2006-05-01,Eloína Miyares Bermúdez and Leonel Ruiz Miyares,Linguistics in the Twenty First Century,Hardback,9781904303862,44.99,"This book is the result of the cooperation between Cambridge Scholars Press and the Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment of Santiago de Cuba. The present volume is a peer-reviewed selection from the papers written in English that were presented at the 9th International Symposium on Social Communication (Santiago de Cuba, January 24-28, 2005).

The symposia are held by the Santiago-based institution every two years. Since their inception in 1987, these meetings have provided an excellent opportunity for scientific exchange among scholars from all continents, through the presentation of papers, keynote speeches, and workshops focusing on the most current and recent results of linguistics and other related disciplines that are also invited to the event.

This volume includes 34 papers subdivided in eight sections: General Linguistics (8), Phonetics (5), Lexicology (3), Corpus Linguistics (2), Natural Language Processing (9), Foreign Languages (3), Mass Media (2) and Art, Ethnology and Folklore (2).

These articles provide an excellent overview of the current state of research from around the world. Scholars came from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, Spain, United States, France, Greek, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

It is important to highlight the presence in this book of papers by some of the world’s leading researchers in linguistics, including Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, from Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands; Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari, director of the prestigious Institute of Computational Linguistics of Pisa, Italy; Prof. Dr. Michael Zock, from the Scientific Research Center of France; Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel, from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute of Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria; Prof Dr. Gloria Corpas Pastor from the University of Malaga, Spain; and the doctors Iñaki Alegria, Xabier Arregi and Xabier Artola, from the IXA Group of the Basque Country University.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-07-01,"Eva Thue Vold, Gunn Inger Lyse and Anje Müller Gjesdal",New Voices in Linguistics,Hardback,9781847180148,39.99,"New Voices in Linguistics presents a selection of some of the ongoing, and quite diversified, work among a new generation of researchers in linguistics. The material has been selected from presentations given at the First Scandinavian Ph.D. Conference in Linguistics and Philology, which was organized in Bergen (Norway) in June 2005. The first part of the book comprises papers which focus on theoretical aspects of linguistics, or which offer theory-driven explanations of empirical linguistic observations. Section two is directed towards empirically-based or descriptive analyses of linguistic phenomena, either using corpus evidence to test claims about language, or describing linguistic phenomena. 

New voices in linguistics is perhaps best described as a demonstration of the breadth in current linguistic research, from the point of view of theoretical frameworks, methods employed and the number of languages under investigation. The research projects span from historical studies of language development, through studies of grammatical and sociolinguistic aspects, to computational studies of language. Despite this diversity, the papers are similar in that they all represent the new generation of linguistic researchers, and many of them question traditional assumptions. This book is unique in that it gathers so many promising new voices in linguistics in one single publication, and may be of interest to any linguist wanting to keep updated on new developments and ongoing projects in the fields of linguistics and language studies. The book offers a rare opportunity to get a glimpse of current, ongoing research projects and thus an excellent opportunity to be ‘ahead of the curve’. It is of particular interest to those working with Scandinavian languages, since a large number of the papers deal with those languages, either alone or in a comparative perspective.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-08-01,"Adriana Belletti, Elisa Bennati, Cristiano Chesi, Elisa Di Domenico, and Ida Ferrari",Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA2005,Hardback,9781847180285,39.99,"The collection provides a rich picture of the current status of theoretically guided studies on first and second language acquisition and pathology by some of the most engaged young and senior researchers. 

Articles ranging from the acquisition of different syntactic structures and computations to issues related to semantic interpretation and phonological analyses are presented. The book is a representative illustration of the comparative perspective in the study of language acquisition and pathology as data from several different languages are considered in fine detail in the various articles. 

