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P&bns 52

The Acquisition of Dutch

Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions and its focus on... full description

May 1998. xvi, 444 pp.

LALD 51

The Acquisition of French

The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition

Philippe Prévost

This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the theoretical... full description

December 2009. xx, 458 pp.

LALD 57

The Acquisition of Italian

Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the acquisition of Italian... full description

July 2015. xiv, 326 pp.

LALD 37

The Acquisition of Spanish

Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition

Silvina Montrul

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative grammar: nominal and... full description

December 2004. xvi, 413 pp.

Z 60

Advances in Non-Verbal Communication

Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical crosscultural studies... full description

December 1992. xxiv, 412 pp.

CILT 82

Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both expansions and applications of the theory to a wide range of phenomena. The first section... full description

January 1992. xiii, 569 pp.

Z 68

American Dialect Research

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989

Edited by Dennis R. Preston

Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters offer accounts of how... full description

June 1993. xiv, 464 pp.

Z 86

American Sociolinguistics

Theorists and theory groups

Stephen O. Murray

This is a revised version of Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (1994), the post-World-War-II history of the emergence of sociolinguistics in North America that was described in Language in Society as “a heady combination of detailed scholarship, mordant wit, and sustained narrative designed to... full description

October 1998. x, 339 pp.

SiHoLS 86

And Along Came Boas

Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology

Regna Darnell

The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by Boas and his first generation of students, among whom linguist Edward Sapir was among the... full description

November 1998. xviii, 333 pp.

LL&LT 47

Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL

Edited by Ana Llinares and Tom Morton

This book represents the first collection of studies on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) which brings together a range of perspectives through which CLIL has been investigated within Applied Linguistics. The book aims to show how the four perspectives of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Systemic... full description

March 2017. vi, 317 pp.

Impact 15

Applying Sociolinguistics

Domains and face-to-face interaction

Diana Boxer

Diana Boxers Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various spheres of life: family, educational, social, religious, and work, with an additional chapter on cross-cultural face-to-face... full description

May 2002. xii, 245 pp.

LL&LT 30

Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research

Insights from Psycholinguistics

Edited by Pavel Trofimovich and Kim McDonough

This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of second language (L2) phonology, syntax, and lexicon. The term priming refers to the phenomenon in which prior exposure to specific language forms or meanings influences a... full description

March 2011. ix, 254 pp.

LL&LT 3

Appraising Research in Second Language Learning

A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research

Graeme Keith Porte

Designed for students of applied linguistics and TEFL on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is the first to provide specific advice and support to those wishing to learn how to approach the critical analysis of a research paper. It seeks... full description

October 2002. xx, 268 pp.

LL&LT 28

Appraising Research in Second Language Learning

A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research

Graeme Keith Porte

Designed for students of applied linguistics and second language acquisition on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is a set or recommended textbook on more than a hundred undergraduate and postgraduate courses worldwide. Now in its second... full description

October 2010. xxv, 307 pp.

TSL 19:1

Approaches to Grammaticalization

Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the... full description

October 1991. xii, 360 pp.

TSL 19:2

Approaches to Grammaticalization

Volume II. Types of grammatical markers

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

October 1991. xii, 558 pp.

TSL 19:S

Approaches to Grammaticalization

2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

January 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.

Impact 3

Approaching Dialogue

Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives

Per Linell

Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics, socio-cultural theory... full description

December 1998. xviii, 330 pp.

Z 235

Argumentation between Doctors and Patients

Understanding clinical argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie

Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how interactions between... full description

February 2021. x, 155 pp.

Z 231

The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing

Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir

This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and genres. Tailored to students in EMI programs, the content was piloted and revised during a... full description

September 2021. x, 299 pp.

LL&LT 50

Assessing L2 Listening

Moving towards authenticity

Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner

This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs; the use of... full description

August 2018. xvii, 278 pp.

NLP 3

Automatic Summarization

Inderjeet Mani

With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human summarizers, and automatic methods that... full description

June 2001. xii, 286 pp.

Z BBI S

The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations

Dictionary and workbook (set)

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

March 1991. x, 58 pp.; xl, 386 pp. + key

BTL 8 (1st)

Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training

Daniel Gile

This book is based on the author’s many years of experience as a practitioner, teacher and researcher in translation and conference interpreting. It is written for I/T trainers who are in search of a methodological basis for their teaching program. The author deals with essential translation and interpretation... full description

February 1995. xvi, 278 pp.

BTL 8

Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training

Revised edition

Daniel Gile

Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training is a systematically corrected, enhanced and updated avatar of a book (1995) which is widely used in T&I training programmes worldwide and widely quoted in the international Translation Studies community. It provides readers with the conceptual bases... full description

November 2009. xv, 283 pp.

Z 123

A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation

German-English-German

Michael Hann

This CD-rom and the accompanying handbook attack many of the most crucial difficulties encountered by both native and non-native English speakers when translating scientific and engineering material from German.The CD-rom is like a miniature encyclopaedia dealing with the fundamental conceptual basis of science,... full description

May 2004. xxxviii, 250 pp. (incl. CD-rom)

Z 203

Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist

The life histories of some applied linguists

Edited by Rod Ellis

Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists. Their professional autobiographies document the development of some of the key areas of applied linguistics – second, language acquisition, motivation, grammar, vocabulary, testing, second... full description

October 2016. vi, 373 pp.

SiBil 54

Bilingual Cognition and Language

The state of the science across its subfields

Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice

This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and... full description

March 2018. vi, 403 pp.

LALD 7

Bilingual First Language Acquisition

French and German grammatical development

Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel

The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific grammatical phenomena;... full description

September 1994. vi, 282 pp.

SiBil 6

The Bilingual Lexicon

Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens

In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical point of view, the mental lexicon, as a bridge between form and meaning, plays a crucial... full description

August 1993. viii, 307 pp.

BLL 1

Bilingual Performance in Reading and Writing

Edited by Alister Cumming

In the past decade, literacy in second language has emerged as one of the most significant and intriguing topics of inquiry into language processes, human knowledge, cultural practices, and educational policy. Whereas earlier inquiry, theories and policies had often considered literacy and bilingualism as quite... full description

January 1994. vi, 378 pp.

SiBil 37

Bilingualism and Identity

Spanish at the crossroads with other languages

Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman

Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in three regions where... full description

April 2008. vii, 365 pp.

SiBil 44

Bilingualism in the USA

The case of the Chicano-Latino community

Fredric Field

This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino community of Southern... full description

August 2011. xviii, 320 pp.

SiBil 57

Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond

Questions and insights

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian

The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often called executive... full description

June 2019. viii, 377 pp.

Z 113

Bio-Linguistics

The Santa Barbara lectures

T. Givón

Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall naturally within an integrated study of living organisms.In this new work, Givón points out that... full description

December 2002. xviii, 383 pp.

NLP 11

Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Kevin Bretonnel Cohen and Dina Demner-Fushman

Biomedical Natural Language Processing is a comprehensive tour through the classic and current work in the field. It discusses all subjects from both a rule-based and a machine learning approach, and also describes each subject from the perspective of both biological science and clinical medicine. The intended... full description

February 2014. xi, 160 pp.

LL&LT 60

The COLT Observation Scheme

Digital versions and updated research applications

Nina Spada

This volume presents the 2nd edition of the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme. Since the book’s original publication, COLT has become well established as a research instrument in L2 teaching and learning. This new edition brings COLT into the 21st century by introducing digital... full description

Expected August 2024. v, 207 pp. + index

TSL 18

Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson

Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora),... full description

January 1988. xiii, 428 pp.

BPA 2

Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism

Edited by John W. Schwieter

The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental exercise which may... full description

August 2016. xvii, 453 pp.

CLiP 2

Cognitive English Grammar

Günter Radden and René Dirven †

Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and meaningfulness are... full description

July 2007. xiv, 374 pp.

CLiP 1 (1999)

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology,... full description

January 1999. xiv, 300 pp.

CLiP 1

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

Second revised edition

Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

June 2004. xii, 277 pp.

LAL 17

Cognitive Grammar in Literature

Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of... full description

April 2014. xiv, 255 pp.

P&bns 55

Cognitive Semantics

Meaning and cognition

Edited by Jens Allwood and Peter Gärdenfors

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning as a cognitive... full description

March 1999. x, 201 pp.

LAL 1

Cognitive Stylistics

Language and cognition in text analysis

Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to arrive at innovative... full description

November 2002. xvi, 333 pp.

TSL 11

Coherence and Grounding in Discourse

Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984

Russell S. Tomlin

This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects the organizational... full description

January 1987. viii, 512 pp.

TSL 31

Coherence in Spontaneous Text

Edited by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givón

The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic representation as the speech... full description

March 1995. x, 267 pp.

AIS 4

Communication in Humans and Other Animals

Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander

Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and nonverbal... full description

June 2013. xi, 242 pp.

Z 72

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

An introduction

Robert S.P. Beekes

The book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, the first to appear in English. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian)... full description

September 1995. xxii, 376 pp.

Z 172

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

An introduction

Robert S.P. Beekes

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a discussion of the culture... full description

October 2011. xxiv, 415 pp.

BTL 11

Comparative Stylistics of French and English

A methodology for translation

Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet

The Stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais has become a standard text in the French-speaking world for the study of comparative stylistics and the training of translators. This updated, first English edition makes Vinay & Darbelnet's classic methodology of translation available to a wider readership. The... full description

December 1995. xx, 359 pp.

TSL 10

Complementation

Its Meaning and Forms

Evelyn N. Ransom

This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one... full description

January 1986. xii, 226 pp.

LL&LT 54

Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development

Edited by Gary G. Fogal and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

This volume integrates complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and L2 writing scholarship through a collection of in-depth studies and commentary across a range of writing constructs, learning contexts, and second and foreign languages. The text is arranged thematically across four topics: (i) perspectives on... full description

June 2020. xvii, 304 pp.

TSL 15

Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages

Edited by Peter Austin

Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of... full description

January 1988. vii, 289 pp.

LL&LT 48

Complexity Theory and Language Development

In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman

Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han

This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The chapters therein range... full description

November 2017. xv, 234 pp.

LL&LT 6

Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching

Edited by Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson

This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists. It should be of particular interest to researchers looking to assess its relevance to SLA theory and ELT practice. Throughout the volume, emphasis is also placed on practical, methodological aspects of... full description

December 2002. x, 246 pp.

P&bns 39

Computer-Mediated Communication

Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), is the first to... full description

June 1996. viii, 326 pp.

Z 201

Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics

Jan Nijen Twilhaar and Beppie van den Bogaerde

This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists, learners and other sign language users, and of course of the Deaf themselves.Unique to this... full description

June 2016. xi, 230 pp.

