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Trade Review'Das Werk Achards ist eine erwünschte Ergänzung auf dem verhältnismäßig wenig erhellten Gebiet der Begriffs- und Terminusforschung, ohne Zweifel wird es zu den Standarduntersuchungen dieses Bereiches gehören.' Unto Paananen, Gnomon, 1983. 'There are good incidental perceptions...' Michael Winterbottom, The Classical Review, 1982. '...there are a certain number of valuable observations...' Elizabeth Rawson, Classical Philology, 1984.

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Book SynopsisLausberg's Handbook of Literary Rhetoric, here made available for the first time in English, received high critical acclaim on its first publication in 1963. It is a monumental work of extraordinary erudition, organisation and comprehensiveness, and enjoys unrivalled authority in its formal description of rhetorical techniques. The present edition is a translation of the second edition of 1973, which was reprinted in 1990. The Handbook has for many years been a standard reference work for all engaged in the study of literature and rhetoric. This translation will ensure its accessibility to a new generation of students of rhetoric.Trade Review'...this English translation needs no recommendation. The only issue here is the quality of the translation - and it is uniformly excellent.' Edgar Krentz, Religious Studies Review, 2000. From the reviews of the German edition: 'Lausberg's two-volume work is a testimony to tremendous industry, encyclopedic knowledge, and the power to order tightly and systematize. It offers an exhaustive inventory, that is, a taking stock of not only the theoretical rhetoric of antiquity (including of the French), of the formal poetical, linguistic-architectonic phenomena and rules, aspects and concepts of rhetoric drawn from the cultivated language of the great masters, but of the whole technique of manipulating language.' H. Wolf, Muttersprache 72, 1962. '...the extraordinary usefulness of the immense work which L. has produced by critically incorporating the entire bulk of ancient rhetoric.' W. Kraus, Romanische Forschungen 75, 1963. 'It merits sincere admiration, how the Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Münster...has immersed himself in the broad field of ancient rhetoric in a way which makes his Handbook...a welcome tool, useful equally to philologists of the classical as well as modern languages.' W. Schmid, ASNS 200, 1963. 'In addition to its more literary approach, the virtues of Lausberg's Handbuch include the author's judgment, its wide historical span, its clear organization, and its extensive indices. Lausberg's Handbuch has been the reference work to which I first turn for technical information about rhetoric, and I have been recommending it to my students and readers of my books for over thirty years. It has, however, never attained in the English-speaking world the status of a basic reference tool that it deserves. Thus the appearance of an English translation is a happy event for rhetorical studies.' George A. Kennedy, from the foreword.

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Book SynopsisThis volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The features selected for investigation are: complementizers, demonstratives, negation, relatives, and pronoun suffixation - all of which have binary variants in the two basic codes available to the speaker, the standard variety and the vernacular. The use of the variants is discussed for each speaker and across speakers, demonstrating certain patterns of distribution (order), but also a high degree of variable usage (chaos). The investigation is set in a wider comparative sociolinguistic framework.Trade Review"... a testimony to a high level of scholarship." Mohammed Sawaie, International Journal of Middle East Studies, August 2008 "Mejdell's language is pleasantly clear and detailed. All the theories and studies that are relevant to her research - such as Badawi's language levels, Mitchell's Leeds Project and Holes' lexical hypothesis - are considered and the hypotheses upon which she builds are well grounded and highlighted. The orgaization o fher investigation is substantial and systematic... In this solid, detailed and nuanced work, Mejdell has most certainly '(contributed) to the exploration of speakers' linguistic choices (and) their verbal strategies', which she states as her aim." Caroline Roset, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 104 (2009) 3 "In conclusione, questo libro rappresenta uno dei più significativi e originali contributi all’intenso dibattito degli ultimi 30 anni sulla diglossia e la commutazione di codice in arabo egiziano: se ne raccomanda vivamente la lettura non soltanto agli specialisti di sociolinguistica, araba come generale, ma anche agli studiosi dell’uso del dialetto nella letteratura scritta in Egitto, tematica tanto largamente coltivata quanto spesso affrontata in modo superficiale e ripetitivo." Riccardo Contini, Quaderni di Studi Arabi 5-6 (2010-2011)Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Chapter One: Arabic and the Issue of Standard Language Chapter Two: Intermediate Forms—‘Mixed Styles’ Chapter Three: Variants of Complementizers Chapter Four: Demonstratives Chapter Five: The Expression of Negation Chapter Six: The Relative Phrase Chapter Seven: Pronoun Suffixation Chapter Eight: Results, Interpretation, and Conclusions Appendix 1: Sequential presentation of variants Appendix 2: Transcribed text Appendix 3: Translation of text Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe present work proposes a novel analysis of Complement Clauses in Earlier Egyptian language. Contrary to previous assumptions, the grammatical organisation of these constructions is shown to be based on differentiation between Realis and Irrealis modality. The different types of complement clauses attested in Earlier Egyptian are surveyed utilising recent linguistic research on modality and pragmatics. The discussion is based on numerous examples from the ancient texts and on comparisons with many other languages. Emerging from this investigation is a coherent and principled system for expressing Realis and Irrealis meaning in this most ancient of written languages. This book is of notable value to Egyptologists working with texts and to all those interested in modality, grammar, and cognition.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Structure of the Present Work PART ONE MODALITY IN AFFIRMATIVE COMPLEMENT CLAUSES AFTER GOVERNING VERBS 1. Introduction to Part One 2. Affirmative Object Complementation after Notionally Assertive Verbs 3. Affirmative Object Complementation after Notionally Non-assertive Verbs PART TWO MODALITY IN OTHER TYPES OF EARLIER EGYPTIAN COMPLEMENT CLAUSES 4. Modality in Affirmative Subject Complement Clauses 5. Modality in Negative Complement Clauses after Governing Predicates 6. Modality in Complement Clauses after Prepositions 7. Earlier Egyptian Supplementary Patterns of Complementation after Verbs and Prepositions 8. Predicate Complement Clauses 9. At the Crossroads of Tempus and Modus: the Aspectual-Modal Correspondence and the Conceptual Foundations of Irrealis Modality in Earlier Egyptian Complementation 10. Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect

