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Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
September 2021. x, 299 pp.
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and... read more
IVITRA 28
Biografies invisibles / Invisible Biographies
Marginats i marginals / Marginates and marginals
Edited by Vicent Josep Escartí
September 2021. vi, 276 pp.
Biografies invisibles: Marginats i marginals és un volum que conté una sèrie d’estudis de casos concrets de personatges històrics desconeguts en gran mesura i que, pel fet d’haver tingut unes vides al marge de la... read more
CLSCC 14
Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel
September 2021. vii, 279 pp.
This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets... read more
VEAW G65
The Dynamics of English in Namibia
Perspectives 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
BPA 11
Input Processing and Processing Instruction
The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Alessandro Benati
September 2021. xv, 185 pp.
Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book, new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed... read more
SCLD 14
Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction
Studies 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
TAR 3
Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad
Variation 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
LA 270
Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Edited by Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński
September 2021. v, 290 pp.
Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predicate, has been subject to extensive research in the last 50 years.... read more
BPA 12
Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter
September 2021. xiii, 234 pp.
There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and... read more
LA 268
The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Johannes Mursell
September 2021. xii, 280 pp.
In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics... read more
SCL 101
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
September 2021. vi, 307 pp.
This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of... read more
Z 237
“All families and genera”
Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
September 2021. xv, 310 pp.
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the... read more