BTL 120

Conference Interpreting – A Complete Course

Robin Setton and Andrew Dawrant

The conference interpreting skillset – full consecutive and simultaneous interpreting – has long been in demand well beyond the multilateral intergovernmental organizations, notably in bilateral diplomacy, business, international tribunals and the media. This comprehensive coursebook sets out an updated step-by-step... full description

June 2016. xxviii, 470 pp.

BTL 121

Conference Interpreting – A Trainer’s Guide

Robin Setton and Andrew Dawrant

This companion volume to Conference Interpreting – A Complete Course provides additional recommendations and theoretical and practical discussion for instructors, course designers and administrators. Chapters mirroring the Complete Course offer supplementary exercises, tips on materials selection, classroom practice,... full description

June 2016. xxxiv, 650 pp.

LL&LT 24

Connected Words

Word associations and second language vocabulary acquisition

Paul Meara

What words come into your head when you think of SUN? For native English speakers, the most common responses are MOON, SHINE and HOT, and about half of all native speaker responses to SUN are covered by these three words. L2 English speakers are much less obliging, and produce patterns of association that are markedly... full description

August 2009. xvii, 174 pp.

CAL 2

Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and... full description

December 2004. vi, 209 pp.

CAL 3

Construction Grammars

Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried

The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language... full description

February 2005. viii, 325 pp.

AALS 9

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and... full description

February 2013. xiii, 265 pp.

Z 130

Context as Other Minds

The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication

T. Givón

Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has been well known since... full description

July 2005. xvi, 283 pp.

TSL 34

Conversation

Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives

Edited by T. Givón

The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a variety of perspectives: social, cultural, cognitive and communicative. Our aim for both the... full description

May 1997. viii, 302 pp.

P&bns 125

Conversation Analysis

Studies from the first generation

Edited by Gene H. Lerner

This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by Harvey Sacks, the... full description

August 2004. x, 302 pp.

SCL 33

Corpora and Language Teaching

Edited by Karin Aijmer

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of... full description

January 2009. viii, 232 pp.

CLL 36

Creoles in Education

An appraisal of current programs and projects

Edited by Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens

This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideological context of projects, policy developments and project... full description

May 2010. vii, 356 pp.

LL&LT 51

Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Aarnes Gudmestad and Amanda Edmonds

This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology) and approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, concept-oriented analyses, variationism) have... full description

September 2018. ix, 231 pp.

LALD 2

Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory

Edited by Thom Huebner and Charles A. Ferguson

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have traditionally flowed from... full description

July 1991. viii, 435 pp.

LL&LT 53

Cross-theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and their Individual Differences

Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss

This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist approach, and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to each approach is... full description

January 2020. xii, 270 pp.

CLSCC 8

Cultural Linguistics

Cultural conceptualisations and language

Farzad Sharifian †

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the theoretical and... full description

November 2017. xvii, 171 pp.

Z 73

The Current State of Interlanguage

Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford

Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or... full description

November 1995. vii, 293 pp.

Z 57

Cursing in America

A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets

Timothy Jay

This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes, semantics, and... full description

January 1992. viii, 272 pp.

SP 1

De betekenis als verhaal

Semiotische opstellen

Algirdas Julien Greimas

De Franse semioticus Algirdas Julien Greimas is ongetwijfeld een van de belangrijkste denkers in het Europese structuralisme. Zijn werk vormt dan ook de inspiratiebron voor onderzoekers uit diverse disciplines. Het Greimassiaanse model gaat er immers vanuit dat de meest uiteenlopende verschijnselen geanalyseerd kunnen... full description

June 1991. x, 245 pp.

SiBil 40

Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It examines, within the framework of a neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism (Paradis,... full description

January 2009. xii, 219 pp.

TSL 24

Deixis, Grammar, and Culture

Revere D. Perkins

Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views of this type of hypothesis. Precisely such a connection is developed employing a functional... full description

December 1992. x, 245 pp.

TSL 42

Demonstratives

Form, function and grammaticalization

Holger Diessel

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the... full description

December 1999. xii, 205 pp.

BTL 4

Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond

Gideon Toury

A replacement of the author's well-known book on Translation Theory, In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980), this book makes a case for Descriptive Translation Studies as a scholarly activity as well as a branch of the discipline, having immediate consequences for issues of both a theoretical and applied nature.... full description

May 1995. viii, 311 pp.

BTL 100

Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond

Revised edition

Gideon Toury

This is an expanded and slightly revised version of the book of the same title which caused quite a stir when it was first published (1995). It thus reflects an additional step in an ongoing research project which was launched in the 1970s. The main objective is to transcend the limitations of using descriptive... full description

November 2012. xv, 350 pp.

LALD 44

Developmental Psycholinguistics

On-line methods in children’s language processing

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen

How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context? This volume introduces readers to an emerging field of research, experimental developmental psycholinguistics, and to the four predominant... full description

January 2008. xviii, 190 pp.

LL&LT 32

Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency

Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA

Edited by Alex Housen, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope, multiple objectives and lack of clarity as to... full description

October 2012. xii, 305 pp.

LL&LT 1

Discourse Intonation in L2

From theory and research to practice

Dorothy M. Chun

Intonation, rhythm, and general “melody” of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the latest linguistic... full description

April 2002. xviii, 285 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Z 69

Discourse Studies

An introductory textbook

Jan Renkema

This book familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific 'toolkit' for courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of the professional literature.The book consists of four parts. In Part I the... full description

August 1993. x, 224 pp.

Z 184

The Discourse Studies Reader

Main currents in theory and analysis

Edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak

Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now translated into English... full description

June 2014. ix, 417 pp.

DAPSAC 15

Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World

Adrian Blackledge

In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along ‘chains of discourse’... full description

September 2005. x, 252 pp.

LL&LT 20

Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

Christiane Dalton-Puffer

The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such CLIL classrooms. It examines teacher and student talk at secondary school level... full description

September 2007. xii, 330 pp.

Impact 21

The Discourse of Child Counselling

Ian Hutchby

This book is an empirical study of naturally occurring interaction between child counselling professionals and young children experiencing parental separation or divorce. Based on tape recordings of the work of a London child counselling practice, it offers the reader a unique and sustained look inside the child... full description

February 2007. xii, 145 pp.

BTL 52

The Discourse of Court Interpreting

Discourse practices of the law, the witness and the interpreter

Sandra Hale

This book explores the intricacies of court interpreting through a thorough analysis of the authentic discourse of the English-speaking participants, the Spanish-speaking witnesses and the interpreters. Written by a practitioner, educator and researcher, the book presents the reader with real issues that most court... full description

June 2004. xviii, 267 pp.

DAPSAC 24

Discourse, War and Terrorism

Edited by Adam Hodges and Chad Nilep

Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the “war on terror” to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political,... full description

April 2007. ix, 248 pp.

Z 148

Discourse, of Course

An overview of research in discourse studies

Edited by Jan Renkema

Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema’s Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates. The new book is a collection of twenty short papers. It is a capita selecta course and meant for graduate programs. The aim of this book is threefold: to present material for advanced courses in discourse... full description

May 2009. vii, 393 pp.

P&bns 4

Doctor–Patient Interaction

Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel

This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient. The questions under consideration in the present book are the following: How is the doctor-patient interaction structured in a particular culture? What takes place during the process? What causes misunderstandings, lack of... full description

January 1989. xxxviii, 294 pp.

LL&LT 52

Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom

Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability

Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser and Goretti Prieto Botana

This book is unique in bringing together studies on instructed second language acquisition that focus on a common question: “What renders this research particularly relevant to classroom applications, and what are the advantages, challenges, and potential pitfalls of the methodology adopted?” The empirical studies... full description

March 2019. vi, 219 pp.

TBLT 8

Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT

A decade of plenaries from the international conference

Edited by Martin Bygate

This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and 2013. It thus assembles up-to-date reflections, critiques, and recommendations from... full description

November 2015. xxiv, 325 pp.

UPAL 28

Dutch Literature in the Age of Rembrandt

Themes and ideas

Maria A. Schenkeveld

Dutch literature of the 17th century, while not as famous as other elements of the culture of the Dutch Golden Age, deserves independent focus, not only because of its own intrinsic worth, but also because of the evidence of strong social concern that it presents and the light it sheds on other aspects of the Golden... full description

January 1991. x, 216 pp., 60 ills.

Z 175

Dutch for Reading Knowledge

Christine van Baalen, Frans R.E. Blom and Inez Hollander

This first Dutch for Reading Knowledge book on the market promotes a high level of reading and translation competency by drawing from Dutch grammar, vocabulary and reading strategies, and providing many translation “shortcuts” and tips when tackling complex texts in Dutch. Aimed at students, researchers and scholars... full description

August 2012. xv, 247 pp.

LL&LT 29

A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development

Methods and techniques

Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie

Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the theory, this book, co-authored by several leading scholars in the field, concentrates on... full description

February 2011. ix, 211 pp.

LL&LT 25

Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching

Edited by Lee B. Abraham and Lawrence Williams

New technologies are constantly transforming traditional notions of language use and literacy in online communication environments. While previous research has provided a foundation for understanding the use of new technologies in instructed second language environments, few studies have investigated new literacies... full description

August 2009. x, 346 pp.

CLL 8

The Emergence of Black English

Text and commentary

Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila

Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of BEV is sparse. This... full description

April 1991. x, 352 pp.

Z 242

English Complex Words

Exercises in construction and translation

Piotr Twardzisz

English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language items, this book... full description

June 2023. xi, 392 pp.

Z ENGRAM 1

English Grammar

A function-based introduction

T. Givón

The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and literally, grammar... full description

July 1993. xxii, 318 pp.

Z ENGRAM 2

English Grammar

A function-based introduction

T. Givón

July 1993. xv, 363 pp.

Z ENGRAM S

English Grammar

A function-based introduction

T. Givón

The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional: Grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and literally, grammar... full description

January 1993. xxii, 318 pp. & xvi, 363 pp.

LL&LT 7

English Language Learning and Technology

Lectures on applied linguistics in the age of information and communication technology

Carol A. Chapelle

This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning, the book identifies significant areas of interplay between technology and applied... full description

December 2003. xvi, 213 pp.

CILT 99

English Phonology

John T. Jensen

This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and presents critical commentary. There is a discussion of current theories, segment and syllable... full description

December 1993. x, 251 pp.

Z 88

English Prepositions Explained

Seth Lindstromberg

English Prepositions Explained has been written both for non-native and native speakers of English and is intended for: teachers of English; translators; materials writers; advanced students of English; frequent users of English generally.English Prepositions Explained furnishes information about English prepositions... full description

March 1998. xii, 309 pp.

Z 157

English Prepositions Explained

Revised edition

Seth Lindstromberg

This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target readership includes... full description

August 2010. xiii, 273 pp.

Z 100

English Sentence Analysis

An introductory course

Marjolijn H. Verspoor and Kim Sauter

English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the student will be proficient in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have a solid understanding of the... full description

August 2000. 237 pp.

Z 240

English Sentence Constructions

Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch

English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. As a... full description

August 2022. 261 pp.

Z 59

English Text

System and structure

J.R. Martin

This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis inspired by... full description

November 1992. xiv, 620 pp.

P&bns 77

Essays in Speech Act Theory

Edited by Daniel Vanderveken and Susumu Kubo

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as:- What do we mean?- How do we say it? and- How is it understood?in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on human communication. It... full description

December 2001. vi, 345 pp.

BTL 9

Essays on Terminology

Alain Rey

A carefully selected collection of essays by the most renowned specialist in terminology in France, now published in English. The chapters deal with the origins of terminology, theoretical issues, social aspects, neologisms and evolution, lexicology and lexicography, applied issues, description and control,... full description

March 1995. xiv, 223 pp.

RMAL 1

Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research

Theory, methods, and interpretation

Edited by Ignacio Guillén-Galve and Ana Bocanegra-Valle

This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. Throughout its six theoretical and practice-oriented studies, together with the introductory... full description

October 2021. xi, 162 pp.

TSL 53

The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

Edited by T. Givón and Bertram F. Malle

The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave birth to a unique... full description

December 2002. x, 394 pp.

LL&LT 27

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research provides students and researchers interested in language acquisition with comprehensible and practical information on the most frequently used methods in language acquisition research. It includes contributions on first and child/adult second language learners,... full description

October 2010. vii, 292 pp.

VEAW G29

Exploring Natural Language

Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English

Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts

ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive guide to both corpus... full description

June 2002. xviii, 344 pp.

TSL 39

External Possession

Edited by Doris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi

External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical... full description

August 1999. ix, 573 pp.

CELCR 10

Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage

A methodological analysis of theory and research

Gerard J. Steen

Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a large array of... full description

November 2007. xvi, 430 pp.

SiBil 2

Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Edited by Kees de Bot, Ralph B. Ginsberg and Claire Kramsch

This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the quantitative/qualitative research controversy, new trends in language testing and evaluation, and the... full description

April 1991. xi, 275 pp.

LL&LT 9

Formulaic Sequences

Acquisition, processing and use

Edited by Norbert Schmitt

Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind,... full description

February 2004. x, 304 pp.

LIS 22

A French-English Grammar

A contrastive grammar on translational principles

Morris Salkoff

In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the rules giving the... full description

September 1999. xvi, 342 pp.

TSL 45

Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and... full description

October 2001. vii, 492 pp.

Z 149

From Body to Meaning in Culture

Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese

Ning Yu

From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the cultural environment. The... full description

May 2009. xvi, 310 pp.

Z 80

From Grammar to Science

New Foundations for General Linguistics

Victor H. Yngve

Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current linguistic theory. Many of the difficulties are caused by longstanding confusions between... full description

December 1996. xii, 350 pp.

SiHoLS 103

From Whitney to Chomsky

Essays in the history of American linguistics

John E. Joseph

What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader cultural trends?This book brings together 15... full description

December 2002. viii, 240 pp.

ATA XVII

From the Classroom to the Courtroom

A guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system

Elena M. de Jongh

From the Classroom to the Courtroom: A guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system offers a wealth of information that will assist aspiring court interpreters in providing linguistic minorities with access to fair and expeditious judicial proceedings. The guide will familiarize prospective court interpreters and... full description

March 2012. xxii, 215 pp.

SWLL 1

Functional Literacy

Theoretical issues and educational implications

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven

The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The book divides into five parts. The first part deals with theoretical questions related to the definition and the modeling of the... full description

April 1994. viii, 493 pp.

Z 74

Functionalism and Grammar

T. Givón

This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and establish non-circular empirical definitions of both 'function' and 'structure'. Ideological... full description

June 1995. xvii, 486 pp.

BTL 106

Game Localization

Translating for the global digital entertainment industry

Minako O'Hagan and Carme Mangiron

Video games are part of the growing digital entertainment industry for which game localization has become pivotal in serving international markets. As well as addressing the practical needs of the industry to facilitate translator and localizer training, this book seeks to conceptualize game localization in an attempt... full description

August 2013. xii, 374 pp.

Impact 9

Gender Across Languages

The linguistic representation of women and men

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed... full description

October 2001. xiv, 328 pp.

Impact 10

Gender Across Languages

The linguistic representation of women and men

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed... full description

April 2002. xiv, 349 pp.

Impact 11

Gender Across Languages

The linguistic representation of women and men

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This is the third of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed... full description

April 2003. xiv, 391 pp.

Impact 36

Gender Across Languages

Volume 4

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher

This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered... full description

April 2015. xv, 415 pp.

Impact 9-11

Gender Across Languages

The linguistic representation of women and men

Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann

This three-volume reference work provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural... full description

April 2003. xiv, 329 pp. & xiv, 349 pp. & xiv, 391 pp.

LALD 14

Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition

Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons

Edited by Harald Clahsen

Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book focuses on the... full description

July 1996. xxviii, 499 pp.

Z 146

The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity

Diachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution

T. Givón

Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human language faculty - evolutionary yet mysteriously immune to Darwinian adaptive selection.... full description

February 2009. xviii, 366 pp.

GS 2

Gesturecraft

The manu-facture of meaning

Jürgen Streeck

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making... full description

April 2009. xii, 235 pp.

LL&LT 15

Goals for Academic Writing

ESL students and their instructors

Edited by Alister Cumming

This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers present a detailed... full description

August 2006. xii, 204 pp.

TSL 48

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both synchronically (e.g., on a... full description

May 2002. xviii, 551 pp.

Z 197

A Grammar of Mandarin

Jeroen Wiedenhof

A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book opens with an overview of the language situation and a thorough account of Mandarin speech... full description

October 2015. xxv, 477 pp.

TSL 25

The Grammar of Space

Soteria Svorou

A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of... full description

April 1994. xiv, 290 pp.

TSL 35

Grammatical Relations

A functionalist perspective

Edited by T. Givón

This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on their functional aspects, such as reference, cognitive accessibility and discourse... full description

November 1997. viii, 350 pp.

SiBil 53

Growing Old with Two Languages

Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging

Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan

This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism. With ongoing media focus on the aging population and the need for activities to forestall cognitive decline, experiences that appear effective in... full description

August 2017. vi, 304 pp.

SiBil 58

Heritage Languages

A language contact approach

Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have... full description

November 2019. xix, 302 pp.

SP 2

Het semiotisch pragmatisme van Charles S. Peirce

Onder redactie van Hans van Driel

Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is een invloedrijke Amerikaanse wetenschapsfilosoof. Hij is de grondlegger het van semiotisch pragmatisme, een tegenhanger van het structuralisme van Ferdinand de Saussure.De filosofie van Peirce gaat er vanuit dat kennis over de werkelijkheid niet anders kan worden verkregen dan via... full description

June 1991. 139 pp.

TSL 26

Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions

Carol Lord

This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and... full description

August 1993. x, 273 pp.

Z 227

Historical Linguistics

A cognitive grammar introduction

Margaret E. Winters

This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of... full description

May 2020. xvii, 241 pp.

Z 161

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development,... full description

June 2011. xviii, 421 pp.

CILT 6

Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Raimo Anttila

In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate the problems raised by this heterogeneity in a number of ways. Since it is impossible to... full description

January 1989. xv, 462 pp.

SiHoLS 105

A History of Language Philosophies

Lia Formigari

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role.An introductory... full description

October 2004. x, 252 pp.

Z 183

A History of the English Language

Revised edition

Elly van Gelderen

The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for... full description

April 2014. xx, 338 pp.

Z 135

A History of the English Language

Elly van Gelderen

THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of the language, it... full description

August 2006. xviii, 334 pp.

TBLT 15

How to Teach an Additional Language

To task or not to task?

Kris Van den Branden

This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part, the book provides up-to-date insights into the cognitive, motivational, and emotional dimensions of learning an... full description

April 2022. xiii, 292 pp.

SCL 12

How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

Edited by John McH. Sinclair

After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is... full description

April 2004. viii, 308 pp.

Z 195

How to do Linguistics with R

Data exploration and statistical analysis

Natalia Levshina

This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among linguists. How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis is unique in its scope,... full description

November 2015. xi, 443 pp.

P&bns 182

Humor in Interaction

Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in the... full description

July 2009. xvii, 238 pp.

Impact 6

Ideology, Politics and Language Policies

Focus on English

Edited by Thomas Ricento

This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the ‘New World Order’. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development. Historical analyses and case studies by leading researchers in language policy studies reveal that... full description

November 2000. x, 197 pp.

SiBil 48

Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages

Edited by Patrick Rebuschat

Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decision making, and social interaction, are largely dependent on implicit (unconscious) knowledge. Given its relevance, it is not surprising that the study of implicit... full description

September 2015. xxii, 489 pp.

P&bns 167

Impoliteness in Interaction

Derek Bousfield

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness' "evil twin"... full description

January 2008. xiii, 281 pp.

C&EB 3

The Importance of Not Being Earnest

The feeling behind laughter and humor

Wallace Chafe

The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive.... full description

February 2007. xiii, 167 pp.

SiBil 39

Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism

Re-examining the Age Factor

Silvina Montrul

Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers who, unlike... full description

September 2008. x, 312 pp.

LL&LT 2

Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning

Edited by Peter Robinson

Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining these interactions is... full description

September 2002. xii, 387 pp.

LL&LT 12

Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics

Multiple perspectives

Edited by Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff

Concepts such as dependability/generalization and inferences are dealt with implicitly or explicitly in any research undertaken in applied linguistics. This volume provides a well-balanced and cross-disciplinary perspective on how researchers conceptualize inferences about learner acquisition and performances as well... full description

March 2006. vi, 248 pp.

DDCS 3

Information Design

An introduction

Rune Pettersson

The goal of communication-oriented design of messages should always be clarity of communication. In information design the task of the sender is actually not completed until the receivers have received and understood the intended messages.Information Design – An introduction includes chapters explaining verbo-visual... full description

December 2002. x, 296 pp.

LL&LT 38

Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism

Edited by John W. Schwieter

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy. The book is organized into three sections that focus on prominent linguistic and cognitive theories and together provide a compelling set of... full description

August 2013. xiii, 335 pp.

