the notion that communication tasks may differ systematically in the types and amounts of cognitive complexity they present to L2… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 18] 2025. xi, 295 pp.
Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy
Edited by Shawn Loewen, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang and Matthew D. Coss
This book brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the rich inter-section of technology and second language (L2) learning and teaching. This innovative volume offers a unique blend of cutting-edge empirical research, pedagogy-informed perspectives, and practical… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] 2025. x, 365 pp.
Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl
World 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… read more
10th Anniversary Issue: Engaging with LL futures
Edited by Robert Blackwood and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 10:4 (2024) v, 110 pp.
Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning
Edited by Carmen Muñoz and Imma Miralpeix
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… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 61] 2024. x, 241 pp.
The COLT Observation Scheme: Digital versions and updated research applications. Second revised edition
Nina Spada
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… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 60] 2024. vii, 210 pp.
Computer-mediated communication in class: Fostering access to digital mediascapes
Edited by Stefania Maci and Marianna Lya Zummo
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 10:1 (2024) v, 116 pp.
Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings
Edited by Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kotze
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… read more[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. vi, 293 pp.
Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Studies
Edited by Dilin Liu, Xiaofei Lu and Isaiah WonHo Yoo
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 7:2 (2024) v, 192 pp.
Decolonising or Recolonising?: Generative AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and learners
Edited by Toni Dobinson, Julian Chen and Carly Steele
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024) v, 165 pp.
Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by Joshua J. Thoms and Kristen Michelson
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… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 21] 2024. ix, 193 pp.
English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers: A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions
Karin McClellan
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,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 120] 2024. xix, 296 pp.
English-medium instruction: Different stakeholders and conflicting interests
Edited by Robert Wilkinson and René Gabriëls
Special issue of Journal of English-Medium Instruction 3:1 (2024) v, 140 pp.
Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 (2024) vi, 114 pp.
Filling the Void: Young language learners and the intercultural domain
Edited by Sandie Mourão and Raphaelle Beecroft
Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 6:2 (2024) v, 143 pp.
Graded Resources for Second and Foreign Language Learning
Edited by David Alfter and Thomas François
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 175:1 (2024) v, 162 pp.
Interactions and Language Acquisition in Non-Family Settings
Edited by Caroline Masson
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 15:1 (2024) v, 188 pp.
Multifaceted Multilingualism
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 66] 2024. x, 434 pp.
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 67] 2024. ix, 645 pp.
Processing in Bilingual Children
Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.
The Representation and Processing of Morphologically Complex Words
Edited by Lori Buchanan and Roberto G. de Almeida
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:2 (2024) v, 151 pp.
Translating Power Distance
Edited by Maria Sidiropoulou
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 10:3 (2024) v, 142 pp.
Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Learning: The need for attention
Ulf Schütze
It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents). What are the issues and benefits of these technological innovations? Taking readers on a journey through the brain,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 19] 2024. xv, 146 pp.
Words in the World
Edited by Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 19:1 (2024) vi, 188 pp.
The Frequency–Grammar Interface: Rules and regularities in first and second languages
Stefano Rastelli
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… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 20] 2024. xii, 226 pp.
Audiovisual translation and media accessibility in language learning contexts: Multiple modes, innovative practices and further explorations
Edited by Marina Manfredi, Catia Nannoni and Rosa Pugliese
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:2 (2023) v, 146 pp.
Audiovisual translation in context: Granting access to digital mediascapes
Edited by Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Alessandra Rizzo and Cinzia Giacinta Spinzi
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:3 (2023) v, 165 pp.
Bilingualism through the Prism of Psycholinguistics: In honour of Albert Costa
Edited by Mikel Santesteban, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus
Professor Albert Costa (1970-2018) was one of the most influential scholars in the fields of psycholinguistics and bilingualism. This book provides a faithful look at the most relevant lines of research in which he worked during his academic career. Written by some of his close collaborators and… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 17] 2023. vi, 297 pp.
Challenges and solutions in translation: Insights into training, ELF, and accessibility
Guest-edited by Rossella Latorraca and Jacqueline Aiello
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:1 (2023) v, 141 pp.
Child L2 Writers: A room of their own
Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola
Studies on L2 writing tasks with child learners have broken through several barriers in the past few years. Although long considered a solitary task, writing is now regularly done in collaborative pairs and groups as well. New and more comprehensive writing and feedback strategies have been… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 32] 2023. xi, 236 pp.
Conceptual transfer, (re)conceptualisation and other cognitive aspects of crosslinguistic influence in L2 acquisition
Edited by Cecilia Gunnarsson-Largy
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 14:1 (2023) v, 166 pp.
Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert
A great majority of people around the world know more than one language. So, how does knowing one language affect the learning and use of additional languages? The question of cross-language influences is the focus of this book. Do bilinguals hear, understand, and produce language and meaning… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 16] 2023. vi, 321 pp.
Current State of Second Language Studies in Japan
Edited by John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 6:2 (2023) v, 171 pp.
Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.
Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects
Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects explores anaphora resolution from different perspectives, and investigates various aspects of the phenomenon, as contributions include research protocols that combine old and new experimental methodologies as well as… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 18] 2023. vi, 246 pp.
L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts
Edited by Mimi Li and Meixiu Zhang
This book is the first edited volume to compile up-to-date scholarship that discusses frontier knowledge on second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) and highlights technology-mediated solutions to it. The volume consists of conceptual papers and empirical studies that explore theoretical,… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] 2023. vii, 253 pp.
L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process
Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón
This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics.… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 58] 2023. xxii, 343 pp.
L3 Development After the Initial State
Edited by Megan M. Brown-Bousfield, Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes
To date, the field of L3 acquisition research has had a heavy focus on the initial state of the L3 grammar. While this initial state research is critical to understanding L3 acquisition as a whole, in order for an explanatory understanding of language acquisition in the multilingual mind, the field… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 65] 2023. vi, 275 pp.
Language learning for language minority students in a globalized world
Edited by Mark Feng Teng and Fan Fang
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:2 (2023) v, 158 pp.
Methods in Study Abroad Research: Past, present, and future
Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Cristina Sanz
Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4] 2023. ix, 393 pp.
The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 9:3 (2023) v, 109 pp.
Research Methods in the Study of L2 Writing Processes
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón and Julio Roca de Larios
This volume brings together the perspectives of new and established scholars who have connected with the broad fields of first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing to discuss critically key methodological developments and challenges in the study of L2 writing processes. The focus is on… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 5] 2023. vi, 387 pp.
Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition
Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.
Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish
Edited by Sara Zahler, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford
This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 37] 2023. xxi, 371 pp.
Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok
Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy
Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.
10th Anniversary Celebration
Edited by Pádraig Ó Duibhir and Laurent Cammarata
Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 10:2 (2022) vi, 269 pp.
The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 63] 2022. xi, 282 pp.
Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy
Edited by François Grin, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn
This book stems from the joint effort of 25 research teams across Europe, representing a dozen disciplines from the social sciences and humanities, resulting in a radically novel perspective to the challenges of multilingualism in Europe. The various concepts and tools brought to bear on… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 9] 2022. xxvi, 570 pp.
Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan
Julia Herschensohn
How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages? Language development and processing are the central topics that this book explores, initially in terms of first language(s) and then in terms… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 15] 2022. xxi, 292 pp.
Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Götz
This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 104] 2022. vi, 327 pp.