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Book SynopsisIn Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel component for question under discussion based discourse pragmatic theories thereby combining such theories with new ideas from inquisitive semantics. He shows how potential questions account for an entire range of grammatical phenomena. These phenomena include the semantics of indefinite determiners, the meaning contribution of nominal appositives, specificational constructions and non restrictive relative clauses. This book delivers a comprehensive and empirically rich investigation into the role of questions in natural language interpretation. Drawing on data from German, English, Hungarian and Russian, Edgar Onea's study significantly broadens our understanding of conventional sensitivity to questions through formally rigorous analyses of specificational particles, parentheticals and indefinites. The Potential Questions framework offers a new and exciting perspective on utterance meanings as not just addressing, but also raising questions, with important consequences for integrated analyses of discourse structure and discourse relations. This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the semantics-pragmatics interface. Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction 1 1.1 What are potential questions? 1.2 Potential questions in grammar 1.3 Discourse coherence and potential questions 1.4 How to read this book 2 Potential questions in grammar 2.1 Specificational constructions 2.2 Indefinite pronouns and determiners 2.3 Appositives and non-restrictive material 2.4 Where indefinites and appositives converge 3 Questions and interrogatives – the basics 3.1 Main semantic approaches to questions 3.2 Questions in inquisitive semantics 3.3 Highlighting 3.4 Answerhood 3.5 Sub-questions 3.6 Questions and interrogatives 4 Potential questions as parameters of discourse representation 4.1 The notion of potential questions 4.2 The representation of potential questions 4.3 Reconstructing PQs 5 Nominal appositives and non-restrictive relative clauses 5.1 The projection problem 5.2 The proposal 5.3 Consequences 5.4 Conclusion 6 The semantics of specificational constructions 6.1 The common core of specificational particles 6.2 Namlich and und zwar 6.3 Explanation and specification 6.4 Discourse referents and potential questions 7 The semantics of indefinite determiners 7.1 The story so far 7.2 The compositional system 7.3 Indefinites and questions 7.4 Scope control and potential questions 7.5 Functional readings 7.6 Lexical variation 8 Potential questions in discourse 8.1 Strategic discourse and potential questions 8.2 The representation of potential questions in discourse 8.3 From discourse trees to SDRT and back 9 Outlook Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.

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Book SynopsisNonveridicality and evaluation interact in obvious ways in conveying opinion and subjectivity in language. In Nonveridicality and Evaluation Maite Taboada and Radoslava Trnavac bring together a diverse group of researchers with interests in evaluation, Appraisal, nonveridicality and coherence relations. The papers in the volume approach the intersection of these areas from two different points of view: theoretical and empirical. From a theoretical point of view, contributions reflect the interface between evaluation, nonveridicality and coherence. The empirical perspective is shown in papers that employ corpus methodology, qualitative descriptions of texts, and computational implementations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Nonveridicality and Evaluation across Disciplinary Boundaries Maite Taboada and Radoslava Trnavac Part 1: Evaluation and Nonveridicality in Semantics 1 (Non)veridicality, Evaluation, and Event Actualization: Evidence from the Subjunctive in Relative Clauses Anastasia Giannakidou 2 Have to, Have Got to, and Must: NSM Analyses of English Modal Verbs of ‘Necessity’ Cliff Goddard 3 How ‘Logical’ are Logical Words? Negation and its Descriptive vs. Metalinguistic Uses Jacques Moeschler Part 2: Evaluation, Nonveridicality and Coherence in Computational Modelling 4 Determining Negation Scope in German and English Medical Diagnoses Oliver Gros and Manfred Stede 5 Assessing Opinions in Texts: Does Discourse Really Matter? Farah Benamara, Vladimir Popescu, Baptiste Chardon, Nicholas Asher, and Yannick Mathieu Part 3: Corpus Studies on Evaluation and Coherence in Nonveridical Contexts 6 Subjectivity and Prototype Structure in Causal Connective Use across Discourse Contexts Ninke Stukker and Ted Sanders 7 ‘If You Do It too then RT and Say #Idoit2’: The Co-Patterning of Contingency and Evaluation in Microblogging Michele Zappavigna Index of Subjects Index of Names

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Book SynopsisIn A Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters, María de la O Hernández-López and Lucía Fernández-Amaya have joined marketing researchers and linguists to provide the tools to understand consumers’ communication in different professional settings. Service encounters have been widely studied due to the fact that the communicative exchange between the customer and the server is essential for the success of the service encounter itself. In this volume, the role of language, linguistics and communication is examined in an area of research that has traditionally been related to business and marketing. This is achieved through the presentation of works from a variety of perspectives that may help to advance in this particular context and also contribute to improving communication in service encounters.Trade Reviewthis book is highly recommended for researchers and students in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, and market research, particularly who are interested in service encounters, and also to professionals in the industries of tourism, health care, restaurants, hotels, and commerce. Wei Ren, Linguist List 27.2533

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Book SynopsisCrosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages—differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, ‘weak’ definiteness in Martiniké and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition. Contributors include: Željko Bošković, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loïc Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Müller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Şener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendröi, Anne Zribi-Hertz.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Biographies Introduction Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Anne Zribi-Hertz part 1: Noun Phrase Syntax and Interpretation: In Search of Crosslinguistic Regularities Information Structure and (In)definiteness Nomi Erteschik-Shir On Number and Numberlessness in Languages with and without Articles Asya Pereltsvaig The Cognitive Basis of the Mass-Count Distinction: Evidence from Bare Nouns Edit Doron and Ana Müller The Turkish NP Željko Bošković and Serkan Şener part 2: Definiteness and Definiteness Markers across Languages The Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of Definite Determiners in Swiss German Rebekka Studler Reduced Definite Articles with Restrictive Relative Clauses Patricia Cabredo Hofherr When Determiners Abound: Implications for the Encoding of Definiteness Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendrői The Semantics and Syntax of Japanese Adnominal Demonstratives Makoto Kaneko From Noun to Name: On Definiteness Marking in Modern Martinikè Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loïc Jean-Louis Reference Resolution in French Sign Language: The Effects of the Visuo-Gestual Modality Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre part 3: Noun Phrase Interpretation and Second-Language Acquisition When Articles Have Different Meanings: Acquiring the Expression of Genericity in English and Brazilian Portuguese Tania Ionin, Elaine Grolla, Silvina Montrul and Hélade Santos Index

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Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of narrative texts from a variety of perspectives. The word “text” is used here in the broadest sense of the term: it denotes literary books, but also oral tales, speeches, newspaper articles and comics. One of the purposes of this volume is to discover what these different texts have in common. The texts are approached from four main perspectives: New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Contributors come from diverse disciplines, such as Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, English literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Art History, Linguistics, and Communication and Information Studies, all united in a common purpose to understand the workings of narrative texts.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables List of Contributors Introduction André Lardinois, Sophie Levie, Hans Hoeken and Christoph Lüthy Part 1 - New Philology 1 Transmission and Textual Variants: Divergent Fragments of Sappho’s Songs Examined Mark de Kreij 2 In Praise of the Variant Analysis Tool: A Computational Approach to Medieval Literature Karina van Dalen-Oskam 3 Mutatis Mutandis: The Same Call for Peace, but Diffferently Framed Each Time Rob van de Schoor 4 The Salman Rushdie Archive and the Re-Imagining of a Philological E-volution Benjamin Alexander Part 2 - Narrativity 5 Modality in Lolita Helen de Hoop and Sander Lestrade 6 Transported into a Story World: The Role of the Protagonist Anneke de Graaf and Lettica Hustinx 7 Constructing the Landscape of Consciousness in News Stories José Sanders and Hans Hoeken 8 Quoted Discourse in Dutch News Narratives Kirsten Vis , José Sanders and Wilbert Spooren Part 3 - Image and Text 9 Mary Magdalene’s Conversion in Renaissance Painting and Mediaeval Sacred Drama Bram de Klerck 10 The Difffusion of Illustrated Religious Texts and Ideological Restraints Els Stronks 11 Illustrating the Anthropological Text: Drawings and Photographs in Franz Boas’ The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897) Camille Joseph 12 The Interaction of Image and Text in Modern Comics Tom Lambeens and Kris Pint Part 4 - Reception and Literary Infrastructure 13 Holy Writ and Lay Readers in Late Medieval Europe: Translation and Participation Sabrina Corbellini and Margriet Hoogvliet 14 Reception and the Textuality of History: Ramus and Kepler on Proclus’ History and Philosophy of Geometry Guy Claessens 15 Occasional Writer, Sensational Writer: Multatuli as a Sentimental Benevolence Writer in the 1860s Laurens Ham Index of Personal Names

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Book SynopsisA basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements at the left periphery have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role. However, the picture that emerges from the different contributions to this volume is far more complex. While it seems clear that the working hypothesis cannot be upheld in a “strong” way, most of the chapters – especially those based on corpus data – show that an asymmetry between left and right periphery does exist and that it is a matter of frequency.

