Sociolinguistics Books

Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Theoretischer Rahmen.- Unternehmenskommunikation.- Die Sichtbarkeit von Menschen in der Sprache.- Methodisches Vorgehen und Daten.- Empirie.

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Book SynopsisWorking with the Phonetics of English and Dutch is a workbook intended to be used in conjunction with The Phonetics of English and Dutch (Brill, 1996). (An accompanying cassette is available on request from the authors at a nominal charge). The workbook contains twenty-four English and Dutch passages in phonemic transcription. Keys are provided for fifteen dictated passages (recorded on the cassette). An additional fifty passages, printed in conventional orthography, are included (for which transcription keys are obtainable for recognised teachers on request). The book also includes fifteen allophonic descriptions of English words and phrases. These provide a useful exercise for students learning articulatory phonetics in relation to English. Transcripts are provided for twelve representative varieties of British and Irish English (which have been recorded on the accompanying cassette). The accents illustrated are: London (Cockney), Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, West Glamorgan, Southampton, Cardiff and Hartlepool. All the informants are authentic speakers of the variety concerned and the samples are overwhelmingly of genuine conversational language. This set of recordings is one of the best sources presently available for samples of accents of British English. Notes are supplied to accompany the section of the cassette recording which demonstrates the vowels and consonants of the International Phonetic Association's alphabet. A section is included with over 350 questions on phonetics, covering the material dealt with in the textbook The Phonetics of English and Dutch. These will be excellent as a means of testing knowledge, and also for exam preparation.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Transcription Notes to English transcriptions English transcriptions Notes to Dutch transcriptions Dutch transcriptions 2. Dictation Notes to dictations Dictations 3. Allophonic description Notes to allophonic descriptions Allophonic descriptions 4. Accents Notes to transcripts of accents Transcripts of accents 5. Additional passages for transcription 6. Test questions Notes to cassette tapes The International Phonetic Alphabet References

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Book SynopsisLuvian is the language of Anatolian hieroglyphic inscriptions and a close relative of Hittite. This book explores the Luvian ethnic history through sociolinguistic methods, with an emphasis on the interpretation of contacts between Luvian and its linguistic neighbors, such as Hittite, Hurrian, and Greek. It is concluded that Luvian was originally spoken in the central part of Anatolia. Subsequent Luvian migrations were connected with the expansion of the Hittite state, where Hittite was the socially dominant language, but the Luvian speakers were more numerous. The unstable balance between the Hittite and the Luvian speakers continued to shift in favor of the second group, to the point that the Hittite elites were fully bilingual in Luvian.

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Book SynopsisIn The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, Julianne Maher explains a rare linguistic anomaly, how a small homogeneous population of seventeenth century French settlers in the tiny island of St. Barth came to speak four separate languages. With a range of historical documents and eighteenth century eye-witness accounts, Maher reconstructs the island's social ecology that led to its fragmentation. The four speech varieties are closely examined and analyzed, using extensive native speaker interviews; with the impending demise of these languages such documentation is unique. Maher concludes that social factors such as poverty, economics, geography and small population size served to maintain linguistic barriers on the island for over two hundred fifty years.

