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DAPSAC 9
(Mis)Representing IslamThe racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers
John Richardson
January 2004. xxiii, 262 pp.
(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how élite broadsheet newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the inseparable... read more
P&bns 52
The Acquisition of Dutch
Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer
May 1998. xvi, 444 pp.
In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its... read more
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The Acquisition of FrenchThe development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition
Philippe Prévost
December 2009. xx, 458 pp.
This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and... read more
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The Acquisition of ItalianMorphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition
Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti
July 2015. xiv, 326 pp.
A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of... read more
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The Acquisition of SpanishMorphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition
Silvina Montrul
December 2004. xvi, 413 pp.
This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key... read more
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Advances in Non-Verbal CommunicationSociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
December 1992. xxiv, 412 pp.
This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The... read more
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Advances in Role and Reference Grammar
Edited by Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
January 1992. xiii, 569 pp.
This volume presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within Role and Reference Grammar. This theory was first presented in detail in Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar [FSUG], and these papers represent both... read more
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American Dialect ResearchCelebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989
Edited by Dennis R. Preston
June 1993. xiv, 464 pp.
Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general... read more
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American SociolinguisticsTheorists and theory groups
Stephen O. Murray
October 1998. x, 339 pp.
This is a revised version of Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (1994), the post-World-War-II history of the emergence of sociolinguistics in North America that was described in Language in Society as “a... read more
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And Along Came BoasContinuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology
Regna Darnell
November 1998. xviii, 333 pp.
The advent of Franz Boas on the North American scene irrevocably redirected the course of Americanist anthropology. This volume documents the revolutionary character of the theoretical and methodological standpoint introduced by... read more
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Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL
Edited by Ana Llinares and Tom Morton
March 2017. vi, 317 pp.
This book represents the first collection of studies on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) which brings together a range of perspectives through which CLIL has been investigated within Applied Linguistics. The book... read more
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Applying SociolinguisticsDomains and face-to-face interaction
Diana Boxer
May 2002. xii, 245 pp.
Diana Boxers Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various spheres of life: family, educational,... read more
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Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and researchInsights from Psycholinguistics
Edited by Pavel Trofimovich and Kim McDonough
March 2011. ix, 254 pp.
This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of second language (L2) phonology, syntax, and lexicon. The term priming refers to the... read more
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Appraising Research in Second Language LearningA practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research
Graeme Keith Porte
October 2002. xx, 268 pp.
Designed for students of applied linguistics and TEFL on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is the first to provide specific advice and... read more
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Appraising Research in Second Language LearningA practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research
Graeme Keith Porte
October 2010. xxv, 307 pp.
Designed for students of applied linguistics and second language acquisition on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is a set or recommended textbook... read more
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Approaches to GrammaticalizationVolume I. Theoretical and methodological issues
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
October 1991. xii, 360 pp.
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological... read more
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Approaches to Grammaticalization2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
January 1990. xii, 360 pp. + xii, 560 pp.
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological... read more
TSL 19:2
Approaches to GrammaticalizationVolume II. Types of grammatical markers
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
October 1991. xii, 558 pp.
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological... read more
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Approaching DialogueTalk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives
Per Linell
December 1998. xviii, 330 pp.
Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop... read more
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Argumentation between Doctors and PatientsUnderstanding clinical argumentative discourse
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie
February 2021. x, 155 pp.
Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative... read more
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The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
September 2021. x, 299 pp.
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and... read more
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Assessing L2 ListeningMoving towards authenticity
Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner
August 2018. xvii, 278 pp.
This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken... read more
NLP 3
Automatic Summarization
Inderjeet Mani
June 2001. xii, 286 pp.
With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to the field, explaining... read more
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The BBI Dictionary of English Word CombinationsDictionary and workbook (set)
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
March 1991. x, 58 pp.; xl, 386 pp. + key
BTL 8 (1st)
Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training
Daniel Gile
February 1995. xvi, 278 pp.
This book is based on the author’s many years of experience as a practitioner, teacher and researcher in translation and conference interpreting. It is written for I/T trainers who are in search of a methodological basis for... read more
BTL 8
Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training
Revised edition
Daniel Gile
November 2009. xv, 283 pp.
Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training is a systematically corrected, enhanced and updated avatar of a book (1995) which is widely used in T&I training programmes worldwide and widely... read more
BTL 8 (1st)
Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training
Daniel Gile
February 1995. xvi, 278 pp.
This book is based on the author’s many years of experience as a practitioner, teacher and researcher in translation and conference interpreting. It is written for I/T trainers who are in search of a methodological basis for... read more
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A Basis for Scientific and Engineering TranslationGerman-English-German
Michael Hann
May 2004. xxxviii, 250 pp. (incl. CD-rom)
This CD-rom and the accompanying handbook attack many of the most crucial difficulties encountered by both native and non-native English speakers when translating scientific and engineering material from German.
... read more
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Becoming and Being an Applied LinguistThe life histories of some applied linguists
Edited by Rod Ellis
October 2016. vi, 373 pp.
Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists. Their professional autobiographies document the development of some of the key areas of... read more
SiBil 54
Bilingual Cognition and LanguageThe state of the science across its subfields
Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice
March 2018. vi, 403 pp.
This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a... read more
LALD 7
Bilingual First Language AcquisitionFrench and German grammatical development
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel
September 1994. vi, 282 pp.
The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued... read more
SiBil 6
The Bilingual Lexicon
Edited by Robert Schreuder and Bert Weltens
August 1993. viii, 307 pp.
In the study of bilingualism, the lexical level of language is of prime importance because, in practical terms, vocabulary acquisition is an essential prerequisite for the development of skill in language use; from a theoretical... read more
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Bilingual Performance in Reading and Writing
Edited by Alister Cumming
January 1994. vi, 378 pp.
In the past decade, literacy in second language has emerged as one of the most significant and intriguing topics of inquiry into language processes, human knowledge, cultural practices, and educational policy. Whereas earlier... read more
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Bilingualism and IdentitySpanish at the crossroads with other languages
Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman
April 2008. vii, 365 pp.
Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this... read more
SiBil 44
Bilingualism in the USAThe case of the Chicano-Latino community
Fredric Field
August 2011. xviii, 320 pp.
This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual... read more
SiBil 57
Bilingualism, Executive Function, and BeyondQuestions and insights
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian
June 2019. viii, 377 pp.
The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive... read more
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Bio-LinguisticsThe Santa Barbara lectures
T. Givón
December 2002. xviii, 383 pp.
Is human language an evolutionary adaptation? Is linguistics a natural science? These questions have bedeviled philosophers, philologists and linguists from Plato through Chomsky. Prof. Givón suggests that the answers fall... read more
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Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen and Dina Demner-Fushman
February 2014. xi, 160 pp.
Biomedical Natural Language Processing is a comprehensive tour through the classic and current work in the field. It discusses all subjects from both a rule-based and a machine learning approach, and also describes... read more
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Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson
January 1988. xiii, 428 pp.
Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of... read more
BPA 2
Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
August 2016. xvii, 453 pp.
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the... read more
CLiP 2
Cognitive English Grammar
Günter Radden and René Dirven †
July 2007. xiv, 374 pp.
Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar... read more
CLiP 1 (1999)
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
January 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on... read more
CLiP 1
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
Second revised edition
Edited by René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
June 2004. xii, 277 pp.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on... read more
CLiP 1 (1999)
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
René Dirven † and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
January 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on... read more
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Cognitive Grammar in Literature
Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan
April 2014. xiv, 255 pp.
This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of... read more
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Cognitive SemanticsMeaning and cognition
Edited by Jens Allwood and Peter Gärdenfors
March 1999. x, 201 pp.
Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which... read more
LAL 1
Cognitive StylisticsLanguage and cognition in text analysis
Edited by Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper
November 2002. xvi, 333 pp.
This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with... read more
TSL 11
Coherence and Grounding in DiscourseOutcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984
Russell S. Tomlin
January 1987. viii, 512 pp.
This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes:... read more
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Coherence in Spontaneous Text
Edited by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givón
March 1995. x, 267 pp.
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension,... read more
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Communication in Humans and Other Animals
Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander
June 2013. xi, 242 pp.
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of... read more
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Comparative Indo-European LinguisticsAn introduction
Robert S.P. Beekes
September 1995. xxii, 376 pp.
The book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, the first to appear in English. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages,... read more
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Comparative Indo-European LinguisticsAn introduction
Robert S.P. Beekes
October 2011. xxiv, 415 pp.
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages,... read more
BTL 11
Comparative Stylistics of French and EnglishA methodology for translation
Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet
December 1995. xx, 359 pp.
The Stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais has become a standard text in the French-speaking world for the study of comparative stylistics and the training of translators. This updated, first English edition makes Vinay... read more
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ComplementationIts Meaning and Forms
Evelyn N. Ransom
January 1986. xii, 226 pp.
This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which... read more
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Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development
Edited by Gary G. Fogal and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
June 2020. xvii, 304 pp.
This volume integrates complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and L2 writing scholarship through a collection of in-depth studies and commentary across a range of writing constructs, learning contexts, and second and foreign... read more
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Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages
Edited by Peter Austin
January 1988. vii, 289 pp.
Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence... read more
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Complexity Theory and Language DevelopmentIn celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman
Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han
November 2017. xv, 234 pp.
This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic... read more
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Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson
December 2002. x, 246 pp.
This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists. It should be of particular interest to researchers looking to assess its relevance to SLA theory and ELT practice.... read more
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Computer-Mediated CommunicationLinguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives
Edited by Susan C. Herring
June 1996. viii, 326 pp.
Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This... read more
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Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics
Jan Nijen Twilhaar and Beppie van den Bogaerde
June 2016. xi, 230 pp.
This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists,... read more
BTL 120
Conference Interpreting – A Complete Course
Robin Setton and Andrew Dawrant
June 2016. xxviii, 470 pp.
The conference interpreting skillset – full consecutive and simultaneous interpreting – has long been in demand well beyond the multilateral intergovernmental organizations, notably in bilateral diplomacy, business, international... read more
BTL 121
Conference Interpreting – A Trainer’s Guide
Robin Setton and Andrew Dawrant
June 2016. xxxiv, 650 pp.
This companion volume to Conference Interpreting – A Complete Course provides additional recommendations and theoretical and practical discussion for instructors, course designers and administrators. Chapters mirroring the... read more
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Connected WordsWord associations and second language vocabulary acquisition
Paul Meara
August 2009. xvii, 174 pp.
What words come into your head when you think of SUN? For native English speakers, the most common responses are MOON, SHINE and HOT, and about half of all native speaker responses to SUN are covered by these three words. L2... read more
CAL 2
Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman
December 2004. vi, 209 pp.
This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also... read more
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Construction GrammarsCognitive grounding and theoretical extensions
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried
February 2005. viii, 325 pp.
The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a... read more
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Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián
February 2013. xiii, 265 pp.
Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but... read more
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Context as Other MindsThe Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication
T. Givón
July 2005. xvi, 283 pp.
Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing... read more
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ConversationCognitive, communicative and social perspectives
Edited by T. Givón
May 1997. viii, 302 pp.
The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a... read more
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Conversation AnalysisStudies from the first generation
Edited by Gene H. Lerner
August 2004. x, 302 pp.
This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a... read more
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Corpora and Language Teaching
Edited by Karin Aijmer
January 2009. viii, 232 pp.
The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the... read more
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Creoles in EducationAn appraisal of current programs and projects
Edited by Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens
May 2010. vii, 356 pp.
This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic,... read more
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Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Aarnes Gudmestad and Amanda Edmonds
September 2018. ix, 231 pp.
This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology)... read more
LALD 2
Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
Edited by Thom Huebner and Charles A. Ferguson
July 1991. viii, 435 pp.
The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents... read more
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Cross-theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and their Individual Differences
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss
January 2020. xii, 270 pp.
This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist... read more
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Cultural LinguisticsCultural conceptualisations and language
Farzad Sharifian †
November 2017. xvii, 171 pp.
This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations.read more
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The Current State of InterlanguageStudies in honor of William E. Rutherford
Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith
November 1995. vii, 293 pp.
This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA... read more
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Cursing in AmericaA psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets
Timothy Jay
January 1992. viii, 272 pp.
This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing... read more
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De betekenis als verhaalSemiotische opstellen
Algirdas Julien Greimas
June 1991. x, 245 pp.
De Franse semioticus Algirdas Julien Greimas is ongetwijfeld een van de belangrijkste denkers in het Europese structuralisme. Zijn werk vormt dan ook de inspiratiebron voor onderzoekers uit diverse disciplines. Het Greimassiaanse... read more
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Declarative and Procedural Determinants of Second Languages
Michel Paradis
January 2009. xii, 219 pp.
This volume is the outcome of the author’s observations and puzzlement over seventeen years of teaching English and French as second languages, followed by 30 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It... read more
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Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
Revere D. Perkins
December 1992. x, 245 pp.
Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures. This study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views... read more
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DemonstrativesForm, function and grammaticalization
Holger Diessel
December 1999. xii, 205 pp.
All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic... read more
BTL 100
Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
Revised edition
Gideon Toury †
November 2012. xv, 350 pp.
This is an expanded and slightly revised version of the book of the same title which caused quite a stir when it was first published (1995). It thus reflects an additional step in an ongoing research project which was launched in... read more
BTL 4
Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
Gideon Toury †
May 1995. viii, 311 pp.
A replacement of the author's well-known book on Translation Theory, In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980), this book makes a case for Descriptive Translation Studies as a scholarly activity as well as a branch of the... read more
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Developmental PsycholinguisticsOn-line methods in children’s language processing
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen
January 2008. xviii, 190 pp.
How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context? This volume introduces readers to an emerging... read more
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Dimensions of L2 Performance and ProficiencyComplexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA
Edited by Alex Housen, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder
October 2012. xii, 305 pp.
Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research... read more
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Discourse Intonation in L2From theory and research to practice
Dorothy M. Chun
April 2002. xviii, 285 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Intonation, rhythm, and general “melody” of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is... read more
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Discourse StudiesAn introductory textbook
Jan Renkema
August 1993. x, 224 pp.
This book familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific 'toolkit' for courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the... read more
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The Discourse Studies ReaderMain currents in theory and analysis
Edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak
June 2014. ix, 417 pp.
Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from... read more
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Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World
Adrian Blackledge
September 2005. x, 252 pp.
In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy,... read more
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Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms
Christiane Dalton-Puffer
September 2007. xii, 330 pp.
The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are... read more
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The Discourse of Child Counselling
Ian Hutchby
February 2007. xii, 145 pp.
This book is an empirical study of naturally occurring interaction between child counselling professionals and young children experiencing parental separation or divorce. Based on tape recordings of the work of a London child... read more
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The Discourse of Court InterpretingDiscourse practices of the law, the witness and the interpreter
Sandra Hale
June 2004. xviii, 267 pp.
This book explores the intricacies of court interpreting through a thorough analysis of the authentic discourse of the English-speaking participants, the Spanish-speaking witnesses and the interpreters. Written by a practitioner,... read more
DAPSAC 24
Discourse, War and Terrorism
Edited by Adam Hodges and Chad Nilep
April 2007. ix, 248 pp.
Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the... read more
Z 148
Discourse, of CourseAn overview of research in discourse studies
Edited by Jan Renkema
May 2009. vii, 393 pp.
Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema’s Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates. The new book is a collection of twenty short papers. It is a capita selecta course and meant for graduate... read more
P&bns 4
Doctor–Patient Interaction
Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel
January 1989. xxxviii, 294 pp.
This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient. The questions under consideration in the present book are the following: How is the doctor-patient interaction structured in a... read more
LL< 52
Doing SLA Research with Implications for the ClassroomReconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability
Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser and Goretti Prieto Botana
March 2019. vi, 219 pp.
This book is unique in bringing together studies on instructed second language acquisition that focus on a common question: “What renders this research particularly relevant to classroom applications, and what are the advantages,... read more
TBLT 8
Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLTA decade of plenaries from the international conference
Edited by Martin Bygate
November 2015. xxiv, 325 pp.
This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and... read more
UPAL 28
Dutch Literature in the Age of RembrandtThemes and ideas
Maria A. Schenkeveld
January 1991. x, 216 pp., 60 ills.
Dutch literature of the 17th century, while not as famous as other elements of the culture of the Dutch Golden Age, deserves independent focus, not only because of its own intrinsic worth, but also because of the evidence of... read more
Z 175
Dutch for Reading Knowledge
Christine van Baalen, Frans R.E. Blom and Inez Hollander
August 2012. xv, 247 pp.
This first Dutch for Reading Knowledge book on the market promotes a high level of reading and translation competency by drawing from Dutch grammar, vocabulary and reading strategies, and providing many translation “shortcuts”... read more
LL< 29
A Dynamic Approach to Second Language DevelopmentMethods and techniques
Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie
February 2011. ix, 211 pp.
Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the... read more
LL< 25
Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching
Edited by Lee B. Abraham and Lawrence Williams
August 2009. x, 346 pp.
New technologies are constantly transforming traditional notions of language use and literacy in online communication environments. While previous research has provided a foundation for understanding the use of new technologies... read more
CLL 8
The Emergence of Black EnglishText and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
April 1991. x, 352 pp.
Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution,... read more
Z ENGRAM S
English GrammarA function-based introduction
T. Givón
January 1993. xxii, 318 pp. & xvi, 363 pp.
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional: Grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In... read more
Z ENGRAM 1
English GrammarA function-based introduction
T. Givón
July 1993. xxii, 318 pp.
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In... read more
Z ENGRAM 2
English GrammarA function-based introduction
T. Givón
July 1993. xv, 363 pp.
The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In... read more
LL< 7
English Language Learning and TechnologyLectures 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
CILT 99
English Phonology
John T. Jensen
December 1993. x, 251 pp.
This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and... read more
Z 88
English Prepositions Explained
Seth Lindstromberg
March 1998. xii, 309 pp.