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Book SynopsisVideo-recordings of families and groups of friends watching the FIFA men’s football World Cup in their homes allow access to the empirical rather than the imagined or inscribed audiences of a major television event. Qualitative analyses reveal how natural audiences behave in the reception situation appropriating live televised football through talk. Gerhardt shows how the mainly English television viewers use an array of linguistic and embodied resources to turn watching football into a meaningful activity in their groups. Cohesive devices and sequentiality link the fans’ talk-in-interaction to the televised text (commentary and pictures). Gaze behaviour, pointing, and even jumping up and down are used as resources for a variety of functions like the construction of an identity as football fan.

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Book SynopsisThe basic claims of traditional truth-conditional semantics are that the semantic interpretation of a sentence is connected to the truth of that sentence in a situation, and that the meaning of the sentence is derived compositionally from the semantic values meaning of its constituents and the rules that combine them. Both claims have been subject to an intense debate in linguistics and philosophy of language. The original research papers collected in this volume test the boundaries of this classic view from a linguistic and a philosophical point of view by investigating the foundational notions of composition, values and interpretation and their relation to the interfaces to other disciplines. They take the classical theories one step further and closer to a realistic semantic theory that covers speaker’s intentions, the knowledge of discourse participants, meaning of fiction and literature, as well as vague and paradoxical utterances. Ede Zimmermann is a pioneering researcher in semantics whose students, friends, and colleagues have collected in this volume an impressive set of studies at the interfaces of semantics. How do meanings interact with the context and with intentions and beliefs of the people conversing? How do meanings interact with other meanings in an extended discourse? How can there be paradoxical meanings? Researchers interested in semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, anyone interested in foundational and empirical issues of meaning, will find inspiration and instruction in this wonderful volume. Kai von Fintel, MIT Department of LinguisticsTable of ContentsComposition, Values, and Interpretation: An Introduction to Elements of Semantic Theory 1 Daniel Gutzmann, Jan Köpping, and Cécile Meier Part 1: Composition Does Context Change? Manfred Kupffer The Live Principle of Compositionality Paul Dekker Operators for Definition by Paraphrase Mats Rooth Part 2: Values Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? More on Missing Kjell Johan Sæbø Information, Issues, and Attention Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen A Truth-conditional Account of Free-choice Disjunction Graeme Forbes Being Tolerant about Identity? Robert van Rooij The Property Paradox in (Not So Plain) English Philippe Schlenker Part 3: Interpretation Dear Ede! Semantics and Pragmatics of Vocatives Regine Eckardt On the Meaning of Fictional Texts Matthias Bauer and Sigrid Beck Notes on Disagreement Udo Klein and Marcus Kracht Was glaubt EDE, wer der Mörder ist? On D-trees, Embedded Foci, and Indirect Scope Marking Malte Zimmermann A New Type of Informative Tautology: Für Unbefugte Betreten Verboten! Manfred Krifka

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Book SynopsisThis volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the authors to address the changing meaning of the same term, which often reflected well-known metaphors in the source language that were transposed to the target language. Each essay touches on the reliability of received medical texts and their modern fate.Trade Review"The Treatise on Cold Damage is precisely the sort of text for which a deeper understanding of the use of philological approaches in the study and practice of medicine promises the greatest increase in our understanding of East Asian medicine’s history. While the essays collected in this volume are all important and exciting in their own right, the new avenues of research that they highlight are equally exciting. I hope that this book will inspire more work in this highly productive field." - Stephen Boyanton, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.1 (2018)

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Book SynopsisMultimodality in Writing attempts to generate and apply new theories, disciplines and methods to account for semiotic processes in texts and during text production. It thus showcases new directions in multimodal research and theorizing writing practices from a multimodal perspective. It explores texts, producers of texts, and readers of texts. It also focuses on teaching multimodal text production and writing pedagogy from different domains and disciplines, such as rhetoric and writing composition, architecture, mathematics, film-making, science and the newsroom. Multimodality in Writing explores the kinds of methodological approaches that can augment social semiotic approaches to analyzing and teaching writing, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, ethnographic approaches, and genre pedagogy. Much of the research shows how the regularities of modes and interest of sign makers are socially shaped to realize convention. Because of this, the approaches are strongly underpinned by social and cultural theories of representation and communication.

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Book SynopsisHonoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions by leading scholars in the field of English corpus linguistics, covering areas of central concern in corpus research and corpus methodology. The topics examined in the different chapters include issues related to corpus compilation and annotation, perspectives from specialized corpora, and studies on grammatical and pragmatic aspects of English, all these examined through a broad range of corpora, both synchronic and diachronic, representing both EFL and different native varieties of English worldwide. The volume will be of primary interest to students and researchers working on English corpus linguistics, but is also likely to have a wider general appeal. Contributors are: Bas Aarts, Siân Alsop, Anita Auer, Jill Bowie, Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, Pieter de Haan, Johan Elsness, Moragh Gordon, Hilde Hasselgård, Turo Hiltunen, Magnus Huber, Marianne Hundt, Mikko Laitinen, Martti Mäkinen, Beatriz Mato-Míguez, Mike Olson, Antoinette Renouf, and Bianca Widlitzki.Trade ReviewHonoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. The volume’s major strength lies in the diversified topics presented in the chapters, which offer an impressive glance at the current research trends in corpus linguistics. Many chapters (especially those in Part I) include detailed descriptions of how their target corpora are compiled, parsed, and annotated, and these valuable pieces of information make the volume an ideal reference for researchers considering incorporating corpus-driven approaches into their own research. Another strength of the volume is its recognition of two important trends in World English: the exponential growth of advanced ESL learners and the proliferation of English varieties. The insightful discussions on both topics throughout the volume can be particularly illuminating for scholars working on language change and variation. - Sibo Chen - Simon Fraser University, on: Linguistlist.orgTable of ContentsList of figures List of tables Preface 1. From the fringe to the mainstream: English corpus linguistics moving ahead María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, and Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez Part I: Issues in corpus compilation 2. English urban vernaculars, 1400–1700: Digitizing text from manuscript Anita Auer, Moragh Gordon, and Mike Olson 3. Creating a corpus of student writing in economics: Structure and representativeness Martti Mäkinen and Turo Hiltunen 4. Ongoing changes and advanced L2 use of English: Evidence from new corpus resources Mikko Laitinen Part II: Investigating register variation through corpora 5. Verbs and verb phrases in advanced Dutch ELF writing: Case studies in qualitative and quantitative ELF analysis Pieter de Haan 6. Discourse-organizing metadiscourse in novice academic English Hilde Hasselgård 7. Passives in academic writing: Comparing research articles and student essays across four disciplines Turo Hiltunen 8. Adverbial hapax legomena in news text: Why do some coinages remain hapax? Antoinette Renouf Part III: Corpora and grammar: Examining grammatical variation in space 9. English in South Africa: The case of past-referring verb forms Johan Elsness 10. A look at participial constructions with get in Hong Kong English Eduardo Coto-Villalibre 11. Who is the/a/Ø professor at your university? A construction-grammar view on changing article use with single role predicates in American English Marianne Hundt 12. Clause fragments in English dialogue Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts Part IV: Corpus insights into the pragmatics of spoken English 13. The expression of directive meaning: A corpus-based study on the variation between imperatives, conditionals and insubordinated if-clauses in spoken British English Beatriz Mato-Míguez 14. Taboo language and swearing in eighteenth and nineteenth century English: A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus Bianca Widlitzki and Magnus Huber 15. The 'humour' element in engineering lectures across cultures: An approach to pragmatic annotation Siân Alsop

