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

M.ヴェルポー著　言語と法
Verpeaux, Michel, Les langues et le droit. (Connaissance du droit) 250 p. 2024:11 (Dalloz, FR) <732-425>
ISBN 978-2-247-23120-1 paper ¥3,218.- (税込) EUR 14.00

A.Y. Aikhenvald著　性と類別詞案内
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., A Guide to Gender and Classifiers. 464 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <732-1376>
ISBN 978-0-19-886360-1 hard ¥32,986.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers in Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages. Almost all languages use some type of noun categorization device in their grammar, with the most widespread being linguistic gender, whereby nouns are classified based on core semantic properties such as sex, animacy, humanness, or shape and size. Numeral classifiers are also common, and classify a noun in terms of its inherent nature, animacy, shape, and form, accompanied by a numeral or a quantifier. Other types of noun categorization devices include noun classifiers, possessive classifiers, verbal classifiers, and a number of rarer types such as locative and deictic classifiers. In this volume, Alexandra Aikhenvald investigates all facets of these nominal categorization systems, from their form and distribution to their origins, development, and loss. Noun categorization devices provide unique insights into how people categorize the world through the language: in one language, a human might be classified in terms of orientation, hence as 'vertical', in another as male or female, and in another as simply 'animate' or even 'rational'. They also change as society changes, reflecting the ways in which language and social environment are integrated into a single whole.

言語のアクティヴィズム－言語改革と社会変動における学者の役割
Cutler, Cecelia / Royneland, Unn / Vrzic, Zvjezdana (eds.), Language Activism: The Role of Scholars in Linguistic Reform and Social Change. 280 pp. 2024:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <732-1378>
ISBN 978-1-108-83316-5 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Bringing together a renowned group of scholars from a range of disciplines - sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, philosophy of language, and language documentation - this book explores the role academics can play in language activism. It surveys the most common tensions that language researchers experience in their attempts to enact social change through their work, such as how far they can become politically involved, how they can maintain objectivity in an activist role, whether their work can ever be apolitical, and what ideologies they propagate. In a series of concise original chapters, each author discusses their own experiences and personal concerns; some offering more theoretically informed elaborations on the topic of language activism. Showcasing the state-of-the-art in language activism, this book is essential reading for anyone considering the need for scholarly engagement with the public and the communities in which they work, and the impact that this activism can have on society.

応用言語学研究における倫理的問題
De Costa, Peter I. / Rabie-Ahmed, Amr / Cinaglia, C. (eds.), Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship. (Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 7) 371 pp. 2024:12 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1379>
ISBN 978-90-272-1897-1 hard ¥27,588.- (税込) EUR 120.00
ISBN 978-90-272-1817-9 paper ¥8,276.- (税込) EUR 36.00

This volume contributes to ongoing discussions of ethics in Applied Linguistics scholarship by focusing in-depth on several different sub-areas within the field. The book is comprised of four sections: methodological approaches to research; specific participant populations and contexts of research, (language) pedagogy and policy; and personal and interactive aspects of research and scholarship. Moving beyond discussions of how ethics is conceptualized or defined, the chapters in this volume explore ethics-in-practice by examining context-specific ethical challenges and offering guidance for current and future Applied Linguistics scholars. This volume responds to the need to provide context-specific research ethics training for graduate students and novice researchers interested in a variety of contexts and methodological approaches. After engaging with this volume, new and experienced applied linguists alike will gain familiarity with specific ethical challenges and practices within particular sub-disciplines relevant to their work and across the field more broadly.

Franco, Ludovico, Elementary Predicates and Related Categories. (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 285) 217 pp. 2024:8 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1380>
ISBN 978-90-272-1499-7 hard ¥28,737.- (税込) EUR 125.00

This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across diverse linguistic contexts. Departing from traditional views that obliques lack interpretive content, this work presents a unified conceptual framework of relations in grammar. Drawing on minimalist principles, the book posits a preeminence of the lexicon in syntactic projection, shedding light on the underlying ontology of language. By exploring cross-categorial variation and syncretism, it outlines an inventory of primitives shaping morpho-syntactic derivations.

Giampieri, Patrizia, Corpus-based Translation of Private Legal Documents. (Natural Language Processing 15) 337 pp. 2024:6 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1381>
ISBN 978-90-272-1485-0 hard ¥27,588.- (税込) EUR 120.00

Legal translation is hallmarked by peculiarities revolving around language intricacies, particular formulae, and system-specificity issues. At present, there is a spectrum of legal corpora dedicated to court-related topics and legislation, but there is no corpus composed of private legal documents such as contracts and agreements. This book wishes to bridge this gap by providing English-Italian comparable corpora related to the domain of (general) terms and conditions of service, together with a model for their use in the translation classroom. It offers a novel contribution to the scientific community as it makes corpora of private legal documents available for consultation. In addition, it shows that legal corpora built by following rigorous methods can become reliable tools in translator training and, most likely, in translation practice. This book is for students in Translation Studies, professional translators, researchers and scholars in legal language and legal translation, as well as legal practitioners and lawyers.

