SubjectsLinguistics / Writing and literacy
Book series
ISSN 2212-9006
Studies in Written Language and Literacy
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and Paul van den Broek
ISSN 0929-7324
Journals
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Edited by Peter Crosthwaite
ISSN 0155-0640 | E‑ISSN 1833‑7139
Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes
Edited by Pejman Habibie and Sue Starfield
ISSN 2590-0994 | E‑ISSN 2590‑1001
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Anders Pettersson
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.
Speaking of Writing Romani: Language attitudes, text editing, and variability
Melanie Schippling
As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 56] 2026. xix, 432 pp.
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning
Edited by Robyn Ober, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 49:2 (2026) v, 166 pp.
Eyes on Text: Eye movements in reading and language processing
Cengiz Acartürk
Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science, which consists of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, education in its corners. The book… read more[Natural Language Processing, 16] 2025. xiii, 342 pp.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Writing for Scholarly Publication
Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi
Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:2 (2025) vi, 194 pp.
Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam
Researchers who study multilingual literacy development face the reality of complex and ever evolving conceptualizations of multilingualism and literacy across dynamic contexts, languages, and modalities. To unlock the full potential of continuous developments in Applied Linguistics, innovative… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 11] 2025. ix, 268 pp.
Writing/Reading Interface
Edited by Terry Joyce and Constanze Weth
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 28:1 (2025) v, 171 pp.
Decolonising or Recolonising?: Generative AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and learners
Edited by Toni Dobinson, Julian Chen and Carly Steele
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024) v, 165 pp.
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… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 21] 2024. ix, 193 pp.
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… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 42] 2024. xii, 263 pp.
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… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 117] 2024. xviii, 239 pp.
Child L2 Writers: A room of their own
Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola
Studies on L2 writing tasks with child learners have broken through several barriers in the past few years. Although long considered a solitary task, writing is now regularly done in collaborative pairs and groups as well. New and more comprehensive writing and feedback strategies have been… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 32] 2023. xi, 236 pp.
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope
Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] 2023. vii, 292 pp.
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,… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] 2023. vii, 253 pp.
Language learning for language minority students in a globalized world
Edited by Mark Feng Teng and Fan Fang
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:2 (2023) v, 158 pp.
Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, M.O. Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe.… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 14] 2023. xix, 375 pp.
A Life with Poetry: The development of poetic literacy
Joan Peskin and David I. Hanauer
This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets. In doing so it provides a much needed synthesis of research findings across diverse domains such as human development, the scientific study of literature,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 41] 2023. x, 194 pp.
On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems
Edited by David F. Mora-Marín and Lynne Cahill
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 26:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
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… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 5] 2023. vi, 387 pp.
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature: Food, taste and material interactions
Ilgım Veryeri Alaca
Consumable Reading and Children's Literature explores how multisensory experiences enhance early childhood literacy practices through material and sensory interactions. Embodied engagements that focus on the gustatory experience and, in particular, the sense of taste are investigated by studying… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 12] 2022. xvii, 260 pp.
Creative Writing Across the Curriculum: Meaningful literacy for college writers across disciplines, languages, and identities
Justin Nicholes
Situated among fields (applied linguistics, creative writing studies, writing studies), this book empirically explores the language of writers in contexts of learning externalized in literary genres. At its core, this book features linguistic and thematic analysis of the writing and reflections of… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 40] 2022. xvii, 225 pp.
Spelling Acquisition in Cross-linguistic Settings
Edited by Susie Russak and Elena Zaretsky
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 25:1 (2022) v, 132 pp.
Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time
Edited by Shaila Sultana and Dariush Izadi
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 (2022) v, 116 pp.
The dynamics of academic knowledge production: Text histories and text trajectories
Edited by Theresa Lillis and Mary Jane Curry
Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 3:1 (2022) v, 163 pp.
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for students who use English as an Additional Language (EAL). By emphasizing writing as a thinking process, the textbook develops the skills writers need to work effectively with AI tools. The Art of Writing teaches students how to synthesize… read more[Not in series, 231] 2021. x, 299 pp.
Diversity in Writing Systems: Embracing multiple perspectives
Edited by Amalia E. Gnanadesikan and Anna P. Judson
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 24:2 (2021) v, 169 pp.
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… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 1] 2021. xi, 162 pp.
Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A textual and communicative perspective
Lisa Nahajec
During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 38] 2021. xiii, 218 pp.
Problematizing Language Policy and Practice in EMI and Transnational Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities
Edited by Curtis Green-Eneix, Peter I. De Costa and Wendy Li
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:2 (2021) v, 145 pp.
Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages
Edited by David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter
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 asks the research question, "To what extent does full tone marking contribute to oral reading fluency, comprehension and writing… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] 2021. xxii, 375 pp.
Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise
Edited by Ute Römer-Barron, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal
This volume showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by leading and up-and-coming corpus linguists. The studies included in the volume are based on a wide range of corpora spanning first and second language academic writing at different levels of writing expertise, containing texts… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 95] 2020. vi, 358 pp.
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)… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 54] 2020. xvii, 304 pp.
Corpus Linguistics and Education in Australia
Edited by Alexandra Garcia Murrago, Peter Crosthwaite and Monika Bednarek
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2 (2020) v, 119 pp.
Literacies in Contact
Edited by Manuela Böhm and Constanze Weth
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 23:2 (2020) v, 180 pp.
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… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 56] 2020. vii, 432 pp.
Biscriptuality: Writing skills among German-Russian adolescents
Irina Usanova
In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity in many parts of the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills. The successful development of literacy skills becomes a crucial prerequisite for educational attainment determining future career… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 8] 2019. xvi, 257 pp.
Current Perspectives on Literary Reading
Edited by Dari Escandell and José Rovira-Collado
This collection aims to provide answers regarding what the most recent trends are in research in literary reading. Based on that premise, it contains a rigorously selected and varied roster of investigations that focus on presenting and attempting to interpret and understand the most recent… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 22] 2019. x, 186 pp.
Experiencing Fictional Worlds
Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw
Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 32] 2019. xiii, 228 pp.
Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogies in Australian Higher Education
Edited by Paul J. Moore and Adriana Díaz
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:2 (2019) v, 100 pp.
Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention
Edited by Edy Veneziano and Ageliki Nicolopoulou
In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills.… read more[Studies in Narrative, 25] 2019. xix, 318 pp.
Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?)
Edited by Terry Joyce and Robert Crellin
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 22:2 (2019) v, 142 pp.
Form-function Relations in Narrative Development: How Anna became a writer
E. Birgitta Svensson
This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts. The methodology draws from both a psycholinguistic approach to narrative development, systemic functional… read more[Studies in Narrative, 24] 2018. xi, 297 pp.
Genre and Disciplinarity
Edited by Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve Price
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:2 (2018) v, 120 pp.
Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
This volume offers a fresh intercultural perspective on the discursive and rhetorical challenges non-Anglophone scholars face while writing and publishing in English for an international readership. The volume presents a wide spectrum of text-based intercultural analyses of academic texts written… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] 2018. x, 310 pp.
Learning to Read in a Digital World
Edited by Mirit Barzillai, Jenny Thomson, Sascha Schroeder and Paul van den Broek
With digital screens becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the lives of children, from their homes to their classrooms, understanding the influence of these technologies on the ways children read takes on great importance. The aim of this edited volume is to examine how advances in technology are… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 17] 2018. x, 242 pp.
Understanding Writing Systems
Edited by Merijn Beeksma and Martin Neef
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 21:1 (2018) v, 145 pp.
Untersuchungen zu den Gründungsdokumenten der färöischen Rechtschreibung: Ein Beitrag zur nordischen Schriftgeschichte
Christer Lindqvist
Die färöische Gegenwartsorthographie ging nicht wie die moderne Rechtschreibung vieler Sprachen aus einer jahrhundertelangen Schrifttradition hervor, sondern wurde im Wesentlichen im 19. Jh. neu erschaffen. Ihre Gründungsdokumente bestehen aus vier färöischen Zaubersprüchen, die in einer bis Mitte… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 29] 2018. xx, 312 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages
Edited by Hye K. Pae
This book provides readers with a unique array of scholarly reflections on the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in relation to reading processes and data-driven interpretations of cross-language transfer. Distinctively broad in scope, topics addressed in this volume include word… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 7] 2018. xii, 466 pp.
Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven
Edited by Eliane Segers and Paul van den Broek
Research on the development on written language and literacy is inherently multidisciplinary. In this book, leading researchers studying brain, cognition and behavior, come together in revealing how children develop written language and literacy, why they may experience difficulties, and which… read more[Not in series, 206] 2017. xi, 447 pp.
Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia
Edited by Antonia Rubino, Antonella Strambi and Vincenza Tudini
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:2 (2017) v, 109 pp.
Narrative Absorption
Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru
Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 pp.
Orthographic Databases and Lexicons
Edited by Lynne Cahill and Terry Joyce
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 20:1 (2017) v, 127 pp.
Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings
Edited by José A. León and Inmaculada Escudero
Text comprehension is a critical area of psychological and educational research, and has particular relevance to educational context. The general aim of this international volume Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings is to encourage excellence in research and to bring together teachers,… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 16] 2017. xvii, 198 pp.
