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LL&LT 60

The COLT Observation Scheme

Digital versions and updated research applications

Nina Spada

This volume presents the second edition of the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme. Since the book’s original publication, COLT has become well established as a research instrument in L2 teaching and learning. This new edition brings COLT into the 21st century by introducing... full description

Expected August 2024. v, 207 pp. + index

SCL 118

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

Expected December 2024. vii, 170 pp. + index

DS 34

Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue

Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools

Nicola Nasi

Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor, task-related activities) that... full description

Expected November 2024. x, 201 pp. + index

CHLEL XXXV

A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe

Edited by Olga Beloborodova and Dirk Van Hulle

Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas, and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields, this book charts a comparative history of the... full description

Expected December 2024. xiv, 544 pp. + index

CLiP 5

A Construction Grammar of the English Language

CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis

Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms, word and... full description

Expected November 2024. xv, 310 pp.+ index

LAL 43

A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative

Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense narrative. An in-depth... full description

Expected September 2024. xx, 266 pp + index

P&bns 346

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, German, English, Japanese and... full description

Expected September 2024. vii, 243 pp. + index

LA 285

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

Expected August 2024. ix, 213 pp. + index

THR 12

Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor

Villy Tsakona

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of humor, and hence to its... full description

Expected July 2024. xi, 264 pp.

SCL 115

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

Expected July 2024. vii, 321 pp.

BPA 18

Language Acquisition in Romance Languages

Edited by Vicenç Torrens

The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and untimed, transcriptions... full description

Expected August 2024. viii, 305 pp. + index

CHLEL XXXIV

Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond

A millennium heritage

Edited by Francesco Stella

The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new... full description

Expected July 2024. xviii, 706 pp.

SiHoLS 131

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, 371 pp. + index

SLSI 36

New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research

Edited by Margret Selting and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century, it has prospered internationally. Recently, however, new developments have opened up new perspectives for... full description

Expected August 2024. vii, 421 pp.

P&bns 344

(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

Expected August 2024. v, 201 pp. + index

LALD 69

Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition

Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll

Edited by Lindsay Hracs

Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research, the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners, as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The volume pays homage... full description

Expected August 2024. viii, 266 pp. + index

AIC 22

Persuasion in Specialized Discourse

A multidisciplinary perspective

Edited by Chiara Degano, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli

The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts, with special regard for those with heightened public resonance: politics, media, and public debate in general. Furthermore, it intends to explore the linguistic aspects of argumentation, including both explicit... full description

Expected December 2024. ix, 265 pp. + index

SLCS 235

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

Expected July 2024. xi, 344 pp.

FILLM 19

Ruptured Commons

Edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica Austen

At a time when we have all lived through profound and unexpected disruptions to our shared spaces, routines, economies, societies, and work-lives, this book considers the nature and implications of rupture, the commons, and their conjoining. Addressing rupture and disruption through the lens of literary and cultural... full description

Expected December 2024. xix, 233 pp. + index

P&bns 345

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

Expected August 2024. ix, 201 pp. + index

SCL 116

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

Expected July 2024. xix, 291 pp. + index

LAL 42

Transformative Reading

Olivia Fialho

Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such experience,... full description

Expected August 2024. xii, 259 pp. + index

CILT 365

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

Expected September 2024. viii, 126 pp. + index

P&bns 347

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

Expected December 2024. vi, 281 pp. + index

SCL 117

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

Expected November 2024. xviii, 237 pp. + index

BPA 20

The Frequency–Grammar Interface

Rules and regularities in first and second languages

Stefano Rastelli

Speakers and learners, based on memory and experience, implicitly know that certain language elements naturally pair together. However, they also understand, through abstract and frequency-independent categories, why some combinations are possible and others are not. The frequency-grammar interface (FGI) bridges these... full description

Expected December 2024. xii, 228 pp. + index

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