Linguistics Books

Book SynopsisSally Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University of Leeds, UK.Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Media and Digital Communication at the University of Alberta, Canada.Table of ContentsForeword, Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin 1. Language in the Media: Theory and Practice, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK) and Astrid Ensslin (University of Alberta, Canada) Part I: Metaphors and Meanings 2. Metaphors for Speaking and Writing in the British Press, John Heywood and Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK) 3. Journalistic Constructions of Blair's ‘Apology' for the Intelligence Leading to the Iraq War, Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield, UK) 4. Crises of Meaning: Personalist Language Ideology in US Media Discourse, Jane Hill (University of Arizona, USA) Part II: National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization 5. National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK) 6. A Language Ideology in Print: the Case of Sweden, Tommaso M. Milani (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) 7. Global Challenges to Nationalist Ideologies: Language and Education in the Luxembourg Press, Kristine Horner (University of Sheffield, UK) Part III: Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes 8. Corsican on the Airwaves: Media Discourse in a Context of Minority Language Shift, Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long Beach, USA) 9. ‘When Hector met Tom Cruise': Attitudes to Irish in a Radio Satire, Helen Kelly-Holmes and David Atkinson (University of Limerick, Ireland) 10. Dealing with Linguistic Difference in Encounters with Others on British Television, Simon Gieve and Julie Norton (University of Leicester, UK) Part IV: Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities 11. Fabricating Youth: New-media Discourse and the Technologization of Young People, Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland) 12. Dreaming of Genie: Gender Difference and Identity on the Web, Deborah Cameron (Oxford University, UK) 13. Of Chords, Machines and Bumble-bees: The Metalinguistics of Hyperpoetry, Astrid Ensslin (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. Language in the Media: Authenticity and Othering, Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisThe digital era is characterised by technological advances that increase the speed and breadth of knowledge turnover within the economy and society. This book examines the impact of these technological advances on translation and interpreting and how new technologies are changing the very nature of language and communication. Reflecting on the innovations in research, practice and training that are associated with this turbulent landscape, chapters consider what these shifts mean for translators and interpreters. Technological changes interact in increasingly complex and pivotal ways with demographic shifts, caused by war, economic globalisation, changing social structures and patterns of mobility, environmental crises, and other factors. As such, researchers face new and often cross-disciplinary fields of inquiry, practitioners face the need to acquire and adopt novel skills and approaches, and trainers face the need to train students for working in a rapidly changing landscape of communication technology. This book brings together advances and challenges from the different but intertwined perspectives of translation and interpreting to examine how the field is changing in this rapidly evolving environment.

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Book SynopsisProposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by increased cultural diversity, the prevalence of social media, AI, and more. Referencing big data and drawing on a corpus of linguistic research, the book explores in particular the socio-pragmatic sensitivity and complexity within East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, offering new insights that step away from traditional approaches to formal syntax. In tracing the history of syntactic theory, it highlights the shifts in our communication as we adapt to technological developments, and focuses in particular on the significant advances in AI. Arguing that traditional syntactic theory is no longer in keeping with real life communication, Jieun Kiaer scrutinises current approaches and raises key questions about the n

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Book SynopsisClaire Y. Shih is Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at University College London, UK.Caiwen Wang is Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Westminster, UK.

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Book SynopsisToshiko Yamaguchi was previously an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, and an Associate Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.

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Book SynopsisThe diffusion of English and the increasing mediatization of our globalized world have significant impacts on our perceptions of language and culture. Beginning with an overview of how the conceptualization of language is currently debated in sociolinguistics and related fields, this book highlights the need for a new perspective on language mobility. Through examining the use of English on German radio morning shows, the book explores the dynamics of language use in times of accelerated globalization and provides insights into how the media operate within the global flows of messages and linguistic resources that characterize our mediatized societies. In doing so, it demonstrates how combining the different perspectives of a sociolinguistics of mobility and contact linguistics allows for a thorough investigation of language practices in society, and advances the theoretical and practical approaches to the study of language mobility as a result.

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Book SynopsisDariusz Galasinski is Visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.Justyna Ziólkowska is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland.

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Book SynopsisThrough examining the emerging logics and rhythms among a group of Polish migrants, this book focuses on the semiotic processes through which bodies and communities place themselves in sociolinguistic landscapes.

