SubjectsLinguistics / Discourse studies
Book series
ISSN 3118-0264
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 moreOther subjects Language policy | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Cross-linguistic Register Variation
Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo
A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 125] 2026. v, 267 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Translation Studies
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 Communication Studies | Dialogue 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 Communication 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 Communication Studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar
Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation, authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe, which take a philosopher's or even a logician's point of view. For this collection, Krabbe selected twenty of what, in his opinion, were his best philosophical essays about argumentation. Four… read more[Argumentation in Context, 23] 2026. x, 407 pp.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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 Communication Studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
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 Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges
Edited by Noelia Ramón and María Pérez Blanco
Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 126] 2026. vi, 341 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
Patterns of Context: Modelling cultural and contextual influence in utterance interpretation
Edited by Elke Diedrichsen and Frank Liedtke
Human language in its performances is not to be considered without taking into account the environment in which it takes place, i.e. its physical, social, or cultural setting. A description of the regularity or pattern driven character of this relationship is, however, still a desideratum for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 356] 2026. vi, 295 pp. + index
Other subjects Pragmatics
Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson
Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell
Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] 2026. xv, 281 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Principles of New Science: Dialogue in the stream of life
Edda Weigand
This book looks beyond the limit of certainty which has long been taken as a defining characteristic of science. Beyond certainty lies complexity. How can complexity be addressed in the framework of science? What can science of complexity mean? The first and basic principle is that we recognize… read moreOther subjects Dialogue studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez
Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Speech Act Theory, and Local Grammar – the volume… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 127] 2026. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction
Emilia Nottbeck
This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 10] 2026. xv, 246 pp. + index
Other subjects Language acquisition | Phonetics | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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, 232 pp. + index
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy