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Book SynopsisThis engaging and accessible textbook, by two leading experts, is a carefully crafted introduction to linguistics for translators, students, and researchers of translation.Starting with basic concepts and gradually moving readers to the central questions in different branches of linguistics, examples are drawn from English and many other languages, including German, Arabic, Kurdish, Swahili, French, and Chinese. The key areas of linguistics are covered from morphology and syntax to semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics. Striking a balance between theoretical developments and empirical investigation, readers gain both a comprehensive overview of linguistics and how it informs their work in translation and learn how to argue for analysis and annotate their own answers and translations academically. Each chapter provides the reader with an overview outlining the main points and technical words used in the chapter as well as illustrative examples, recommended readings, and resources and activities to test knowledge. This is the ideal textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of translation in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Modern languages.Trade ReviewYet another success story in the world of academic publishing. Linguistics for Translators is a major undertaking. To reconcile the two perspectives (sentence and text linguistics) and come up with a product relevant to both translator and linguist, is a mammoth task, executed seamlessly and most effectively.Emeritus Professor Basil Hatim, American University of Sharjah, UAELinguistics for Translators is a valuable addition to a field where theory and practice are closely intertwined. The authors review a wide range of linguistic concepts that are of relevance for the translator and illustrate them with clear, up-to-date examples in many languages. Frequent questions and tasks test and enhance the reader’s understanding.Jeremy Munday, Professor Emeritus in Translation Studies, University of Leeds, UKAlmanna and House adopt a perspective in their Linguistics for Translators which shows convincingly that systematic knowledge of language is a fascinating and necessary resource for understanding translation. They maintain contact with questions arising in translation studies through their valuable linguistic orientation with a strong pedagogical focus. A timely and most welcome contribution to the field.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Steiner (i.R./ em.), Translation Studies Englisch, Saarland University, Dept. of Language Science and Technology.Linguistics for Translators by Almanna and House provides a ground-breaking contribution to translation studies. It reinstates linguistics to the forefront of the field, by demonstrating its crucial importance for understanding what goes on in translation. This book is a must-read for academics, teachers, practitioners and students.Dániel Z. Kádár, Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea, Chair Professor, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China, and Hungarian Research Centre for LinguisticsTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 : Setting the scene Chapter 2: Phonetics & phonology Chapter 3: MorphologyChapter 4: Morphological processesChapter 5: Syntax Chapter 6: Semantics Chapter 7: Discourse analysisChapter 8: Pragmatics Chapter 9: Functional linguisticsChapter 10: Sociolinguistics Chapter 11: Language variation Chapter 12: Cognitive linguistics

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Book SynopsisDrawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into literacy, voice, translingualism, and critical pedagogy from a Global South perspective. The book presents literacy autobiographies as a cultural tool for analyzing and refashioning learners' and teachers' sense of self in ever-expanding dialogical spaces. In addition to highlighting teachers' own stories around autoethnographies and translanguaging, it showcases literacy autobiographies from Chinese students themselves. The book theorizes the Global South as an ontological positioning that challenges colonial mindsets and practices concerning literacy, language learning, and narratives. It argues that literacy autobiographies from a Global South perspective can be reimagined as critical pedagogy for EFL writing teaching and learning, as well as teacher development.Validating and expanding student voices by presenting these literaTrade Review"Shizhou Yang has taken an innovative Global South perspective on literacy autobiographies with stories by himself as an EFL writing teacher as well as those by his students from China in diverse transnational contexts. The result is a fascinating and thought-provoking account that not only contributes to theoretical discussions of concepts such as critical pedagogy, translanguaging, and writing ecology, but also to pedagogical practices that will truly enable and empower the learners, and the teachers, to develop their own voices. As such, it is a major contribution to translingual and decolonising turn in language education research."Professor Li Wei, Director & Dean, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.Like his cicada after its long formation,Shizhou emerges with translingual poetryBreaking free from the global and colonizingPressures against his voice in literacy.Not alone, he emerges with his whole musical army—His students—with their own translingual story.But these cicadas won’t die too quickly;Their voices will transform the dominant pedagogy. Suresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Pennsylvania State University "This is a captivating book about the liberating intellectual journey of Shizhou Yang, who has found his voice and identity as a multilingual scholar through writing his own literacy autobiography. Also featuring the autobiographical writing of the author’s students situated in a marginalized context, the book celebrates the power of literacy autobiography as an undervalued genre in EFL contexts, demonstrating how it is intertwined with identity work, voice development, and knowledge creation. I highly recommend the book to everyone."Icy Lee, Professor, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China"Featuring literacy autobiography and poetic inquiry as methodology, this book has provided EFL teachers and students with a proven way to gain liberation from the shackles of modernism and neoliberalism. It