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Book SynopsisHausa society in West Africa has attracted researchers’ attention for decades, and has featured in the historical record for at least 500 years. Yet, no clear picture is available of the historical trajectories that underpin Hausa ethnogenesis. This book addresses this gap, deploying interdisciplinary approaches to revisit questions to which single disciplines have given partial answers, often due to the paucity of written sources for early periods of Hausa history. Contributors draw from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic history, and archaeology to enquire into how a ‘Hausa’ identity took shape and what have been its changing material and cultural manifestations. The result is a compelling overview of one of the most iconic groups of modern West Africa.Trade Review'Precisely what it means to be Hausa and whether Hausa speakers compose a specific ethnic group has long been a vexed question. The editors of this volume on Hausa identity and social life in West Africa conceptualize ethnicity as a "category of practice," situated within a particular historical context. They have brought together essays that critically examine what being Hausa means from linguistic, archaeological, sociocultural, and historical perspectives. Following a thoughtful introduction, the volume's 12 chapters focus on several themes: language, archaeology, material culture, and religion, mainly in areas associated with present-day Nigeria and Niger. Contributors use historical and comparative linguistic evidence, place-names, and proverbs to present reconstructions of early histories of Hausaland, while archaeological studies provide material evidence of social organization and economic production in emergent Hausa societies. Others consider Hausa precolonial textile industries and museum dress collections. Two chapters on religious practice, both Islamic and Christian, among contemporary Hausa-speaking societies in Niger underscore the ways that past social dynamics inform the present. A final chapter returns to the question of studying the "Hausaisation process." Essential reading for those concerned with Hausa identity, language, and historical and regional studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above'. E. P. Renne, University of Michigan - Reviewed in 2011may CHOICE. 'This book shows that gone are the days when one could use the European or missionary archives as the only source for studying African ethnicities, as if such historical records can be applied beyond the time of their production. No wonder this anachronistic tendency, as especially shown in some recent studies described as historical anthropology, is always eventually reductionist. The broad multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary agendas and the longitudinal views, as well as the expansive theoretical frameworks, that Haour and Rossi and their collaborators have persued in this book provide useful templates for the future study of cultural and ethnolinguistic identities in Africa'. Akinwumi Ogundiran, University of North Carolina - Reviewed in March 2012 Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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Book SynopsisWith world-wide environmental destruction and globalization of economy, a few languages, especially English, are spreading, while thousands others are disappearing, taking with them cultural, philosophical and environmental knowledge systems and oral literatures. This book serves as a manual of effective practices in language revitalization. This book was previously published by Academic Press under ISBN 978-01-23-49354-5.

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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 SynopsisThis volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions. What can we learn from the study of language contact for our knowledge of languages, their dynamics and their functions (systemic elaborations, language practices, semiotic developments)? How should linguistic theory incorporate the empirical findings of language contact studies, and how could these alter underlying postulates of existing models (choice of analysis and epistemic framework)? Which role has language contact been playing in the history of linguistic research and academic life? And how has this idea influenced individual researchers and their approaches?

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Book SynopsisIn and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the self and others, and the role of language therein. They discuss the impact of contact and mobilities on language maintenance, expansion and change. Language, mobility and identity in Suriname are observed through the lens of the actors themselves, from the ever-mobile Amerindians and Maroons on the periphery of land and society through expanding urban societies enhanced by recent migration from Haiti, Brazil and China.

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Book SynopsisQuantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world’s languages, bringing large datasets and sophisticated statistical techniques to bear on fundamental questions such as: how to identify and account for areal distributions, when language contact leads to grammatical simplification, whether patterns of morphological borrowing can be predicted, how to deal with contact within phylogenetic models, and what new techniques are most effective for classification of the world’s languages. The book is relevant for students and scholars in general linguistics, typology, and historical and comparative linguistics.

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Book SynopsisIn The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702) Christopher Joby offers an account of the knowledge and use of Dutch in early modern Britain. Using extensive archive material from Britain and the Low Countries, Chris Joby demonstrates that Dutch was both written and spoken in a range of social domains including the church, work, learning, the home, diplomacy, the military and navy, and the court. Those who used the language included artisans and their families fleeing religious and economic turmoil on the continent; the Anglo-Dutch King, William III; and Englishmen such as the scientist Robert Hooke. Joby’s account adds both to our knowledge of the use of Dutch in the early modern period and multilingualism in Britain at this time.

