Conference selection

DGFS 2025

Mainz, 4-7 March 2025

John Benjamins will be virtually present at DGfS 2025. Check out our promotional material and discount order form through the links below. If you wish to talk about our books, your work, and possible publishing projects please get in touch with Kees Vaes at kees.vaes at benjamins.nl.

Check out our selection of top titles for this conference!


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SCL 107
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The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering

A corpus-based study into rhetorical conventions of research articles

Thi Ngoc Phuong Le, Minh Man Pham and Michael Barlow

This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article. In particular, the study analyses the organisational patterns of mechanical engineering research articles... full description
April 2023. xiii, 320 pp.
CILT 361
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Advances in Iranian Linguistics II

Edited by Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui

This volume offers insight into different aspects of an interesting but fairly understudied language family, opens a path to new inquiries, and provides valuable contribution to linguistics, in general, and to Iranian linguistics, in particular. The articles in this volume offer novel analyses of significant... full description
April 2023. vi, 315 pp.
SCL 108
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Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer

This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their construction. Part 1 focuses on... full description
April 2023. xxii, 389 pp.
LA 281
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Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance

A Nested-Agree approach

Irene Amato

This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how cross-linguistic data... full description
November 2023. xvi, 264 pp.
CILT 368
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The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon

Evidence from Japanese verb morphology

Brent de Chene

All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little consensus. This problem... full description
February 2025. xvii, 267 pp.
SCL 118
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Challenges in Corpus Linguistics

Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis

Edited by Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk

This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same time new problems... full description
September 2024. vii, 172 pp.
LA 284
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Competition in Word-Formation

Edited by Alexandra Bagasheva, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner

This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences between a semasiological and an onomasiological approach to competition phenomena in word-formation, the scope of such phenomena (micro-level rivalry between individual... full description
May 2024. vi, 352 pp.
CAL 36
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A Constructional Account of Verb-Forming Suffixation

Jacqueline Laws

The range of meanings expressed by derivatives formed by the attachment of the four principal verb-forming suffixes - ate, - en, - ify and - ize has been the subject of extensive analysis for over two decades. From a descriptive perspective, the research reported in this volume constitutes the most comprehensive... full description
September 2023. xxiv, 393 pp.
CAL 37
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Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages

Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice

This volume presents eight studies of linguistic phenomena in Nordic languages (notably Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) from a construction grammar perspective. The contributions both deepen and widen the focus of construction grammar applied to Nordic languages by dealing with a variety of topics, such as the... full description
November 2023. v, 278 pp.
CAL 34
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Constructions in Spanish

Edited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger

Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, cutting across morphology, syntax,... full description
July 2023. vi, 409 pp.
SCL 109
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Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis

The diverse applications of DocuScope

Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel

Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with corpus techniques in... full description
June 2023. vii, 292 pp.
SCL 110
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Corpus Dialectology

Edited by Elissa Pustka, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe and Verena Weiland

Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and statistical... full description
August 2023. vi, 220 pp.
SCL 113
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Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research

Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication

Edited by Marlén Izquierdo and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar

Cross-linguistic research is a fruitful field of language inquiry that has benefited enormously from the use of corpora. As sources of linguistic data of various kinds and as tools for language processing, corpora have shaped the development of cross-linguistic research, enabling both language description and... full description
November 2023. vi, 237 pp.
NLP 15
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Corpus-based Translation of Private Legal Documents

Patrizia Giampieri

Legal translation is hallmarked by peculiarities revolving around language intricacies, particular formulae, and system-specificity issues. At present, there is a spectrum of legal corpora dedicated to court-related topics and legislation, but there is no corpus composed of private legal documents such as contracts... full description
June 2024. ix, 337 pp.
SCL 119
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Crossing Boundaries through Corpora

Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer

This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation, how... full description
October 2024. vi, 265 pp.
P&bns 346
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The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger

Cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye

This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry. Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese and... full description
August 2024. vii, 251 pp.
SiGL 9
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The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic

A contact-linguistic perspective

Seiichi Suzuki

This book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change. Specifically, a... full description
June 2024. xix, 155 pp.
LA 287
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The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English

Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?

Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie

The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior narrow-scope adverbs, e.g.... full description
Expected February 2025. ix, 188 pp.
SLCS 232
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Different Slants on Grammaticalization

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci

This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume,... full description
July 2023. vi, 284 pp.
LA 280
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Differential Object Marking in Romance

Towards microvariation

Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Alexandru Mardale

Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and theoretical level. Many... full description
November 2023. viii, 350 pp.
SLCS 227
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Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective

Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is... full description
March 2023. vi, 439 pp.
SiGL 6
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The Ditransitive Alternation in Present-Day German

A corpus-based analysis

Hilde De Vaere

The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively annotated data and... full description
June 2023. xviii, 333 pp.
SiGL 7
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Ditransitives in Germanic Languages

