at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Adjectives and Adverbs
Series: Interface Explorations [IE] 37
January 2027
English, Approx. 300 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-071284-1
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The book develops a theory of manner modification with both manner adjectives and manner adverbs in its scope. It proposes an analysis that keeps the semantics uniform across all of its uses, but remains strictly compositional while being grounded in a careful independent examination of its (morpho)syntax. As a result, it offers a holistic and at the same time restrictive theory, which has been largely missing in this domain so far.
Manner Modification; Event Semantics; NonIntersective Modification; Adverbs as a Category Sascha Alexeyenko, Georg-AugustUniversität Göttingen.
David Embick, Morris Halle
Aspects of the Latin Conjugation
Series: Interface Explorations [IE] 38
July 2025
English, XX, 195 pp., 0 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 117.99 / RRP £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-141332-7
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From 1999-2004, David Embick and the late Morris Halle developed a compelling analysis of the Latin conjugation using the framework of Distributed Morphology. Though not finished during Halle’s lifetime, it remains remarkably relevant to ongoing research. Aspects of the Latin Conjugation makes this work available for the first time, and includes introductions by Embick and Alec Marantz putting the volume in its historical and theoretical context.
Latin; Morphology; Distributed Morphology; Morphosyntax; Allomorphy
David Embick, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Morris Halle (†).
Maria Cortiula
The Nanosyntax of Friulian Verbs
An Analysis of the Inflection Classes of the Present and Past in Tualis Friulian
Series: Interface Explorations [IE] 41
July 2025
English, X, 302 pp., 2 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-914885-6
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This book explores the present and past forms in the Friulian dialect spoken in Tualis. Investigating thirteen inflection classes in the Friulian verb system, the goal of the book is to combine a detailed empirical description with a theoretical account in terms of Nanosyntax, exploring two recent innovations in the nanosyntactic paradigm, i.e. the sub-extracting Spellout Algorithm and lexical entries with Complex Left Branches. Verbs; Inflection Classes; Friulian; Nanosyntax; Syncretism
Maria Cortiula, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Now in paperback
Alain
Rouveret
Nonfinite Inquiries
Materials for a Comparative Study of Nonfinite Predicative Domains
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 138
November 2024
English, XVII, 465 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 24.95 / RRP US$ 27.99 / RRP £ 23.00
ISBN 978-3-11-161956-9
This study investigates the properties of nonfinite domains in several unrelated languages, in order to enlarge the range of phenomena relevant to a principled-based approach to nonfiniteness. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal ones, Latin passive participle constructions, Portuguese inflected infinitives) and takes advantage of the most recent developments in syntactic theory. Nonfinite Domains; Syntactic Defectiveness; Subject Licensing; Linguistic Minimalism
Alain Rouveret, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France.
Andreas Konietzko, Susanne Winkler (Eds.)
Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar
Mechanisms and Processes
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 146
January 2026
English, Approx. 320 pp., 22 fig.
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ISBN 978-1-5015-2076-1
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This volume presents cutting-edge research on how sentences are integrated into discourse. The challenge is to find an answer on how bottom-up mechanisms from the core components of grammar and top-down mechanisms from discourse such as Question Under Discussion interact in this process. Perspectives from syntax, semantics and information structure to investigate the computational mechanisms driving the integration process are combined.
Information Structure; Syntax; Pragmatics; Semantics
Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen.
Gréte Dalmi, Jacek Witkoś, Piotr Cegłowski (Eds.)
Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric
Licensing, Structure and Interpretation
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 148
June 2024
English, X, 314 pp., 9 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-075479-7
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The volume offers comparative syntactic studies of Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. In particular, it presents the facts of Strict Negative Concord in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian (Slavic), Finnish, Hungarian, Mari (Finno-Ugric) and the closely related Selkup (Samoyedic).
Strict Negative Concord; Licensing; Locality Conditions
Gréte Dalmi, Independent Researcher, Budapest, Hungary; Jacek Witkoś and Piotr Cegłowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Isabel Fernández López, Milagros Férnandez-Pérez, Olga Ivanova (Eds.)
Biolinguistics at the Cutting Edge
Promises, Achievements, and Challenges
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 153
March 2025
English, VI, 385 pp., 24 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-129335-6
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This book contains an updated discussion of the most relevant theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as the most important findings of Biolinguistics.
Biolinguistics; Language Evolution; Cognitive Science of Language; Language Disorders; Language Acquisition; Language and Culture
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Seville; Isabel Fernández López and Milagros Fernández-Pérez, Santiago de Compostela; Olga Ivanova, Salamanca.
Anastasiia Vyshnevska, Edoardo Cavirani (Eds.)
Generative Perspectives on Degrees
The Semantics and Morphosyntax of Scalarity
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 154
October 2025
English, Approx. 400 pp., 8 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-154691-9
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Despite a large body of research and the relevance degree has for semantic, syntactic, and morphological theory, the results obtained within these three sub-fields have rarely been discussed in a unified manner. This volume collects papers by leading semanticists, syntacticians, and morphologists working on the notion of degree.
Degree Semantics; Degree Syntax; Degree Morphology; Comparative Marker; Equatives; Eiminutives
Anastasiia Vyshnevska and Edoardo Cavirani, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Marcel den Dikken, Hideki Kishimoto (Eds.)
Formal Perspectives on Secondary Predication
Series: The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] 8
July 2024
English, XI, 417 pp., 56 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-099561-9
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This volume aims to look into the spectrum of secondary predication, and provide solutions from formal theoretical perspectives for the issues surrounding its syntax and semantics that are raised by secondary predication constructions, both individually and as a package, aided by thorough investigation of the empirical facts of secondary predication in a variety of typologically unrelated languages.
Secondary Predication; Depictives; Resultatives
Marcel den Dikken, Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics Budapest, Hungary; Hideki Kishimoto, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Maria
Bardají
Nominalization in Western Austronesian
Not-at-issueness in Totoli and Beyond
Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] 670
October 2024
English, XX, 330 pp., 3 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-145663-8
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This book explores the form and functions of nominalizations in Totoli (Sulawesi, Indonesia) within the context of western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. It is the first study that investigates the role of nominalization in information packaging using the concept of at-issueness. In addition, it provides a systematic survey of nominalization constructions in 67 western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages.
Nominalization; Western Austronesian; Symmetrical Voice; Sulawesi Languages; Not-AtIssueness
Maria Bardají, University of Cologne, Germany.
Xin Sennrich
The Many Faces of English -ing
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 111
June 2024
English, IX, 203 pp., 4 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-153090-1
This book offers a new angle on longstanding and unresolved questions about the categorial status of English V-ing forms such as participles and gerunds. Beyond its compelling analysis of -ing forms, this book contributes to our knowledge of syntax and morphology, calling into question a number of widely-held assumptions on the distinction between derivation and inflection, and the role of semantics in syntactic and morphological analysis.
Lexical Categorisation; Morphosyntax; Participle; Gerund
Xin Sennrich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Elisabeth Huber
Tri-Constituent Compounds
A Usage-Based Account of Complex
Nominal Compounding
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 114
November 2024
English, XI, 271 pp., 32 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-162920-9
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of compounds consisting of more than two lexemes. Focusing on tripartite noun-compounds (e.g. day-care center, football game, hotel bedroom), it highlights the formal and functional characteristics of multi-word compounds. It reveals which two-word compounds are used to form multi-word compounds and explains the cognitive processes involved in the storage and formation of tripartite compounds.
Multi-word Compounds; Morphological Structure; Complex Compounding; Productivity; Entrenchment
Elisabeth Huber, University of Munich, Germany.
Olivier Duplâtre, Pierre-Yves Modicom (Eds.)
Adverbs and Adverbials
Categorial Issues
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 371
November 2024
English, VII, 280 pp., 14 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-163177-6
Adverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-internally. The contributions in this volume all address this categorial problem from a variety of formal and functional points of view. The papers in the first part deal with the definition of adverbs as a class. The second part focuses on the scope of adverbs, which appears the most promising track leading to a new functional definition.
Adverbs; Adverbials; Domain Adverbs; Adverbial Scope
Olivier Duplâtre, Sorbonne Université, Paris; Pierre-Yves Modicom, Université BordeauxMontaigne, Pessac, both France.
Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga (Eds.) Applicative Morphology
Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 373
November 2024
English, VI, 477 pp., 6 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-163178-3
This book challenges current typologicallyoriented definitions of applicative morphology by fleshing out recurrent non-syntactic functions as well as “aberrant” morphosyntactic behavior attested in a sample of geographically distant and genetically unrelated languages. Besides broadening our understanding of applicatives, it uncovers new sources (spatial-related morphology) and delves into the diachrony of its (non-) syntactic functions.
Valence-Neutral Applicative Morphology; Semantic and Pragmatic Functions; Language Change; Spatial Morphology
Sara Pacchiarotti, Ghent University, Belgium; Fernando Zúñiga, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Ghanshyam Sharma, Michela Ippolito (Eds.)
Tense and Aspect in Counterfactuals
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 353
December 2025
English, Approx. 350 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-133538-4
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In natural languages, counterfactuals differ from indicative conditionals for the presence of special occurrences of grammatical tense, aspect, and mood. Using data from languages, such as English, German, Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Hindi and Khanty, the contributions explore topics such as past and imperfective morphology, X-marking, evidential marking, and embedding in counterfactuals.
Conditionals; Counterfactuals; Tense; Aspect Ghanshyam Sharma, INALCO, Paris, France; Michela Ippolito, University of Toronto, Canada.
Johan van der Auwera, Chiara Gianollo (Eds.)
Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 385
November 2024
English, VI, 346 pp., 8 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-120086-6
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The concept of ‘negative concord’ refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You ain’t seen nothing yet. This book takes stock of what has been achieved since the notion was introduced in 1922 by Otto Jespersen and sets the agenda for future research, with an eye towards increased cross-fertilization between theoretical perspectives and methodological tools.
Negation; Negative Concord; Negative Polarity; Indefiniteness
Chiara Gianollo, University of Bologna, Italy; Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Carlos García-Castillero Studies in Old Irish Clause Subordination
A corpus-driven analysis of linguistic variation
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 391
September 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp., 1 fig.
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This monograph considers some cases of variation in the expression of clause subordination in the corpus of Old Irish contemporaneous texts. The variation affects the use of two neuter light heads introducing relative clauses, two temporal conjunctions ‘when’, and three final markers ‘so that’. On the basis of a corpus research, these cases of variation are considered from the philological, descriptive, diachronic and typological perspectives. Old Irish; Clause Subordination; Corpus Linguistics; Diachrony (of Subordinating Markers); Linguistic Variation
Carlos García-Castillero, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
ODaniel Van Olmen, Marta Andersson, Jonathan Culpeper, Riccardo Giomi (Eds.)
The Grammar of Impoliteness
Funded by Lancaster University
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 392
November 2025
English, Approx. 280 pp., 15 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-147527-1
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The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is purely a matter of situational assessments by speech participants. This volume challenges that orthodoxy. Bringing together studies on structures that convey insults, threats and more in a wide range of languages, it shows that there is, in fact, a formal side to impoliteness. Grammar; Impoliteness; Conventionalization; Pragmatics; Verbal Aggression; Corpus/ Experimental Pragmatics
M. Andersson, Uppsala, Sweden; J. Culpeper, Lancaster, UK; R. Giomi, Amsterdam, Netherlands; D. Van Olmen, Lancaster, UK.
Peter O. Müller, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer (Eds.)
Word-Formation
History, Theories, Units and Processes
Series: Mouton Reader
June 2025
English, VI, 470 pp., 4 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 59.95 / RRP US$ 65.99 / RRP £ 54.50
ISBN 978-3-11-141368-6
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This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 1 focuses on the historical and theoretical foundations of the field. The diachronic origins are presented that give rise to different theoretical perspectives while converging on the basic units that characterize the organization of lexical knowledge and the processes involved in the formation of new words Word-Formation; Morphology; Language Typology; European Languages
Peter O. Müller, Erlangen-Nürnberg; Susan Olsen, Berlin; Franz Rainer, Wien, Austria.
Peter O. Müller, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer (Eds.)
Word-Formation
Special Patterns and Restrictions
Series: Mouton Reader
July 2025
English, VI, 411 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-141370-9
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This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 2 concentrates on select aspects of word-formation processes and their patterns including how they conform to more general phonological, syntactic and semantic restrictions
Word-Formation; Morphology; Language Typology; European Languages
Peter O. Müller, Erlangen-Nürnberg; Susan Olsen, Berlin; Franz Rainer, Wien, Austria.
Peter O. Müller, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer (Eds.)
Word-Formation
Semantics and Pragmatics
Series: Mouton Reader
August 2025
English, Approx. 361 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-141376-1
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This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 3 places its emphasis on the semantic models and pragmatic features of complex words Word-Formation; Morphology; Language Typology; European Languages
Peter O. Müller, Erlangen-Nürnberg; Susan Olsen, Berlin; Franz Rainer, Wien, Austria
Peter O. Müller, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer (Eds.)
Word-Formation
Language Contact and Diachrony
Series: Mouton Reader
September 2025
English, Approx. VI, 596 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-141408-9
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This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 4 studies the mechanisms of diachronic change based on in-depth studies of different languages. The influence of diachronic change on the productivity patterns is addressed as well as the role of language contact Word-Formation; Morphology; Language Typology; European Languages
Peter O. Müller, Erlangen-Nürnberg; Susan Olsen, Berlin; Franz Rainer, Wien, Austria.
Peter O. Müller, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer (Eds.)
Word-Formation
European Languages
Series: Mouton Reader
September 2025
English, Approx. 561 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-141431-7
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This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 5 offers 26 descriptive portraits of wordformation in Indo-European and Non-IndoEuropean languages of Europe that exemplify the range of structures made possible by the word-formation processes discussed in the previous volumes.
Word-Formation; Morphology; Language Typology; European Languages
Peter O. Müller, Erlangen-Nürnberg; Susan Olsen, Berlin; Franz Rainer, Wien, Austria.
Now in paperback
Istvan Kecskes (Ed.) Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction
Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] 26
November 2024
English, VI, 341 pp., 13 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-161962-0
The book favors a dynamic approach to common ground whereby shared knowledge is activated, assumed and co-constructed in the communicative process. The contributions apply the dynamic approach in innovative studies.
Pragmatics; Common ground; Intercultural interaction; Communicative process
Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York at Albany, USA.
