Showing all 21 titles.
CILT 361
Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
Edited by Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui
This volume offers insight into different aspects of an interesting but fairly understudied language family, opens a path to new inquiries, and provides valuable contribution to linguistics, in general, and to Iranian linguistics, in particular. The articles in this volume offer novel analyses of significant...
full descriptionExpected April 2023. vi, 315 pp.
SCL 108
Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer
This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their construction. Part 1 focuses on...
full descriptionExpected April 2023. xxii, 389 pp.
CAL 34
Constructions in Spanish
Edited by Inga Hennecke and Evelyn Wiesinger
Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish. The contributions investigate a wide range of constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, cutting across morphology, syntax,...
full descriptionExpected September 2023. vi, 406 pp. + index
SCL 109
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis
The diverse applications of DocuScope
Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with corpus techniques in...
full descriptionExpected September 2023. vii, 284 pp. + index
BPA 16
Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert
A great majority of people around the world know more than one language. So, how does knowing one language affect the learning and use of additional languages? The question of cross-language influences is the focus of this book. Do bilinguals hear, understand, and produce language and meaning differently because of...
full descriptionExpected April 2023. vi, 319 pp. + index
SLCS 232
Different Slants on Grammaticalization
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci
This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume...
full descriptionExpected August 2023. vi, 280 pp. + index
SiGL 6
The Ditransitive Alternation in Present-Day German
A corpus-based analysis
Hilde De Vaere
The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively annotated data and...
full descriptionExpected July 2023. xvii, 336 pp. + index
HCP 76
Existential Constructions across Languages
Forms, meanings and functions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Ludovica Lena
This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and...
full descriptionExpected June 2023. x, 343 pp. + index
FTL 18
Fictive questions in the Zhuangzi
A cognitive rhetorical study
Mingjian Xiang
Rhetoric is intimately related to interaction and cognition. This book explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case study of the rhetorical use of interactional structures, namely expository questions and rhetorical questions, in the classical Chinese tradition. Such questions are generally...
full descriptionExpected July 2023. xiii, 203 pp. + index
AALS 20
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 descriptionExpected July 2023. x, 217 pp. + index
BTL 160
Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies)
A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker
Edited by Cornelia Zwischenberger, Karin Reithofer and Sylvi Rennert
The contributions in this volume are a reflection of the entire range of Interpreting Studies, from explorations of research methodology and interpreting quality research to public service interpreting today and in the past, risk management strategies in court interpreting, and the interdependencies of interpreters in...
full descriptionExpected April 2023. vi, 287 pp.
LL< 58
L2 Pragmatics in Action
Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process
Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón
This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics. Also included are...
full descriptionExpected April 2023. xxii, 343 pp.
ILLA 1
Meaningful Language Test Scores
Research to enhance score interpretation
Edited by Spiros Papageorgiou and Venessa F. Manna
Research on how stakeholders interpret language test scores and how they make decisions about language proficiency is critical because score-based decisions can be extremely consequential for test takers, score users, such as educational institutions and employers, and the society overall. This edited volume is...
full descriptionExpected September 2023. x, 170 pp. + index
VEAW G68
New Englishes, New Methods
Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal
There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to improve upon old...
full descriptionExpected April 2023. viii, 276 pp.
P&bns 334
Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance
Irina T. Pandarova
This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial classes can have both...
full descriptionExpected June 2023. vii, 250 pp. + index
IHLL 37
Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish
Edited by Sara L. Zahler, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford
This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic structures, and...
full descriptionExpected July 2023. xix, 371 pp. + index
SiBil 64
Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism
In honor of Ellen Bialystok
Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy
Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across several...
full descriptionExpected July 2023. vi, 371 pp.+ index