is a must-read for anyone who is keen in search for Southern epistemologies in English language teaching." Xiaoye You, Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA"Shizhou Yang has taken an innovative Global South perspective on literacy autobiographies with stories by himself as an EFL writing teacher as well as those by his students from China in diverse transnational contexts. The result is a fascinating and thought-provoking account that not only contributes to theoretical discussions of concepts such as critical pedagogy, translanguaging, and writing ecology, but also to pedagogical practices that will truly enable and empower the learners, and the teachers, to develop their own voices. As such, it is a major contribution to translingual and decolonising turn in language education research."Professor Li Wei, Director & Dean, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.Like his cicada after its long formation,Shizhou emerges with translingual poetryBreaking free from the global and colonizingPressures against his voice in literacy.Not alone, he emerges with his whole musical army—His students—with their own translingual story.But these cicadas won’t die too quickly;Their voices will transform the dominant pedagogy. Suresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Pennsylvania State University "This is a captivating book about the liberating intellectual journey of Shizhou Yang, who has found his voice and identity as a multilingual scholar through writing his own literacy autobiography. Also featuring the autobiographical writing of the author’s students situated in a marginalized context, the book celebrates the power of literacy autobiography as an undervalued genre in EFL contexts, demonstrating how it is intertwined with identity work, voice development, and knowledge creation. I highly recommend the book to everyone."Icy Lee, Professor, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China"Featuring literacy autobiography and poetic inquiry as methodology, this book has provided EFL teachers and students with a proven way to gain liberation from the shackles of modernism and neoliberalism. It is a must-read for anyone who is keen in search for Southern epistemologies in English language teaching." Xiaoye You, Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USATable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsPart 1 – A Teacher’s Stories1. An EFL Writing Teacher’s Poetic Autoethnography of Literacy Autobiography2. My Own Literacy AutobiographyPart 2 – Theory and Empirical Studies3. Literacy Autobiographical Writing as Critical Pedagogy4. Pedagogical Translanguaging Behind Literacy Autobiographical Writing5. The Emergence of Translingualism in an EFL Writer’s LA6. Voice Construction Beyond TranslingualismPart 3 – Student’s Literacy Autobiographies7. My Literacy Rooted in Chinese Culture8. A Learning Cycle of Reading and Writing in English and Chinese9. My Bilingual Journey10. A Literacy History of My Early Twenty Years11. A Journey of Reading and Writing in Chinese and English12. My Footprints of Language Learning13. A Way to Memorize: Reading and Writing14. My Road on Acquisition of Reading and Writing15. My Conquest of Language16. My Journey to LiteracyAfterwordIndex

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores plurilingual education in the unique English medium instruction (EMI) context of the Arabian Peninsula. The book argues that integrating a plurilingual pedagogy alongside current EMI in the region could enhance students' learning and contribute to a language policy that embraces linguistic diversity while fostering regional identity. It brings together the work of experts in Arabic and English language policy and planning, presenting empirical research relating to plurilingual pedagogical practices within the region. The book offers a range of recommendations for educators on how to integrate plurilingual pedagogies in classroom teaching. This becomes more important since many educators in the region are non-Arabic speakers and are teaching students with diverse linguistic backgrounds through English.With a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to the linguistic landscape in the Arabian region, this book will be of great Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1: Language planning, policy, and practices in the context of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the Arabian Peninsula: Challenges and success stories. 1. Steering the Arabic Language Policy and Planning Agenda: The way forward for Arabic as a language of the future. 2. Current Discussions on Plurilingual Pedagogy: Language Learning Implications in the Arabian Peninsula. 3. Arabic language teacher training in the Arabian Peninsula: Great teachers don’t grow on trees. 4. Teacher education and EMI in the UAE and Arabian Peninsula - Past, present and future perspectives. Part 2: Empirical research on plurilingual education in the Arabian Peninsula context. 5. From binaries to plurality: Emirati college students’ perspectives on the plurilingual identities of English users and expatriate teachers. 6. Plurilingual pedagogy in Higher Education in the UAE: Student voices in an academic writing course. 7. Expanding communicative repertories through plurilingual pedagogies in international branch campus classrooms in Qatar. Part 3: Implications and applications of plurilingual pedagogy in teaching and learning. 8. Rethinking Learning and Teaching Using Plurilingual Pedagogy in the UAE: Challenges and success stories. 9. From theory to practice: Ways to implement plurilingual pedagogy in education institutions in the Arabian Peninsula.Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisLanguage and Social Justice provides readers with the knowledge and analytical skills required to explore why and how social inequalities and injustices are enacted through language, and how they may be challenged.The expert authors introduce readers to theories, concepts, methods and applications which enable them to become âactivist applied linguistsâ in the field of language and social justice. Each chapter contains up-to-date information, case studies, study questions and activities, suggestions for activism, and recommended readings relating to a range of topics within the field of language and social justice research.This innovative and accessible textbook is essential reading for students and scholars engaged in language and social justice research across a range of contexts.