Now In paperback
Rong Chen Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics
Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] 27
June 2024
English, XIII, 333 pp., 17 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-153612-5
In this volume, Rong Chen proposes a motivation model of pragmatics, a coherent framework to account for language use. At a time when theories that seek deeper explanations are frowned upon, Chen’s book breaks new ground by arguing and demonstrating that a unified theory of pragmatics is both needed and possible. It should prove a worthy read for students of language use, culture, society, psychology, communication, and language philosophy.
Motivation <Linguistics>; Motivation and Language; Pragmatics <Linguistics>; Discourse Analysis; Politeness
Rong Chen, California State University, San Bernardino, USA; Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian, China.
Ulrike Schröder
Co-constructing Intercultural Space
An Embodied Approach
Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] 28
December 2024
English, X, 259 pp., 78 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-137644-8
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Within intercultural communication research, current debates are branching primarily into cross-cultural and critical directions. In the meanwhile, cultural linguistics and intercultural pragmatics have made notable strides in shaping a dynamic and socio-cognitive framework for understanding intercultural dynamics. This book proposes an empirical grounding of this framework through a meticulous multimodal analysis of intercultural space.
Intercultural Space; Metaphor; Prosody; Gesture; Common Ground; Interculture
Ulrike Schröder, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Francisco Alonso-Almeida (Ed.)
The Pragmatics of Metadiscourse
Insights from Intercultural and Crosscultural Communication
Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] 29
November 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp., 30 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-138879-3
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This volume explores the dynamics of metadiscourse and culture in communication. It explores language as a key element facilitating information exchange and interpretation based on prior knowledge and conventions. A discourse-pragmatics approach uncovers the use of interlanguage as an ad hoc output that holds significance for interactants. The book provides valuable insights into the significance of culture in the pragmatics of metadiscourse.
Metadiscourse; Cross-cultural Communication; Intercultural Communication; Contrastive Studies; Perspective; Specialized Discourse
Francisco J. Alonso-Almeida, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
Ibukun Filani
Intentions in Comedy Discourse
A Linguistic-Pragmatics Approach to Stand-up Comedy
Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] 32
January 2025
English, XII, 166 pp., 5 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-150446-9
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This book discusses what comedians do with jokes while entertaining their audiences. The work takes humorous narratives as entextualised features of audiences’ shared experiences, which comedians use for performing situated actions in socio-cultural spaces. Using Nigerian stand-up comedy as a case study, the book systematically pinpoints humorous meaning and acts while explicating the nuances that make such humour possible. Common Ground; Context; Humour; Speech Act; Narrative; Interaction
Ibukun Filani, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
Istvan Kecskes, Alfred Buregeya, Akin Odebunmi, Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, Kofi Agyekum, Hanh Dinh (Eds.)
Pragmatics of African Varieties of English
Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] 33
June 2025
English, X, 332 pp., 16 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-156775-4
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This book is a collection of research papers that focus on the development and use of different African varieties of English from a pragmatic perspective. The authors have attempted to identify the unique communicative features of varieties of English and their relationship to one another. The chapters in the book also explore the interplay of the socio-political factors with the linguistic and interactional factors.
African Varieties of English; Lexicon; Mental Lexicon; Formulaic Language; Speech Acts; Pragmatic Markers
I. Kecskes, Albany; A. Buregeya, Nairobi; A. Odebunmi, Ibadan; F. Unuabonah, Ede; K. Agyekum, Accra; H. Dinh, Vermont.
Martin Schweinberger, Patricia Ronan (Eds.)
Socio-Pragmatic Variation in Ireland
Using Pragmatic Variation to Construct Social Identities
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 378
July 2024
English, VI, 242 pp., 21 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-079120-4
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The book focuses on language in Ireland and describes how social factors interact with pragmatic variation, thereby adding to our understanding of how language use varies across social dimensions and providing insights into how social identities impact language use. This volume combines those areas of research on Irish English and (Ulster) Scots that have been most fruitful, but that have not been systematically linked and have remained separate.
Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Irish English; Ulster Scots
Martin Schweinberger, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Patricia Ronan, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany.
Olivier Duplâtre, Patrick Duffley (Eds.) Expressing
Manner
The Linguistic Realizations of an Elusive Concept
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 399
November 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-156082-3
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Unlike space or time, manner has never been the subject of in-depth investigation. It seems to be an ontological category detectable by the question "how" but where does the notion of manner originate? How is it encoded linguistically, especially in adverbless languages? Given that the question "how" can also cover such heterogeneous notions as degree, instrument, etc., is manner an elusive concept or can it be precisely defined?
Manner; Adverb; Adverbial; Action; Instrument; Degree
Olivier Duplâtre, Sorbonne University, France; Patrick Duffley, Université Laval, Canada.
Fernando Zuniga, Denis Creissels (Eds.)
Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages
Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] 7
January 2024
English, X, 1090 pp., 41 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-073548-2
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This book presents a state-of-the-art crosslinguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. The contributions cover, in all major language families and some isolates, the morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic variation of applicatives, whether canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable and optional) or not (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable and/or obligatory).
Applicative; Transitivity; Valency; Voice Fernando Zúñiga, University of Bern, Switzerland. Denis Creissels, Université Lyon 2, France.
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Ciucci, Denis Creissels (Eds.)
Non-verbal Predication in the World’s Languages
A Typological Survey
Volume 1: Eurasia, North America, South America
Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] 9/1
August 2025
English, Approx. X, 1286 pp., 27 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-073632-8
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Natural languages sharply diverge in their behavior with respect to non-verbal predication. This book offers a wide typological overview of how languages deal with non-verbal predication and up to date no other work has attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of this pervasive syntactic phenomenon. The contributions are written by well-known specialists, targeting different languages, thus offering a rich array of typological data. Language Typology; Non-Verbal Predication; Copula Clauses
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Pisa, Italy; Luca Ciucci, Cairns, Australia; Denis Creissels, Lyon, France.
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Ciucci, Denis Creissels (Eds.)
Non-verbal Predication in the World’s Languages
A Typological Survey
Volume 2: Africa, Austronesia, Papunesia, Australia
Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] 9/2
August 2025
English, Approx. X, 500 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-220966-0
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Natural languages sharply diverge in their behavior with respect to non-verbal predication. This book offers a wide typological overview of how languages deal with non-verbal predication and up to date no other work has attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of this pervasive syntactic phenomenon. The contributions are written by well-known specialists, targeting different languages, thus offering a rich array of typological data.
Language Typology; Non-Verbal Predication; Copula Clauses
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Pisa, Italy; Luca Ciucci, Cairns, Australia; Denis Creissels, Lyon, France.
Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer (Eds.) Onomatopoeia
in the World’s Languages
A Comparative Handbook
Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] 10
April 2024
English, XX, 1131 pp.
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This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The book provides a comprehensive, multilevel description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language as well as the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.
Onomatopoeia; Typology; Multi-Level Description
Lívia Körtvélyessy and Pavol Štekauer, P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia.
Now in paperback
Steve Pepper, Francesca Masini, Simone Mattiola (Eds.)
Binominal Lexemes
in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Towards a Typology of Complex Lexemes
Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] 62
November 2024
English, VI, 472 pp., 24 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-163165-3
The papers in this volume investigate the strategies employed by the world’s languages to create complex denotations by combining two noun-like elements. The term ‘binominal lexeme’ is employed to cover both noun-noun compounds and a range of other naming strategies, including prepositional compounds, relational compounds, izafet constructions, construct forms, genitival constructions, denominal nominalizations and noun-classifier constructions.
Compounding; Phrasal Lexemes; Word-formation; Construction Grammar
Steve Pepper, University of Oslo, Norway; Francesca Masini and Simone Mattiola, University of Bologna, Italy.
Bethwyn Evans, Åshild Næss, Jozina Vander Klok (Eds.)
Prominence in Austronesian
Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] 66
January 2024
English, VI, 331 pp., 1 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-073541-3
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The cognitive concept of prominence is a key in understanding the organization of grammar. This volume explores the encoding of prominence in Austronesian languages with different typological profiles. The case studies demonstrate the range of ways in which prominence is relevant to different levels of grammatical structure. The adoption of shared frameworks highlights cross-linguistic patterns in the role prominence plays in human language.
Austronesian Languages; Linguistic Typology; Pragmatics; Morphosyntax
Bethwyn Evans, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Åshild Næss and Jozina Vander Klok, University of Oslo, Norway.
Bjarke Frellesvig, Satoshi Kinsui (Eds.) Handbook of
Historical Japanese Linguistics
Series: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] 1
April 2024
English, XLV, 570 pp., 7 fig.
HC *RRP € 350.00 / RRP US$ 440.00 / RRP £ 309.00
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ISBN 978-1-61451-401-5
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This volume will be the first full-length exploration of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different subfields of linguistics. The book will include the latest research on topics such as segmental phonology, accent, and focus constructions, showing how they contribute to a fuller understanding of the history of Japanese.
Japanese Linguistics; Historical Linguistics
Bjarke Frellesvig, University of Oxford, UK, and Satoshi Kinsui, Osaka University, Japan.
Nobuko Kibe, Tetsuo Nitta, Kan Sasaki (Eds.)
Handbook of Japanese Dialects
Series: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] 7
January 2025
English, LXXXIII, 991 pp., 135 fig.
HC *RRP € 380.00 / RRP US$ 430.00 / RRP £ 331.00
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ISBN 978-1-5015-0841-7
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This is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese dialectology. Most publications of Japanese dialect studies have been in Japanese, allowing only a handful of specialists to benefit from this research. This handbook fills this gap and serves as a comprehensive guide to Japanese dialects and dialectology for all those interested in Japanese linguistics, language variation, historical linguistics, and linguistic typology.
Japanese; Dialectology; Language Change and Variation
N. Kibe, NINJAL, Japan; T. Nitta, Kanazawa University, Japan; K. Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
Carol Genetti
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 40
November 2024
English, XV, 595 pp., 30 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / RRP US$ 32.99 / RRP £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162931-5
A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is a comprehensive description of a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal. Brimming with examples from natural discourse, the book couples rigorous description of the language's structures with full discussion of how the structures are used by speakers in connected speech. The result is a rich, readable, and beautifully argued portrait of a language and how it works. Grammar, Tibeto-Burman Language, Newar
Carol Genetti , University of California, Santa Barbara.
Antoinette Schapper A Grammar of Bunaq
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 86
November 2024
English, XXIV, 597 pp., 12 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-163168-4
This grammar is a first detailed description of Bunaq which is spoken in the mountainous interior of Timor. Bunaq belongs to the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family but is surrounded by Austronesian languages. The grammar provides new analyses and insights that are relevant to our understanding of the typology and areal relationships within the Melanesian region.
Grammar; Papuan Languages; Bunaq
Antoinette Schapper, Lacito-CNRS, Paris, France.
Kristine A. Hildebrandt
A Grammar of Gurung
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 80
September 2025
English, Approx. 450 pp., 60 fig.
HC *RRP € 164.95 / RRP US$ 182.99 / RRP £ 144.00
ISBN 978-3-11-059531-4
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This grammar is a detailed synchronic and diachronic description of Gurung, a TibetoBurman language spoken in parts of Nepal, India, and Bhutan, and by diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and beyond. Gurung; Languages of Nepal; Tibeto-Burman
Kristine A. Hildebrandt, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA.
Michael E. Krauss
Kevin Baetscher, Gary Holton (Eds.)
A Grammar of Eyak
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 88
December 2024
English, XXX, 1162 pp., 4 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-073942-8
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Smallest of the Alaska Native languages, Eyak has long been overlooked, owing to a lack of published documentation. Intermediate to Tlingit and the vast Dene (Athabaskan) family of languages, Eyak provides key insights into linguistic prehistory. Based on a lifetime of research in collaboration with all of the last remaining speakers of Eyak, this grammar provides an authoritative reference on this unique language.
Alaska; Dene; Eyak; Athabaskan
Michael E. Krauss (†).
Chiara Truppi
A Grammar of Guinea-Bissau Kriol (Ginensi)
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 94
March 2026
English, Approx. 410 pp., 2 fig.
HC *RRP € 164.95 / RRP US$ 182.99 / RRP £ 144.00
ISBN 978-3-11-078158-8
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Kriol, or (Bissau-) Guinean, a Portuguese creole, is the majority language and the lingua franca in Guinea-Bissau. Also spoken in the diaspora, it is genetically related to the Upper Guinea creoles (Caboverdean, Casamancese, and – supposedly – Papiamentu). This book, provided with glossed texts, is a comprehensive description of Kriol grammar and offers a historical perspective on its emergence and an overview of its intralinguistic variation.
Portuguese-related Creoles; Upper Guinea Creoles; Language Documentation; Grammatical Description
Chiara Truppi, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Ambrocio Gutiérrez, Hiroto Uchihara
A Grammar of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 96
December 2025
English, Approx. 700 pp., 16 fig.
HC *RRP € 174.95 / RRP US$ 188.99 / RRP £ 156.00
ISBN 978-3-11-132076-2
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The book provides a detailed description of the grammar of Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, an endangered variety spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. The authors share their insights into typologically interesting phenomena like the encoding of agents by stem alternation and complex interactions between tone and phonation.
Zapotec; Grammar; Typology; Tone; Verb Classes
Ambrocio Gutiérrez; University of Colorado Boulder, USA; Hiroto Uchihara, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
Zahid Akter
A Grammar of Pangkhua
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 97
September 2024
English, XV, 417 pp., 65 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 131.99 / RRP £ 109.50
ISBN 978-3-11-138704-8
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This book offers a description of Pangkhua, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Rangamati district, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. It is the result of more than a year of original fieldwork in a Pangkhua village. Written from a broadly functional-typological standpoint, this book provides a descriptive and analytical contribution to our understanding of Pangkhua pointing out several areas of typological interest.
Pangkhua; South Central; Kuki-Chin; TibetoBurman; Description; Documentation
Zahid Akter, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China.
Jean-Christophe Verstraete A Dictionary of Morrobolam
A Lamalamic Language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia
Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] 669
December 2024
English, XXVII, 556 pp., 9 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / RRP US$ 141.99 / RRP £ 117.50
ISBN 978-3-11-139762-7
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Morrobolam is a Lamalamic language of Cape York Peninsula in north-eastern Australia, with unusual sound and word structures by Australian standards. This dictionary provides a detailed analysis of the forms, meanings and uses of Morrobolam words. It is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and biologists, but can also be used as a practical guide to the language, for community members and anyone else with an interest in the region.
Linguistics; Lexicography; Anthropology; PamaNyungan; Australia
Jean-Christophe Verstraete, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Now in paperback
Hiwa Asadpour, Thomas Jügel (Eds.)
