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TAR 2
Address Variation in Sociocultural ContextRegion, power and distance in Italian service encounters
Agnese Bresin
February 2021. xxi, 290 pp.
This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on... read more
CoLL 57
Advances in Contact LinguisticsIn honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
October 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot... read more
WLP 9
Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy
Edited by François Grin, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn
January 2022. xxvi, 570 pp.
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... read more
IHLL 23
Amazonian SpanishLanguage Contact and Evolution
Edited by Stephen Fafulas
July 2020. viii, 303 pp.
Amazonian Spanish: Language Contact and Evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic... read more
SCLD 13
Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres
Edited by Wei Wang
August 2020. xiii, 233 pp.
Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language... read more
P&bns 318
Approaches to Internet PragmaticsTheory and practice
Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland
April 2021. vii, 348 pp.
Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since... read more
IHLL 32
Aspects of Latin American Spanish DialectologyIn honor of Terrell A. Morgan
Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sandro Sessarego
January 2021. vi, 292 pp.
This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics, combining theoretical approaches with empirical data collection.... read more
VEAW G64
Bermudian EnglishA sociohistorical and linguistic profile
Nicole Eberle
May 2021. xv, 231 pp.
Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the... read more
P&bns 314
Bonding through ContextLanguage and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse
Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata
December 2020. vii, 291 pp.
This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence,... read more
IVITRA 27
Canvi lingüístic, estandardització i identitat en català / Linguistic Change, Standardization and Identity in Catalan
Edited by Hans-Ingo Radatz
May 2020. xvii, 190 pp.
The multiplicity of parallel identities that make up our personalities is a phenomenon in which our individual identitary choices merge with diverse collective identities. The present volume is a contribution to the field of... read more
WLP 8
Contested LanguagesThe hidden multilingualism of Europe
Edited by Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco
January 2021. vi, 271 pp.
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... read more
SCL 96
Corpora and the Changing SocietyStudies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
April 2020. xii, 305 pp.
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be... read more
SCL 100
Corpora, Constructions, New EnglishesA constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
July 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile... read more
SCL 98
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
November 2020. vi, 210 pp.
From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The... read more
SCL 103
Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber
December 2021. xi, 341 pp.
As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in... read more
DAPSAC 91
Degrees of European BelongingThe fuzzy areas between us and them
Élisabeth Le
March 2021. xvi, 251 pp.
While we tend to divide the world into Us and Them, a number of grey nuances exist beyond this white and black distinction. The purpose of this book is to address the fuzzy areas between Us and Them through the study of European... read more
DAPSAC 92
Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
April 2021. viii, 323 pp.
The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in... read more
SiN 27
Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees
Emily Greenbank
June 2020. x, 228 pp.
Incorporating both interview and workplace data, this book examines the discursive and social challenges that former refugees encounter as they navigate successes and failures in the New Zealand labour market. Over five chapters... read more
VEAW G65
The Dynamics of English in NamibiaPerspectives on an emerging variety
Edited by Anne Schröder
September 2021. ix, 305 pp.
The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of... read more
VEAW G66
Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
July 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical... read more
Impact 51
English Rock and Pop PerformancesA sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes
Lisa Jansen
March 2022. ix, 188 pp. + index
This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach to this pop cultural trend and drawing attention to the... read more
SLCS 223
Extravagant MorphologyStudies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology
Edited by Matthias Eitelmann and Dagmar Haumann
March 2022. v, 258 pp.
Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding... read more
Impact 48
Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages
Edited by Derib Ado, Almaz Wasse Gelagay and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
April 2021. viii, 415 pp.
The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage... read more
IHLL 22
Hispanic Contact LinguisticsTheoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives
Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera
February 2020. vii, 336 pp.
This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth... read more
SILV 24
Intermediate Language VarietiesKoinai and regional standards in Europe
Edited by Massimo Cerruti and Stavroula Tsiplakou
June 2020. vi, 258 pp.
The papers in this volume address the interplay of factors underlying the formation of intermediate varieties in the ‘dialect-standard’ landscape of present-day Europe. Research is presented on varieties of several different... read more
P&bns 326
Intersubjectivity in ActionStudies in language and social interaction
Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
November 2021. vi, 437 pp.
Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the... read more
Impact 50
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
June 2021. vi, 386 pp.
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying... read more
WLP 7
A Language Management Approach to Language ProblemsIntegrating macro and micro dimensions
Edited by Goro Christoph Kimura and Lisa Fairbrother
May 2020. ix, 273 pp.