TiLAR 13

Input and Experience in Bilingual Development

Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis

Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume constitutes the first... full description

October 2014. ix, 204 pp.

TBLT 9

Input-based Tasks in Foreign Language Instruction for Young Learners

Natsuko Shintani

The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched. The book reports a study that... full description

March 2016. xi, 199 pp.

RMAL 3

Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods

Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and YouJin Kim

Written for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering foundations of conducting ISLA research, the subsequent chapters are organized by four skill... full description

December 2022. xxiv, 388 pp.

LL&LT 44

Interaction and Second Language Development

A Vygotskian perspective

Rémi A. van Compernolle

This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, the chapters delve into a... full description

December 2015. xi, 215 pp.

LL&LT 39

Interlanguage

Forty years later

Edited by ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes a first-ever... full description

April 2014. vii, 255 pp.

CHLEL XI

International Postmodernism

Theory and literary practice

Edited by Hans Bertens and Douwe W. Fokkema †

Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than... full description

February 1997. xvi, 581 pp.

TSL 4

Interrogativity

A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982

Edited by William Chisholm, Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin

This is a comparative study on the subject of interrogativity, presenting broad and narrow attributes on this subject in diverse languages: Russian, Mandarin, Georgian, Bengali, Bantu, Japanese, West Greenlandic and Ute. Each contribution presents, first the basic facts about the language in question, its more recent... full description

January 1984. v, 302 pp.

SCLD 16

Introducing Chinese Linguistics

A handbook for Chinese language teachers and learners

Hang Zhang and Lan Zhang

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of Chinese linguistics, including the core components of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, writing system, and social cultural aspects of the language. It also discusses key features of Chinese language acquisition in each of these areas,... full description

December 2022. xx, 283 pp.

Z 102 (1st)

Introducing Sociolinguistics

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap

FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This introductory textbook expertly synthesizes the main approaches to the... full description

January 2000. 528 pp.

Z 102

Introducing Sociolinguistics

Second Edition

Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap

FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly synthesises the main... full description

July 2009. xxvi, 502 pp.

Z 121

An Introduction to African Languages

G. Tucker Childs

This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African... full description

December 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

CLiP 4

Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics

Klaus-Uwe Panther

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic... full description

March 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.

Z 219

Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

Jan Renkema and Christoph Schubert

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14... full description

November 2018. xv, 453 pp.

Z 124

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Jan Renkema

Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema’s successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse studies and approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the... full description

August 2004. x, 363 pp.

Z 209

Introduction to Healthcare for Arabic-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee, Nawar Gailani and Anna N. Gailani

Arabic is a language of substantial cultural and religious importance. It is spoken by about 300 million people, predominantly in the 22 countries of the Arab world, as well as in several other regions where the Arab diaspora has settled. Arabic is also the language of Islam and underpins the religious practice of... full description

December 2016. xxx, 395 pp.

Z 202

Introduction to Healthcare for Chinese-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee and Eva N.S. Ng

This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Chinese glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings, familiarizing themselves with anatomy, physiology,... full description

August 2016. xxvii, 412 pp.

Z 181

Introduction to Healthcare for Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee

“Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.” (Mitchell Kapor, n.d.). Medical concepts and terminology can be very confusing for the uninitiated interpreter or translator. This book will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings, familiarizing... full description

September 2013. xxvi, 338 pp.

Z 205

Introduction to Healthcare for Japanese-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee and Teruko Asano

This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Japanese glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings, familiarizing themselves with anatomy, physiology,... full description

December 2016. xxviii, 412 pp.

Z 239

Introduction to Healthcare for Russian-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee, Johanna Hautekiet and Lidia Rura

Health interpreters and translators often face unpredictable assignments in the multifaceted healthcare setting. This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with commonly asked questions and glossaries in Russian. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical... full description

December 2021. xxx, 452 pp.

Z 193

Introduction to Healthcare for Spanish-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee, Holly Mikkelson and Laura Monzon-Storey

This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Spanish glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings, familiarizing themselves with anatomy, physiology,... full description

April 2015. xxviii, 388 pp.

Z 241

Introduction to Healthcare for Turkish-speaking Interpreters and Translators

Ineke H.M. Crezee, Oktay Eser and Fatih Karakaş

Health interpreters and translators often face unpredictable assignments in the multifaceted healthcare setting. This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with commonly asked questions and glossaries in Turkish. Turkish is the home language of a very... full description

November 2022. xxxii, 423 pp.

Z 176

An Introduction to Linguistic Typology

Viveka Velupillai

This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. There is also a discussion on methodological issues in typology. This textbook is the first... full description

August 2012. xxii, 517 pp.

Z 134

Introduction to Neurolinguistics

Elisabeth Ahlsén

This introduction to neurolinguistics is intended for anybody who wants to acquire a grounding in the field. It was written for students of linguistics and communication disorders, but students of psychology, neuroscience and other disciplines will also find it valuable. The introductory section presents the theories,... full description

July 2006. xii, 212 pp.

Z 147

An Introduction to Old Frisian

History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary

Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.

This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. This part is... full description

January 2009. xii, 237 pp.

SSLS 7

An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North America

Marc Picard

This textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher, and not exclusively to the student of linguistics, and in which the basic concepts and... full description

January 1987. xi, 90 pp.

Z 111

An Introduction to the Grammar of English

Syntactic arguments and socio-historical background

Elly van Gelderen

This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts.The focus is on syntactic analysis and... full description

September 2002. xxiv, 200 pp.

Z 153

An Introduction to the Grammar of English

Revised edition

Elly van Gelderen

It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are concerned. It continues to provide a very lively and clearly written textbook. The book... full description

January 2010. xxi, 232 pp.

Z 143

An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata

Willem J.M. Levelt

The present text is a re-edition of Volume I of Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, a three-volume work published in 1974. This volume is an entirely self-contained introduction to the theory of formal grammars and automata, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Of course, major new developments... full description

September 2008. xi, 139 pp.

AiCR 13

Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness

New methodologies and maps

Edited by Max Velmans

How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This requires the development of appropriate first-person, second-person and third-person... full description

November 2000. xii, 381 pp.

LOALL 17

Japanese

Revised edition

Shoichi Iwasaki

Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. Japanese has a... full description

January 2013. xxi, 383 pp.

Z 55

The Joy of Grammar

A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley

Edited by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod

Two threads run through this collection of 22 papers by students and colleagues of James D. McCawley. The first is a commitment to deep reflection on the direction of linguistic study, sometimes resulting in challenges to the writings of major figures or new appreciations, sometimes questioning our assumptions about... full description

January 1992. xii, 400 pp.

P&bns 1

The Jury Summation as Speech Genre

An ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it

Bettyruth Walter

The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The 'summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with jurors. But the speech... full description

January 1988. xvii, 264 pp.

LL&LT 59

L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts

Edited by Mimi Li and Meixiu Zhang

This book is the first edited volume to compile up-to-date scholarship that discusses frontier knowledge on second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) and highlights technology-mediated solutions to it. The volume consists of conceptual papers and empirical studies that explore theoretical, methodological, and... full description

August 2023. vii, 253 pp.

LL&LT 58

L2 Pragmatics in Action

Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process

Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón

This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics. Also included are... full description

April 2023. xxii, 343 pp.

LALD 8

Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar

Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz

This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of the 'initial state'... full description

January 1994. xii, 401 pp.

CILT 94

The Language Builder

An essay on the human signature in linguistic morphogenesis

Claude Hagège

Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world around them. Further,... full description

June 1993. xii, 283 pp.

Z 158

Language Documentation

Practice and values

Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee

Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details the most recent... full description

November 2010. xviii, 340 pp.

BTL 1

Language Engineering and Translation

Consequences of automation

Juan C. Sager

At a time when information technology has become a regular tool of specialised translators in all aspects of their work, it is useful to place the activity of technical translation into its appropriate environment and to describe it from the point of view of its role in the broader context of communication in which it... full description

April 1994. xx, 345 pp.

CILT 191

Language History

An introduction

Andrew L. Sihler

This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and... full description

February 2000. xvi, 298 pp.

Z 83

Language Policy

Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges

Edited by William Eggington and Helen Wren

‘Think globally, act locally’ is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges. The book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted — Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. It explores how the dominance of English impacts on the development of... full description

February 1997. xxviii, 170 pp.

SiBil 15

Language Processing and Second Language Development

Processability theory

Manfred Pienemann

This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research. It explores the way in which language processing mechanisms shape the course of language development. Language Processing and Second Language Development thus adds one major psychological component to the search for a theory of... full description

July 1998. xviii, 366 pp.

LL&LT 41

Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers

Theory and research

Jan H. Hulstijn

This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical. The first part of the book provides... full description

February 2015. xi, 195 pp.

LL&LT 57

Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts

Edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar and Jonathon Reinhardt

This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic, and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that have not been adequately examined before. It therefore offers new understandings and... full description

January 2022. x, 196 pp.

LALD 5

Language Transfer in Language Learning

Revised edition

Edited by Susan M. Gass and Larry Selinker

The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from its early role... full description

October 1992. x, 236 pp.

TSL 5

Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by William E. Rutherford

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important cross-fertilization between... full description

January 1984. ix, 264 pp.

SFSL 55

Language and Meaning

The structural creation of reality

Christopher Beedham

This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and Russian. The author... full description

November 2005. xiv, 225 pp.

LL&LT 4

Language in Language Teacher Education

Edited by Hugh Trappes-Lomax and Gibson Ferguson

This volume explores the defining element in the work of language teacher educators: language itself. The book is in two parts. The first part holds up to scrutiny concepts of language that underlie much practice in language teacher education yet too frequently remain under-examined. These include language as social... full description

December 2002. vi, 258 pp.

WLP 1

Language in the Twenty-First Century

Selected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University

Edited by Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we, or should we, maintain a balance between the global need to communicate and the... full description

August 2003. vi, 209 pp.

Z 27

The Language of Love and Guilt

Ruth Wodak and Muriel Schulz

Although mother and daughter are two central female roles, they have rarely been investigated. The relationship is specific, certainly different than the mother–son or father–daughter relationships. And this difference manifests itself in sex-specific language behavior. Despite ‘eternal’ features of the... full description

January 1986. x, 253 pp.

Z 54

The Languages of Joyce

Selected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988

Edited by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Carla Marengo and Christine van Boheemen

The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title might suggest. The contributors explore not only Joyce’s ‘languages’ and modes of... full description

November 1992. xx, 277 pp.

