Showing all 31 titles.
LL< 61
Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning
Edited by Carmen Muñoz and Imma Miralpeix
This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input, conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills, such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and reading, while also...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. vi, 246 pp. + index
SCL 118
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics
Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis
Edited by Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk
This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same time new problems...
full descriptionExpected October 2024. vii, 170 pp. + index
DS 34
Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue
Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools
Nicola Nasi
Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor, task-related activities) that...
full descriptionExpected September 2024. x, 202 pp.
CHLEL XXXV
A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
Edited by Olga Beloborodova and Dirk Van Hulle
Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas, and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields, this book charts a comparative history of the...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. xiv, 544 pp. + index
LAL 43
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense narrative. An in-depth...
full descriptionExpected September 2024. xx, 266 pp + index
SCL 119
Crossing Boundaries through Corpora
Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer
This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation, how...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. vi, 260 pp.+ index
P&bns 346
The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger
Cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye
This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry. Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese and...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. vii, 251 pp.
AALS 21
Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by Joshua J. Thoms and Kristen Michelson
Rapid changes in communication channels, tools, and conventions of interaction over the last two decades have paved the way for increasingly digital learning environments. In second language (L2) education, shifts toward digital learning and teaching were intensified during the pandemic and many such formats are here...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. ix, 190 pp. + index
LA 285
Elementary Predicates and Related Categories
Ludovico Franco
This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across diverse linguistic...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. ix, 217 pp.
P&bns 349
Influencer Discourse
Affective relations and identities
Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou
The rise of influencers, as power-players in the social media landscape, is a defining feature of the digital era, one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language, along with other semiotic modes, plays in the construction and communication of...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. vi, 308 pp. + index
FILLM 21
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective
Edited by Adams Bodomo and Carola Koblitz
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles.This volume explores the intricate connections between language, culture, and identity across the globe.An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and an essay by Liliana Sikorsky establish...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. xi, 270 pp. + index
P&bns 348
Media as Procedures of Communication
Edited by Martin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider
The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. vi, 303 pp. + index
HCP 78
Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which it is derived; (ii)...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. xvii, 338 pp. + index
SLSI 36
New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research
Edited by Margret Selting and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century, it has prospered internationally. Recently, however, new developments have opened up new perspectives for...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. vii, 421 pp.
P&bns 344
(Non)referentiality in Conversation
Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury
Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality through...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. v, 209 pp.
AIC 22
Persuasion in Specialized Discourse
A multidisciplinary perspective
Edited by Chiara Degano, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli
The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts, with special regard for those with heightened public resonance: politics, media, and public debate in general. Furthermore, it intends to explore the linguistic aspects of argumentation, including both explicit...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. ix, 265 pp. + index
FILLM 19
Ruptured Commons
Edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica J. Austen
At a time when we have all lived through profound and unexpected disruptions to our shared spaces, routines, economies, societies, and work-lives, this book considers the nature and implications of rupture, the commons, and their conjoining. Addressing rupture and disruption through the lens of literary and cultural...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. xix, 233 pp. + index
P&bns 345
Structures in Discourse
Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions
Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik
This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety of communication forms, from written to spoken to visual, in old and new media. It presents a collection of case studies ranging in focus from the micro-level discourse...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. ix, 207 pp.
LAL 42
Transformative Reading
Olivia Fialho
Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such experience,...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. xii, 263 pp.
FILLM 20
Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer
Edited by Petra Broomans and Jeanette den Toonder
Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing, with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed, as did the way in which travel was reported.
full descriptionExpected October 2024. xii, 204 pp. + index
CILT 365
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
Elisabeth M. de Boer
This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have been more conservative...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. viii, 130 pp.
P&bns 347
Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest
Linguistic and pragmatic approaches
Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi
This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which address specific and...
full descriptionExpected October 2024. vi, 281 pp. + index
SCL 117
Variation in University Student Writing
A communicative text type approach
Larissa Goulart
This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences,...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. xviii, 239 pp.
