Conference selection

PALA 2023

Bertinoro, 12-16 July 2023

John Benjamins will be present at PALA 2023. Check out our promotional material and discount order form through the links below. Or come and browse our books at the exhibit. If you wish to talk about our books, your work, and possible publishing projects please get in touch with Ymke Verploegen at ymke.verploegen at benjamins.nl

Check out our selection of top titles for this conference!


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LAL 26
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Cognitive Grammar in Contemporary Fiction

Chloe Harrison

This book proposes an extension of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008) towards a cognitive discourse grammar, through the unique environment that literary stylistic application offers. Drawing upon contemporary research in cognitive stylistics (Text World Theory, deixis and mind-modelling, amongst others),... full description
May 2017. ix, 164 pp.
LAL 31
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Cognitive Rhetoric

The cognitive poetics of political discourse

Sam Browse

This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume draws on concepts... full description
October 2018. xi, 235 pp.
SCL 87
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The Corpus Linguistics Discourse

In honour of Wolfgang Teubert

Edited by Anna Čermáková and Michaela Mahlberg

With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods, this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that define the discourse... full description
December 2018. vi, 261 pp.
LAL 23
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Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext

Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic

The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it moves much of Firth’s... full description
May 2016. xix, 419 pp.
LAL 40
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Creative Writing Across the Curriculum

Meaningful literacy for college writers across disciplines, languages, and identities

Justin Nicholes

Situated among fields (applied linguistics, creative writing studies, writing studies), this book empirically explores the language of writers in contexts of learning externalized in literary genres. At its core, this book features linguistic and thematic analysis of the writing and reflections of adults who... full description
November 2022. xvii, 225 pp.
LAL 20
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Crime and Corpus

The linguistic representation of crime in the press

Ulrike Tabbert

Reports on crime in newspapers do not provide a neutral representation of criminals and their offences but instead construct them in accordance with societal discourse surrounding this issue. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Linguistics, Criminology, and Media Studies and... full description
April 2015. xvii, 181 pp.
CLCC 13
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Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults

Moving stories

Edited by Karen Coats and Gretchen Papazian

Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving stories takes up key issues in affect studies while putting forward new approaches and ways of thinking about the intricate entanglements of emotion, affect, and story in relation to the functions, processes, and influences of texts designed for youth. With an... full description
January 2023. x, 242 pp.
LAL 32
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Experiencing Fictional Worlds

Edited by Benedict Neurohr and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw

Experiencing Fictional Worlds is not only the title of this book, but a challenge to reveal exactly what makes the “experience” of literature. This volume presents contributions drawing upon a range of theories and frameworks based on the text-as-world metaphor. This text-world approach is fruitfully applied to a wide... full description
February 2019. xiii, 228 pp.
LAL 29
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Free Indirect Style in Modernism

Representations of consciousness

Eric Rundquist

Free Indirect Style (FIS) is a linguistic technique that defies the logic of human subjectivity by enabling readers to directly observe the subjective experiences of third-person characters. This book consolidates the existing literary-linguistic scholarship on FIS into a theory that is based around one of its most... full description
November 2017. xvii, 197 pp.
SiN 26
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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.
LAL 33
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Intertextuality in Practice

Jessica Mason

The books we’ve read, the films we’ve seen, the stories we’ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven’t – form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure, expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a reference’s possible significance can lead to... full description
September 2019. xi, 204 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.
LAL 37
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Language in Place

Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment

Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey

The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established... full description
April 2021. vii, 258 pp.
CELCR 25
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The Language of Food in Japanese

Cognitive perspectives and beyond

Edited by Kiyoko Toratani

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It orchestrates relatable and... full description
February 2022. x, 347 pp.
LAL 22
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Language, Discourse, Style

Selected works of John McH. Sinclair

Edited by Sonia Zyngier

For the first time, the works on stylistics by one of the most brilliant linguists of our times are collected in a single volume. This book highlights the evolution of John Sinclair’s theories and insights from studies on language teaching through detailed analyses of text and discourse, and into his later works on... full description
September 2016. xxiii, 282 pp.
LAL 41
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A Life with Poetry

The development of poetic literacy

Joan Peskin and David I. Hanauer

This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets. In doing so it provides a much needed synthesis of research findings across diverse domains such as human development, the scientific study of literature, cognitive psychology,... full description
February 2023. x, 194 pp.
LAL 25
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Linguistics and Literary History

In honour of Sylvia Adamson

Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive and interpretative... full description
October 2016. vi, 216 pp.
LAL 27
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Narrative Absorption

Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru

Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor do we fully realize... full description
November 2017. ix, 319 pp.
LAL 38
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Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts

A textual and communicative perspective

Lisa Nahajec

During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates something about what... full description
June 2021. xiii, 218 pp.
LAL 21
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Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization

Edited by Natalia Igl and Sonja Zeman

The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics, literary studies, and picture theory, the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that are common to the... full description
March 2016. viii, 185 pp.
LAL 35
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Pragmatics and Literature

Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark

Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All have a shared focus... full description
December 2019. xiv, 225 pp.
LAL 30
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The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter

Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists, stylisticians, discourse... full description
April 2018. vi, 221 pp.
LAL 24
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Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments

Edited by Michael Burke, Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier

Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments is not just about what takes place in literary classrooms. Settings do have a strong influence on student learning both directly and indirectly. These spaces may include the home, the workplace, science centers, libraries, that is, contexts that entail... full description
July 2016. xix, 309 pp.
CELCR 26
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Slowing Metaphor Down

Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory

Gerard J. Steen

If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously been acknowledged.... full description
June 2023. xv, 355 pp.
LAL 39
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Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry

Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality

Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni

This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice quality in recited poetry.... full description
June 2022. xv, 448 pp.
LAL 36
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Style and Reader Response

Minds, media, methods

Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts. Contributions to the... full description
February 2021. vii, 236 pp.
LAL 34
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Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language

In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)

Edited by Paul Simpson

This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his analyses of the... full description
November 2019. ix, 205 pp.
LAL 28
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The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics

Edited by John Douthwaite, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru

In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be... full description
December 2017. vii, 238 pp.
DAPSAC 23
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Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology

Andrew Goatly

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 metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields as diverse as... full description
January 2007. xvii, 431 pp.