LL&LT 55

Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching

A collection of empirical studies

Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch

This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2 studies. The contributing authors include both established and emerging authors from around... full description

August 2020. vii, 313 pp.

Z 112

Law Enforcement, Communication, and Community

Edited by Howard Giles

Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and citizens communicate across a range of contexts and problem areas. While much attention is... full description

July 2002. x, 265 pp.

CILT 35

The Laws of Indo-European

N.E. Collinge

This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete – thorough – exhaustive.

January 1985. xvii, 308 pp.

AALS 12

Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities

Many pathways to being Chinese

Edited by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Andy Hancock

This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which diasporic children and... full description

July 2014. xv, 243 pp.

TBLT 11

Learning Language through Task Repetition

Edited by Martin Bygate

After more than 20 years of research, this is the first book-length treatment of second language task repetition – the repetition of encounters with a task that involve re-using the same content with the same overall purpose. The topic links task performance with the growing mastery of both the task and of relevant... full description

September 2018. x, 334 pp.

SiBil 17

Learning a Second Language through Interaction

Rod Ellis

This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition. The principal perspectives are those afforded by the Interaction Hypothesis, Socio-Cultural Theory and the Levels of Processing model. Interaction is, therefore, defined broadly; it is seen as... full description

December 1999. x, 285 pp.

LL&LT 18

Learning and Teaching Languages Through Content

A counterbalanced approach

Roy Lyster

Based on a synthesis of classroom SLA research that has helped to shape evolving perspectives of content-based instruction since the introduction of immersion programs in Montreal more than 40 years ago, this book presents an updated perspective on integrating language and content in ways that engage second language... full description

March 2007. xii, 173 pp.

LL&LT 31

Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional Language

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

This book is a pioneer attempt to bridge the gap between the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and second and foreign language (L2) writing. Its ultimate aim is to advance our understanding of written language learning by compiling a collection of theoretical meta-reflections and empirical studies that shed... full description

October 2011. xii, 263 pp.

RMAL 6

Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi

Research methodology plays a pivotal role in generating new knowledge in any academic discipline. Applied Linguistics (AL) researchers use a variety of research methodologies to address different research problems and research questions, given its interdisciplinary nature. Notwithstanding the plethora of research... full description

January 2024. vi, 274 pp.

SWLL 9

Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Edited by David Barton and Nigel Hall

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter... full description

April 2000. vi, 262 pp.

LL&LT 43

Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning

Joe Barcroft

This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other levels of input... full description

December 2015. xi, 194 pp.

BLL 2

Lexical Issues in Language Learning

Birgit Harley

The nine major empirical studies of Lexical Issues in Language Learning address key issues in the development and use of vocabulary by child bilinguals and older second language learners. The thematic focus in this collection of Language Learning articles is on the assessment of lexical development in bilinguals at... full description

January 1995. iv, 318 pp.

TLRP 20

Lexical Semantics for Terminology

An introduction

Marie-Claude L'Homme

Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in resources. It also explains... full description

January 2020. xxi, 263 pp.

TSL 37

The Limits of Grammaticalization

Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper

The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a... full description

July 1998. vi, 307 pp.

SCL 25

Linear Unit Grammar

Integrating speech and writing

John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen

People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to harness the potential... full description

November 2006. xxii, 185 pp.

Z 216

A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students

Paul Boucher

A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same time it is a practical manual for the advanced language student or the translator with dozens of... full description

April 2018. xiv, 297 pp.

SiBil 4

Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual Settings

Implications for language policies

Christina Bratt Paulston

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held... full description

March 1994. xi, 136 pp.

Z 156

The Linguistic Structure of Modern English

Laurel J. Brinton and Donna M. Brinton

This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The emphasis is on... full description

July 2010. xx, 426 pp.

CILT 75

Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description

Nine Current Approaches

Edited by Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph

This volume presents nine of today's grammatical theories with a view to comparing their starting points and their methods. The particular features and properties of each theory are discussed in this book, as well as the major conceptual differences and methodological obstacles each has overcome and has yet to... full description

December 1991. vii, 355 pp.

LL&LT 33

Linguistics for Intercultural Education

Edited by Fred Dervin and Anthony J. Liddicoat

The issue of intercultural learning has been tackled, amongst others, in the fields of education, language education and applied linguistics. In spite of the extensive literature on the subject, there is still much which needs to be done to address the ways in which linguistics itself can contribute to intercultural... full description

April 2013. vi, 201 pp.

TSL 36

The Linguistics of Giving

Edited by John Newman

In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of ‘give’ verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of ‘give’ verbs, including both literal and figurative senses, across languages. Topics include: an apparent... full description

February 1998. xv, 373 pp.

TSL 21

The Linguistics of Literacy

Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan

This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which cluster around three of... full description

July 1992. xx, 334 pp.

Z 199

The Linguistics of Sign Languages

An introduction

Edited by Anne E. Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer

How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These... full description

June 2016. xv, 378 pp.

Z 36

Literary Anthropology

A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial idea of literary... full description

January 1988. xxiii, 342 pp.

P&bns 78

Literature as Communication

The foundations of mediating criticism

Roger D. Sell

This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern “culture wars”, though the theory put forward will be of interest not only... full description

December 2000. xiv, 348 pp.

SiBil 1

Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages

Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the... full description

June 1992. xii, 403 pp.

Z 208

Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing

I.S.P. Nation

Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe the factors they need... full description

September 2016. xiv, 210 pp.

Z 233

Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of native-speaker vocabulary size has been one of the most methodologically contentious areas... full description

February 2021. xiii, 160 pp.

Z 108

Mediating Criticism

Literary Education Humanized

Roger D. Sell

In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and plays from their potential audience. This is the trend which Roger D. Sell now seeks to... full description

December 2001. x, 431 pp.

BTL 22

Memes of Translation

The spread of ideas in translation theory

Andrew Chesterman

Memes of Translation is a search for coherence in translation theory based on the notion of Memes: ideas that spread, develop and replicate, like genes. The author explores a wide range of ideas on translation, mapping the “meme pool” of translation theory with chapters on translation history, norms, strategies,... full description

June 1997. vii, 219 pp.

BTL 123

Memes of Translation

The spread of ideas in translation theory

Andrew Chesterman

This revised edition of Memes of Translation includes updates that relate the book's themes to more recent research in Translation Studies. The book contributes to the debate about whether it is worth seeking a coherent theory of translation, by proposing an approach based on norms, strategies and values, which are... full description

February 2016. xii, 225 pp.

LL&LT 19

Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning

Mick Randall

This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining ‘bottom-up’ decoding processes as compared with... full description

August 2007. x, 220 pp.

CELCR 6

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Alice Deignan

Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different perspectives, and especially... full description

June 2005. x, 236 pp.

GS 3

Metaphor and Gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture — a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical... full description

June 2008. ix, 306 pp.

CILT 175

Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics

Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of lexical analysis of... full description

June 1999. viii, 226 pp.

CELCR 14

A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification

From MIP to MIPVU

Gerard J. Steen, Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann, Anna A. Kaal, Tina Krennmayr and Tryntje Pasma

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of instructions covering one chapter, the... full description

June 2010. xi, 238 pp.

HCP 18

Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey

Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive Linguistics, the volume presents guidelines for employing methods from a variety of intersecting... full description

June 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.

RMAL 4

Methods in Study Abroad Research

Past, present, and future

Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Cristina Sanz

Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The present volume... full description

February 2023. ix, 393 pp.

TSL 23

The Middle Voice

Suzanne Kemmer

This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term “middle... full description

October 1993. xii, 300 pp.

LA 12

Minimal Ideas

Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework

Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways deviating from the... full description

August 1996. xii, 364 pp.

Impact 27

Minority Languages and Group Identity

Cases and Categories

John Edwards

The central concern in this book is the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in ‘minority’ settings. Since much of the current interest in minority languages revolves around issues of identity politics, language rights and the plight of ‘endangered’... full description

January 2010. ix, 231 pp.

DAPSAC 9

(Mis)Representing Islam

The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers

John Richardson

(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how élite broadsheet newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the inseparable combination of ‘social practices’, ‘discursive practices’ and the ‘texts’ themselves from a perspective... full description

January 2004. xxiii, 262 pp.

TSL 32

Modality in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of... full description

August 1995. viii, 575 pp.

CILT 70

Morphology

Word structure in generative grammar

John T. Jensen

A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more recent development of... full description

January 1990. x, 210 pp.

TSL 9

Morphology

A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form

Joan L. Bybee

This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the recurrent properties of morphological systems in terms of the processes that create them. For the... full description

January 1985. xii, 235 pp.

LL&LT 40

Motivation and Foreign Language Learning

From theory to practice

Edited by David Lasagabaster, Aintzane Doiz and Juan Manuel Sierra

Motivation is a key aspect of second language learning. There is no doubt that abstract models are basic to gain theoretical insights into motivation; however, teachers and researchers demand comprehensible explanations for motivation that can help them to improve their everyday teaching and research. The aim of this... full description

July 2014. viii, 190 pp.

SWLL 10

Multilingual Literacies

Reading and writing different worlds

Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn E. Jones

The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate theoretical and... full description

January 2001. xxvi, 395 pp.

Impact 30

Multilingualism

Larissa Aronin and David Singleton

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is very wide-ranging.... full description

February 2012. ix, 230 pp.

BTL 54

Multiple Voices in the Translation Classroom

Activities, tasks and projects

Maria González-Davies

The main aim of this book is to provide teaching ideas that can be adapted to different learning environments and that can be used with different language combinations. The pedagogical approach and the activities, tasks and projects are based on Communicative, Humanistic and Socioconstructivist principles: the... full description

July 2004. x, 259 pp.

UPAL 32

The Muzzled Muse

Literature and censorship in South Africa

Margreet de Lange

“The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996)A critical assessment of literature produced under censorship needs to take... full description

April 1997. xii, 181 pp.

LAL 6

Narrative Progression in the Short Story

A corpus stylistic approach

Michael Toolan

One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix... full description

January 2009. xi, 212 pp.

AiOS 11

Narratives We Organize By

Edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi

This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal actions that do not make sense when reported with simple chronology. Narrating is organizing... full description

June 2003. x, 276 pp.

NLP 5 (1st)

Natural Language Processing for Online Applications

Text retrieval, extraction and categorization

Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier

This text covers the emerging technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical issues. It seeks to satisfy a need on the part of technology practitioners in the Internet space, faced with having... full description

June 2002. x, 226 pp.

NLP 5

Natural Language Processing for Online Applications

Text retrieval, extraction and categorization

Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier

This text covers the technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical concerns. It assumes some mathematical background on the part of the reader, but the chapters typically begin with a... full description

June 2007. x, 232 pp.