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... read more
SILV 25
Language Variation – European Perspectives VIIISelected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019
Edited by Hans Van de Velde, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen
June 2021. vi, 316 pp.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), which was organized by the Fryske Akademy and held in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (the Netherlands) in June... read more
SCLD 14
Language, Multimodal Interaction and TransactionStudies of a Southern Chinese marketplace
Xuehua Xiang
September 2021. xii, 217 pp.
Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, Language,... read more
IHLL 35
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World
Edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
July 2021. xi, 395 pp.
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in the extensive research that highlights the richness and... read more
SLCS 218
Lost in ChangeCauses and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
June 2021. vi, 366 pp.
While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far... read more
CLU 22
Metasex – The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression
Anne Storch and Nico Nassenstein
September 2020. ix, 132 pp.
This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into... read more
Impact 49
Metroethnicity, Naming and MocknolectNew horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
John C. Maher
May 2021. xiii, 239 pp.
Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with... read more
SILV 29
The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-RomanceA variationist and dialectal account
Carlota de Benito Moreno
August 2022. ix, 375 pp.
The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the constructions broadly described with the term “middle”: i.e., those that can appear in all persons, and in which the reflexive marker (RM) cannot be understood... read more
TAR 4
The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese
Yoko Yonezawa
October 2021. xv, 208 pp.
The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a... read more
IHLL 25
New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
Edited by Talia Bugel and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá
April 2020. xi, 274 pp.
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... read more
TAR 3
Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and TrinidadVariation and patterns
Matthias Klumm
September 2021. xiv, 246 pp.
This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been... read more
DAPSAC 93
Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial NationA critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean
Eleonora Esposito
May 2021. xvii, 207 pp.
This book explores the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the Caribbean from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. Focusing on political communication in Trinidad and Tobago, it offers unique socio-political insights... read more
P&bns 327
Pragmatics of Accents
Edited by Gaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak
October 2021. vii, 266 pp.
What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power... read more
P&bns 319
The Pragmatics of Adaptability
Edited by N. Daniel Silva and Jacob L. Mey
March 2021. vi, 358 pp.
Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective... read more
Impact 52
Reconstructing Non-Standard LanguagesA socially-anchored approach
Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich
December 2022. xv, 354 pp.
Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects... read more
AHS 11
Records of Real PeopleLinguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
December 2020. ix, 310 pp.
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people... read more
DAPSAC 96
Science Communication in Times of Crisis
Edited by Pascal Hohaus
August 2022. vi, 222 pp.
This volume addresses demands on external and internal science communication in times of crisis. The contributions discuss present crises such as COVID-19 (e.g. vaccination campaigns or political reactions towards the pandemic in... read more
SILV 26
Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan
Edited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot
August 2021. vi, 319 pp.
This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring... read more
AHS 13
Sociolinguistic Variation in Old EnglishRecords of communities and people
Olga Timofeeva
July 2022. xv, 204 pp.
This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of... read more
P&bns 329
The Sociopragmatics of StanceCommunity, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials
Peter J. Grund
November 2021. ix, 246 pp.
Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of... read more
IHLL 28
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in ContactStudies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
August 2020. x, 452 pp.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another... read more
AHS 12
Spanish Socio-Historical LinguisticsIsolation and contact
Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka
May 2021. v, 235 pp.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and... read more
IHLL 34
Syntactic Geolectal VariationTraditional approaches, current challenges and new tools
Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
November 2021. vi, 385 pp.
This volume brings together studies that combine both traditional and contemporary tools in the study of syntactic geolectal variation, with a special focus on a subset of Iberian varieties. There is an increasing body of... read more
Impact 47
Talking about FoodThe social and the global in eating communities
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen
June 2020. vi, 284 pp.
All humans eat and all humans speak – activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which... read more
BTL 154
Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation
Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman and Katharina Kühn
October 2020. vii, 272 pp.
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... read more
SILV 27
Urban MattersCurrent approaches in variationist sociolinguistics
Edited by Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer
December 2021. x, 280 pp.
The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural... read more
CoLL 59
Variation Rolls the DiceA worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux
October 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his... read more
IHLL 29
Variation and EvolutionAspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
August 2020. viii, 277 pp.
This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our... read more
SILV 28
Variation in Second and Heritage LanguagesCrosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li
July 2022. xx, 365 pp.
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... read more
SILV 23
Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite ArticleFunctional Main and Side Roads
Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick
April 2020. vi, 253 pp.
This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative to... read more
VEAW G63
World Englishes on the WebThe Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
August 2020. vii, 338 pp.
World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their... read more