Showing all 30 titles.
IVITRA 41
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. v, 224 pp. + index
LL< 61
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 descriptionExpected September 2024. x, 241 pp.
SCL 118
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 descriptionExpected September 2024. vii, 172 pp.
CHLEL XXXV
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 descriptionExpected November 2024. xiv, 544 pp. + index
CHLEL XXXVI
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. xx, 334 pp. + index
LAL 43
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 descriptionExpected September 2024. xx, 269 pp.
SCL 119
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 descriptionExpected October 2024. vi, 260 pp.+ index
AALS 21
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 descriptionExpected October 2024. ix, 190 pp. + index
RMAL 7
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 descriptionExpected November 2024. xii, 371 pp. + index
HOP 27
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. xiv, 238 pp. + index
P&bns 349
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 descriptionExpected November 2024. vi, 308 pp. + index
LA 286
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. ix, 426 pp. + index
SCL 121
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 descriptionExpected October 2024. vi, 261 pp. + index
SiHoLS 132
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. viii, 223 pp. + index
FILLM 21
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 descriptionExpected September 2024. xi, 275 pp.
P&bns 348
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. vi, 303 pp. + index
HCP 78
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 descriptionExpected November 2024. xvii, 338 pp. + index
AIC 22
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 descriptionExpected October 2024. ix, 265 pp. + index
CILT 366
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. ix, 262 pp. + index
IVITRA 43
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 descriptionExpected December 2024. xiv, 242 pp. + index
FILLM 19
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 descriptionExpected October 2024. xvii, 239 pp.
FILLM 20
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 descriptionExpected October 2024. xii, 204 pp. + index
P&bns 347
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 descriptionExpected October 2024. vi, 286 pp.