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Book SynopsisIn Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive and innovative account of how Mandarin Chinese, as a language without extensive morphological marking, highlights (or foregrounds) major events of a narrative and demotes (or backgrounds) other supporting descriptions. Qualitative and quantitative methods in the analysis and examinations of authentic written text provide extensive evidence to demonstrate that various types of morpho-syntactic devices are used in a wide range of structural units in Chinese to mark the distinction between foregrounding and backgrounding. The analysis paves the way for future studies to systematically approach grounding-related issues. The typological viewpoint adopted in the chapters serves well readers from both the Chinese tradition and other languages in discourse analysis.Trade Review"Taken as a whole, the book is notable in three aspects. First of all, it has considerable significance for typological studies on the grounding phenomenon. [...] Second, as the first study to apply grounding theory in the study of Chinese discourse grammar, this work is both theoretically and methodologically rewarding for Chinese grammar study. [...] Third, the book is user-friendly because it is very well organized." ~ Yurong Zhao, Northeastern University of China, in Chinese Language and Discourse, Vol. 9/2 (2018), pp. 251–255Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Tables List of Figures Symbols and Glossing Conventions 1 Introduction  1.1 Theoretical Framework  1.2 Methodology  1.3 Organization of the Book 2 Grounding: A Literature Review  2.1 The Notion of Grounding  2.2 Grounding in Linguistics  2.3 Semantic Characteristics of Grounding  2.4 Grammatical Indications of Grounding  2.5 Narrative Discourse and Grounding  2.6 Chapter Summary 3 Grammatical Features of Chinese and Previous Grounding Analysis  3.1 The Important Notion of Topic  3.2 Units in Written Discourse  3.3 Constituent Order  3.4 Indication of Temporal Location  3.5 -Le and Le  3.6 Previous Grounding Analysis of Chinese  3.7 Chapter Summary 4 At the Verb Phrase Core: Foregrounding Through Bounding  4.1 Aspect in Chinese  4.2 Grammatical Aspect Markers and Grounding  4.3 Situation Aspect and Grounding  4.4 Bounded Events and Narrative Advancement  4.5 Chapter Summary 5 In Single-Verb Clauses: Constituent Order and Grounding  5.1 Clause Types Under Examination  5.2 Analysis of Constituent Order and Clause Types  5.3 Statistical Verification  5.4 Discussion  5.5 Chapter Summary 6 In Complex Predicates: Grounding of Verb Phrases  6.1 Serial Verb Constructions  6.2 Multiple Aspectually Marked Verb Phrases  6.3 Discussion  6.4 Chapter Summary 7 In Complex Sentences: Margins Versus Nucleus  7.1 Literature Review: Margins and Subordination  7.2 Adverbial Margins in Chinese  7.3 Discussion: Sentence-Initial Margins With Zero Subject  7.4 Chapter Summary 8 Related Issues  8.1 Coercion in Semantic and Aspectual Reinterpretation  8.2 Interpretations of Postverbal Zai-PPs  8.3 Foregrounding Function of jiu  8.4 Clause Integration and Backgrounding  8.5 Chapter Summary 9 Concluding Remarks  9.1 Major Findings  9.2 Contributions of the Study  9.3 Remaining Issues References Sources of Data and Examples

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Peter Juul Nielsen examines the foundations of morphological theory from a structural-functional perspective on language as a sign system. He offers a framework for the analysis of morpheme relations based on a thorough discussion of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structure, indexical relations, zero as meaningful absence and morphological relations across grammatical categories. It is argued that when paradigmatically related morphological structures have different syntactic functions, the semantics of the paradigmatic opposition consists in the specification of functional potential. The framework is applied in three detailed studies of Danish nonfinite verbs presenting new accounts of their morphological structure, semantic coding and paradigmatic organisation.

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Book SynopsisPragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts, edited by Francesca Bianchi and Sara Gesuato, illustrates how interactants systematically and effectively employ micro and macro linguistic resources and textual strategies to engage in communicative practices in such specific contexts as healthcare services, TV interpreting, film dialogue, TED talks, archaeology academic communication, student-teacher communication, and multilingual classrooms. Each contribution presents a pedagogical slant, reporting on or suggesting didactic approaches to, or applications of, pragmatic aspects of communication in SL, FL and LSP learning contexts. The topics covered and the issues addressed are all directly relevant to applied pragmatics, that is, pragmatically oriented linguistic analysis that accounts for interpersonal-transactional issues in real-life situated communication.Table of ContentsContent Introduction Part One: Handling multiple communicative goals in interpreting settings 1. Pragma-argumentative analysis of source texts in interpreter training. Switching on the light in the ‘pragmatic dark’ Emanuele Brambilla 2. Meanings and forms of intercultural coordination: the pragmatics of interpreter-mediated healthcare communication Federico Farini 3. The interpreter’s role in dialogue interpreting on television: A training method Eugenia Dal Fovo Part Two: Interactional strategies in scholarly contexts 4. The pragmatics of spoken academic discourse in the framework of TED talks: a case study Antonio Compagnone 5. Pedagogical implications of evaluation in academic domains: praise and criticism in archaeology book reviews Daniela Cesiri 6. Academic email requests: A pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic comparison between faculty and students Phoenix Lam Part Three: Functional and phraseological patterns in scripted conversation 7. Teaching compliments and insults in the EFL classroom through film clips Silvia Bruti 8. The Cognitive and Sociopragmatic Interfaces of Intercultural Humor: Watching Roberto Benigni’s movies in Japan Chiara Zamborlin Part Four: Context-informed pedagogy in the classroom 9. Exploring textual pragmatic markers in a multilingual classroom context: insights for teaching pragmatics Sofía Martín-Laguna 10. Small Research Projects about Social and Regional Variation for Advanced University Students of English in Sweden: Their Purpose and Content Thorsten Schröter

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Book SynopsisThis volume gathers nine contributions dealing with Aorists and Perfects. Drinka challenges the notion of Aoristic Drift in Romance languages. Walker considers two emergent uses of the Perfect in British English. Jara seeks to determine the constraints on tense choice within narrative discourse in Peruvian Spanish. Henderson argues for a theory based on Langacker’s ‘sequential scanning’ in Chilean and Uruguayan Spanish. Delmas looks at ’Ua in Tahitian, a polysemic particle with a range of aspectual and modal meanings. Bourdin addresses the expression of anteriority with just in English. Yerastov examines the distribution of the transitive be Perfect in Canadian English. Fryd offers a panchronic study of have-less perfect constructions in English. Eide investigates counterfactual present perfects in Mainland Scandinavian dialects.Trade Review"This accomplishment deserves its place among the canon of works dedicated to this important topic." ~ Chad Howe, University of Georgia, in Cercles (January 2019).