English Prepositions Explained has been written both for non-native and native speakers of English and is intended for: teachers of English; translators; materials writers; advanced students of English; frequent... read more
Z 157
English Prepositions Explained
Revised edition
Seth Lindstromberg
August 2010. xiii, 273 pp.
This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus... read more
Z 100
English Sentence AnalysisAn introductory course
Marjolijn H. Verspoor and Kim Sauter
August 2000. 237 pp.
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the... read more
Z 240
English Sentence Constructions
Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
August 2022. 261 pp.
English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is... read more
Z 59
English TextSystem and structure
J.R. Martin
November 1992. xiv, 620 pp.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional... read more
P&bns 77
Essays in Speech Act Theory
Edited by Daniel Vanderveken and Susumu Kubo
December 2001. vi, 345 pp.
Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as:- What do we mean?- How do we say it? and- How is it understood?in the broad context... read more
BTL 9
Essays on Terminology
Alain Rey
March 1995. xiv, 223 pp.
A carefully selected collection of essays by the most renowned specialist in terminology in France, now published in English. The chapters deal with the origins of terminology, theoretical issues, social aspects, neologisms and... read more
RMAL 1
Ethnographies of Academic Writing ResearchTheory, methods, and interpretation
Edited by Ignacio Guillén-Galve and Ana Bocanegra-Valle
October 2021. xi, 162 pp.
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.... read more
TSL 53
The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language
Edited by T. Givón and Bertram F. Malle
December 2002. x, 394 pp.
The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of... read more
LL< 27
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research
Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth
October 2010. vii, 292 pp.
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research provides students and researchers interested in language acquisition with comprehensible and practical information on the most frequently used methods in language... read more
VEAW G29
Exploring Natural LanguageWorking with the British Component of the International Corpus of English
Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts
June 2002. xviii, 344 pp.
ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the... read more
TSL 39
External Possession
Edited by Doris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi
August 1999. ix, 573 pp.
External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability,... read more
CELCR 10
Finding Metaphor in Grammar and UsageA methodological analysis of theory and research
Gerard J. Steen
November 2007. xvi, 430 pp.
Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory... read more
SiBil 2
Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Edited by Kees de Bot, Ralph B. Ginsberg and Claire Kramsch
April 1991. xi, 275 pp.
This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the... read more
LL< 9
Formulaic SequencesAcquisition, processing and use
Edited by Norbert Schmitt
February 2004. x, 304 pp.
Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new... read more
LIS 22
A French-English GrammarA contrastive grammar on translational principles
Morris Salkoff
September 1999. xvi, 342 pp.
In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its... read more
TSL 45
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper
October 2001. vii, 492 pp.
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this... read more
Z 149
From Body to Meaning in CulturePapers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese
Ning Yu
May 2009. xvi, 310 pp.
From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of... read more
Z 80
From Grammar to ScienceNew Foundations for General Linguistics
Victor H. Yngve
December 1996. xii, 350 pp.
Although efforts have been under way for the past two centuries to treat language scientifically, linguists and others who work with language, speech, or communication have not found an adequate scientific foundation in current... read more
SiHoLS 103
From Whitney to ChomskyEssays in the history of American linguistics
John E. Joseph
December 2002. viii, 240 pp.
What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in... read more
ATA XVII
From the Classroom to the CourtroomA guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system
Elena M. de Jongh
March 2012. xxii, 215 pp.
From the Classroom to the Courtroom: A guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system offers a wealth of information that will assist aspiring court interpreters in providing linguistic minorities... read more
SWLL 1
Functional LiteracyTheoretical issues and educational implications
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven
April 1994. viii, 493 pp.
The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The book divides into five parts. The... read more
Z 74
Functionalism and Grammar
T. Givón
June 1995. xvii, 486 pp.
This book is Prof. Givón's long-awaited critical examination of the fundamental theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the functionalist approach to grammar. It challenges functionalists to take their own medicine and... read more
BTL 106
Game LocalizationTranslating for the global digital entertainment industry
Minako O'Hagan and Carme Mangiron
August 2013. xii, 374 pp.
Video games are part of the growing digital entertainment industry for which game localization has become pivotal in serving international markets. As well as addressing the practical needs of the industry to facilitate... read more
Impact 10
Gender Across LanguagesThe linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
April 2002. xiv, 349 pp.
This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of... read more
Impact 9-11
Gender Across LanguagesThe linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
April 2003. xiv, 329 pp. & xiv, 349 pp. & xiv, 391 pp.
This three-volume reference work provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among... read more
Impact 11
Gender Across LanguagesThe linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
April 2003. xiv, 391 pp.
This is the third of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of... read more
Impact 9
Gender Across LanguagesThe linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
October 2001. xiv, 328 pp.
This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of... read more
Impact 36
Gender Across LanguagesVolume 4
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher
April 2015. xv, 415 pp.
This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages... read more
LALD 14
Generative Perspectives on Language AcquisitionEmpirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
Edited by Harald Clahsen
July 1996. xxviii, 499 pp.
Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition... read more
Z 146
The Genesis of Syntactic ComplexityDiachrony, ontogeny, neuro-cognition, evolution
T. Givón
February 2009. xviii, 366 pp.
Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the evolutionary apex of the uniquely - human... read more
GS 2
GesturecraftThe manu-facture of meaning
Jürgen Streeck
April 2009. xii, 235 pp.
The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative... read more
LL< 15
Goals for Academic WritingESL students and their instructors
Edited by Alister Cumming
August 2006. xii, 204 pp.
This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in... read more
TSL 48
The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
May 2002. xviii, 551 pp.
This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better... read more
Z 197
A Grammar of Mandarin
Jeroen Wiedenhof
October 2015. xxv, 477 pp.
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed with examples from everyday conversations, it aims to let the language speak for itself. The book... read more
TSL 25
The Grammar of Space
Soteria Svorou
April 1994. xiv, 290 pp.
A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language.
The discussion... read more
TSL 35
Grammatical RelationsA functionalist perspective
Edited by T. Givón
November 1997. viii, 350 pp.
This volume presents a functional perspective on grammatical relations (GRs) without neglecting their structural correlates. Ever since the 1970s, the discussion of RGs by functionally-oriented linguists has focused primarily on... read more
SiBil 53
Growing Old with Two LanguagesEffects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
August 2017. vi, 304 pp.
This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism. With ongoing media focus on the aging population and the... read more
SiBil 58
Heritage LanguagesA language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
November 2019. xix, 302 pp.
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they... read more
SP 2
Het semiotisch pragmatisme van Charles S. Peirce
Onder redactie van Hans van Driel
June 1991. 139 pp.
Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is een invloedrijke Amerikaanse wetenschapsfilosoof. Hij is de grondlegger het van semiotisch pragmatisme, een tegenhanger van het structuralisme van Ferdinand de Saussure.
De filosofie... read more
TSL 26
Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions
Carol Lord
August 1993. x, 273 pp.
This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the... read more
Z 227
Historical LinguisticsA cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
May 2020. xvii, 241 pp.
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics.... read more
Z 161
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
June 2011. xviii, 421 pp.
This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment... read more
CILT 6
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Raimo Anttila
January 1989. xv, 462 pp.
In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate... read more
SiHoLS 105
A History of Language Philosophies
Lia Formigari
October 2004. x, 252 pp.
Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on... read more
Z 183
A History of the English Language
Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
April 2014. xx, 338 pp.
The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most... read more
Z 135
A History of the English Language
Elly van Gelderen
August 2006. xviii, 334 pp.
THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only... read more
TBLT 15
How to Teach an Additional LanguageTo task or not to task?
Kris Van den Branden
April 2022. xiii, 292 pp.
This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part, the book provides... read more
SCL 12
How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching
Edited by John McH. Sinclair
April 2004. viii, 308 pp.
After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the... read more
Z 195
How to do Linguistics with RData exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
November 2015. xi, 443 pp.
This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among... read more
P&bns 182
Humor in Interaction
Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro
July 2009. xvii, 238 pp.
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with... read more
Impact 6
Ideology, Politics and Language PoliciesFocus on English
Edited by Thomas Ricento
November 2000. x, 197 pp.
This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the New World Order. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development.... read more
SiBil 48
Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages
Edited by Patrick Rebuschat
September 2015. xxii, 489 pp.
Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decision making, and social interaction, are largely dependent on implicit... read more
P&bns 167
Impoliteness in Interaction
Derek Bousfield
January 2008. xiii, 281 pp.
This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory... read more
C&EB 3
The Importance of Not Being EarnestThe feeling behind laughter and humor
Wallace Chafe
February 2007. xiii, 167 pp.
The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world... read more
SiBil 39
Incomplete Acquisition in BilingualismRe-examining the Age Factor
Silvina Montrul
September 2008. x, 312 pp.
Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the... read more
LL< 2
Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning
Edited by Peter Robinson
September 2002. xii, 387 pp.
Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner... read more
LL< 12
Inference and Generalizability in Applied LinguisticsMultiple perspectives
Edited by Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff
March 2006. vi, 248 pp.