Synchronic and diachronic aspects

Edited by Eva Zehentner, Melanie Röthlisberger and Timothy Colleman

This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well... full description
August 2023. vi, 446 pp.
LA 285
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Elementary Predicates and Related Categories

Ludovico Franco

This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across diverse linguistic... full description
August 2024. ix, 217 pp.
Z 242
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English Complex Words

Exercises in construction and translation

Piotr Twardzisz

English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language items, this book... full description
June 2023. xi, 392 pp.
SCL 120
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English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions

Karin McClellan

Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological, discourse-pragmatic, and... full description
November 2024. xix, 296 pp.
HCP 76
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Existential Constructions across Languages

Forms, meanings and functions

Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and... full description
July 2023. x, 352 pp.
SCL 111
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Exploring Language and Society with Big Data

Parliamentary discourse across time and space

Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö

As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse,... full description
November 2023. vi, 379 pp.
P&bns 341
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Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism

In between antiracist and racist discourse

Edited by Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona

The ongoing migration ‘crisis’ in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian, antiracist one. This... full description
February 2024. viii, 294 pp.
SLCS 234
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Free Variation in Grammar

Empirical and theoretical approaches

Edited by Kristin Kopf and Thilo Weber

Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical theory. The present volume explores questions that are fundamental to this line of research: First, the question of whether variation can always and completely be explained by intra- or extra-linguistic predictors, or... full description
October 2023. vi, 352 pp.
SCL 115
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Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness

Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures

Stefan Th. Gries

This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then, the book makes three main proposals:... full description
July 2024. vii, 321 pp.
SLCS 233
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Granularity in the Verbalization of Events and Objects

A cross-linguistic study

Katerina Stathi

The study departs from the observation that in expressing ideas, some languages encode more details than others. It investigates whether languages encode events and/or objects at a coarse-grained (e.g., put, glass) as opposed to a fine-grained (e.g., lay, wine glass) level systematically. The level of detail is termed... full description
August 2023. xviii, 536 pp.
CILT 367
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Historical Linguistics 2019

Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019

Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli

This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24), which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July, 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at the conference, with... full description
November 2024. vi, 368 pp.
CILT 369
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Historical Linguistics 2022

Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022

Edited by Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden

This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting... full description
Expected April 2025. vi, 305 pp.+ index
CAL 39
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Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units

Vassiliki Geka

This book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this cross-fertilising... full description
Expected June 2025. xxvi, 232 pp. + index
P&bns 349
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Influencer Discourse

Affective relations and identities

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

The rise of influencers, as power-players in the social media landscape, is a defining feature of the digital era, one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language, along with other semiotic modes, plays in the construction and communication of... full description
October 2024. vi, 306 pp.
LA 286
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Intonation in Language Contact

The case of Spanish in Catalonia

Jonas Grünke

The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish bilinguals, this book... full description
November 2024. ix, 427 pp.
TSL 135
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Investigating Language Isolates

Typological and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga

Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a detailed, in-depth,... full description
January 2025. vii, 339 pp.
SiGL 8
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Investigating West Germanic Languages

Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell

Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page

This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the thirteen... full description
May 2024. vi, 327 pp.
SCL 121
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Investigating Wikipedia

Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis

Edited by Céline Poudat, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg

The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies, from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object, difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users, it contains vast... full description
October 2024. vi, 264 pp.
TAR 5
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It's different with you

Contrastive perspectives on address research

Edited by Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans

This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical contexts and time –... full description
September 2023. vi, 432 pp.
CILT 363
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Keys to the History of English

Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography

Edited by Thijs Porck, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term developments and... full description
April 2024. vii, 235 pp.
P&bns 340
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Language Change in the 20th Century

Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages

Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Shima Salameh Jiménez

Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the book advocates for... full description
January 2024. vi, 292 pp.
SCL 106
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Language and Characterisation in Television Series

A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media

Monika Bednarek

This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They highlight different... full description
March 2023. xii, 265 pp.
P&bns 339
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Manufacturing Dissent

Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy mismanagement, deceptive... full description
January 2024. vi, 311 pp.
P&bns 348
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Media as Procedures of Communication

Edited by Martin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider

The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted... full description
November 2024. vi, 308 pp.
HCP 78
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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis

Andrew Goatly

This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which it is derived; (ii)... full description
November 2024. xvii, 348 pp.
SLCS 231
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Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses

Synchronic and Diachronic Insights

Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck

This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic setting the scene and nine chapters based on data from Dutch, German, English, Icelandic, Chinese, and Japanese. Topics discussed in the... full description
March 2023. vii, 353 pp.
P&bns 351
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Mobile Eye Tracking

New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction

Edited by Elisabeth Zima and Anja Stukenbrock

Situated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics, this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction, with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication. Readers will find a comprehensive, balanced exploration of... full description
Expected July 2025. vi, 315 pp. + index
CAL 38
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Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective

Edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried

The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory field that is... full description
January 2025. vi, 317 pp.
P&bns 333
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Multimodal Im/politeness