The book will be of interest to all working on language acquisition and pathology and it will provide students with a most updated picture of the most studied current issues in the filed.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-08-01,"Arua E. Arua, Mompoloki M. Bagwasi, Tiro Sebina And Barolong Seboni",The Study and Use of English in Africa,Hardback,9781847180193,34.99,"This book provides a timely review of the study and use of English in Africa. It has afforded distinguished language and literature teachers across Africa an opportunity to reflect on the current status of the language in the humanities, education and society on the continent. The presentations in the book touch on some of the most intractable and most debated issues in language and literature in Africa, including English as a dialect, the language question in literature and the penetration of English into French speaking African countries. The book is indeed a unique contribution to the debate on English in Africa and readers will find the arguments in the papers in it robust and refreshing.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-10-01,Esther Usó-Juan and Maria Noelia Ruiz-Madrid,Pedagogical Reflections On Learning Languages In Instructed Settings,Hardback,9781847180414,39.99,"Pedagogical Reflections on Learning Languages in Instructed Settings is intended to provide the latest pedagogical reflections that derive from research in a variety of key areas within the discipline of language learning. Thus, this volume aims at helping practising language teachers to update their teaching methodology.
The book has fifteen chapters that are grouped around five sections. The first section of the book includes three chapters, which outline past approaches to language learning and highlight advances in our understanding of how languages are likely to be learned and taught. These three chapters provide the theoretical grounding for the rest of the volume by discussing outstanding concepts in the language learning field, namely: those of eclecticism (Chapter 1), communication (Chapter 2), and learner autonomy (Chapter 3). The second section of the book contains three chapters, which explore new directions in the field that have recently caught the attention of language researchers and practitioners, namely: the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in language learning (Chapter 4) the use of language corpora (Chapter 5) and finally, the use of the portfolio as a new assessment tool responding to new pedagogical demands (Chapter 6). The third section of the book consists of three chapters, which discuss the role of learners’ individual variables such as affect (Chapter 7), learning styles (Chapter 8), and learning strategies (Chapter 9), crucial for understanding the nature of language learning. The fourth section of the book has five chapters and provides insights into understanding the nature of the four language skills, that is to say, listening (Chapter 10), speaking (Chapter 11), reading (Chapter 12) and writing (Chapter 13). This section also addresses the issue of assessment with the aim of increasing awareness on the duality teaching/assessing and its pedagogical dimension (Chapter 14). The book concludes with the fifth section, which includes a single chapter, that pulls all aforementioned topics together and highlights connections to a student-centred approach, which involves a reformulation of language teachers’ teaching practices (Chapter 15).

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2006-10-01,Amedeo De Dominicis,Undescribed and Endangered Languages: the Preservation of Linguistic Diversity,Hardback,9781847180568,39.99,"The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De Dominicis (Viterbo), Maurizio Gnerre (Napoli), Antonino Melis (N’Djamena).
It will appeal to linguists, phoneticians and phonologists as a contribution to the debate it discusses and it will be welcomed by a wide range of students and researchers as an ideal overview of recent works.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-01-01,Olga Karpova and Faina Kartashkova,"Essays on Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures",Hardback,9781847181039,34.99,"The book contains a collection of works devoted to the most topical issues of modern linguistics, including сross-cultural communication, various aspects of theoretical and practical lexicography, terminology and terminography.
Papers contributed are divided into four major sections. Cultural Aspects in Different Linguistic and Lexicographic Traditions deals with analysis of cultural aspects of language and lexicography with special reference to English, Russian, German, French, Arabic and other languages. User’s Perspective and Dictionary Use is devoted to discussion of research results in the field of user’s needs and demands received during social surveys in different countries. Terminology and Terminography reveals the latest tendencies in modern terminology formation, scientific knowledge engineering in languages for special purposes and professional communication, while New Dictionaries Projects presents models of new reference works.
All those and many other topics were discussed at the VI-th International School-Seminar Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures held at Ivanovo State University, Russia, September 12-14, 2005.



","“The topics discussed  are of great importance not only for lexicograpers, but also for linguists, because they are devoted to the latest trends of development in modern linguistics as well as terminology studies in Russia and abroad. What is especially interesting are projects of new dictionaries for general and special purposes which are being compiled in various countries.
I am sure that publication of these papers as a book will contribute to development of national and international lexicographic studeis.”
Dr.Dmitry Dmitriev, St.-Petersburg, Institute of Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences 