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Book SynopsisThe contributions in Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America advance the ever-expanding research program in formal and theoretical treatments of heritage language grammars through in-depth empirical investigations. The core focus on moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages extends beyond the exploration of the individual heritage language grammars and contributes to larger discussions in the field of Germanic linguistics.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents unique insights into laryngeal features, one of the most intriguing topics of contemporary phonetics and phonology. It investigates in detail properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms (as in ejectives or implosives), stress, and prosody. What makes American indigenous languages special is that many of these properties co-exist in the phonologies of languages spoken on the continent. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, the contributions span a range of American languages, illustrating how the phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features provides insight into how potential articulatory and aero-acoustic conflicts are resolved, which contrastive laryngeal features can co-occur in a given language, which features pattern together in phonological processes and how they evolve over time. This contribution provides the most recent research on laryngeal features with an array of studies to expand and enrich the fascinating field of phonetics and phonology of the languages of the Americas.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, and Leo Wetzels 2. Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and Change Keren Rice 3. Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna Athabascan Siri G. Tuttle 4. Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice Quality Sharon Hargus 5. Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the Americas Matthew Gordon 6. Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross Linguistics Study of Laryngeal Contrast Heriberto Avelino 7. The Role of Prominent Prosodic Position in Governing laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan Languages José Elías-Ulloa 8. Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec Maya Melissa Frazier 9. Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems Larry M. Hyman 10. The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-Tukanoan Thiago Costa Chacon 11. The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in Desano Wilson Silva 12. Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in Karitiana Didier Demolin and and Luciana Storto Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. The empirical basis for the grammar is fifteen years of fieldwork, including text data from 36 fluent speakers. Seventeen chapters deal with phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse phenomena. Salient typological features include a robust morphological distinction between male and female speech; the expression of TAM categories via fixed clitics; the encoding of three-place predicates by means of transitive clauses; six directive constructions that distinguish degrees of pragmatic force; and multiple types of purpose clauses that differ in terms of coreference control. This grammar also shows the Tupí-Guarani origin of an important number of Kukama-Kukamiria grammatical structures and advances comparative studies in the region.

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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 SynopsisThis series of lectures provides an overview of the author's work on quantitative applications in cognitive linguistics by discussing a wide range of studies involving corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work. After a discussion of how corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics relate to each other, the author discusses empirical and statistical studies of a wide variety of phenomena including morphophonology (morphological blends and alliteration effects), corpus-based cognitive semantics, frequency and association at the syntax-lexis interface. The book concludes with chapters exemplifying the role that bottom-up approaches can take, the role of statistical methods more generally, and the role of converging evidence from corpus and experimental data.The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013. In the e-book version all handouts have been made available at the back. All audio of the lectures as well as the handouts are available for free, in Open Access, here.

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Book SynopsisCognitive Sociolinguistics combines the interest in meaning of Cognitive Linguistics with the interest in social variation of sociolinguistics, converging on two domains of enquiry: variation of meaning, and the meaning of variation. These Ten Lectures, a transcribed version of talks given by professor Geeraerts in 2009 at Beihang University in Beijing, introduce and illustrate both dimensions. The ‘variation of meaning’ perspective involves looking at types of semantic and categorial variation, at the role of social and cultural factors in semantic variation and change, and at the interplay of stereotypes, prototypes and norms. The ‘meaning of variation’ perspective involves looking at the way in which categorization processes of the type studied by Cognitive Linguistics shape how scholars and laymen think about language variation.