Signed, spoken, written

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown

Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings together eleven empirical... full description
February 2023. vii, 360 pp.
CILT 362
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Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania

Functional and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Marcin Kilarski

Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and numeral classifiers.... full description
December 2023. x, 251 pp.
P&bns 344
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(Non)referentiality in Conversation

Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury

Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality through... full description
August 2024. v, 209 pp.
SLCS 226
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On Spoken French

An Ashby Reader

William J. Ashby

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995), including two... full description
March 2023. xiv, 534 pp.
P&bns 338
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A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare

Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding

Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi

This volume addresses the issue of pragmatic meaning and interpretation in communication contexts regarding health and does so by combining a series of diverse and complementary approaches, which together highlight the relevance of successfully shared understanding to achieve more accessible, inclusive, and... full description
November 2023. vi, 397 pp.
P&bns 337
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Pragmatics and Translation

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli

This volume presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation, papers are presented in four different parts. Part I focuses on interpreting; Part II centers on the translation of fictional and non-fictional texts and spaces; Part III discusses... full description
September 2023. vii, 336 pp.
P&bns 335
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The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts

Edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most recent work on humour... full description
May 2023. vi, 239 pp.
P&bns 343
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The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

Edited by Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted... full description
March 2024. viii, 268 pp.
SLCS 235
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Predication in African Languages

Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh

This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal complexes and verb... full description
July 2024. xi, 344 pp.
SCL 114
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The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English

A corpus-based study of grammatical change

Xinyue Yao

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings and context-dependent... full description
March 2024. xvii, 235 pp.
CILT 366
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Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Edited by Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals, including translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers, language instructors, and learners. Computational Phraseology, and in particular the computational analysis of... full description
November 2024. ix, 264 pp.
SLCS 230
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Reconnecting Form and Meaning

In honour of Kristin Davidse

Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and... full description
February 2023. vii, 305 pp.
SLCS 228
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Reference

From conventions to pragmatics

Edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin

This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields (formal and... full description
February 2023. vi, 349 pp.
P&bns 334
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Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance

Irina T. Pandarova

This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial classes can have both... full description
June 2023. ix, 254 pp.
P&bns 336
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Risk Discourse and Responsibility

Edited by Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman

The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field... full description
July 2023. vii, 260 pp.
P&bns 342
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Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts

From global to local discourses

Edited by Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin

The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective and show how... full description
March 2024. v, 195 pp.
SLCS 229
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Serbian Clitics

Jasmina Milićević

Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal objects (le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that characterizes... full description
February 2023. xxiii, 166 pp.
HCP 77
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Space, Time, World

Michael Fortescue

Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of reference. The aim... full description
February 2024. viii, 223 pp
LA 279
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The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse

Lukas Müller

This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP). The innovative claim is that the two tense forms operate in the field of tension between temporal quantification and temporal reference. Based on this approach, it presents the first in-depth study that... full description
February 2023. xviii, 276 pp.
CAL 35
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Structural Priming in the Grammatical Network

Tobias Ungerer

This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers’ processing of a... full description
July 2023. xiii, 236 pp.
P&bns 345
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Structures in Discourse

Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions

Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik

This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety of communication forms, from written to spoken to visual, in old and new media. It presents a collection of case studies ranging in focus from the micro-level discourse... full description
August 2024. ix, 207 pp.
SCL 116
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Textbook English

A multi-dimensional approach

Elen Le Foll

This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine linguistic variation both... full description
July 2024. xix, 294 pp.
SCL 112
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Theme in English and German

A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts

Jonas Freiwald

This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes, participant roles, agency, and... full description
August 2023. xiii, 297 pp.
LA 283
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The Unity of Movement

Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese

Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee

Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of transformation, or more precisely, movement, which establishes dependencies among syntactic constituents in a phrase structure. This book probes the question... full description
April 2024. xxii, 214 pp.
CILT 364
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Unlocking the History of English

Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types

Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate language in texts that... full description
April 2024. viii, 253 pp.
CILT 365
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Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History

Elisabeth M. de Boer

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have been more conservative... full description
August 2024. viii, 130 pp.
P&bns 350
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Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy

Giorgia Mannaioli

The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy, pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical, psychological, and social-discursive. It shows how vagueness can be strategically employed... full description
January 2025. ix, 272 pp.
P&bns 347
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Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest

Linguistic and pragmatic approaches

Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi

This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which address specific and... full description
September 2024. vi, 286 pp.
SCL 117
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Variation in University Student Writing

A communicative text type approach

Larissa Goulart

This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences,... full description
August 2024. xviii, 239 pp.
LA 282
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Wh-island Effects in Chinese

A formal experimental study

Xu Chen

This book examines three controversial generalizations concerning wh-island effects in Chinese: argument and adjunct asymmetry, subject and object asymmetry, and D-linked and non-D-linked asymmetry. Experiments under the factorial definition of island effects reveal that: (1) both argument and adjunct wh-in-situ are... full description
February 2024. xix, 173 pp.