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Book SynopsisWhy should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Over seven editions, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like these because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This eighth edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer, pressing, and exciting challenges of the twenty-first century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, linguistic diasporas, as well as online and digital ecosystems. New to this edition are a reconceptualization of how linguistics approaches race, gender, and sexuality, with additional chapters and sections on how linguistics benefits archaeology and biological anthropology, as well as considerations of the relationship between language and truth, ethics, and war and politics. It also features enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and cross-references to updated encyclopedias of linguistic anthropology.

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Book SynopsisResearch in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.This ambitious volume covers a variety of linguistic, affective, social, and educational perspectives, all related to heritage language research. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic under discussion with examples from a variety of heritage languages, written in a highly accessible way and with activities and leads to further research literature. Readers are guided through theoretical background, research justification, creation, use, and the possible outcomes of key research methods.This exciting text is an invaluable resource for graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students in second language acquisition, language learning, and heritage languages.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) from the point of view of argumentative tools used by the Court to persuade the audience States, applicants and public opinion of the correctness of its rulings. The ECtHR judgments selected by the authors concern justification of some of the most difficult issues. These are matters related to human life, human dignity and the right to self-determination in matters concerning one's private life. The authors looked for paths and repetitive patterns of argumentation and divided them into three categories of argumentative tools: authority, deontological and teleological. The work tracks how ECtHR judges aim to find a consensual, universal and, at the same time, pragmatic and axiologically neutral narrative on the collisions of rights and interests in the areas under discussion. It analyses whether the voice of the ECtHR carries the overtones of an ethical statement and, if so, to which arguments it appeals.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Challenges of judicial reasoning in beginning and end-of-life cases 2 Ways of judicial reasoning – outline 3 Ways of reasoning in medically assisted procreation and surrogacy cases 4 Ways of reasoning in abortion cases 5 Ways of reasoning in end-of-life situations Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisSpeech Language Therapy as a Global Practice focuses on the necessary skills and considerations needed to be a culturally responsive clinician in a multicultural and multilingual world.The book highlights current issues of global practice and advocates for appropriate ways to engage with global communities. It positions culture, context and collaboration as integral and intertwined components of speech language therapy work. Drawing on examples of successful and ongoing collaborative global speech language therapy partnerships, chapters cover a breadth of topics including social justice, translanguaging and colourism and include a series of reflective question. Authors grapple with ways to challenge the status quo and consider alternative ways of being, knowing and doing, including the use of technology and innovation in global practice. Overall, this collection highlights the importance of creating space for discussion as the profession of speech language therapy is now practiced in more countries than ever before.This much needed book will be essential reading for trainee and practising speech language therapists, particularly those interested in cultural competence, meaningful reflection and ethical practice. It will also be of interest to allied health professionals working with individuals experiencing communication disability.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), responses to informings ('The May Company are sure having a big sale' - 'Are they?'), responses to assessments ('Track walking is so boring. Even with headphones' - 'It is'), and responses to requests ('Please don't tell Adeline' - 'Oh no I won't say anything'), they argue that an interactional approach holds the key to explaining why some types of utterances in English conversation seem to have something 'missing' and others seem overly wordy.Trade Review'[This book] challenges serious scholars of language and social interaction with a rich, new and exquisitely contextual account of the work people do through their responses in real-time social interaction. Findings presented in the book are fully data-driven and compel us to critically re-envision the traditionally taken-for-granted notions that some utterances are 'elliptical' or 'non-sentential'. [The authors] demonstrate that response formats are artfully and precisely fitted