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Book SynopsisIn Dynamics of Teaching and Learning Modern Hebrew as an Additional Language Yona Gilead presents original research into classroom interactional practices by offering a thick description of a successful beginner-level Modern Hebrew program at an Australian university. The book charts and theorizes the cohort’s teacher and students’ trajectory of using Hebrew as the main means of instructing and acquiring the language, and highlights seven key features which contribute to students’ learning. The book’s research-based findings and analysis of classroom dynamics contribute to theorizing the currently largely praxis-based discipline of L2 Modern Hebrew instruction, hence providing a stronger theoretical understanding of how and why students can be assisted in their language learning. This original research provides a template for renewed L2 Hebrew research.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments List of abbreviations 1 Setting the Scene  1.1 Introduction  1.2 Introducing Core Concepts of the crc  1.3 The Challenge of Implementation as Reality and as the Topic of This Study  1.4 Objectives, Focus Areas and Outline   1.4.1 Objectives and General Outline   1.4.2 On the Focus on Tradition, Attitudes and ‘culture’   1.4.3 On the Focus on Sweden   1.4.4 Structure of the Book 2 Concepts and Theories: On ‘the child’, ‘childhood’, and Rights  2.1 Introduction  2.2 ‘The child’ as an Object of Inquiry   2.2.1 ‘The child’ in the crc   2.2.2 Concepts of ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’ – Some Perspectives    2.2.2.1 General Reflections    2.2.2.2 ‘The child’ in Childhood Studies  2.3 Brief Reflections on ‘the child’ and ‘childhood’  2.4 The Child as a Rights Holder   2.4.1 Why Rights?   2.4.2 Do Children Really Have Rights?   2.4.3 On the Foundations for the Rights of Children   2.4.4 Remarks on the Justification of Children’s Rights 3 Participation and Article 12  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Participation as a Concept   3.2.1 Identifying and Defining Participation   3.2.2 Remarks on Participation  3.3 Nature and Scope of Article 12   3.3.1 Introductory Remarks   3.3.2 Brief Notes on the Background and Drafting Process   3.3.3 Analysis of Article 12    3.3.3.1 Capability of Forming His or Her Own Views    3.3.3.2 The Right to Express Views Freely    3.3.3.3 All Matters Affecting the Child    3.3.3.4 Giving the Views of the Child Due Weight in Accordance with the Child’s Age and Maturity    3.3.3.5 The Right to Be Heard in Any Judicial or Administrative Proceedings Affecting the Child    3.3.3.6 The Right to Be Heard Directly or through a Representative in a Manner Consistent with Procedural Rules of National Law   3.3.4 Article 12 in Relation to Other crc Provisions    3.3.4.1 Article 12 and Other ‘participation rights’    3.3.4.2 Article 12 and the Other General Principles of the crc    3.3.4.3 Article 12 and Article 5 on Parental Rights  3.4 What is it about and Who is it For? Reflections on the Analysis of Article 12 4 Implementing Article 12: Procedures, Obstacles and Explanations  4.1 Introduction  4.2 General Measures of Implementation   4.2.1 On Obligations, Requirements and Resources   4.2.2 Legal Measures and Status of the crc in National Law   4.2.3 Administrative and Other Measures  4.3 Monitoring and Guidance  4.4 Implementing Article 12 – State Practices as Described by States Themselves and by the crc Committee   4.4.1 Background and the Previous Study   4.4.2 Declarations by State Parties on Article 12   4.4.3 State Parties on Article 12 between May 2006 and May 2016   4.4.4 Concluding Observations by the crc Committee on Article 12 between May 2006 and May 2016  4.5 Concluding Comments 5 Country Study: Sweden  5.1 Sweden and Children’s Rights: An Amicable Relationship (?)   5.1.1 Introduction   5.1.2 Brief Notes on Background   5.1.3 Status of the crc in Swedish Law   5.1.4 Strategies and Policies   5.1.5 Children’s Rights in Swedish Legislation: Some Examples  5.2 Sweden and Article 12 in the crc Monitoring Process   5.2.1 State Party Reports   5.2.2 Responses and Comments by the crc Committee  5.3 Focus: The Asylum-seeking Child   5.3.1 In Theory: Legislation, Guidelines and Policy   5.3.2 In Practice: Studies on Implementation   5.3.3 Comments  5.4 Focus: Child Participation in Public Decision-making   5.4.1 In Theory: Strategies, Legislation, and Policies   5.4.2 In Practice: Mixed Reviews   5.4.3 Comments  5.5 Final Reflections on Article 12 in the Swedish Context 6 Concluding Reflections  6.1 Key Observations  6.2 On Traditional Attitudes and Power   6.2.1 Universality and Legitimacy   6.2.2 State Parties, the crc Committee, and Traditional Attitudes  6.3 On Moving Forward  6.4 Final Reflections Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Written Language in the Arab World connects the fascinating field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors combine large-scale survey data on language attitudes with in-depth analyses of actual language usage and explicit (and implicit) language ideology. They show that writing practices as well as language attitudes in Egypt and Morocco are far more receptive to vernacular forms than has been assumed. The individual chapters cover a wide variety of media, from books and magazines to blogs and Tweets. A central theme running through the contributions is the social and political function of “doing informality” in a changing public sphere steadily more permeated by written Arabic in a number of media.

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.

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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 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 SynopsisThe papers in this volume study the relationship between language use and the concept of the “tourist gaze” through a range of communicative practices from different cultures and languages. From a pragmatic perspective, the authors investigate how language constantly adapts to contextual constraints which affect tourism discourse as a strategic meaning-making process that turns insignificant places into desirable tourist destinations. The case studies draw on both, in situ interactions with visitors, such as guided tours and counter information, old and new mediatized genres, i.e. guide books, travelogues, print advertising as well as TV-commercials, service web-sites and apps. Despite the diversity of data, one of the common findings in the volume is that staging the sensory ‘lived’ tourist experience is the lynchpin of all communicative practices. Hence, the use of tourism language reveals itself as the mirror of how ‘people on the move’ continuously enact as ‘tourists’ and ‘places’ are constructed as must-see ‘sights’.

