The University of Texas at Austin
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin plays a role.
Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas & Steffen Höder
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. | edited volumeSubjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time
Edited by Jeremy King & Sandro Sessarego
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 340] 2018. | edited volumeSubjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis
Edited by Sandro Sessarego & Fernando Tejedo-Herrero
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 8] 2016. xvi, 406 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
[Creole Language Library, 51] 2015. xvi, 184 pp. | monographSubjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities
Edited by Dale Koike & Carl S. Blyth
[Dialogue Studies, 27] 2015. vi, 314 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry: Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 5:3 (2014)
Edited by Katherine Lahti, Rusty Barrett & Anthony K. Webster
[Pragmatics and Society, 5:3] 2014. | special issueSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The story of linguistic interaction in the Maya lowlands
Danny Law
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 328] 2014. xi, 206 pp. | monographSubjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Languages of North America
Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar
Edited by Hans C. Boas & Francisco Gonzálvez-García
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 15] 2014. x, 316 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Cognition and language | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian
Karen A. Roesch
[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 6] 2012. xv, 253 pp. | monographSubjects Anthropological Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues
Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer & Dale Koike
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 31] 2012. x, 338 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency
Edited by Lars Hinrichs & Joseph T. Farquharson
[Creole Language Library, 37] 2011. vi, 276 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
Edited by Hans C. Boas
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 10] 2010. vii, 244 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts
Edited by Dale Koike & Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano
[Dialogue Studies, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
New Adventures in Language and Interaction
Edited by Jürgen Streeck
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 196] 2010. vi, 275 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Storied Conflict Talk: Narrative construction in mediation
Katherine A. Stewart & Madeline M. Maxwell
[Studies in Narrative, 12] 2010. vii, 137 pp. | monographSubjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Chiyo Nishida & Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275] 2006. xiv, 288 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 276] 2006. x, 213 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots
Edited by Mirjam Fried & Hans C. Boas
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 4] 2005. viii, 246 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VI: Columbus, Ohio 1992
Edited by Mushira Eid, Vicente Cantarino & Keith Walters
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 115] 1994. viii, 238 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse
Kenneth David Jackson
[Creole Language Library, 5] 1990. xxiv, 257 pp. | monographSubjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2024 L2 interactional competence in a short-term service-learning and study abroad program
Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 9:2 pp. 157–187 | article
Keywords interactional competence | service-learning | short-term study abroad | L2 Spanish
2024 Sequence organization in L2 interactions: Differences in the post-expansion token okay and recipient uptake during storytelling episodes
Keywords sequence organization | storytelling | second language interactions | post-expansions | recipient uptake | stancetaking
2024 The Cake is a Lie: On video games, localization and authenticity
Keywords localization | authenticity | video games | Science and Technology Studies | game studies
2023 Civics, ideology, and Spanish in Kansas: Implications for heritage Spanish pedagogies
In: Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 38] pp. 154–172
Keywords motivation | heritage languages | language ideologies | service-learning
2023 Story, style, and structure: The second person in early Uruguayan children’s literature
Keywords address | children’s literature | language representation | Uruguayan Spanish |
voseo
2023 Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities
Keywords EPPM | COVID-19 | public signs | health communication | localization | Chinese language
2023 《中文听说读写》的语法教学: 一项基于《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准》“语法大纲”的分析
Keywords 《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准》 | 《中文听说读写》 | 语法大纲 | 语法教学 |
Chinese proficiency grading standards for international Chinese language education
|
integrated Chinese
| grammar guidelines | grammar instruction
2022 The interface between grammar and bodily enactment in ASL and English