to their contexts, and that the attested composition of utterances results from the limited range of meaning-making potentials opened up in the course of developing sequences of action. The presentation of findings, representing a new standard of methodological and theoretical integrity, is tightly articulated with forty years of research on language form and interactional sequence. Future research on sequence organization and action formats must take this book as a fundamental reference point, including the cross-linguistic expansion of this project, which the authors enthusiastically invite.' Cecilia E. Ford, University of Wisconsin, Madison'This brilliant book brings important new points of emphasis to the study of language and social action. Its groundbreaking analyses of human agency in responding are a very welcome contribution.' N. J. Enfield, University of Sydney'Based on naturally occurring video and telephone conversations, Grammar in Everyday Talk explores the morphosyntactic and prosodic design of responsive actions. It also uncovers the sequential contexts in which minimal and expanded responses are routinely found, and in which sequential and interactional circumstances speakers might be motivated to choose one rather than the other. It is a pioneering work which focuses on the interaction between prosody and syntax in the way English speakers build response.' Zhou Xiao-jun, Zhejiang University'All in all, this study provides a new 'paradigm' that is quite different from the one taken up in most previous studies about grammar, in which a paradigm is static, abstract, and exists outside of any context of use. … This book is highly recommended for scholars working in the field of syntax, discourse analysis, social linguistics and pragmatics.' Zhou Xiao-jun, Journal of Language and PoliticsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Responses in information-seeking sequences with 'question-word interrogatives'; 3. Responses in informing sequences; 4. Sequences with assessment responses; 5. Responses in request-for-action sequences; 6. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisPresenting a field-defining overview of one of the most appliable linguistic theories available today, this Handbook surveys the key issues in the study of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), covering an impressive range of theoretical perspectives. Written by some of the world''s foremost SFL scholars, including M. A. K. Halliday, the founder of SFL theory, the handbook covers topics ranging from the theory behind the model, discourse analysis within SFL, applied SFL, to SFL in relation to other subfields of linguistics such as intonation, typology, clinical linguistics and education. Chapters include discussion on the possible future directions in which research might be conducted and issues that can be further investigated and resolved. Readers will be inspired to pursue the challenges raised within the volume, both theoretically and practically.Table of ContentsIntroduction Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal; Part I. SFL: The Model: 1. Firth and the origins of systemic functional linguistics: process, pragma, and polysystem David G. Butt; 2. Key concepts and the architecture of language in the SFL model Jonathan J. Webster; 3. Semantics Miriam Taverniers; 4. The clause: an overview of the lexicogrammar Margaret Berry; 5. The rooms of the house: grammar at group rank Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal; 6. Context and register Wendy L. Bowcher; 7. Intonation Wendy L. Bowcher and Meena Debashish; 8. Continuing issues in SFL Mick O'Donnell; 9. The Cardiff model of functional syntax Anke Schulz and Lise Fontaine; 10. SFL in context Christopher S. Butler; Part II. Discourse Analysis within SFL: 11. Models of discourse in systemic functional linguistics Tom Bartlett; 12. Cohesion and conjunction Maite Taboada; 13. Semantic networks Andy Fung and Francis Robert Low; 14. Discourse semantics J. R. Martin; 15. Appraisal Susan Hood; 16. SFL and diachronic studies David Banks; 17. SFL and multimodal discourse analysis Kay L. O'Halloran, Sabine Tan and Peter Wignell; 18. SFL and critical discourse analysis Gerard O'Grady; Part III. SFL in Application: 19. Language development Geoff Williams; 20. Applying SFL for understanding and fostering instructed second language development Heidi Byrnes; 21. Language and education: learning to mean Peter Mickan; 22. Systemic functional linguistics and computation: new directions, new challenges John Bateman, Daniel McDonald, Tuomo Hiippala, Daniel Couto-Vale and Eugeniu Costetchi; 23. Clinical linguistics Elissa Asp and Jessica de Villiers; 24. Language and science, language in science, and linguistics as science M. A. K. Halliday and David G. Butt; 25. Language and medicine Alison Rotha Moore; 26. Language and literature Donna R. Miller; 27. Language and social media: enacting identity through ambient affiliation Michele Zappavigna; 28. Theorizing and modeling translation Erich Steiner; 29. Language typology Abhishek Kumar Kashyap; Index.

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from international specialists, this handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of key issues in Arabic linguistics, from traditional areas such as morphology and syntax to emerging topics in language change and social media studies. It is an essential resource for researchers and advanced students across the field.