Emerging Assessment Needs and Solutions in EMI in Higher Education
Edited by Slobodanka Dimova and Joyce Kling
Special issue of Journal of English-Medium Instruction 1:2 (2022) v, 138 pp.
Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.
Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space
Edited by Melanie J. Bell, Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli
Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference
Edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli
This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 67] 2022. vii, 318 pp.
How to Teach an Additional Language: To task or not to task?
Kris Van den Branden
This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part, the book provides up-to-date insights into the cognitive, motivational, and emotional… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 15] 2022. xiii, 292 pp.
The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19
Edited by Jackie Jia Lou, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 (2022) vi, 176 pp.
Pop culture in applied linguistics: International perspectives: Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 173:2 (2022)
Edited by Valentin Werner
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 173:2 (2022) v, 158 pp.
A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language: Cofluencies as sites of accountability, sequentiality, and multimodality
Maximiliane Frobenius
This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations. It adopts a multimodal perspective to demonstrate the functions of these… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 332] 2022. ix, 260 pp.
Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of Professor Michael H. Long
Edited by Alessandro G. Benati and John W. Schwieter
Professor Michael H. Long (1945-2021) was one of the most influential scholars in the field of second language acquisition. This volume presents a set of chapters that honour some of his key contributions in language teaching and learning. Following a bibliometric analysis of the impact of his… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14] 2022. xxiv, 276 pp.
Second Language Acquisition of Sign Languages: Acquisition d'une langue des signes comme langue seconde
Edited by Krister Schönström and Chloë Marshall
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 13:2 (2022) v, 109 pp.
Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.
Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time
Edited by Shaila Sultana and Dariush Izadi
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 (2022) v, 116 pp.
Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations
Edited by Eun Hee Jeon and Yo In'nami
This edited volume is a collection of theoretical and empirical overviews of second language (L2) proficiency based on four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each skill is reviewed in terms of how it has been conceptualized, measured, and studied over the years in relation to… read more
Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li
Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s. Much of it was reviewed along with newer approaches in Bayley and Preston 1996 (B&P), heavily devoted to VARBRUL analyses that exposed the variability in developing interlanguages… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 28] 2022. xx, 365 pp.
The dynamics of academic knowledge production: Text histories and text trajectories
Edited by Theresa Lillis and Mary Jane Curry
Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 3:1 (2022) v, 163 pp.
Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities
Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh
This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature of language use, the volume explores diverse manifestations of high-level… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 31] 2021. x, 512 pp.
Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] 2021. vii, 437 pp.
Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe
Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco
This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 8] 2021. vi, 271 pp.
Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World
Edited by Thom Huebner
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 7:2 (2021) v, 141 pp.
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition: A language processing perspective
Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 8] 2021. xv, 274 pp.
Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners
Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić and Nicola Halenko
This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing. With chapters written by an international array of scholars, the present volume is dedicated to furthering the study of the growing field of L2 email… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 328] 2021. vii, 258 pp.
Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.
Input Processing and Processing Instruction: The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Alessandro G. Benati
Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book, new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 11] 2021. xv, 185 pp.
Issues and Perspectives on Student Diversity and Content-Based Language Education
Edited by Fred Genesee and Diane J. Tedick
Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 9:2 (2021) vi, 209 pp.
L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance
Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu
This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] 2021. vi, 380 pp.
Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” aimed to profile bilingual specific language impairment (biSLI) by establishing a network for research on the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children with SLI across… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 29] 2021. vi, 333 pp.
Language, Plasticity and Learning: Developmental Issues: Langage, Plasticité et Apprentissage : enjeux développementaux
Edited by Michèle Kail and Frédéric Isel
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12:1 (2021) v, 184 pp.
Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter
There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 12] 2021. xiii, 234 pp.
Problematizing Language Policy and Practice in EMI and Transnational Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities
Edited by Curtis Green-Eneix, Peter I. De Costa and Wendy Li
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:2 (2021) v, 145 pp.
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children
Edited by Leigh B. Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen
How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction? Most experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics to date has focused on investigating the mechanisms that underlie language production and language comprehension separately.… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 117] 2021. vi, 272 pp.
Research on EFL learning by young children in Spain
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo
Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 3:2 (2021) vi, 190 pp.
Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten
Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong
This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 62] 2021. viii, 359 pp.
Studies of Bilingual Processing Presented to Kenneth I. Forster
Edited by Nan Jiang
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 4:2 (2021) v, 211 pp.
Translation and plurilingual approaches to language teaching and learning: Challenges and possibilities
Edited by Ángeles Carreres, María Noriega-Sánchez and Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 7:1 (2021) v, 131 pp.
25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 (2020) vi, 234 pp.
A cross-theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective on the L2 acquisition of case systems / L'acquisition de systèmes casuels en L2 : des études à travers plusieurs théories et langues
Edited by Kristof Baten and Saartje Verbeke
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 11:1 (2020) v, 162 pp.
Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Edited by Boping Yuan and Yanyu Guo
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 3:2 (2020) v, 162 pp.
Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary
Edited by Stuart Webb
This volume brings together a collection of chapters focused on the learning, testing, and researching of L2 vocabulary by leading international researchers including Paul Nation, Batia Laufer, Frank Boers, Elke Peters, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, and Stuart Webb. Questions that… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 109] 2020. v, 234 pp.
Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en català / Linguistic Change, Standardization and Identity in Catalan
Edited by Hans-Ingo Radatz
The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with diverse collective identities. The present volume is a contribution to the field of Identity Studies, but from a clearly linguistic perspective. It unites… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 27] 2020. xvii, 190 pp.
Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb
This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 10] 2020. vii, 306 pp.
Corpus Linguistics and Education in Australia
Edited by Alexandra Garcia Murrago, Peter Crosthwaite and Monika Bednarek
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2 (2020) v, 119 pp.
Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 61] 2020. vii, 341 pp.
Im/politeness and Stage Translation
Edited by Maria Sidiropoulou
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 6:1 (2020) v, 108 pp.
A Language Management Approach to Language Problems: Integrating macro and micro dimensions
Edited by Kimura Goro Christoph and Lisa Fairbrother
In recent years there has been increased interest in examining the treatment of language problems across different levels of society, ranging from individual interactional issues to language policy and planning at the national or supra-national level. Among the various approaches to tackle this… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 7] 2020. ix, 273 pp.
Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English: A multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data
Marco Schilk
The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the lexicon has been mainly studied based on English native speakers,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 9] 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies
Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2 studies. The contributing authors include both established and emerging… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 55] 2020. vii, 313 pp.
Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language
Edited by Karina Veronica Molsing, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños
This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] 2020. x, 300 pp.
Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development
Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the societally dominant language in most other domains. What exactly they… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 59] 2020. vii, 276 pp.
Mental representations in receptive multilingualism
Edited by Bonnie C. Holmes and Michael T. Putnam
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:3 (2020) v, 132 pp.
The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge
Anne-Claude Berthoud and Laurent Gajo
Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the world of science has still largely escaped attention. But science, too, is created and transmitted in and through communication. Today, the… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 5] 2020. ix, 158 pp.
Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community
Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
National foreign language policies for primary schools: Global perspectives
Edited by Janet Enever
Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:2 (2020) v, 156 pp.
Palenquero and Spanish in Contact: Exploring the interface
John M. Lipski
Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is, however, no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian… read more[Contact Language Library, 56] 2020. xvii, 318 pp.
Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words
Edited by Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 15:1 (2020) v, 160 pp.
Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language
Edited by Fatih Bayram
Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 60] 2020. xiv, 287 pp.
Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages
Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Teacher Development for Immersion and Content-Based Instruction
Edited by Laurent Cammarata and T.J. Ó Ceallaigh
Teacher preparation and professional development endeavors are key drivers of successful immersion/bilingual (I/B) and content-based language education (CBLE) programs across a variety of models. However, research in this critical area is scant and has not to date received the academic attention it… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 110] 2020. vi, 201 pp.
Teaching and practising interpreting: From traditional to new remote approaches
Edited by Pilar Rodríguez Reina and Estefanía Flores Acuña
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 6:2 (2020) v, 102 pp.
Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers. While this topic has already received considerable attention in the SLA literature, it features less… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 108] 2020. v, 161 pp.
Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 23] 2020. xi, 208 pp.
Aptitude-treatment interaction in second language learning
Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 2:2 (2019) v, 200 pp.
Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian
The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.
Biscriptuality: Writing skills among German-Russian adolescents
Irina Usanova
In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity in many parts of the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills. The successful development of literacy skills becomes a crucial prerequisite for educational attainment determining future career… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 8] 2019. xvi, 257 pp.
Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages
Edited by Paz González and Tim Diaubalick
Documentary Linguistics: Working with Communities
Edited by Sumittra Suraratdecha and Toshihide Nakayama
Special issue of Language Ecology 3:2 (2019) v, 122 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 (2019) iv, 132 pp.
French liaison in second language acquisition / La liaison en français langue étrangère: Issues, methods and perspectives / Thèmes, méthodes et perspectives
Edited by Martin Howard and Malin Ågren
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 10:1 (2019) v, 139 pp.
Heritage Languages: A language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.
Intercultural Experience in Narrative: Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace
Michał Wilczewski
This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language, intercultural communication, collaboration, learning,… read more[Studies in Narrative, 26] 2019. xix, 325 pp.
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.
Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogies in Australian Higher Education
Edited by Paul J. Moore and Adriana Díaz
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:2 (2019) v, 100 pp.
Orality: Language and interpreting challenges
Edited by Estefanía Flores Acuña and Pilar Rodríguez Reina
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:3 (2019) v, 113 pp.
Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education
Edited by Zhongfeng Tian and Holly Link
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:1 (2019) v, 93 pp.
Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children
Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.
Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.
Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy: In honour of Peter Skehan
Edited by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian
This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies, all reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current research, such as the role and nature of… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 13] 2019. xxiii, 328 pp.
Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms
Edited by Yuen Yi Lo and Angel M.Y. Lin
Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 7:2 (2019) v, 178 pp.
Technology-mediated feedback and instruction
Edited by Hossein Nassaji and Eva Kartchava
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:2 (2019) v, 159 pp.
What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages
Edited by Eva Smolka and Dorit Ravid
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 14:2 (2019) v, 164 pp.
X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Crispin Thurlow and Kellie Gonçalves
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 5:2 (2019) v, 106 pp.
Approaches to learning, testing, and researching L2 vocabulary
Edited by Stuart Webb
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:1 (2018) vi, 231 pp.
Assessing L2 Listening: Moving towards authenticity
Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner
This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs;… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 50] 2018. xvii, 278 pp.
Audiovisual translation in applied linguistics: Educational perspectives
Edited by Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin, Jennifer Lertola and Noa Talaván
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:1 (2018) v, 202 pp.
Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields
Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice
This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 54] 2018. vi, 403 pp.
Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English
Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly
This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.
CLIL and Bilingual Education in the Netherlands
Edited by Tessa Mearns and Rick de Graaff
Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (2018) vi, 158 pp.
Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo
Edited by Luis López
This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 19] 2018. vii, 270 pp.
Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners: Making connections and building identities
Kelly Lowther Pereira
This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 18] 2018. x, 248 pp.
Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation: Capturing transitions in the classroom
Edited by Anna Filipi and Numa Markee
This volume brings together researchers in conversation analysis who examine the practice of alternating between English and German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese in the classroom. The collection shows that language alternation is integral to being and learning to become a bilingual, and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 295] 2018. ix, 263 pp.
The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals: Economy and bilingual first language acquisition
Emma Ticio Quesada
This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 56] 2018. xi, 244 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 (2018) iv, 145 pp.
Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms
Edited by Andreas Bonnet and Peter Siemund
This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 7] 2018. viii, 423 pp.
Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 4:3 (2018) v, 119 pp.
Genre and Disciplinarity
Edited by Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve Price
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:2 (2018) v, 120 pp.
Language of Empire, Language of Power
Edited by Kees Versteegh
Special issue of Language Ecology 2:1/2 (2018) v, 146 pp.
Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova
Edited by Jacee Cho, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya
This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 55] 2018. xv, 311 pp.
Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research
Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors
At a time when globalization and the advent of the internet have accelerated the spread and diversification of English varieties worldwide, this book provides a constructive assessment of the theoretical models that best account for the development and use of Englishes in the early 21st century. In… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G61] 2018. x, 297 pp.
Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes
Eric A. Anchimbe
This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes, especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research, the book also… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 298] 2018. xix, 316 pp.
The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance
Edited by Peter A. Kraus and François Grin
This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the dynamics of… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 6] 2018. xix, 367 pp.
Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.
Teacher education and professional development for immersion and content-based instruction: Research on programs, practices, and teacher educators
Edited by Laurent Cammarata and T.J. Ó Ceallaigh
Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 6:2 (2018) v, 193 pp.
Translanguaging – researchers and practitioners in dialogue
Edited by Lina Adinolfi, Holly Link and Oliver St John
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:3 (2018) v, 91 pp.
Usage-inspired L2 Instruction: Researched pedagogy
Edited by Andrea E. Tyler, Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park
This book presents a set of compelling essays collectively making a persuasive case for why a usage-based perspective on language is fast becoming a leading theoretical framework for investigating second language (L2) learning and the foundation for effective, innovative, engaging pedagogy. Drawing… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 49] 2018. xvii, 324 pp.
Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques
Edited by Kateřina Fibigerová, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 9:1 (2018) v, 136 pp.
Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages
Edited by Hye K. Pae
This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer. Distinctively broad in scope, topics addressed in this volume include word… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 7] 2018. xii, 466 pp.
'Translaboration': Translation as Collaboration
Edited by Alexa Alfer
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 3:3 (2017) v, 132 pp.
Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation
Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow
The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 20] 2017. vi, 347 pp.
Between specialised texts and institutional contexts – competence and choice in legal translation
Edited by Valérie Dullion
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 3:1 (2017) vi, 143 pp.
Bilingualism: A framework for understanding the mental lexicon
Edited by Maya Libben, Mira Goral and Gary Libben †
In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual’s… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 6] 2017. xvii, 252 pp.
Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk
Edited by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer
This book presents a current state-of-affairs regarding the study of cross-linguistic influence in bilingualism. Taking Hulk and Müller’s (2000) and Müller and Hulk’s (2001) hypotheses on cross-linguistic influence as a starting point, the book exemplifies the shift from the original focus on… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 52] 2017. vi, 358 pp.
Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven
Edited by Eliane Segers and Paul van den Broek
Research on the development on written language and literacy is inherently multidisciplinary. In this book, leading researchers studying brain, cognition and behavior, come together in revealing how children develop written language and literacy, why they may experience difficulties, and which… read more[Not in series, 206] 2017. xi, 447 pp.
Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity
Edited by Hagen Peukert and Ingrid Gogolin
This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 6] 2017. x, 269 pp.
Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia
Edited by Antonia Rubino, Antonella Strambi and Vincenza Tudini
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:2 (2017) v, 109 pp.
Growing Old with Two Languages: Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism. With ongoing media focus on the aging population and the need for activities to forestall cognitive decline, experiences that… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 53] 2017. vi, 304 pp.
Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians
Edited by Ludmila Isurin and Claudia Maria Riehl
The volume presents a selection of contributions related to integration, adaptation, language attitudes and language change among young Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany. At the turn of the century, Germany, which defined itself as a mono-ethnic and mono-racial society, has become a country… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 44] 2017. vii, 285 pp.
L3 Syntactic Transfer: Models, new developments and implications
Edited by Tanja Angelovska and Angela Hahn
This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms. The volume is organised into three sections that focus on prominent… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 5] 2017. x, 329 pp.
Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017
Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.
Methodology in Linguistic Landscape Research
Edited by Robert Blackwood
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 3:3 (2017) v, 113 pp.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13] 2017. vii, 327 pp.
Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language: Contemporary perspectives
Edited by Martin Howard and Pascale Leclercq
Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 50] 2017. vi, 257 pp.
The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage
Edited by Aliyah Morgenstern and Michèle Guidetti
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 8:1 (2017) v, 171 pp.
Understanding Second Language Processing: A focus on Processability Theory
Bronwen Patricia Dyson and Gisela Håkansson
This book aims to help researchers and teachers interested in language processing and Processability Theory (PT) to understand this theory and its applications. PT is an influential account of second language processing which hypothesizes that, due to the architecture of language processing,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 4] 2017. xi, 211 pp.
Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language
Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo
Bringing together contributions from some of the leading experts in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language, this volume aims to provide an in-depth understanding of current and emerging trends in research and praxis. To this end, the volume is divided into three thematic units. The first unit… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 49] 2016. ix, 353 pp.
Aging and Bilingualism
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.
Bilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016) vi, 213 pp.
Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] 2016. xvii, 453 pp.
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition
Edited by Gisela Granena, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing. The book brings together theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of cognitive IDs, as well as empirical studies… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 3] 2016. vi, 353 pp.
Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer, offering a different level of complexity by… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 89] 2016. ix, 183 pp.
Discourse Markers in Second Language Acquisition / Les marqueurs discursifs dans l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère: Studies on Italian and French as L2 / Études en italien et en français langues étrangères
Edited by Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga and Britta Thörle
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 7:1 (2016) v, 144 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 16 (2016)
Edited by Sarah Ann Liszka, Pascale Leclercq, Marion Tellier and Georges Daniel Véronique
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 16] 2016. ix, 210 pp.
Emotion in Multilingual Interaction
Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper
This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established, converging traditions of conversation analysis, discursive psychology,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 266] 2016. vii, 326 pp.
English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes
Alison Edwards
This volume provides the first comprehensive investigation of the Netherlands in the World Englishes paradigm. It explores the history of English contact, the present spread of English and attitudes towards English in the Netherlands. It describes the development and analysis of the Corpus of Dutch… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G56] 2016. xv, 271 pp.
Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Manuela Romano and M. Dolores Porto
This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.
Insights in Translation for Specific Purposes: Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2:1 (2016)
Edited by Antonella d’Angelis, Estefanía Flores Acuña and Francisco Núñez-Roman
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2:1 (2016) v, 169 pp.
Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras
Edited by Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz
The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 51] 2016. vi, 305 pp.
Linguistic Perspectives on Morphological Processing
Edited by Harald Clahsen, Vera Heyer and Jana Reifegerste
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:2 (2016) v, 168 pp.
Linguistic Purism: Language Attitudes in France and Quebec
Olivia Walsh
This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social,… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 41] 2016. xviii, 324 pp.
Literacy Acquisition in School in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism: A binational survey
Inken Sürig, Yazgül Şimşek, Christoph Schroeder and Anja Boness
This book presents the outcomes of a multi-methodical investigation of the processes of literacy acquisition. The focus is on mono- and bilingual first- and seventh-graders in schools in socially underprivileged areas of two major cities in Turkey and Germany. By means of extensive analyses of… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 5] 2016. xii, 297 pp.
Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace: The case of multilingual Switzerland
Edited by Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle Meier and Patchareerat Yanaprasart
The contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 4] 2016. viii, 374 pp.
Memory and memorialization
Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 2:3 (2016) v, 104 pp.
New Questions for the Next Decade
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Victor Kuperman
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 11:3 (2016) v, 165 pp.
Postgraduate Writing in a Globalised World
Edited by Emmaline Lear and Elke Stracke
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 39:2 (2016) v, 98 pp.
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
Edited by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo, Catherine M. Mazak and M. Carmen Parafita Couto
This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics,… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] 2016. viii, 326 pp.
Starting Over – The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children
Edited by Fred Genesee and Audrey Delcenserie
Internationally-adopted children are a unique population of language learners. They discontinue acquisition of their birth language when they are adopted by families that speak other languages. Their unique language learning history raises important practical, clinical and theoretical issues.… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 18] 2016. vii, 208 pp.
Translating Creolization
Edited by Desrine Bogle, Ian Craig and Jason F. Siegel
Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2:2 (2016) v, 106 pp.
World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes
Michael Percillier
Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.
The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings
Edited by Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán
By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field’s understanding of acquisition of Spanish… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3] 2015. vi, 362 pp.
Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities
Edited by Dale Koike and Carl S. Blyth
Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the ‘community’, that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.g. geographical location, a common goal, a search for… read more[Dialogue Studies, 27] 2015. vi, 314 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 15 (2015)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Kevin McManus, Norbert Vanek and Danijela Trenkic
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 15] 2015. ix, 163 pp.
Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Edited by Craig Alan Volker and Fred E. Anderson
The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power, especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 35] 2015. xv, 300 pp.
Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages
Edited by Patrick Rebuschat
Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decision making, and social interaction, are largely dependent on implicit (unconscious) knowledge. Given its relevance, it is not surprising that the… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 48] 2015. xxii, 489 pp.
Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers: Theory and research
Jan H. Hulstijn
This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical. The first part of the… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 41] 2015. xi, 195 pp.
Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction … read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.
Teachers’ Plurilingual Identities in Transnational Contexts
Edited by Clea Schmidt and Antoinette Gagné
The Morphological Expression of Temporality on the Verb in French as a Second Language / L’expression morphologique de la temporalité sur le verbe en français langue seconde
Edited by Pascale Leclercq and Martin Howard
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 6:1 (2015) v, 180 pp.
Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development
Edited by Hagen Peukert
This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 4] 2015. ix, 353 pp.
Trilingual Language Acquisition: Contextual factors influencing active trilingualism in early childhood
Sarah Chevalier
This book examines the language development of two children from the ages of two till four, who are growing up exposed to English, Swiss German and French. Its aim is to ascertain the importance of different environmental factors in fostering active trilingualism. These factors include the quantity… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 16] 2015. x, 225 pp.
The Acquisition of French as a Second Language: New developmental perspectives
Edited by Christina Lindqvist and Camilla Bardel
Within the field of second language acquisition, interest in the acquisition of French as a second language has a long-standing tradition, especially in the European context. The aim of this book is to offer a synthesis of current research within this area. It contains contributions from different… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 62] 2014. v, 168 pp.