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Book SynopsisMatthew crowds more Old Testament quotations and allusions into the prologue than anywhere else in his gospel. In this volume, Nicholas G. Piotrowski demonstrates the narratological and rhetorical effects of such frontloading. Particularly, seven formula-quotations constellate to establish a redemptive-historical setting inside of which the rest of the narrative operates. This setting is defined by Old Testament expectations for David’s great son to end Israel’s exile and rule the nations. Piotrowski contends that the rhetorical effect of this intertextual storytelling was to provide the Matthean community with an identity—in a contentious atmosphere—in terms of God’s historical design for the ages, now fulfilled in Jesus and his followers.Trade Review"This study offers a welcome addition to the growing body of literature surrounding Matthew’s scriptural hermeneutic. Piotrowski’s careful analysis of scriptural source texts in their respective macro-contexts is commendable, just as his detection of an underlying hermeneutical coherence guiding Matthew’s handling of his source material is largely persuasive." Max Botner, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, May 2017 "Piotrowski's study shows that there is still much undiscovered insight in the well-worn area of Matthew's formula quotations. He is a clear communicator and is to be highly commended for a creative and articulate study of Matthew's formula quotations." H. Daniel Zacharias, Acadia Divinity College, Bulletin for Biblical Research 27.3 "Piotrowski’s book shows the Gospel of Matthew in a new way. The synchronous approach to the text proves to be a very effective method of literary criticism. Certainly the findings are very inspiring and open the field for further research." Jacek Pietrzak OP, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, BibAn 7/4 (2017) "Piotrowski's study is a careful examination of the ways in which the OT texts create patterns for making sense of the events of Jesus's birth and early days. His study of the OT texts and especially their broader context illuminates Matthew's narratival purposes in significant ways." Joshua Jipp, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society "Die von P. vorgeschlagene Leseweise der 'prologue-quotations' ist von hoher 'coherency and cogency' (232) und die derzeit actuellste und literaturwissenschaftlich sehr schlüssig erarbeitete Deutung. ... ...Für die weitere Arbeit am ersten Evangelium und an den vielfältigen Verknüpfungen des Neuen Testaments mut dem Alten Testament ist dieser Beitrag unverzichtbar." Thomas Hieke, Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (10), 2017.Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Nicholas Perrin 1 Introduction 2 The Effect of Isaiah’s Narrative World in Matthew 1:18–25 Matthew 1:23 in Context The Narrative Function of the Formula-Quotation in Matthew 1:22–23 Isaiah 7:14 in Context Matthew’s Conversation with Isaiah 3 The Effect of Micah’s Narrative World in Matthew 2:1–12 Matthew 2:6 in Context The Narrative Function of the Formula-Quotation in Matthew 2:5–6 Micah 5:1, 3 in Context Matthew’s Conversation with Micah 4 Exile and David in the Late Second Temple Cultural Encyclopedia A Taxonomy of Exile in the Late Second Temple Cultural Encyclopedia End of Exile as a Davidic Hope in the Late Second Temple Cultural Encyclopedia Returning to the Text of Matthew 5 The Effect of Hosea’s and Jeremiah’s Narrative Worlds in Matthew 2:13–21 Matthew 2:15, 18 in Context The Narrative Function of the Formula-Quotations in Matthew 2:15, 17–18 Hosea 11:1 in Context Jeremiah 31:15 [lxx 38:15] in Context Matthew’s Conversation with Hosea and Jeremiah 6 The Effect of the Prophets’ Narrative World in Matthew 2:22–23 The Narrative of Matthew 2:22–23 Narrative Function of the Formula-Quotation in Matthew 2:23 The Provenance of the Ναζωραῖος “The Prophets’ ” Expectation of the 161 נצֵֶר Matthew’s Conversation with “the Prophets” 7 The Effect of Isaiah’s Narrative World in Matthew 3:1–4:11 The Unity of Matthew 2:22–4:12 Matthew 3:3 in Context The Narrative Function of the Formula-Quotation in Matthew 3:3 Isaiah 40:3 in Context Matthew’s Conversation with Isaiah Summary and Conclusion 8 The Effect of Isaiah’s Narrative World in Matthew 4:12–17 Matthew 4:15–16 in Context The Narrative Function of the Formula-Quotation in Matthew 4:14–16 The Narrative of Isaiah 7:1–9:6 Revisited Matthew’s Conversation with Isaiah 9 Conclusion Summary Coherency and Cogency The Socio-Rhetorical Effect on Matthew’s Church Appendix: The Source of Matthew’s Formula-Quotations Bibliography Index of Texts Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a synthesis of cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language acquistion, language processing, individual differences in linguistic knowledge, and on the role of multi-word chunks and low-level schemas in language production and comprehension. It highlights the tension between “linguists’ grammars”, which are strongly influenced by principles such as economy and elegance, and “speakers’ grammars”, which are often messy, less than fully general, and sometimes inconsistent, and argues that cognitive linguistics is an empirical science which combines study of real usage events and experiments which rigorously test specific hypotheses.

