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CAL 28
Frame-Constructional Verb Classes
Change and Theft verbs in English and German
Ryan Dux
November 2020. x, 320 pp.
While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology... read more
BCT 111
Audiovisual Translation in Applied Linguistics
Educational perspectives
Edited by Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin, Jennifer Lertola and Noa Talaván
November 2020. v, 207 pp.
In recent years, interest in the application of audiovisual translation (AVT) techniques in language teaching has grown beyond unconnected case studies to create a lively network of methodological intertextuality,... read more
MDM 5
The Multilingual Challenge for the Construction and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge
Anne-Claude Berthoud and Laurent Gajo
November 2020. ix, 158 pp.
Whereas it is now generally recognised that multilingualism is important for society, culture and the economy, the relevance of multilingualism for the world of science has still largely escaped attention. But science, too, is... read more
DAPSAC 89
Language Policy in Business
Discourse, ideology and practice
Elisabeth Barakos
November 2020. xv, 195 pp.
Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice provides a critical sociolinguistic and discursive understanding of language policy in a minority language context. Focusing on Welsh-English bilingualism... read more
CELCR 23
Where Words Get their Meaning
Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
November 2020. xi, 208 pp.
Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author... read more
FILLM 14
Literary Communication as Dialogue
Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times
. Selected papers 2003-2020
Roger D. Sell
November 2020. xii, 425 pp.
As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other’s human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though... read more
HCP 70
Grammar and Cognition
Dualistic models of language structure and language processing
Edited by Alexander Haselow and Gunther Kaltenböck
November 2020. vii, 358 pp.
This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in... read more
LL< 56
Writing and Language Learning
Advancing research agendas
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón
November 2020. vii, 432 pp.
The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments... read more
P&bns 317
The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English
Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös
November 2020. vii, 313 pp.
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical... read more
SLCS 216
Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions
Categories, co-text, and context
Edited by Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze
November 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission,... read more
LA 264
Stative Inquiries
Causes, results, experiences, and locations
Alfredo García-Pardo
November 2020. xiv, 258 pp.
This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure. It focuses on two sets of stative verbs: govern-type verbs and object... read more
SiBil 60
Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language
Edited by Fatih Bayram
November 2020. xiv, 287 pp.
Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language.... read more
HOP 23
Handbook of Pragmatics
23rd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
November 2020. xiii, 272 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... read more
SCL 98
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
November 2020. vi, 210 pp.
From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The... read more
IHLL 30
Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
November 2020. xi, 377 pp.
This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed... read more