Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz plays a role.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics
Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Jonas Grünke
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 286] 2024. | monographSubjects Contact Linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Translation and the Formation of Collectivities: Special issue of Translation in Society 2:1 (2023)
Edited by Dilek Dizdar & Tomasz Rozmysłowicz
[Translation in Society, 2:1] 2023. | special issueSubjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches to optionality in grammar
Edited by Kristin Kopf & Thilo Weber
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] 2023. | edited volumeSubjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
When Dialogue Fails: Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:1 (2022)
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
[Language and Dialogue, 12:1] 2022. | special issueSubjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Creativity in Language: Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019)
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein & Anne Storch
[International Journal of Language and Culture, 6:1] 2019. | special issueSubjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | PragmaticsCognitive psychology
Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German
Svenja Kranich
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 261] 2016. xiv, 204 pp. | monographSubjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | SemanticsTranslation Studies
Pejoration
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer & Heike Wiese
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 228] 2016. vii, 357 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V: Translation theories and practices. Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Bremen, 28 February - 2 March 2012
Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Klaus Zimmermann & Martina Schrader-Kniffki
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 122] 2014. xii, 350 pp. | edited volumeSubjects History of linguisticsTranslation Studies
Literary Linguistics: Special issue of Language and Dialogue 3:1 (2013)
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
[Language and Dialogue, 3:1] 2013. | special issueSubjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice
Edited by Kristin Bührig & Bernd Meyer
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 15] 2013. vii, 151 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Applied linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations
Edited by Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller & Astrid Lohöfer
[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 30] 2011. viii, 313 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguisticsCognitive psychology
Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study
Svenja Völkel
[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp. | monographSubjects Anthropological Linguistics | Austronesian languages | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation: German-English-German
Michael Hann
2004. xxxviii, 250 pp. (incl. CD-rom) | text bookSubjects TerminologyTranslation Studies
Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German
Markus Steinbach
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 50] 2002. xii, 337 pp. | monographSubjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
2024 Introduction
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 1–28
Keywords anthropological linguistics | historical contexts | new directions | decoloniality
2024 “Show your feelings!”: On the expression of emotions in Rabai (Midzichenda)
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 331–366
Keywords emotion | Rabai | body part metaphors | color terms | shame
2024
Utu as epistemology and conviviality in Kiswahili
culture: Anthropological linguistic perspectives on living together
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 177–201
Keywords humanity | proverbs | cultural knowledge | morality | ritual | conceptualization | reciprocal
2024 “They look hostile from afar”: Language ideologies and representations of “Northernness” in
Uganda
In: Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 23] pp. 202–222
Keywords colorism | identity construction | language ideologies | Otherness | Uganda
2024 The rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization in English: A corpus-based approach
In: Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types. Selected papers from the 21st ICEHL[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 364] pp. 33–59
Keywords sentence-internal capitalization | orthography | grammaticography | animacy graphematics | spelling | English | German | Dutch
2023 Towards AI-enhanced computer-assisted interpreting
In: Interpreting Technologies – Current and Future Trends[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 37] pp. 46–71
Keywords computer-assisted interpreting (CAI) | artificial intelligence | machine learning | interpreting | simultaneous interpreting
2023 Coordination in telephone-based remote interpreting
Keywords telephone interpreting | turn-taking | trouble sources | Arabic | German | dialogue interpreting
2023 How to do gender with names: The name changes of trans individuals as performative speech acts
Keywords performativity | name change | transgender | felicity conditions | speech act theory
2024 Named entities, naming practices, and their meanings – linguistic types and cultural contexts
Keywords onomastic typology | name usage | naming taboo | name-giving practices | etymological meaning | classificatory meaning | social history of names
2024 “Venezuela hawaii, chelsea!”: Creative onomastic practice and playful (re)labelling in Langila from the Congo
Keywords ludic language use | playful names | language manipulation | Congo | Lingala
2023 Collectivities in translation (studies): Towards a conceptual framework
Keywords collectivities | constructivism | functions of translation | cultural turn | social turn
2023 ‘The times they are a-changin’: Competency-based conference interpreter training and the role of situational intelligence and adaptive expertise
In: Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies): A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker[Benjamins Translation Library, 160] pp. 196–213
Keywords interpreter training | situational intelligence | adaptive expertise | routine expertise | preparation | competence-based training | problem-based learning | knowledge
