Writing/Reading Interface
Edited by Terry Joyce and Constanze Weth
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 28:1 (2025) v, 170 pp.
BIC SubjectsLiteracy
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.
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.
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.
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.
Literacies in Contact
Edited by Manuela Böhm and Constanze Weth
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 23:2 (2020) v, 180 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.
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.
Understanding Writing Systems
Edited by Merijn Beeksma and Martin Neef
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 21:1 (2018) v, 145 pp.
Orthographic Databases and Lexicons
Edited by Lynne Cahill and Terry Joyce
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 20:1 (2017) v, 127 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.