Giovanelli, Marcello / Harrison, Chloe, Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed. 256 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <732-1382>
ISBN 978-1-350-35546-0 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-350-35545-3 paper ¥8,035.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar principles can be used in stylistic analyses. Assuming no prior knowledge, it leads students through the basics of cognitive grammar, outlining its place within the field of cognitive linguistics as a whole, providing clear explanations of key principles and concepts, and explaining how these can be used to support the study of a range of literary and non-literary texts. Thoroughly updated throughout to encompass emerging trends in the field, this second edition features: - Increased exploration of a range of topics, including specificity and definiteness, scanning, perfective and imperfective verbs, action chains, and subjective and objective construal - A brand new chapter on extended projects in cognitive grammar - Additional activities, including on a wider range of literary texts - Further solutions to modelled answers - Updated examples, references, and further reading recommendations Presenting cognitive grammar as a powerful alternative to more traditional grammatical models to enable the analysis of texts, the book's primary focus is on the practical application of cognitive grammar to examples of language in context and on its potential for specifically literary and non-literary material. It offers a clear and facilitating approach to allow students to describe language features carefully and to explore how these descriptions can be developed into full and rich analyses.

Guo, Man / He, Qingshun, A Corpus-Based Study of English Projection from Systemic Functional Perspective. (The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series) 208 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <732-1384>
ISBN 978-981-9750-93-1 hard ¥25,285.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book presents a comprehensive study on the phenomenon of projection in English language, drawing upon Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model. It aims to clarify the grammatical status of projecting and projected clauses and explore their synchronic distribution features as well as diachronic evolution patterns. This book provides insights into the understanding of the grammatical status of projection-related clauses. Furthermore, the uncovering of historical evolution trends contributes to the literature on grammatical metaphor in SFL. From a practical standpoint, the empirical investigations into the relationship between projection and text technicality provide important implications for English teaching pedagogy and discourse analysis.

Herbst, Thomas / Hoffmann, Thomas, A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA - A Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis. (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5) 310 pp. 2024:11 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1385>
ISBN 978-90-272-1498-0 hard ¥26,438.- (税込) EUR 115.00
ISBN 978-90-272-1497-3 paper ¥8,276.- (税込) EUR 36.00

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms, word and morphological constructions. In line with its usage-based approach, all constructions are discussed using authentic corpus examples. In order to illustrate how constructions can be learnt, the book draws on authentic data from child language. Furthermore, corpus analysis is used to show which lexical items typically occur in the slots of constructions and make up their 'collo-profile'.A key feature of the book is that it develops a systematic method for showing how constructions combine to form actual utterances. For this purpose, so-called 'construction grids' are developed which contain all the constructions that make up even the most complex sentences and show points of overlap between them.

Hjelmslev, Louis, Lectures on Language Theory 1942-1943. Tr. by F. J. Whitfield. Ed. by L. Cigana. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 132) 223 pp. 2024:12 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1386>
ISBN 978-90-272-1789-9 hard ¥28,737.- (税込) EUR 125.00

The present book is the English translation of Louis Hjelmslev's lectures on glossematics, the theory of language developed in the forties by him and Hans Jorgen Uldall, and taught at the University of Copenhagen in 1942-43, thoroughly taken down in shorthand by his student Harry Wett Frederiksen. The document, unpublished so far, is one-of-a-kind in its pedagogical dimension, as it aims to introduce students, and now readers, to the glossematician's workshop, informally discussing its theoretical framework, the operations employed in description and the reasons why such operations were devised via a concrete analysis of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tale "The Sweethearts". Overall, the document offers a unique glimpse into the machinery of one of the most epistemologically aware and rigorous theories of language developed in the 20th century.

Monti, Johanna / Corpas Pastor, Gloria et al. (eds.), Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 366) 262 pp. 2024:12 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1390>
ISBN 978-90-272-1790-5 hard ¥28,737.- (税込) EUR 125.00

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals, including translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers, language instructors, and learners. Computational Phraseology, and in particular the computational analysis of multiword expressions (also known as multiword units), has gained prominence in recent years and is essential for a number of Natural Language Processing and Translation Technology applications. The failure to detect these units automatically could result in incorrect and problematic automatic translations and could hinder the performance of applications such as text summarisation and web search. Against this background, the volume offers 13 articles carefully selected and organised into two parts: 'Computational treatment of multiword units' and 'Corpus-based and linguistic studies in phraseology'. The contributions not only highlight the latest advancements in computational and corpus-based phraseology but also reiterate its vital role in all areas of language technologies, including basic and applied research.