2022 “Decorum will be strictly observed”: Generic tensions and failed dialogue in Martin Amis’s London Trilogy
Keywords dialogue | anti-comedy | comedy | satire | postmodern | genre | discrepant awareness | distribution of knowledge | humor
2022
They’re proing it up hardcore
1
: An analysis of the V it up construction
In: Extravagant Morphology: Studies in rule-bending, pattern-extending and theory-challenging morphology[Studies in Language Companion Series, 223] pp. 207–232
Keywords transitivity | social media | conversion | verbal constructions
2022 Unmarked use of marked syntactic structures: Possessives and fronting of non-subject XPs in Bulgarian
Judeo-Spanish
In:
When Data Challenges Theory: Non-prototypical, unexpected and paradoxical evidence in the field of
information structure[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] pp. 239–270
Keywords Bulgarian | fronting | information structure | Judeo-Spanish | possessives | cross-linguistic influence
2023 Teaching eco-translation: Reclaiming the climate crisis discourse in the time of coronavirus
Keywords ecology of translation | pedagogy | attention | ecopoetics | temporalities | crisis
2022 Tongan honorifics and their underlying concepts of mana and tapu
: A verbal taboo in its emic sense
Keywords anthropological linguistics | honorifics | culture and cognition | semantics | pragmatics
2021 Towards a methodological toolset for the psycholinguistics of translation: The case of priming paradigms
Keywords priming | psycholinguistics | methodology | translation process research | equivalence
2021 “Good translating is very hard work”: Karl Popper, translation theorist in spite of himself
Keywords self-translation | translation of philosophy | twentieth-century Anglophone philosophy | exophonic writing | Vienna Circle in exile | translation theory and practice | classical philology
2020 Perfects in Baltic and Slavic
In: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] pp. 123–214
Keywords Baltic languages | Slavic languages | grammaticalisation |
be-perfects |
have-perfects
2020 Radical analyticity and radical pro-drop scenarios of diachronic change in East and mainland Southeast Asia, West
Africa and Pidgins and Creoles
Keywords diachronic linguistics | frequency | grammaticalization | linguistic complexity | linguistic contact | morphological paradigms | radical pro-drop
2020 Translaboration as legitimation of philosophical translation
Keywords philosophical translation | translaboration | Martin Heidegger |
Being and Time
2020 Deliberate use of metaphor and metonymy as mnemonic devices for identification
in a non-linguistic modality: The case of Deir el-Medina (Egypt)
In: Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] p. 93
Keywords metaphorical construct | metonymy | identification | non-linguistic | mnemonic device | ancient perspective | cultural specificity | connectionism | individual dimension | diachronic dimension
2020 Early Greek medical metaphors and the question of deliberateness
In: Drawing attention to metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] pp. 129–158
Keywords deliberate metaphor use | Hippocratic author | Empedocles | direct metaphors | textual signals | communicative function | illustrative tools | heuristic method
2020
How and why seem became an evidential
In: Re-assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context[Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] pp. 109–140
Keywords evidentiality | hedging | categorization | meta-linguistics | factuality | fictivity
2020 Automatic speech recognition in the booth: Assessment of system performance, interpreters’ performances and interactions in the context of numbers
Keywords automatic speech recognition | simultaneous interpreting | rendition of numbers | computer-assisted interpreting
2020 Portuguese remnants in the Spanish of Olivenza (Extremadura): Exploring vowel raising, global speech rhythm, and intonation
In: Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] pp. 421–450
Keywords Olivenza Spanish | Portuguese | vowel raising | speech rhythm | intonation
2020 Cross-linguistic influence and the MGM
Keywords MGM | crosslinguistic influence | language learning and teaching | dialogue
2020 Risks in neural machine translation
Keywords neural machine translation | translation risks | risk management | sustainability | cognitive biases
2019 Manipulation in late life: Secret agency and the unintelligible in the speech of the elderly in Eastern Congo
Keywords elderspeak | linguistic manipulation | secrecy | age | silliness
2019 The grammatical-lexical distinction in Chinese aspectual markers
Keywords grammatical-lexical distinction |
Boye & Harder (2012)
| Chinese aspect markers
2019 The interpreter as a citizen diplomat: Interpreters’ role in a grassroots movement to end the Cold War
Keywords citizen diplomacy | Cold War | human potential movement | Esalen Institute | space bridges
2019 Why very good in India might be
pretty good in North America: Amplifier-adjective 2-grams in Global Englishes
Keywords amplifiers/intensifiers | 2-grams/bigrams | World Englishes/English world-wide | GloWbE
2019 ‘Monitoring’ in translation: The role of visual feedback
Keywords monitoring | visual feedback | eye-tracking | keylogging | co-activation
2019 Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh-indefinites in Vietnamese
In: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Vietnamese linguistics[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] pp. 181–212
Keywords scalar implicature | modality | alternative semantics | indefinites | existential wh-phrases
2020 What is an indirect speech act?: Reconsidering the literal force hypothesis
Keywords context | conventionalization | direct speech act | explicit performative | implicature | indirect speech act | literal force hypothesis | politeness | strategic speaker
2019 Anatomy of a grammatical tone: The case of “Induced Creaky Tone” in Burmese
Keywords Burmese | grammatical tone
2018 Of ostriches, pyramids, and Swiss cheese: Risks in safety-critical translations
Keywords safety-critical translations | risk management | near-misses management | translation errors | translation risks
2018 The development of the TPR-DB as Grounded Theory Method
Keywords postediting and revision | translation | longitudinal studies | introspection | grounded theory method | monitor model | process model
2018 Foreign language teaching – Integrationism vs. MGM
Keywords language teaching | language textbooks | Integrationism | integrational linguistics | Mixed Game Model (MGM) | communication