Bridging the Methodological Divide: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to formulaic language
Edited by Stefanie Wulff and Debra Titone
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:3 (2014) v, 126 pp.
Dynamics and Terminology: An interdisciplinary perspective on monolingual and multilingual culture-bound communication
Edited by Rita Temmerman and Marc Van Campenhoudt
The urge to understand all aspects of human experience more and better seems to be one of the motives underlying cognitive development in many domains of human existence. Understanding more and better is at the basis of knowledge creation and extension. One way of getting access to how… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 16] 2014. vi, 305 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 14] 2014. x, 261 pp.
The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations
Michele Gazzola
Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or “language regimes”) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 3] 2014. xxi, 380 pp.
The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch
This two-part volume provides a collection of 27 linguistic studies and contributions that shed light on the evolution of different Englishes world-wide (varieties, learner Englishes, dialects, creoles) from a broad spectrum of different perspectives, including both synchronic and diachronic… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G49] 2014. xviii, 513 pp.
Input and Experience in Bilingual Development
Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis
Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 13] 2014. ix, 204 pp.
Interlanguage: Forty years later
Edited by ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone
Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 39] 2014. vii, 255 pp.
Language Immersion Education: A research agenda for 2015 and beyond
Edited by Diane J. Tedick and Siv Björklund
Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark
Edited by Inbal Arnon, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia
Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the social and pragmatic aspects of language learning: the way interaction shapes what and how children learn.… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 12] 2014. xi, 358 pp.
Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many pathways to being Chinese
Edited by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Andy Hancock
This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 12] 2014. xv, 243 pp.
Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia
Edited by Ingrid Piller
Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives
Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz
This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 44] 2014. x, 337 pp.
Parsing to Learn
Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.
Plurilingual Education: Policies – practices – language development
Edited by Patrick Grommes and Adelheid Hu
Plurilingual communication is common practice in most urban areas. Societal domains such as business and science nowadays see themselves as international, and plurilingual communication is the rule rather than the exception. But how do other players in critical domains of modern societies, and more… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 3] 2014. viii, 260 pp.
Recent Advances in Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification
Edited by Thomas François and Delphine Bernhard
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 165:2 (2014) vi, 243 pp.
Semantic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:1 (2014) iii, 140 pp.
Words & Constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology
Edited by Juhani Järvikivi, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matti Laine
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 9:2 (2014) v, 230 pp.
The role of input on early first language morphosyntactic development: Le rôle de l’input sur le développement morphosyntaxique précoce en langue maternelle
Edited by Sophie Kern, Frédérique Gayraud and Florence Chenu
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 5:1 (2014) v, 136 pp.
Approaches to Slavic Interaction
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta
This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of… read more[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.
Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data
Edited by Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson
This book is a critical appraisal of recent developments in corpus linguistics for the analysis of written and spoken learner data. The twelve papers cover an introductory critical appraisal of learner corpus data compilation and development (section 1); issues in data compilation, annotation and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 59] 2013. vi, 314 pp.
Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián
Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 9] 2013. xiii, 265 pp.
The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition: The Multiple Constraints Hypothesis
Anke Lenzing
Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 3] 2013. xx, 280 pp.
Displacement, Language Maintenance and Identity: Sudanese refugees in Australia
Anikó Hatoss
This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 34] 2013. xviii, 259 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 13 (2013)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Anna Ewert, Miroslaw Pawlak and Magdalena Wrembel
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 13] 2013. viii, 250 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3 (2013) iv, 131 pp.
Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora
Edited by Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylvie De Cock
The papers brought together in this volume illustrate how spoken corpora (be they native or learner corpora) can provide insights into various aspects of errors and disfluencies such as pauses and discourse markers. They show, among others, that such phenomena can be influenced by factors like… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 52] 2013. v, 172 pp.
Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project
Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi
This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world. All types of organisations, including the political institutions of the European Union, universities and private-sector companies must rise to the many… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 2] 2013. xxi, 440 pp.
First Language Attrition
Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke
This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition. It presents an overview of current research, methodological issues and important questions regarding first language attrition. In particular, it addresses the two… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 48] 2013. v, 159 pp.
Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy. The book is organized into three sections that focus on prominent linguistic and cognitive theories and together provide… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 38] 2013. xiii, 335 pp.
Interference and normalization in genre-controlled multilingual corpora
Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer
Capturing the distinction between translated vs. original (i.e. non-translated) language varieties holds centre stage in corpus-based translation studies and related fields such as supervised machine learning. A similar question also holds for native vs. proficient non-native speakers' production.… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 27] 2013. v, 134 pp.
Language Policy and Identity Construction: The dynamics of Cameroon's multilingualism
Eric A. Anchimbe
The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers’ identification with these languages, their attitude towards other languages in the community, and their choices in interpersonal and intergroup communication. Focusing on the… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 32] 2013. xxvi, 250 pp.
Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches
Edited by Joana Duarte and Ingrid Gogolin
Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas – or to ‘super-diversity’. Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Although linguistic diversity is not a… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 2] 2013. xi, 304 pp.
Metaphors in Learner English
Susan Nacey
This volume presents results from a corpus-based investigation into the metaphorical production of foreign language learners, comparing texts written by Norwegian (L2) learners of English with those written by British (L1) students. Three types of questions are addressed. The first has empirically… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2] 2013. xi, 279 pp.
Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education
Edited by Peter Siemund, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova
This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 1] 2013. ix, 379 pp.
Neural Correlates of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:2 (2013) v, 152 pp.
New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca
Heiko Motschenbacher
This volume complements earlier work on English as a lingua franca (ELF) by providing an in-depth study of the phenomenon from a decidedly European perspective. Distancing itself from more traditional approaches to the study of English in Europe (linguistic imperialism and “Euro-English”), the… read more[Not in series, 182] 2013. xi, 249 pp.
Phonological and Phonetic considerations of Lexical Processing
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 8:3 (2013) iii, 213 pp.
Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth
Thematising Multilingualism in the Media
Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani
This volume analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is presented and used as media content; and how the media are discursive sites where debates about multilingualism and other language-related issues unfold. It… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 49] 2013. v, 151 pp.
Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice
Edited by Kristin Bührig and Bernd Meyer
This volume is dedicated to applied linguistic research on multilingualism. The term “applied linguistics” is used in a broad sense and describes several examples of the cooperation between linguists and public service institutions or commercial companies. Furthermore, renowned scholars in the… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 15] 2013. vii, 151 pp.
Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation
Laura Domínguez
By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 55] 2013. xx, 267 pp.
Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures
Edited by Scott Jarvis and Michael Daller
Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should. This is understandable because most scholars do not have the time or expertise to properly evaluate the usefulness of all instruments, measures, and methods they need. It… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 47] 2013. viii, 220 pp.
Writing Assessment in Higher Education
Edited by Bert Weltens, Jos Hornikx, Wander Lowie, Petra Poelmans and Rebecca L. Present-Thomas
Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 2:1 (2013) ix, 132 pp.
Describing School Achievement in Asian Languages for Diverse Learner Groups
Edited by Angela Scarino and Catherine Elder
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 12 (2012)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Christina Lindqvist, Camilla Bardel and Niclas Abrahamsson
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 12] 2012. viii, 217 pp.
Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis
Edited by Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner
This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of multilingual corpora. The term 'multilingual corpus' is understood in a comprehensive sense, meaning any systematic collection of empirical language data enabling linguists to carry out analyses of multilingual individuals,… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 14] 2012. xiii, 407 pp.
Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel
The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] 2012. xiv, 474 pp.
Multilingualism
Larissa Aronin and David Singleton
This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 30] 2012. ix, 230 pp.
Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools
Véronique Lacoste
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.
Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Edited by Matthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl and Olivier Moliner
This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 1] 2012. ix, 339 pp.
The Syntax of Spoken Indian English
Claudia Lange
This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G45] 2012. xv, 265 pp.
Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood
Edited by Jennifer Cabrelli, Suzanne Flynn and Jason Rothman
In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 46] 2012. vii, 312 pp.
Typological perspectives on second language acquisition: ‘Thinking for Speaking’ in L2: Perspectives typologiques sur l’acquisition d’une langue seconde: ‘Penser pour Parler’ en L2
Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Monique Flecken and Efstathia Soroli
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 3:2 (2012) v, 138 pp.
The acquisition of French as a second language: New developmental perspectives: L’acquisition du français langue seconde : nouvelles perspectives développementales
Edited by Christina Lindqvist and Camilla Bardel
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 3:1 (2012) vi, 162 pp.
Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics
Edited by Michael Walsh
Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies
Edited by Kim Potowski and Jason Rothman
The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 42] 2011. vi, 371 pp.
Bilingualism in the USA: The case of the Chicano-Latino community
Fredric Field
This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 44] 2011. xviii, 320 pp.
The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel
Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch
This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Gabriele Pallotti and Camilla Bettoni
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 11] 2011. vi, 272 pp.
English in Europe Today: Sociocultural and educational perspectives
Edited by Annick De Houwer and Antje Wilton
This volume discusses several facets of English in today's multilingual Europe. It emphasizes the interdependence between cultures, languages and situations that influence its use. This interdependence is particularly relevant to European settings where English is being learned as a second language. read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 8] 2011. xi, 170 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Pinning down of “interface” in bilingualism” by Antonella Sorace
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:1 (2011) viii, 110 pp.
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap
Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 44] 2011. vi, 222 pp.
First language attrition/L'attrition de la langue première
Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2:2 (2011) v, 157 pp.
Grammaticalization and first language acquisition – Crosslinguistic perspectives/Grammaticalisation et acquisition des langues premières - Perspectives interlangues
Edited by Dominique Bassano-Bonhommo and Maya Hickmann †
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2:1 (2011) v, 184 pp.
Internal and External Factors in Child Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Aafke Hulk and Theodoros Marinis
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:3 (2011) v, 139 pp.
Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies
Edited by Christoph Gabriel and Conxita Lleó
Languages differ regarding both the ways they group words into phrases and the surface cues they use to indicate relevant phrasing patterns. Modeling intonation in as many languages as possible has become a central goal of theoretical and empirical linguistics. However, intonational research has… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 10] 2011. viii, 237 pp.
Language for Specific Purposes
Edited by Antoon De Rycker, Kris Buyse and Lieve Vangehuchten
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 162 (2011) ca. 146 pp.
Languages in Business Education: Introduction
Edited by Lieven Buysse, Karoline Claes and Erwin Snauwaert
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 161 (2011) ca. 123 pp.
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part II)
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 6:1 (2011) v, 196 pp.
Modeling Bilingualism: From Structure to Chaos. In Honor of Kees de Bot
Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Wander Lowie
This volume presents an overview of changes in paradigms, perspectives and contexts of research into bilingual development over the past two decades. During this time, the focus of perspective has changed. In the early 1990s, most investigations still proceeded from models that assumed modular… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 43] 2011. vii, 308 pp.
Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House
This volume presents discourse production in multilingual contexts as a specific type of language contact situation. Translation may be seen as the prototypical type of multilingual discourse production, other types would include parallel text production in different languages (e.g. for websites)… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.
The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies: Developmental patterns of Mexican students
Elizabeth Flores-Salgado
The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 212] 2011. xi, 263 pp.
Acquiring Sign Language as a First Language / Acquisition d’une langue des signes comme langue première
Edited by Marie-Anne Sallandre and Marion Blondel
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 1:1 (2010) 164 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 10 (2010)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Martin Howard, Muiris Ó Laoire and David Singleton
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 10] 2010. vi, 281 pp.
Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems
Edited by Michèle Kail and Maya Hickmann †
How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 52] 2010. vii, 330 pp.
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I)
Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben † and Chris Westbury
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010) v, 188 pp.
Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings
Edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum
This volume focuses on work situations in Europe, North America and South-Africa, such as academic, medical and public sector, or business settings, in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners, clients, or colleagues. Central questions are… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 9] 2010. viii, 274 pp.
Sociocognitive Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy
Edited by Bronwen Patricia Dyson
The Translator as Mediator of Cultures
Edited by Humphrey Tonkin and Maria Esposito Frank
If it is bilingualism that transfers information and ideas from culture to culture, it is the translator who systematizes and generalizes this process. The translator serves as a mediator of cultures. In this collection of essays, based on a conference held at the University of Hartford, a group of… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 3] 2010. x, 201 pp.
Words and their meaning: A deep delve from surface distribution intounderlying neural representation
Edited by Merle Horne and Mikael Roll
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:2 (2010) v, 118 pp.
The Processing of Input in Second Language Acquisition / Le traitement de l'input dans l'acquisition des langues étrangères
Edited by Georges Daniel Véronique
Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 1:2 (2010) v, 174 pp.
Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication
Edited by John Read and Ute Knoch
Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Juliane House
This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 8] 2009. viii, 241 pp.
Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages
Michel Paradis
This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines, within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 40] 2009. xii, 219 pp.
Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe
Edited by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson
One of the most pressing issues in contemporary European societies is the need to promote integration and social inclusion in the context of rapidly increasing migration. A particular challenge confronting national governments is how to accommodate speakers of an ever-increasing number of languages… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 33] 2009. xiii, 170 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 9 (2009)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Georges Daniel Véronique, Anna Nilsson and Marion Tellier
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 9] 2009. vi, 295 pp.
The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition
Edited by Larissa Aronin and Britta Hufeisen
This volume offers an ontogenetic perspective on research on L3, multilingualism and multiple languages acquisition and a conceptually updated picture of multilingualism studies and third/multiple language acquisition studies. The contributions by prominent scholars of multilingualism present… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 6] 2009. vii, 167 pp.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching
Edited by Ludmila Isurin, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot
The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 41] 2009. xviii, 364 pp.
Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective
Edited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen
Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young. This book gives new insight into some important areas of their language, such as identity construction reflected, for instance, in prosodic patterns and language… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 184] 2009. vi, 206 pp.
Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages
Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman
Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 37] 2008. vii, 365 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 8 (2008)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Florence Myles and Annabelle David
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 8] 2008. 311 pp.
Emotion words in the monolingual and bilingual lexicon
Edited by Jeanette Altarriba, Aneta Pavlenko and Norman Segalowitz
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 3:1 (2008) 156 pp.
English as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities
Edited by Michael Clyne and Farzad Sharifian †
Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor
Silvina Montrul
Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.
L2 Vocabulary: The interface between learning and representation
Edited by Joe Barcroft and Gretchen L. Sunderman
Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 3:3 (2008) 177 pp.