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Book SynopsisIllustrated with numerous in-depth case studies, this pioneering book provides a cutting-edge introduction to ritual language use, a fundamental aspect of communication in everyday life. Offering a new framework for the pragmatic study of ritual, it is essential reading for both researchers and students in pragmatics and applied linguistics.

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Book SynopsisAfter conquering the Internet, cats are now taking on linguistics! Since the advent of social media, cats have become a topic central to online communication, and the multitude of cat-related accounts now online has made this a world-wide phenomenon. Through cat-inspired varieties of language, we have developed a genre of cat-inspired vocabulary. And on our special social media accounts for our cats, we take on their identities, as we post, write, talk, and chat - as our feline friends. This innovative book provides linguistic analyses of the cyber ''Cativerse'', exploring online language variation, and explaining key linguistic concepts all through the lens of cat-related communication. Each chapter explores a different sociolinguistic phenomena, drawing on fun and engaging examples including memes, hashtags, captions and ''LOLcats'', from platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Innovative yet accessible, it is catnip for all ''hoomans'' interested in how languageTable of Contents1. The cativerse; 2. The feline territory of language; 3. Meowlogisms; 4. Da kittehz; 5. Virtual furever homes; 6. Multimeowdality; 7. Meow and more; 8. Going on pawtrol; 9. Linguistic scratching posts; 10. #StatsWithCats; 11. Cattitude and Purrception.

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Book SynopsisMost books on linguistic pragmatics overlook the role of emotion in communication. This book faces the challenges head-on by providing an original study of how we communicate our emotions through language, integrating affect in pragmatic theory. Innovative yet accessible, it is essential reading for anyone interested in communication and emotion.Table of Contents1. Introduction: 1.1 Prolegomena; 1.2 Clocks and clouds; 1.3 Overview; 1.3.1 Chapter two; 1.3.2 Chapter three; 1.3.3 Chapter four; 1.3.4 Chapter five; 1.3.5 Chapter six; 1.3.6 Chapter seven; 1.3.7 Chapter eight. 2. Pragmatics and emotion – the challenges: 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Two challenges; 2.2.1 Description versus expression; 2.2.2 Propositions and ineffability; 2.3 Pragmatics. 3. What is emotion?: 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The early history of emotion studies; 3.2.1 Aristotle to Hume; 3.2.2 Charles Darwin and William James; 3.3 Affective science; 3.3.1 Three views; 3.3.2 Basic emotion; 3.3.3 Constructed emotion; 3.3.4 The view from appraisal theory. 4. From proto-pragmatics to pragmatics: 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Towards expressive meaning; 4.3 Bally's parole; 4.4 Speech acts: how to do things with words (and emotional expressions); 4.5 Alternatives. 5. Relevance theory, non–propositional content and ineffability: 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Relevance; 5.2.1 Theory; 5.2.2 Applications, concepts, procedures; 5.2.3 Ineffability; 5.3 Two notions of relevance? 6. Beyond propositions: 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Affective effects; 6.2.1 Primary affective effects; 6.2.2 Secondary affective effects: emotion and poetry; 6.2.3 Affective effects and persuasion. 7. Emotion and evolution: 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Creature construction; 7.2.1 Pirot #1: the sea-sponge; 7.2.1 Towards a sensorium: the direct route; 7.2.3 Pirot #2: the lizard and emotion; 7.2.4 Humean projection: the indirect route. 8. Pragmatics and emotion – the challenges revisited: 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Two challenges; 8.2.1 Expressing and describing; 8.2.2 Propositions and ineffability; 8.3 Pragmatics and emotion – closing remarks.