Theories of Reading Development
Edited by Kate Cain, Donald L. Compton and Rauno K. Parrila
The use of printed words to capture language is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind, and learning to read them is one of the most remarkable achievements of individuals. In recent decades, how we learn to read and understand printed text has been studied intensely in genetics,… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 15] 2017. vii, 534 pp.
Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext
Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic
The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 23] 2016. xix, 419 pp.
Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer, offering a different level of complexity by… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 89] 2016. ix, 183 pp.
Language, Discourse, Style: Selected works of John McH. Sinclair
Edited by Sonia Zyngier
For the first time, the works on stylistics by one of the most brilliant linguists of our times are collected in a single volume. This book highlights the evolution of John Sinclair’s theories and insights from studies on language teaching through detailed analyses of text and discourse, and into… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 22] 2016. xxiii, 282 pp.
Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy
Edited by Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz
The intersection of sound processing, speech production, and literacy is a promising and growing area of study. This volume showcases recent empirical research exploring the association between linguistic rhythm and reading. Linguistic rhythm does not easily assume a single definition, which is… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] 2016. xiv, 286 pp.
Literacy Acquisition in School in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism: A binational survey
Inken Sürig, Yazgül Şimşek, Christoph Schroeder and Anja Boness
This book presents the outcomes of a multi-methodical investigation of the processes of literacy acquisition. The focus is on mono- and bilingual first- and seventh-graders in schools in socially underprivileged areas of two major cities in Turkey and Germany. By means of extensive analyses of… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 5] 2016. xii, 297 pp.
Or Words to That Effect: Orality and the writing of literary history
Edited by Daniel F. Chamberlain and J. Edward Chamberlin
This volume raises questions about why oral celebrations of language receive so little attention in published literary histories when they are simultaneously recognized as fundamental to our understanding of literature. It aims to prompt debate regarding the transformations needed for literary… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXVIII] 2016. vi, 317 pp.
Postgraduate Writing in a Globalised World
Edited by Emmaline Lear and Elke Stracke
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 39:2 (2016) v, 98 pp.
The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling
Edited by Laura Villa and Rik Vosters
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 18:2 (2015) v, 125 pp.
Teachers’ Plurilingual Identities in Transnational Contexts
Edited by Clea Schmidt and Antoinette Gagné
Writing(s) at the Crossroads: The process–product interface
Edited by Georgeta Cislaru
This volume aims at contributing to an interpretive approach to writing and its dynamics. It offers a general scope on the process-product interface by multiplying the points of view on both the process and the product and their links. The book presents new findings and perspectives in the study of… read more
Cross-linguistic transfer in reading in multilingual contexts – recent research trends
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:1 (2014) ix, 171 pp.
Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres
Edited by Luz Gil-Salom and Carmen Soler-Monreal
Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian. The chapters in the present… read more[Dialogue Studies, 23] 2014. xvi, 227 pp.
Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel
Edited by Dan Disney
Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] 2014. v, 157 pp.
Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education: Research Methods and Perspectives from Applied Linguistics
Edited by Mary Jane Curry and David I. Hanauer
Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education brings together a range of applied linguistic researchers and projects that address the interface among language studies, science, engineering, and education. The book is premised on the concept that science is of central importance in the… read more[Language Studies, Science and Engineering, 1] 2014. xvi, 180 pp.
Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia
Edited by Ingrid Piller
Reading for Learning: Cognitive approaches to children's literature
Maria Nikolajeva
How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 3] 2014. viii, 247 pp.
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… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 7] 2014. xi, 312 pp.
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… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 14] 2014. xix, 487 pp.
The architecture of writing systems
Edited by Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:2 (2014) viii, 142 pp.
Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth
Typology of Writing Systems
Edited by S. Borgwaldt and Terry Joyce
Typology research is extremely important in both proposing classification frameworks and in promoting the careful investigation and analysis of the core concepts inherent within the classification contrasts employed. More exemplary of the latter aspect, the present collection of papers on the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 51] 2013. viii, 163 pp.
Describing School Achievement in Asian Languages for Diverse Learner Groups
Edited by Angela Scarino and Catherine Elder
Units of Language – Units of Writing
Edited by Terry Joyce and David Roberts
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 15:2 (2012) v, 140 pp.
Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics
Edited by Michael Walsh
Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3
Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
This edited volume constitutes the first serious, sustained examination of the study of children’s books for children aged from 0 to 3 with contributions by scholars working in different domains and attempting to assess the recognition of the role and influence of children’s literature on the… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 13] 2011. vi, 275 pp.
