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SiBil 63
The Acquisition of Gender
Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives. Most languages display...
full descriptionJanuary 2022. xi, 282 pp.
Impact 53
The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words
A sociolinguistic exploration
Łukasz Zarzycki
Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words examines offensive and...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. xvii, 336 pp.
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and genres. Tailored to students in EMI programs, the content was piloted and revised during a...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. x, 299 pp.
BPA 15
Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan
Julia Herschensohn
How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages? Language development and processing are the central topics that this book explores, initially in terms of first language(s) and then in terms of additional...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. xxi, 292 pp.
DAPSAC 98
Conspiracy Theory Discourses
Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola
Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories. The social impact of conspiracy theories is wide-ranging and their influence on the political life of many nations is increasing. Conspiracy Theory Discourses bridges an important gap by...
full descriptionDecember 2022. x, 509 pp.
SCL 110
Corpus Dialectology
Edited by Elissa Pustka, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe and Verena Weiland
Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and statistical...
full descriptionAugust 2023. vi, 220 pp.
BPA 16
Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert
A great majority of people around the world know more than one language. So, how does knowing one language affect the learning and use of additional languages? The question of cross-language influences is the focus of this book. Do bilinguals hear, understand, and produce language and meaning differently because of...
full descriptionMay 2023. vi, 321 pp.
RMAL 1
Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research
Theory, methods, and interpretation
Edited by Ignacio Guillén-Galve and Ana Bocanegra-Valle
This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. Throughout its six theoretical and practice-oriented studies, together with the introductory...
full descriptionOctober 2021. xi, 162 pp.
P&bns 341
Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism
In between antiracist and racist discourse
Edited by Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona
The ongoing migration ‘crisis’ in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian, antiracist one. This...
full descriptionFebruary 2024. viii, 294 pp.
RMAL 3
Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and YouJin Kim
Written for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering foundations of conducting ISLA research, the subsequent chapters are organized by four skill...
full descriptionDecember 2022. xxiv, 388 pp.
TAR 5
It's different with you
Contrastive perspectives on address research
Edited by Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans
This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical contexts and time –...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. vi, 432 pp.
SiBil 65
L3 Development After the Initial State
Edited by Megan M. Brown-Bousfield, Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes
To date, the field of L3 acquisition research has had a heavy focus on the initial state of the L3 grammar. While this initial state research is critical to understanding L3 acquisition as a whole, in order for an explanatory understanding of language acquisition in the multilingual mind, the field needs to expand its...
full descriptionOctober 2023. vi, 275 pp.
RMAL 6
Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi
Research methodology plays a pivotal role in generating new knowledge in any academic discipline. Applied Linguistics (AL) researchers use a variety of research methodologies to address different research problems and research questions, given its interdisciplinary nature. Notwithstanding the plethora of research...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. vi, 274 pp.
P&bns 339
Manufacturing Dissent
Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis
Edited by Cornelia Ilie
Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy mismanagement, deceptive...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. vi, 311 pp.
RMAL 4
Methods in Study Abroad Research
Past, present, and future
Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Cristina Sanz
Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The present volume...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. ix, 393 pp.
SiBil 66
Multifaceted Multilingualism
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core themes: The Early Years...
full descriptionApril 2024. x, 434 pp.
SiBil 67
Multilingual Acquisition and Learning
An ecosystemic view to diversity
Edited by Elena Babatsouli
The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body movement, language is a...
full descriptionMay 2024. ix, 645 pp.
P&bns 333
Multimodal Im/politeness
Signed, spoken, written
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown
Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings together eleven empirical...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. vii, 360 pp.
VEAW G68
New Englishes, New Methods
Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal
There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to improve upon old...
full descriptionApril 2023. viii, 276 pp.
P&bns 344
(Non)referentiality in Conversation
Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury
Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality through...
full descriptionAugust 2024. v, 209 pp.
P&bns 335
The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts
Edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most recent work on humour...
full descriptionMay 2023. vi, 239 pp.
P&bns 343
The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy
Edited by Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen
As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted...
full descriptionMarch 2024. viii, 268 pp.
Impact 52
Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages
A socially-anchored approach
Lenore A. Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich
Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses of Odessan Russian,...
full descriptionDecember 2022. xv, 354 pp.
DAPSAC 102
Remedies against the Pandemic
How politicians communicate crisis management
Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss
The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies surrounding the...
full descriptionJuly 2023. vi, 301 pp.
RMAL 2
Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies
Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity of work being done. While this makes for a rich and exciting research scene, it can also...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. xv, 325 pp.
RMAL 5
Research Methods in the Study of L2 Writing Processes
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón and Julio Roca de Larios
This volume brings together the perspectives of new and established scholars who have connected with the broad fields of first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing to discuss critically key methodological developments and challenges in the study of L2 writing processes. The focus is on studies of composing...
full descriptionOctober 2023. vi, 387 pp.
VEAW G69
Saipanese English
Local and global sociolinguistic trends
Dominique B. Hess
In this volume, the emergence of English in Saipan is examined in the complex context of its colonial past. The focus lies on the influence of the American era on the linguistic outcomes in Saipan. Sociolinguistic interviews with indigenous Chamorros and Saipan Carolinians were analyzed using qualitative and...
full descriptionJuly 2023. xx, 249 pp.
P&bns 342
Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts
From global to local discourses
Edited by Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective and show how...
full descriptionMarch 2024. v, 195 pp.
VEAW G70
Urban Panamanian English
Catherine Laliberté
Urban Panamanian English presents the first detailed account of the English used by the descendants of the Afro-Caribbean builders of the Panama Canal. It offers an up-to-date sociolinguistic account of the Panamanian West Indian community of Panama City and Colón, including empirical coverage of the advanced state of...
full descriptionAugust 2023. ix, 225 pp.
DAPSAC 101
Voices of Supporters
Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections
Veronika Koller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. vi, 333 pp.
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