Keywords constructed action | character viewpoint gesture | syntax | gesture threshold | English/American Sign Language
2023 Measuring language dominance in bilinguals with two sign languages
Keywords bilingualism | language dominance | acquisition | iconicity | sign language | bilinguisme | dominance linguistique | acquisition | iconicité | langues des signes
2021 Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties: Phonological analysis and implications
In: Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 32] pp. 155–180
Keywords Chinchano Spanish | Chocó Spanish | Chota Valley Spanish | Yungueño Spanish | intonation | pitch accent | phrase boundary | discourse-phonology interface
2021 The emancipation of gestures
Keywords gesture | conceptualization | grammaticalization | interaction | evolution
2021 A socio-historical perspective on the origin and evolution of two
Afro-Andean vernaculars
In: Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12] pp. 163–184
Keywords Yungueño Spanish | Choteño Spanish | Afro-Andean Spanish | Spanish Creole debate | slavery | (de)creolization
2021 Explaining the antipassive-causative syncretism in Mocoví
(Guaycuruan)
In: Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions [Typological Studies in Language, 130] pp. 315–348
Keywords syncretism | antipassive | causative | origin | evolution | Mocoví
2021 Recursion theory and the ‘death tax’: Investigating a fake news discourse in the 2019 Australian election
Keywords fake news | death tax | Australian federal election | recursion theory | disinformation | misinformation
2021 Analyzing variability in L2 ultimate attainment
Keywords second language acquisition | variability | ultimate attainment | French | English
2021 The economic effects of the territoriality principle: Evidence from Transylvania, Romania
Keywords economic development | linguistic diversity | minority accommodation | Romania | territoriality principle | Transylvania
2020 The discursive construction of husband and
wife bonding: Analyzing benefactives in childrearing
narratives
In: Bonding through context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated
discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] pp. 61–82
Keywords interview narratives | benefactives |
-te kureru
|
-te morau
| gender ideology | indexicality
2020 Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation: Analysis and implications
In: Hispanic Linguistics: Current Issues and New Directions [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] pp. 229–248
Keywords Afro-Peruvian Spanish | intonation | pitch accent | phrase boundary | conventionalized second language acquisition process
2020 Casting light on the Spanish creole debate: A legal perspective
In: Hispanic Linguistics: Current Issues and New Directions [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] pp. 327–342
Keywords Spanish creole debate | Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis | Chocó Spanish
2020 Chocó Spanish: An Afro-Hispanic language on the Spanish frontier
In: Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] pp. 43–60
Keywords Chocó Spanish | Decreolization Hypothesis | Afrogenesis Hypothesis | Spanish Creole debate | black slavery
2020 Deepening the concept of ‘compelling arguments’: Linking substantive and affective dimensions of attributes in assessing the effects of climate change news on public
opinion
Keywords climate change | agenda setting | compelling arguments | substantive attribute | affective attributes
2020 Language sources and the reconstruction of early languages: Sociolinguistic discrepancies and evolution in Old French grammar
Keywords social stratification | Old French | Latin | language change in early languages | negation | brace constructions | analytic verb forms | null subject | subject pronoun | pro-drop
2020 Subject and agentivity in Teotitlán Zapotec
Keywords Zapotec | subject | agentivity | stem alternation
2020 Language contact and language borrowing?: Compound verb forms in the Old French translation of the Gospel of St. Mark
Keywords Old French | Gothic | Latin | analytic (verb forms) | synthetic (verb forms) | compound (verb forms) | brace constructions | translation | borrowing | Bible translation | have (auxiliary) | be (auxiliary) | word order
2019 Measuring public opinion formation: Assessing first- and second-level agenda setting through salience measures
Keywords agenda setting | salience measures | experimental study | quantitative | open-ended versus close-ended measures
2019 Philosophical orientations and theoretical frameworks in media effects: Agenda setting, priming and their comparison with framing
Keywords theory of communication | epistemology | ontology | agenda setting | framing | priming
2019 The pictures in our pages: Intermedia visual agenda setting between the Associated Press and US newspapers
Keywords intermedia visual agenda setting | intermedia agenda setting | network intermedia agenda setting | visual agenda-setting | wire services | visual communication
2019 Diachronic frame analysis: The Purpose frame in French
Keywords Frame Semantics | FrameNet | metonymy | semantic change | purposive constructions | diachrony
2018 Name pronunciation strategies of ASL-Spanish-English trilingual
interpreters during mock video relay service calls
