SubjectsLinguistics / Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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. xiv, 228 pp. + index
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages
Edited by Irene Capdevila and Francesc Feliu
The modern world, to the extent that it disassociates us from the secular traditional world, from the “primordial” jobs and words that support the cultural particularity forged over the centuries, weakens the borders between languages. Neologisms bring languages closer together irreversibly, and… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 47] 2026. vi, 264 pp.
Other subjects Language policy
Names and Naming
Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola and Rachel Selbach
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics
Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)
Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets,… read moreOther subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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 | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Other Indo-European languages | Theoretical linguistics | Writing and literacy
Talk Goes Many Ways: Language and social life in a Papua New Guinea village
Darja Hoenigman
'The Talk Goes Many Ways' is a fascinating anthropological study of language use among the Awiakay, a small village society in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Innovative in the way it integrates written analysis with segments of observational film, the book pairs key social themes with… read moreOther subjects Anthropological 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 | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Reem Khamis and Mira Goral
Special issue of Arabic Linguistics 1:2 (2025) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics