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CAL 31
Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
Rachel Hatchard
October 2021. xx, 311 pp.
Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based,... read more
LA 267
Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography
A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
October 2021. vi, 328 pp.
This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection,... read more
AALS 19
English Pronunciation Instruction
Research-based insights
Edited by Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Alice Henderson and Jonás Fouz-González
October 2021. xix, 388 pp.
English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications, and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation... read more
HTS 5
Handbook of Translation Studies
Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
October 2021. vii, 281 pp.
Up to now, the Handbook of Translation Studies (HTS) consisted of four volumes, all published between 2010 and 2013. Since research in TS continues to grow and expand, this fifth volume was added in 2021. The HTS aims at... read more
DS 32
Language and Social Interaction at Home and School
Edited by Letizia Caronia
October 2021. vi, 385 pp.
As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is “the architecture of intersubjectivity”: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds. The volume advances and empirically illustrates... read more
CAL 32
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
October 2021. v, 251 pp.
This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address... read more
P&bns 320
The Politics of Person Reference
Third-person forms in English, German, and French
Naomi Truan
October 2021. xvii, 279 pp.
This book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse. By focusing on the newly refined speech role of the... read more
Z 238
Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon
An exploration of fundamental issues and directions
Edited by Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman
October 2021. viii, 229 pp.
From its beginnings, the study of the mental lexicon has been at the crossroads of research and scholarship. This volume presents a polylogue--a textual conversation of many voices. It is designed to capture the excitement within... read more
P&bns 325
Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
October 2021. vi, 452 pp.
The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the... 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
CoLL 59
Variation Rolls the Dice
A 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