Word Order Variation
Semitic, Turkic and Indo-European Languages in Contact
Series: Studia Typologica [STTYP] 31
November 2024
English, VIII, 269 pp., 25 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-163181-3
Word order variation in the Iranic-SemiticTurkic contact area has recently received much attention, notably expressions of virtual or figurative motion. This volume provides investigations of word order variation in several modern and historical languages and examines its motivation. By exploring different empirical dimensions and theoretical approaches, it presents a whole raft of cogent evidence for empirical and theoretical conclusions.
Indo-European; Language Contact; Semitic; Target; Turkic; Word Order
Hiwa Asadpour, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; University of Tokyo, Japan; Thomas Jügel, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
Now in paperback
Javier Caro Reina, Johannes Helmbrecht (Eds.)
Proper Names versus Common Nouns
Morphosyntactic Contrasts in the Languages of the World
Series: Studia Typologica [STTYP] 29
November 2024
English, VII, 263 pp., 9 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-163166-0
This volume focuses on morphosyntactic differences between proper names and common nouns. The contributions examine morphosyntactic phenomena such as case, gender, definite article, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages analysed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages.
Morphosyntax; Language Typology; Proper Names; Common Nouns
Javier Caro Reina, Cologne University, Germany; Johannes Helmbrecht, Regensburg University, Germany.
Björn Wiemer, Peter Arkadiev, Petar Kehayov, Rogier Blokland (Eds.)
Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic Area
Volume 1: A Synthetic View, especially on Finnic, and Case Studies
Series: Studia Typologica [STTYP] 33.1
July 2025
English, X, 586 pp.
HC *RRP € 250.00 / RRP US$ 280.00 / RRP £ 224.50
ISBN 978-3-11-116516-5
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The book summarizes research on the structural convergence and divergence of languages in the eastern part of the Circum-Baltic Area. The volume provides an areal profile of this region against a typological background and points out methodological issues. Against this backdrop synthetic views on major and minor languages of the Finnic branch are presented, followed by case studies on particular morphosyntactic phenomena.
Circum-Baltic Area; Slavic; Baltic; Finnic; Areal Typology; Language Change
Björn Wiemer, Mainz, Germany; Peter Arkadiev, Zurich, Switzerland; Kirill Kozhanov, Potsdam, Germany.
OThomas Stolz, Maike Vorholt
The Grammar of Maltese Prepositions
Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Series: Studia Typologica [STTYP] 35
June 2025
English, Approx. XXII, 1076 pp., 334 fig.
HC *RRP € 179.95 / RRP US$ 197.99 / RRP £ 164.00
ISBN 978-3-11-133144-7
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The book provides the first comprehensive synchronic description (in English) of Maltese prepositions and their phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties. The size of the prepositional inventory is determined. The data are drawn from an electronic corpus and conventionally published Maltese literature. Qualitative as well as quantitative methodologies are applied. Topics for follow-up studies are identified. Prepositions; Maltese; Grammar; Language Typology
Thomas Stolz and Maike Vorholt, both University of Bremen, Germany.
Thomas Stolz, Nataliya Levkovych
Areal rarities
Phonological rara and rarissima in Europe
Series: Studia Typologica [STTYP] 36
January 2026
English, Approx. 300 pp.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-133174-4
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Europe is a phonologically rich macroarea. The focus is on infrequently attested phonemes. Their occurrences are determined for 210 languages. The results are compared to two cross-linguistic surveys of segmental phonemes. The phenomena are studied quantitatively and qualitatively. The distribution is revealed on maps. The properties of rarities are systematically scrutinized. The areal patterns are integrated into the results of EUROTYP.
Areal Typology; Phonological Typology; European Languages; Rare Phonemes
Thomas Stolz and Nataliya Levkovych, both University of Bremen, Germany.
Zoltan Kövecses, Réka Benczes, Veronika Szelid (Eds.)
Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation
Volume 1: From Akan to Italian Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] 8.1
November 2024
English, XII, 738 pp., 25 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-073549-9
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Anger is a basic emotion rooted in largely universal bodily experience, yet its conceptualization is by no means universal, languages can differ in how it is metaphorically understood. Drawing on a wide selection of comparable linguistic data from dozens of languages (including a number of lessresearched languages), this volume provides the most comprehensive account of what is universal and what is variable in the folk model of anger and why.
Anger; Metaphor; Universality; Cross-Linguistic Variation
Zoltán Kövecses; Réka Benczes; Veronika Szelid, all Budapest, Hungary.
Zoltan Kövecses, Réka Benczes, Veronika Szelid (Eds.)
Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation
Volume 2: From Japanese to Ukrainian Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] 8.2
November 2024
English, XII, 708 pp., 3 fig.XII, 739–1446
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ISBN 978-3-11-155830-1
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Anger is a basic emotion rooted in largely universal bodily experience, yet its conceptualization is by no means universal, languages can differ in how it is metaphorically understood. Drawing on a wide selection of comparable linguistic data from dozens of languages (including a number of lessresearched languages), this volume provides the most comprehensive account of what is universal and what is variable in the folk model of anger and why.
Anger; Metaphor; Universality; Cross-Linguistic Variation
Zoltán Kövecses; Réka Benczes; Veronika Szelid, all Budapest, Hungary.
Now in paperback
Daniela Pettersson-Traba
The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English
A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 51
November 2024
English, XVIII, 270 pp., 33 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-163182-0
This monograph examines the distributional patterns of five adjectival near-synonyms from the domain of SMELL in American English, focusing on their diachronic development, a dimension that has been relatively disregarded. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts which function as a proxy for semantic similarity. The synonym set is undergoing processes of convergence and substitution resulting from extralinguistic factors.
Near-Synonymy; Semantic Change; Collocation; SMELL
Daniela Pettersson-Traba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Manuela Romano (Ed.)
Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts
Current Crises
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 54
May 2024
English, VI, 334 pp., 30 fig.
HC *RRP € 144.95 / RRP US$ 162.99 / RRP £ 128.50
ISBN 978-3-11-100125-8
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Metaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field. The present book brings together the work of influential researchers analyzing metaphor empirically from Critical SocioCognitive perspectives (CSCDA). The case studies focus on the role of metaphor as a powerful strategy for the creation of specific world views and ideological frames, as well as for their contestation.
Metaphor; Socio-Political Contexts; Critical; SocioCognitive Approaches
Manuela Romano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Silvia Molina-Plaza, Nava Maroto (Eds.)
Aspects of Cognitive Terminology Studies
Theoretical Considerations and the Role of Metaphor in Terminology
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 55
June 2024
English, VI, 309 pp., 36 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-107253-1
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The book sets out to describe new developments in terminology from a cognitive perspective. It encompasses a wide range of theoretical and practical approaches, covering different areas of knowledge and drawing on interdisciplinary research in corpus linguistics, neology, discourse analysis and translation studies. International scholars present accounts of developments in the interface between terminology and cognitive linguistics.
Terminology; Cognition; Frame-Based Terminology; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Crosslinguistic Terminology; Corpus Linguistics
Silvia Molina-Plaza, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; Nava Maroto, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
OPhilipp Striedl
Modern Hebrew in Israel
Representations of Linguistic Variation and Standard
Funded by LMU München, Universität Zürich
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 57
April 2025
English, XIX, 298 pp., 32 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 120.99 / RRP £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-139055-0
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Scholars have been asserting that there are no dialects in Modern Hebrew, which makes Israel an interesting case for variationist linguistic theorising. This pioneering book investigates categories Hebrew speakers use for their classification of linguistic variation. Relying on interviews and experimental data, the categories are analyzed from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
Cognitive Sociolinguistics; Modern Hebrew; Linguistic Variation; Grounded Theory; Israel Philipp Striedl, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Antonio
Barcelona
Metonymy in Grammar and Discourse Comprehension
Five Case Studies
Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 57
December 2024
English, XXV, 584 pp., 9 fig.
HC *RRP € 139.95 / RRP US$ 153.99 / RRP £ 127.00
ISBN 978-3-11-156927-7
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This book is a fascinating contribution to cognitive-linguistic research on metonymy analyzing authentic texts. Its five studies expand current metonymy theory by providing evidence that metonymies regularly occur at more than one analytical level of the same utterance and chain to each other in discourse following certain patterns. Several new analytical notions are developed or refined (inferential chain, (in)active metonymy, cascading, etc.).
Conceptual Metonymy; Multilevel Operation of Metonymy; Metonymic Chaining; Constructional Meaning and Form; Discourse-Pragmatic Meaning
Antonio Barcelona, Emeritus (Full) Professor of the University of Córdoba, Spain.
Jane Klavan
The Making and Breaking of Classification Models in Linguistics
A Multimethod Perspective on Constructional Alternations
Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 66
June 2024
English, English, XIV, 236 pp., 16 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-066504-8
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-066846-9
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The book presents a usage-based perspective on morphosyntactic alternations. It offers a theoretically informed empirical analysis of variation that spans across time and space, based on data collected across individuals (cognition), dialect and register (society). How can we productively combine corpora and language experiments in language research and what does the combination of methods mean for cognitive linguistic theory?
Cognitive Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics; Experimental Linguistics; Constructional Alternations
Jane Klavan, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Barbara Meisterernst
The Diachronic Development of Modal Expressions in Chinese
From Late Archaic to Middle Chinese
Series: Studies in Language Change [SLC] 18
November 2024
English, XIII, 372 pp., 2 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-073778-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-073301-3
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This book is the first syntactic analysis of Chinese modals within the Diachronic Syntax framework, based on cross-linguistic syntactic research on grammaticalization. It provides detailed analyses of the constraints on the grammaticalization of modals from lexical verbs into deontic, future, and/or epistemic markers respectively, supporting general theories on syntactic processes involved in the grammaticalization of modal systems universally.
Modality; Historical Linguistics; Syntax
Barbara Meisterernst, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and University of Stuttgart.
Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer Proto-Australian
Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language
Series: Studies in Language Change [SLC] 24
August 2024
English, XVI, 486 pp., 6 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-142144-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-142188-9
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This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, a longstanding proposal that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA]. The authors show that nearly all Australian languages descend from PA and have therefore spread from a small homeland. This raises significant questions for analyses of Australian prehistory, archaeology and for theories of hunter-gatherer prehistory and language spread.
Australian Languages; Historical Linguistics; Proto-Australian; Language Spread; Australian Prehistory; Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory
Mark Harvey, University of Newcastle. Callaghan Australia; Robert Mailhammer, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Simon Fries
The East Baltic Subjunctive
A Contribution to the Historical Morphology of Infinitive-Based Verbal Formations
Series: Studies in Language Change [SLC] 27
October 2025
English, 450 pp., 0 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-914920-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-170381-7
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The two East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian feature a secondary mood of potentiality, known as the subjunctive that ultimately goes back to the supine, an infinitival form. This book seeks to explain why, when and how the supine developed into the subjunctive. In doing so, it provides the first exhaustive account of the evolution of the subjunctive paradigm and all attested subjunctive forms in the East Baltic dialects. Subjunctive; Infinitive-Based Mood; East Baltic; Paradigm Formation; Historical Morphology
Simon Fries, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Emmerich Kelih, Ján Mačutek, Michaela Koščová (Eds.)
Quantification in Linguistics and Text Analysis
Selected Papers of Gabriel Altmann
Series: Quantitative Linguistics [QL] 73
May 2025
English, VI, 303 pp., 21 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-135143-8
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-135160-5
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The volume contains the most important theoretical and methodological papers of Gabriel Altmann (1929-2019). He is the founder of a specific school of quantitative linguistics, focused on mutual interrelations of linguistic characteristics. His approach concentrates on the building of a general theory. This theory is based on the relevance of linguistic laws (Zipf’s, Menzerath’s and Piotrowski) and concepts of language as a self-regulated system.
Quantitative Linguistics; Quantitative Text Analysis; Language Theory; Linguistics Laws; Gabriel Altmann
Emmerich Kelih, University Vienna, Austria; Ján Mačutek and Michaela Koščová, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.
Jeroen Darquennes, Joseph C. Salmons, Wim Vandenbussche (Eds.)
Language Contact
An International Handbook
Jeroen Darquennes, Joseph C. Salmons, Wim Vandenbussche (Eds.)
Volume 2
Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] 45/2
April 2025
English, XII, 923 pp., 74 fig.
HC *RRP € 400.00 / RRP US$ 440.00 / RRP £ 360.50
ISBN 978-3-11-044291-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-044301-1
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The handbook’s 50 chapters tackle linguistic, communicative, societal and multidisciplinary aspects of language contact. Fueled by a wealth of data from a variety of contact situations, its case studies combine a focus on language structure and change with a sincere drive of academic agency. Demonstrating the social relevance of our trade in a time burdened with ecolinguistic challenges, the volume speaks to a full range of students and scholars.
Language Contact; Bilingualism; African; Asian; Australian; European Languages; Languages of the Americas and of the Pacific islands
Jeroen Darquennes, Namur, Belgium; Joe Salmons, Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Wim Vandenbussche, Brussels, Belgium.
Now in paperback
Anna-Maria Sonnemann
Language Families in Contact
The Mutual Impact of Slavic and Romani
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 24
November 2024
English, XII, 247 pp., 17 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-163175-2
The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South Eastern and East Central Europe. It is based on the current research on language contact, grammaticalization and areal typology: It follows a new approach in Romani linguistics that conceives Romani as a subgroup of closely related languages rather than a single language.
Slavic; Romani; Language Contact
Anna-Maria Sonnemann, University of Cologne, Germany.
Malcolm Awadajin Finney
Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 28
June 2025
English, XIV, 233 pp., 1 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-078452-7
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-078454-1
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This book appraises the effects of language contact on the development and evolution of the linguistic properties of Krio from diachronic and synchronic perspectives. It explores historical contexts under which Krio emerged and expanded as well as recent linguistic, social, and demographic factors contributing to its continued evolution. It also assesses the effects of expanded usage of Krio in public domains on current usage of the language.
Krio; Creoles; Language Contact; Language Change
Malcolm Awadajin Finney, California State University Long Beach, California, USA.
Debra Ziegeler
The Influence of the Lexifier
Beyond Grammaticalization in Singapore
English
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 29
April 2024
English, XVI, 280 pp., 9 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-078517-3
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The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to functionally-based contact linguistic theory. In this book, Ziegeler applies grammaticalization theory to explain many under-researched features of Singapore English, highlighting the role of the co-existing lexifier in the unique contact setting of Singapore.