“The book covers theoretical problems of modern lexicography and terminology on international and national level. The scope of languages described is rather wide: English, Russian, French, Italian, etc. and gives a comprehensive picture of modern trends in dictionary making. The authors touch upon important problems preceding compilation of various types of dictionaries: phraseological, terminological, learners, authors and other reference works which contribute to further development  and reseach in terminology and lexicography. A very up-to date book.”
Dr. Prof. Dr. Dmitry Dobrovolsky, Moscow, Institute of Russian Language , Russian Academy of Sciences


“I wish to congratulate Ivanovo State University with 10 years of International Summer Schools in lexicography, with special regards to its organizer and primus motor, Prof. Olga Karpova. I had the pleasure to attend the third summer school in 1999, giving three lectures on different topics in modern lexicography. The School in Ivanovo is important to the development of modern Russian lexicography. It is my opinion, that Ivanovo State University and Prof. Karpova through this school has developed a lexicographic specialist environment to the benefit of the whole Russian linguistic society.” 
Dr. Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld, Oslo University

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2007-01-01,Kjersti Fløttum,Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse,Hardback,9781847180933,39.99,"This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium “Academic Voices in Contrast”, organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose; see www.uib.no/kiap/). In this project, a special focus has been put on the study of the voice(s) of the academic author, in the doubly contrastive perspective of language and discipline. 
A narrow selection of distinguished scholars were invited to participate at the symposium. They were asked to address issues related to “traditional” linguistic versus contextual approaches or to interlingual and interdisciplinary similarities and differences in academic discourse. By the papers of the following, the symposium and the present book constitute a clear advancement of the research on academic discourse: M. A. A. Ariza, L. Berge, M. Bondi, S. V. Bonn, S. Carter-Thomas, T. Dahl, K. Fløttum, A. M. Gjesdal, F. Grossmann, K. Hyland, T. Kinn, L. Lundquist, A. Mauranen, M. Pabón, E. Rowley-Jolivet, F. Salager-Meyer, P. Shaw, J. M. Swales, J.L. Tønnesson, E. T. Vold, F. Wirth.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-01-01,Fethi Mansouri,Second Language Acquisition Research: Theory-Construction and Testing,Hardback,9781847180513,39.99,"There is a growing interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research in interdisciplinary approaches as that are by theoretical as much as practical need of understanding language learning and performance. Intellectually, second language acquisition research is now a recognised independent field of academic inquiry concerned with cognitive, psychological, social and pragmatic aspects of the phenomenon of second language development. SLA research tends to be both highly theoretical and experimental and as such lends itself well to the rigour of scientific research. It is in this context that the use of well articulated theories and concepts is increasingly seen as an essential research and ‘thinking’ tool for understanding and conducting SLA research. Processability Theory (Pienemann 1998) is one of the more prominent theories that have been applied across a number of second languages. The logic underlying processability theory is that at any stage during the developmental process, the learner can produce and comprehend only those target language linguistic forms which the current state of the language processor (i.e. the learner lantguage) can handle. It is therefore crucial to understand the architecture of the language processor and the way in which it handles second language development. 

The chapters included in this book will report on the various technical and theoretical aspects of experimental SLA research across a number of typologically different languages. The book includes detailed chapters outlining the key theoretical claims and methodological requirements underpiniing this kind of SLA research. Many of the subsequent chapters report Procesability Theory-related studies to the wider field of SLA research. Though the emphasis is on cross-linguistic experimental research undertaken within the parameters of Processability Theory, the book nevertheless sheds the light on  the nexus between bilingualism and theory-driven second language acquisition research.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-02-01,Stephen Kelly and David Johnston,Betwixt and Between: Place and Cultural Translation,Hardback,9781847181084,39.99,"Betwixt and Between: place and cultural translation examines the often fraught relationship between conceptions of place and the attempt to ‘translate’ them critically, politically and ethnographically for native and non-native audiences.  Examining translation in a number of key contemporary geo-political contexts, including Northern Ireland, Venezuela, India, Italy, Canada, Germany, France, and the Middle East, and in a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, film, television advertising and the novel, in multiple languages, Betwixt and Between argues for the curiously fruitful dislocation of translation as a discourse and practice.

