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Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context

Edited by Haruko Minegishi Cook and Momoko Nakamura

Informality is essential in human interaction as it fulfills the basic communicative need to connect with others. When and how do speakers of Japanese construct informality within so-called “formal” contexts and why do they do so? By going beyond the previous studies on speech style in Japanese,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 357] 2027. vi, 273 pp. + index

Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics

Thinking Politically: Cognitive linguistic insights into political discourse

Edited by Anastasios Vogiatzis

This volume brings together research at the intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and political discourse analysis. The volume explores how political meaning is constructed, negotiated, and contested through a range of cognitive mechanisms, including metaphor, metonymy, irony, image schemas,… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 22] 2027. viii, 329 pp. + index

Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond

Edited by Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Shelby Forbes

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond is a unique anthology that centers dialogue as practice and challenge of medical encounters, taking up Mishler's famous provocation of a dichotomy between the voice of the lifeworld and the voice of medicine, or an awareness of the… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 36] 2026. ix, 259 pp.

Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Formulaic Humor and Humorous Formulae in Fictional Telecinematic Dialogue

Monika Kirner-Ludwig

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies. Based upon a self-compiled corpus of 34 television series (4,214 episodes; 19.4 million words), it adopts… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 13] 2026. xxxi, 321 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics

The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting

Daniel Perrin

The Tools Factor is about to dominate what people write and read, know and believe to know. In this book, we explain how digital tools and agentive AI shape – and are shaped by – text production, ethics, and creativity in the newsroom. Based on thirty years of longitudinal ethnographies in research… read more

[Aspects in Applied Linguistics, 1] 2026. x, 80 pp. | open access

Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy

Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation

Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin

The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 19] 2026. xiii, 292 pp.

Other subjects General studies in art & art history | Theoretical literature & literary studies

Translating at Work: Paraprofessional translation in organizations

Edited by Kaisa Koskinen

In the daily life of multilingual and multinational organizations, knowledge, ideas and practices are constantly crossing borders and boundaries. To make this movement happen, employees of many fields beyond professional translation participate in translating across languages, organizational and… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 171] 2026. vi, 361 pp. | open access

Other subjects Industrial & organizational studies | Translation Studies