English Varieties; Singapore English; Grammaticalization; Lexifier
Debra Ziegeler, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
OCharlotte Gooskens
Mutual Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages
Funded by University of Groningen
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 30
October 2024
English, XVIII, 258 pp., 39 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-113165-8
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This book offers a comprehensive treatment of research on mutual intelligibility between closely related languages and its linguistic and extra-linguistic determinants. It synthesizes existing research and reflects on new theoretical and practical directions for intelligibility research
Mutual Intelligibility; Closely Related Languages; Receptive Multilingualism; Linguistic Distances
Charlotte Gooskens, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Barbara Hans-Bianchi, Chiara Truppi, Barbara Vogt (Eds.)
Speakers and Structures in Language Contact
Pluralistic Approaches to Change and Variation
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 31
July 2024
English, VI, 278 pp., 18 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-118714-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-118834-8
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This book is a collection of novel studies of unexplored issues related to language contact in different settings. It aims to contribute multi-perspective insights to the current state of the art on language contact. Novel approaches to contact-related change, variation, attrition, and language emergence will be explored from the lens of sociolinguistic, typological, synchronic, and diachronic perspectives.
Language Contact; Multilingualism; Language Change; Language Variation; Creole Emergence; Language Attitudes
Barbara Hans-Bianchi and Barbara Vogt, University of L’Aquila, Italy; Chiara Truppi, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Louise Sylvester, Megan Tiddeman, Richard Ingham
Kathryn Allan
Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 33
September 2025
English, Approx. VI, 230 pp., 8 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-131994-0
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This book offers a new narrative about the lexicon of Middle English and the impact of word borrowing in the later medieval period. Loanwords have been seen as being in competition with native terms. Analysis of a large dataset of vocabulary items within a conceptual classification indicates rather that this was a period of augmentation of the lexicon arising from the multilingual context of medieval Britain.
Middle English Vocabulary; Borrowing; Semantic Development; Conceptual Classification
Louise Sylvester, Megan Tiddeman and Richard Ingham, University of Westminster, London; Kathryn Allan; University College, London.
Evangelia Adamou, Andrey N. Sobolev (Eds.)
The Balkan Linguistic Area
An Atlas of Variation and Contact
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 34
January 2026
English, Approx. 500 pp., 105 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / RRP US$ 141.99 / RRP £ 117.50
ISBN 978-3-11-138976-9
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The Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area (ABLA) offers extensive empirical testing of the concept of linguistic area by carefully mapping 100 linguistic features in 60+ Balkan languages and dialects. Each feature is matched to a map and is accompanied by a summary co-authored by an international team of Balkan language specialists. ABLA Online complements the book by illustrating each linguistic feature with examples for each language dataset.
Balkans; Linguistic Areas; Linguistic Atlas; Language Contact
Evangelia Adamou, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Paris; Andrey N. Sobolev, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Carmelo Alessandro Basile
Modality in Contact
Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] 36
September 2024
English, XIX, 281 pp., 51 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-148714-4
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This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation (i.e. must, have to, (have) got to, gotta, need to, and better) in contact varieties of English. Focusing on Singapore English, Basile examines how contact grammaticalization and substrate influence shape this variety. He introduces a “pan-stratist” model, emphasising the crucial roles played by both the substrate and the lexifier in the restructuring of modality.
World Englishes; Singapore English; Modal Constructions; Grammaticalization; Dynamic Modality
Carmelo Alessandro Basile, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Nikolaos Lavidas, Ioanna Sitaridou, Igor Yanovich (Eds.)
Towards a Holistic Understanding of Language Contact in the Past
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 383
October 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-099983-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-098957-1
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The volume gathers papers dealing with a variety of languages, focusing on topics and research questions related to language contact and contact-induced change, such as the relation between the multilingual past and present; possible analyses of language contact effects; contact-induced change in the view of evolution theory; typological perspectives to language contact and traces of early or long-term contact in modern dialects.
Language Contact; Language Change; Linguistic Theory; Sociology of Language Contact
Nikolaos Lavidas and Ioanna Sitaridou, Athens, Greece & Cambridge, Great Britain.
Dimitrios Ntelitheos Morphosyntactic
Development
in Child Emirati Arabic
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] 63
September 2024
English, VIII, 202 pp., 20 fig.
HC *RRP € 114.95 / RRP US$ 130.99 / RRP £ 103.50
ISBN 978-1-5015-2019-8
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This in-depth account of the acquisition of Emirati Arabic offers an insight into the underlying properties of grammar and the cognitive learning mechanisms that children bring to the task. Structurally different from European languages and acquired in a unique multilingual context, Emirati Arabic provides new evidence regarding long-standing questions in the field of language acquisition.
Child Language Acquisition; First Language Acquisition; Emirati Arabic; Developmental Stages; Longitudinal Study
Dimitrios Ntelitheos, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves, Jeniffer Imaregna Alcantara de Albuquerque (Eds.)
Second Language Pronunciation
Different Approaches to Teaching and Training
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] 64
November 2024
English, XIII, 415 pp., 57 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-162084-8
In the field of L2 pronunciation, new approaches to perceptual/production training and instruction have been proposed and new goals have been set. This book brings together these different approaches to L2 pronunciation research in the classroom or in the language laboratory. It summarizes the current research questions on L2 pronunciation teaching and training, and predicts future scenarios for both researchers and practitioners.
Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Pronunciation; Pronunciation; Second Language Teaching
Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves, U Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Jeniffer Albuquerque, U Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil.
Vanessa De Wilde, Claire Goriot (Eds.)
Second Language Learning Before Adulthood
Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] 65
June 2024
English, VI, 264 pp., 15 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-152398-9
This book discusses the role of individual differences in young second language learners. The studies presented here investigate internal individual differences (e.g., language aptitude, motivation, and attitude), external individual differences (e.g., exposure and type of instruction), the interplay between these two types of individual differences, and lastly, the relative contribution of internal and external factors to language learning.
Second Language Learning; Individual Differences; Young Language Learners
Vanessa De Wilde, Ghent U & Artevelde U of Applied Sciences, Belgium; Claire Goriot, KPZ U of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, Netherlands.
Now in paperback
Dominik Besier
Grammar Competition in Second Language Acquisition
The Case of English Non-Verbal Predicates for Indonesian L1 Speakers
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] 70
November 2024
English, VIII, 304 pp., 7 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162177-7
Anybody teaching English to Indonesian speakers should know the difficulties of nonverbal predicates and the placement of be This book offers new insights into this matter from a grammar competition perspective. Based on a detailed contrast of non-verbal predicates in English and Indonesian, it analyses be-omission patterns of Indonesian learners of English. The focus is on the influence of adverbs and the category of nonverbal predicate.
Second Language Acquisition; Grammar Competition; Non-Verbal Predicates; Indonesian; Copula
Dominik Besier, Wuppertal University, Germany.
Holden Härtl, Katharina Zaychenko (Eds.)
Grammatical Categories in Linguistics and Education
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 37
November 2024
English, VI, 300 pp., 54 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-113965-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-114080-3
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This book brings together different perspectives on how grammatical categories are represented linguistically across languages in both theoretical linguistics and language pedagogy. The research presented aims to close the gap between theory and practice in educational research by exploring new teaching methodologies and approaching language pedagogy from a linguistic perspective.
Grammatical Categories; Theoretical Linguistics; Language Pedagogy; Educational Linguistics
Holden Härtl and Katharina Zaychenko, Kassel University, Germany.
Christine Czinglar, Kristen H. Perry, Karen Schramm (Eds.)
Adult Migrants Learning Literacy in a New Language
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 41
January 2026
English, Approx. 450 pp., 37 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-140362-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-140387-8
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This book brings together research papers by authors from different regions of the world who have studied the acquisition processes of adult migrants learning to read and write in a new language. The collection includes ethnographic investigations of everyday language and literacy practices, classroom studies on the effectiveness of teaching practices, and research on high-stakes test taking and formative multilingual assessment methods
Second Language Acquisition; Literacy Acquisition; Language Learning; Adult Migrants; Multilingualism
Christine Czinglar, Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena; Kristen Perry, Univ. of Kentucky, USA, Karen Schramm, Univ. of Vienna, Austria.
María Luquin
Tracking Language Growth in Child English Learners
The Role of Model Texts
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 43
January 2025
English, IX, 248 pp., 16 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-156328-2
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Model texts are exemplary native-language texts that serve as guides for shaping language abilities. This book explores the profound impact of sustained exposure to model texts on the cultivation of children’s writing skills. The findings underscore the transformative influence of integrating model texts into English as a foreign language classrooms. As such, it is a perfect read for educators looking for practical tips on language development.
Model Texts; Longitudinal Design; EFL; Khildren; Written Corrective Feedback; Focus on Form
María Luquin, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Pamplona, Spain.
Lilla Horváth
Learning across Languages
A Multilingual Awareness-Raising Project in Third Language Teaching
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 45
October 2025
English, Approx. 230 pp., 26 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 120.99 / RRP £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-163263-6
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Informed by theory, research, and classroom practice, this volume examines the impact of multilingual awareness training on Hungarian 9 graders’ linguistic skills and motivation concerning learning German after English. Promoting a multilingual approach in third language teaching, this book proposes a teaching method that challenges the dominantly used third language teaching method based on second language acquisition principles in Hungary.
Third Language Teaching; Dynamic Model of Multilingualism; Multilingual Awareness; Directed Motivational Current; German after English; Motivation in Language Learning
Lilla Horváth, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary.
Søren Wichmann (Ed.)
The Languages and Linguistics of Mexico and Northern Central America
A Comprehensive Guide
Series: The World of Linguistics [WOL] 12
December 2024
English, VIII, 920 pp., 61 fig.
HC *RRP € 340.00 / RRP US$ 390.00 / RRP £ 297.00
Standing Order price for subscribers to the complete work *€ 230.00 / US$ 260.00 / £ 209.50
ISBN 978-3-11-042607-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-042170-5
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The handbook provides a thorough survey of the languages pertaining to the Mesoamerican culture region, including a wealth of new research on synchronic structures and historical linguistics of lesser known languages, also including sign languages. The volume moreover features overviews of recent research on topics such as language acquisition and the expression of spatial orientation across languages of the region.
Northern Central America and Mexico; Language Typology
Søren Wichmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Anne Storch, Viveka Velupillai (Eds.)
Language in Strange and Familiar Places
Linguistic Research in Uncharted Territories
Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] 13
June 2025
English, 6 , 372 pp., 37 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-914882-5
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This book explores language in strange and familiar places from the perspective of anthropological linguistics in order to shed light on how language and place are intimately connected. The nine contributions to this book offer a variety of perspectives on this process and come from diverse contexts that all play a role in this field: typology, sociolinguistics, orature studies, comparative linguistics, and language documentation and description.
Language and Culture; Liminality; Landscape; Language Maintenance
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Central Queensland University, Anne Storch, University of Cologne; Viveka Velupillai, University of Giessen.
Charles G. Häberl (Ed.)
Language Diversity in Iran
New Texts and Perspectives from Non-Iranian Languages
Series: The Companions of Iranian Languages and Linguistics [CILL] 4
September 2024
English, XIII, 363 pp., 8 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / RRP US$ 159.99 / RRP £ 114.50
ISBN 978-3-11-063769-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-064157-8
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The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact with Iranian languages. Comparatively few of Iran's minority languages are well-documented or even widely known outside of a small cadre of specialists. A volume that organizes sketches of the non-Iranian languages of Iran offers a unique perspective on the history and structure of the Iranian language.
Charles G. Häberl, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Ilse Depraetere, Bert Cappelle, Martin Hilpert
Ludovic De Cuypere, Mathieu Dehouck, Pascal Denis, Susanne Flach, Natalia Grabar, Cyril Grandin, Thierry Hamon, Clemens Hufeld, Benoît Leclercq, HansJörg Schmid
Models of Modals
From Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics to Machine Learning
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 110
November 2024
English, VI, 274 pp., 39 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-162072-5
This volume on English modals positions itself with respect to qualitative questions pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface and critically assesses different kinds of quantitative models (feature-based and datadriven). Drawing on an annotated data set as well as large corpora, it shows in what ways the models can complement each other and what their relative predictive power is.
English Modals; Pragmatics; Corpus Linguistics; Machine Learning
Ilse Depraetere, Univ. de Lille, France; Martin Hilpert, Univ. de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Bert Cappelle, Univ de Lille, France et al.
Marion Neubauer
English Nouns since 1150
A Typological Study
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 115
April 2024
English, XV, 254 pp., 35 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-131747-2
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The book takes a fresh look at typological shifts in English since 1150, focusing on the lexicon. It presents the first empirical study of the means used to extend the nominal wordstock, correlating the central word formation processes as well as borrowing in each century. Additionally, the structural makeup of the nouns in usage is analyzed and related to recent research findings, showing astonishing parallels between grammar and lexicon.
English; Language Change; Nominal Lexicon; Morphology; Language Type.
Marion Neubauer, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Daniel Duncan, Mary Robinson (Eds.)
English Sociosyntax Theory, Evidence, Approaches
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 116
October 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp., 41 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-142552-8
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-142628-0
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Research in sociosyntax combines variationist sociolinguistics and formal morphosyntactic theory. This volume presents cuttingedge research that illustrates the current state of the field. It captures the full range of sociosyntax, including work by variationist sociolinguists who incorporate formal theory into their work, researchers whose work is situated within both sides of sociosyntax, and researchers who embody up-to-date methodologies.
Syntax; Morphosyntax; Sociolinguistics; Variation; Sociosyntax
Mary Robinson and Daniel Duncan, Newcastle, UK.
Javier E. Díaz-Vera
Positive Emotions in Old English Language and Thought
An Emotion Family Approach
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 118
February 2025
English, XIII, 314 pp., 8 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 131.99 / RRP £ 109.50
ISBN 978-3-11-164100-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-164188-1
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This book proposes a new approach to studying the evolution of emotional expressions in their historical and social contexts, focusing on Old English positive emotions. It blends cognitive linguistic and historical sociolinguistic research to fill the gap in the literature on emotions like happiness, love, and pride. By analyzing historical lexical data, the book reveals how these expressions reflect sociolinguistic variables and societal change.
Positive Emotions; Old English; Figurative Language; Semantic Change; Etymology
Javier E. Díaz-Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
TLaura Wright English Grammar for Literature Students
How to Analyse Literary Texts
Series: Mouton Textbook
July 2024
English, VIII, 208 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 34.95 / RRP US$ 38.99 / RRP £ 32.00
ISBN 978-3-11-134841-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-134889-6
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An understanding of grammar helps pinpoint why a passage of writing creates the effect it does. The aim of this book is to impart a working knowledge of the basics of the structure of English, demonstrated with plentiful extracts from novels, poems and plays, so that literature students can identify parts of speech and consider their effects. No previous linguistics experience is assumed.
Literature; Poems; Plays; Novels; Grammar; Literary Interpretation
Laura Wright, Cambridge, UK.