Contributors argue that, by attending to the curiously placeless place of the translator, translation studies might better police the quiet pieties of nationalism, ethnic singularity and cultural homogeneity which have so destructively determined the politics of the last two centuries and which threaten to overwhelm our understanding of current cultural and political antagonisms.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-04-01,Carlos Periñán Pascual,Revisiting Language Learning Resources,Hardback,9781847181565,39.99,"Human and material resources are two key elements that make up the language learning process. Regarding material resources, nowadays new technologies can be said to play a leading role in most language learning environments. However, we cannot forget that these relatively new tools still coexist with more traditional ones which are still widely used in the foreign language classroom. On the other hand, the progressive emergence of new ‘human roles’ in language learning means that human resources have also become a key medium through which the learner accesses knowledge and practice towards language acquisition.
There is an obvious need to carry out research on these resources in order to assess their potential for an optimum learning experience. This book tries to meet such needs offering the research work that different authors have carried out in this field.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-05-01,"Santiago Posteguillo, María José Esteve, M. Lluïsa Gea-Valor",The Texture of Internet: Netlinguistics in Progress,Hardback,9781847181732,34.99,"Internet and Information and Communication Technologies represent the largest network of human online communication ever. Language is the material that enables communication to flow in this ever-growing digital world of emails, webs, blogs and SMS messages. And language, as always, transforms itself to meet the rapid demands of this virtual universe. As a result, a myriad of changes have occurred and are continuously occurring in the language of Internet users.

The Texture of Internet explores the latest linguistic issues regarding these language transformations focusing on texting, email writing, website texture, new digital genres such as blogs, and the potential applications of Internet to specific linguistic professional settings (e.g. translation, linguistic research or language teaching). This book will become a key reference for anyone interested in unveiling the intricacies of language use in our technological environment.

Santiago Posteguillo, María José Esteve, and Lluïsa Gea-Valor have compiled an excellent set of contributions from Spain, United Kingdom, and Hong Kong on the analysis of language use in Internet and Information and Communication Technologies. They all are researchers and teachers of Languages for Specific Purposes and Linguistics at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, Spain. Their experience in Internet language analysis has produced a most valuable volume on the matter.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-05-01,John Considine and Giovanni Iamartino,Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective,Hardback,9781847181688,34.99,"Words and dictionaries from the British Isles in historical perspective brings together a wide range of current work on English-language lexicography and lexicology by a team of twelve contributors working in England, continental Europe, and North America.

Fredric Dolezal’s opening essay offers a provocative discussion of how the history of English lexicography has been, and might in the future be, written. The next four papers deal with the medieval and early modern periods: Carter Hailey investigates the dictionary evidence for individual lexical creativity in a discussion of Chaucer and the Middle English Dictionary; Gabriele Stein shows how early modern English dictionaries handled lexicological questions rather than simply listing words and equivalents; R. W. McConchie analyzes the biographical record of the lexicographer Richard Howlet, and Paola Tornaghi presents and discusses an unpublished source for the seventeenth-century lexicography of Old English. Three papers on the long eighteenth century follow: Noel Osselton’s is an analysis of the “alphabet fatigue” which led many early lexicographers to treat words at the end of the alphabetical sequence more tersely than words at the beginning; Elisabetta Lonati’s shows the engagement of John Harris’s Lexicon technicum with one of the sources of its medical vocabulary; Charlotte Brewer’s discusses the under-representation of eighteenth-century material in the Oxford English Dictionary. In the last three papers, Julie Coleman provides a groundbreaking analysis of Farmer and Henley’s Slang and its analogues; Peter Gilliver draws on the Oxford English Dictionary archives to tell the story of an important editorial crisis; and Laura Pinnavaia discusses the syntactic flexibility of a set of idioms in a corpus of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose. 