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Book SynopsisEliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael investigate world-cities’ linguistic landscapes about the intermingling influences of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism through conjunctions of their respective codes - lingua francas, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. These analyses lead to the elaboration of a paradigm of multiple globalizations.Trade Review",,, the book is valuable for providing an overarching framework of societal influences upon the LL of world-cities. Scholars will also benefit immensely from the authors' summaries of a wealth of sociological theory bearing upon modernity, globalisation, multiculturalism and transnational diasporas, and nationhood." - Robert A. Troyer, Western Oregon University, in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development “This volume is undoubtedly a very solid contribution to the rather new field of LL (Linguistic Landscapes): on the one hand because of its sound grounding in sociological theory on globalization and multiculturalism, and on the other, for the promising theoretical model Ben-Rafael and Ben-Rafael have elaborated of a LL paradigm for multiple globalizations.” - Christine Hélot, University of Strasbourg, in: Linguistic Landscape 6/1 (2020)Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Investigating Multiple Globalizations  1 Linguistic Landscapes  2 World-cities and Globalization  3 Multiculturalism  4 The National Principle  5 Research Questions and the Theoretical Argument  6 In Search of Singularities 2 Methodologies and Research Objectives  1 The Research Settings  2 Collecting and Analyzing Data  3 Summing Up 3 Berlin  1 Introduction  2 Globalization in Downtowns  3 Galeries Lafayette  4 A Residential Middle-Class Neighborhood  5 A Turkish-Speaking Area  6 A Mixed Turkish-Arab Area  7 Where Arabic-Speakers Dominate  8 Conclusion 4 Paris  1 Introduction  2 The Champs Elysées  3 Chinatown  4 Jewish Sarcelles-Pletzel  5 Islam at the Goutte d’Or  6 Conclusion 5 Brussels  1 A Hub of Contradictions  2 Downtown Brussels  3 French-Speaking Neighborhoods  4 Flemish Areas  5 Arab Muslim Neighborhoods  6 The sub-Saharan Quarter  7 The Asian Quarter  8 The Turkish Neighborhood  9 The European Quarter  10 Conclusion 6 London  1 Introduction  2 Central London’s LL  3 Golders Green  4 Chinatown in Soho  5 London’s Little India  6 Conclusion 7 Tel Aviv-Jaffa  1 Introduction  2 Downtowns  3 Ramat Hasharon  4 Bnei Brak  5 Old Rosh Ha’Ayin  6 Ajami  7 The Central Bus Station  8 Conclusion 8 Downtowns Around the World  1 Introduction  2 Tokyo-Yokohama  3 New Delhi  4 Addis Ababa  5 Three cases – not too far away 9 An LL Paradigm for Multiple Globalizations  1 The Sociological Perspective  2 Configurations in Downtowns  3 Residential Areas  4 Ethno-cultural Quarters  5 Empirical Conclusions: Answering the Research Questions 10 Emblems of Singularities  1 Introduction  2 The Wall of Berlin: The East Gallery  3 Paris under-the-ground  4 Brussels’ Comic Strip Murals  5 London’s Double-Decker Buses  6 Tel Aviv: the Florentin neighborhood  7 Conclusion 11 General Conclusions  1 A sociology of Linguistic Landscape  2 From Modernity to Multiple Modernities  3 Globalization Instead of Modernity?  4 Multiculturalism and Transnational Diasporas  5 The Pertinence of the Nation  6 Multiple Globalizations Appendix 1: Indexes of Globalization Appendix 2: Major Areas of Destination for Contemporary Migration Flows Appendix 3: Number of Civil Servants per Population (Selected European Countries) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates an elegant model accommodating accumulated insights into human language even as it frees linguistics from its two-thousand-year-old, ideological attachment to reified grammatical systems. Idiolects are redefined as continually emergent collections of context specific, probabilistic memories entrenched as a result of domain-general cognitive processes that create and consolidate linguistic experience. Also continually emergent, conventionalization and vernacularization operate across individuals producing the illusion of shared grammatical systems. Conventionalization results from the emergence of parallel expectations for the use of linguistic elements organized into syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. In parallel, vernacularization indexes linguistic forms to sociocultural identities and stances. Evidence implying entrenchment and conventionalization is provided in asymmetrical frequency distributions.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Languages Ideology  0 Ideology  1 Discourse, Ideographs, and the Languages Ideology  2 Ongoing Signs of Discontent  3 A Plausible Alternative 1 The Staying Power of an Illusion  1.0 Introduction  1.1 A History of the Languages Ideology  1.2 The Persistent Power of False Assumptions  1.3 Dissenting Voices  1.4 Languaging, Not Languages  1.5 Summary 2 Entrenchment and the Linguistic Individual  2.0 Introduction  2.1 The Languaging Individual  2.2 Usage-based Theory and Emergent Systems  2.3 Summary 3 Conventionalization and the Illusion of Shared Grammar  3.0 Introduction  3.1 Similarities between Entrenchment and Conventionalization  3.2 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Lexical Items  3.3 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Open Slots in Constructions  3.4 The Role of Conventionalization in Linguistic Change  3.5 Summary 4 Vernacularization  4.0 Introduction  4.1 Indexes, and Indexing  4.2 Intersections: Vernacularization, Conventionalization, and the Languages Ideology  4.3 Summary 5 Conclusion  5.0 Introduction  5.1 Repeated Calls to Action, Repeated Ideological Reenactment  5.2 Liberating Insights Entrapped by the Languages Ideology  5.3 Changing the Discourse Appendix I Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