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Book SynopsisWritten by one of the foremost authorities on the English language, this book offers a fascinating look at the history of English, focusing on its early development and subsequent spread around the world. Engaging and accessible, it is ideal reading for anyone interested in the history of the English Language.Trade Review'Here is an original and eminently enjoyable book detailing the origins of our language and the millennia-long geographical spread of earlier stages of what was to become English in all its varieties.' Robert Fulks, Professor Emeritus of English, Indiana University'Peter Trudgill's account of the geographical journey of the English language is highly educational, truly captivating, and uniquely sensitive to what has been lost along the way.' Erik Smitterberg, Professor of English Linguistics, Uppsala University'This book is a real page turner. Some people find readings about the History of the English Language boring. This is not going to happen with this book - Peter Trudgill marries a thrilling exploration of geographical expansion and retreat with a masterful investigation of the linguistic facts. Food for thought!' Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Professor of Linguistics, KU LeuvenTable of ContentsPrologue: a view from the birthplace; 1. Where it all started: the language which became English; 2. The journey begins: the first movement south; 3. Interlude: a view from the Celtic island; 4. Heading west again: the North Sea crossing 400–600; 5. Anglo-Saxons and Celts in the English highlands 600–800; 6. And further west: across the Irish Sea 800–1200; 7. Atlantic crossing: on to the Americas 1600–1800; 8. Onwards to the Pacific shore; 9. Across the Equator: into the Southern Hemisphere 1800–1900; 10. Some turning back: English in retreat; 11. Meanwhile… Britain and the British Isles from 1600; 12. Transcultural diffusion: the New Native Englishes; Epilogue: sixteen hundred years on.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation.Trade Review“This book is arranged in an accessible and logical way, and it deserves a wide readership. It is clearly structured and well placed to achieve its goal of showing how a corpus linguistic approach can be merged into various discourse analyses, making it a valuable contribution to current cross-disciplinary studies in language and communication. It can be recommended to faculty and to students who are interested in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.” (Peng Yongmei, Discourse Studies, Vol. 18 (6), 2016)“For researchers, the book is an up-to-date summary of corpus-driven discourse analysis, and one may find the thorough methodological sections of each chapter helpful in guiding his/her own research. … Throughout the volume, there are many interesting and useful discussions on particular challenges raised by the integration of corpus methods and discourse studies. … scholars of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and other contingent disciplines would find this book valuable reading with important insights for future research practices.” (Sibo Chen, LINGUIST List, linguistlist.org, March, 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction; Paul Baker and Tony McEnery2. E-Language: Communication in the Digital Age; Dawn Knight3. Beyond Monomodal Spoken Corpora: Using a Field Tracker to Analyse Participants' Speech at the British Art Show; Svenja Adolphs, Dawn Knight and Ronald Carter4. Corpus-assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Television and Film Narratives; Monika Bednarek5. Analysing Discourse Markers in Spoken Corpora: Actually as a Case Study; Karin Aijmer6. Discursive Constructions of the Environment in American Presidential Speeches 1960-2013: A Diachronic Corpus-assisted Study; Cinzia Bevitori7. Health Communication and Corpus Linguistics: Using Corpus Tools to Analyse Eating Disorder Discourse Online; Daniel Hunt and Kevin Harvey8. Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Academic Discourse; Jack A. Hardy9. Thinking About the News: Thought Presentation in Early Modern English News Writing; Brian Walker and Dan McIntyre10. The Use of Corpus Analysis in a Multi-perspectival Study of Creative Practice; Darryl Hocking11. Corpus-assisted Comparative Case Studies of Representations of the Arab World; Alan Partington12. Who Benefits When Discourse Gets Democratised? Analysing a Twitter Corpus Around the British Benefits Street Debate; Paul Baker and Tony McEnery13. Representations of Gender and Agency in the Harry Potter Series; Sally Hunt14. Filtering the Flood: Semantic Tagging as a Method of Identifying Salient Discourse Topics in a Large Corpus of Hurricane Katrina Reportage; Amanda Potts

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Book SynopsisLanguage in African American Communities is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the language, culture, and sociohistorical contexts of African American communities. It will also benefit those with a general interest in language and culture, language and language users, and language and identity. This book includes discussions of traditional and non-traditional topics regarding linguistic explorations of African American communities that include difficult conversations around race and racism. Language in African American Communities provides: an introduction to the sociolinguistic and paralinguistic aspects of language use in African American communities; sociocultural and historical contexts and development; notions about grammar and discourse; the significance of naming and the pall of race and racism in discussions and