The volume as a whole offers new discoveries and important analytical and conceptual work, and is an essential text in the developing field of the history of lexicography.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-06-01,Martin Howard,Language Issues in Canada: Multidisciplinary Perspectives,Hardback,9781847182036,34.99,"This volume attempts to illuminate Canada’s linguistic diversity by bringing together within one single volume a range of innovative studies which explore Canadian language issues across the political, legislative, social, educational and linguistic horizons. The ten chapters within the volume constitute a mixture of overview survey articles on a particular theme, as well as analyses based on large-scale empirical studies, presenting both qualitative and quantitative findings. The multidisciplinary approach provides complementary insights on a range of key-themes central to the Canadian linguistic context, such as in the case of language politics, language legislation, language education, sociolinguistics, language contact, language variation and change, varieties of French, minority language issues and language standardisation. The languages covered include both English and French, as well as Aboriginal languages.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-06-01,"Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Reyes Gómez Morón and Lucía Fernández Amaya","Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics",Hardback,9781847182098,34.99,"Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics offers valuable contributions to research in pragmatics that will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students in many sub-disciplines of the field.  The volume gathers a wide selection of papers that address traditional and recent issues in pragmatics and adopts a multidisciplinary approach, as most papers are based on various theoretical models and paradigms. An emphasis is placed on the interaction of cognitive processes and socio-cultural beliefs and practices to account for language production and interpretation. From this perspective, the papers offer new and revealing findings that support existing research, novel insights into language production and interpretation and useful directions for future research.


","""Although the volume is divided into three thematic sections; intercultural, cognitive and socio-pragmatics, most of the papers use a multidisciplinary approach. However, the editors were right when they decided to have three sections because this will give guidance to the readers about the main focus of each article. The papers describe and discuss research that is theoretically sound, contains empirical evidence and is based on data collected by the authors.  I would also like to underline the international character of the volume. Among the authors there are scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, UK, Spain, and Turkey.

I am sure that readers will welcome the fine scholarship the volume will present to them.""

Istvan Kecskes, Professor of Linguistics, Director of ESL MA and PhD Programs

“This book will be of great interest and importance to scholars working at the interface between intercultural, cognitive and social aspects of pragmatics. It brings together a distinguished group of contributors using a wide variety of pragmatic frameworks, who provide new and valuable insights into the interaction of social, cognitive and cultural factors in linguistic communication and suggest interesting directions for future research.”

Deirdre Wilson, FBA, Professor of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, University College London





",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-07-01,Christopher Hart and Dominik Lukeš,Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: Application and Theory,Hardback,9781847182272,39.99,"In contemporary linguistics, both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been elaborated in some detail.  Unfortunately, the two perspectives have seldom converged, despite the potential theoretical advances such collaboration offers. The contributions to this volume explore the convergence of cognitive and critical trends in the guise of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis.

The volume addresses a range of socio-political discourses in various international contexts, including discourses on nation, education, immigration, and war. One single integrated model is not presented, but rather, a number of methodologies are developed and assessed across the chapters.  The application of established cognitive linguistic theories, including conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory and frame semantics, are discussed, as well as developing theories, such as metaphor power theory and discourse space theory.
 
The book is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society, including both students and scholars of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis.


","""Critical discourse analysis has grown at a surprising rate over the past two decades. It has grown in terms of the range of social and political issues that it confronts. Practitioners of CDA are now found in many countries across the globe. The present volume reflects these developments. In addition it paves the way for new theoretical and methodological frameworks. In parallel with CDA, cogntive linguistics has produced exciting new ways of linking human language to the human mind and the human experience.The present volume brings together these currents of thought in a way that poropels critical approaches to language in new ground-breaking directions. Anyone who is looking for new ways to do CDA will have to consult this excellent collection of papers.""
—Paul Chilton, Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University

""This book is a welcome addition to the rising tide of research combining critical and cognitive approaches to discourse. As such, it features the work of established and young scholars who apply a range of notions from cognitive linguistics to the study of authentic data. Each chapter is firmly grounded in such empirical research and provides a balanced discussion of cognitive and critical linguistics. The book will be of interest to postgraduate students in linguistics and media studies, as well as to researchers in both cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis who seek to integrate the two.
—Veronika Koller, Lecturer in English Language, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

""This collection gives a timely and vigorous contribution to a fast-developing field of research at the interface between cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis. The editors and contributors are genuinely committed to both disciplines, and show how the application of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis can lead to significant advances in both research paradigm. In sum, this is an exciting and ground-breaking book, which represents the state-of-the-art in cognitively-oriented critical discourse analysis.""
—Elena Semino, Lancaster University

""This collection of articles illustrates and explores theoretically how cognitive linguistics (CL) in its various forms can contribute to a more psychologically robust critical discourse analysis (CDA). Its value lies in the scholarly depth of its theoretical explorations, the range of theories it touches upon, and the variety of texts (from the literary to the political) and cultures (USA, Belgium, Egypt, UK etc.) from which it takes its illustrative texts. Analysis is never for its own sake but always to exemplify different kinds of theoretical symbiosis between CDA and CL. This coherent and well-planned volume represents a major contribution to the multi-disciplinary project bridging the cognitive and the social approaches to discourse description, pragmatic interpretation and ideological explanation, and will prove a mine of source material on the diversity of possible theoretical approaches, and a stimulating challenge for any seriously engaged student or analyst.""
Professor Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China.