Danielle Tod Tongan English
Series: Dialects of English [DOE] 24
October 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-141739-4
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This book documents the sound, structure, history and status of Tongan English, a previously undescribed variety of English. Description is based on empirical analysis of a large corpus of spoken data and observation of language use in the community. The book sheds light on norm formation and development in Tongan English as a contact variety, contributing to a broader discussion on of the nativisation of emergent and L2 Englishes. Dialectology; Pacific Englishes; World Englishes; Language Contact
Danielle Tod, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Yo Matsumoto (Ed.)
Motion Event Descriptions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Yo Matsumoto (Ed.)
Volume 1: Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion
Series: The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] 1
February 2025 English, XIV, 787 pp., 248 fig.
HC *RRP € 159.95 / RRP US$ 175.99 / RRP £ 145.50
ISBN 978-3-11-069082-8
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How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in almost 20 languages, Motion Event Descriptions from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective provides new descriptions and proposals on this fascinating topic. Volume 1 discusses individual languages in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Motion Events; Language Description; Typology; NINJAL
Yo Matsumoto, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan.
William B. McGregor
A Grammar of Warrwa, Kimberley, Western Australia
As spoken by Maudie Lennard and Freddy Marker
Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] 671
October 2025
English, Approx. 1200 pp., 44 fig.
HC *RRP € 194.95 / RRP US$ 220.00 / RRP £ 175.50
ISBN 978-3-11-140000-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-140195-9
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This book is a descriptive grammar of Warrwa, a moribund Nyulnyulan (non-PamaNyungan) language of the Kimberley region of north-western Australia. Based on the author’s fieldwork (1985–2002) with the last two speakers of the language, it covers the phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax of Warrwa; a wordlist and extensive text collection are also included. The syntactic description is usage-based and functionally oriented.
Warrwa; Nyulnyulan; Non-Pama-Nyungan; Australian Languages; Functional/Semiotic/ Usage-Based Grammar
William B. McGregor, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Hjalmar P. Petersen, Laurence Voeltzel
Faroese Phonetics and Phonology
Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] 34
March 2025
English, XIV, 376 pp., 125 fig.
HC *RRP € 149.95 / RRP US$ 164.99 / RRP £ 136.50
ISBN 978-3-11-075055-3
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Faroese Phonetics and Phonology will fill the demand for an accurate and thorough analysis of the Faroese language. It offers a comprehensive overview of Faroese phonology and phonetics by discussing all aspects of spoken Faroese: standard language, dialectal variations, and historical changes. The volume provides a detailed description of Faroese phonetics and proposes formal analyses of the phonological mechanisms active in the synchrony.
Nordic Phonology; Segmental Representation; Syllabic Structure; West Nordic Phonological Variation
Laurence Voeltzel, Université de Nantes, France; Hjalmar Petersen, University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
Elena Graf, Ulrich Schweier (Eds.) Pragmaticalization
Language Change between Text and Grammar
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 370
September 2024
English, VI, 402 pp., 12 fig.
HC *RRP € 114.95 / RRP US$ 130.99 / RRP £ 103.50 ISBN 978-3-11-076089-7
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-076113-9
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The volume focuses on the phenomenon of pragmaticalization in context of the theory of grammaticalization. By bringing together empirical research on a wide range of languages, it provides insights into a broader understanding of linguistic changes on the discourse level and examines the emergence of discourse markers and constructions, thus, contributing to the ongoing discussion concerning the pros and cons of the concept of pragmaticalization.
Pragmaticalization; Grammaticalization; Subjectification & Intersubjectification; Discourse markers
Elena Graf and Ulrich Schweier, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Mikhail Kopotev, Kyongjoon Kwon (Eds.) Constructions with Lexical Repetitions in
East Slavic
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 384
July 2024
English, XI, 225 pp., 13 fig.
HC *RRP € 139.95 / RRP US$ 153.99 / RRP £ 127.00
ISBN 978-3-11-116412-0
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Repetitions are less-studied phenomena at the syntactic level, where it can manifest both in a small syntactic unit and in an entire clause. Grounded in different research frameworks, the presented studies converge on the single theme, namely: syntactic repetitions in East Slavic, which to date has not been addressed in a single book.
East Slavonic Languages; Lexical Repetitions; Idiomatic Constructions; Repetition; Tautology
Mikhail Kopotev, University of Helsinki, Finland; Kyongjoon Kwon, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.
Maria Cristina Lo Baido Forms and Functions of Meta-Discourse
The Case of Comment Clauses in Present-Day Italian
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 381
July 2024
English, XX, 276 pp., 16 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 108.00
ISBN 978-3-11-079982-8
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-079985-9
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The book constitutes the first systematic analysis of meta-discourse in the spoken domain, by focussing on comment clauses (e.g. ‘I think’) in Present-day Italian. Based on a semantic and structural analysis, this study shows that speakers switch from discourse to meta-discourse to make their subjective and textual stance explicit and to refer to the relation with the hearer. Comment clauses tend to conventionalize along specific paths of change.
Meta-Discourse; Spoken Discourse; Italian; Comment Clauses
Maria Cristina Lo Baido, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.
Giuseppe Magistro Jespersen Gives and Jespersen Takes
Experimentally Tracking the Role of Focus in the Renewal of Negation
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 397
September 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-155012-1
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The book analyses Jespersen's cycle in Veneto dialects from different angles: meaning, phonetic properties, and the role of focal features. Its innovation lies in using acoustic data to study the diachrony of negation and revealing how prosody indicates (in)stability during reanalysis. The book shows the importance of phonetic variation in syntactic change.
Jespersen; Negation; Focus; Interface Giuseppe Magistro, Ghent University, Belgium.
Renata Enghels, Mar Garachana, María Sol Sansiñena (Eds.) Periphrastic Constructions
in Romance
Insights from Synchronic and Diachronic Studies
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 390
November 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / RRP US$ 141.99 / RRP £ 117.50 ISBN 978-3-11-142281-7
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This book presents synchronic and diachronic studies on verbal periphrases in a range of Romance languages to clarify the boundaries of the category, the features and development of specific constructions, as well as the interrelations between them. The individual chapters adopt diverse analytic perspectives and theoretical and methodological frameworks, and integrate results applying qualitative, quantitative, and psycholinguistic methods. Romance Languages; Verbal Periphrases; MultiVerb Constructions; Language Change; Language Contact
Renata Enghels (Ghent University), Mar Garachana (University of Barcelona), María Sol Sansiñena (University of Leuven)
Susana
Rodriguez Rosique (Ed.)
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
Mirativity, Exclamativity and Cooptation in Romance Languages
Funded by Universidad de Alicante
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 389
January 2025
English, VI, 283 pp., 30 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 120.99 / RRP £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-138648-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-138668-3
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Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or – expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic devices. The different contributions included in the book point to revealing conclusions concerning the status of surprise in Romance as well as the place that mirativity occupies (if any) in the grammar of these languages. Surprise; Mirativity; Exclamativity; Insubordination; Modality; Romance Languages
Susana Rodríguez Rosique, Alicante, Spain.
Shanshan Lü
A Reference Grammar of Caijia
An Unclassified Language of Guizhou
Series: Sinitic Languages of China [SLCH] 8
November 2024
English, XXVIII, 600 pp., 13 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / RRP US$ 32.99 / RRP £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-163170-7
Based on abundant spontaneous data, this book presents the first description of the entire grammatical system of Caijia, an under-described Sino-Tibetan language spoken by less than 1000 people in Guizhou Province of China. It provides an overview of the Caijia grammar in the context of East and Southeast Asian linguistic typology as well as an in-depth look at its syntactic structures and grammatical features.
Grammar; Sinitic Languages; Typology; Caijia Shanshan Lü, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China.
Nathan M. White
A Grammar of Hmong
White Hmong and Green Mong as Spoken in North Queensland
Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 99
September 2025
English, Approx. 700 pp., 19 fig.
HC *RRP € 149.95 / RRP US$ 164.99 / RRP £ 136.50
ISBN 978-3-11-154618-6
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This work is a descriptive reference grammar of Hmong, as spoken in the diaspora in North Queensland, Australia. Hmong is typologically significant given its long history of language contact and migration, first across Southeast Asia, then in the Anglophone diaspora. By far the most comprehensive work on Hmong to date, the grammar is of interest to specialists in Southeast Asian languages and to typologists.
Hmong; Hmong-Mien; Morphology; Syntax; Applied Natural Language Processing
Nathan M. White, James Cook University, Australia.
Yanti, Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon
A Grammar of Jambi Malay
Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] 665
January 2026
English, Approx. 400 pp., 2 fig.
HC *RRP € 149.95 / RRP US$ 169.99 / RRP £ 133.00
ISBN 978-3-11-072438-7
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072481-3
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This volume is a reference grammar of Jambi Malay as spoken in the villages located across the river from Jambi City, Sumatra, primarily the villages of Tanjung Raden and Mudung Darat. These Jambi Malay varieties are collectively known as Bahasa Seberang – ‘the language of across’. A comparison of the village varieties with the Malay spoken in Jambi City is included."
Malay; Indonesia; Sumatra; Grammar
Yanti, Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta; Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon, University of Delaware, Newark, USA.
Shuan Osman Karim, Saloumeh Gholami (Eds.)
Gorani in its
Historical and Linguistic Context
Funded by European Research Council (ERC)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 41
October 2024
English, VIII, 284 pp., 13 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 131.99 / RRP £ 109.50
ISBN 978-3-11-116868-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-116885-2
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The book brings together leading scholars on languages of the Zagros mountains spanning the borderlands between Iraq and Iran. It contains contributions on the Gorani literary Koine, language documentation, contact between Neo-Aramaic Christian and Jewish communities and local Iranian languages, the diachrony of these languages, and the cultural milieu of their speakers.
Iranian; Dialectology; Language Documentation; Historical Linguistics; Language Contact; Typology
Shuan Osman Karim, University of Cambridge, UK; Saloumeh Gholami, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Thorsten Roelcke, Ruth Breeze, Jan Engberg (Eds.)
Specialized Communication
An International Handbook
Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] 47/1
June 2025
English, XV, 743 pp., 74 fig.
HC *RRP € 410.00 / RRP US$ 490.00 / RRP £ 363.00
ISBN 978-3-11-067240-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-067263-3
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Specialized communication in science, technology or institutions is one of the most important and exciting fields of applied linguistics. The handbook captures the current and relevant knowledge of specialized languages and professional communication. It promotes international communication on central issues, where dialogue is urgently needed concerning both their intellectual underpinning and the day-to-day practices associated with them.
Language for Special Purposes; Language Teaching; Applied Linguistics
Thorsten Roelcke, TU Berlin, Germany; Ruth Breeze, Pamplon, Spain; Jan Engberg, Aarhus, Denmark.
Jonathan
Crichton, Gillian Martin (Eds.)
Handbook of Intercultural Communication in Health Care
Series: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL] 17
January 2026
English, Approx. 500 pp., 30 fig.
HC *RRP € 250.00 / RRP US$ 290.00 / RRP £ 221.00
Standing Order price for subscribers to the complete work *€ 154.95 / US$ 178.99 / £ 141.00
ISBN 978-1-5015-1599-6
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Linguistic and cultural diversity is the ‘new normal’ in health care, creating profound challenges and new opportunities for health practitioners, consumers and researchers in applied linguistics. The Handbook of Intercultural Communication in Health Care is unique in combining an authoritative examination of this growing field, a comprehensive selection of current and emerging research, and reflective commentary by leading health practitioners.
Intercultural; Healthcare; Medicine; Communication
Jonathan Crichton, University of South Australia, Australia; Gillian S. Martin, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Handbook of Language and Mobility
Series: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL] 19
July 2025
English, XII, 453 pp., 19 fig.
HC *RRP € 250.00 / RRP US$ 290.00 / RRP £ 221.00
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*€ 154.95 / US$ 178.99 / £ 141.00
ISBN 978-1-5015-1654-2
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PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-0796-0
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Present day migration and new means of communication create new patterns of multilingualism, language contact, language maintenance and change which have an impact on language competences and identities both of individuals and groups as well as the forms and uses of the languages involved. This book will explore new developments, survey the current state of research and highlight perspectives for future research and practical solutions
Migration; Communication; Language Change
Alfonso Del Percio, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland.
Alfonso Del Percio (Ed.)
Gary Massey, Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Erik Angelone (Eds.) Handbook of the
Language Industry
Contexts, Resources and Profiles
Series: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL] 20
July 2024
English, IX, 504 pp., 36 fig.
HC *RRP € 250.00 / RRP US$ 290.00 / RRP £ 221.00
Standing Order price for subscribers to the complete work
*€ 154.95 / US$ 178.99 / £ 141.00
ISBN 978-3-11-071592-7
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-071604-7
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Today's language industry is in flux, operating in changing contexts with evolving resources and new role requirements. This volume focuses on the realities of the industry from the fresh perspective of current and emerging professional profiles. It traces the industry’s development, maps its current state and considers key aspects of its workplaces, actors and practices in an age characterized by digital transformation and demographic change.
Translation Studies; Language Industry; Language Mediation; Language Technology
Gary Massey, Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; Erik Angelone, Kent State University, USA.
Now In paperback
Svenja Völkel, Nico Nassenstein (Eds.)
Approaches to Language and Culture
Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] 1
June 2024
English, XIII, 558 pp., 26 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / RRP US$ 32.99 / RRP £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-152271-5
This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture and outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies fields and directions of research, provides areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts, and lays the foundation for future developments and innovations within the field. It thus bridges the disciplines and paves the way for new studies.
Anthropological Linguistics; Linguistic Anthropology; Language & Culture; Interdisciplinarity
Svenja Völkel and Nico Nassenstein, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.
Now In paperback
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Nurturing
Language
Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context
Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] 2
June 2024
English, XXVI, 382 pp., 66 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 24.95 / RRP US$ 27.99 / RRP £ 23.00
ISBN 978-3-11-152272-2
This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are spatial orientation, linguistic relativity, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.
Anthropological Linguistics; Intercultural Communication; Cognitive Anthropology; Symbolic Anthropology
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, University of Cologne, Germany.
Now in paperback
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, Pema Wangdi (Eds.)
Celebrating Indigenous Voice
Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond
Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] 5
November 2024
English, VIII, 339 pp., 8 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162716-8
Narratives, legends, and stories are a key to cultural knowledge and cultural heritage across languages of the world. Cultural changes and new means of communication affect narratives and their structures. This book explores the linguistic devices employed in the narrative traditions within the hotspots of linguistic and cultural diversity, with a focus on the tropical regions of New Guinea and Australia, Siberia, and the TibetoBurman domain.