Keywords trilingual | Effort Model | Sequential Model | pronunciation | fidelity | identity
2020 What the hands tell us about mathematical learning: A synthesis of gesture use in mathematics instruction
Keywords mathematics | gestures | instruction | teaching
2018 Intermedia visual agenda setting: Comparing wire service top photo distribution to what makes the front page
Keywords agenda setting | intermedia visual agenda setting | visual communication | quantitative content analysis
2018 The challenges and benefits of annotating oral bilingual corpora: The Spanish in Texas Corpus Project
Keywords language contact | bilingualism | calques | Spanish | annotation | bilingual corpora | natural language processing | language identification
2017 Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in late bilingualism: Evidence from the container-content relation
Keywords bidirectional cross-linguistic influence | structural overlap | syntax-semantics interface | container-content relation
2017 Chocó Spanish double negation and the genesis of the Afro-Hispanic dialects of the Americas
Keywords Chocó Spanish | double negation | Jespersen Cycle | creole genesis
2017 The agenda-setting function of mass media1
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Keywords agenda setting | North Carolina | political reality
2017 Return to Frenchville: Tracing a near-merger from legacy data
In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] pp. 229–246
Keywords near-merger | language change | legacy data | rhoticization | vowel systems | schwa | language isolate
2018 Chocó Spanish and the Missing Spanish Creole debate: Sociohistorical and linguistic considerations to solve the puzzle
Keywords Chocó Spanish | Spanish Creoles | Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis
2017 Do english-language newspapers make universities prestigious?: Rise and fall in media salience of top Japanese private universities
Keywords agenda setting | higher education | Japan | news | media salience
2017 Election-related talk and agenda-setting effects on Twitter: A big data analysis of salience transfer at different levels of user participation
Keywords Twitter | agenda setting | big data | political communication | computational social science
2017 Greeting and leave-taking in Texas: Perception of politeness norms by Mexican-Americans across sociolinguistic divides
Keywords greetings and leave-takings | bilingualism | politeness
2017 Karachi weds Lahore: The performance of ethnolinguistic identities in Pakistani TV comedy
Keywords language ideologies | language contact | language mixing | language and media | Pakistani television | Urdu | Punjabi
2017 Language mixing and genetic similarity: The case of Tojol-ab’al
Keywords Mayan languages | Tojol-ab’al | mixed language | code switching | language contact | similarity
2017 News sources and the same sex marriage issue: Through the lens of the agenda-setting theory
Keywords same-sex marriage | news sources | public opinion | affective attribute salience | agenda-setting theory
2017 Rhetoric, ethics, and the principle of charity: Pragmatist clues to the democratic riddle
Keywords democracy | dialogic ethics | pragmatism | pragmatist rhetoric | John Dewey | William James | principle of charity
2017 Scope and partitivity of plural indefinite noun phrases in Spanish
Keywords partitivity | scope | implicature | presupposition | unarticulated constituents | indefinites |
algunos
| European Spanish
2017 The legal hypothesis of creole genesis: Presence/absence of legal personality, a new element to the Spanish creole debate
Keywords Spanish Creoles | Legal Personality | Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis
2016 Review of Outcomes: Upper intermediate, student’s book by Hugh Dellar & Andrew Walkley (2015)Review of Outcomes: Upper intermediate, teacher’s book by Mike Sayer, Hugh Dellar & Andrew Walkley (2015)
Keywords pronunciation | authentic listening | integrated skills textbook | Outcomes Upper Intermediate
2016 On the grammaticality of recomplementation in Spanish
In: Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] pp. 39–52
Keywords Comparative syntax | Language processing | Left periphery | Recomplementation
2016 On the simplification of a prosodic inventory: The Afro-Bolivian Spanish case
In: Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] pp. 171–190
Keywords Afro-Bolivian Spanish | Conventionalized second language acquisition process | Intonation | Phrase boundary | Pitch accent
2016 Spanish and Portuguese parallels: Impoverished number agreement as a vernacular feature of two rural dialects
In: Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 8] pp. 283–304
Keywords Afro-Bolivian Spanish | determiner phrase | number agreement | Popular Brazilian Portuguese | rural dialects
2016 The prosody-pragmatics interface in the pragmaticalization of ¡Hombre! as a discourse marker
In: Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] pp. 211–240
Keywords Discourse marker | Hombre | Interactional prosody | Pragmaticalization | Prosody-pragmatics interface
2016 The stratification of English-language lone-word and multi-word material in Puerto Rican Spanish-language press outlets: A computational approach
In: Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 11] pp. 171–189