Concepts such as dependability/generalization and inferences are dealt with implicitly or explicitly in any research undertaken in applied linguistics. This volume provides a well-balanced and cross-disciplinary perspective on... read more
DDCS 3
Information DesignAn introduction
Rune Pettersson
December 2002. x, 296 pp.
The goal of communication-oriented design of messages should always be clarity of communication. In information design the task of the sender is actually not completed until the receivers have received and understood the intended... read more
LL< 38
Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
August 2013. xiii, 335 pp.
This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy. The book is organized into three sections that... read more
TiLAR 13
Input and Experience in Bilingual Development
Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis
October 2014. ix, 204 pp.
Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus... read more
TBLT 9
Input-based Tasks in Foreign Language Instruction for Young Learners
Natsuko Shintani
March 2016. xi, 199 pp.
The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context... read more
RMAL 3
Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and YouJin Kim
Expected December 2022. xxiii, 378 pp. + index
Written for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering... read more
LL< 44
Interaction and Second Language DevelopmentA Vygotskian perspective
Rémi A. van Compernolle
December 2015. xi, 215 pp.
This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship... read more
LL< 39
InterlanguageForty years later
Edited by ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone
April 2014. vii, 255 pp.
Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope;... read more
CHLEL XI
International PostmodernismTheory and literary practice
Edited by Hans Bertens and Douwe W. Fokkema †
February 1997. xvi, 581 pp.
Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different... read more
TSL 4
InterrogativityA colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982
Edited by William Chisholm, Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin
January 1984. v, 302 pp.
This is a comparative study on the subject of interrogativity, presenting broad and narrow attributes on this subject in diverse languages: Russian, Mandarin, Georgian, Bengali, Bantu, Japanese, West Greenlandic and Ute. Each... read more
Z 102 (1st)
Introducing Sociolinguistics
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
January 2000. 528 pp.
FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY.
FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern... read more
Z 102 (1st)
Introducing Sociolinguistics
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
January 2000. 528 pp.
FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY.
FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern... read more
Z 102

Introducing Sociolinguistics
Second Edition
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
July 2009. xxvi, 502 pp.
FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern... read more
Z 121
An Introduction to African Languages
G. Tucker Childs
December 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena... read more
CLiP 4
Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
March 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary... read more
Z 124
Introduction to Discourse Studies
Jan Renkema
August 2004. x, 363 pp.
Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema’s successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse... read more
Z 219
Introduction to Discourse StudiesNew edition
Jan Renkema and Christoph Schubert
November 2018. xv, 453 pp.
This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone... read more
Z 209
Introduction to Healthcare for Arabic-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee, Nawar Gailani and Anna N. Gailani
December 2016. xxx, 395 pp.
Arabic is a language of substantial cultural and religious importance. It is spoken by about 300 million people, predominantly in the 22 countries of the Arab world, as well as in several other regions where the Arab diaspora has... read more
Z 202
Introduction to Healthcare for Chinese-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee and Eva N.S. Ng
August 2016. xxvii, 412 pp.
This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Chinese glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to... read more
Z 181
Introduction to Healthcare for Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee
September 2013. xxvi, 338 pp.
“Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.” (Mitchell Kapor, n.d.). Medical concepts and terminology can be very confusing for the uninitiated interpreter or translator. This book will allow... read more
Z 205
Introduction to Healthcare for Japanese-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee and Teruko Asano
December 2016. xxviii, 412 pp.
This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Japanese glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to... read more
Z 239
Introduction to Healthcare for Russian-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee, Johanna Hautekiet and Lidia Rura
December 2021. xxx, 452 pp.
Health interpreters and translators often face unpredictable assignments in the multifaceted healthcare setting. This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with... read more
Z 193
Introduction to Healthcare for Spanish-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee, Holly Mikkelson and Laura Monzon-Storey
April 2015. xxviii, 388 pp.
This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with Spanish glossaries. Just like the 2013 textbook, this practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to... read more
Z 241
Introduction to Healthcare for Turkish-speaking Interpreters and Translators
Ineke H.M. Crezee, Oktay Eser and Fatih Karakaş
Expected December 2022. xxix, 408 pp. + index
Health interpreters and translators often face unpredictable assignments in the multifaceted healthcare setting. This book is based on the very popular international publication (Crezee, 2013) and has been supplemented with... read more
Z 176
An Introduction to Linguistic Typology
Viveka Velupillai
August 2012. xxii, 517 pp.
This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change.... read more
Z 134
Introduction to Neurolinguistics
Elisabeth Ahlsén
July 2006. xii, 212 pp.
This introduction to neurolinguistics is intended for anybody who wants to acquire a grounding in the field. It was written for students of linguistics and communication disorders, but students of psychology, neuroscience and... read more
Z 147
An Introduction to Old FrisianHistory, Grammar, Reader, Glossary
Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
January 2009. xii, 237 pp.
This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters... read more
SSLS 7
An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North America
Marc Picard
January 1987. xi, 90 pp.
This textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher,... read more
Z 111
An Introduction to the Grammar of EnglishSyntactic arguments and socio-historical background
Elly van Gelderen
September 2002. xxiv, 200 pp.
This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from... read more
Z 153
An Introduction to the Grammar of English
Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
January 2010. xxi, 232 pp.
It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published. The second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, especially where texts, example sentences, exercises, and cartoons are... read more
Z 143
An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata
Willem J.M. Levelt
September 2008. xi, 139 pp.
The present text is a re-edition of Volume I of Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, a three-volume work published in 1974. This volume is an entirely self-contained introduction to the theory of formal grammars... read more
AiCR 13
Investigating Phenomenal ConsciousnessNew methodologies and maps
Edited by Max Velmans
November 2000. xii, 381 pp.
How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This... read more
LOALL 17
Japanese
Revised edition
Shoichi Iwasaki
January 2013. xxi, 383 pp.
Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian... read more
Z 55
The Joy of GrammarA festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley
Edited by Diane Brentari, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod
January 1992. xii, 400 pp.
Two threads run through this collection of 22 papers by students and colleagues of James D. McCawley. The first is a commitment to deep reflection on the direction of linguistic study, sometimes resulting in challenges to the... read more
P&bns 1
The Jury Summation as Speech GenreAn ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it
Bettyruth Walter
January 1988. xvii, 264 pp.
The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The 'summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of... read more
LALD 8
Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz
January 1994. xii, 401 pp.
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied... read more
CILT 94
The Language BuilderAn essay on the human signature in linguistic morphogenesis
Claude Hagège
June 1993. xii, 283 pp.
Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers... read more
Z 158
Language DocumentationPractice and values
Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee
November 2010. xviii, 340 pp.
Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving... read more
BTL 1
Language Engineering and TranslationConsequences of automation
Juan C. Sager
April 1994. xx, 345 pp.
At a time when information technology has become a regular tool of specialised translators in all aspects of their work, it is useful to place the activity of technical translation into its appropriate environment and to describe... read more
CILT 191
Language HistoryAn introduction
Andrew L. Sihler
February 2000. xvi, 298 pp.
This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students... read more
Z 83
Language PolicyDominant English, Pluralist Challenges
Edited by William Eggington and Helen Wren
February 1997. xxviii, 170 pp.
Think globally, act locally is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges. The book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted Australia, Britain, Canada, New... read more
SiBil 15
Language Processing and Second Language DevelopmentProcessability theory
Manfred Pienemann
July 1998. xviii, 366 pp.
This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research. It explores the way in which language processing mechanisms shape the course of language development. Language Processing and Second Language... read more
LL< 41
Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native SpeakersTheory and research
Jan H. Hulstijn
February 2015. xi, 195 pp.
This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second... read more
LL< 57
Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts
Edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar and Jonathon Reinhardt
January 2022. x, 196 pp.
This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic, and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that... read more
LALD 5
Language Transfer in Language LearningRevised edition
Edited by Susan M. Gass and Larry Selinker
October 1992. x, 236 pp.
The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language... read more
TSL 5
Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by William E. Rutherford
January 1984. ix, 264 pp.
This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally... read more
SFSL 55
Language and MeaningThe structural creation of reality
Christopher Beedham
November 2005. xiv, 225 pp.
This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples... read more
LL< 4
Language in Language Teacher Education
Edited by Hugh Trappes-Lomax and Gibson Ferguson
December 2002. vi, 258 pp.
This volume explores the defining element in the work of language teacher educators: language itself. The book is in two parts. The first part holds up to scrutiny concepts of language that underlie much practice in language... read more
WLP 1
Language in the Twenty-First CenturySelected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University
Edited by Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan
August 2003. vi, 209 pp.
What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we,... read more
Z 27
The Language of Love and Guilt
Ruth Wodak and Muriel Schulz
January 1986. x, 253 pp.
Although mother and daughter are two central female roles, they have rarely been investigated. The relationship is specific, certainly different than the mother–son or father–daughter relationships. And this difference manifests... read more
Z 54
The Languages of JoyceSelected Papers from the 11th International James Joyce Symposium Venice 1988
Edited by Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Carla Marengo and Christine van Boheemen
November 1992. xx, 277 pp.