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Book SynopsisIn How Language Informs Mathematics Dirk Damsma shows how Hegel’s and Marx’s systematic dialectical analysis of mathematical and economic language helps us understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. More importantly, Damsma shows how knowledge of the latter can inform model assumptions and help improve models. His book provides a blueprint for an approach to economic model building that does away with arbitrarily chosen assumptions and is sensitive to the institutional structures of capitalism. In light of the failure of mainstream economics to understand systemic failures like the financial crisis and given the arbitrary character of most assumptions in mainstream models, such an approach is desperately needed.Table of ContentsList of Figure and Tables Acknowledgements Brief Contents Note on the Style of Referencing and the Use of Capitalisation and Emphasis in this Work List of Symbols Introduction  1 On Marx’s and Hegel’s Dialectical Methods  Introduction  1 The Chronology of Hegel’s and Marx’s Historical and Systematic Dialectic  2 Hegel’s Method  3 Marx’s Comments on Hegel, Their Implications and Marx’s Twist on Hegel’s Dialectical Method  4 Commentators on and Studies of Marx’s Dialectics  Summary and Conclusions  Preview  2 The Dialectical Foundations of Mathematics  Introduction  1 Previous Literature on Hegel and Mathematics  2 Hegel’s Determination of the Quantitative  A Quality  2.1 Being  2.2 Nothing  2.3 Becoming  2.4 Presence  2.5 Something and Other  2.6 One and Many Ones  2.7 Attraction and Repulsion  B Quantity  2.8 Quantity  2.9 Continuous and Discrete Magnitude  2.10 Quantum and Number  2.11 Unit and Amount  2.12 Limit  2.13 Intensive and Extensive Magnitude  C Measure  2.14 Measure  3 Hegel’s Determination of Mathematical Mechanics  A Space and Time  3.1 Space  3.2 Spatial Dimensions  3.3 The Point  3.4 The Line  3.5 The Plane  3.6 Distinct Space  3.7 Time  3.8 Temporal Dimensions  3.9 Now  3.10 Place  3.11 Motion  3.12 Matter  Summary and Conclusions: How This Dialectic Reflects on Mathematics  Appendix: Comparison of the Determination of the Quantitative in the Wissenschaft and the Encyclopädie  A1 Being, Nothing, Becoming, Presence, Something and Others  A2 Qualitative Limit  A3 Finitude and Infinity  A4 True Infinite  A5 Being-for-self  A6 One, Many Ones, Repulsion, Attraction, Quantity, Continuous and Discrete Magnitude, Quantum, Number, Unit and Amount, Quantitative Limit and Intensive and Extensive Magnitude  A7 Quantitative Infinity  A8 Direct Ratio  A9 Inverse Ratio  A10 Ratio of Powers  A11 Measure  Concluding Remarks  3 Marx’s Systematic Dialectics and Mathematics  Introduction  1 Marx’s Acquaintance with and Ideas on Mathematics  2 Marx’s Exhibition of Capitalism as a System: The Systematic-Dialectical Position  2.1 Sociation  2.2 Dissociation  2.3 Association: The Exchange Relation  2.4 The Commodity, Exchangeability and the Bargain  2.5 Value in Exchange  2.6 The Simple, Expanded and General Commodity Form and the Money Form of Value  2.7 Money as Measure of Value, Means of Circulation and End of Exchange  2.8 Capital  2.9 Constant and Variable Capital  2.10 Accumulation  2.11 The Money Capital, Production Capital and Commodity Capital Circuits  2.12 Fixed and Circulating Capital  2.13 Simple Reproduction, Means of Production, Consumption Goods, Total Social Capital and Expanded Reproduction  2.14 General Rate of Profit, Many Capitals, Competition and Minimum Prices of Production  3 The Role of Mathematics in Marx’s Investigation and Exhibition in Capital: the Case of Marx’s “Schemes of Reproduction”  3.1 Simple Reproduction   3.1.1 The Model   3.1.2 Conclusions  3.2 Expanded Reproduction   3.2.1 The Model   3.2.2 Conclusions  Summary and Conclusions on the Role of Mathematics in Systematic-Dialectical Investigation and Exhibition  4 A Formal Dynamic Reconstruction of Marx’s Schemes of Reproduction along Dialectical Lines  Introduction  1 The Model for Simple Reproduction  2 Extensive Growth of Total Social Capital  3 The Model for Expanded Reproduction  Summary and Conclusions  Appendix: Derivations  A1 Accumulation and Growth Rate for Department c as a Function of Accumulation and Growth in Department p with Extensive Growth (expression 4.15 and 4.16)  A2 Constant Capital’s Growth Rate for Department c for the Case of Expanded Reproduction (expression 4.19)  A3 The Condition for Constant Rates of Accumulation in Case of Expanded Reproduction (expression 4.20)  Summary and General Conclusions  References  Author Index  Subject Index

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Book SynopsisDespite its centrality in mainstream linguistics, cognitive semantics has only recently begun to establish a foothold in biblical studies, largely due to the challenges inherent in applying such a methodology to ancient languages. The Semantics of Glory addresses these challenges by offering a new, practical model for a cognitive semantic approach to Classical Hebrew, demonstrated through an exploration of the Hebrew semantic domain of glory. The concept of ‘glory’ is one of the most significant themes in the Hebrew Bible, lying at the heart of God’s self-disclosure in biblical revelation. This study provides the most comprehensive examination of the domain to date, mapping out its intricacies and providing a framework for its exegesis.Trade Review"I think Burton makes a contribution towards the better understanding of the concept glory in Classical Hebrew. She also provides some parameters to consider when trying to describe a semantic domain of the ancient language." ~ Dr Christo H J van der Merwe, Stellenbosch University, in Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages (JNSL), Vol. 44/1 (2018) "Burton has written an important linguistic study which I can heartily recommend to Hebrew scholars." -Pieter de Vries, Reformed Theological Seminary (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

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Book SynopsisThe concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and are modelled with semantic values of various kinds; some aspects of meaning can be found in communicative processes and are modelled with pragmatic inferences of one sort or another. One hypothesis of great heuristic utility concerns the relationship that is assumed between the semantic and the pragmatic. This collection of especially commissioned papers examines current thinking on the plausible nature of the semantic, the possible character of the pragmatic and the mechanics of their intersection.Table of ContentsAn Underspecified Preface  Ken Turner and Larry Horn Part 1 On the Landscape of Negation 1 An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate Change  Larry Horn 2 Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg Raising  Chris Collins and Paul Postal 3 Presuppositions, Negation, and Existence  Barbara Abbott 4 More Ado about nothing: On the Typology of Negative Indefinites  Johan van der Auwera and Lauren van Alsenoy Part 2 On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape 5 Distinguishing Ambiguity from Underspecificity  Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore 6 Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in Context  Michiel Leezenberg 7 A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of Scales  Jerrold Sadock 8 Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic  David Braun Part 3 On Grammar, Inference, and Truth 9 Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn  Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann 10 Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of Reasoning  Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas 11 A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore’s Paradox  Jack Woods 12 Remarks on Davidson’s Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of Meaning  Ken Turner Index

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Book SynopsisTrends in E-Tools and Resources for Translators and Interpreters offers a collection of contributions from key players in the field of translation and interpreting that accurately outline some of the most cutting-edge technologies in this field that are available or under development at the moment in both professional and academic contexts. Particularly, this volume provides a wide picture of the state of the art, looking not only at the world of technology for translators but also at the hitherto overlooked world of technology for interpreters. This volume is accessible and comprehensive enough to be of benefit to different categories of readers: scholars, professionals and trainees. Contributors are: Pierrette Bouillon, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Hernani Costa, Isabel Durán-Muñoz, Claudio Fantinuoli, Johanna Gerlach, Joanna Gough, Asheesh Gulati, Veronique Hoste, Amélie Josselin, David Lewis, Lieve Macken, John Moran, Aurelie Picton, Emmanuel Planas, Éric Poirier, Victoria Porro, Celia Rico Pérez, Christian Saam, Pilar Sánchez-Gijón, Míriam Seghiri Domínguez, Violeta Seretan, Arda Tezcan, Olga Torres, and Anna Zaretskaya.Trade Review“[T]his book makes a valuable contribution to the field of technology implementation in T&I contexts as it sufficiently documents recent technological advances that address practitioners’ needs, and brings forward ingenious proposals for university teaching with usage of e-tools and resources. It also injects new vigour to research by suggesting new directions, by introducing inventive applications and taxonomies and by calling for studies of different natures and the use of modern experimental techniques.” -Maggie Hui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in The Journal of Specialised Translation, Iss. 31 (2019) pp. 229-231Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  Gloria Corpas Pastor and Isabel Durán-Muñoz Part 1: Electronic Tools for Translators 1 Investigating the Use of Resources in the Translation Process  Joanna Gough 2 User Perspective on Translation Tools: Findings of a User Survey  Anna Zaretskaya, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Míriam Seghiri 3 Assessing Terminology Management Systems for Interpreters  Hernani Costa, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Isabel Durán-Muñoz 4 Human Translation Technologies and Natural Language Processing Applications in Meaning-based Translation Learning Activities  Éric Poirier Part 2: cat and cai Tools 5 Monitoring the Use of newly Integrated Resources into cat Tools: A Prototype  Aurélie Picton, Emmanuel Planas and Amélie Josselin-Leray 6 Can User Activity Data in cat Tools help us measure and improve Translator Productivity?  John Moran, David Lewis and Christian Saam 7 Computer-assisted Interpreting: Challenges and Future Perspectives  Claudio Fantinuoli Part 3: Machine Translation 8 The ACCEPT Academic Portal: A Pre-editing and Post-editing Teaching Platform  Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach, Asheesh Gulati, Victoria Porro and Violeta Seretan 9 The Challenge of Machine Translation Post-editing: An Academic Perspective  Celia Rico Pérez, Pilar Sánchez-Gijón and Olga Torres-Hostench 10 scate Taxonomy and Corpus of Machine Translation Errors  Arda Tezcan, Veronique Hoste and Lieve Macken Appendix 1

