Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Baicchi, Annalisa / Biscetti, Stefania, The Language of Fashion: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Cultural Insights. (Linguistic Insights 293) 192 pp. 2022:11 (P. Lang, SZ) <693-2004>
ISBN 978-3-0343-4428-9 hard ¥13,983.- (税込) SFR 56.00

The specialised language of fashion draws the research interest of linguists and semioticians as well as communication experts and fashion historians. This volume contributes to advancing the knowledge of crucial aspects in the language of fashion that still need deep investigation. It brings together contributions that shed light on the morphological, lexical, pragmatic, and cultural aspects of the language of fashion, without ignoring cognitive and semiotic phenomena. The diversity of topics and perspectives of the chapters presented here testifies to the variety and vitality of scientific research in the complex and multifaceted language of fashion.

Brock, Alexander / Russell, Janet et al. (eds.), Participation & Identity: Empirical Investigations of States and Dynamics. (Hallesche Sprach- und Textforschung 22) 232 pp. 2022:11 (P. Lang, SZ) <693-2006>
ISBN 978-3-631-82974-5 hard ¥17,479.- (税込) SFR 70.00

This volume focuses on the connection between participation constellations and identity construction as a specific, yet under-researched problem of text and media linguistics. It assembles empirical analyses of a wide range of corpora, ranging from naturally occurring talk-in-interaction over TV series and social media discourse to the linguistic landscapes of Namibia. In addition to insights into dynamic participation and identity constellations in the respective corpora, the articles develop new theoretical concepts and categories. This volume is of interest to advanced students and scholars in linguistics, media studies and sociology alike.

G.Cinque著　線形化
Cinque, Guglielmo, On Linearization: Toward a Restrictive Theory. (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) 184 pp. 2023:3 (MIT Pr., US) <693-2007>
ISBN 978-0-262-54495-5 paper ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

de Boe, Esther, Remote Interpreting in Healthcare Settings. (New Trends in Translation Studies 34) 272 pp. 2022:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <693-2008>
ISBN 978-1-80079-373-6 paper ¥18,477.- (税込) SFR 74.00

The increasing practice of remote interpreting (RI) by telephone and video link has profoundly changed the ways in which interpreting services are being delivered. Although clinical research on RI has reported positive results, empirical research in other settings, such as legal contexts, has demonstrated that RI can affect the quality of interpreter-mediated communication. This book investigates the possible effects of using RI on the quality of healthcare interpreting. Central to the research design are three series of simulated interpreter-mediated doctor-patient encounters, each involving a different interpreter and using three different interpreting methods: face-to-face interpreting, telephone interpreting and video interpreting. These sessions were video recorded, transcribed and annotated according to categories previously established in interpreting studies. First, quantitative analyses of miscommunication and interaction management were carried out to identify potential relationships between message equivalence issues and interactional issues and to establish the possible influence of environmental and technological factors. These data were submitted to comparative, qualitative analyses, which were triangulated with the findings from the participants’ perceptions, collected by means of thirty post-simulation interviews. The insights generated by this work are highly relevant for all users of RI to anticipate and overcome communication problems.

Gardelle, Laure / Vincent-Durroux, Laurence et al. (eds.), Reference: From conventions to pragmatics. (Studies in Language Companion Series 228) 347 pp. 2023:4 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2009>
ISBN 978-90-272-1294-8 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields (formal and theoretical linguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, interactional linguistics, natural language processing), in a variety of verbal and non-verbal languages (English, German, different varieties of French, Indonesian, Belgian sign language) and in a diversity of contexts (the coining of names, language acquisition, second language learning, and various genres such as news articles, narratives, satire or game playing). The volume is meant as a series of thought-provoking studies which place speakers and addressees at the core of the referential act, thus providing evidence on how they negotiate and adjust, depending on the context.

形態と意味の再接続－K.Davidse記念論集
Gentens, Caroline / Ghesquiere, Lobke et al. (eds.), Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse. (Studies in Language Companion Series 230) 305 pp. 2023:3 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2010>
ISBN 978-90-272-1299-3 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00 *

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse's work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and SFL), the Prague School, Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and broader cognitive-functional (e.g. Construction Grammar) and usage-based approaches (e.g. Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization theory, corpus-based sociolinguistics). The range of topics addressed makes the volume particularly relevant to linguists investigating information structure, construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, spatial deixis, pronoun and case systems, and/or the semantics of verbal constructions.

Jedrzejowski, Lukasz / Fleczoreck, Constanze (eds.), Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and diachronic insights. (Studies in Language Companion Series 231) 345 pp. 2023:5 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2011>
ISBN 978-90-272-1341-9 hard ¥24,717.- (税込) EUR 105.00 *

This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic setting the scene and nine chapters based on data from Dutch, German, English, Icelandic, Chinese, and Japanese. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, external, internal and linear syntax of adverbial clauses expressing a causal relation, their semantic interpretation and information-structural properties, verb position, volitionality, and the development of particular causal conjunctions. The findings gained here are of synchronic and diachronic nature and offer new theoretical perspectives on how causal dependency relationships are expressed by inherent causal morpho-syntactic patterns. They also provide a deeper comprehension of how sentential modifiers work, emerge, and develop in general. This volume is an asset to grammarians, syntacticians, theoretical, and historical linguists.

