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Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context

Edited by Irene Leonardis

After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] 2026. xi, 267 pp.

Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

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, 260 pp. + index

Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Discourses of Discrimination: Language aggression in the construction of otherness

Edited by Angeliki Alvanoudi and Marianthi Georgalidou

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 14:1 (2026) v, 145 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles, political polarizations,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 355] 2026. vi, 323 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology

Formulaic Humor and Humorous Formulae in Fictional Telecinematic Dialogue

Monika Kirner-Ludwig

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies. Based upon a self-compiled corpus of 34 television series (4,214 episodes; 19.4 million words), it adopts… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 13] 2026. xxxi, 321 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics

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. + index

Other subjects General studies in art & art history | Theoretical literature & literary studies

Translating at Work: Paraprofessional translation in organizations

Edited by Kaisa Koskinen

In the daily life of multilingual and multinational organizations, knowledge, ideas and practices are constantly crossing borders and boundaries. To make this movement happen, employees of many fields beyond professional translation participate in translating across languages, organizational and… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 171] 2026. vi, 360 pp. + index | open access

Other subjects Industrial & organizational studies | Translation Studies