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RMAL 9
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Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Martin Howard

Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as second language (L2)... full description
Expected June 2025. xi, 381 pp. + index
IVITRA 45
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Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario / Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields

Editado por Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Lucía Navarro-Brotons y Iván Martínez-Blasco

En todas las lenguas existen numerosos referentes y conceptos idiosincrásicos. Esas especificidades sociales, lingüísticas, gestuales, materiales, incluso ideológicas, sometidas a continuas reescrituras e interpretaciones a través de los tiempos, que no tienen a menudo equivalentes exactos o funcionales en otras... full description
Expected June 2025. xiii, 313 pp. + index
CILT 368
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The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon

Evidence from Japanese verb morphology

Brent de Chene

All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little consensus. This problem... full description
Expected February 2025. xvii, 259 pp. + index
CHLEL 37
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A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery

The Atlantic world and beyond

Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard

The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work of literature to... full description
Expected April 2025. vii, 416 pp. + index
LA 287
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The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English

Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?

Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie

The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior narrow-scope adverbs, e.g.... full description
Expected May 2025. ix, 185 pp. + index
CILT 369
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Historical Linguistics 2022

Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022

Edited by Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden

This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting... full description
Expected March 2025. vi, 305 pp.+ index
TSL 135
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Investigating Language Isolates

Typological and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga

Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a detailed, in-depth,... full description
Expected January 2025. vii, 339 pp.
Impact 54
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Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities

19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French

Emma Humphries

This book offers two new perspectives on language attitudes and ideologies. First, it compares language commentary from two thus far relatively neglected time periods: the 19th and 21st centuries. Second, it draws on non-traditional, dialogic sources to explore not only the well-studied “expert” views on language but... full description
Expected May 2025. xvi, 259 pp. + index
DAPSAC 104
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Male Separatism

Discourse, ideology, and argumentation

Jessica Aiston

This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’, the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative and discursive... full description
Expected March 2025. xiii, 199 pp. + index
CAL 38
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Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective

Edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried

The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory field that is... full description
Expected January 2025. vi, 317 pp.
CoLL 61
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New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole

Standardization, grammar and language use

Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort

In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some structural properties of... full description
Expected April 2025. vi, 324 pp. + index
DAPSAC 105
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News with an Attitude

Ideological perspectives in the historical press

Edited by Claudia Claridge

This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere, spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents, such as uprisings, independence, and genocide,... full description
Expected January 2025. vii, 250 pp.
IVITRA 44
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Nuevos Enfoques Lingüísticos y Traductológicos del Discurso Turístico

Editado por Manuela Álvarez Jurado y Gisella Policastro Ponce

El presente volumen explora la riqueza y pluralidad del turismo y su discurso a través de un análisis interdisciplinario, que proporciona una visión integral del impacto del turismo en diversas esferas comunicativas, sociales y culturales. Esta obra recopila un total de quince investigaciones que destacan la... full description
Expected March 2025. xi, 170 pp. + index
CoLL 62
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Our People’s Language

Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales

This book pioneers the study of Lánnang-uè, deeply embedded in Manila’s Lannang community’s culture. It approaches Lánnang-uè not just as a language but as a vibrant social practice, highlighting its variability and complex social meanings (e.g., identity-marking). Over six years and with more than 150 participants,... full description
Expected March 2025. xiv, 454 pp. + index
SAL 14
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXV

Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 2022

Edited by Ahmad Alqassas

This volume contains nine chapters that cover a wide range of topics in Arabic linguistic research. The papers are organized into four parts; these are phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, and decolonizing linguistics. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic varieties, articles in this volume bring... full description
Expected February 2025. vii, 218 pp. + index
SILV 32
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Pluricentricity and Pluriareality

Dialects, Variation, and Standards

Edited by Philipp Meer and Ryan Durgasingh

This edited collection engages with the contentious debate surrounding standard varieties and their distribution. For the past three decades, these arguments have coalesced around two camps: pluricentricity (the idea that standard varieties are intimately associated with nation states, with more powerful national... full description
Expected January 2025. viii, 197 pp.
RMAL 8
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Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Pejman Habibie and Richard D. Sawyer

Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics moves the field of Applied Linguistics into new methodological territory. Applying both the newer reflexive methodologies of currere and duoethnography as well as the more established methodologies of autoethnography and narrative to the broad field... full description
Expected June 2025. ix, 274 pp. + index
RMAL 10
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Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies

Edited by Ana María Rojo López and Ricardo Muñoz Martín

As digital advancements reshape communication, researchers need interdisciplinary methods to understand the cognitive processes involved. This essential reference for advanced students and researchers provides a comprehensive introduction to innovative research methods in cognitive translation and interpreting studies... full description
Expected June 2025. xvi, 350 pp. + index
P&bns 350
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Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy

Giorgia Mannaioli

The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy, pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical, psychological, and social-discursive. It shows how vagueness can be strategically employed... full description
Expected January 2025. ix, 268 pp. + index
HSLD 9
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World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies

Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl

World Englishes coexist and interact with local languages in multilingual ecologies. Multilingual speakers use the languages in their ecologies for different functions, with different interlocutors, and at different proficiency levels. Attitudinal responses to the languages vary. Speaker groups are heterogenous... full description
Expected May 2025. xii, 396 pp. + index