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-07-01,David Prescott,"English in Southeast Asia: Varieties, Literacies and Literatures",Hardback,9781847182241,39.99,"This book represents a new publishing venture in terms of its range of concerns with regard to English in Southeast Asia. The chapters in the volume reflect the interests and themes of the annual Conferences on English in Southeast Asia held since 1996 among participating universities from nine countries: Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand Indonesia and New Zealand. This is believed to be the first time that such diversity and coverage has been published in a single volume. 

The three sections of the book cover topics which have been consistently discussed at the conferences during the last ten years. The Varieties section features chapters on phonology, dictionary making, syntax, code-switching and the communicative strategies of English speakers from ASEAN countries. The Literacies section focuses on ICT in English language teaching, Information literacy, bilingual and multilingual issues in Southeast Asia, recent developments in English language teaching and education in Thailand and questions of heritage and identity with respect to English in Malaysia. In the Literatures section the concerns are with new generation writings in English in Malaysia, the literature read by young Filipinos, the use of English in Malaysian newspapers in the context of general elections, the discourses of Asian English newspapers in relation to notions like “globalisation” and “global English” and ASEAN English on Internet websites.

As a collection of work by experienced academics engaged in the issues germane to the roles and status of English in Southeast Asia this volume is an excellent resource for university students, university teaching and research staff and university library collections.

","""Given the scope of investigation, range of topics, and the number of countries studied or implicated within its covers, this book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the spread of English in Asia. It represents some of the financial research outputs of scholars who share similar concerns for the sociopolitical, ethnolinguistic and/or educational dimensions of the impact of English on various Asian localities.""

David C.S.Li, Hong Kong Institute of Education, English World-Wide 30:1, 2009
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2007-07-01,Fernando Rubio,Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning,Hardback,9781847182159,34.99,"Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning deals with a topic which has been given surprisingly little attention in Second and Foreign Language Acquisition studies. Although there are several studies dealing with general education, this volume addresses the need to take self-esteem into consideration in the language classroom and adopts both theoretical/research and practical perspectives, with the hope of being useful for both researchers and practitioners.

The book is organized into three main parts. Part I serves as an introduction to self-esteem. Part II reports on the existing literature about the theory and research dealing with self-esteem and foreign language learning, and Part III includes procedures for implementation and activities for classroom applications.

Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning is edited by Fernando Rubio (PhD.), a researcher and teacher at the University of Huelva in Spain. Most of the chapters have been written by members of the research group “Affective factors in language learning”, which has also published a book on Multiple Intelligences and the teaching of English (Dr. Jane Arnold, Dr. Carmen Fonseca, etc.). There are two outside contributions: one is by Andrew Wright, author of numerous publications for language teachers, and the other by Veronica de Andrés, teacher trainer from the University of El Salvador (Argentina) and member of the executive board of the International Council for Self-Esteem.  Dr. Elaine Horwitz of the University of Texas has contributed a preface.

","""This outstanding book offers a whole new perspective on the teaching of foreign language. It clarifies what self-esteem is, its impact on learning, and provides teachers with excellent suggestions on how to apply the principles of self-esteem to enhance the effectiveness of language instruction. It will make teaching language an exciting, rewarding endeavor for those who use it.""
Robert W. Reasoner,President International Council for Self-Esteem

""In recent years, research on second language acquisition has increasingly emphasized the primacy of affective variables in determining one’s success in learning a language. The construct of self-esteem is among the foremost affective factors in explaining such success, and the editor has in this volume compiled a fascinating set of studies. He represents a spectrum of issues, findings, models, and questions that characterize this subfield, and the section on classroom practicalities aptly demonstrates the relevance of such issues to the classroom teacher. This book is highly recommended reading for any researcher or practitioner who seeks current information on self-esteem.""
Dr. H. Douglas Brown, Ph.D., San Francisco State University