NLP 13

Negation and Speculation Detection

Noa P. Cruz Díaz and Manuel J. Maña López

Negation and speculation detection is an emerging topic that has attracted the attention of many researchers, and there is clearly a lack of relevant textbooks and survey texts. This book aims to define negation and speculation from a natural language processing perspective, to explain the need for processing these... full description

February 2019. ix, 95 pp.

AiCR 36

Neurochemistry of Consciousness

Neurotransmitters in mind

Edited by Elaine K. Perry, Heather Ashton and Allan H. Young

This pioneering book explores in depth the role of neurotransmitters in conscious awareness. The central aim is to identify common neural denominators of conscious awareness, informed by the neurochemistry of natural, drug induced and pathological states of consciousness. Chemicals such as acetylcholine and dopamine,... full description

January 2002. xii, 344 pp.

SiBil 18

A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about the representation,... full description

June 2004. viii, 299 pp.

DAPSAC 13

A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis

Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity

Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge the discourses of our... full description

July 2005. xviii, 320 pp.

TSL 49

New Reflections on Grammaticalization

Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality hypothesis; the issue of... full description

April 2002. xiv, 437 pp.

TSL 46

Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon and Masayuki Onishi

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have dative subjects, and... full description

July 2001. xii, 364 pp.

SSPCL 5

Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World

Lise Menn, Michael P. O’Connor, Loraine K. Obler and Audrey Holland

“Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World” is an up-to-date introduction to the language of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Recent research in languages other than English has challenged our old descriptions of aphasia syndromes: while their patterns can be recognized across languages, the structure of each... full description

November 1995. xvii, 212 pp.

CILT 118

On Subject and Theme

A discourse functional perspective

Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan † and Peter H. Fries

The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the formal criteria for... full description

November 1995. xlvi, 414 pp.

LAL 2

On the Discourse of Satire

Towards a stylistic model of satirical humour

Paul Simpson

This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour. Combining a range of theoretical frameworks in stylistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, Simpson examines both the methods of textual composition and the strategies of interpretation for satire. Verbal irony is central to the model, in... full description

November 2003. xiv, 242 pp.

SiBil 3

One Parent – One Language

An interactional approach

Susanne Döpke

This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. In particular, it seeks to explore the following question: to what extent are families who follow the 'one parent-one language' principle and whose... full description

November 1992. xviii, 231 pp.

CELCR 5

Origins of Language

Constraints on hypotheses

Sverker Johansson

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the origins of language... full description

February 2005. xii, 346 pp.

CILT 170

Pathways of the Brain

The neurocognitive basis of language

Sydney M. Lamb

The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all this? Does it... full description

February 1999. xii, 418 pp.

SCL 4

Pattern Grammar

A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English

Susan Hunston and Gill Francis

This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and in the... full description

February 2000. xiv, 288 pp.

SCL 2

Patterns and Meanings

Using corpora for English language research and teaching

Alan Partington

Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far, and then suggests ways of exploiting corpus data to shed light on the problem. Language phenomena... full description

November 1998. x, 158 pp.

SCL 55

Patterns and Meanings in Discourse

Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)

Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide variety of... full description

April 2013. xiii, 371 pp.

Z 190

Pedagogical Grammar

Casey Keck and YouJin Kim

This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedagogical grammar research and explores its implications for the teaching of grammar in second language classrooms. Drawing on several research domains (e.g., corpus linguistics, task-based language teaching) and a number of theoretical orientations (e.g., cognitive,... full description

December 2014. ix, 245 pp.

LL&LT 5

Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Studies in honour of Albert Valdman

Edited by Susan M. Gass, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz

The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles. Pedagogical norms guide the selection and sequencing of target language features for language teaching and learning. This book both situates and expands on this concept highlighting the interaction of research and... full description

September 2002. vi, 305 pp.

TBLT 14

Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching

Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT... full description

February 2022. ix, 282 pp.

LL&LT 45

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

Pedagogical potential and research agenda

Edited by Masatoshi Sato and Susan Ballinger

This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning. These studies aim to unveil the impact of mediating variables such as task type, mode of interaction, and social relationships on learners’ interactional behaviors and language development in this unique and... full description

March 2016. vii, 399 pp.

SCL 48

Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook

Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics is a collection of interviews with fourteen well-known researchers in the field of linguistics. Each interview consists of a set of ten questions: the first seven are common to all contributors while the last three are connected to the research experience of each guest. In the... full description

December 2011. xvi, 256 pp.

TSL 14

Perspectives on Topicalization

The case of Japanese wa

Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard

Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful examination of the... full description

January 1987. xi, 307 pp.

CLiP 3

Phonology

A cognitive grammar introduction

Geoffrey S. Nathan

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of historical and contemporary... full description

September 2008. x, 171 pp.

SiBil 36

Phonology and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Jette G. Hansen Edwards and Mary L. Zampini

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each section unified by broad... full description

March 2008. vi, 380 pp.

Z 139

Phraseology

An interdisciplinary perspective

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier

Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and... full description

June 2008. xxviii, 422 pp.

Z 138

Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by Fanny Meunier and Sylviane Granger

This book addresses the key role of phraseology in second language acquisition and instruction. It is divided into three main sections: Extracting and Describing Phraseological Units investigates the role played by native and learner corpora in the extraction and description of multiword units, two initial and crucial... full description

February 2008. xi, 259 pp.

CLL 15

Pidgins and Creoles

An introduction

Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith

This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom,... full description

December 1994. xv, 412 pp.

CLL 48

Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages

An Introduction

Viveka Velupillai

This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the sociohistorical settings,... full description

April 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.

LL&LT 11

Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language

Edited by Rod Ellis

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these theories in a series... full description

March 2005. viii, 313 pp.

P&bns 75

Poetic Effects

A relevance theory perspective

Adrian Pilkington

Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies by proposing a new... full description

May 2000. xiv, 214 pp.

LAL 9

Poetry as Research

Exploring second language poetry writing

David I. Hanauer

Poetry as Research develops an approach that allows poetry writing to be used as a research method for exploring questions relating to second language learners and more broadly for studies within the humanities and social sciences. The book investigates the characteristics of poetry writing and situates poetry writing... full description

April 2010. xiii, 164 pp.

LALD 3

Point Counterpoint

Universal Grammar in the second language

Edited by Lynn Eubank

Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion of other fundamental... full description

August 1991. x, 439 pp.

Z 44

A Practical Course in Terminology Processing

Juan C. Sager

Since the advent of the computer, terminology management can be carried out by almost anyone who has learnt to use a computer. Terminology management has proved to be an efficient tool in international communications in industry, education and international organisations. Software packages are readily available and... full description

January 1990. xi, 258 pp.

TLRP 6

A Practical Guide to Lexicography

Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg

This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries.A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through decision-making processes step-by-step to compile and design dictionaries for general and specific... full description

July 2003. xii, 460 pp.

LIWD 4

A Practical Guide to Localization

Bert Esselink

A Practical Guide to Localization was written for technical translators, localization engineers, testing engineers, desktop publishers, project managers, and anyone else who may be involved in the release of multilingual products.In this second edition, translators can learn more about localizing software, online help... full description

September 2000. ix + 488 pp.

BTL 6

The Practice of Court Interpreting

Alicia B. Edwards

The Practice of Court Interpreting describes how the interpreter works in the court room and other legal settings. The book discusses what is involved in court interpreting: case preparation, ethics and procedure, the creation and avoidance of error, translation and legal documents, tape transcription and translation,... full description

July 1995. xiii, 192 pp.

TiLAR 10

Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition

Edited by Danielle Matthews

Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally. From very early on, children demonstrate a strong desire to understand and be understood that motivates the acquisition of lexicon and grammar and enables ever more effective communication. In the 35 years since... full description

June 2014. vi, 394 pp.

P&bns 72

Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition

Sophia Marmaridou

This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the other, creates a... full description

June 2000. xii, 322 pp.

Z 170

Pragmaticizing Understanding

Studies for Jef Verschueren

Edited by Michael Meeuwis and Jan-Ola Östman

The ideas that mark modern-day pragmatics are old, but did not start to get more systematically developed until the 1960s and 1970s. Still, the very recognition of pragmatics as a self-standing academic discipline is a product of the 1980s, not least made possible by the establishment of the International Pragmatics... full description

May 2012. vi, 230 pp.

TSL 22

Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility

Edited by Doris L. Payne

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has... full description

July 1992. viii, 320 pp.

AiCR 82

The Primacy of Movement

Expanded second edition

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal point,... full description

July 2011. xxxii, 574 pp.

CILT 250

Principles of Generative Phonology

An introduction

John T. Jensen

Principles of Generative Phonology is a basic, thorough introduction to phonological theory and practice. It aims to provide a firm foundation in the theory of distinctive features, phonological rules and rule ordering, which is essential to be able to appreciate recent developments and discussions in phonological... full description

July 2004. xii, 324 pp.

TBLT 5

Processing Perspectives on Task Performance

Edited by Peter Skehan

Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction. The chapters in this volume all attempt to advance this understanding, and do so within a viewpoint which assumes limited attentional capacities and accounts for second language... full description

April 2014. xii, 266 pp.

Z 229

Professional Development in Applied Linguistics

A guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty

Edited by Luke Plonsky

Success in academia requires more than an understanding of discipline-specific literature and an ability to teach and do research. It is also necessary to develop an understanding of a range of professionally-oriented skills such as how to identify and apply to doctoral programs, how to make the most of conferences,... full description

July 2020. vi, 204 pp.

LL&LT 42

Pronunciation Fundamentals

Evidence-based perspectives for L2 teaching and research

Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro

The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of evidence-based instruction, this volume surveys both foundational and cutting-edge empirical work and pinpoints its ramifications for pedagogy.... full description

July 2015. xiii, 208 pp.

CILT 86

Psycholinguistics

Psychology, linguistics, and the study of natural language

Joseph F. Kess

This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an integrated overview of the ways in which both disciplines have investigated the learning,... full description

January 1992. xiv, 383 pp.

SCL 51

Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies

A practical guide to descriptive translation research

Edited by Michael P. Oakes and Meng Ji

This is a comprehensive guidebook to the quantitative methods needed for Corpus-Based Translation Studies (CBTS). It provides a systematic description of the various statistical tests used in Corpus Linguistics which can be used in translation research. In Part 1, Theoretical Explorations, the interplay between... full description

March 2012. x, 361 pp.