2017 Word classes and the scope of lexical flexibility in Tongan
Keywords word classes | Tongan | lexical flexibility
2016 Bla, bla, bla in German. A pejorative construction?
Keywords conventional meaning | conversational implicature | dummy element | general extender | German language | Gricean pragmatics | inferential meaning | meta-linguistic expression | pejoration | polyphony | quotation | reduplication
2016 Computational linguistics and translation studies: Methods and models
In: Border Crossings: Translation Studies and other disciplines[Benjamins Translation Library, 126] pp. 225–244
Keywords history of machine translation | predictive
translation modelling | translation data analytics | translation process research
2016 Finiteness, nominalization, and information structure: Convergence and divergence
Keywords clefting | grammaticalization | information structure | insubordination | nominalization | relative clause
2016 How do evaluative derivational meanings arise? A bit of Geforsche and Forscherei
Keywords derivation | diachronic corpus study | German | nominalisation | pejoration | word formation
2016 Pejoration, normalcy conceptions and generic sentences
Keywords generic sentences | Normalcy Conception | Normality | prejudices
2016 Slurring as insulting
Keywords ethnophaulism | insulting | slur | slurring | speech-act theory | stereotype
2016 Aspects of a theory of bullshit
Keywords bald-faced bullshitting | bullshitting | bullshit lies | evasive bullshitting | certainty | humour
2016 On the relation of irony, understatement, and litotes
Keywords overlap | figures of speech | rhetorical figures | understatement | irony | co-occurrence | litotes | hyperbole | meiosis | mitigation
2016 “Should she really be covered by her own subtitle?”: Text elements in film and their graphical translation
Keywords reception | translation | film studies | subtitling | text elements | graphic design
2016 Subjective definitions of spirituality and religion: An exploratory study in Germany and the US
Keywords semantics | key words | mixed-method approach | cross-cultural comparison | discourse analysis
2014 Instrumental thinking in Translation Studies
Keywords instrumental thinking | pre-constructed notions | market-orientation | translation as instrument | transparency and opaqueness of translation
2015 What drives morphological change?: A case study from the history of German
Keywords morphology/syntax interface | Cognitive Linguistics | Construction Grammar | word-formation change | morphology/semantics interface
2013 Subjecthood in Chinese: Neurolinguistics meets typology
In: Increased Empiricism: Recent advances in Chinese Linguistics[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 2] pp. 23–48
Keywords event-related potentials | Mandarin Chinese | object | subject
2013 The dialogics of metaphor and simile in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
Keywords linguistic metaphor | metaphor | lexico-syntax | cognitive structure | discourse analysis | Bakhtin | dialogic | fictional character | fictional setting
2013 Towards a lexicogrammatical pattern in Swedish crime novels
Keywords Swedish crime novel | systemic-functional grammar | nature in literature | lexicogrammar | stylistics | fictional world | perception
2012 Evaluative meaning: German idiomatic patterns, context, and the category of cause
Keywords context | Cause | pragmatics | sentential idiom | semantics | idiomatic pattern | German | linguistic evaluation | sentence type | speaker attitude
2012 Deconstruction
2011 Aslian linguistic prehistory: A case study in computational phylogenetics
Keywords Computational phylogenetics | evolutionary modeling | Aslian languages | Orang Asli | Austroasiatic languages | Mon Khmer languages
2008 Tautology as presumptive meaning
Keywords predication | nominal equative | tautology | conversational implicature | deep tautology
2003 Optimal reciprocals in German Sign Language
Keywords German Sign Language | reciprocals | Optimality Theory | agreement verbs
