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IHLL 31
Advancedness in Second Language Spanish
Definitions, challenges, and possibilities
Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh
Expected February 2021. x, 512 pp.
This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature of... read more
LAL 36
Style and Reader Response
Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
Expected February 2021. vii, 236 pp.
Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real... read more
TAR 2
Address Variation in Sociocultural Context
Region, power and distance in Italian service encounters
Agnese Bresin
Expected February 2021. xxi, 287 pp. + index
This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on... read more
Z 235
Argumentation between Doctors and Patients
Understanding clinical argumentative discourse
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie
Expected February 2021. x, 155 pp.
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... read more
Z 233
Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size
I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
Expected February 2021. xiii, 160 pp.
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... read more
SLSI 34
OKAY across Languages
Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Expected March 2021. vii, 425 pp. + index
OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional... read more
TSL 130
Antipassive
Typology, diachrony, and related constructions
Edited by Katarzyna Janic and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
Expected March 2021. vii, 640 pp. + index
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this... read more
BTL 156
Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
Expected March 2021. vii, 306 pp. + index
This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory, methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators, their roles, identities, and personalities. The... read more
P&bns 318
Approaches to Internet Pragmatics
Theory and practice
Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland
Expected March 2021. vii, 341 pp. + index
Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since... read more
Z 234
Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Theory and Application
Edited by Ken-Ichi Kadooka
Expected March 2021. v, 181 pp.
This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the... read more
DAPSAC 91
Degrees of European Belonging
The fuzzy areas between us and them
Élisabeth Le
Expected March 2021. xvi, 251 pp.
While we tend to divide the world into Us and Them, a number of grey nuances exist beyond this white and black distinction. The purpose of this book is to address the fuzzy areas between Us and Them through the study of European... read more
CAL 29
Give Constructions across Languages
Edited by Myriam Bouveret
Expected March 2021. viii, 243 pp. + index
This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure,... read more
CoLL 58
Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia
A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
Expected April 2021. xvii, 258 pp. + index
South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that... read more
Impact 48
Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages
Edited by Derib Ado, Almaz Wasse Gelagay and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
Expected April 2021. vi, 412 pp. + index
The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage... read more
P&bns 319
The Pragmatics of Adaptability
Edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey
Expected April 2021. vi, 341 pp. + index
Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective... read more
CHLEL XXXII
Landscapes of Realism
Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives
. Volume I: Mapping realism
Edited by Dirk Göttsche, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger
Expected April 2021. xv, 801 pp. + index
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices... read more
P&bns 320
The Politics of Person Reference
Third-person forms in English, German, and French
Naomi Truan
Expected April 2021. xi, 273 pp. + index
This book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse. By focusing on the newly refined speech role of the... read more
TiLAR 28
The Acquisition of Referring Expressions
A dialogical approach
Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland
Expected April 2021. xix, 369 pp. + index
This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and... read more
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
Expected April 2021. xiv, 291 pp. + index
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... read more
SiBil 62
Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction
Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten
Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong
Expected April 2021. viii, 354 pp. + index
This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the... read more
VEAW G64
Bermudian English
A sociohistorical and linguistic profile
Nicole Eberle
Expected April 2021. xvii, 228 pp. + index
Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the... read more
LA 266
Romance Interrogative Syntax
Formal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
Expected April 2021. xiv, 253 pp. + index
This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his... read more
SCL 99
Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French
From syntax to lexis and discourse
Maïté Dupont
Expected April 2021. xvii, 432 pp. + index
Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers... read more
TLRP 21
The Corporate Terminologist
Kara Warburton
Expected April 2021. xxiv, 246 pp.
The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found... read more
SWLL 18
Tone Orthography and Literacy
The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages
Edited by David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter
Expected May 2021. xx, 431 pp. + index
This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language families and spanning five countries. It tests the hypothesis, ”To what extent does full tone marking... read more
LAL 37
Language in Place
Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment
Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey
Expected May 2021. vii, 252 pp. + index
The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to... read more
P&bns 321
How Emotions Are Made in Talk
Edited by Jessica S. Robles and Ann Weatherall
Expected May 2021. xi, 290 pp.+ index
How Emotions are Made in Talk brings together an exciting collection of cutting-edge interactional research examining emotions and affectivity as social actions. The international selection of scholars draw on... read more
DAPSAC 92
Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
Expected May 2021. ix, 319 pp. + index
The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in... read more
TSL 131
The Linguistics of Olfaction
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski
Expected May 2021. xiii, 474 pp. + index
This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general... read more
SCL 100
Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes
A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
Expected May 2021. xxii, 391 pp. + index
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile... read more
Impact 49
Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect
New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
John C. Maher
Expected May 2021. xiii, 240 pp. + index
Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with... read more
BCT 114
Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
Expected May 2021. vi, 247 pp. + index
The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has... read more
DAPSAC 93
Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation
A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean
Eleonora Esposito
Expected May 2021. xix, 205 pp. + index
This book explores the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the Caribbean from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. Focusing on political communication in Trinidad and Tobago, it offers unique socio-political insights... read more
TLRP 22
Defining with Simple Vocabulary in English Dictionaries
Mariusz Piotr Kamiński
Expected May 2021. xvii, 323 pp. + index
This book investigates an important but under-researched aspect of dictionary making: the use of a controlled vocabulary in definitions. The main concern of the author is the role of a definition vocabulary in how foreign... read more
Impact 50
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
Expected June 2021. vi, 379 pp. + index
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of geologically and typologically diverse languages with varying... read more
AHS 12
Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics
Isolation and contact
Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka
Expected June 2021. v, 230 pp. + index
This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and... read more
CAL 30
Constructions in Contact 2
Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
Expected June 2021. vii, 428 pp. + index
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the... read more
FTL 11
Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva
Expected June 2021. xii, 476 pp. + index
Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies... read more
TSL 132
Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
Expected June 2021. vi, 410 pp. + index
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range... read more
AIC 19
An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions
Rebecca G. Schär
Expected June 2021. xv, 157 pp. + index
This book traces the issue in argumentative discussions from its emergence to its evolution. The book makes use of naturally occurred data of spoken argumentation to investigate how an issue is raised and possibly negotiated in... read more
IHLL 33
East and West of The Pentacrest
Linguistic studies in honor of Paula Kempchinsky
Edited by Timothy Gupton and Elizabeth Gielau
Expected June 2021. viii, 213 pp.+ index
This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation, they incorporate experimental and... read more