AiCR 3

Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness

An introduction

Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue

This introduction to quantum brain dynamics is accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The authors, a brain scientist and a theoretical physicist, present a new quantum framework for investigating advanced functions of the brain such as consciousness and memory. The book is the first to give a systematic... full description

October 1995. xvi, 244 pp.

SiHoLS 35

A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama

Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness

In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the general reader and... full description

January 1987. xx, 523 pp.

TSL 43

Reconstructing Grammar

Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization

Edited by Spike Gildea

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians... full description

July 2000. xiv, 269 pp.

BTL 132

Reflections on Translation Theory

Selected papers 1993 - 2014

Andrew Chesterman

Originally published in different journals and collected volumes, these papers in conceptual analysis cover some central topics in translation theory and research: types of theory and hypothesis; causality and explanation; norms, strategies and so-called universals; translation sociology, and ethics. There are... full description

April 2017. x, 396 pp.

RMAL 2

Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies

Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul

Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity of work being done. While this makes for a rich and exciting research scene, it can also... full description

September 2022. xv, 325 pp.

RMAL 5

Research Methods in the Study of L2 Writing Processes

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón and Julio Roca de Larios

This volume brings together the perspectives of new and established scholars who have connected with the broad fields of first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing to discuss critically key methodological developments and challenges in the study of L2 writing processes. The focus is on studies of composing... full description

October 2023. vi, 387 pp.

TBLT 13

Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy

In honour of Peter Skehan

Edited by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian

This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies, all reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current research, such as the role and nature of task complexity and the... full description

August 2019. xxiii, 328 pp.

LAL 13

Scientific Methods for the Humanities

Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier

Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities. Especially aimed at students and scholars of Literature, Applied Linguistics, and Film and Media, it stimulates readers to reflect on the problems and possibilities of testing the empirical assumptions and offers hands-on... full description

May 2012. xxii, 328 pp.

DoWI 4

Searching

The theory and practice of making cultural change

Merrelyn Emery

Searching explains how to make the fundamental cultural change required for a desirable sustainable future. It describes the two-stage model of open-systems social science in action and covers two major methods: the Search Conference for strategic planning and community development; and the Participative Design... full description

December 1999. xxiv, 258 pp.

SiBil 10

Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation

Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston

This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth.These studies bolster the idea that a full account... full description

October 1996. xix, 317 pp.

LL&LT 23

Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner

Child's play?

Edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey

This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners, creating intriguing... full description

October 2008. viii, 334 pp.

SiBil 9

Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context

Edited by Barbara F. Freed

Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in this collection is on... full description

October 1995. xiv, 345 pp.

LL&LT 34

Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts

Edited by Kim McDonough and Alison Mackey

This volume brings together empirical research that explores interaction in a wide range of educational settings. It includes work that takes a cognitive, brain-based approach to studying interaction, as well as studies that take a social, contextual perspective. Interaction is defined quite broadly, with many... full description

February 2013. xiv, 318 pp.

TBLT 2

Second Language Task Complexity

Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance

Edited by Peter Robinson

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should... full description

September 2011. xii, 345 pp.

LL&LT 46

Second-language Discourse in the Digital World

Linguistic and social practices in and beyond the networked classroom

Ilona Vandergriff

Second-language Discourse in the Digital World illustrates a new, practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online. With its rich set of examples from a number of different languages and a variety of digital platforms, in and... full description

August 2016. xiii, 270 pp.

SLCS 18

The Semantics of Grammar

Anna Wierzbicka

“The semantics of grammar” presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither “autonomous” nor “arbitrary”, but that it follows from “semantics”. It is shown that every grammatical construction... full description

January 1988. x, 617 pp.

LL&LT 35

Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment

Edited by Gisela Granena and Mike Long

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.e., the age at which learners are first meaningfully exposed to the L2, as robust predictors of rate of classroom language learning and level of ultimate L2 attainment in naturalistic settings, respectively. It is... full description

May 2013. xv, 295 pp.

CELCR 12

The Shared Mind

Perspectives on intersubjectivity

Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen

The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals solve the problem of... full description

June 2008. xiii, 391 pp.

BTL 117

The Sign Language Interpreting Studies Reader

Edited by Cynthia B. Roy and Jemina Napier

In Sign Language Interpreting (SLI) there is a great need for a volume devoted to classic and seminal articles and essays dedicated to this specific domain of language interpreting. Students, educators, and practitioners will benefit from having access to a collection of historical and influential articles that... full description

July 2015. xviii, 419 pp.

SWLL 4

The Social Uses of Literacy

Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa

Edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier

This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific contexts, discourses and positions. What... full description

October 1996. viii, 279 pp.

LL&LT 37

Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad

Edited by Celeste Kinginger

The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects. The volume illustrates diversification of theory and method, refinement of approaches to social interactive language... full description

July 2013. ix, 344 pp.

VEAW G27

Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English

Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars,... full description

October 2001. xviii, 373 pp.

Z 89

Source Book for Linguistics

Third revised edition

William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan

This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Rakušan’s Source Book for Linguistics. In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical Reconstruction, there are two new chapters: one on Semantics and one on Grammatical and Lexical... full description

January 1999. xii, 250 pp.

TSL 66

Space in Languages

Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories

Edited by Maya Hickmann † and Stéphane Robert

Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the collective aim of addressing... full description

May 2006. x, 362 pp.

LL&LT 26

Speech Act Performance

Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues

Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor and Esther Usó-Juan

Speech acts are an important and integral part of day-to-day life in all languages. In language acquisition, the need to teach speech acts in a target language has been demonstrated in studies conducted in the field of interlanguage pragmatics which indicate that the performance of speech acts may differ considerably... full description

February 2010. xiv, 277 pp.

SLCS 63

Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories

Part 1: Approaches to the simplex clause

Christopher S. Butler

This book and its companion volume present a detailed guide to three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. This first volume provides the necessary background through a discussion of the characteristics of functional theories, followed by... full description

June 2003. xx, 573 pp.

SLCS 64

Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories

Part 2: From clause to discourse and beyond

Christopher S. Butler

Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages. Whereas Part 1 confines... full description

June 2003. xiv, 579 pp.

SLCS 63-64

Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories

2 Volumes (set)

Christopher S. Butler

These two volumes offer a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated and tested throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages.Part 1 discusses the... full description

June 2003. xx, 573 pp. & xiv, 579 pp.

Z 94

The Structure of Modern English

A linguistic introduction

Laurel J. Brinton

The Structure of Modern English is an extensive introduction to all aspects of Modern English structure, including:PhonologyMorphologyLexical and sentence semanticsSyntaxPragmaticsThis text is for advanced undergraduate (and graduate) students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of... full description

July 2000. xxii, 335 pp. (incl. workbook on CD-rom)

HCP 12

The Structure of Time

Language, meaning and temporal cognition

Vyvyan Evans

One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitutes a... full description

March 2004. x, 286 pp.

TSL 33

Studies in Anaphora

Edited by Barbara A. Fox

The last 15 years has seen an explosion of research on the topic of anaphora. Studies of anaphora have been important to our understanding of cognitive processes, the relationships between social interaction and grammar, and of directionality in diachronic change. The contributions to this volume represent the “next... full description

August 1996. xii, 518 pp.

TSL 8

Studies in Turkish Linguistics

Edited by Dan I. Slobin and Karl Zimmer

Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and discourse-based,... full description

January 1986. vi, 294 pp.

TSL 20

Studies in Typology and Diachrony

Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday

Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning

Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the past three decades... full description

January 1990. xxxiv, 243 pp.

Z 63

Studies out in Left Field

Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday

Edited by Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek

Transformational Grammar’s Underground Classic!Back in Print in the Nick of Time!(Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc Dong (English... full description

January 1992. xxiv, 200 pp.

PALART 1

Studying Processability Theory

An Introductory Textbook

Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler

Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition. PT serves as a framework for a wide range of research covering issues, including L2 processing, interlanguage variation, typological effects on SLA, L1 transfer, pidgins and creoles, linguistic profiling,... full description

August 2011. xi, 179 pp.

TSL 2

Switch Reference and Universal Grammar

Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981

Edited by John Haiman and Pamela Munro

Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for referential tracking.... full description

January 1983. xv, 337 pp.

TSL 85

Syntactic Complexity

Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution

Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani

Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the uniquely-human language faculty – evolutionary but somehow immune to adaptive selection. This... full description

April 2009. vi, 553 pp.

Z SYN 1

Syntax

An Introduction

T. Givón

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure, in favor of a more comprehensive treatment of the semantic and pragmatic correlates of... full description

July 2001. xviii, 500 pp.

Z SYN 2

Syntax

An Introduction

T. Givón

July 2001. x, 406 pp.

Z SYN S

Syntax

An introduction

T. Givón

July 2001. xviii, 500 pp. & x, 406 pp.

Z 214

Syntax

An Introduction to Minimalism

Elly van Gelderen

Using a concise and clear style, this book highlights insights from current syntactic theory and minimalism. Chapter 1 starts with the general idea behind generative grammar and should be read from a big picture perspective. Because the book expects no prior syntactic background, its next two chapters are on lexical... full description

November 2017. xvi, 159 pp.

P&bns 96

The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood

Henk Haverkate

This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis and irrealis as parameters relevant to mood selection in both subordinate and... full description

September 2002. vi, 235 pp.

LL&LT 13

Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega

This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. It introduces readers to a cutting-edge approach for reviewing and summarizing exactly what accumulated research has to say about theoretical and practical subjects. John Norris and Lourdes Ortega first elucidate the... full description

May 2006. xiv, 350 pp.

TBLT 12

TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy

Edited by Virginia Samuda, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate

Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education, this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy, and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research. A defining part of... full description

November 2018. viii, 292 pp.

SiBil 14

Talking and Testing

Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency

Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency assessment: the ways in... full description

July 1998. x, 395 pp.

TBLT 10

Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics

Edited by Naoko Taguchi and YouJin Kim

This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into TBLT. The TBLT-pragmatics connection is illustrated in a variety of constructs (e.g., speech... full description

August 2018. x, 312 pp.

TBLT 7

Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing

Edited by Heidi Byrnes and Rosa M. Manchón

The book seeks to enlarge the theoretical scope, research agenda, and practices associated with TBLT in a two-way dynamic, by exploring how insights from writing might reconfigure our understanding of tasks and, in turn, how work associated with TBLT might benefit the learning and teaching of writing. In order to... full description

November 2014. xi, 312 pp.

TBLT 1

Task-Based Language Teaching

A reader

Edited by Kris Van den Branden, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris

Over the past two decades, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has gained considerable momentum in the field of language education. This volume presents a collection of 20 reprinted articles and chapters representative of work that appeared during that period. It introduces readers – graduate students, researchers,... full description

March 2009. ix, 512 pp.

