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

Wagner, Anne / Matulewska, Aleksandra (eds.), Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics. (Research Handbooks in Legal Theory) 512 pp. 2023:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <700-877>
ISBN 978-1-80220-723-1 hard ¥64,102.- (税込) GB￡ 225.00 *

This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of jurilinguistics that not only presents the latest international research findings among academics and practitioners, but also provides a new approach to the phenomena and nature of communicative flexibility, legal genres, vulnerability of interlingual legal communication, and the cultural landscape of legal translation.Chapters explore the theory of jurilinguistics investigating the features of a broad range of national discourses. Offering a unique perspective on the complex and dynamic relationship between language and the law, the impressive selection of contributors discuss the efficiency, flexibility and vulnerabilities of communication in legal settings. Anne Wagner and Aleksandra Matulewska approach the topic from a multidimensional standpoint, dealing with a myriad of topics, notably the general theory of jurilinguistics, the genres and characteristics of legal language, and the improvement of the quality of legal language.This discerning Research Handbook will appeal to a variety of academics and researchers in law, translation, jurisprudence, applied linguistics, and rhetoric, looking to broaden their understanding of jurilinguistics as an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural operation. It will also serve as both a theoretical and practical resource for lawyers, legislators, lawyer-linguists, and legal translation specialists alike.

Ablali, Driss / Achard-Bayle, Guy (eds.), French theories on text and discourse. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fuer romanische Philologie 473) 292 pp. 2023:1 (de Gruyter, GW) <700-2645>
ISBN 978-3-11-079433-5 hard ¥23,527.- (税込) EUR 99.95 *

Almanna, Ali / House, Juliane (eds.), Translation Politicised and Politics Translated. (New Trends in Translation Studies 35) 244 pp. 2023:3 (P. Lang, SZ) <700-2646>
ISBN 978-1-80079-446-7 paper ¥18,477.- (税込) SFR 74.00 *

This volume presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the different ways in which the two terms ≪politics≫ and ≪translation≫ interact. It affords an opportunity to look at translation as a highly complex activity that involves the participation of different agents with different backgrounds, orientations, ideologies, competences, goals and purposes. At the macro level, translation is seen as an activity carried out by gatekeepers ? translators, trans-editors, translation quality controllers, translation project managers, and the like ? to promote a certain narrative, achieve a goal or pursue an agenda. The ultimate aim of this volume is to shed light on how these various stakeholders explicitly or implicitly interpolate their cultural background, beliefs and values into the resulting text, thus overtly or covertly intervening to promote a certain theme or narrative.

Arcangeli, Massimo, Genderless Grammar: How to Promote Inclusivity without Destroying the Languages. 110 pp. 2022:11 (P. Lang, SZ) <700-2647>
ISBN 978-2-87574-742-6 paper ¥6,492.- (税込) SFR 26.00

Attempts to conceal grammatical gender, dictated by the "inclusive" desire to overcome the simple distinction between masculine and feminine (gender binarism) and make room for the neutral, affect the national languagesof a variety of Western countries with increasing frequency and intensity, with the risk of weakening or compromising the functioning of the languages’ supporting structures. A grammatical innovation has a very different impact from a neologism, and when that innovation, under the excuse of inclusion, ends up infiltrating a public act, or any other text issued or produced by a public entity, penetrating it in a pervasive way, the institutional endorsement should set off the alarm bells. In our case, simplicistically overlapping two levels that must instead be kept distinct ? one "structural" (technical-linguistic) and the other "superstructural" (socio-cultural) ? means that, in the growth economy of an entire community of speakers and writers, the structures of an idiom, above all if stratified over time, are bent to accommodate the desires of those who, against all logic and the most elementary common sense, expect immediate changes that would upset or crack the linguistic system. This ends up making even the simple decodingof information difficult.

Bozkurt, Sinem Sancaktaroglu / Tasdan Dogan, T. E. (eds.), Translation Studies: Translating in the 21st Century - Multiple Identities. (Synergie: Transnational Studies, Literature, Linguistics 2) 238 pp. 2023 (P. Lang, SZ) <700-2648>
ISBN 978-3-631-88255-9 hard ¥15,481.- (税込) SFR 62.00

Translation Studies now mostly focuses on an enlarged understanding of translation. In line with this growth, this collection aims at providing new perspectives to the field by focusing on the various dimensions of translational acts in the 21st century with special emphasis on multiple identities. In this respect, the book offers wide-ranging topics focusing on sign language interpreting, translator training, gender and translation, hyperobjects in translation, translation technologies, and multimodality in translation. By presenting all these current subjects influencing the translation process in our century, we underline the changing trends in translation and interpreting practices within the framework of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches.