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2007-08-01,Dorothy Kenny and Kyongjoo Ryou,Across Boundaries: International Perspectives on Translation Studies,Hardback,9781847182425,34.99,"This book aims to showcase research into translation and translation teaching as they are currently practised in a variety of contexts across the globe. The editors are particularly interested in highlighting how particular concepts of translation (‘harmonization’, ‘thick translation’, etc) have evolved or been applied in particular cultural contexts, and how ideas from a variety of disciplines (descriptive translation studies, systemic functional grammar, corpus linguistics, etc) have found new applications in translation studies. The edited volume contains thirteen papers divided into three sections: Concepts and Methods in translation research; Verbal and Visual Perspectives; and Challenges in Training and Technology. Contributors from twelve countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Spain and the USA), and who embrace a variety of theoretical backgrounds (sociology, linguistics, semiotics, to name just a few), offer a genuinely international, multidisciplinary view of contemporary translation studies. 



","""This thought-provoking journey across linguistic, cultural and disciplinary boundaries provides a comprehensive overview of current research in Translation Studies, focusing primarily on hitherto neglected traditions, practices and perspectives.""

Professor Annie Brisset, University of Ottawa


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-08-01,"Kris Van den Branden, Koen Van Gorp and Machteld Verhelst",Tasks in Action: Task-Based Language Education from a Classroom-Based Perspective,Hardback,9781847182432,39.99,"Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been gaining momentum around the world during the past twenty years. However, particularly lacking in the body of available publications on TBLT is empirical evidence of the actual activity, interaction and learning processes that tasks give rise to in real classrooms. This volume compiles a number of studies that describe what learners and teachers, in various educational contexts, actually do when they are asked to perform tasks as part of their regular classroom activity. As such, the volume provides valuable new insights into the implementation of task-based language teaching and vividly illustrates how classroom practice can inform future theory-building and research on TBLT.
All the chapters in this book are based on papers that were presented during the first International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, which was organised in Leuven in September 2005 by the Centre for Language and Education of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-10-01,Masahiko Minami,Applying Theory and Research to Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language,Hardback,9781847182890,39.99,"Complex issues surround second language acquisition and foreign language learning in any language. There is no doubt that individuals are capable of acquiring two or more languages at different stages of human development, particularly in childhood. Research investigating how adults acquire two languages also carries important insights into what takes place during later stages of human development. From the fact that early and late bilinguals are faced with two languages in diverse stages of cognitive development we can predict differences in language processing between these two groups. In the case of the Japanese language, unfortunately, far fewer studies — particularly those written in English — have been presented on foreign-language learners and bilingual children. Designed to address some of these gaps in the literature, the chapters included in this book discuss various issues with regard to adult learners of Japanese as an L2 and English-Japanese bilingual children. This book provides the reader with an overview of the field of Japanese linguistics and its current concerns.