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Book SynopsisIn her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the semantics of nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early language acquisition. Bowerman also covers the learning of argument structure and expressions of end-state, with special attention to the adult speech that guides children, and hence also the role of typology in acquisition; how cross-linguistic variation affects, for example, how speakers represent ‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the relation of the Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the semantics of languages. Bowerman’s over-riding concern throughout is with how children come to master the first language being spoken to them by their parents and caregivers.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a detailed formal machinery for the conversion of the Semantic Analyses (SAs) of sentences into surface structures of English, French, German, Dutch, and to some extent Turkish. The SAs are propositional structures consisting of a predicate and one, two or three argument terms, some of which can themselves be propositional structures. The surface structures are specified up to, but not including, the morphology. The book is thus an implementation of the programme formulated first by Albert Sechehaye (1870-1946) and then, independently, by James McCawley (1938-1999) in the school of Generative Semantics. It is the first, and so far the only formally precise and empirically motivated machinery in existence converting meaning representations into sentences of natural languages.

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Book SynopsisThis lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts. Case studies come from English, Chinese, Danish, and other languages. Applications in language teaching and intercultural education are also covered, along with comparisons between NSM and other leading approaches to linguistic semantics. The book will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics at all levels, communication and translation scholars, and anyone interested in a systematic and non Anglocentric approach to meaning, culture and cognition.

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Book SynopsisIn Ten Lectures on Event Structure in a Network Theory of Language, Nikolas Gisborne explores verb meaning. He discusses theories of events and how a network model of language-in-the-mind should be theorized; what the lexicon is; how to probe word meaning; evidence for structure in word meaning; polysemy; the lexical semantics of causation; a type hierarchy of events; and event types cross-linguistically. He also looks at the relationship between different classes of events or event types and aktionsarten; transitivity alternations and argument linking. Gisborne argues that the social and cognitive embedding of language, requires a view of linguistic structure as a network where even the analysis of verb meaning can require an understanding of the role of speaker and hearer.

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Book SynopsisAs we think and talk, rich arrays of mental spaces and connections between them are constructed unconsciously. Conceptual integration of mental spaces leads to new meaning, global insight, and compressions useful for memory and creativity. A powerful aspect of conceptual integration networks is the dynamic emergence of novel structure in all areas of human life (science, religion, art, ...). The emergence of complex metaphors creates our conceptualization of time. The same operations play a role in material culture generally. Technology evolves to produce cultural human artefacts such as watches, gauges, compasses, airplane cockpit displays, with structure specifically designed to match conceptual inputs and integrate with them into stable blended frames of perception and action that can be memorized, learned by new generations, and thus culturally transmitted.

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Book SynopsisThe contributions in this volume provide a kaleidoscope of state-of-the-art research in corpus linguistics on lexis and lexicogrammar. Central issues are the presentation of major corpus resources (both corpora and software tools), the findings (especially about frequency) which are simply not accessible without such resources, their theoretical implications relating to both lexical units and word meanings, and the practical – especially pedagogical – applications of corpus findings. This is complemented by a lexicographer’s view on the data structures implicit in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The volume, which has sprung from the 36th ICAME conference, held in at Trier University in May 2015, will be of relevance for theoretical and applied linguists interested in corpora, word usage, and the mental lexicon.Trade Review“In conclusion, corpus linguists can look forward to reading this fine selection of a top quality papers first presented at the 36th ICAME conference in Trier. Indeed, the volume provides more than the results of a few fascinating individual case studies using a range of corpus resources and state-of-the-art tools: it also explores methodological issues and proposes new procedures and measures. Moreover, Corpora and Lexis also contributes to the refinement and development of (new) theoretical concepts and features novel applications of corpus-based findings in lexicographic and pedagogical applications.” ~ Elen Le Foll, Universität Osnabrück, on LINGUIST List (July 2019)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Lisa Marie Dillmann 1 Modelling Lexical Structures in the Oxford English Dictionary  Edmund Weiner 2 Investigating the Circumstances of Coinage  Antoinette Renouf 3 Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance  Julia Schlüter and Gabriele Knappe 4 Intensification with Very, Really and So in Selected Varieties of English  Karin Aijmer 5 The Pragmatics of Well as a Discourse Marker in Broadcast Discussions  John M. Kirk 6 Between Lexis and Discourse: A Cross-Register Study of Connectors of Contrast  Maïté Dupont 7 Towards a Model of Co-Collocation Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Preliminary Results  Moisés Almela and Pascual Cantos 8 The Lexicogrammar of Be Interested: Description and Pedagogy  Costas Gabrielatos 9 Tracking L2 Writers’ Phraseological Development Using Collgrams: Evidence from a Longitudinal EFL Corpus  Yves Bestgen and Sylviane Granger