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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 SynopsisJewish Languages in Historical Perspective is devoted to the diverse array of spoken and written language varieties that have been employed by Jews in the Diaspora from antiquity until the twenty-first century. It focuses on the following five key themes: Jewish languages in dialogue with sacred Jewish texts, Jewish languages in contact with the co-territorial non-Jewish languages, Jewish vernacular traditions, the status of Jewish languages in the twenty-first century, and theoretical issues relating to Jewish language research. This volume includes case studies on a wide range of Jewish languages both historical and modern and devotes attention to lesser known varieties such as Jewish Berber, Judeo-Italian, and Karaim in addition to the more familiar Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, and Ladino. "On top of Brill’s Journal of Jewish Languages and a number of recent publications providing systematic overviews of Jewish languages as well as related theoretical discussions, this volume is a valuable addition to the increasing interest in Jewish languages and linguistics." -Wout van Bekkum, Groningen, Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI 3-4 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Lily Kahn Part 1: Jewish Languages and Sacred Texts 1 The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis  Alinda Damsma 2 Translation of the Tanakh into Crimean Karaim: History, Manuscripts, and Language  Henryk Jankowski Part 2: Jewish Languages in Contact 3 Single-Script Mixed-Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah and Their Sociolinguistic Context  Meira Polliack 4 Yiddish in the Hungarian Setting  Szonja Ráhel Komoróczy Part 3: Jewish Vernacular Traditions 5 Jewish Berber: A Brief Linguistic Sketch  Rachid Ridouane 6 Modern Judeo-Italian in the Light of Italian Dialectology and Jewish Interlinguistics through Three Case Studies: Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Venetian, and Judeo-Livornese  Maria Maddalena Colasuonno Part 4: The Status of Jewish Languages in the Twenty-First Century 7 Mind the Gap! The Schism between Perceptions of the Yiddish Language and Yiddish Cultural Realities  Helen Beer 8 Ladino: Past and Present  Hilary Pomeroy Part 5: Theoretical Approaches to Jewish Languages 9 Judeo-Arabic Language or Jewish Arabic Sociolect? Linguistic Terminology between Linguistics and Ideology  Esther-Miriam Wagner 10 Jewish Languages and Their Typology: Issues and Models  Frank Alvarez-Pereyre Index

