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CILT 358
English Historical LinguisticsChange in structure and meaning
Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale
February 2022. viii, 349 pp.
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the... read more
CILT 359
English Historical LinguisticsHistorical English in contact
Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux
February 2022. vi, 185 pp.
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical... read more
CELCR 25
The Language of Food in JapaneseCognitive perspectives and beyond
Edited by Kiyoko Toratani
February 2022. x, 347 pp.
Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies,... read more
FTL 12
Modeling IronyA cognitive-pragmatic account
Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
February 2022. ix, 173 pp.
This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an... read more
TBLT 14
Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching
Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa
February 2022. ix, 282 pp.
This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched... read more
SLCS 222
Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
February 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation... read more
LA 273
When Data Challenges TheoryUnexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure
Edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob
February 2022. vi, 307 pp.
This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known... read more