John Benjamins Publishing Company

John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher of journals, books and online resources focused on linguistics and the language sciences. We publish about 90 journals and between 80–100 new book titles per year.

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New Special Issue

Comparing Constructions in Romance and Germanic Languages

Edited by Carmen Mellado Blanco and Pedro Ivorra-Ordines

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 26:2 (2026) v, 198 pp.

New Course book

Research Synthesis Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Sin Wang Chong

This edited volume offers a critical examination of research synthesis in Applied Linguistics at a time when such work is increasingly influential and increasingly misunderstood. The volume brings together reflective accounts of conducting and editing different types of research syntheses. Instead… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 17] 2026. xix, 382 pp. | open access

New Special Issue

Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics

Edited by Olga Capirci and Sabina Fontana

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 (2026) vi, 352 pp.

New Text book

Historical Dutch for Reading Knowledge: Grammar guide and reading strategies

Frans R.E. Blom, Bryan Averbuch and Wijnie de Groot

Historical Dutch for Reading Knowledge aims to help students and scholars in any field, from history and anthropology to environmental studies and art history, learn how to read historical Dutch sources. Authored by scholars of historical Dutch with expertise in the culture and history of both the… read more

[Not in series, 245] 2026. x, 313 pp. + index

New Special Issue

Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation

Edited by Jean Nitzke and Sandra L. Halverson

Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) v, 192 pp.

New Special Issue

Analyzing Institutionalized Interactions Through Discourse Analysis and Argumentation Theory

Edited by Corina Andone and Menno H. Reijven

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 15:2 (2026) v, 108 pp.

New Reference work

Nordic Literature: A comparative history
: Volume II: Figural nodes

Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders

Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a two-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each… read more

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXVIII] 2026. xix, 914 pp. + index | open access

New Journal

InContext

Studies in Translation and Interculturalism

Edited by Ho-Jeong Cheong

ISSN 2799-6190 | E‑ISSN 2799‑8592

New Special Issue

How to Ask (Im)politely: Letters from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the ninth to the nineteenth century

Edited by Gijsbert Rutten and Petra M. Sijpesteijn

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 27:1 (2026) v, 138 pp.

New Special Issue

SFL Appliability, Visibility and Accessibility

Edited by Claudia E. Stoian, Jorge Arús-Hita and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Special issue of Language, Context and Text 7:2 (2025) v, 297 pp.

New Book series

Aspects in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

ISSN 3118-0574

New Text book

Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training: Third edition

Daniel Gile

In the 1980s, Daniel Gile thought of the potential benefit for translation and interpreting students of simple conceptual building blocks that could help them make sense of their classroom experience and of their instructors’ advice, especially as regards recurring challenges. The first edition of… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 173] 2026. xxv, 370 pp. + index

New Special Issue

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.

New Reference work

Handbook of Pragmatics: 29th Annual Installment

Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Jana Declercq

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 29] 2026. xiii, 168 pp. + index

Open Access

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Latest books

October 2026

Bridging Boundaries: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics

Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord

Bridging Boundaries: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics is a new collection of research expanding the field of Hispanic linguistics. Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord, this volume brings together established and rising scholars to span the full range of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 46] 2026. vi, 435 pp.

October 2026

TBLT for Young Learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals

Edited by Sima Khezrlou

TBLT for Young Learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals brings together leading international scholars to explore the promises and complexities of task-based language teaching (TBLT) for young second language learners. Drawing on research and classroom practice from diverse educational… read more

[Task-Based Language Teaching, 21] 2026. xvii, 322 pp.

October 2026

Verbal Aggression in Contemporary Polish: A usage-based and perception-oriented study

Artur Świątek

This monograph investigates verbal aggression in contemporary Polish from a usage-based and perception-oriented perspective. Drawing on a mixed-methods design, the study combines survey data on speakers’ evaluations of aggressive expressions with a corpus-based analysis of their occurrence in… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 57] 2026. xv, 233 pp.

October 2026

Exploring and Exploiting Parallel Corpora of Spanish: The PaCorES corpus collection in language and translation education and research

Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez-Nieto

This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research in the era of Artificial Intelligence, reporting on the development and exploitation of the Parallel Corpora of Spanish (PaCorES) collection, which comprises bidirectional, balanced resources bridging Spanish with German,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 129] 2026. vi, 327 pp.