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Book SynopsisArabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War. This volume takes its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities, tracing their linguistic and literary practices as part of a number of interlinked processes, including that of religious modernization, of new types of communal identity politics and of socio-political engagement with the emerging nation states and their accompanying nationalisms. These twentieth-century developments are firmly rooted in literary and linguistic practices of the Ottoman period, but take new turns under influence of colonization and decolonization, showing the versatility and resilience as much as the vulnerability of these linguistic and religious minorities in the region. Contributors are Tijmen C. Baarda, Leyla Dakhli, Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah, Liora R. Halperin, Robert Isaf, Michiel Leezenberg, Merav Mack, Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Konstantinos Papastathis, Franck Salameh, Cyrus Schayegh, Emmanuel Szurek, Peter Wien.Table of ContentsPreface  Heleen Murre-van den Berg Note on Transcription Notes on Contributors 1 Arabic and its Alternatives: Language and Religion in the Ottoman Empire and its Successor States  Heleen Murre-van den Berg 2 Vernacularization as Governmentalization: the Development of Kurdish in Mandate Iraq  Michiel Leezenberg 3 “Yan, Of, Ef, Viç, İç, İs, Dis, Pulos …”: the Surname Reform, the “Non-Muslims,” and the Politics of Uncertainty in Post-genocidal Turkey  Emmanuel Szurek 4 “Young Phoenicians” and the Quest for a Lebanese Language: between Lebanonism, Phoenicianism, and Arabism  Franck Salameh 5 “Those Who Pronounce the Ḍād”: Language and Ethnicity in the Nationalist Poetry of Fuʾad al-Khatib (1880–1957)  Peter Wien 6 Arabic and the Syriac Christians in Iraq: Three Levels of Loyalty to the Arabist Project (1920–1950)  Tijmen C. Baarda 7 Awakening, or Watchfulness: Naum Faiq and Syriac Language Poetry at the Fall of the Ottoman Empire  Robert Isaf 8 Global Jewish Philanthropy and Linguistic Pragmatism in Baghdad  Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah 9 Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine  Liora R. Halperin 10 United by Faith, Divided by Language: the Orthodox in Jerusalem  Merav Mack 11 Arabic vs. Greek: the Linguistic Aspect of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church Controversy in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate  Konstantinos Papastathis 12 Between Local Power and Global Politics: Playing with Languages in the Franciscan Printing Press of Jerusalem  Leyla Dakhli 13 Epilogue  Cyrus Schayegh Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.Table of ContentsPreface Editors Notes on Contributors 1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data  Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen Part 1: Evidence from “Big Data” 2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics  Antoinette Renouf 3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design  Mark Davies 4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English  Lieselotte Anderwald 5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of English  Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko Part 2: Evidence from “Rich Data”? 6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data  Thomas Kohnen 7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s Perspective  Tanja Rütten 8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions  Daniela Landert 9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence  Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? 10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor  Tony McEnery and Helen Baker 11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English  Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich 12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets  Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö 13 Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics  David Brett and Antonio Pinna 14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach  Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw Indexe

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Book SynopsisSpelling and Writing Words: Theoretical and Methodological Advances provides a set of contributions about how individuals write words. Understanding word production is of major importance as it allows understanding how words -the basic elements of written language- are stored in the writers’ brain and how do writers select the spelling of a word. < The theoretical chapters address hot topics in the field such as the role of phonology in writing, bilingualism, language disorders, orthographic acquisition, and the influence of handwriting on reading. The methodological chapters address individual differences, how to measure handwriting performance in different handwriting styles, and neuroscientific approaches. The concluding chapters explore the future of written word production research.