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Book SynopsisJohn Regan is Lecturer in Literature and the Digital at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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Book SynopsisMarcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Book SynopsisThis volume highlights the ways in which recent developments in corpus linguistics and natural language processing can engage with topics across language studies, humanities and social science disciplines. New approaches have emerged in recent years that blur disciplinary boundaries, facilitated by factors such as the application of computational methods, access to large data sets, and the sharing of code, as well as continual advances in technologies related to data storage, retrieval, and processing. The march of data denotes an area at the border region of linguistics, humanities, and social science disciplines, but also the inevitable development of the underlying technologies that drive analysis in these subject areas. Organized into 3 sections, the chapters are connected by the underlying thread of linguistic corpora: how they can be created, how they can shed light on varieties or registers, and how their metadata can be utilized to better understand the internal structure o

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Book SynopsisLying is a familiar and morally important phenomenon. No matter if it is in election battles, in personal relationships or in the form of fake news lying affects us almost every day. Showcasing cutting-edge research on the concept of lying, including work on blatant falsehoods, children's concept of lying and deception in the courtroom, this interdisciplinary collection examines what it means to lie and how lying should be defined.Bringing together leading and rising scholars from philosophy, psychology, linguistics and anthropology, chapters present novel empirical findings using a variety of methods including experiments, armchair methods, corpus studies and fMRI. Advancing our understanding of the concept of lying, it also focuses on related concepts such as fake news and bullshit, as well as fundamental questions such as whether lying is morally worse than misleading. It is an essential resource for any student or scholar looking to stay ahead of the latest developments

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Book SynopsisNikola A. Kompa is Professor in the Institute of Philosophy at Osnabrück University, Germany.

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Book SynopsisDissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this book investigates the translation and reception of Benjamin''s most famous text about translation, ?The Task of the Translator,? in English language debates around ''cultural translation''. For years now, there has been a pronounced interest in translation throughout the Humanities, which has come with an increasing detachment of translation from linguistic-textual parameters. It has generated a broad spectrum of discussions subsumed under the heading of ''cultural translation'', a concept that is constantly re-invented and manifests in often heavily diverging expressions. However, there seems to be a distinct constant: In their own (re-)formulations of this concept, a remarkable number of scholars-Bhabha, Chow, Niranjana, to name but a few-explicitly refer to Walter Benjamin''s ?The Task of the Translator.? In its first part, this book considers Benjamin and the way in which he thought about, theorized and practiced translation throughout his writings. In a second part, Walter Benjamin meets ''cultural translation'': tracing various paths of translation and reception, this part also tackles the issues and debates that result from the omnipresence of Walter Benjamin in contemporary theories and discussions of ''cultural translation''. The result is a clearer picture of the translation and reception processes that have generated the immense impact of Benjamin on contemporary cultural theory, as well as new perspectives for a way of reading that re-shapes the canonized texts themselves and holds the potential of disturbing, shifting and enriching their more ''traditional'' readings.

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Book SynopsisNatural human communication is multimodal. We pair speech with gestures, and combine writing with pictures from online messaging to comics to advertising. This richness of human communication remains unaddressed in linguistic and cognitive theories which maintain traditional amodal assumptions about language. What is needed is a new, multimodal paradigm.This book posits a bold reorganization of the structures of language, and heralds a reconsideration of its guiding assumptions. Human expressive behaviors like speaking, signing, and drawing may seem distinct, but they decompose into similar cognitive building blocks which coalesce in emergent states from a singular multimodal communicative architecture. This cognitive model accounts for unimodal and multimodal expression across all of our modalities, providing a ?grand unified theory? that incorporates insights from formal linguistics, cognitive semantics, metaphor theory, Peircean semiotics, sign language, gesture, visual language, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. Such a perspective reconfigures how we understand linguistic structure, diversity, universals, innateness, relativity, and evolution. A Multimodal Language Faculty directly confronts centuries-old notions of language and offers a compelling reimagination of what language is and how it works.

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Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book builds on hermeneutics from a practical perspective, connecting this area of critical research with others to reveal how it is viewed from different perspectives. International and interdisciplinary in scope, this edited volume draws on the work of scholars and practitioners working across a variety of subject areas, themes and topics, including philosophy, literature, religious paintings, musical oeuvres, Chinese urbanscapes, Moroccan proverbs, and Ukrainian internet blogs. Focusing on the idea of hermeneutics as a discipline that can connect different areas of interest, the book offers an inside view into how the contributors interpret' it within their own academic remits, demonstrating its presence in qualitative academic interpretations and canonical contemporary research in humanities.

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Book SynopsisCombining the expertise of renowned academics and aviation experts, this edited collection draws together the latest research into language in the aviation industry, with a focus on teaching and assessment. Exploring the different practices and challenges within the current teaching and assessment of aviation English, the volume provides highly valuable research-based recommendations for building successful curricula that advance training and learning. It investigates the challenges and future direction of the International Civil Aviation Organization Language Proficiency Requirements; the training of aviation language teachers; the benefits of a programmatic approach; phraseology training and computer assisted language learning; the use of radiotelephony role play; the use of corpus linguistics; and the assessment of pilots' listening comprehension. Advocating for best practice, this book is a significant contribution to continued development and improvement within t

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Book SynopsisSebastián Moreno Barreneche is Associate Professor of Culture and Society at the Department of International Studies of the Faculty of Management and Social Sciences of Universidad ORT Uruguay, and an active researcher of Uruguay's National Researchers System (SNI).

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Book SynopsisThorsten Sander is Research Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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Book SynopsisMarcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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