Conference selection

LPP 2024

Carleton, 27-30 June 2024

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Check out our selection of top titles for this conference!

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WLP 9

Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy

Edited by François Grin, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn

This book stems from the joint effort of 25 research teams across Europe, representing a dozen disciplines from the social sciences and humanities, resulting in a radically novel perspective to the challenges of multilingualism in Europe. The various concepts and tools brought to bear on multilingualism are... full description

January 2022. xxvi, 570 pp.

BPA 15

Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan

Julia Herschensohn

How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages? Language development and processing are the central topics that this book explores, initially in terms of first language(s) and then in terms of additional... full description

September 2022. xxi, 292 pp.

WLP 8

Contested Languages

The hidden multilingualism of Europe

Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco

This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by... full description

January 2021. vi, 271 pp.

IVITRA 35

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.

TBLT 15

How to Teach an Additional Language

To task or not to task?

Kris Van den Branden

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 up-to-date insights into the cognitive, motivational, and emotional dimensions of learning an... full description

April 2022. xiii, 292 pp.

SiN 26

Intercultural Experience in Narrative

Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace

Michał Wilczewski

This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language, intercultural communication, collaboration, learning, and expatriate... full description

November 2019. xix, 325 pp.

IVITRA 20

The Intricacy of Languages

Edited by Francesc Feliu and Olga Fullana

If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity, enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and making us identify it... full description

October 2019. xi, 436 pp.

SiBil 65

L3 Development After the Initial State

Edited by Megan M. Brown-Bousfield, Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes

To date, the field of L3 acquisition research has had a heavy focus on the initial state of the L3 grammar. While this initial state research is critical to understanding L3 acquisition as a whole, in order for an explanatory understanding of language acquisition in the multilingual mind, the field needs to expand its... full description

October 2023. vi, 275 pp.

WLP 7

A Language Management Approach to Language Problems

Integrating macro and micro dimensions

Edited by Goro Christoph Kimura and Lisa Fairbrother

In recent years there has been increased interest in examining the treatment of language problems across different levels of society, ranging from individual interactional issues to language policy and planning at the national or supra-national level. Among the various approaches to tackle this issue, Language... full description

May 2020. ix, 273 pp.

DAPSAC 89

Language Policy in Business

Discourse, ideology and practice

Elisabeth Barakos

Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice provides a critical sociolinguistic and discursive understanding of language policy in a minority language context. Focusing on Welsh-English bilingualism in private sector businesses in Wales, the book unpacks the circulating discourses, ideologies and... full description

November 2020. xv, 195 pp.

DAPSAC 82

Metaphor, Nation and Discourse

Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević

This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the discursive power behind... full description

May 2019. vii, 356 pp.

MDM 5

The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge

Anne-Claude Berthoud and Laurent Gajo

Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the world of science has still largely escaped attention. But science, too, is created and transmitted in and through communication. Today, the construction and... full description

November 2020. ix, 158 pp.

IHLL 25

New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited by Talia Bugel and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá

The analysis of language attitudes is important not only because attitudes can affect language maintenance and language change but also because such reflections and discussions can bring light to social, cultural, political and educational matters that require an interdisciplinary approach. This volume fills a crucial... full description

April 2020. xi, 274 pp.

WLP 6

The Politics of Multilingualism

Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance

Edited by Peter A. Kraus and François Grin

This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the dynamics of transnationalism,... full description

September 2018. xix, 367 pp.

RMAL 5

Research Methods in the Study of L2 Writing Processes

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón and Julio Roca de Larios

This volume brings together the perspectives of new and established scholars who have connected with the broad fields of first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing to discuss critically key methodological developments and challenges in the study of L2 writing processes. The focus is on studies of composing... full description

October 2023. vi, 387 pp.

BTL 159

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.

BTL 154

Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation

Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman and Katharina Kühn

This volume explores the intersection between Translation Studies and History and Philosophy of Science to shed light on the workings of scientific communities, the dissemination of knowledge across languages and cultures, and the transformation in the process of that knowledge and of the scientific communities... full description

October 2020. vii, 272 pp.

SILV 28

Variation in Second and Heritage Languages

Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li

Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s. Much of it was reviewed along with newer approaches in Bayley and Preston 1996 (B&P), heavily devoted to VARBRUL analyses that exposed the variability in developing interlanguages and placed... full description

July 2022. xx, 365 pp.