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Book SynopsisEmbodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’ edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk adds to linguistic studies on embodied cognition and conceptualization while focusing on one body part term from a comparative perspective. The ‘head’ is investigated as a source domain for extending multiple concepts in various target domains accessed via metaphor or metonymy. The contributions in the volume provide comparative and case studies based on analyses of the first-hand data from languages representing all continents and diversified linguistic groups, including endangered languages of Africa, Australia and Americas. The book offers new reflections on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change. The findings contribute to general research on metaphor, metonymy, and polysemy within a paradigm of cognitive linguistics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Embodied Lexicon and the ‘Head’  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 1 Comparative Studies 1 ‘Head(s)’ in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese  Aleksandra Wilkos and Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho 2 On the Lexeme ‘Head’ in Zamucoan  Luca Ciucci 3 What the Grammaticalization of ‘Head’ Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language?  Zygmunt Frajzyngier 4 ‘Head’ in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo  Helma Pasch 5 “Head” as a Link of Embodiment in Chinese  Yongxian Luo 6 From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body Parts  Kelsie Pattillo 7 Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part ‘Head’ in Mental and Social Domains  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 2 Case Studies 8 The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal Representation  Izabela Will 9 Semantics of Amharic ras ‘Head’  Abinet Sime 10 ‘Head’ Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and Correlations  Filiz Mutlu, Aysel Kapan, Ali Yagiz Sen, Hilal Yıldırım-Gündoğdu and Aslı Göksel 11 ‘He Cracked His Head Feverishly’: Conceptualizations of HEAD and THINKING in Hungarian  Judit Baranyiné Kóczy 12 Semantic Extensions of tatini ‘Her Head’ and tati ‘His Head’ in Deni (Arawá)  Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho 13 Wulaya ‘Head’ in Yanyuwa  Alice Gaby and John Bradley Index

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Book SynopsisObserving writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting is a timely volume appearing twelve years after the Studies in Writing volume Computer Keystroke Logging and Writing (Sullivan & Lindgren, 2006). The 2006 volume provided the reader with a fundamental account of keystroke logging, a methodology in which a piece of software records every keystroke, cursor and mouse movement a writer undertakes during a writing session. This new volume highlights current theoretical and applied research questions in keystroke logging and handwriting research that observes writing. In this volume, contributors from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, modern languages, and education, present their research that considers the cognitive and socio-cultural complexities of writing texts in academic and professional settings.Trade Review"Overall, these concluding notes, as well as the book as a whole, show great potential of development for what has proven to be a fast-growing, exciting area of research." -Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, in Written Language and Literacy, Volume 22:1 (2019)Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Notes on Contributors Researching Writing with Observational Logging Tools from 2006 to the Present  Eva Lindgren, Yvonne Knospe and Kirk PH Sullivan 1 Combining Keystroke Logging with Other Methods: towards an Experimental Environment for Writing Process Research  Åsa Wengelin, Johan Frid, Roger Johansson and Victoria Johansson 2 Using HandSpy to Study Writing in Real Time: a Comparison between Low- and High-Quality Texts in Grade 2  Rui A. Alves, José Paulo Leal and Teresa Limpo 3 Analysing Keystroke Logging Data from a Linguistic Perspective  Mariëlle Leijten, Eric Van Horenbeeck and Luuk Van Waes 4 Writing and Rewriting: the Coloured Numerical Visualization of Keystroke Logging  Hélène-Sarah Bécotte, Gilles Caporossi, Alain Hertz and Christophe Leblay 5 Empowering Automated Writing Evaluation with Keystroke Logging  Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen 6 Progression Analysis: Working with Large Data Corpora in Field Research on Writing  Daniel Perrin 7 A Tutorial Introduction to Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) for Keystroke Logging Data  Sebastian Wallot and Joachim Grabowski 8 Fluency in L1 and FL Writing: an Analysis of Planning, Essay Writing and Final Revision  Esther Odilia Breuer 9 The Effect of L2 Proficiency Level on Composing Processes of EFL Learners: Data from Keystroke Loggings, Think Alouds and Questionnaires  Gulay Tiryakioglu, Elke Peters and Lieven Verschaffel 10 Metaphorical Language in Second Language Learners’ Texts: Additional Baggage of the Writing Journey?  Ha Hoang 11 Observing Writing and Website Browsing: Swedish Students Write L3 German  Yvonne Knospe, Kirk PH Sullivan, Anita Malmqvist and Ingela Valfridsson 12 Using Keystroke Logging to Capture the Impact of Cognitive Complexity and Typing Fluency on Written Language Production  Michelle Aldridge and Lise Fontaine 13 Aligning Keystrokes with Cognitive Processes in Writing  David Galbraith and Veerle M. Baaijen 14 Anticipation of Audience during Writing  Markus Linnemann 15 Revising at the Leading Edge: Shaping Ideas or Clearing up Noise  Eva Lindgren, Asbjørg Westum, Hanna Outakoski and Kirk PH Sullivan Coda  Sven Strömqvist Index Author Index

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