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LL< 60
The COLT Observation Scheme
Digital versions and updated research applications
Nina Spada
This volume presents the 2nd edition of the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme. Since the book’s original publication, COLT has become well established as a research instrument in L2 teaching and learning. This new edition brings COLT into the 21st century by introducing digital...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. v, 207 pp. + index
LA 284
Competition in Word-Formation
Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner
This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences between a semasiological and an onomasiological approach to competition phenomena in word-formation, the scope of such phenomena (micro-level rivalry between individual...
full descriptionExpected May 2024. vi, 352 pp.
NLP 15
Corpus-based Translation of Private Legal Documents
Patrizia Giampieri
Legal translation is hallmarked by peculiarities revolving around language intricacies, particular formulae, and system-specificity issues. At present, there is a spectrum of legal corpora dedicated to court-related topics and legislation, but there is no corpus composed of private legal documents such as contracts...
full descriptionExpected September 2024. xi, 336 pp. + index
TBLT 16
Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching
Edited by Shaofeng Li
This volume consists of a collection of empirical studies and research syntheses investigating the role of individual difference (ID) variables in task-based language teaching (TBLT)—a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the importance of the performance of meaning-oriented tasks in facilitating second language...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. viii, 380 pp + index
SiGL 8
Investigating West Germanic Languages
Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page
This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the thirteen...
full descriptionExpected May 2024. vi, 327 pp. + index
BPA 18
Language Acquisition in Romance Languages
Edited by Vicenç Torrens
The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and untimed, transcriptions...
full descriptionExpected August 2024. viii, 305 pp. + index
SiBil 67
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning
An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body movement, language is a...
full descriptionExpected June 2024. ix, 635 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 June 2024. v, 201 pp. + index
SLCS 235
Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal complexes and verb...
full descriptionExpected June 2024. xi, 340 pp. + index
CLSCC 16
Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics
State of the art
Edited by Sadia Belkhir
The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters contribute, from a Cognitive...
full descriptionExpected July 2024. xvi, 348 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. Taking its cue from the diversity of interests reflected in Tuija Virtanen’s extensive...
full descriptionExpected October 2024. ix, 202 pp. + index
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 July 2024. xii, 259 pp. + index