TBLT 3

Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective

Insights from New Zealand

Martin East

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in New Zealand. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT work in classrooms. Using the stories that emerged from a series of interviews with... full description

January 2012. xix, 259 pp.

TBLT 4

Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts

Research and implementation

Edited by Ali Shehadeh and Christine A. Coombe

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and... full description

October 2012. xix, 364 pp.

LL&LT 14

Teacher Education in CALL

Edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy

This volume addresses the need for a more considered and systematic approach to teacher education and training in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in all its forms: Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for Language Learning and so... full description

September 2006. xii, 354 pp.

LL&LT 36

Technology in Interlanguage Pragmatics Research and Teaching

Edited by Naoko Taguchi and Julie M. Sykes

Technology-informed approaches to L2 research and teaching have prompted great interest by both researchers and practitioners alike. This book highlights the relationship between digitally-mediated technologies and second language pragmatics by presenting exemplary applications of technology for both research and... full description

June 2013. viii, 276 pp.

TBLT 6

Technology-mediated TBLT

Researching Technology and Tasks

Edited by Marta González-Lloret and Lourdes Ortega

This volume contributes to the development and advancement of TBLT as a research domain by investigating the intersection between tasks and technology from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., educational, cognitive, sociocultural) and by gathering empirical findings on the design and implementation of diverse... full description

July 2014. vi, 336 pp.

SCL 36

Television Dialogue

The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation

Paulo Quaglio

This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman Grammar Corpus... full description

February 2009. xiii, 165 pp

TSL 1

Tense-Aspect

Between semantics & pragmatics

Edited by Paul J. Hopper

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic... full description

January 1982. ix, 350 pp.

FIT 1

Terminologie de la Traduction

Translation Terminology. Terminología de la Traducción. Terminologie der Übersetzung

Edited by Jean Delisle, Hannelore Lee-Jahnke and Monique C. Cormier

This terminology collection presents approximately 200 concepts that can be considered the basic vocabulary for the practical teaching of translation. Four languages are included: French, English, Spanish and German. Nearly twenty translation teachers and terminologists from universities in eight countries (Canada,... full description

July 1999. vi, 433 pp.

TLRP 1

Terminology

Theory, methods and applications

Teresa Cabré

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications addresses language specialists, terminologists, and all those who take an interest in socio-political and technical aspects of Terminology. The book covers its subject comprehensively and deals among other things with concepts (the relation between linguistics, cognitive... full description

May 1999. xii, 248 pp.

UPAL 16

Text to Reader

A Communicative Approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortazar, and Boon

Theo D’haen

Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel’s form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser’s reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman’s frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations with regard to a... full description

January 1983. x, 162 pp.

SCL 22

Textual Patterns

Key words and corpus analysis in language education

Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble

Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to language teaching.... full description

March 2006. x, 203 pp.

CELCR 3

Thematics

Interdisciplinary Studies

Edited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer

Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of ‘themes’ in texts and how they are structured in language use.Much of... full description

May 2002. x, 448 pp.

LL&LT 8

Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition

Geoff Jordan

Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress towards a unified... full description

February 2004. xviii, 295 pp.

TSL 3

Topic Continuity in Discourse

A quantitative cross-language study

T. Givón

The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major departure from past... full description

January 1983. vi, 492 pp.

BTL 63

Topics in Signed Language Interpreting

Theory and practice

Edited by Terry Janzen

Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice. Yet interpreting into and from signed languages presents unique challenges for the interpreter, who works with language that... full description

October 2005. xii, 362 pp.

P&bns 19

Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy

Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading

Edited by Carolyn Baker and Allan Luke

Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in Australia, Europe... full description

June 1991. xxi, 287 pp.

BTL 10

Training the Translator

Paul Kussmaul

This book begins by investigating, through the use of think-aloud protocols, the mental processes of students when they translate. The creative and successful processes observed can be used directly for teaching purposes, while the unsuccessful ones can serve to find out where remedial training is needed. The book... full description

March 1995. ix, 178 pp.

Z 165

Transcribing Talk and Interaction

Issues in the representation of communication data

Christopher Jenks

Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books have been published... full description

August 2011. xi, 120 pp.

ATA XI

Translating Into Success

Cutting-edge strategies for going multilingual in a global age

Edited by Robert C. Sprung

The boom in international trade has brought with it an increased demand for addressing local consumers in their native language and cultural idiom. Given the complex nature and new media involved in communicating with their constituent markets, companies are developing ever more complex tools and techniques for... full description

May 2000. xxii, 240 pp.

Z 38

Translation Studies

An integrated approach

Mary Snell-Hornby

Translation Studies presents an integrated concept based on the theory and practice of translation. The author adapts linguistic approaches and methods in such a way that they may be usefully employed in the theory, practice, and analysis of literary translation. The author develops a more cultural approach through... full description

January 1988. x, 170 pp.

BTL 73

Translation as a Profession

Daniel Gouadec

Translation as a profession provides an in-depth analysis of the translating profession and the translation industry. The book starts with a presentation of the diversity of translations and an overview of the translation-localisation process. The second section describes the translation profession and the... full description

June 2007. xx, 409 pp.

BTL 101

Translators through History

Revised edition

Edited and directed by Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth

Acclaimed, when it first appeared, as a seminal work – a groundbreaking book that was both informative and highly readable – Translators through History is being released in a new edition, substantially revised and expanded by Judith Woodsworth. Translators have played a key role in intellectual exchange through the... full description

July 2012. xxv, 337 pp.

BTL 13

Translators through History

Edited and directed by Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth

In AD 629, a Chinese monk named Xuan Zang set out for India on a quest for sacred texts. He returned with a caravan of twenty-two horses bearing Buddhist treasures and spent the last twenty years of his life in the “Great Wild Goose Pagoda”, in present-day Xi’an, translating the Sanskrit manuscripts into Chinese with... full description

December 1995. xvi, 345 pp.

BTL 66

The Turns of Translation Studies

New paradigms or shifting viewpoints?

Mary Snell-Hornby

What’s new in Translation Studies? In offering a critical assessment of recent developments in the young discipline, this book sets out to provide an answer, as seen from a European perspective today. Many “new” ideas actually go back well into the past, and the German Romantic Age proves to be the starting-point. The... full description

June 2006. xi, 205 pp.

TSL 29

Typological Studies in Negation

Edited by Peter Kahrel and René van den Berg

This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on negation; for all articles these data were collected on the basis of the same questionnaire.full description

January 1994. x, 385 pp.

TSL 12

Typology of Resultative Constructions

Translated from the original Russian edition (1983)

Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic parameters and of drawing those generalizations that are most significant from a cross-linguistic... full description

January 1988. xx, 573 pp.

LALD 1

Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition

Lydia White

This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition. Although no knowledge of generative grammar is presupposed, the theoretical framework underlying the work is the principles and parameters approach to Universal Grammar (UG), as realized in Chomsky's Government and... full description

January 1989. xii, 198 pp.

LALD 10

Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition

Null subjects and morphological uniformity

Usha Lakshmanan

This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal speech data of four... full description

August 1994. x, 162 pp.

SCL 23

University Language

A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers

Douglas Biber

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic study to date has... full description

June 2006. viii, 261 pp.

TSL 59

Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization

Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon

The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism of change and in how far is it conditioned by synchronic factors? (ii) What is the role of... full description

May 2004. viii, 406 pp.

LL&LT 49

Usage-inspired L2 Instruction

Researched pedagogy

Edited by Andrea E. Tyler, Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park

This book presents a set of compelling essays collectively making a persuasive case for why a usage-based perspective on language is fast becoming a leading theoretical framework for investigating second language (L2) learning and the foundation for effective, innovative, engaging pedagogy. Drawing on 20 years of... full description

February 2018. xvii, 324 pp.

Z BBI 2 (2nd)

Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English

A workbook with exercises

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ... full description

March 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key

CLU 15

Ute Dictionary

T. Givón

This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the dictionary. The bulk of the information on the meaning and usage of Ute words is then given in... full description

March 2016. xiv, 373 pp.

CLU 3

Ute Reference Grammar

T. Givón

Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically, Ute offers a cluster... full description

May 2011. xxiii, 441 pp.

CLU 7

Ute Texts

Compiled and edited by T. Givón

This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tight connection to the local terrain, flora and fauna that supported the hunter-gatherer life. Ute story-telling tradition... full description

July 2013. xvi, 333 pp.

Z 228

Visual Linguistics with R

A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics

Christoph Rühlemann

This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on visualization in R, the book presents original case studies on conversational... full description

July 2020. ix, 258 pp.

LL&LT 10

Vocabulary in a Second Language

Selection, acquisition, and testing

Edited by Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer

The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world’s leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about and insights into the selection, the learning and teaching, or the... full description

July 2004. xiv, 234 pp.

TSL 27

Voice: Form and Function

Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper

The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more exotic languages have... full description

April 1994. xiii, 377 pp.

DAPSAC 23

Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Andrew Goatly

Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields as diverse as... full description

January 2007. xvii, 431 pp.

DDCS 2

Web Site Design is Communication Design

Thea M. van der Geest

Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and Microsoft. It offers a... full description

November 2001. viii, 165 pp.

SiHoLS 81

The Whorf Theory Complex

A critical reconstruction

Penny Lee

At last — a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger ‘theory complex’ delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf’s almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as his published papers)... full description

June 1996. x, 324 pp.

P&bcs 3

Whose Language?

A study in Linguistic Pragmatics

Jacob L. Mey

"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This goes for language as... full description

January 1985. ix, 412 pp.

TSL 30

Word Order in Discourse

Edited by Pamela A. Downing and Michael Noonan

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers... full description

June 1995. x, 595 pp.

SWLL 5

Writing and Identity

The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing

Roz Ivanič

Writing is not just about conveying ‘content’ but also about the representation of self. (One of the reasons people find writing difficult is that they do not feel comfortable with the ‘me’ they are portraying in their writing. Academic writing in particular often poses a conflict of identity for students in higher... full description

March 1998. xiii, 373 pp.

LL&LT 56

Writing and Language Learning

Advancing research agendas

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part I identify and... full description

November 2020. vii, 432 pp.

SWLL 14

Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese

Revised edition

Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, this book: (1) examines the three East Asian scripts (and English) together in relation to each other, and (2) discusses how these scripts are, and historically have been,... full description

December 2014. xix, 487 pp.

Impact 40

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology

History, theory, practice

Stefan Dollinger

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social variation, the last decade has seen a methodological revival. This book is the first... full description

December 2015. xxvii, 397 pp.

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