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IVITRA 41
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Accesibilidad, traducción y nuevas tecnologías

Editado por Lucía Navarro-Brotons, Analía Cuadrado-Rey y Iván Martínez-Blasco

Accesibilidad, traducción y nuevas tecnologías es un volumen académico esencial en el que se presentan nueve interesantes artículos escritos por expertos en los campos de la accesibilidad y la traducción. Esta completa colección ofrece análisis académicos rigurosos y perspectivas innovadoras sobre la lectura fácil, la... full description
Expected December 2024. v, 224 pp. + index
LL&LT 61
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Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning

Edited by Carmen Muñoz and Imma Miralpeix

This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input, conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills, such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and reading, while also... full description
Expected September 2024. x, 241 pp.
SCL 118
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Challenges in Corpus Linguistics

Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis

Edited by Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk

This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same time new problems... full description
Expected September 2024. vii, 172 pp.
CHLEL XXXV
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A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe

Edited by Olga Beloborodova and Dirk Van Hulle

Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas, and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields, this book charts a comparative history of the... full description
Expected November 2024. xiv, 544 pp. + index
CHLEL XXXVI
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A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery

The Atlantic world and beyond

Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen

The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century to the present and... full description
Expected December 2024. xx, 334 pp. + index
CLiP 5
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A Construction Grammar of the English Language

CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis

Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms, word and... full description
Expected November 2024. xv, 310 pp.+ index
LAL 43
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A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative

Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense narrative. An in-depth... full description
Expected September 2024. xx, 269 pp.
SCL 119
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Crossing Boundaries through Corpora

Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics

Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer

This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation, how... full description
Expected October 2024. vi, 260 pp.+ index
LALD 70
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Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces

Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference

Edited by Marta Velnić, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug

This volume comprises studies and keynote addresses presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference hosted by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, in Trondheim in 2022. The selection of cutting-edge studies presented covers a wide array of topics within... full description
Expected November 2024. vii, 403 pp. + index
AALS 21
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Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by Joshua J. Thoms and Kristen Michelson

Rapid changes in communication channels, tools, and conventions of interaction over the last two decades have paved the way for increasingly digital learning environments. In second language (L2) education, shifts toward digital learning and teaching were intensified during the pandemic and many such formats are here... full description
Expected October 2024. ix, 190 pp. + index
SCL 120
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English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions

Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological, discourse-pragmatic, and... full description
Expected October 2024. xix, 292 pp. + index
RMAL 7
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Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship

Edited by Peter I. De Costa, Amr Rabie-Ahmed and Carlo Cinaglia

This volume contributes to ongoing discussions of ethics in Applied Linguistics scholarship by focusing indepth on several different sub-areas within the field. The book is comprised of four sections: methodological approaches to research; specific participant populations and contexts of research; (language) pedagogy... full description
Expected November 2024. xii, 371 pp. + index
HOP 27
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Handbook of Pragmatics

27th Annual Installment

Edited by Mieke Vandenbroucke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and... full description
Expected December 2024. xiv, 238 pp. + index
CILT 367
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Historical Linguistics 2019

Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019

Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli

This volume comprises a selection of papers that were presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24), which took place at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra from 1-5 July, 2019. The volume’s aim is to reflect the breadth of research presented at the conference, with... full description
Expected December 2024. vi, 368 pp. + index
SiHoLS 133
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History of Linguistics 2021

Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September

Edited by Savina Raynaud, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi

This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers, chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV). Originally scheduled to be held in Milan in 2020, the conference was postponed and moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Held... full description
Expected November 2024. vi, 279 pp. + index
P&bns 349
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Influencer Discourse

Affective relations and identities

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

The rise of influencers, as power-players in the social media landscape, is a defining feature of the digital era, one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language, along with other semiotic modes, plays in the construction and communication of... full description
Expected November 2024. vi, 308 pp. + index
LA 286
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Intonation in Language Contact

The case of Spanish in Catalonia

Jonas Grünke

The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish bilinguals, this book... full description
Expected December 2024. ix, 426 pp. + index
SCL 121
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Investigating Wikipedia

Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis

Edited by Céline Poudat, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg

The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies, from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object, difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users, it contains vast... full description
Expected October 2024. vi, 261 pp. + index
IVITRA 42
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La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE

Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom

Editado por Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, M. Mar Galindo Merino y Aarón Pérez-Bernabeu

La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su lugar en el aula de... full description
Expected December 2024. vi, 312 pp. + index
SiHoLS 132
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Lectures on Language Theory 1942–1943

Louis Hjelmslev

The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev’s lectures on glossematics, the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jørgen Uldall, and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43, thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen. The document,... full description
Expected December 2024. viii, 223 pp. + index
FILLM 21
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Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective

Edited by Adams Bodomo and Carola Koblitz

Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles. This volume explores the intricate connections between language, culture, and identity across the globe. An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by Liliana Sikorska and... full description
Expected September 2024. xi, 275 pp.
P&bns 348
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Media as Procedures of Communication

Edited by Martin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider

The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted... full description
Expected December 2024. vi, 303 pp. + index
HCP 78
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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis

Andrew Goatly

This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which it is derived; (ii)... full description
Expected November 2024. xvii, 338 pp. + index
AIC 22
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Persuasion in Specialized Discourse

A multidisciplinary perspective

Edited by Chiara Degano, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli

The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts, with special regard for those with heightened public resonance: politics, media, and public debate in general. Furthermore, it intends to explore the linguistic aspects of argumentation, including both explicit... full description
Expected October 2024. ix, 265 pp. + index
CILT 366
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Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology

Edited by Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals, including translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers, language instructors, and learners. Computational Phraseology, and in particular the computational analysis of... full description
Expected December 2024. ix, 262 pp. + index
IHLL 41
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Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics

Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism

Edited by Michael Gradoville and Sean McKinnon

This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, the editors track the development of the field in the last quarter... full description
Expected October 2024. xvi, 296 pp.
IVITRA 43
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Referencias culturales

Retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidad

Editado por Mireia López-Simó, Pedro Mogorrón Huerta y Analía Cuadrado-Rey

Referencias culturales: retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidad aspira a ser una contribución seria a la problemática de la traducción de culturemas. Este volumen colectivo reune a investigadores con lenguas de trabajo distantes o enraizadas en un tronco común (francés-español,... full description
Expected December 2024. xiv, 242 pp. + index
FILLM 19
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Ruptured Commons

Edited by Anna Guttman and Veronica J. Austen

At a time when we have all lived through profound and unexpected disruptions to our shared spaces, routines, economies, societies, and work-lives, this book considers the nature and implications of rupture, the commons, and their conjoining. Addressing rupture and disruption through the lens of literary and cultural... full description
Expected October 2024. xvii, 239 pp.
FILLM 20
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Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer

Edited by Petra Broomans and Jeanette den Toonder

Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer addresses the multifaceted concept of cultural transfer through travel writing, with the aim of expanding our knowledge of modes of travel in the past and present and how they developed, as did the way in which travel was reported.full description
Expected October 2024. xii, 204 pp. + index
P&bns 347
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Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest

Linguistic and pragmatic approaches

Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi

This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which address specific and... full description
Expected October 2024. vi, 286 pp.