Narratives; Clause Chaining; Mirativity; Quotations
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, CQ University; Robert Bradshaw, Pema Wangdi and Luca Ciucci, James Cook University.
Susanne Mohr, Lindsay Ferrara (Eds.)
Learning Languages, Being Social
Informal Language Learning and Socialization in Additional Languages
Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] 7
August 2024
English, VIII, 266 pp., 24 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 108.00
ISBN 978-3-11-079458-8
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-079467-0
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This book addresses increasingly diverse language learning trajectories in a modern, globalized world, specifically outside of formal classroom situations and with respect to second and additional language practices. This includes, but is not restricted to, intersections of formal and informal learning, computer-mediated contexts, family contexts as well as language learning in multilingual contexts.
Communicative Competence; Second Language Acquisition; Anthropological Linguistics
Susanne Mohr and Lindsay Ferrara, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Valentina Serreli
Language,
Society and Ideologies in Multilingual Egypt
Arabic and Berber in the Siwa Oasis
Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] 8
March 2024
English, XII, 199 pp., 3 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 108.00
ISBN 978-3-11-104512-2
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-104535-1
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The book explores the change over time in language-society relations in a multilingual periphery of Egypt. Based on extensive fieldwork and interviews, it portrays the inventory of linguistic and accompanying non-linguistic behaviors observed in the Siwa Oasis. It sheds light on Berber-Arabic contact at the core of the Arab world at a time when individual linguistic repertoires are expanding and Arabic is emerging as a powerful resource.
Multilingualism; Sociolinguistic Change; Minority languages; Berber; Arabic; Siwa Oasis (Egypt)
Valentina Serreli, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
R. M. W. Dixon
The Anatomy of Avoidance
A Full Study of Jalnguy, the Dyirbal ‘Mother-in-Law Language’
Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] 11
May 2025
English, XXIII, 373 pp., 3 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-146305-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-146447-3
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A remarkable feature of Dyirbal (spoken in north-east Queensland) is that it has an avoidance style, called Jalnguy, which is used in the presence of a tabooed relative, such as the mother-in-law. Every noun, verb and adjective in the everyday style has a different form in Jalnguy (grammar remains the same), and Jalnguy also has fewer words. Studying the correlations between the two styles reveals the underlying semantic system of the language.
Anthropological Linguistics; Everyday Language; Avoidance Speech; Semantics; Languages of Australia
R. M. W. Dixon, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.
Now in paperback
Zhongfeng Tian, Nicole King (Eds.)
Developing Translanguaging Repertoires in Critical Teacher Education
Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL] 1
November 2024
English, XVI, 176 pp., 13 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 14.95 / RRP US$ 16.99 / RRP £ 14.00
ISBN 978-3-11-162078-7
This volume explores the emergent process of developing translanguaging repertoires among teacher educators, pre- and in-service teachers in different U.S. teacher education contexts. Its empirically based chapters adopt various qualitative methods to unpack the opportunities and challenges and provide implications for critical teacher education. It will be of interest to researchers and teachers in bilingual education, TESOL and social justice.
Translanguaging; Critical Teacher Education; Bi/ multilingualism; Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics
Zhongfeng Tian, Rutgers University, Newark, USA; Nicole King, University of Rochester, NY, USA.
Theresa Austin, Hatice Çelebi (Eds.)
Engaging with Ethics in Multilingual Learning Communities
Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL] 2
November 2025
English, Approx. 350 pp., 10 fig.
HC *RRP € 149.95 / RRP US$ 169.99 / RRP £ 133.00
ISBN 978-3-11-075605-0
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This edited volume explores critical ethical issues in multilingual education in an increasingly global, connected, and multicultural society. It focuses on concerns about ethical decision-making in multilingual education and research, and challenges how ethical decisions are being conceptualized across the globe.
Multilingual Education; Multicultural Society; Ethical Considerations; Research in Neoliberal Times
Theresa Austin and Hatice Çelebi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Yecid Ortega Pluriversal Applied Linguistics
Implications for Language Teaching and Research from the Global South
Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL] 6
August 2025
English, Approx. X, 300 pp., 49 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-124241-5
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Drawing on research conducted in a marginalized community in Bogotá, Colombia, this book offers a fresh perspective towards pluriversal applied linguistics research and language teaching focusing on critical ethnography and decolonial praxis. The book urges to rethink binary views on language and encourages readers to indulge in insights from the Global South, unlocking the possibilities for the future of language learning, teaching and research.
Applied Linguistics; Criticality; Decolonization; Ethnography; Global South
Yecid Ortega, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Adam Schwartz, Dalia Magaña, Devin Grammon, Sergio Loza (Eds.) Aquí se habla
Centering the Local and Personal in Spanish Language Education
With an afterw. by Glenn A. Martínez
Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL] 7
March 2025
English, XII, 394 pp., 8 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / RRP US$ 141.99 / RRP £ 117.50
ISBN 978-3-11-132313-8
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Aquí Se Habla envisions a more just and equitable Spanish language education that centers language learning as a deeply personal, local, and lifelong practice. Organized around long-standing tension points within the field, this volume features a unique set of contributors whose diverse perspectives help to deconstruct disciplinary boundaries and elevate the knowledge and lived experiences of U.S. Spanish speakers.
Spanish in the U.S.; Language Education; Latinidad; Language Ideology; Bilingualism
Adam Schwartz, Oregon State Univ.; Dalia Magaña, Univ. of California, Merced; Devin Grammon and Sergio Loza, Univ. of Oregon.
Sergio
Maruenda-Bataller, Laura Mercé (Eds.)
Discourses to GenderBased Violence
Deconstructing Social Inequality through Linguistic Inquiry
Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL] 8
January 2026
English, Approx. 300 pp., 67 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-134869-8
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This volume illustrates how the adoption of discourse approaches can cast light on the ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) discursively operates. The focus is on careful theorisations and empirical contributions that foreground GVB as a human rights violation motivated by the gender of the targeted community. The book resonates with previous feminist discourse scholarship whilst explicitly focusing on the theme of GVB.
Gender-Based Violence; Social Inequality; Critical Discourse Analysis; Feminist Linguistics; Social Justice
Sergio Maruenda-Bataller and Laura Mercé IULMA/Universitat de València, Spain.
Scott Burnett, Francesca Vigo (Eds.)
Battlefield Linguistics
Queer, Trans, and Feminist Interventions in Linguistic and Discursive Change
Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL] 9
December 2025
English, Approx. 450 pp., 22 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-135141-4
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Linguistic features that buck sexual and gendered norms are sites of intense politicization in the context of masculinist, heteronormative and transphobic backlash worldwide. Written in the tradition of liberatory queer, trans, and feminist linguistics, this volume presents groundbreaking studies of the phonological, morphological, semantic, pragmatic and discursive forms of non-normativity, showing how domination is resisted as new norms emerge.
Queer Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Trans Linguistics; Language Politics; Gender; Discourse Dnalysis
Scott Burnett, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Francesca Maria Vigo, University of Catania, Italy.
Now in paperback
Anna Mauranen
Reflexively Speaking
Metadiscourse in English as a Lingua Franca
Series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] 5
November 2024
English, XI, 236 pp., 5 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-161994-1
Reflexive language is unique to human languages; yet little is known of its use in actual dialogue. Fundamental features of language are manifest in dialogic speech and in lingua francas. Reflexivity, or metadiscourse, is central to successful communication. It is also vital in understanding academic argumentation, essential to academic selfunderstanding, and at the same time it has wide applications.
Metadiscourse; English as a Lingua Franca; Discourse Reflexivity
Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Sonia Morán Panero, Maritza M. MartínezSánchez, Gloria J. Ronzón-Montiel (Eds.)
English as a Lingua Franca in
Latin American Education
Critical Perspectives
Series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] 17
October 2024
English, XIV, 273 pp., 8 fig.
HC *RRP € 114.95 / RRP US$ 130.99 / RRP £ 103.50
ISBN 978-3-11-075088-1
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This volume brings together voices of Latin American researchers, who explore the role and nature of English in their ELT contexts. Contributors from a variety of regions reflect on how ELF research and its innovative understanding of the English language could transform local policy-making and pedagogical practices. The book also explores how Latin American scholars and their contextualised perspectives may in turn help expand ELF theorising.
English as a Lingua Franca; English Language Teaching; Language Policy; Latin America
S. Morán-Panero, U. Southampton, UK; M. M. Martínez-Sánchez, U. de Quintana Roo, Mexico; G. J. Ronzón-Montiel, U. Veracruzana, Mexico.
Tomokazu Ishikawa, Paul McBride, Ayako Suzuki (Eds.) Developing ELF Programmes for Language Teaching
Innovation, Resistance, and Applications
Series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] 19
November 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp., 3 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-129466-7
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This book explores the possibilities of designing, implementing, and evaluating an English language teaching programme based on research in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Drawing on the editors and authors’ experiences in applying ELF research to pedagogy within a university setting, the book challenges epistemological and institutional structures that position discrete constructs of the English language as central in pedagogical practice.
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF); Global Englishes; Translanguaging; Multilingualism; English Language Teaching (ELT); Language Education
Tomokazu Ishikawa, Otaru University of Commerce, Hokkaido, Japan; Paul McBride and Ayako Suzuki, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan.
Open Access
ZHAW School of Applied
Linguistics
(Ed.) Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe
[Applied Linguistics in Language Professions]
Series: De Gruyter Studium
August 2024
German, English, VI, 274 pp., 15 fig.
Pb. *€ 29.95 / RRP US$ 31.99 / RRP £ 25.00
ISBN 978-3-11-078671-2
eBook
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Angewandte Linguistik; Künstliche Intelligenz; Menschliche und Künstliche Intelligenz; Reflektierte Praxis; Sprachberuf
This volume provides an introduction to applied linguistics for language professions. It promotes academically rigorous thought and action in everyday professional life, a reality which is being increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Reading, learning, and practicing with this book and its online offering will reveal where people are superior to artificial linguistic intelligence and what this means for a career in a language profession. Applied linguistics; conscious practice; human and artificial intelligence; language professions
ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik, ZHAW Winterthur, Schweiz.
Mary C. Lavissière, Audrey Cartron, Laurent Gautier (Eds.)
Legal Language and the Sea
Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] 4
July 2025
English, Approx. VIII, 300 pp., 4 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-133243-7
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While maritime law and law of the sea are highly-researched domains of law, there are few studies about the language associated with these fields. This volume, which unites legal scholars and linguists, includes chapters that focus on macro levels of linguistic analyses (e.g., discourse and genre analysis) and micro levels (e.g., terminology) as well as translation.
Discourse Analysis; Language for Specific Purposes; Law of the Sea; Maritime Law; Terminology; Translation
Mary C. Lavissière and Audrey Cartron, Nantes Université, France; Laurent Gautier, Université de Bourgogne, France.
Now in paperback
Gregory Matoesian, Kristin Enola Gilbert Practicing Linguistics Without a
License
Multimodal Oratory in Legal Performance
Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] 9
November 2024
English, X, 180 pp., 69 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162823-3
This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression, motion) during the presentation of evidence and interpretation of testimony in court. By analyzing recordings of a well-known rape trial, the authors reveal how multimodal oratory contributes to forensic linguistics and gesture studies, and how it helps understand recent policy recommendations for reforming the rape trial.
Forensic Linguistics; Multimodality; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics
Gregory Matoesian and Kristin Enola Gilbert, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Jacqueline Visconti (Ed.)
The Language of Lawyers A European Perspective
Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] 11
November 2025
English, Approx. 480 pp., 12 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-134075-3
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This volume provides insights into a hitherto unexplored variety of legal language, i.e., the language of defence attorneys. The theoretical approach that is typical of research on law and legal language is integrated with practical reflections by defence attorneys across Europe. Writing clear court proceedings is considered here as a prerequisite for access to justice in an increasingly complex and inclusive society.
Counsel Proceedings; Language in Court; Clear Legal Language; Open Justice; Language and Law Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genoa, Italy.
Magdalena Szczyrbak (Ed.)
More than (Just) Words
Legal and Non-Legal Narratives in the Courtroom and Beyond
Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] 14
June 2025
English, XIV, 320 pp., 37 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 117.99 / RRP £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-143090-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-143178-9
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This volume examines the diverse articulations of legal and non-legal voices in courtroom and court-related discourse, and it presents recent work in the field. Drawing attention to speech, gesture and image, it reaches beyond ‘just words’ and offers insights into the making of the competing narratives of principal courtroom protagonists, allowing the reader to see courtroom practices of meaning-making in new and revealing ways.
Narrative; Courtroom Discourse; Courtroom Genres; Trial Discourse; Adversarial Procedure; Epistemic Asymmetries
Magdalena Szczyrbak, Jagiellonian University, Poland & University of Pardubice, Czechia.
IN THE MINDS OF JUDGES
Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski, Gianluca Pontrandolfo (Eds.)
In the Minds of Judges
argumentative discourse at the intersection of Law and Language
Series: Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] 15
october 2025
english, approx. 280 pp., 8 fig.
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This book explores the language used in legal arguments. It moves beyond traditional argumentation studies, using corpus linguistics and computational tools combined with a deep understanding of the institutional environment in which legal argumentation takes place. The studies presented in this volume unveil judges’ argumentative discourse and legal interpretation strategies, providing a toolkit for scholars and practitioners alike.
Argument Evaluation; Judicial Discourse; Judicial Reasoning; Gender Studies; Corpus Linguistics; Computational Tools
Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski, University of Łódź, Poland; Gianluca Pontrandolfo, University of Trieste, Italy.
Frances Blanchette, Cynthia Lukyanenko (Eds.)
Perspectives on Negation
Views from across the Language Sciences
Series: interdisciplinary Linguistics [intLing] 4
March 2025 english, Viii, 350 pp., 40 fig.
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iSBn 978-3-11-076196-2
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Although negation has been extensively studied by philosophers, linguists, and psychologists, it remains an active area of inquiry across the language sciences. This dynamic and field-spanning volume contains a unique collection of papers by language scientists from a variety of disciplines. Readers will explore novel connections and gain insights into the nature of negation, one of the few uncontroversial universal elements of natural language.
Negation; Cross-Disciplinary; Language Science; Language Structure
Frances Blanchette, Penn State Univ., University Park, USA; Cynthia Lukyanenko, George Mason Univer., Fairfax, USA.
Richard J. Watts
Language in Deep Human History
an evolutionary Story
Series: interdisciplinary Linguistics [intLing] 6
February 2024
english, X, 349 pp., 24 fig.