The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988. ‘The contents of this book are by no means as restrictive as the title... read more
LL< 55
Languaging in Language Learning and TeachingA collection of empirical studies
Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch
August 2020. vii, 313 pp.
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2... read more
Z 112
Law Enforcement, Communication, and Community
Edited by Howard Giles
July 2002. x, 265 pp.
Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and... read more
CILT 35
The Laws of Indo-European
N.E. Collinge
January 1985. xvii, 308 pp.
This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index.... read more
AALS 12
Learning Chinese in Diasporic CommunitiesMany pathways to being Chinese
Edited by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Andy Hancock
July 2014. xv, 243 pp.
This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and... read more
TBLT 11
Learning Language through Task Repetition
Edited by Martin Bygate
September 2018. x, 334 pp.
After more than 20 years of research, this is the first book-length treatment of second language task repetition – the repetition of encounters with a task that involve re-using the same content with the same overall purpose. The... read more
SiBil 17
Learning a Second Language through Interaction
Rod Ellis
December 1999. x, 285 pp.
This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition. The principal perspectives are those afforded by the Interaction Hypothesis, Socio-Cultural Theory and the... read more
LL< 18
Learning and Teaching Languages Through ContentA counterbalanced approach
Roy Lyster
March 2007. xii, 173 pp.
Based on a synthesis of classroom SLA research that has helped to shape evolving perspectives of content-based instruction since the introduction of immersion programs in Montreal more than 40 years ago, this book presents an... read more
LL< 31
Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional Language
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón
October 2011. xii, 263 pp.
This book is a pioneer attempt to bridge the gap between the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and second and foreign language (L2) writing. Its ultimate aim is to advance our understanding of written language learning... read more
SWLL 9
Letter Writing as a Social Practice
Edited by David Barton and Nigel Hall
April 2000. vi, 262 pp.
This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in... read more
LL< 43
Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning
Joe Barcroft
December 2015. xi, 194 pp.
This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in... read more
BLL 2
Lexical Issues in Language Learning
Birgit Harley
January 1995. iv, 318 pp.
The nine major empirical studies of Lexical Issues in Language Learning address key issues in the development and use of vocabulary by child bilinguals and older second language learners. The thematic focus in this collection of... read more
TLRP 20
Lexical Semantics for TerminologyAn introduction
Marie-Claude L'Homme
January 2020. xxi, 263 pp.
Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and... read more
TSL 37
The Limits of Grammaticalization
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper
July 1998. vi, 307 pp.
The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at... read more
SCL 25
Linear Unit GrammarIntegrating speech and writing
John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen
November 2006. xxii, 185 pp.
People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and... read more
Z 216
A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students
Paul Boucher
April 2018. xiv, 297 pp.
A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students offers the reader an in-depth contrastive study of French and English based on recent theories of linguistics and discourse analysis. At the same... read more
SiBil 4
Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual SettingsImplications for language policies
Christina Bratt Paulston
March 1994. xi, 136 pp.
The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain... read more
Z 156
The Linguistic Structure of Modern English
Laurel J. Brinton and Donna M. Brinton
July 2010. xx, 426 pp.
This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school... read more
CILT 75
Linguistic Theory and Grammatical DescriptionNine Current Approaches
Edited by Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph
December 1991. vii, 355 pp.
This volume presents nine of today's grammatical theories with a view to comparing their starting points and their methods. The particular features and properties of each theory are discussed in this book, as well as the major... read more
LL< 33
Linguistics for Intercultural Education
Edited by Fred Dervin and Anthony J. Liddicoat
April 2013. vi, 201 pp.
The issue of intercultural learning has been tackled, amongst others, in the fields of education, language education and applied linguistics. In spite of the extensive literature on the subject, there is still much which needs to... read more
TSL 36
The Linguistics of Giving
Edited by John Newman
February 1998. xv, 373 pp.
In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of ‘give’ verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of ‘give’ verbs, including both... read more
TSL 21
The Linguistics of Literacy
Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan
July 1992. xx, 334 pp.
This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and... read more
Z 199
The Linguistics of Sign LanguagesAn introduction
Edited by Anne E. Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer
June 2016. xv, 378 pp.
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do... read more
Z 36
Literary AnthropologyA new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
January 1988. xxiii, 342 pp.
The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory... read more
P&bns 78
Literature as CommunicationThe foundations of mediating criticism
Roger D. Sell
December 2000. xiv, 348 pp.
This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in... read more
SiBil 1
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Edited by Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak Kroon
June 1992. xii, 403 pp.
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by... read more
Z 208
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
I.S.P. Nation
September 2016. xiv, 210 pp.
Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been... read more
Z 233
Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size
I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
February 2021. xiii, 160 pp.
Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of... read more
Z 108
Mediating CriticismLiterary Education Humanized
Roger D. Sell
December 2001. x, 431 pp.
In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and... read more
BTL 22
Memes of TranslationThe spread of ideas in translation theory
Andrew Chesterman
June 1997. vii, 219 pp.
Memes of Translation is a search for coherence in translation theory based on the notion of Memes: ideas that spread, develop and replicate, like genes. The author explores a wide range of ideas on translation, mapping the “meme... read more
BTL 123
Memes of TranslationThe spread of ideas in translation theory
Andrew Chesterman
February 2016. xii, 225 pp.
This revised edition of Memes of Translation includes updates that relate the book's themes to more recent research in Translation Studies. The book contributes to the debate about whether it is worth seeking a coherent theory of... read more
LL< 19
Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning
Mick Randall
August 2007. x, 220 pp.
This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology,... read more
CELCR 6
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics
Alice Deignan
June 2005. x, 236 pp.
Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who... read more
GS 3
Metaphor and Gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller
June 2008. ix, 306 pp.
This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture — a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile,... read more
CILT 175
Metaphor in Cognitive LinguisticsSelected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen
June 1999. viii, 226 pp.
This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive... read more
CELCR 14
A Method for Linguistic Metaphor IdentificationFrom MIP to MIPVU
Gerard J. Steen, Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann, Anna A. Kaal, Tina Krennmayr and Tryntje Pasma
June 2010. xi, 238 pp.
This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch.... read more
HCP 18
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey
June 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive... read more
TSL 23
The Middle Voice
Suzanne Kemmer
October 1993. xii, 300 pp.
This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it... read more
LA 12
Minimal IdeasSyntactic studies in the minimalist framework
Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
August 1996. xii, 364 pp.
The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomskys MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to... read more
Impact 27
Minority Languages and Group IdentityCases and Categories
John Edwards
January 2010. ix, 231 pp.
The central concern in this book is the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in ‘minority’ settings. Since much of the current interest in minority languages... read more
TSL 32
Modality in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman
August 1995. viii, 575 pp.
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual... read more
TSL 9
MorphologyA Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form
Joan L. Bybee
January 1985. xii, 235 pp.
This is a textbook right in the thick of current interest in morphology. It proposes principles to predict properties previously considered arbitrary and brings together the psychological and the diachronic to explain the... read more
CILT 70
MorphologyWord structure in generative grammar
John T. Jensen
January 1990. x, 210 pp.
A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the... read more
LL< 40
Motivation and Foreign Language LearningFrom theory to practice
Edited by David Lasagabaster, Aintzane Doiz and Juan Manuel Sierra
July 2014. viii, 190 pp.
Motivation is a key aspect of second language learning. There is no doubt that abstract models are basic to gain theoretical insights into motivation; however, teachers and researchers demand comprehensible explanations for... read more
SWLL 10
Multilingual LiteraciesReading and writing different worlds
Edited by Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn E. Jones
January 2001. xxvi, 395 pp.
The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of... read more
Impact 30
Multilingualism
Larissa Aronin and David Singleton
February 2012. ix, 230 pp.
This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the... read more
BTL 54
Multiple Voices in the Translation ClassroomActivities, tasks and projects
Maria González-Davies
July 2004. x, 259 pp.
The main aim of this book is to provide teaching ideas that can be adapted to different learning environments and that can be used with different language combinations. The pedagogical approach and the activities, tasks and... read more
UPAL 32
The Muzzled MuseLiterature and censorship in South Africa
Margreet de Lange
April 1997. xii, 181 pp.
“The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on... read more
LAL 6
Narrative Progression in the Short StoryA corpus stylistic approach
Michael Toolan
January 2009. xi, 212 pp.
One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging... read more
AiOS 11
Narratives We Organize By
Edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi
June 2003. x, 276 pp.
This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal... read more
NLP 5
Natural Language Processing for Online ApplicationsText retrieval, extraction and categorization
Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier
June 2007. x, 232 pp.
This text covers the technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical concerns. It assumes some... read more
NLP 5 (1st)
Natural Language Processing for Online ApplicationsText retrieval, extraction and categorization
Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier
June 2002. x, 226 pp.
This text covers the emerging technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical issues. It seeks to... read more
NLP 5 (1st)
Natural Language Processing for Online ApplicationsText retrieval, extraction and categorization
Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier
June 2002. x, 226 pp.
This text covers the emerging technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical issues. It seeks to... read more
NLP 13
Negation and Speculation Detection
Noa P. Cruz Díaz and Manuel J. Maña López
February 2019. ix, 95 pp.