Busse, Beatrix / Dumrukcic, Nina / Kleiber, Ingo (eds.), Language and Linguistics in a Complex World. (Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns 32) V, 190 pp. 2023:3 (de Gruyter, GW) <700-2649>
ISBN 978-3-11-101727-3 hard ¥25,881.- (税込) EUR 109.95 *

This book is a collection of the ICAME41 conference proceedings covering a range of topics in corpus linguistics. Busse et al. Explore contemporary trends and new directions in the field. Papers focusing on historical linguistics include Bohmann et al’s study on the passive alternation in 19th and 20th century American English whilst Iyeiri and Fukunaga investigate negation in 19th century American missionary documents. Bohmann’s emphasis is on the Contrastive usage profiling method to represent online discourse data. Empirical studies on discourse analysis include Brooks‘ analysis of how the UK press portrays obesity, Coats generating ASR transcripts to look at dialect data from YouTube, and Gonzalez-Cruz’s pragmatic considerations of Anglicisms entering Canarian-Spanish digital headlines. Schneider use statistical models to look at language comprehension in an eye-tracking corpus.

Collins, Luke / Baker, Paul, Language, Discourse and Anxiety. (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) 264 pp. 2023:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-2650>
ISBN 978-1-00-925008-5 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-00-925012-2 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety? This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words of text posted to a forum for people with anxiety. It shows how linguistic techniques like catastrophisation and anthropomorphisation can result in very different conceptualisations of anxiety, as well as how aspects of identity like age, sex and cultural background can impact on understandings of anxiety and how it ought to be managed. It tracks the changing identities of posters, from their first posts to their last, and incorporates a range of corpus-based techniques to examine the language data, enabling consideration of interaction between participants and features associated with online forms of communication like emoji. It ultimately provides a step towards a better understanding of different responses to anxiety and aims to promote further engagement with this topic in the field of applied linguistics.

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Diaz-Campos, Manuel A. / Balasch, Sonia (eds.), The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics. (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) 630 pp. 2023:6 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <700-2651>
ISBN 978-1-119-83982-8 hard ¥42,042.- (税込) US$ 195.00 *

The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics is the first edited volume to provide a comprehensive, authoritative, and interdisciplinary view of usage-based theory in linguistics. Contributions by an international team of established and emerging scholars discuss the application of used-based approaches in phonology, morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, language variation and change, language development, cognitive linguistics, and other subfields of linguistics. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this groundbreaking work of scholarship addresses all major theoretical and methodological aspects of usage-based linguistics while offering diverse perspectives and key insights into theory, history, and methodology. Throughout the text, in-depth essays explore up-to-date methodologies, emerging approaches, new technologies, and cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics in many languages and subdisciplines. Topics include used-based approaches to subfields such as anthropological linguistics, computational linguistics, statistical analysis, and corpus linguistics. Covering the conceptual foundations, historical development, and future directions of usage-based theory, The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics is a must-have reference work for advanced students and scholars in anthropological linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpora analysis, and other subfields of linguistics.

Engemann, Marie, Paradigm uniformity in inflectional stems: Durational differences in production and perception. 201 pp. 2023:1 (de Gruyter, GW) <700-2652>
ISBN 978-3-11-101293-3 paper ¥9,403.- (税込) EUR 39.95 *

What happens phonetically in the production of stems in words such as days and daze? Do inflectional stems differ phonetically from monomorphemic words? Can these differences be perceived? This volume aims to answer these questions in a replication project by investigating data from two corpora and a production experiment, as well as by extending this research with two perception experiments. It investigates what happens phonetically in the stems of words that end in homophonous suffixes, and whether listeners can perceive these subtle phonetic differences. Two potential effects were termed; categorical paradigm uniformity, in which stems of words ending in [s, z] are expected to have longer durations if these words are morphologically complex (e.g. days is longer than daze), as well as gradient paradigm uniformity, in which the frequency of related words is expected to have an influence on paradigm members (e.g. day influences days). Findings from these studies contribute to a growing body of research in the field of morphophonetics.