Typology of writing systems
Edited by S. Borgwaldt and Terry Joyce
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 14:1 (2011) v, 159 pp.
Developmental aspects of written language
Edited by Sofía A. Vernon Carter and Mónica Alvarado
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 13:2 (2010) vi, 116 pp.
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… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 9] 2010. xiii, 164 pp.
Sociocognitive Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy
Edited by Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence
Edited by Raymond Hickey
This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G41] 2010. x, 378 pp.
Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication
Edited by John Read and Ute Knoch
The Role of Phonology in Reading
Edited by Martina Penke
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 11:2 (2009) 150 pp.
Why Writing Matters: Issues of access and identity in writing research and pedagogy
Edited by Awena Carter, Theresa Lillis and Sue Parkin
This book brings together the work of scholars from around the world – UK, Pakistan, US, South Africa, Hungary, Korea, Mexico – to illustrate and celebrate the many ways in which Roz Ivanič has advanced the academic study of writing. Focusing on writing in different formal contexts of education,… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 12] 2009. xxxii, 254 pp.
Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure
Edited by Sang-Oak Lee
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 12:2 (2009) iv, 134 pp.
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer
Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher
Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology,… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp.
English as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities
Edited by Michael Clyne and Farzad Sharifian †
Literacies, Global and Local
Edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mike Baynham
The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the ‘New Literacy Studies’ (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 2] 2008. vii, 218 pp.
Constraints on Spelling Changes
Edited by Guido Nottbusch and Eliane Segers
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 10:2 (2007) 162 pp.
Language as Action
Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short
Address from a World Perspective
Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren
Information and Document Design: Varieties on Recent Research
Edited by Saul Carliner, Jan Piet Verckens and Cathy de Waele
Recent research in information and document design explores research by presenting reports of actual research studies in information and document design. It specifically reports on ten studies in the areas of marketing communication (part one), functional communication (part two) and online… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 7] 2006. xi, 252 pp.
Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness
Edited by Martin Neef and Guido Nottbusch
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 9:1 (2006) 181 pp.
From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems
Edited by Martin Neef and Beatrice Primus †
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2005) 207 pp.
Literacy Processes and Literacy Development
Edited by Pieter Reitsma and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 8:2 (2005) 192 pp.
Written Communication across Cultures: A sociocognitive perspective on business genres
Yunxia Zhu
Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 141] 2005. xviii, 216 pp.
Process and Acquisition of Written Language
Edited by Robert Schreuder and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:1 (2004) iv, 132 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Text-Production Abilities in Speech and Writing. Part 1
Edited by Ruth A. Berman and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 5:1 (2002) iv, 135 pp.
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Text-Production Abilities in Speech and Writing. Part 2
Edited by Ruth A. Berman and Ludo Verhoeven
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 5:2 (2002) iv, 172 pp.
Literacies: Tertiary contexts
Compiled and edited by Zosia Golebiowski
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 (2002) vii, 148 pp.
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… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 10] 2001. xxvi, 395 pp.
Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey
Edited by Mike Scott and Geoff Thompson †
It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are… read more[Not in series, 107] 2001. viii, 323 pp.
Reading and Writing Public Documents
Edited by Daniël Janssen and Rob Neutelings
Governments communicate with the public through all kinds of documents: forms, brochures, letters, policy papers, and so on. These public documents have an important role in any democracy and their design very much affects the efficiency with which governments can perform their tasks.Document… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 1] 2001. vi, 304 pp.
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… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 2] 2001. viii, 165 pp.
Analysing Professional Genres
Edited by Anna Trosborg
An understanding of genres in communication (written and spoken) is essential to professional success. This volume studies situationally appropriate responses in professional communication in face-to-face interaction and distance communication, from a socio-cognitive point of view. A traditional… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 74] 2000. xvi, 255 pp.
Defining Standards and Monitoring Progress in Learning Languages other than English
Guest-edited by Catherine Elder
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:2 (2000) iii, 90 pp.
English Media Texts – Past and Present: Language and textual structure
Edited by Friedrich Ungerer
This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as well as internet… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 80] 2000. xiv, 286 pp.
Language and Dialect in the Maya Hieroglyphic Script
Gabrielle Vail and Martha J. Macri
The geographic and temporal range of the Maya Hieroglyphic script, found in over 2,000 texts spanning 1,300 years, suggests that the texts may record more that one language or dialect. This collection results from a symposium at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,… read moreSpecial issue of Written Language & Literacy 3:1 (2000) 198 pp.
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… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 9] 2000. vi, 262 pp.
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… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 78] 2000. xiv, 348 pp.
Students Writing in the University: Cultural and epistemological issues
Edited by Carys Jones, Joan Turner and Brian Street
This volume aims to raise awareness of the underlying complexities concerning student writing in the universities. The authors address a series of theoretical as well as practical questions regarding the literacies required of students in Higher Education, from the perspective of both students… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 8] 2000. xxiv, 232 pp.
Textual Parameters in Older Languages
Edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler
Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195] 2000. x, 448 pp.
Writing in Nonstandard English
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta
This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.
Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it. Selected papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augsburg, 24-27 April 1997
Edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola
Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation, this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. The general bibliography which concludes… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 63] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
Intercultural Education and Literacy: An ethnographic study of indigenous knowledge and learning in the Peruvian Amazon
Sheila Aikman
Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 7] 1999. xx, 232 pp.
The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistic Studies of Kana and Kanji processing
Joseph F. Kess and Tadao Miyamoto
This book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese. Ten chapters focus on the nature of such psycholinguistic… read more[Not in series, 95] 1999. x, 268 pp.
Indian English: Texts and Interpretation
Raja Ram Mehrotra
Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T7] 1998. x, 148 pp.
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… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 5] 1998. xiii, 373 pp.
Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view
Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo
This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development are: (1) Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between speech… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 6] 1997. xxxii, 338 pp.
Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues
Edited by Eija Ventola and Anna Mauranen
Writing is crucial to the academic world. It is the main mode of communication among scientists and scholars and also a means for students for obtaining their degrees. The papers in this volume highlight the intercultural, generic and textual complexities of academic writing. Comparisons are made… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 41] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.
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… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 4] 1996. viii, 279 pp.
Literacy and Religion: The textual politics and practice of Seventh-day Adventism
Cushla Kapitzke
This book explores the interrelation of literacy and religion as practiced by Western Christians in, first, historical contexts and, second, in one contemporary church setting. Using both a case study and a Foucauldian theoretical framework, the book provides a sustained analysis of the reciprocal… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 2] 1995. xxi, 343 pp.
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor
Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population.They use a variety of… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 3] 1995. xiii, 412 pp.
Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
D. Gary Miller
This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 116] 1994. xvi, 139 pp.
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… read more[Best of Language Learning, 1] 1994. vi, 378 pp.
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… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 1] 1994. viii, 493 pp.
Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair
Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli
Text and Technology focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis by Michael Stubbs. The first section “Spoken and… read more[Not in series, 64] 1993. xii, 361 pp.
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… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 21] 1992. xx, 334 pp.
Developmental Orthography
Philip A. Luelsdorff
Philip Luelsdorff's highly original approach to the grammar of orthography is to analyse in detail how German pupils learn about written English. In this collection of essays and experiments we are presented with the rich finds of a decade of programmatic research. The context is set with an… read more[Not in series, 51] 1991. xii, 273 pp.
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… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 19] 1991. xxi, 287 pp.
Written Language Revisited
Josef Vachek
Josef Vachek, one of the last living exponents of the Prague School, has dedicated 50 years of his life to the study of written language in all its aspects. This volume is a tribute to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It contains a selection of his papers written between 1945 and 1987. read more[Not in series, 41] 1989. xiv, 220 pp.
Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2 (1988) vii, 98 pp.
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
Richard L. Morris
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 4] 1988. xii, 177 pp.
Australian Applied Language Studies
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.
Orthography and Phonology
Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff
Collected here are eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the orthography/phonology interface. Topics include spelling-to-sound correspondence for English, French, and Russian, the design of a generative phonology for orthography data-base access, the linguistic sign and orthographic and… read more[Not in series, 29] 1987. xi, 238 pp.
Constraints on Error Variables in Grammar: Bilingual misspelling orthographies
Philip A. Luelsdorff
An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies. A corpus of errors is examined in minute detail. In the course of this analysis, received categories and standard assumptions about linguistic errors are critically… read more[Not in series, 25] 1986. xix, 504 pp.
Literacy
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 9:2 (1986) v, 157 pp.
Current Issues in First and Second Language Development: Proceedings of the ALAA Working Group on Language Development, Alice Springs, August 1984
Edited by Howard Nicholas
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 8:2 (1985) iii, 151 pp.
Language Handicap
Guest-edited by Ann Zubrick
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (1984) iv, 75 pp.
Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by T.J. Quinn
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 6:2 (1983) iv, 103 pp.
Language Planning
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 5:2 (1982) viii, 159 pp.
Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters (2nd rev.ed. London, 1863)
Richard Lepsius (1810–1884)
This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius’s Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation. read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 5] 1981. x, 99, xvii, 336 pp.