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Book SynopsisThis study is devoted to a corpus of Old Russian letters, written on pieces of birchbark. These unique texts from Novgorod and surroundings give us an exceptional impression of everyday life in medieval Russian society. In this study, the birchbark letters are addressed from a pragmatic angle. Linguistic parameters are identified that shed light on the degree to which literacy had gained ground in communicative processes. It is demonstrated that the birchbark letters occupy an intermediate position between orality and literacy. On the one hand, oral habits of communication persisted, as reflected in how the birchbark letters are phrased; on the other hand, literate modes of expression emerged, as seen in the development of normative conventions and literate formulae.Trade Review"Dekkerʼs book is a very welcome contribution to the field of historical pragmatics and an important step towards a comprehensive account of the pragmatics of the Old Russian birchbark letters." -Imke Mendoza, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2019Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Index of Birchbark Letters 1 The Field of Study: Berestology  1.1 Introduction  1.2 Excavations  1.3 Dating and Chronology  1.4 Users and Uses of the Birchbark Letters  1.5 The Language: Old Novgorodian  1.6 Other Sources: Parchment Documents  1.7 Concluding Remarks 2 The Background: Communicatively Heterogeneous Letters  2.1 Introduction  2.2 The Problem  2.3 Communicative Heterogeneity  2.4 The Oral Component  2.5 Evaluating Gippius (2004)  2.6 Subsequent Research  2.7 Discussion 3 Research Question  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Research Question  3.3 The Choice of Case Studies  3.4 Concluding Remarks 4 Theory and Methodology  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Philology  4.3 Pragmatics  4.4 Pragmaphilology  4.5 Orality  4.6 Use of the Corpus  4.7 Illustration of the Pragmaphilological Approach: One Case Study 5 Case Study I: Imperative Subjects  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Imperative Subjects  5.3 The Imperative Subject as a Cohesive Device  5.4 The Oral Component  5.5 Concluding Remarks 6 Case Study II: Speech Reporting  6.1 Introduction  6.2 Speech Reporting Strategies  6.3 Some Terminological Considerations  6.4 The Data on Birchbark  6.5 Diachronic Considerations  6.6 Speech Reporting Strategies on a Scale  6.7 Complexity and Context  6.8 Functional Considerations  6.9 Free Direct Speech Revisited  6.10 More Elements of Orality: Dictation and Performatives Type  6.11 Concluding Remarks 7 Case Study III: Epistolary Past Tense  7.1 Introduction  7.2 Birchbark Data and Discussion  7.3 Epistolary Past Tense in Other Languages  7.4 The Data on Birchbark Revisited  7.5 Deixis  7.6 Performatives  7.7 Ancient Greek Revisited  7.8 Concluding Remarks 8 Case Study IV: Assertive Declarations  8.1 Introduction  8.2 Theoretical Considerations  8.3 The Data on Birchbark  8.4 Other Languages  8.5 Discussion  8.6 Concluding Remarks 9 Conclusions  9.1 Introduction  9.2 General Lines Connecting the Case Studies  9.3 A Transitional Period of Verschriftlichung  9.4 Final Remarks References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first four lectures revolve around field semantics – research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic study of how humans communicate about the world in terms of the meaning categories of the languages they speak. Together, the lectures present one of the first comprehensive introductions to either topic. A thread pervading the lectures involves the following questions: how much do languages vary in how they represent reality? To what extent does this variation reflect cultural differences? To what extent does it influence the nonverbal thinking of the speakers?

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Book SynopsisTen Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science details the relationship between form and meaning in language, especially at the systematic level of morphology. The role of metaphor and metonymy in elaborating meaning are investigated, as well as the structuring of semantics in terms of prototypes and radial categories. Implications for cultural studies and pedagogical applications are explored. The bulk of examples and data are drawn from the Slavic languages.Table of ContentsContents Note on Supplementary Material Preface About the Author 1 From Cognitive Linguistics to Cultural Linguistics: How Cognitive Categories Reflect Culture 2 Conceptual Overlap and the Illusion of Semantic Emptiness 3 Metaphor in Grammar: Conceptualization of Time 4 Metonymy in Grammar: Word Formation 5 Constructional Profiles: What Constructions Tell Us about the Meanings of Words 6 Grammatical Profiles: What Inflectional Forms Tell Us about Lexicon and Grammar 7 Semantic Maps: Do They Reveal a Universal Underlying Conceptual Space? 8 Pedagogical Applications of Research into Embodied Grammar 9 Linguistic Concepts as Prototype-Based Categories: Reexamining Allomorphy 10 The Paradigm as a Radial Category About the Series Editor Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers

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Book SynopsisIn Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change. Croft begins from construction grammar, a theory of syntax in which all syntactic structures are a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are posited as basic; syntactic categories are defined by constructions. The internal structure of constructions directly link elements of constructions to the meanings they express, Constructions across languages can be situated in a space of syntactic variation. Grammar emerges from the verbalization of experience. Constructions occur in a probability distribution across the conceptual space of meanings. These probability distributions evolve, leading to grammatical change in language, modeled in an evolutionary framework.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of around seven hours of naturally occurring video data, recorded by the author in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Drawing on the methodology of Conversation Analysis, Gazin analyses instructional sequences of interaction during driving lessons. The temporal constraints of mobility make the driving lessons a rich setting for the investigation of sequence organisation and action constitution. The author identifies different types of actions that compose the unfolding driving and instructing activity, and their turn-constructional features (e.g. different verb forms for specific instructions). The analyses thereby offer insights that inform fundamental concepts like multiactivity and multimodality. The investigations in this book contribute to an increased understanding of the mechanisms of human interaction in general and in mobile settings more specifically.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions (Based on Gail Jefferson’s) List of Figures and Tables List of Excerpts Introduction 1 A Conversation Analytic and Multimodal Approach to Interaction in Driving Lessons  1 Theoretical Framework  2 Research Questions  3 Data  4 Talking the Driving Lesson into Being  5 Instructional Talk: Terminology 2 Instructing in a Mobile Setting: Literature Review  1 Interaction in Mobile Settings  2 Multiactivity  3 Directive / Instruction – Response Sequences 4 Multiactivity in the Driving Lesson  1 Instructions Embedded in the Ongoing Physical Activity  2 The Driving Activity as a Primary Context: Incipient Talk  3 Multiple Activities – Multiple Types of Multiactivity  4 The Interaction during the Journey Structured by the Road Situation  5 Turn-Taking as a Resource for Organising Multiactivity  6 Multiactivity in the Driving Lesson: Discussion 5 Instruction Types and Instructing Practices: Sequence Organisation  1 Receiving Instructions  2 Instructions in or as Responses  3 Different Kinds of Instructions: Sequence Organisational Specificities  4 Closing Instructional Sequences  5 Topicalising Problematic Driving Actions  6 Instructional Chains  7 Complex-Activity Sequences  8 Single Case Analysis: Explanation Sequence in the Parked Car – Confronting Teaching Practices  9 Sequence Organisation on the Move: Discussion 5 Instruction-Giving on the Move: Turn-Constructional Features  1 Designing Different Kinds of Instructions: Verb Forms as a Resource  2 Presenting Driving Actions as Situated in the Physical Environment and in a Larger Activity  3 Establishing Reference to Actions with Few Resources  4 Online Adjustment of Instructions  5 Repeats  6 Itinerary Instructions  7 Turn Construction on the Move: Discussion Concluding Discussion  1 Summary of the Analyses  2 Future Directions References Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn Presented Discourse in Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington explores the forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for non-professionals. This study confirms the importance of considering presentation of discourse outside of literary fiction: popular science uses presented discourse in ways uncommon for fiction yet not conventional for non-fiction either. This analysis is an acknowledgement of the social consequences of popularization. Discourse presentation of scientists reconstructs the world of the scientific community as a human space but also projects back into it an image of the scientist the public wants to see. At the same time, Pilkington’s findings strengthen the view of popularization that rejects the notion of a strict divide between professional and popular science.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisTelling stories is one of the fundamental things we do as humans. Yet in scholarship, stories considered to be “traditional”, such as myths, folk tales, and epics, have often been analyzed separately from the narratives of personal experience that we all tell on a daily basis. In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, editors Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber argue that storytelling is best understood by erasing this analytic divide. Chapter authors carefully examine language use in-situ, drawing on in-depth knowledge gained from long-term fieldwork, to present rich and nuanced analyses of storytelling-as-narrative-practice across a diverse range of global contexts. Each chapter takes a holistic ethnographic approach to show the practices, processes, and social consequences of telling stories.

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