Moratto, Riccardo (ed.), Chinese Interpreting: Strategies and Teaching Methodologies. (Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting) 325 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <732-1391>
ISBN 978-3-031-66366-6 hard ¥36,780.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book dives into the world of Chinese interpreting, exploring fundamental challenges and topics such as consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, medical, courtroom and media interpreting, as well as interculturality. The book establishes a strong theoretical foundation, delving into principles and techniques for successful Chinese interpreting, before proceeding to examine note-taking in consecutive interpreting, strategies for effective information organization, and providing valuable insights through practical examples. The authors explore the realm of Chinese simultaneous interpreting, examining techniques for conveying meaning in real-time and addressing the unique challenges of medical interpreting. The book also covers the impact of technology on interpreting, the integration of artificial intelligence, and ethical considerations. With its theoretical foundations, practical examples, and in-depth exploration of various topics, this book serves as an indispensable resource for aspiring interpreters, practitioners seeking to enhance their knowledge, and researchers aiming to investigate the intricate world of Chinese interpreting.

Raynaud, Savina / Tenchini, M. P. / Galazzi, E. (eds.), History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August - 1 September. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 133) 279 pp. 2024:12 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1392>
ISBN 978-90-272-1815-5 hard ¥29,887.- (税込) EUR 130.00

This volume comprises two invited talks and fifteen selected papers, chosen from over 200 submissions to the 15th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XV). Originally scheduled to be held in Milan in 2020, the conference was postponed and moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Held from August 23-27, 2021, it connected scholars from 30 countries across various time zones.The volume is divided into three parts. The first part, devoted to General and Particular Issues in the History of Linguistics, recalls classical authors in relation to contemporary ones as well as newly established disciplines and subtle epistemological inquiries. The second part, Antiquity, mainly investigates the Sanskrit language and various descriptive and didactic studies, approached from both ancient and contemporary metalinguistic frameworks. The third part deals with Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Works, ranging from the Tamil language to American archives, and from experimental phonostylistics to the history of monosemy.

相互作用的言語学研究における新視点
Selting, Margret / Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar (eds.), New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research. (Studies in Language and Social Interaction 36) 428 pp. 2024:8 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1393>
ISBN 978-90-272-1480-5 hard ¥24,139.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century, it has prospered internationally. Recently, however, new developments have opened up new perspectives for interactional linguistic research. IL continues to study the details of talk in social interaction, with a focus on linguistic resources and structures of verbal and vocal interaction in bodily-visible interactional settings. Increasingly, though, it embraces methods supported by new technology and broadens its data and research questions to applications in teaching, therapy, etc. The volume comprises three parts with 14 contributions: (1) Studying linguistic resources in social interaction; (2) Studying linguistic resources in embodied social interaction; and (3) Studying social interaction in institutional contexts and involving speakers with specific proficiencies.

言語を理解する－言語学の基礎コース　第3版
Winkler, Elizabeth Grace / Stickle, Trini, Understanding Language: A Basic Course in Linguistics. 3rd ed. 344 pp. 2024:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <732-1395>
ISBN 978-1-350-35524-8 hard ¥22,176.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-35523-1 paper ¥7,481.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

An introduction to linguistics, this book acquaints students to the key areas of linguistics using real-world illustrations. This fully revised and updated text draws upon students' daily experiences with linguistic concepts, allowing them to integrate terminology and build analytical skills as they develop a deeper understanding of how language facilitates our lives and, collectively, our society.Features of the third edition include: - A new chapter exploring language, the brain and the mind - A new chapter on World Englishes - Updated and expanded coverage of topics throughout, including animal communication systems, language and gender and educational linguistics - New and refreshed online resources offering additional support for teachers and students. Equipped with illustrations, diagrams and a wealth of examples of language in use, this book brings the study of language to life, using a wide range of materials including text from public signs, newspapers, magazines, digital platforms, snippets from real-life conversations as well as dialogue from print, film and television. The book's companion website provides a host of additional materials to further assist in the teaching and understanding of linguistics. It includes suggestions for further reading and a list of questions to consolidate understanding at each step.

Yildiz, Mehmet, Pseudo-retranslation. (Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting) 151 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <732-1396>
ISBN 978-3-031-64513-6 hard ¥9,192.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents pseudo-retranslations as a new phenomenon of translational intertextuality, revealing how pseudo-retranslations establish large networks of intertextuality across academic works, how academic authors have recourse to this procedure as they create their academic texts, and how pseudo-retranslations contribute to the dissemination of translation-distorted scholarly knowledge and lead to epistemically polluted academic ecosystems. Pseudo-retranslation can be defined as an academic author's partial or complete exploitation of another academic author's translation and presenting it as a retranslation of the source text. This phenomenon, first documented in Yildiz (2021), arises from academic authors' failure to refer to or translate primary sources - particularly in English. Since there occurs no actual retranslation process, this procedure is called pseudo-retranslation. Using a range of academic texts from the Turkish context as case studies, the author presents the integral constituents of this phenomenon, and the behavioural patterns of its renderers. This book will be of particular interest to academics and postgraduates in the field of translation studies and (corpus) linguistics.

