SubjectsLinguistics / Cognition and language

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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

Other subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies

Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 80] 2026. xxii, 382 pp.

Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives

Edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 (2026) vi, 228 pp.

Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics

Personification in Language and Thought: Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian

Gábor Simon

This monograph offers the first comprehensive account of personification in Hungarian, a subtle yet pervasive feature of everyday cognition and language. Combining cognitive linguistics with corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses, it reveals how personifying meaning is conceptually structured,… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 27] 2026. xiii, 271 pp. + index

Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages

Profiling Autism Through Language: Lexicogrammar, neurocognition, and machine learning

Sumi Kato

Existing accounts of language in autism have tended to focus on English and have rarely progressed beyond broad characterizations of pragmatic difficulty. This volume changes both. Drawing on a clinically defined corpus of Japanese-speaking adults with ASD and combining Systemic Functional… read more

[Not in series, 246] 2026. viii, 260 pp. + index | open access

Other subjects Discourse studies | Neurolinguistics | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics

Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas

This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University,… read more

[Not in series, 244] 2026. viii, 226 pp.

Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics

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.

Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach

Edited by Rita Brdar Szabó and Mario Brdar

The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.

Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics