SubjectsSocial sciences / Sociology
Journals
ISSN 0272-2690 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9889
Translation, Cognition & Behavior
Edited by Elena Davitti and Alper Kumcu
ISSN 2542-5277 | E‑ISSN 2542‑5285
Book series
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
General Editor: Jo Angouri and Johann Wolfgang Unger
ISSN 1569-9463
Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 16:1 (2026) v, 177 pp.
Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles, political polarizations,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 355] 2026. vi, 323 pp.
Dialogicity in Framing Environmental Discourse
Edited by Marina Bondi and Judith Turnbull
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 15:1 (2025) v, 201 pp.
Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation
Edited by Jean Nitzke and Sandra L. Halverson
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) v, 193 pp.
In Search of Round Trips: Travelling concepts in translation studies and beyond
Edited by Cornelia Zwischenberger
Special issue of Translation in Society 4:1 (2025) v, 126 pp.
Male Separatism: Discourse, ideology, and argumentation
Jessica Aiston
This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’, the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 104] 2025. xiii, 202 pp.
Towards an Integrated Approach to Heritage and School Languages in Education Policies: The case of multilingual Geneva
Edited by Claire de Goumoëns, Laurent Gajo and Myriam Radhouane
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 49:3 (2025) v, 107 pp.
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,… read more[Dialogue Studies, 34] 2024. x, 202 pp.
Les droits fondamentaux linguistiques existent-ils? / Do Linguistic Human Rights Exist?
Edited by Laure Clément-Wilz
Special issue of Language Problems and Language Planning 48:2 (2024) v, 101 pp.
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 essays by… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 21] 2024. xi, 275 pp.
Literary translatorship in digital contexts
Edited by Wenqian Zhang, Motoko Akashi and Peter Jonathan Freeth
Special issue of Translation in Society 3:1 (2024) v, 132 pp.
Online Health Communication: Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices
Edited by Anna Tereszkiewicz and Magdalena Szczyrbak
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 14:2 (2024) vi, 200 pp.
Translation and Interpreting at the Interface of Cognition and Emotion
Edited by Ana María Rojo López and Purificación Meseguer Cutillas
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 7:1 (2024) v, 185 pp.
(Inter)Cultural Dialogues
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:3 (2023) v, 174 pp.
Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Early Twenty First Century
Edited by Adolfo M. García, Edinson Muñoz and Néstor Singer
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 6:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.
Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies
Edited by Monika Reif and Frank Polzenhagen
The present volume explores the meeting ground between Critical Discourse Studies and Cultural Linguistics. The contributions investigate culture-specific conceptualisations, ways of framing and conceptual metaphors in political discourse, as well as cultural models, cultural stereotypes and… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 103] 2023. v, 212 pp.
Practices of Dialogue, Dialogues in Practice
Edited by Alain Létourneau, Geneviève Boivin and Nicolas Bencherki
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:2 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Translation and the Formation of Collectivities: Special issue of Translation in Society 2:1 (2023)
Edited by Dilek Dizdar and Tomasz Rozmysłowicz
Special issue of Translation in Society 2:1 (2023) v, 122 pp.
Beyond Babel: Scholarly organizations and the study of languages and literatures
Edited by Tom Clark
The contribution that scholarly organizations make to the study of languages and literatures is a service to the value of systematically learning and using meaning—understanding that meaning operates in systems. Constructively speaking, these organizations support the teaching and research of our… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 18] 2022. xv, 240 pp.
Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy: Towards a post-Marxist understanding of contestation and politicization
Thomas Jacobs
Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy revisits a question that has long fascinated socialists, progressives, democrats, Greens, and Marxists – how do left-wing forces win at politics? Thirty-five years ago, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe tackled this puzzle in ground-breaking fashion, by… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 97] 2022. vi, 234 pp.
Special inaugural issue: Translating the Extreme
Special issue of Translation in Society 1:1 (2022) v, 129 pp.
Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse
Edited by Urszula Okulska, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:2 (2022) v, 163 pp.
When Dialogue Fails
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:1 (2022) v, 168 pp.
Degrees of European Belonging: The fuzzy areas between us and them
Élisabeth Le
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 belonging as it is represented in the French elite daily, Le Monde.… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 91] 2021. xvi, 251 pp.
Dialogic Matters: Interrelating Dialogue, the Material, and Social Change
Edited by Theresa Castor
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 11:1 (2021) v, 170 pp.
Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
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 the spheres of political rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and corporate… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 92] 2021. viii, 323 pp.
How Emotions Are Made in Talk
Edited by Jessica S. Robles and Ann Weatherall
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 ethnomethodology and conversation analysis applied to a range of settings including… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 321] 2021. xvii, 292 pp.
Coherence
T. Givón
Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint, coherence makes it possible for the parts to work together as a whole. As an external constraint,… read more[Not in series, 230] 2020. xi, 293 pp.
Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights
Edited by María Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami
The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face interaction, discoursal and relational amongst others. However, even though… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313] 2020. xi, 315 pp. + index
Dialogue and Ways of Relating
Edited by Huey-Rong Chen
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 10:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Metasex – The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression
Anne Storch and Nico Nassenstein
This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global… read more[Culture and Language Use, 22] 2020. ix, 132 pp.
Dialogue in institutional settings
Edited by Franca Orletti and Letizia Caronia
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 9:1 (2019) v, 190 pp.
Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea: Childhood and educational ideologies in Tauwema
Barbara Senft and Gunter Senft
This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education… read more
Integrating dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
Dialogue and Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Writing in interaction
Edited by Lorenza Mondada
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 6:1 (2016) v, 204 pp.
Creating Social Orientation Through Language: A socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning
Andreas Langlotz
This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 17] 2015. xix, 366 pp.
Sociology of Discourse: From institutions to social change
Óscar García Agustín
Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses. Institutionalization becomes a process of moving away from existing institutions towards creating… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 61] 2015. xi, 217 pp.
The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations
Michele Gazzola
Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or “language regimes”) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 3] 2014. xxi, 380 pp.
Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A sociological study
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam
Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A sociological study is the first comprehensive study of literary translation in modern Iran, covering the period from the late 19th century up to the present day. By drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, this work investigates the people behind the… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 114] 2014. xix, 236 pp.
Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication
Edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp
Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans. It offers an alternative to established theories of human communication and also has important implications for human-machine… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 6] 2013. viii, 231 pp.
An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011)
Heiko Motschenbacher
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art bibliography documents the most recent research activity in the vibrant field of language, gender and sexuality. It provides experts in the field and students in tertiary education with access to language-centred resources on gender and sexuality and is,… read more[Not in series, 177] 2012. vii, 294 pp.
Historical Sociopragmatics
Edited by Jonathan Culpeper
Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 31] 2011. vii, 135 pp.
New Frontiers in Human–Robot Interaction
Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Joe Saunders
Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) considers how people can interact with robots in order to enable robots to best interact with people. HRI presents many challenges with solutions requiring a unique combination of skills from many fields, including computer science, artificial intelligence, social… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 2] 2011. vi, 332 pp.
The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge
Louise Phillips
It has become commonplace to employ dialogue-based approaches in producing and communicating knowledge in diverse fields. Here, “dialogue” has become a buzzword that promises democratic, participatory processes of mutual learning and knowledge co-production. But what does “dialogue” actually entail… read more[Dialogue Studies, 12] 2011. x, 198 pp.
Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes
Edited by Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora
Citizenship talk refers to various types of discourse initiated to make citizens take part in politically and socially contested decision-making processes (‘citizen participation’). ‘Citizenship’ has, accordingly, become one of the dazzling key words whenever the democratic deficit of modern… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 19] 2006. viii, 368 pp.
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
Edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman †
The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 20] 2006. viii, 347 pp.
Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting
Edited by Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger † and Zuzana Jettmarová
Translation Studies has recently been searching for connections with Cultural Studies and Sociology. This volume brings together a range of ways in which the disciplines can be related, particularly with respect to research methodologies. The key aspects covered are the agents behind translation,… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 67] 2006. viii, 255 pp.
Multiple Case Narrative: A qualitative approach to studying multiple populations
Asher Shkedi
This book introduces a methodology for the construction of a comprehensive narrative description and narrative-based theory from the study of multiple populations. The book has two parallel foci. On the one hand, it is a conceptual treatise, focusing on the principles of the Multiple Case Narrative. read more[Studies in Narrative, 7] 2005. xvi, 210 pp.
Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution
Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey
This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.