Negation and speculation detection is an emerging topic that has attracted the attention of many researchers, and there is clearly a lack of relevant textbooks and survey texts. This book aims to define negation and speculation... read more
AiCR 36
Neurochemistry of ConsciousnessNeurotransmitters in mind
Edited by Elaine K. Perry, Heather Ashton and Allan H. Young
January 2002. xii, 344 pp.
This pioneering book explores in depth the role of neurotransmitters in conscious awareness. The central aim is to identify common neural denominators of conscious awareness, informed by the neurochemistry of natural, drug... read more
SiBil 18
A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism
Michel Paradis
June 2004. viii, 299 pp.
This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the... read more
DAPSAC 13
A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse AnalysisTheory, methodology and interdisciplinarity
Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton
July 2005. xviii, 320 pp.
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social... read more
TSL 49
New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald
April 2002. xiv, 437 pp.
The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such... read more
TSL 46
Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon and Masayuki Onishi
July 2001. xii, 364 pp.
In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark... read more
SSPCL 5
Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World
Lise Menn, Michael P. O’Connor, Loraine K. Obler and Audrey Holland
November 1995. xvii, 212 pp.
“Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World” is an up-to-date introduction to the language of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Recent research in languages other than English has challenged our old descriptions of aphasia... read more
CILT 118
On Subject and ThemeA discourse functional perspective
Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan † and Peter H. Fries
November 1995. xlvi, 414 pp.
The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related... read more
LAL 2
On the Discourse of SatireTowards a stylistic model of satirical humour
Paul Simpson
November 2003. xiv, 242 pp.
This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour. Combining a range of theoretical frameworks in stylistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, Simpson examines both the methods of textual composition... read more
SiBil 3
One Parent – One LanguageAn interactional approach
Susanne Döpke
November 1992. xviii, 231 pp.
This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. In particular, it seeks to explore the following question:... read more
CELCR 5
Origins of LanguageConstraints on hypotheses
Sverker Johansson
February 2005. xii, 346 pp.
Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported... read more
CILT 170
Pathways of the BrainThe neurocognitive basis of language
Sydney M. Lamb
February 1999. xii, 418 pp.
The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly... read more
SCL 4
Pattern GrammarA corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English
Susan Hunston and Gill Francis
February 2000. xiv, 288 pp.
This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface... read more
SCL 2
Patterns and MeaningsUsing corpora for English language research and teaching
Alan Partington
November 1998. x, 158 pp.
Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far,... read more
SCL 55
Patterns and Meanings in DiscourseTheory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor
April 2013. xiii, 371 pp.
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus... read more
Z 190
Pedagogical Grammar
Casey Keck and YouJin Kim
December 2014. ix, 245 pp.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedagogical grammar research and explores its implications for the teaching of grammar in second language classrooms. Drawing on several research domains (e.g., corpus linguistics,... read more
LL< 5
Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and TeachingStudies in honour of Albert Valdman
Edited by Susan M. Gass, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz
September 2002. vi, 305 pp.
The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles. Pedagogical norms guide the selection and sequencing of target language features for language teaching and learning. This book... read more
TBLT 14
Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching
Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa
February 2022. ix, 282 pp.
This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched... read more
LL< 45
Peer Interaction and Second Language LearningPedagogical potential and research agenda
Edited by Masatoshi Sato and Susan Ballinger
March 2016. vii, 399 pp.
This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning. These studies aim to unveil the impact of mediating variables such as task type, mode of interaction, and social... read more
SCL 48
Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook
December 2011. xvi, 256 pp.
Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics is a collection of interviews with fourteen well-known researchers in the field of linguistics. Each interview consists of a set of ten questions: the first seven are common to all... read more
TSL 14
Perspectives on TopicalizationThe case of Japanese wa
Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard
January 1987. xi, 307 pp.
Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been... read more
CLiP 3
PhonologyA cognitive grammar introduction
Geoffrey S. Nathan
September 2008. x, 171 pp.
This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the... read more
SiBil 36
Phonology and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Jette G. Hansen Edwards and Mary L. Zampini
March 2008. vi, 380 pp.
This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application... read more
Z 139
PhraseologyAn interdisciplinary perspective
Edited by Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier
June 2008. xxviii, 422 pp.
Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research,... read more
Z 138
Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by Fanny Meunier and Sylviane Granger
February 2008. xi, 259 pp.
This book addresses the key role of phraseology in second language acquisition and instruction. It is divided into three main sections: Extracting and Describing Phraseological Units investigates the role played by native and... read more
CLL 15
Pidgins and CreolesAn introduction
Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
December 1994. xv, 412 pp.
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II:... read more
CLL 48
Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed LanguagesAn Introduction
Viveka Velupillai
April 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical... read more
LL< 11
Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language
Edited by Rod Ellis
March 2005. viii, 313 pp.
The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities... read more
P&bns 75
Poetic EffectsA relevance theory perspective
Adrian Pilkington
May 2000. xiv, 214 pp.
Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing... read more
LAL 9
Poetry as ResearchExploring second language poetry writing
David I. Hanauer
April 2010. xiii, 164 pp.
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... read more
LALD 3
Point CounterpointUniversal Grammar in the second language
Edited by Lynn Eubank
August 1991. x, 439 pp.
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal... read more
Z 44
A Practical Course in Terminology Processing
Juan C. Sager
January 1990. xi, 258 pp.
Since the advent of the computer, terminology management can be carried out by almost anyone who has learnt to use a computer. Terminology management has proved to be an efficient tool in international communications in industry,... read more
TLRP 6
A Practical Guide to Lexicography
Edited by Piet van Sterkenburg
July 2003. xii, 460 pp.
This is a state-of-the-art Guide to the fascinating world of the lexicon and its description in various types of dictionaries.A team of experts brings together a solid Introduction to Lexicography and leads you through... read more
LIWD 4
A Practical Guide to Localization
Bert Esselink
September 2000. ix + 488 pp.
A Practical Guide to Localization was written for technical translators, localization engineers, testing engineers, desktop publishers, project managers, and anyone else who may be involved in the release of... read more
BTL 6
The Practice of Court Interpreting
Alicia B. Edwards
July 1995. xiii, 192 pp.
The Practice of Court Interpreting describes how the interpreter works in the court room and other legal settings. The book discusses what is involved in court interpreting: case preparation, ethics and procedure,... read more
TiLAR 10
Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Danielle Matthews
June 2014. vi, 394 pp.
Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally. From very early on, children demonstrate a strong desire to understand and be understood that motivates the acquisition of... read more
P&bns 72
Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition
Sophia Marmaridou
June 2000. xii, 322 pp.
This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in... read more
Z 170
Pragmaticizing UnderstandingStudies for Jef Verschueren
Edited by Michael Meeuwis and Jan-Ola Östman
May 2012. vi, 230 pp.
The ideas that mark modern-day pragmatics are old, but did not start to get more systematically developed until the 1960s and 1970s. Still, the very recognition of pragmatics as a self-standing academic discipline is a product of... read more
TSL 22
Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility
Edited by Doris L. Payne
July 1992. viii, 320 pp.
For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language,... read more
AiCR 82
The Primacy of Movement
Expanded second edition
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
July 2011. xxxii, 574 pp.
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience... read more
CILT 250
Principles of Generative PhonologyAn introduction
John T. Jensen
July 2004. xii, 324 pp.
Principles of Generative Phonology is a basic, thorough introduction to phonological theory and practice. It aims to provide a firm foundation in the theory of distinctive features, phonological rules and rule... read more
TBLT 5
Processing Perspectives on Task Performance
Edited by Peter Skehan
April 2014. xii, 266 pp.
Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction. The chapters in this volume all attempt to advance this understanding, and do so within a... read more
Z 229
Professional Development in Applied LinguisticsA guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty
Edited by Luke Plonsky
July 2020. vi, 204 pp.
Success in academia requires more than an understanding of discipline-specific literature and an ability to teach and do research. It is also necessary to develop an understanding of a range of professionally-oriented skills such... read more
LL< 42
Pronunciation FundamentalsEvidence-based perspectives for L2 teaching and research
Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
July 2015. xiii, 208 pp.
The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of evidence-based instruction, this volume surveys both... read more
CILT 86
PsycholinguisticsPsychology, linguistics, and the study of natural language
Joseph F. Kess
January 1992. xiv, 383 pp.
This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an... read more
SCL 51
Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation StudiesA practical guide to descriptive translation research
Edited by Michael P. Oakes and Meng Ji
March 2012. x, 361 pp.
This is a comprehensive guidebook to the quantitative methods needed for Corpus-Based Translation Studies (CBTS). It provides a systematic description of the various statistical tests used in Corpus Linguistics which can be used... read more
AiCR 3
Quantum Brain Dynamics and ConsciousnessAn introduction
Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue
October 1995. xvi, 244 pp.
This introduction to quantum brain dynamics is accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The authors, a brain scientist and a theoretical physicist, present a new quantum framework for investigating advanced functions of... read more
SiHoLS 35
A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness
January 1987. xx, 523 pp.
