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

Coetzee, J. M. / Dimopulos, Mariana, Speaking in Tongues. 144 pp. 2025:5 (Liveright, US) <741-1586>
ISBN 978-1-324-09645-0 hard ¥5,789.- (税込) US$ 26.99

Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues-taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dimopulos-examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the twenty-first century.? The authors address questions that we must answer in order to understand contemporary society. They inquire if one can truly love an acquired language, and they question why certain languages, like Spanish, have gender differences built into them. They examine the threat of monolingualism and ask how we can counter, if at all, the global spread of the English language, which seems to maraud like a colonial power. They question whether it should be the duty of the translator to remove morally objectionable, misogynistic, or racist language. And in the conclusion, Coetzee even speculates whether it's only mathematics that can tell the truth about everything. Drawing from decades of experience in the craft of language, both Dimopulos and Coetzee face the reality, as did Walter Benjamin over a century ago in his seminal essay "The Task of the Translator," that when it comes to self-expression, some things will always get lost in translation. Speaking in Tongues finally emerges as an engaging and accessible work of philosophy, shining a light on some of the most important linguistic and philological issues of our time.

構文文法ハンドブック
Fried, Mirjam / Nikiforidou, Kiki (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar. (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) 674 pp. 2025:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <741-1587>
ISBN 978-1-316-51117-6 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities with corpus linguistics, and the diverse perspectives in constructional scholarship. It highlights advances in discourse-related topics and applications to various domains, including multimodal communication, language learning and teaching and computational linguistics, and each chapter contains numerous illustrative examples and case studies involving a variety of languages. It also includes in-depth, empirically-grounded analyses of diverse theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary issues, alongside step-by-step introductions to the theory, making it essential reading for both researchers and students working in functional and cognitive approaches to linguistic analysis and syntactic theory.

Garraffa, Maria / Smith, Giuditta, Linguistic Theory for Aphasia. 100 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-1588>
ISBN 978-3-031-77133-0 hard ¥9,280.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents a cutting-edge overview of the language models of in phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, proposed to underlie language phenotypes across aphasic syndromes, as well as the potential applications of linguistic theory to advance therapeutic treatment -and research- in aphasiology. It draws together examples from a range of aphasic syndromes, providing valuable insights into the way language-specific properties may affect the manifestation of language deficits across aphasia. The authors discuss experimental evidence of deficits across language domains, which is crucial to those who study language abilities in aphasia. It concludes by examining how linguistic theory might contribute to patient classification in aphasia and to future directions for research in experimental linguistics and aphasiology. This book will appeal to students and scholars of neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and speech and language therapy.

表現力ハンドブック
Gutzmann, Daniel / Turgay, Katharina (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity. (Oxford Handbooks) 1368 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <741-1590>
ISBN 978-0-19-886945-0 hard ¥59,980.- (税込) GB￡ 213.00

Mapes, Gwynne, The Language Work of Speechwriters. (Key Topics in Applied Linguistics) 238 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <741-1591>
ISBN 978-1-009-53985-2 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-009-53987-6 paper ¥7,599.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

The work of speechwriters is prominent in political discourse, yet the writers themselves remain in the shadows of the powerful, public figures they work for. This book throws the spotlight on these invisible wordsmiths, illuminating not only what they do, but also why it matters. Based on ethnographic research in the US American speechwriting community, it investigates the ways in which speechwriters talk about their professional practices, and also the material procedures which guide the production of their deliverables. Relying on a robust collection of various genres of discursive data, Mapes focuses on the primary rhetorical strategies which characterize speechwriters' discourse, neatly exposing how they are beholden to a linguistic marketplace entrenched in ideological and socioeconomic struggle. Providing fascinating insights into an understudied and relatively misunderstood profession, this book is essential reading for academic researchers and students in applied linguistics, discourse studies, linguistic and cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics.