Junker, Carsten (ed.), Inspecting the Interview: On Protocolling the Personal. (Diskursmuster - Discourse Patterns) 250 pp. 2023:9 (de Gruyter, GW) <700-2653>
ISBN 978-3-11-108623-1 hard ¥23,527.- (税込) EUR 99.95 *

Interviews are omnipresent in scholarship and public discourses. They play a crucial role in various spheres, from collecting research data to providing persons in the public eye a platform in print and online media. Interviews do not only capture a dialogue; they provide a framework in which dialogue gets staged. As such a framework, the interview protocols experiential knowledge and personal experience in certain ways, according interlocutors different degrees of authority to speak. The volume contributes state-of-the-art research on what conclusions can be drawn from these and further reflections for a general assessment of the interview as method and form; it offers fundamental conceptualizations of the interview as a structured and mediated site of knowledge production. Theoreticians and practitioners assembled here conceptualize the interview from perspectives in different fields of the humanities and social sciences such as linguistics, literary and cultural studies, musicology, psychology, and philosophy.

Lugea, Jane / Walker, Brian, Stylistics: Text, Cognition and Corpora. 284 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <700-2655>
ISBN 978-3-031-10421-3 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This textbook introduces the reader to contemporary approaches to language analysis such as cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics, reflecting recent shifts in research trends and offering students a practical way to access and understand these developments. The authors lead readers through detailed explanations, guided analyses, examples of research and suggestions for further reading. This textbook makes an ideal introduction to the field of stylistics for students who are new to the area, but who have some background in basic language analysis. It will be of use to students on courses in stylistics, literary linguistics, corpus methods, cognitive linguistics, and language and style.

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Montemayor Gracia, Julia / Neusius, Vera et al. (eds.), Manual of Applied Romance Linguistics. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics 33) 600 pp. 2023:11 (de Gruyter, GW) <700-2656>
ISBN 978-3-11-068654-8 hard ¥58,850.- (税込) EUR 250.00

This handbook provides a systematic overview firstly of the basic concepts and secondly of current research topics and trends in Applied Romance Linguistics from a theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. It takes account of both traditional and innovative research approaches. Following a general introduction to the field and its major topics, methods and objectives, the presentation is divided into four thematic sections (methods and methodology; language, society and knowledge; language acquisition and language education; specialised communication and transfer). The volume is geared towards students, teachers and researchers working in the fields of linguistic and communication studies, but also addresses the general public. It aims to provide useful information for anyone dealing with problems of language and communication in their professional or private lives, and illustrates career options for graduates of Romance Linguistics.

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Romero-Trillo, Jesus (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language in Context. (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) 544 pp. 2023:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-2657>
ISBN 978-1-108-83913-6 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

For more than a decade, linguistics has moved increasingly away from evaluating language as an autonomous phenomenon, towards analysing it 'in use', and showing how its function within its social and interactional context plays an important role in shaping in its form. Bringing together state-of-the-art research from some of the most influential scholars in linguistics today, this Handbook presents an extensive picture of the study of language as it used 'in context' across a number of key linguistic subfields and frameworks. Organised into five thematic parts, the volume covers a range of theoretical perspectives, with each chapter surveying the latest work from areas as diverse as syntax, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, conversational analysis, multimodality, and computer-mediated communication. Comprehensive, yet wide-ranging, the Handbook presents a full description of how the theory of context has revolutionised linguistics, and how its renewed study is crucial in an ever-changing world.

Ungerer, Tobias / Hartmann, Stefan, Constructionist Approaches: Past, Present, Future. 75 pp. 2023:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-2658>
ISBN 978-1-00-930873-1 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the same time offering an in-depth discussion of current research trends and open questions. It discusses the commonalities and differences between the major constructionist approaches, the organization of constructional networks as well as ongoing research on linguistic creativity, multimodality and individual differences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Larroque, Patrice, An Introduction to Linguistics through Popular Music. 138 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <700-1944>
ISBN 978-3-031-24702-6 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This textbook introduces the field of linguistics, demonstrating syntactic categories, morphological structures, phonological/metric structures, syllable structures, and varieties of English in an accessible way by using portions of song lyrics from popular music. The varieties of English covered include Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American, as well as some features of Australian English, southern US varieties, and Scottish English. Drawing on shared characteristics between language and music, including metrical structure, the author suggests a different approach to linguistic analysis and the description of spoken language. The book introduces both students and instructors to a novel and engaging method of description, and provides a fresh vocabulary with which to start thinking about language. It demonstrates complex topics by using music as a fun and familiar starting point, and will be an ideal resource for introductory linguistics courses worldwide.