In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not... read more
TSL 43
Reconstructing GrammarComparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization
Edited by Spike Gildea
July 2000. xiv, 269 pp.
Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative... read more
BTL 132
Reflections on Translation TheorySelected papers 1993 - 2014
Andrew Chesterman
April 2017. x, 396 pp.
Originally published in different journals and collected volumes, these papers in conceptual analysis cover some central topics in translation theory and research: types of theory and hypothesis; causality and explanation; norms,... read more
RMAL 2
Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies
Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
Expected September 2022. xv, 323 pp. + index
Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity... read more
TBLT 13
Researching L2 Task Performance and PedagogyIn honour of Peter Skehan
Edited by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian
August 2019. xxiii, 328 pp.
This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies, all reflective of key theoretical and... read more
LAL 13
Scientific Methods for the Humanities
Willie van Peer, Frank Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier
May 2012. xxii, 328 pp.
Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities. Especially aimed at students and scholars of Literature, Applied Linguistics, and Film and Media, it stimulates readers to reflect on... read more
DoWI 4
SearchingThe theory and practice of making cultural change
Merrelyn Emery
December 1999. xxiv, 258 pp.
Searching explains how to make the fundamental cultural change required for a desirable sustainable future. It describes the two-stage model of open-systems social science in action and covers two major methods:... read more
SiBil 10
Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation
Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston
October 1996. xix, 317 pp.
This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language... read more
LL< 23
Second Language Acquisition and the Younger LearnerChild's play?
Edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey
October 2008. viii, 334 pp.
This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social... read more
SiBil 9
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context
Edited by Barbara F. Freed
October 1995. xiv, 345 pp.
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing... read more
LL< 34
Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts
Edited by Kim McDonough and Alison Mackey
February 2013. xiv, 318 pp.
This volume brings together empirical research that explores interaction in a wide range of educational settings. It includes work that takes a cognitive, brain-based approach to studying interaction, as well as studies that take... read more
TBLT 2
Second Language Task ComplexityResearching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance
Edited by Peter Robinson
September 2011. xii, 345 pp.
Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume... read more
LL< 46
Second-language Discourse in the Digital WorldLinguistic and social practices in and beyond the networked classroom
Ilona Vandergriff
August 2016. xiii, 270 pp.
Second-language Discourse in the Digital World illustrates a new, practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online. With... read more
SLCS 18
The Semantics of Grammar
Anna Wierzbicka
January 1988. x, 617 pp.
“The semantics of grammar” presents a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology. It offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither “autonomous” nor... read more
LL< 35
Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment
Edited by Gisela Granena and Mike Long
May 2013. xv, 295 pp.
Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.e., the age at which learners are first meaningfully exposed to the L2, as robust predictors of rate of classroom language... read more
CELCR 12
The Shared MindPerspectives on intersubjectivity
Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen
June 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the... read more
BTL 117
The Sign Language Interpreting Studies Reader
Edited by Cynthia B. Roy and Jemina Napier
July 2015. xviii, 419 pp.
In Sign Language Interpreting (SLI) there is a great need for a volume devoted to classic and seminal articles and essays dedicated to this specific domain of language interpreting. Students, educators, and practitioners will... read more
SWLL 4
The Social Uses of LiteracyTheory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa
Edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier
October 1996. viii, 279 pp.
This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal... read more
LL< 37
Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad
Edited by Celeste Kinginger
July 2013. ix, 344 pp.
The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects. The volume illustrates... read more
VEAW G27
Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart
October 2001. xviii, 373 pp.
This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the... read more
Z 89
Source Book for LinguisticsThird revised edition
William Cowan and Jaromira Rakušan
January 1999. xii, 250 pp.
This is a revised and expanded edition of Cowan and Rakušan’s Source Book for Linguistics. In addition to the chapters on Phonetics, Phonology, Phonological Alternations, Morphology, Syntax, Sound Change and Historical... read more
TSL 66
Space in LanguagesLinguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories
Edited by Maya Hickmann † and Stéphane Robert
May 2006. x, 362 pp.
Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical... read more
LL< 26
Speech Act PerformanceTheoretical, empirical and methodological issues
Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor and Esther Usó-Juan
February 2010. xiv, 277 pp.
Speech acts are an important and integral part of day-to-day life in all languages. In language acquisition, the need to teach speech acts in a target language has been demonstrated in studies conducted in the field of... read more
SLCS 64
Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional TheoriesPart 2: From clause to discourse and beyond
Christopher S. Butler
June 2003. xiv, 579 pp.
Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated... read more
SLCS 63-64
Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories2 Volumes (set)
Christopher S. Butler
June 2003. xx, 573 pp. & xiv, 579 pp.
These two volumes offer a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated and tested throughout with... read more
SLCS 63
Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional TheoriesPart 1: Approaches to the simplex clause
Christopher S. Butler
June 2003. xx, 573 pp.
This book and its companion volume present a detailed guide to three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. This first volume provides the necessary... read more
Z 94
The Structure of Modern EnglishA linguistic introduction
Laurel J. Brinton
July 2000. xxii, 335 pp. (incl. workbook on CD-rom)
The Structure of Modern English is an extensive introduction to all aspects of Modern English structure, including:
Phonology
Morphology
Lexical and sentence semantics
... read more
HCP 12
The Structure of TimeLanguage, meaning and temporal cognition
Vyvyan Evans
March 2004. x, 286 pp.
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The... read more
TSL 33
Studies in Anaphora
Edited by Barbara A. Fox
August 1996. xii, 518 pp.
The last 15 years has seen an explosion of research on the topic of anaphora. Studies of anaphora have been important to our understanding of cognitive processes, the relationships between social interaction and grammar, and of... read more
TSL 8
Studies in Turkish Linguistics
Edited by Dan I. Slobin and Karl Zimmer
January 1986. vi, 294 pp.
Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of... read more
TSL 20
Studies in Typology and DiachronyPapers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday
Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning
January 1990. xxxiv, 243 pp.
Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and... read more
Z 63
Studies out in Left FieldDefamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley on his 33rd or 34th birthday
Edited by Arnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick and Anthony L. Vanek
January 1992. xxiv, 200 pp.
Transformational Grammar’s Underground Classic!
Back in Print in the Nick of Time!
(Just as the photocopies... read more
PALART 1
Studying Processability TheoryAn Introductory Textbook
Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler
August 2011. xi, 179 pp.
Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition. PT serves as a framework for a wide range of research covering issues, including L2 processing, interlanguage... read more
TSL 2
Switch Reference and Universal GrammarProceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981
Edited by John Haiman and Pamela Munro
January 1983. xv, 337 pp.
Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional... read more
TSL 85
Syntactic ComplexityDiachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani
April 2009. vi, 553 pp.
Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the... read more
Z SYN 2
SyntaxAn Introduction
T. Givón
July 2001. x, 406 pp.
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure,... read more
Z 214
SyntaxAn Introduction to Minimalism
Elly van Gelderen
November 2017. xvi, 159 pp.
Using a concise and clear style, this book highlights insights from current syntactic theory and minimalism. Chapter 1 starts with the general idea behind generative grammar and should be read from a big picture perspective.... read more
Z SYN S
SyntaxAn introduction
T. Givón
July 2001. xviii, 500 pp. & x, 406 pp.
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure,... read more
Z SYN 1
SyntaxAn Introduction
T. Givón
July 2001. xviii, 500 pp.
This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised. In the previous edition (1984) the author deliberately chose to de-emphasize the more formal aspects of syntactic structure,... read more
P&bns 96
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood
Henk Haverkate
September 2002. vi, 241 pp.
This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis... read more
LL< 13
Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega
May 2006. xiv, 350 pp.
This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. It introduces readers to a cutting-edge approach for reviewing and summarizing exactly what accumulated research has to say about... read more
TBLT 12
TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy
Edited by Virginia Samuda, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate
November 2018. viii, 292 pp.
Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education, this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can... read more
SiBil 14
Talking and TestingDiscourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency
Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He
July 1998. x, 395 pp.
This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency.... read more
TBLT 10
Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
Edited by Naoko Taguchi and YouJin Kim
August 2018. x, 312 pp.
This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into... read more
TBLT 7
Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing
Edited by Heidi Byrnes and Rosa M. Manchón
November 2014. xi, 312 pp.
The book seeks to enlarge the theoretical scope, research agenda, and practices associated with TBLT in a two-way dynamic, by exploring how insights from writing might reconfigure our understanding of tasks and, in turn, how work... read more
TBLT 1
Task-Based Language TeachingA reader
Edited by Kris Van den Branden, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris
March 2009. ix, 512 pp.
Over the past two decades, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has gained considerable momentum in the field of language education. This volume presents a collection of 20 reprinted articles and chapters representative of work... read more
TBLT 3
Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' PerspectiveInsights from New Zealand
Martin East
January 2012. xix, 259 pp.
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in New Zealand. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT... read more
TBLT 4
Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language ContextsResearch and implementation
Edited by Ali Shehadeh and Christine A. Coombe
October 2012. xix, 364 pp.
