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FILLM 15
Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Edited by Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
December 2020. xix, 342 pp.
How did Nordic culture become associated with the fuzzy brand “cool”, as by default? In Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History twenty-one scholars in collaboration question the seemingly natural fit between “Nordic” and “Cool”... read more
BPA 10
Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
Multidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb
December 2020. vii, 306 pp.
This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and... read more
AHS 11
Records of Real People
Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
December 2020. ix, 310 pp.
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people... read more
FTL 10
Producing Figurative Expression
Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives
Edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett
December 2020. viii, 549 pp.
This collection contains a selection of recent work on people’s production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The... read more
P&bns 313
Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media
New contexts and new insights
Edited by María Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami
December 2020. xi, 315 pp. + index
The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face... read more
P&bns 315
Fixed Expressions
Building language structure and social action
Edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono
December 2020. v, 238 pp.
This volume concerns the structure and use of fixed expressions in a range of typologically, genetically and areally distinct languages. The chapters consider the use contexts of fixed expressions, at the same time taking... read more
P&bns 314
Bonding through Context
Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse
Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata
December 2020. vii, 291 pp.
This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence,... read more
SiBil 61
Developing Narrative Comprehension
Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
December 2020. vii, 341 pp.
Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on... read more
BTL 155
Literary Translation in Periodicals
Methodological challenges for a transnational approach
Edited by Laura Fólica, Diana Roig-Sanz and Stefania Caristia
December 2020. vii, 401 pp.
While translation history, literary translation, and periodical publications have been extensively analyzed within the fields of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, and Communication Sciences, the relationship between... read more
LA 265
Past Participle Agreement
A study on the grammaticalization of formal features
Jorge Vega Vilanova
December 2020. xix, 236 pp.
In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items.... read more
LA 263
Beyond Emotions in Language
Psychological verbs at the interfaces
Edited by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk
December 2020. xiii, 325 pp.
This book sheds new light on the puzzle of psychological predicates in a cross-linguistic perspective by looking at them from a variety of angles at the interfaces between event structure, lexical and viewpoint aspect, syntax and... read more
LFAB 16
Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
Edited by Friederike Moltmann
December 2020. v, 227 pp.
The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates... read more