A.H.ユッカー他編　マルチモーダルな不作法と丁寧
Jucker, Andreas H. / Huebscher, Iris / Brown, Lucien (eds.), Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 333) 343 pp. 2023:5 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2012>
ISBN 978-90-272-1343-3 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00 *

Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings together eleven empirical studies that investigate these various modalities of im/politeness across signed, spoken and written languages, plus a detailed introductory chapter that establishes a framework for the multimodal investigation of im/politeness. The papers cover a range of languages and cultures, including Swiss German Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, English (as a native language and as a lingua franca), Korean, Catalan, Persian, Japanese and Spanish. Using a range of data sources and state-of-the art methodologies, the papers reveal that these multimodal features are essential aspects of im/politeness across different languages, cultures and modes of interaction. Put together, the findings from these studies lay the groundwork for a new understanding of im/politeness which is fundamentally multimodal.

Kornacki, Michal / Massey, Gary (eds.), Contextuality in Translation and Interpreting: Selected Papers from the Lodz-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning 2020-2021. (Lodz Studies in Language 70) 308 pp. 2022:9 (P. Lang, SZ) <693-2013>
ISBN 978-3-631-86921-5 hard ¥17,479.- (税込) SFR 70.00

The papers compiled in the present volume reflect the key theme of the most recent Duo Colloquium sessions ? contextuality. The psychological notion of context has been central to translation research for decades, and it has evolved along with the development of translational thought, translation types and tools. The theme of contextuality can be understood at any level, from the geopolitical to the textual, and embraced by both academic and professional considerations of translational and interpreting phenomena. It is centred on context, contexts and/or decontextualisation in translation and interpreting theory and practice from a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. Discussing the above-mentioned notions is the subject of the present volume.

I.Mel'cuk著　一般的句法
Mel'cuk, Igor, General Phraseology: Theory and Practice. (Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa 36) 287 pp. 2023:4 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2014>
ISBN 978-90-272-1296-2 hard ¥24,717.- (税込) EUR 105.00 *

This book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expressions (= phrasemes) is proposed, implemented in 51 rigorously defined notions. Nine major classes of phrasemes are established and illustrated: lexemic idioms (shoot the breeze), lexemic collocations (pay a visit; helicopter parents), lexemic nominemes (the Northern Palmyra) and lexemic cliches (What's your name?; to put it differently); morphemic idioms (forget), morphemic collocations (Londoner ~ Muscovite), morphemic nominemes (Greenland) and morphemic cliches (antidepressant); and syntactic idioms (Her be late?!?). An additional class of pragmatically constrained lexemic expressions is described: pragmatemes (No parking; At attention!; Roger.). Each phraseme class is supplied with precise methodology for a lexicographic description; a number of lexical entries for representatives of all classes are given. The language data come from English and Russian. General Phraseology: Theory and Practice is meant as a contribution towards the elaboration of a unified notional system for linguistics.

Rodrigues, Cilene / Saab, Andres (eds.), Formal Approaches to Languages of South America. 422 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-2015>
ISBN 978-3-031-22343-3 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the region, including sign languages, indigenous languages and the romance languages (Portuguese and Spanish) originally introduced by European colonizers which underwent processes of transformation giving rise to new, local grammars. One fourth of the language families of the world are located in South America, but the majority of languages in the region are still understudied and out of the radar of theoretical linguistics mostly because their grammars are not well-known by international researchers. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together studies rooted in the formal grammar approach first developed by Noam Chomsky, which sees language not only as mere corpora attested in oral and written production, but also as expressions of systems of thought and language production which are essential parts of human cognition. The book is divided in three parts - sign languages, romance languages and indigenous languages -, and brings together studies of the following South American languages: Brazilian Sign Language (Libras - Lingua Brasileira de Sinais)Argentinian Sign Language (LSA - Lengua de Senas Argentina)Peruvian Sign Language (LSP- Lengua de Senas Peruana)Brazilian PortugueseChilean and Argentinian SpanishQuechuaParaguayan GuaraniA'ingaeMacro-Je languages Formal Approaches to the Languages of South America will be an invaluable resource both for theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists by providing access to top quality research on understudied languages and enabling these languages to be incorporated into comparative studies that can contribute to advance the knowledge of general principles governing all human languages.

Romand, David / Le Du, Michel (eds.), Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity: Theoretical, Epistemological, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling. 382 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-2016>
ISBN 978-3-031-17912-9 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject's metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative - lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological... - dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume's twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology ("Sprachgefuehl," "sentiment de la langue," "linguistic intuitions," etc.), had developed, since the late 18th century, within a variety of cultural contexts and research traditions, and whose theoretical, epistemological, and historical ins and outs had not been systematically explored so far. Beginning with a long opening chapter, the book consists of two parts, one tracing the multifaceted approaches to linguistic feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein, and one offering a representative overview of the debates about the issue at stake in current linguistics and philosophy, while addressing the question of the place of metacognition, normativity, and affectivity in language processes.