This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically... read more
LL< 14
Teacher Education in CALL
Edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy
September 2006. xii, 354 pp.
This volume addresses the need for a more considered and systematic approach to teacher education and training in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in all its forms: Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based... read more
LL< 36
Technology in Interlanguage Pragmatics Research and Teaching
Edited by Naoko Taguchi and Julie M. Sykes
June 2013. viii, 276 pp.
Technology-informed approaches to L2 research and teaching have prompted great interest by both researchers and practitioners alike. This book highlights the relationship between digitally-mediated technologies and second... read more
TBLT 6
Technology-mediated TBLTResearching Technology and Tasks
Edited by Marta González-Lloret and Lourdes Ortega
July 2014. vi, 336 pp.
This volume contributes to the development and advancement of TBLT as a research domain by investigating the intersection between tasks and technology from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., educational, cognitive,... read more
SCL 36
Television DialogueThe sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation
Paulo Quaglio
February 2009. xiii, 165 pp
This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the... read more
TSL 1
Tense-AspectBetween semantics & pragmatics
Edited by Paul J. Hopper
January 1982. ix, 350 pp.
The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in... read more
FIT 1
Terminologie de la TraductionTranslation Terminology. Terminología de la Traducción. Terminologie der Übersetzung
Edited by Jean Delisle, Hannelore Lee-Jahnke and Monique C. Cormier
July 1999. vi, 433 pp.
This terminology collection presents approximately 200 concepts that can be considered the basic vocabulary for the practical teaching of translation. Four languages are included: French, English, Spanish and German. Nearly... read more
TLRP 1
TerminologyTheory, methods and applications
M. Teresa Cabré Castellví
May 1999. xii, 248 pp.
Terminology: Theory, methods and applications addresses language specialists, terminologists, and all those who take an interest in socio-political and technical aspects of Terminology. The book covers its subject... read more
UPAL 16
Text to ReaderA Communicative Approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortazar, and Boon
Theo D’haen
January 1983. x, 162 pp.
Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel’s form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser’s reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman’s frame analysis, this... read more
SCL 22
Textual PatternsKey words and corpus analysis in language education
Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble
March 2006. x, 203 pp.
Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic... read more
CELCR 3
ThematicsInterdisciplinary Studies
Edited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer
May 2002. x, 448 pp.
Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to... read more
LL< 8
Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition
Geoff Jordan
February 2004. xviii, 295 pp.
Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory... read more
TSL 3
Topic Continuity in DiscourseA quantitative cross-language study
T. Givón
January 1983. vi, 492 pp.
The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to... read more
BTL 63
Topics in Signed Language InterpretingTheory and practice
Edited by Terry Janzen
October 2005. xii, 362 pp.
Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice. Yet interpreting into and from signed... read more
P&bns 19
Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading PedagogyPapers of the XII World Congress on Reading
Edited by Carolyn Baker and Allan Luke
June 1991. xxi, 287 pp.
Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing... read more
BTL 10
Training the Translator
Paul Kussmaul
March 1995. ix, 178 pp.
This book begins by investigating, through the use of think-aloud protocols, the mental processes of students when they translate. The creative and successful processes observed can be used directly for teaching purposes, while... read more
Z 165
Transcribing Talk and InteractionIssues in the representation of communication data
Christopher Jenks
August 2011. xi, 120 pp.
Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction.... read more
ATA XI
Translating Into SuccessCutting-edge strategies for going multilingual in a global age
Edited by Robert C. Sprung
May 2000. xxii, 240 pp.
The boom in international trade has brought with it an increased demand for addressing local consumers in their native language and cultural idiom. Given the complex nature and new media involved in communicating with their... read more
Z 38
Translation StudiesAn integrated approach
Mary Snell-Hornby
January 1988. x, 170 pp.
Translation Studies presents an integrated concept based on the theory and practice of translation. The author adapts linguistic approaches and methods in such a way that they may be usefully employed in the theory,... read more
BTL 73
Translation as a Profession
Daniel Gouadec
June 2007. xx, 409 pp.
Translation as a profession provides an in-depth analysis of the translating profession and the translation industry. The book starts with a presentation of the diversity of translations and an overview of the... read more
BTL 13
Translators through History
Edited and directed by Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth
December 1995. xvi, 345 pp.
In AD 629, a Chinese monk named Xuan Zang set out for India on a quest for sacred texts. He returned with a caravan of twenty-two horses bearing Buddhist treasures and spent the last twenty years of his life in the... read more
BTL 101
Translators through HistoryRevised edition
Edited and directed by Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth
July 2012. xxv, 337 pp.
Acclaimed, when it first appeared, as a seminal work – a groundbreaking book that was both informative and highly readable – Translators through History is being released in a new edition, substantially revised and expanded by... read more
BTL 66
The Turns of Translation StudiesNew paradigms or shifting viewpoints?
Mary Snell-Hornby
June 2006. xi, 205 pp.
What’s new in Translation Studies? In offering a critical assessment of recent developments in the young discipline, this book sets out to provide an answer, as seen from a European perspective today. Many “new” ideas actually go... read more
TSL 29
Typological Studies in Negation
Edited by Peter Kahrel and René van den Berg
January 1994. x, 385 pp.
This collection of articles offers descriptions of the negation system in 16 languages. As not much is known about negation systems in non-European languages, the first aim of the volume is to provide data on various aspects on... read more
TSL 12
Typology of Resultative ConstructionsTranslated from the original Russian edition (1983)
Edited by Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
January 1988. xx, 573 pp.
This volume, originally published in Russian, combines data from a wide range of languages, meticulously analyzed, with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus capable of isolating the most important syntactic and semantic... read more
LALD 1
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Lydia White
January 1989. xii, 198 pp.
This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition. Although no knowledge of generative grammar is presupposed, the theoretical framework underlying the work is the principles and... read more
LALD 10
Universal Grammar in Child Second Language AcquisitionNull subjects and morphological uniformity
Usha Lakshmanan
August 1994. x, 162 pp.
This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English... read more
SCL 23
University LanguageA corpus-based study of spoken and written registers
Douglas Biber
June 2006. viii, 261 pp.
University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing,... read more
TSL 59
Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization
Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon
May 2004. viii, 406 pp.
The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization. Its contributions focus on the following questions: (i) In how far can grammaticalization be considered a universal diachronic process or mechanism... read more
LL< 49
Usage-inspired L2 InstructionResearched pedagogy
Edited by Andrea E. Tyler, Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park
February 2018. xvii, 324 pp.
This book presents a set of compelling essays collectively making a persuasive case for why a usage-based perspective on language is fast becoming a leading theoretical framework for investigating second language (L2) learning... read more
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Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of EnglishA workbook with exercises
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
March 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key
This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.
USING THE BBI, introduces students,... read more
Z BBI 2 (2nd)
Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of EnglishA workbook with exercises
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young
March 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key
This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.
USING THE BBI, introduces students,... read more
CLU 15
Ute Dictionary
T. Givón
March 2016. xiv, 373 pp.
This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the... read more
CLU 3
Ute Reference Grammar
T. Givón
May 2011. xxiii, 441 pp.
Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This... read more
CLU 7
Ute Texts
Compiled and edited by T. Givón
July 2013. xvi, 333 pp.
This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tight connection to the local... read more
Z 228
Visual Linguistics with RA practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
July 2020. ix, 258 pp.
This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on... read more
LL< 10
Vocabulary in a Second LanguageSelection, acquisition, and testing
Edited by Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer
July 2004. xiv, 234 pp.
The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world’s leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new... read more
TSL 27
Voice: Form and Function
Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper
April 1994. xiii, 377 pp.
The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these... read more
DAPSAC 23
Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
Andrew Goatly
January 2007. xvii, 431 pp.
Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual... read more
DDCS 2
Web Site Design is Communication Design
Thea M. van der Geest
November 2001. viii, 165 pp.
Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of... read more
SiHoLS 81
The Whorf Theory ComplexA critical reconstruction
Penny Lee
June 1996. x, 324 pp.
At last — a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger ‘theory complex’ delineated in... read more
P&bcs 3
Whose Language?A study in Linguistic Pragmatics
Jacob L. Mey
January 1985. ix, 412 pp.
"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life",... read more
TSL 30
Word Order in Discourse
Edited by Pamela A. Downing and Michael Noonan
June 1995. x, 595 pp.
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting... read more
SWLL 5
Writing and IdentityThe discoursal construction of identity in academic writing
Roz Ivanič
March 1998. xiii, 373 pp.
Writing is not just about conveying content but also about the representation of self. (One of the reasons people find writing difficult is that they do not feel comfortable with the me they are portraying in their writing.... read more
LL< 56
Writing and Language LearningAdvancing research agendas
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón
November 2020. vii, 432 pp.
The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments... read more
SWLL 14
Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese
Revised edition
Insup Taylor and M. Martin Taylor
December 2014. xix, 487 pp.
The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, this book: (1) examines the three East Asian scripts (and English) together in... read more
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The Written Questionnaire in Social DialectologyHistory, theory, practice
Stefan Dollinger
December 2015. xxvii, 397 pp.
Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social... read more