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LL< 7
English Language Learning and Technology
Lectures on applied linguistics in the age of information and communication technology
Carol A. Chapelle
December 2003. xvi, 213 pp.
This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning,... read more
Z 137
Anthropology of Color
Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick
November 2007. xx, 485 pp.
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of... read more
CILT 307
Loan Phonology
Edited by Andrea Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels
November 2009. vii, 273 pp.
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of... read more
Z 154
Chomskyan (R)evolutions
Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee
February 2010. xii, 488 pp.
It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the... read more
Z 159
Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse
Anita Naciscione
September 2010. xiii, 292 pp.
Stylistic Use of Phraseaological Units in Discourse received honourable mention of the ESSE Book Award 2012 in the field of English Language and Linguistics.
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SiHoLS 116
“And he knew our language”
Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast
Marcus Tomalin
April 2011. xi, 203 pp.
This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and... read more
GS 4
Integrating Gestures
The interdisciplinary nature of gesture
Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino
June 2011. viii, 372 pp.
Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition.... read more
P&bns 213
Cyberpragmatics
Internet-mediated communication in context
Francisco Yus
August 2011. xiv, 353 pp.
Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the Net: the web page,... read more
CLU 5
The Tuma Underworld of Love
Erotic and other narrative songs of the Trobriand Islanders and their spirits of the dead
Gunter Senft
September 2011. xvii, 138 pp.
The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles "Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand... read more
SFSL 65
Connecting Grammaticalisation
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler
December 2011. xiii, 347 pp.
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical... read more
C&EB 6
Moving Ourselves, Moving Others
Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language
Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev
April 2012. viii, 492 pp.
The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The... read more
P&bns 229
(In)Appropriate Online Behavior
A pragmatic analysis of message board relations
Jenny Arendholz
January 2013. xiii, 285 pp.
This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated discourse – a... read more
Z 179
Organic Creativity and the Physics Within
Mea M.M. Lowcre
March 2013. x, 59 pp.
A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity. Organic Creativity... read more
CLU 10
Culinary Linguistics
The chef's special
Edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley
July 2013. xvi, 347 pp.
Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent crucial sites for socialization, identity... read more
AALS 11
The Linguistics of Newswriting
Daniel Perrin
September 2013. xiii, 302 pp.
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses... read more
DAPSAC 54
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
Edited by Qing Cao, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton
April 2014. vi, 213 pp.
After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language,... read more
AHS 2
Letters as Loot
A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal
November 2014. xiii, 426 pp.
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of... read more
LA 221
Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax
New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language
Edited by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
January 2015. v, 232 pp.
Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic... read more
Z 185
Elements of Structural Syntax
Lucien Tesnière
February 2015. lxxxii, 698 pp.
This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last... read more
BTL 116
The Habsburg Monarchy's Many-Languaged Soul
Translating and interpreting, 1848–1918
Michaela Wolf
May 2015. xvii, 289 pp.
In the years between 1848 and 1918, the Habsburg Empire was an intensely pluricultural space that brought together numerous “nationalities” under constantly changing – and contested – linguistic regimes. The... read more
CLU 16
Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults
Gunter Senft
August 2015. xviii, 299 pp.
This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite... read more
SILV 18
Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Acquisition, attrition and change
Edited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
August 2015. vi, 418 pp.
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both... read more
Z 194
Writing(s) at the Crossroads
The process–product interface
Edited by Georgeta Cislaru
August 2015. vi, 304 pp.
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... read more
CLL 51
Afro-Peruvian Spanish
Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
October 2015. xvi, 184 pp.
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish... read more
Z 200
Cognition, Language and Aging
Edited by Heather Harris Wright
March 2016. viii, 248 pp.
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the... read more
BTL 122
New Insights in the History of Interpreting
Edited by Kayoko Takeda and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón
March 2016. xvi, 278 pp.
Who mediated intercultural exchanges in 9th-century East Asia or in early voyages to the Americas? Did the Soviets or the Americans invent simultaneous interpreting equipment? How did the US government train its... read more
LSSE 2
Language-Learner Computer Interactions
Theory, methodology and CALL applications
Edited by Catherine Caws and Marie-Josée Hamel
June 2016. xv, 257 pp.
This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of... read more
PALART 5
Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages
Edited by Jörg-U. Keßler, Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner
June 2016. xviii, 244 pp.
This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005).... read more
Impact 42
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger
Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights
Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz
October 2016. ix, 413 pp.
This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent... read more
DAPSAC 68
A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse
The Andalusian Parliament
Edited by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez and Gloria Álvarez-Benito
December 2016. vii, 222 pp.
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by... read more
Z 211
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva Sippola
May 2017. x, 414 pp.
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles... read more
CLU 20
Imdeduya
Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Gunter Senft
July 2017. xvi, 244 pp.
This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which... read more
CLL 52
Language and Slavery
A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Jacques Arends
July 2017. xxix, 463 pp.
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical... read more
NSS 30
The Dawn of Dutch
Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
Michiel de Vaan
December 2017. xviii, 613 pp.
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until,... read more
Z 215
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
December 2017. xiii, 324 pp.
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s... read more
LA 242
Adjective Adverb Interfaces in Romance
Edited by Martin Hummel and Salvador Valera
December 2017. vi, 374 pp.
Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to be separated or joined in manifold ways at the level of word-class or syntax,... read more
CLU 21
Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea
Childhood and educational ideologies in Tauwema
Barbara Senft and Gunter Senft
May 2018. xxv, 248 pp.
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,... read more
DAPSAC 78
The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline
Personal - group - collective
Edited by Birte Bös, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández
July 2018. vii, 271 pp.
This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic... read more
CAL 22
Constructicography
Constructicon development across languages
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent
July 2018. viii, 313 pp.
In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of... read more
DAPSAC 79
Persuasion in Public Discourse
Cognitive and functional perspectives
Edited by Jana Pelclová and Wei-lun Lu
August 2018. vi, 334 pp.
This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim... read more
AHS 8
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English
A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
September 2018. xi, 311 pp.
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The... read more
SiGL 3
A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages
R.D. Fulk
October 2018. xv, 420 pp.
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse /... read more
AHS 9
Language Planning as Nation Building
Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850
Gijsbert Rutten
February 2019. x, 312 pp.
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst... read more
Z 223
Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
Edited by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig
June 2019. vi, 257 pp.
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about... read more
BCT 103
Skyping the Family
Interpersonal video communication and domestic life
Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe
August 2019. v, 177 pp.
This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make that... read more
ATOH 16
Approaches to Hungarian
Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference
Edited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel
April 2020. v, 233 pp.
This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other... read more
BTL 155
Literary Translation in Periodicals
Methodological challenges for a transnational approach
Edited by Laura Fólica, Diana Roig-Sanz and Stefania Caristia
December 2020. vii, 401 pp.
While translation history, literary translation, and periodical publications have been extensively analyzed within the fields of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, and Communication Sciences, the relationship between... 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
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
BSP 60
Scientia Media
Der Molinismus und das Faktenwissen
. Mit einer Edition des Ms. BU Salamanca 156 von 1653
Sven K. Knebel
Expected June 2021. xx, 435 pp. + index
Molinismus ist heute ein Kapitel Philosophie. Das Thema dieses Buchs ist jedoch nicht die Renaissance der Scientia Media-Hypothese in der modernen angloamerikanischen Religionsphilosophie, sondern ihre scholastische Ausgestaltung... read more