HC *rrP € 119.95 / rrP uS$ 129.99 / rrP £ 107.00 iSBn 978-3-11-123827-2
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To understand the evolution of language in the context of deep human history, interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from other disciplines (e.g., psychology, archaeology, biology, anthropology, or chemistry) is needed. The book aims to calibrate work on human evolution to trace out a scientific story of language that has plausibility while remaining open to change through new linguistic and non-linguistic discoveries.
Double-Scope Blending; Epigenetic Inheritance; Cultural Evolution; Constructionism; Language Faculty; Social Bonding
Richard J. Watts, Emeritus Professor in Modern English Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Edited by Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski and Gianluca Pontrandolfo
Summer West
Abstract
Language Games
Narrating Neurodivergence and Conceptualizing Identity
Series: Interdisciplinary Linguistics [INTLING] 7
October 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp., 17 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 112.00
ISBN 978-3-11-147719-0
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As neurodiversity awareness grows across multiple scientific disciplines, attention to neurodivergence has remained largely absent in relevant domains of linguistic research. Using a neurodivergent lens to examine abstract language, particularly when this language appears in potentially divisive discourse surrounding identity, can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of important cultural and social variations in language and cognition.
Narrative; Neurodivergence; Metadiscourse; Polysemy; Corpus Analysis; Abstract Nouns
Summer West, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany; City University of New York, College of Staten Island, USA.
Ying Zhan
Child Agency in Family Language Policy
Growing up Multilingual and Multiliterate
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 122
November 2024
English, XII, 209 pp., 45 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162809-7
Past studies of family language socialization often focus on children’s verbal communication skills and are conducted from the parents’ perspective. This book describes a child’s mostly self-directed and nearsimultaneous multilingual and multiliterate development from birth to age 8. The present findings thus emphasize the critical role of child agency, and they may redefine and expand on the traditional theoretical framework of language policy.
Child Agency; Multilingualism and Multiliteracy; Family Language Policy; First and Second Language Acquisition
Ying Zhan, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda City, Japan.
Demet Arpacık Beyond Language
Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 125
November 2024
English, X, 342 pp., 11 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 120.99 / RRP £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-113973-9
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Once banned even in private, the Kurdish language has been a focal point of conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish population. This ethnography examines both Turkey’s system of colonial language governmentality and the Kurdish language activism. Adopting a "beyond language" approach, the activism aims to improve the linguistic and socio-political conditions of the Kurds, thus advancing our grasp of language oppression and activism.
Language Activism; Colonial Linguistics; Kurdish; Critical Pedagogy
Demet Arpacık, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Now in paperback
Joshua A. Fishman Award winner 2021
Roswita Dressler, Elisa Räsänen, Marie Källkvist (Eds.)
Nexus Analysis as a
Methodological Framework for Applied Language Studies
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 129
March 2026
English, Approx. 370 pp., 22 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-142123-0
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The methodological approach of nexus analysis captures the complexity of data in adaptive, participatory, and potentially transdisciplinary ways. Applied linguists and educational researchers demonstrate the breadth and depth of nexus analysis through chapters that use nexus analysis or its elements. Authors reflect on the use of nexus analysis as a methodological framework, as a complementary framework or their own positionality as researchers.
Methodology; Nexus Analysis; Applied Linguistics; Second Language Teaching; Transdisciplinarity; Geosemiotics
Roswita Dressler, University of Calgary; Elisa Räsänen, University of Jyväskylä; Marie Källkvist, Linnæus University & Lund University.
Neriko Musha Doerr (Ed.) Linguistic CounterStandardization
Exploring Liberatory Language Practices around “Japanese”
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 131
October 2024
English, IX, 236 pp., 6 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-157216-1
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-157242-0
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Language standardization is problematic because it imposes a dominant group’s linguistic variety as the only correct one and promotes unit thinking, i.e., the view of language as a bounded, internally homogeneous unit. This book examines intentional counterstandardization practices to subvert such processes in language education and other contexts, such as discourses on pronunciation or language reclamation for indigenous populations.
Counter-Standardization; Japanese; Language Education; Politics of Difference; Power Relations; Standardization
Neriko Musha Doerr, Ramapo College in New Jersey, USA.
Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Severo (Eds.)
Sociolinguistics of Protesting
Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Severo (Eds.)
Volume 1: Embodied Histories, Imagined Worlds, Emplaced Resistance
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 132
March 2026
English, Approx. 300 pp., 67 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / RRP US$ 140.99 / RRP £ 111.00 ISBN 978-3-11-077041-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-077053-7
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Since contemporary sociolinguistic theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, it needs to engage with protesting discourses and practices. In two volumes, Sociolinguistics of Protesting addresses the sociodiscursivity of protesting from different geopolitical perspectives, and it illustrates how protests are socio-semiotically organized and narrated.
Sociolinguistics of Protesting; Colonial Linguistics; Protesting Narratives; Protesting Voice
Ashraf Abdelhay, Doha Inst. for Grad. Studies; Sinfree Makoni, Penn. State University; Cristine Severo, Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Severo (Eds.)
Volume 2: Translanguaging, Gender, and Anti-Racist Discourses
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 133
March 2026
English, Approx. 250 pp., 38 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / RRP US$ 140.99 / RRP £ 111.00
ISBN 978-3-11-077042-1
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-077052-0
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-077062-9
Since contemporary sociolinguistic theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, it needs to engage with protesting discourses and practices. In two volumes, Sociolinguistics of Protesting addresses the sociodiscursivity of protesting from different geopolitical perspectives, and it illustrates how protests are socio-semiotically organized and narrated.
Sociolinguistics of Protesting; Colonial Linguistics; Protesting Narratives; Protesting Voice
Ashraf Abdelhay, Doha Inst. for Grad. Studies; Sinfree Makoni, Penn. State University; Cristine Severo, Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Merryn
Davies-Deacon Breton in Contemporary Media
Speakers, Language, Community
Series: Language and Social Life [LSL] 27
April 2024
English, VII, 218 pp., 5 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 108.00
ISBN 978-3-11-079319-2
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This monograph investigates questions around new speakers of Breton, their identities, attitudes, and motivations, and how these intersect with linguistic practices. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, it probes stereotypes about new speakers, showing that they are not necessarily users of a uniform standardised variety. In fact they manipulate language in ways that allow them to communicate across a wider, more diverse community.
Breton; New Speakers; Minority Language Media Studies; Language Revitalisation
Merryn Davies-Deacon, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom.
Falco Pfalzgraf (Ed.)
Public Attitudes
Towards GenderInclusive Language
A Multilingual Perspective
Series: Language and Social Life [LSL] 31
September 2024
English, VI, 417 pp., 96 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 131.99 / RRP £ 109.50
ISBN 978-3-11-120125-2
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-120228-0
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Public attitudes towards the use of gender-inclusive language are being voiced in European languages and beyond. Yet, sociolinguistic research on public attitudes towards the use of gender-inclusive language is mostly missing, and a more thorough understanding and conceptualisation of attitudes is thus needed. Also, a multilingual, comparative perspective is still missing. This edited volume will address these shortcomings.
Linguistics; Gender; Multilingual; Language Attitudes
Falco Pfalzgraf, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Eleonora Serra
From Attitudes to Usage
The Dynamics of Linguistic Prestige in Early Modern Italy
Series: Language and Social Life [LSL] 32
December 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp., 12 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 117.99 / RRP £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-124252-1
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Sixteenth-century Italy saw the promotion of a literary variety based on archaic Florentine. Bringing together the examination of metalinguistic sources and the analysis of a corpus of everyday letters, this book explores the reception of this variety across different social groups and across contexts that went beyond the literary sphere. In doing so, it critically examines the ubiquitous, yet somewhat controversial notion of linguistic prestige.
Prestige; Change from Above; Standardisation; New Speaker; Historical Sociolinguistics; Renaissance Italy
Eleonora Serra, Ghent University, Belgium.
Esther Jahns
Diglossic Translanguaging
The Multilingual Repertoire of GermanSpeaking Jews in Berlin
Series: Language and Social Life [LSL] 33
May 2024
English, XI, 245 pp.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-132246-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-132267-4
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-132276-6
This book investigates, for the first time, the multilingual resources contemporary Jewish speakers in Berlin use when speaking German. The focus of this explorative study is on lexical variation and its social meaning from the speakers’ perspective. Through an innovative method, it is shown how shared language ideologies towards Hebrew and Yiddish, but also the individual positioning, shape speakers’ perception of linguistic choices.
Language Ideologies; Jewish Languages; Social Meaning of Variation; Perceptual Dialectology; Multilingualism; Translanguaging
Esther Jahns, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg.
Kazumi Matsuoka, Onno Crasborn, Marie Coppola (Eds.)
East Asian Sign Linguistics
Series: Sign Language Typology [SLT] 10
November 2024
English, VI, 349 pp., 292 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-1-5015-2388-5
This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign Language, and Taiwanese Sign Language.
Sign Languages; East Asia; China; Hong Kong; Japan; Korea; Taiwan; Tibet
K. Matsuoka, Keio University, Japan; O. Crasborn, Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands; M. Coppola, University of Connecticut, USA.
Jisheng Zhang, Yanhong Wu, Shengyun Gu, Feng Yang, Yin’er Zhu, Jeroen van de Weijer
The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language
Series: Sign Language Typology [SLT] 13
September 2024
English, XII, 397 pp., 221 fig.
HC *RRP € 144.95 / RRP US$ 164.99 / RRP £ 130.00
ISBN 978-3-11-104504-7
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This book presents the first systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL). It applies the framework of the Prosodic Model and is based on naturalistic SHSL data, focusing on its handshape inventory. By analyzing SHSL in terms of phonological representation and phonetic realization in depth, this book also informs typological research on sign languages in the world.
Sign Languages; Sign Language Phonology; Shanghai Sign Language; Shanghai; China
Jisheng Zhang and Yin'er Zhu, Shanghai; Yanhong Wu, Tianjin; Shengyun Gu, Mansfield; Feng Yang, Hangzhou; Jeroen v.d. Weijer, Shenzhen.
Now In paperback
Annelies Kusters, Mara Green, Erin Moriarty, Kristin Snoddon (Eds.)
Sign Language
Ideologies in Practice
Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] 12
June 2024
English, VII, 355 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-1-5015-2319-9
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This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.
Sign Language Studies; Deaf Studies; Sociolinguistics; Applied Linguistics; Intercultural Studies
A. Kusters, Heriot-Watt U; M. Green, Barnard College; E. Moriarty, Gallaudet U & Heriot-Watt U; K. Snoddon, Ryerson U.
Maria Mertzani, Felipe Venancio Barbosa (Eds.)
The Sign Language Curriculum
Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] 19
December 2025
English, 350 pp., 50 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / RRP US$ 141.99 / RRP £ 117.50
ISBN 978-3-11-139742-9
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The book presents works about the sign language curriculum, its status and visibility of public education policies, consolidating signed languages as a curricular component of a first/maternal, and a second/additional language with specific objectives. It does so considering the broader international context of multilingual and multicultural education, covering all grades and levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
Curriculum; Signed languages; Language education; Deaf education
Maria Mertzani, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, and Felipe Venâncio Barbosa, São Paulo University, Brazil.
Robert C. Johnson, M. Gregory Tweedie (Eds.)
Technology for Medical Language Assessment
Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 23
May 2025
English, VI, 153 pp., 15 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 120.99 / RRP £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-079331-4
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This volume presents research that lies at the intersection of healthcare communication, global migration, and the rapidly expanding technologies used for language testing. Readers will find engagement with the interdisciplinary studies, given that effective communication - and its assessment – lies at the very core of quality healthcare delivery.
Medical English as a Lingua Franca; Nursing Education; Medical Communication; Internationalization of Healthcare
Robert C. Johnson and M. Gregory Tweedie, University of Calgary, Canada.
Now In paperback
Brett A. Diaz, Robert W. Schrauf (Eds.)
Applying Linguistics in Health Research, Education, and Policy
Bench to Bedside and Back Again
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 34
June 2024
English, X, 297 pp., 6 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-152435-1
This volume explores the roles, experiences, and insights of language and communication scholars working in health and medical contexts across three thematic areas: research, education, and policy. Each chapter is as much about "who" as "what": revealing language specialists working alongside health professionals in local and international contexts, as their work provides actionable insights in health care and public health. Applied Linguistics; Medical Humanities; Health Communications; Public Health
Brett A. Diaz and Robert W. Schrauf, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Felipe F. Guimarães
Language Policies in Higher Education
Promoting Multilingualism to Support Internationalization
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 35
June 2024
English, XV, 212 pp., 29 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / RRP US$ 140.99 / RRP £ 111.00
ISBN 978-3-11-076888-6
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Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been increasingly affected by processes such as globalization and internationalization, with impacts on language use, teaching and learning in HEIs and their academic communities. The book aims at discussing aspects for the design of language policies, which could support internationalization processes and promote the use of multiple languages and participation of different stakeholders in such processes.
Language Policies; Internationalization; Multilingualism; Higher Education
Felipe Furtado Guimarães, Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Vitória/ ES, Brazil.
Dmitri Leontjev, Matthew E. Poehner, Ari Huhta (Eds.)
Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment
Learning across Frameworks to Support Second/Foreign Language Education
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 38
December 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp., 15 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-123370-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-123391-8
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This volume explores the complementarity of two innovative assessment approaches: dynamic and diagnostic language assessment. Each chapter is authored by a leading expert in at least one approach and includes a report of original research and the author’s reflection on interfaces between the two approaches and how both might be further developed. The volume is an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners in language assessment.
Dynamic assessment; Diagnostic Assessment; Second/Foreign Language (L2); Sociocultural Theory; SLA
Dmitri Leontjev and Ari Huhta, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Matthew Poehner, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Francisco José Cantero
Serena, Dolors Font-Rotchés
(Eds.)
Affectivity and Prosody in Second Language Learning
Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 39
January 2025
English, XVI, 349 pp., 50 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 112.00
ISBN 978-3-11-124749-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-124819-6
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In human communication, the focus of attention is not always on the information transmitted but on the exchange of affectivity (including emotions). The book reviews the diverse affective factors that intervene in language teaching (particularly of foreign languages) and that surround language learners. Moreover, the book presents a series of studies that analyse the prosody of speech as the most obvious physical manifestation of affectivity.
Language Learning; Prosody; Affectivity; Emotions; Acquisition of Second Language
Francisco José Cantero Serena and Dolors Font-Rotchés, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
Camilla Bardel, Anna Bergström, Anna Gudmundson, Francesco Vallerossa (Eds.)
Tense and Aspect in Multilingual Romance Language Education
Funded by Stockholms Universitet Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] 40
December 2025
English, Approx. 370 pp., 15 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 120.99 / RRP £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-134773-8
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-134799-8
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The book brings together multilingualism, tense and aspect, and Romance language education. The chapters present theoretical and empirical research on the teaching and learning of Romance languages in different educational contexts. The introduction provides a framework for reconciling tense and aspect research with the study of multilingualism. The afterword summarizes the book’s content and links it to second language acquisition research.
Multilingualism; Third Language Acquisition; Romance Languages; Language Teaching; Language Learning; Sociolinguistic Variation
Camilla Bardel, Anna Bergström and Anna Gudmundson, Stockholm University, Sweden; Francesco Vallerossa, University of Pisa, Italy.
Miroslav Kubát, Xinying Chen
A Quantitative Perspective on Stylistics
Syntactic Variation in Contemporary
Written Czech
Series: Quantitative Linguistics [QL] 77
November 2025
English, Approx. 150 pp., 44 fig.
HC *RRP € 99.95 / RRP US$ 109.99 / RRP £ 91.00
ISBN 978-3-11-164815-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-164951-1
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This book explores the syntactic variation across various styles and genres in contemporary written Czech in the SYN2020 corpus using quantitative methods. It demonstrates how corpus-based analysis complements traditional stylistics. Although the empirical focus is on Czech, the methodologies presented are intended to serve as a model for quantitative syntactic stylistics in other languages as well.
Stylometry; Corpus Linguistics; Quantitative Linguistics; Czech Language; Genre Analysis; Syntax
Miroslav Kubát und Xinying Chen, University of Ostrava, Czechia.
Kalevi
Kull, Ekaterina Velmezova
Sphere of Understanding
Tartu Dialogues with Semioticians
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 23
March 2025
English, XII, 416 pp., 52 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / RRP US$ 141.99 / RRP £ 117.50
ISBN 978-3-11-143590-9
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The book presents dialogues with 14 highly influential semioticians who have all made a remarkable impact on contemporary research in the Tartu centre of semiotics. In addition, the volume features an illuminating sequence of chapters on topics including the importance of dialogues, the historical roots and context of semiotics in Tartu since the 19th century, plus the main principles formulated in Jakob von Uexküll’s and Juri Lotman’s works
History of Semiotics; Academic Dialogues; History of Ideas; Schools of Thought; Debates in Semiotics; Semiotic Classics
Kalevi Kull, University of Tartu; Ekaterina Velmezova, University of Lausanne and University of Tartu.
Mary
Coghill
Semiotics and City Poetics
Jakobson’s Theory and Praxis
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 25
June 2024
English, VIII, 364 pp., 17 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 24.95 / RRP US$ 27.99 / RRP £ 23.00
ISBN 978-3-11-151866-4
Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and Structuralist poetics. These essays propose methods of developing Jakobson’s theories of communication and poetic function and provide an increased range of examples of Formalist praxis. Formalist adherence to analysis through the text in itself, reveals (sometimes surprising) structural and semiotic patterns within poems as a whole.
Roman Jakobson; Semiotics; Linguistics; Poetics
Mary Coghill, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Humanities, Russian Department, Exeter University UK.
Now in paperback
Eero Tarasti (Ed.)
Transcending Signs
Essays in Existential Semiotics
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 35
November 2024
English, XXII, 1058 pp., 144 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 39.95 / RRP US$ 43.99 / RRP £ 36.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162712-0
Existential semiotics is a new scientific paradigm which combines the classical semiotics to the continental philosophy. It does not mean a return to existentialism, albeit philosophers from Hegel and Kierkegaard to Heidegger, Jaspers and Sartre are its sources of inspiration. It launches completely new sign categories and concepts to the field. After all, whole semiotics: communication signification, can be seen as a transcendental art.
Semiotics; Existential; Transcendental; Philosophy
Eero Tarasti, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Now in paperback
Alin Olteanu, Paul Cobley (Eds.) Semiotics
and its Masters
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 36
November 2024
English, XIV, 342 pp., 33 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / RRP US$ 21.99 / RRP £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162788-5
This book presents cutting-edge work in semiotics, projecting developments in the future of the field. Authored by leading semioticians, Semiotics and its Masters, Volume 2 contains essays on learning, transdisciplinarity, science, scaffolding, narrative, selfhood, ecosemiotics, agency, cybersemiotics, pornography, nostalgia, language and money. The volume presents a panorama of semiotics as it will develop in the third decade of the 21st century.
Transdisciplinarity; Critique; Semiotics; Discourse Alin Olteanu, Käte Hamburger Kolleg , RWTH Aachen University; Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, London.
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, Maria Giulia Dondero, Jacques Fontanille, Maria Ilia Katsaridou, Rea Walldén
Semiotics of Images
The Analysis of Pictorial Texts
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 37
November 2024
English, XVI, 437 pp., 81 fig.
HC *RRP € 144.95 / RRP US$ 162.99 / RRP £ 128.50
ISBN 978-3-11-099184-0
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-098025-7
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The authors of this book have worked for many years within the Greimasian and postGreimasian tradition. The book presents a unified theoretical semiotic framework for the analysis of cultural pictorial texts. It thus brings together four disparate domains: the study of static images (such as painting, sculpture, and photography), the study of dynamic images (such as cinema), animation studies, and the study of interactive digital games.
Visual Semiotics; Greimasian and Post-Greimasian Semiotics; Pictorial Semiotics; Semiotics of Cinema; Animation Studies and Digital Games
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos; Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou; Maria Giulia Dondero; Jacques Fontanille; Maria Katsaridou; Rea Walldén.
Xany Jansen van Vuuren
Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare
An Ecosemiotic Analysis of Interspecies Translation
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 38
September 2025
English, Approx. 200 pp., 65 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 108.00
ISBN 978-3-11-100889-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-100917-9
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By considering concepts such as ecosemiotics, biosemiotics, agency and the materiality of translation, this book explores the dynamic practices of interspecies translation in the animal welfare context. It provides a comprehensive overview of various translational processes that occur between human and more-than-human participants.
Translation; Interpreting; Semiotics; Ecology
Xany Jansen van Vuuren, University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Claus Emmeche
Semiotics of Friendship
An Encyclopedic Approach
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 41
January 2025
English, XIII, 562 pp.
HC *RRP € 139.95 / RRP US$ 153.99 / RRP £ 127.00
ISBN 978-3-11-142285-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-142309-8
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The book suggests that the multiple meanings of friendship are interrelated in a semiotic net that can be listed in an encyclopedic format focusing on three levels: Specific pairs of friends from literature, pop culture, mythology, and politics, friendship as a polysemic concept with culture- and epoch-dependent models, and friendship studies as the body of knowledge about friendship from research fields in the human, natural and social sciences.
Semiotics of Friendship; Love and Friendship; Communication in Friendship; Knowledge and friendship; Friends and Enemies; Friendship Proverbs
Claus Emmeche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ramona Ileana Pistol Novelty in
Metaphors
A Semiotic Approach to the Creativity of Mind and Emotions
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 42
December 2025
English, Approx. 230 pp., 2 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 129.99 / RRP £ 107.00
ISBN 978-3-11-156712-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-156865-2
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This book discusses novelty at the intersection of new metaphors, reasoning, emotions, and imagination. It explores the cognitive processes behind the creation and comprehension of new metaphors. Drawing from semiotics, cognitive linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, it presents metaphors as processes of creative discovery that represent reality and produce novel meaning.
Metaphor; Meaning; Creative Thought; Signs; Hypothesis
Ramona Ileana Pistol, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Vernon D. Miller, Marshall Scott Poole (Eds.)
Organizational
Communication Theory and
Research
Series: Handbooks of Communication Science 8
July 2024
English, XII, 641 pp., 4 fig.
HC *RRP € 250.00 / RRP US$ 290.00 / RRP £ 221.00
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ISBN 978-3-11-071839-3
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The Handbook of Organizational Communication Theory and Research offers concise, but thorough reviews of research on traditional and emerging areas in organizational communication. Its thirty chapters offer a distillation of the field’s current knowledge and research guidance for the next decade. With engaging discussions, insightful critiques, and informed speculation, the handbook provides a solid foundation for advancement of the field.
Organizational Communication; Communication Technology; Managerial Communication
Vernon D. Miller, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
Gert-Jan de Bruijn, Heidi Vandebosch (Eds.)
Health, Media, and Communication
Series: Handbooks of Communication Science 15
January 2025
English, XII, 545 pp., 15 fig.
HC *RRP € 250.00 / RRP US$ 290.00 / RRP £ 221.00
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ISBN 978-3-11-077525-9
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-077542-6
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The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the importance of communication & media for health: misinformation on social media affects vaccination rates, government announcements on lockdown effects are met with public skepticism, & telemedicine has enabled us to communicate in previously unseen ways. This handbook provides a much-needed contemporary overview on health communication and highlights future challenges & opportunities for health communication.
Health Communication; Health Promotion; Health Media; Health Information Technologies
Gert-Jan de Bruijn and Heidi Vandebosch, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Nicholas
David Bowman (Ed.)
Entertainment Media and Communication
Series: Handbooks of Communication Science 20
October 2024
English, XIII, 703 pp., 7 fig.
HC *RRP € 220.00 / RRP US$ 260.00 / RRP £ 200.50
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ISBN 978-3-11-079281-2
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Scholarship on entertaining media content has been central to communication studies for more than a century. Across more than four dozen chapters, this volume provides a broad-yet-nuanced view into entertainment media and communication scholarship. The authors explore its foundations, define and extend key concepts and theories through myriad lenses, discuss unique considerations of digital media, and divine future paths for scholarly inquiry.
Entertainment Media; Media Psychology; Media Theory; Media Cultures
Nicholas David Bowman, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
Anabela Carvalho, Tarla Rai Peterson (Eds.) Environmental Communication
Series: Handbooks of Communication Science 31
February 2025
English, XII, 572 pp., 11 fig.
HC *RRP € 240.00 / RRP US$ 280.00 / RRP £ 215.00
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*€ 159.95 / US$ 183.99 / £ 145.50 ISBN 978-3-11-077483-2
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This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of key topics and issues in environmental communication, enriched by authoritative analyses of specific cases and examples. It displays pluralism across a number of axes: epistemological, theoretical, geographical, cultural, and thematic. Crucially, it discusses possibilities and constraints to social change, and potential contributions of environmental communication research.
environment; communication; voice; social change
Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; Tarla Rai Peterson, University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, USA.
Salvatore Attardo
Linguistic Theories of Humor
Series: Humor Research [HR] 1
2nd Edition
July 2024
English, LXVI, 338 pp., 6 fig.
HC *RRP € 139.95 / RRP US$ 153.99 / RRP £ 127.00
ISBN 978-3-11-128025-7
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One of the most cited books in the linguistics of humor returns in a revised and updated edition. The second, 30-year anniversary edition contains all the original text of the first edition, newly corrected, and an essay that revisits the topics in the book and outlines developments and trends in the linguistics of humor.
Humor; Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Puns; Pragmatics
Salvatore Attardo, Texas A&M University, Commerce, USA.
Stephen Skalicky Why So
Serious?
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Humour and Play in Satirical Discourse
Series: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] 6
March 2025
English, VIII, 208 pp.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / RRP US$ 140.99 / RRP £ 111.00
ISBN 978-3-11-075341-7
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-075346-2
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This book investigates the manner in which satirists play with language when creating satirical texts. Drawing from an interdisciplinary alliance of theories and methods, satirical texts produced by both professional and amateur satirists are analysed for language play using a variety of text-analytic techniques. Results from these analyses are of interest to any reader eager to gain a serious understanding into the playful side of satire.
Satirical News; Satirical Product Reviews; Humour; Language Play
Stephen Skalicky, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Stephen J. Moody
Humor, Identity, and Belonging
Constructing the Foreign in AmericanJapanese Interaction
Series: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] 7
April 2024
English, XIV, 190 pp., 7 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / RRP US$ 140.99 / RRP £ 111.00
ISBN 978-3-11-075971-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-075987-7
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This book examines intersections between humor, identity, and belonging as manifest in Japanese language interactions between Americans and Japanese, with a focus on gaijin ‘foreigner’ identities. Through an analysis of recorded interactions and an ethnographic perspective, the study builds a complex understanding of humor in intercultural interaction showing that while “being an outsider” is marginalizing, it is also a means of gaining power.
Conversational Humor; Social Identity; Intercultural Interaction; Ethnomethodology
Stephen J. Moody, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Darren LaScotte, Elaine Tarone (Eds.) Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech
Pedagogical and Theoretical Implications
Series: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] 9
January 2024
English, VI, 208 pp., 7 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / RRP US$ 135.99 / RRP £ 108.00
ISBN 978-3-11-078756-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-078769-6
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A recent turn in applied linguistics calls for a more transdisciplinary framework for second language acquisition that embeds sociocultural, sociomaterial, ideological, and emotional dimensions at all levels of analysis. Using this framework, the empirical studies in this volume apply Bakhtin’s constructs of language play and heteroglossia to the study of multilingual speech in a range of social situations and second language teaching contexts.
Language play; Ludic; Heteroglossia; Voice Darren LaScotte and Elaine Tarone, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera The Coloniality of Language in Digital Humour
Series: Language Play and Creativity [LPC] 11
October 2025
English, Approx. 230 pp., 36 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / RRP US$ 120.99 / RRP £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-163488-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-163515-6
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Uncover the impact of the coloniality of language on digital humour. This book addresses the coloniality of language in digital humour from an interdisciplinary decolonial linguistics approach that places attentional processes at the centre of the analysis. Its chapters contribute to linguistic research with a novel theoretical framework for the analysis of digital humour by foregrounding attentional processes and power relations.
Coloniality; Decolonial Linguistics; Pluriversality; Eurocentrism; Digital Humour
Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Li Wei (Editor-in-Chief)
Applied Linguistics Review
Volume 16 (2025)
Impact Factor: 2.1
English, 6 issues per volume
ISSN 1868-6303 e-ISSN 1868-6311
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Applied Linguistics Review serves as a testing ground for the articulation of original ideas and approaches in the study of real-world issues in which language plays a crucial role by bringing together critical reflections of current debates and new theoretical and empirical research. Topics range from aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence of the individual to languageand communication-related problems in and between societies.
Lizhen Peng (Ed.) Chinese as a Second Language Research
Volume 14 (2025)
English, 2 issues per volume ISSN 2193-2263
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The CASLAR journal provides a forum for scholars interested in Chinese as a Second Language research and focuses on research on the acquisition, development and use of CSL. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of linguistics with a focus on CSL, and serves as a forum for researchers who are looking for new tools and methods to investigate and better understand CSL.