Language Contact and Contact Languages
Edited by Peter Siemund and Noemi Kintana
This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented newcomers. It has two principal aims: to analyze language contact from different perspectives – notably those of language typology,… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 7] 2008. x, 358 pp.
Learning and Teaching L2 Writing
Guest-edited by Daphne van Weijen, Elke Van Steendam and Gert Rijlaarsdam
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 156 (2008) iii, 351 pp.
Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective
Edited by Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier
Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in… read more[Not in series, 139] 2008. xxviii, 422 pp.
Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by Fanny Meunier and Sylviane Granger
This book addresses the key role of phraseology in second language acquisition and instruction. It is divided into three main sections: Extracting and Describing Phraseological Units investigates the role played by native and learner corpora in the extraction and description of multiword units, two… read more[Not in series, 138] 2008. xi, 259 pp.
Respecting Linguistic Diversity in the European Union
Edited by Xabier Arzoz
After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the European Union decided to expand the existing legal framework for Irish and for other languages, such as Basque, Catalan and Galician, which are… read more[Studies in World Language Problems, 2] 2008. viii, 269 pp.
Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?
Edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey
This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners,… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 23] 2008. viii, 334 pp.
Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations
Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López
This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.
Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff
Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.
Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective
Heming Yong and Jing Peng
This stimulating new book, as the premier work introducing bilingual lexicography from a communicative perspective, is launched to represent original thinking and innovative theorization in the field of bilingual lexicography. It treats the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural… read more[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 9] 2007. x, 229 pp.
Child Second Language Acquisition: A bi-directional study of English and Italian tense-aspect morphology
Sonia Rocca
As one of the first books in child second language acquisition (SLA), this book focuses on the core area of tense-aspect morphology, reporting on three L1-Italian children learning L2 English vs. three L1-English children learning L2 Italian. An innovative longitudinal/bidirectional research… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 35] 2007. xvi, 240 pp.
Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch
In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] 2007. viii, 465 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 7 (2007)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Ayşe Gürel, Sibel Tatar and Leyla Martı
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 7] 2007. iv, 207 pp.
La centration sur l'apprenant en didactique du FLE: En hommage à Jean Binon
Sous la direction de Piet Desmet et Serge Verlinde
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 154 (2007) ca. 158 pp.
Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert
This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. vii, 258 pp.
Language as Action
Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short
Play Frames and Social Identities: Contact encounters in a Greek primary school
Vally Lytra
This book is a sociolinguistic study of children’s talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 163] 2007. xii, 300 pp.
Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts
Edited by Jan D. ten Thije and Ludger Zeevaert
Receptive multilingualism refers to the language constellation in which interlocutors use their respective mother tongue while speaking to each other. Since the mid-nineties receptive multilingualism is promoted by the European commission on par with other possibilities of increasing the mobility… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 6] 2007. x, 328 pp.
Selves in Two Languages: Bilinguals’ verbal enactments of identity in French and Portuguese
Michèle Koven
Bilinguals often report that they feel like a different person in their two languages. In the words of one bilingual in Koven’s book, “When I speak Portuguese, automatically, I'm in a different world…it's a different color.” Although testimonials like this abound in everyday conversation among… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 34] 2007. xi, 327 pp.
Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries
Edited by Kim Potowski and Richard Cameron
This volume, covering a range of topics such as Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, policy issues, pragmatics and language contact, sociolinguistic variation and contact, and Bozal (Creole) Spanish, will serve the interests of linguists, educators, and policy makers alike. It… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 22] 2007. xx, 397 pp.
Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
Edited by Wolfgang Teubert
The contributions in this volume (first published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2001)) evolved from the EU-funded project Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) and deal with various aspects of multilingual corpus linguistics. The topics… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 8] 2007. x, 162 pp.
Address from a World Perspective
Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren
Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
Lars Hinrichs
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 147] 2006. x, 302 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 6 (2006)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 6] 2006. iv, 261 pp.
English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology
Edited by Barbara O. Baptista and Michael Alan Watkins
Although it has long been recognized that second language pronunciation is strongly influenced by the native language, second language phonology has only become a recognized area of study during the last thirty years. While English has been the most frequent target language involved, the learners'… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 31] 2006. vi, 214 pp.
Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants
Edited by Kimi Kondo-Brown
This collection of studies investigates the individual, micro-psychological, and macro-societal factors that promote or discourage the development of child and young adult heritage language learners’ spoken and written skills in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The research… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 32] 2006. x, 282 pp.
Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White
Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost
The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions,… read more[Not in series, 133] 2006. vi, 363 pp.
Interfaces in Multilingualism: Acquisition and representation
Edited by Conxita Lleó
Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 4] 2006. xiv, 284 pp.
L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan
In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.
Task-Based Language Teaching
Edited by Kris Van den Branden and Machteld Verhelst
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 152 (2006) ca. 160 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory
Edited by Manfred Pienemann
Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theory of language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examines the typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic, Chinese and Japanese the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to make… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 30] 2005. xiv, 303 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 5 (2005)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, María del Pilar García Mayo and Jasone Cenoz
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 5] 2005. iv, 281 pp.
The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition
Silvina Montrul
This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 37] 2004. xvi, 413 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4 (2004)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mitsuhiko Ota
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 4] 2004. iv, 274 pp.
First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues
Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Barbara Köpke, Merel Keijzer and Lina Weilemar
This volume provides a state-of-the-art treatment of research on language attrition, the non-pathological loss of a language through lack of exposure. It combines a review of past and present research with in-depth treatments of specific theoretical and methodological issues and reports on… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 28] 2004. x, 378 pp.
Multilingual Communication
Edited by Juliane House and Jochen Rehbein
In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 3] 2004. viii, 359 pp.
A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism
Michel Paradis
This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 18] 2004. viii, 299 pp.
Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus
Laura Callahan
Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.
(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism
Edited by Natascha Müller
The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 1] 2003. xiv, 374 pp.
Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 3 (2003)
Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen and Clara Levelt
[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 3] 2003. vi, 180 pp.
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History
Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi
This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives. They… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 2] 2003. viii, 289 pp.
Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
Eva M. Fernández
The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 29] 2003. xx, 294 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Simona Pekarek Doehler
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 3] 2003.
Filipino English and Taglish: Language switching from multiple perspectives
Roger M. Thompson
English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G31] 2003. xiv, 288 pp.
Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition
Edited by Christine Dimroth and Marianne Starren
The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 26] 2003. vi, 361 pp.
Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism: Interference and convergence in functional categories
Liliana Sánchez
This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 35] 2003. x, 189 pp.
Bilingual Couples Talk: The discursive construction of hybridity
Ingrid Piller
This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 25] 2002. xii, 315 pp.
First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: The case of German Jews in anglophone countries
Monika S. Schmid
This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 24] 2002. xiv, 259 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Invisible Work: Bilingualism, language choice and childrearing in intermarried families
Toshie Okita
There is growing recognition that context is important for bilingual language development, but understanding of that context remains underdeveloped. This innovative study, spanning the fields of bilingualism, ethnicity and family studies, shows how language use in intermarried families is deeply… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 12] 2002. x, 275 pp.
Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts
Fredric Field
A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies illustrate that some things are indeed… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 62] 2002. xviii, 252 pp.
Literacies: Tertiary contexts
Compiled and edited by Zosia Golebiowski
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 (2002) vii, 148 pp.
Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds
Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn E. Jones
The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 10] 2001. xxvi, 395 pp.
Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and Sven Strömqvist
In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 23] 2001. viii, 430 pp.
Trends in Bilingual Acquisition
Edited by Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee
The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously. Ongoing as well as emerging issues are examined and discussed by leading… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 1] 2001. viii, 288 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Structures in Simultaneous Bilingualism
Edited by Susanne Döpke
This volume explores the implications of cross-linguistic structures in simultaneous bilingualism. It aims to find cognitive explanations for the presence or absence of cross-linguistic structures that go beyond the debate of ‘one system or two’. The contributors present syntactic, morphological… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 21] 2000. x, 258 pp.
Defining Standards and Monitoring Progress in Learning Languages other than English
Guest-edited by Catherine Elder
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:2 (2000) iii, 90 pp.
Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian border villages
Muhammad Hasan Amara
This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the political transformations that they have undergone, and the accompanying social and cultural changes.… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 19] 1999. xx, 261 pp.
Slips of the Tongue: Speech errors in first and second language production
Nanda Poulisse
This book reports the results of an extensive study of slips of the tongue produced by foreign language (L2) learners at different levels of proficiency. Thus, it provides new data which can be used to test current monolingual models of speech production and to further the development of bilingual… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 20] 1999. xvi, 266 pp.
Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora: Soviet immigrants in the United States
David R. Andrews
This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American “Third Wave”, the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 5] 1999. xviii, 182 pp.
Language Processing and Second Language Development: Processability theory
Manfred Pienemann
This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research. It explores the way in which language processing mechanisms shape the course of language development. Language Processing and Second Language Development thus adds one major psychological component to the search… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 15] 1998. xviii, 366 pp.
The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language
Angelika Becker and Mary Carroll
This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 11] 1997. xii, 212 pp.
Government and Codeswitching: Explaining American Finnish
Helena Halmari
Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 12] 1997. xvi, 276 pp.
Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation
Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston
This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth.These studies bolster the idea… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 10] 1996. xix, 317 pp.
The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford
Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith
This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in… read more[Not in series, 73] 1995. vii, 293 pp.
Interlanguage and Learnability: From Chinese to English
Virginia Yip
This book investigates a set of structures characteristic of Chinese speakers' English interlanguage (CIL) in the light of grammatical theory and principles of learnability. As a study of CIL grammar, it illuminates both the theory of interlanguage syntax in general and some specific problems in… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 11] 1995. xvi, 247 pp.
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context
Edited by Barbara F. Freed
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 9] 1995. xiv, 345 pp.
Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel
The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 7] 1994. vi, 282 pp.
Bilingual Performance in Reading and Writing
Edited by Alister Cumming
In the past decade, literacy in second language has emerged as one of the most significant and intriguing topics of inquiry into language processes, human knowledge, cultural practices, and educational policy. Whereas earlier inquiry, theories and policies had often considered literacy and… read more[Best of Language Learning, 1] 1994. vi, 378 pp.
Language Planning in Multilingual Contexts: Policies, communities, and schools in Luxembourg
Kathryn A. Davis
This volume examines the sociocultural factors that influence language choices and uses in the multilingual country of Luxembourg. Patterns of language use within and across communities are viewed in terms of interrelationships among language policy intent, implementation, and experience. The study… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 8] 1994. xix, 220 pp.
Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual Settings: Implications for language policies
Christina Bratt Paulston
The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 4] 1994. xi, 136 pp.
The Bilingual Lexicon
Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens
In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 6] 1993. viii, 307 pp.
Diglossia: A comprehensive bibliography, 1960–1990, and supplements
Mauro Fernández
Today, the notion of 'diglossia' occupies a prominent place in sociolinguistic research. Since the 1960s, when the dominant sense of 'diglossia' was the complementary sociofunctional distribution of two varieties of the same language, the term has been applied often controversially to a growing… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 23] 1993. lii, 472 pp.
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 1] 1992. xii, 403 pp.
One Parent – One Language: An interactional approach
Susanne Döpke
This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. In particular, it seeks to explore the following question: to what extent are families who follow the 'one parent-one language'… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 3] 1992. xviii, 231 pp.
Études offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume I. Études de linguistique générale et romane: l’approche pronominale et méthodes quantitatives
Sous la direction de Nicole Delbecque et Pierre Swiggers
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 95/96 (1992) ca. 205 pp.
Études offertes à Karel van den Eynde
Études offertes à Karel van den Eynde: Volume II. Linguistique générale et linguistique descriptive
Sous la direction de Nicole Delbecque et Pierre Swiggers
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 97/98 (1992) ca. 276 pp.
Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman: Volume 1: Focus on Bilingual Education; Volume 2: Focus on Language Planning; Volume 3: Focus on Language and Ethnicity. 3 Volumes (set)
Edited by Ofelia García, James R. Dow and David F. Marshall
Three topical volumes including essays by distinguished scholars who have been influenced by the pioneer of the sociology of language, Joshua A. Fishman. In order to do justice to the multi-facetted scope of Fishman's writings, the editors chose to produce these Focusschriften on the occasion of… read more[Not in series, FISHFEST S] 1991. 1000 pp.,3 vols
Focus on Bilingual Education: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 1
Edited by Ofelia García
This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language… read more[Not in series, FISHFEST 1] 1991. x, 348 pp.
Dimensions of Language Attrition
Edited by Kees de Bot, Michael Clyne and T.J.M. van Els
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 83/84 (1989) ca. 162 pp.
Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2 (1988) vii, 98 pp.
Australian Applied Language Studies
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.
Constraints on Error Variables in Grammar: Bilingual misspelling orthographies
Philip A. Luelsdorff
An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies. A corpus of errors is examined in minute detail. In the course of this analysis, received categories and standard assumptions about linguistic errors are critically… read more[Not in series, 25] 1986. xix, 504 pp.
Literacy
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 9:2 (1986) v, 157 pp.
Current Issues in First and Second Language Development: Proceedings of the ALAA Working Group on Language Development, Alice Springs, August 1984
Edited by Howard Nicholas
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 8:2 (1985) iii, 151 pp.
Jordanian Arabic between Diglossia and Bilingualism: Linguistic analysis
Salah M. Suleiman
Suleiman provides a linguistic analysis of Jordanian Arabic spoken by educated groups and in particular by students at Yarmouk University. He investigates the extent to which spoken Jordanian Arabic is affected by the classical-colloquial dichotomy (i.e. the extent to which diglossia is involved).… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:8] 1985. xvi, 131 pp.
Bilingual Conversation
Peter Auer
Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists’ increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:8] 1984. vii, 116 pp.
Language Handicap
Guest-edited by Ann Zubrick
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (1984) iv, 75 pp.
Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by T.J. Quinn
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 6:2 (1983) iv, 103 pp.
Papers of the workshop on Language and Prosody
Edited by Karel van den Eynde and Nicole Delbecque
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 60/61 (1983) ca. 158 pp.
Singapore and Malaysia
John Platt, Heidi Weber and Mian Lian Ho
Over the years, the Englishes of Singapore and Malaysia have developed into varieties in their own right, ranging from the sub-varieties spoken by people with high levels of English-medium education and of higher socio-economic status. This text volume illustrates this from a range of examples of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T4] 1983. iv, 138 pp.
Language Planning
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 5:2 (1982) viii, 159 pp.