Mauro, Aaron, The Language of Cyber Attacks: A Rhetoric of Deception. (Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures) 240 pp. 2024:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <732-1021>
ISBN 978-1-350-35468-5 hard ¥15,246.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-35467-8 paper ¥4,986.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99 *

Many cyberattacks begin with a lure: a seemingly innocent message designed to establish trust with a target to obtain sensitive information or compromise a computer system. The perils of clicking an unknown link or divulging sensitive information via email are well-known, so why do we continue to fall prey to these malicious messages? This groundbreaking book examines the rhetoric of deception through the lure, asking where its all-too-human allure comes from and suggesting ways in which we can protect ourselves online. Examining practices and tools such as phishing, ransomware and clickbait, this book uses case studies of notorious cyberattacks by both cyber criminals and nation-states on organizations such Facebook, Google, and the US Department of Defence, and in-depth, computational analyses of the messages themselves to unpack the rhetoric of cyberattacks. In doing so, it helps us to understand the small but crucial moments of indecision that pervade one of the most common forms of written communication.

Bodomo, Adams / Koblitz, Carola (eds.), Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective. (FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 21) 275 pp. 2024:9 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1026>
ISBN 978-90-272-1598-7 hard ¥28,737.- (税込) EUR 125.00

Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles. This volume explores the intricate connections between language, culture, and identity across the globe. An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by Liliana Sikorska and Shin-ichi Morimoto establish the scope and stakes of the book as a whole. Chapters by Eri Ohashi, Ruth Karachi Benson Oji, Liliane Hodieb, Zheng Yang, Zhifang Li, and Wanwarang Softic investigate cultural diversity in film. Chapters by Mai Hussein, Wang Chutong, and Darja Zorc Maver offer insights into the linguistic and literary creativity of diasporic and immigrant communities, and a new global context for German literature is developed in chapters by Ekaterina Riabykh, Muharrem Kaplan, and Tomas Espino Barrera. Appealing to scholars, researchers, and students, this interdisciplinary work sheds light on the complexities of our globalized world. Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a valuable addition to the field, offering fresh perspectives on language, culture, and identity.

Kostopoulou, Loukia / Charalampidou, Parthena (eds.), New Perspectives in Media Translation: Transcreation in the Digital Age. 325 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <732-1073>
ISBN 978-3-031-62831-3 hard ¥34,481.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited book explores the practice of transcreation in a variety of contexts, from audiovisual material to digital and marketing material. Drawing on the latest developments in translation and media studies, the volume promotes an understanding of the transcreation process and the way it challenges the concept of translation (Chaume 2018) and impacts on training for translators, localizers and content creators. Chapters include both theoretical and experimental research contributions that investigate facets of transcreation in diverse media and genres and offer constructive insights in the discipline. This book covers the theoretical aspects and practices of transcreation in audiovisual and digital media and will appeal to scholars, researchers and professionals working in the fields of translation, especially audiovisual translation, transcreation, localization and new media.

Goulart, Larissa, Variation in University Student Writing: A Communicative Text Type Approach. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 117) 239 pp. 2024:8 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1010>
ISBN 978-90-272-1500-0 hard ¥26,438.- (税込) EUR 115.00

This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Life Sciences), the book combines corpus-based analyses of linguistic features with analyses of communicative purposes and text characteristics. Variation in University Writing takes a new approach to register variation by grouping assignments by their communicative purpose (to argue, to explain, to compare, to describe, to narrate a personal event, to give a procedural recount, to give personal advice, and to propose), rather than register categories. A multidimensional analysis provides a detailed description of the linguistic patterns of undergraduate writing. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to teachers of writing, instructors of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and researchers of university writing.

Luginbuehl, Martin / Schneider, Jan Georg (eds.), Media as Procedures of Communication. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 348) 303 pp. 2024:12 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1011>
ISBN 978-90-272-1597-0 hard ¥26,438.- (税込) EUR 115.00

The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted semiotic procedures that shape and are shaped by communicative practices. The book is structured around this central idea, with four main sections.Part I examines digital environments, analyzing the interplay between multimodal approaches and mediality through case studies such as digital learning platforms and Zoom seminars. Part II focuses on journalistic procedures, investigating how media shapes political debates and news presentation on platforms like Instagram. Part III delves into embodied processes, particularly the role of the body movements and gestures in communication, illustrated through analyses of yoga tutorials and family dinner conversations. Part IV combines diverse semiotic and medial resources, with studies on historical data interpretation and virtual reality gaming practices. The book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of different media in constituting meaning and shaping social interactions.