Ruiz Rosendo, Lucia / Baigorri-Jalon, Jesus (eds.), Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting: Voices from around the world. (Benjamins Translation Library 159) 299 pp. 2023:5 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2017>
ISBN 978-90-272-1344-0 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00

The aspiration of an Atlas is to cover the whole world, by compiling cartographical material representing territories from across the five continents. This book intends to contribute to that ideally comprehensive, yet always unfinished, Atlas with pieces gathered from all of the Earth's regions. However, its focus is not so much of a geographical nature (although maps and geographical reflections are not absent in its pages), but of a historical-analytical one. As such, the Atlas engages in the historical analysis of interpreters (of both language and cultures) in multiple interpreting settings and places, including in zones which are less frequently studied in specialized literature, in different historical periods and at various scales. All the interpreters described in the book share the ability to speak two or more languages and to use them as vehicles; otherwise, their individual socio-professional statuses vary so much that there is no similarity between a Venetian dragoman in Istanbul and a prisoner of war, or between a locally-recruited interpreter and a missionary. Each contributor has approached the specific spatial and temporal dimensions of their subject as perceived through their different methodological lenses. This multifaceted perspective, which is expected to provide fertile soil for future interdisciplinary research, has been possible thanks to a balanced combination of scholars from History and from Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Serafis, Dimitris, Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece. (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 99) 180 pp. 2023:5 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2018>
ISBN 978-90-272-1348-8 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple 'crises' in Greece. At the same time, it aspires to outline novel research avenues for scholars working in the fields of critical discourse and argumentation studies, multimodality and communication sciences, that go beyond the study of the meaning potential of multimodal artifacts and focus on the study of the argumentative inferences that are triggered by multimodal discourses in polarized contexts. It frames the theoretical discussion based on concepts such as Nikos Poulantzas' 'authoritarian statism' as well as Antonio Gramsci's 'hegemony' and 'intellectuals'. Methodologically, it draws on the agenda of multimodal critical discourse analysis, integrating principles and tools from social semiotics and (multimodal) argumentation studies with a particular focus on inference in argumentation.

Shih, Claire Y., Navigating the Web: A Qualitative Eye Tracking-Based Study of Translators' Web Search Behaviour. (Elements in Translation and Interpreting) 75 pp. 2023:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-2019>
ISBN 978-1-00-911413-4 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element reports an investigation of translators' use of web-based resources and search engines. The study adopted a qualitative eye tracking-based methodology utilising a combination of gaze replay and retrospective think aloud (RTA) to elicit data. The main contribution of this Element lies in presenting not only an alternative eye tracking methodology for investigating translators' web search behaviour but also a systematic approach to gauging the reasoning behind translators' highly complex and context-dependent interaction with search engines and the Web.

Sonderegger, Morgan, Regression Modeling for Linguistic Date. 454 pp. 2023:6 (MIT Pr., US) <693-2020>
ISBN 978-0-262-04548-3 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Zwischenberger, Cornelia / Reithofer, K. et al. (eds.), Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies): A tribute to Franz Poechhacker. (Benjamins Translation Library 160) 281 pp. 2023:5 (J. Benjamins, NE) <693-2021>
ISBN 978-90-272-1346-4 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00

The contributions in this volume are a reflection of the entire range of Interpreting Studies, from explorations of research methodology and interpreting quality research to public service interpreting today and in the past, risk management strategies in court interpreting, and the interdependencies of interpreters in project networks. They address questions such as who can be called an interpreter, present new approaches to interpreter education, and discuss advances in technology, both in terms of speech-to-text interpreting and the changes that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the lives of interpreters.The breadth of this volume's topics reflects the oeuvre of Franz Poechhacker, who has left his mark on Interpreting Studies over more than three decades. This tribute not only reflects the many strands of his work, but also offers new research and insights by established scholars and young researchers in the ever growing field of Interpreting Studies.

Borghi, Anna M., The Freedom of Words: Abstractness and the Power of Language. 305 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-1683>
ISBN 978-1-108-84290-7 hard ¥27,065.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

The Freedom of Words is for anyone interested in understanding the role of body and language in cognition and how humans developed the sophisticated ability to use abstract concepts like 'freedom' and 'thinking'. This volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, including philosophy, semiotics, psychology, and neuroscience, to show how language, as a tool, shapes our minds and influences our interaction with the physical and social environment. It develops a theory showing how abstract concepts in their different varieties enhance cognition and profoundly influence our social and affective life. It addresses how children learn such abstract concepts, details how they vary across languages and cultures, and outlines the link between abstractness and the capability to detect inner bodily signals. Overall, the book shows how words - abstract words in particular, because of their indeterminate and open character - grant us freedom.