research of language variation and change; activities and discussion questions which invite readers to consider their ownTrade ReviewThis is a splendid book, fully recognizing that language is a social, cultural, psychological, grammatical, homeland-based, and historical package. Language in African American Communities is brimming with the worldview, turns-of-phrase, and even the musical backdrop of our Blacktalk, which is permeated with the feelings, perspectives, and positionalities of its lifelong speakers. You can speak AAL grammatically, but that doesn’t mean you can Blacktalk. Sonja L. Lanehart in this book generously presents an introduction to Ebonics as a form of language, action, and social being.Arthur K. Spears, Presidential Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology Emeritus, The City University of New YorkNo one is better qualified to write this book than Sonja Lanehart, the Queen of innovative research and publication on language in African American communities over the past two decades! I wish I were still teaching to take advantage of Sonja’s lively personal style, her professional insights and her thought-provoking questions following each chapter!John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities, Dept of Linguistics, emeritus, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsContentsList of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English in the Continental U.S.Chapter 1: Talkin and Testifyin Introduction: My Subjectivities and PositionalitiesName a Thing a Thing: About Definitions and NamingWhat to ExpectQuestions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDiscographyDigital MediaChapter 2: A Seat at the Table: What Are You Bringing to the Table Before We Even Get Started? Introduction: Real TalkLinguistic PrejudiceLinguistic Shame and DenialLinguistic Pride and AcceptanceContradictions and AllWhat You’re Not Going to Do: Definitions, Naming, and Pet PeevesTo HEL—or HEC—and Back: The Messiness of Having the Army and the NavyQuestions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDiscographyDigital MediaChapter 3: "Put Some Respeck on My Name!": Language and Uses of Identity in African American CommunitiesIntroduction: How We Gon Play This?Who Do People Say That I Am?A Word on EbonicsWhat Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem?Say My Name!Questions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDigital MediaChapter 4: "Where Your People From?:" Problematizing Origins and DevelopmentIntroduction: Controversial History, Development, and Contested OriginsThe Deficit Hypothesis(Neo–)Anglicist and (Neo–)Creolist Origins HypothesesConsensus Hypotheses: Substratist, Restructuralist, and EcologicalThe Divergence/Convergence HypothesisMy Conclusion: PeriodT!Questions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDiscographyChapter 5: What’s Good? A Concise Descriptivist Meta–Grammar of Language Use in African American CommunitiesIntroduction: We Bout to Ride Up on This ElephantWhy Y’all so Interested in Language Use in African American Communities?Patterns, Systems, and Structure, Oh My!Lexical Level: Word Classes and Word FormationSyntactic Level, Part 1: Verbal MarkersSyntactic Level, Part 2: From Multiple Negation to Patterns in Question FormationMorphosyntactic Level: InflectionsPhonological LevelSpeech Events, Discourse, Pragmatics, Nonverbal, and Paralinguistic LevelsWhere Does This Leave Us?Questions, Discussions, and Further InquiryReferencesDigital MediaChapter 6: Where Your People At?: Regional and Geographic VariationIntroduction: A New Day Is DawningGullah GeecheeUrban and Rural CORAAL, et al.From Regional to Social VariationQuestions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDigital MediaChapter 7: Where My Shawty’s At? Social and Gendered VariationIntroduction: It’s about to Be Lit Up in HereBlack American Sign Language, or Black ASLStandards in Language Use in African American CommunitiesMiddle–Class Language Use in African American CommunitiesAfrican American Women’s Language, or AAWLHip Hop Nation Language, or HHNLSexuality and Gendered Identity in Language Use in African American CommunitiesQuestions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDiscographyDigital MediaChapter 8: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Pop Culture, Social Media, and Digital Media Introduction: Whatcha Know Good?Afrofuturism and EbonicsYa Man, Steve Harvey: Blacktainment ExtraordinaireThe Queen of Soul to Spoken SoulBlack Twitter and Language Use in African American CommunitiesDigital Media and the Performance of Language Use in African American CommunitiesI Refuse to Eat the CakeQuestions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDiscographyDigital MediaChapter 9: It’s Not the Shoes, Bruh! You Black!: African American Language Use in AmeriKKKa’s Educational ApparatU.S.Introduction: That’s the Way of the WorldHow and When We Enter White Educational Spaces … and Some DefinitionsWe Ain’t Havin It!: Let’s Get on the Good FootWe Come from a Remarkable PeopleThe Research: Language and Linguistic Justice for Black ChildrenLanguage of Black America on Trial: The Ann Arbor "Black English" Trial and the Oakland Ebonics ControversyAs My Dad Would Say, "Stop Pussyfootin Roun the Issue:" Because RacismQuestions and Further InquiryReferencesFilmographyDiscographyDigital MediaChapter 10: "If You Don’t Know Me by Now …" Introduction: You Cain’t Do Wrong and Get ByThings I Didn’t Discuss that You Might ConsiderWhatcha Know Good?: What I Hope You Did, Learned, and Hope to DoQuestions, Discussion, and Further InquiryReferencesDiscographyIndex

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