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ICHOLS 2024

Tbilsi, 26-30 August 2024

John Benjamins will be virtually present at ICHOLS 2024. 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 Anke de Looper at anke.delooper at benjamins.nl.

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FILLM 18
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Beyond Babel

Scholarly organizations and the study of languages and literatures

Edited by Tom Clark

The contribution that scholarly organizations make to the study of languages and literatures is a service to the value of systematically learning and using meaning—understanding that meaning operates in systems. Constructively speaking, these organizations support the teaching and research of our world’s experts in... full description
October 2022. xv, 240 pp.
SLCS 212
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Chapters of Dependency Grammar

A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière

Edited by András Imrényi and Nicolas Mazziotta

Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is correct, Chapters of Dependency Grammar tells the story of how dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the early 20th century. From... full description
February 2020. v, 281 pp.
GS 8
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Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy

Josef Fulka

The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view deafness and sign... full description
April 2020. vii, 166 pp.
IVITRA 35
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Desired Language

Languages as objects of national ideology

Edited by Francesc Feliu

National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of today’s thinkers have... full description
January 2023. vi, 294 pp.
SiHoLS 126
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History of Linguistics 2014

Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014

Edited by Carlos Assunção, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler

This volume brings together a selection of 20 out of altogether 170 papers presented at the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), held at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014. It is divided chronologically into four... full description
August 2016. xii, 277 pp.
SiHoLS 127
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History of Linguistics 2017

Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September

Edited by Émilie Aussant and Jean-Michel Fortis

The present book is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (Paris 2017). The volume is divided thematically into three parts: I. Notions and categories, II. Representations and receptions, III. Learning, codification and the linguistic practices of social... full description
May 2020. xviii, 245 pp.
SiHoLS 129
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A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America

Marcin Kilarski

The languages indigenous to North America are characterized by a remarkable genetic and typological diversity. Based on the premise that linguistic examples play a key role in the origin and transmission of ideas within linguistics and across disciplines, this book examines the history of approaches to these languages... full description
December 2021. xiv, 443 pp.
AALS 20
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Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

Historical perspectives

Edited by Richard Smith and Tim Giesler

By adopting a historical perspective, this edited collection of papers takes a fresh look at a key concept in applied linguistics, that of innovation. A substantial introduction advocates historical re-evaluation of this notion via exploration of its rise to prominence, while the ten subsequent chapters present... full description
June 2023. x, 220 pp.
AHS 9
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Language Planning as Nation Building

Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850

Gijsbert Rutten

The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example.... full description
February 2019. x, 312 pp.
SiHoLS 128
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Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography

E.F.K. Koerner †

This volume brings together — in 8 chapters — what has occupied the author during his many years as editor of Historiographia Linguistica. Namely, how the history of linguistics has developed into a major field of scholarly research, and that the discussion of questions of method and epistemology needs to be continued... full description
August 2020. x, 214 pp.
CLCC 14
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Learning to Read, Learning Religion

Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries

Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, M.O. Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka

Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe. Remarkably, similar... full description
January 2023. xix, 375 pp.
SiHoLS 131
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Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans

Otto Zwartjes

This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their efforts to understand and disseminate knowledge of the Chinese language during this historical period. Ample attention is dedicated to the evolution of Chinese grammars and... full description
Expected August 2024. xii, 381 pp.
SiHoLS 130
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Missionary Linguistics VI

Missionary Linguistics in Asia

Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia

This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the Society of Jesus and... full description
November 2021. xii, 296 pp.
SLCS 209
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Normativity in Language and Linguistics

Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen

This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters address a range of... full description
December 2019. vii, 272 pp.
BTL 159
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Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting

Voices from around the world

Edited by Lucía Ruiz Rosendo and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón

The aspiration of an Atlas is to cover the whole world, by compiling cartographical material representing territories from across the five continents. This book intends to contribute to that ideally comprehensive, yet always unfinished, Atlas with pieces gathered from all of the Earth’s regions. However, its focus is... full description
February 2023. vi, 310 pp.