October 2026

“You can say you to me”: Address in German

Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid

The forms of address in German and their usage have been debated for centuries, and the discussion is ongoing both in academia and in the wider public. This collection is a showcase of the current and emerging research for an international audience. The scope of topics in this volume covers German… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 7] 2026. vi, 279 pp. | open access

September 2026

Theoretical Issues in Second Language Research: Challenges and new directions

Edited by Junya Fukuta, John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi

This edited volume offers a systematic and critical examination of how theories in second language acquisition have been formulated, justified, and sustained, with particular attention to their status as explanatory accounts. Rather than introducing theories in isolation, the chapters revisit… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 69] 2026. xiii, 232 pp.

September 2026

From Carving Runestones to Digitizing Skaldic Poetry: Studies in Germanic philology and historical linguistics. In memory of Kari Ellen Gade

Edited by David Bolter, Erin Noelliste, Christopher D. Sapp and Lane Sorensen

This volume collects papers that bring Germanic philology into the 21st century. The collection is distinguished by a multitude of approaches ranging from critical editing to theoretical linguistics. It covers a wide variety of subfields, including: Old Norse poetry, Runic inscriptions, onomastics,… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 11] 2026. vi, 368 pp.

September 2026

Borderscapes: The de/construction of borders as an everyday practice in contemporary Italy

Stefania Tufi

The book expands and transforms multidisciplinary scholarship on the border by exposing the normative power of border making and introducing novel perspectives on borders as fluid and changeable spaces of potentiality. Building on work uncovering processes of border de/construction, the monograph… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 58] 2026. xviii, 230 pp. | open access

September 2026

Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Edited by Giuliana Fenech and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

This volume explores how literature for young readers shapes and is informed by the geopolitical realities of our world. Bringing together perspectives from across the globe, the volume shows how children’s and YA texts foster young people’s agency by engaging with national identity, conflict,… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 18] 2026. ix, 225 pp. | open access

September 2026

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond

Edited by Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Shelby Forbes

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond is a unique anthology that centers dialogue as practice and challenge of medical encounters, taking up Mishler's famous provocation of a dichotomy between the voice of the lifeworld and the voice of medicine, or an awareness of the… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 36] 2026. ix, 259 pp.

September 2026

Translation Studies between Disciplines and Practices

Edited by Luc van Doorslaer and Yves Gambier

This volume explores how Translation Studies is shifting from interdisciplinarity toward the blurring of disciplinary boundaries. It collects 20 co-authored chapters looking at Translation Studies from the perspectives of other disciplines and practices. Moving beyond earlier models of exchange… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 174] 2026. xiv, 402 pp.

September 2026

Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation

Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin

The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 19] 2026. xiii, 292 pp.

September 2026

Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary): A critical edition of the manuscript Rinuccini 22 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana)

Gabriele Tola

This publication is the first and long-awaited critical edition of the Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary) by the Franciscan missionary Basilio Brollo (1648–1704; Chinese name, Ye Zunxiao 葉尊孝). This publication thoroughly researches for the first time a lexicographical milestone,… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 134] 2026. xxviii, 1029 pp. | open access

August 2026

The Sounds of New Orleans: A sociophonetic study

Dana Serditova

The Sounds of New Orleans is the first book-length sociophonetic study of New Orleans English, one of the most distinctive yet understudied urban varieties of American English. Based on 114 sociolinguistic interviews, the book examines three salient Southern features — /l/-vocalization, the PIN~PEN… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G74] 2026. xvi, 224 pp.

August 2026

The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature

Edited by Mateusz Świetlicki, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka

This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of children’s literature and culture, who apply various theoretical perspectives to capture transcultural and interdisciplinary links between global and local canons. The chapters are divided into three thematic clusters: School… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 20] 2026. xxii, 265 pp. | open access

August 2026

English in Kuwait: Development, status and usage

Mohammad A.N. Alenezi

This volume presents the first in-depth exploration of Kuwait within the framework of World Englishes. It examines the historical trajectory of English language contact, the contemporary spread of the language, and public attitudes toward its use in the country. Central to the study is the… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G73] 2026. xvi, 231 pp.

August 2026