Keywords computational | corpus | loanwords | Spanish-English codeswitching
2016 A metadialogic approach to intercultural dialogue: Uncovering hidden motivations
Keywords metapragmatic | metadialogic | retrospection | intercultural dialogue
2015 The History of Front Rounded Vowels in New Braunfels German
In: Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change [Studies in Language Variation, 18] pp. 117–132
Keywords front rounded vowels | language contact | markedness | phonology | sound change | Texas German
2015 Disagreement and the speaker’s point of view
Keywords speech act | speaker intention | Disagreement | dialogic stance | truth-conditions | perspective | meaning | truth-value
2015 Genie’s middle-finger points and signs: A case study
Keywords pointing | American Sign Language (ASL) | middle finger | index finger | Genie
2014 Rex Lee Jim’s ‘Mouse that Sucked’: On iconicity, interwoven-ness, and ideophones
Keywords Navajo | intimate grammars | poetry | aesthetics | ideophony
2013 Acquiring plurality in directional verbs
Keywords language acquisition | American Sign Language (ASL) | number | plurality | verb agreement | agreeing verbs | indicating verbs | directionality
2013 An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods
Keywords maximum parsimony | UPGMA | neighbor-joining | Indo-European | maximum compatibility | phylogenetics | simulation. | glottochronology | lexicostatistics
2013 In faint praise of folly: A critical review of native/non-native speaker comparisons, with examples from native and bilingual processing of French complex syntax
Keywords psycholinguistics | second language acquisition | second language user | comparative methods | French | bilingualism | native speaker
2012 Third-person possessive suffixes as definite articles in Semitic
Keywords demonstrative | typology | definite article | possessive suffix | grammaticalization | Proto-Semitic | Ethio-Semitic
2011 A technical introduction to using speakers’ eye movements to study language
Keywords eye movements | dependent measures | tools | language processing | tutorial | methodology | review
2011 Global Englishes and the sociolinguistics of spelling: A study of Jamaican blog and email writing
Keywords survey | orthography | gender | diaspora | Jamaican Creole | computer-mediated communication
2011 Using literature to understand authors: The case for computerized text analysis
Keywords text analysis | LIWC | language | function words | literature
2010 Ecologies of gesture
2010 The syntax–lexicon continuum in Construction Grammar: A case study of English communication verbs
Keywords valency | construction grammar | verbs | English communication | frame semantics | constructicon
2009 Escape from the noun phrase: From relative clause to converb and beyond in an Amazonian language
Keywords Nadahup (Makú) | relative clauses | Amazonia | converbs | nominalization | topicalization | adverbials | subordination
2009 Pronominal borrowing among the Maya
Keywords Lowland Mayan Linguistic Area | Mayan languages | identity | matter borrowing | language contact | pronouns | pattern borrowing
2008 Distributed learning and mutual adaptation
In: Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds [Benjamins Current Topics, 16] pp. 117–135
Keywords distributed cognition | early mathematics | education | instructional technology | learning | small group interaction
2008 Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions in Construction Grammar
Keywords grammatical construction | Construction Grammar | collocational restriction | lexical entry | productivity | frequency
2008 Scots English and the English-lexifier creole relativizer we
Keywords relativizer | creole | English-lexifier | Atlantic | Scottish dialects
2008 Do good stories produce good health?: Exploring words, language, and culture
Keywords Culture | Expressive Writing | Health | Language | Narrative
2008 The self and identity negotiation
In: Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context [Benjamins Current Topics, 4] pp. 61–74
Keywords close relationships | self-concept | self-esteem | self-verification
2007 The impact of directionality on Chinese/English simultaneous interpreting
Keywords directionality | simultaneous interpreting | retrospection | interpreting strategies
2006 Do good stories produce good health?: Exploring words, language, and culture
Keywords Narrative | Expressive Writing | Health | Culture | Language
2006 Growing a numeral system: The historical development of numerals in an Amazonian language family
Keywords grammaticalization | Tukanoan | Amazonia | numerals | Nadahup/Makú | Hup | language contact | Vaupes region
2005 The Frame/Content theory of evolution of speech: A comparison with a gestural-origins alternative
Keywords words | syllables | speech | sign language | evolution
2005 The self and identity negotiation
Keywords self-verification | self-concept | self-esteem | close relationships
2004 A Palatographic Investigation of Place of Articulation in Korean Coronal Obstruents
Keywords Korean | coronals | obstruents | palatography | articulation | production
2003 A body and its gestures
Keywords embodiement | being-in-the-world | communication at work | habitus | gesture
2001 Evolution of the form of spoken words
Keywords Speech | Language | Syllable | Consonant | Word | Vowel