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HCP 71
Collocations as a Language ResourceA functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
April 2022. xvi, 348 pp.
Are collocations problems or solutions to problems? If you take the perspective of the foreign learner, as in traditional phraseology, they are certainly challenging, and they have therefore been categorized as arbitrary, or even... read more
HOP 24
Handbook of Pragmatics24th Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
April 2022. xiii, 284 pp.
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for... read more
TBLT 15
How to Teach an Additional LanguageTo task or not to task?
Kris Van den Branden
April 2022. xiii, 292 pp.
This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part, the book provides... read more
LA 275
Language Change at the InterfacesIntrasentential and intersentential phenomena
Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani
April 2022. viii, 255 pp.
This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change.... read more
FTL 13
The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor
Elisa Gironzetti
April 2022. xix, 235 pp.
This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in... read more
LA 272
New Explorations in Chinese Theoretical SyntaxStudies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li
Edited by Andrew Simpson
April 2022. vi, 577 pp.
This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax, as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address... read more