Plotnicki, Zbigniew, Information-Oriented Logic: Implications of Natural-Language Sentences and All Logical Paradoxes Solved. (De Gruyter Textbook) 448 S. 2025:3 (de Gruyter, GW) <741-1592>
ISBN 978-3-11-144046-0 paper ¥20,876.- (税込) EUR 89.95

The book introduces a new form of mathematical logic called "Information Oriented Logic" (IOL). It demonstrates that IOL is capable of solving various classical and non-classical logic problems that cannot be solved by traditional methods of logic. In this book, it is argued that two meaningful declarative sentences or symbols can make the same statement if they express the same thing or referent in different ways. The book treats a piece of information as the referent for a meaningful declarative sentence, thus inventing information-oriented logic. As a result, this book provides a comprehensive guide to this logic. Unlike traditional logic, which uses declarative sentences as the result of logical expressions, this new logic uses pieces of information. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholars applying mathematical logic to various fields such as philosophy, linguistics, ontology, information theory, computer science, etc. Additionally, it provides a new mereology in which all implications of a piece of information are its parts.

Shwartz, Vered, Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. 208 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <741-1593>
ISBN 978-1-009-55236-3 hard ¥21,120.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-009-55233-2 paper ¥6,755.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99

Vecchiato, Virginia, EU Regulations as a Hybrid Genre: A Linguistic View of the European Democratic Deficit. (Interdisziplinare Verortungen der Angewandten Linguistik 17) 152 S. 2024:8 (V & R unipress, GW) <741-1594>
ISBN 978-3-8471-1758-2 hard ¥10,444.- (税込) EUR 45.00

The textual and linguistic construction of European law is seen as a symptom of a predictable ? and indeed real ? democratic deficit. At a micro level, the EU terminological hybridity that characterises the source and target texts is directly linked to this legal hybridity: since law only exists in human language, a hybrid legal order needs hybrid tools to fulfil its prescriptive and communicative functions, i.e. a hybrid language. EU law “as a hybrid legal order sui generis or tertium compartionis, juxtaposing and combining very different legal systems, cultures and styles” (Jopek-Bosiacka 2011:26), creates a “hybrid pan-European culture grounded in EU law and the ius commune of Europe [and makes possible] the coexistence of national and EU legal culture” (Baj?i? 2016: 12). This study is at the intersection of these two levels where law and culture meet terminology, or in other words, where legal and cultural principles are textualised.

中国語の方言学
You, Rujie, Chinese Dialectology: A Historical and Social Overview. 466 pp. 2025:3 (Springer, GW) <741-1595>
ISBN 978-981-9710-47-8 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese dialectology, from descriptive investigations, to dialect geography and philology, history, variation, language contact and sociolinguistics, and also includes a unique bibliography of dialect works by Western missionaries, explaining profound theories in simple language with colorful examples from all over China. Based on a unique framework and focusing on what other work on Chinese dialectology lacks, it combines a theoretical perspective with field research, and also links Western theory to the Chinese dialect tradition. This book is a breath of fresh air, providing new data as well as a bibliography of dialect translations of the Old and New Testaments not available elsewhere. Re-assessing old views and offering new perspectives based on rigorous research, it is an indispensable resource for researchers.

Gorter, Durk / Krompak, Edina (eds.), Educational Agency and Activism in Linguistic Landscape Studies. 356 pp. 2024:10 (P. Lang, SZ) <741-1281>
ISBN 978-3-631-90186-1 hard ¥19,691.- (税込) SFR 81.00

Who is involved and why in the linguistic landscapes in educational contexts? How are agency and activism reflected in educationscapes? These questions and more are addressed in the various contributions in this volume, thus expanding the boundaries of educationscapes through enquiries that focus on educational agency and activism. In particular, the collection sheds light on linguistic, semiotic and spatial agency and activism in different educational contexts around the world. By focusing on agency as social practice and activism as act to change, the studies broaden our understanding of the actors, and how they mobilize their linguistic and semiotic resources to shape the educationscape. The volume advances the study of linguistic landscapes in educational contexts and offers a critical approach to reflect on inequality, power and decolonialization of languages in educational spaces, as well as the professional development of future teachers.