One of the main purposes of the book is to provide a forum in which to examine contributions in a variety of areas of Japanese linguistics to the teaching and learning of Japanese in the L2 classroom. This book has at least two interrelated areas of benefit. First, both researchers and teachers benefit from each other’s expertise and receive new insights that apply to their respective fields. Second and more important, the book serves as a forum to promote ways in which we can apply linguistic theory to the learning of Japanese as an L2. That is, what researchers have learned from both theory and practice can suggest what is important for the teaching of language; conversely, language educators have a great deal to offer linguists regarding the phenomenon of language. Thus, the goal of this book is to integrate theoretical concepts and empirical research findings in L2 development in order to apply them to educational practice.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-10-01,Riikka Alanen and Sari Pöyhönen,Language in Action: Vygotsky and Leontievian Legacy Today,Hardback,9781847183163,44.99,"The Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky (1896–1934) has been one of the central figures in the recent shift from the cognitive to the social and the cultural in educational and psychological research. A. N. Leontiev’s (1903–1979) activity theory has had a similar impact in the West. A. A. Leontiev’s (1936–2004) psycholinguistic theories have also started to attract increasing attention. The ideas of these scholars have also made their mark on second and foreign language learning research outside Russia. However, there is no one widely accepted, monolithic Vygotskian or Leontievian theory.  Furthermore, the nature and role of language in action and activity remain open for debate.  
This edited volume presents 19 chapters bringing together different views from a number of disciplines for a critical analysis and reappraisal of the relationship between language and action. The topics range from theoretical and methodological issues related to sociocultural and activity theoretical views of language to empirical research reports on classroom interaction, identity, language assessment, teacher education and second and foreign language learning. 
The overall aim of Language in Action: Vygotsky and Leontievian Legacy Today is to shed light on the nature of human action and activity and the role that language has in mediating and shaping what we think, do, and learn.  At the same time, the book serves as a showcase of different socially oriented approaches to the study of what we as human beings are and what we do with language.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-10-01,Dita Gálová,Languages for Specific Purposes: Searching for Common Solutions,Hardback,9781847183002,39.99,"The book Languages for Specific Purposes: Searching for Common Solutions provides an overview of solutions to teaching languages for specific purposes, as well as current issues encountered in the area LSP. Organized into three chapters (Teaching Languages for Specific Purposes; ICT in Language Teaching; Languages for Specific Purposes – lexicology, terminology, translation studies), the book contains 20 articles by teachers and researchers from different countries. 
The book will be accessible to language teachers and LSP specialists, as well as graduate and postgraduate students majoring in foreign language teaching, and will serve as a valuable resource for teachers wishing to design LSP courses.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-11-01,Christina Gitsaki,Language and Languages: Global and Local Tensions,Hardback,9781847183477,44.99,"The emergence of globalisation is bringing massive changes to all aspects of life, including language. In an effort to raise awareness on the effects of globalisation on language learning and teaching, the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) devoted its 31st Annual Congress to this theme. This volume represents a collection of papers by academics in Australia, South-East Asia, New Zealand, Europe and North America, which synthesize language learning and teaching theories and current research to present the views of applied linguists and language educators on a variety of issues with regards to the tensions that globalisation and internationalisation bring on language and languages. A total of twenty-two articles discuss issues related to the status of the ELT profession in a globalised world, issues of ESL teaching and language assessment, the ever increasing use of ICTs for foreign language learning, and the effects of globalisation on minority languages. This collection of articles attempts to integrate theoretical issues, research findings, and practical applications on different aspects of TESOL to provide academics, researchers, students and language educators with a discussion of the current state of affairs in the field of applied linguistics with regards to globalisation. 

 




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2007-11-01,Eric A. Anchimbe,Linguistic Identity in Postcolonial Multilingual Spaces,Hardback,9781847183279,39.99,"This timely volume moves away considerably from traditional topics investigated in studies of multilingualism and linguistic identity to propose new analytical approaches that investigate postcolonial societies from the standpoint of their specific internal structures. The book uses postcolonial multilingual societies as gateways into complex webs of identity construction and group boundary definition, the interplay and functions of oral (indigenous) and written (foreign) languages in multilingual communities, the birth of new diaspora generations at home and abroad, the redefinitions of gender roles, and the impact of linguistic identities on the different nation states focused upon in the contributions.


“This book could not be published at a better time. The contributors present informative facts about the complex dynamics of the co-existence of ex-colonial languages with the ancestral languages of their new speakers, and about how, on the one hand, they are embraced by some as socio-economic assets and, on the other, they are treated by others as alienating colonial legacies. The reader will learn about various “ecological” factors that have contributed to the indigenization of English, the maintenance or revitalization of indigenous languages, and the emergence of new cultural identities that foster new forms of linguistic diversity in Asia and Africa. This book is a gold mine of information about postcolonial identity in Africa, Asia, Ireland, and the Americas.”

Prof. Salikoko S. Mufwene
Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College
University of Chicago

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-11-01,"Frank Boers, Jeroen Darquennes and Rita Temmerman",Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics: Pedagogical Perspectives,Hardback,9781847183293,34.99,"In February 2006 the first international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (MACL) was held in Brussels, Belgium. The aim of the MACL conference was to bring together scholars from various branches of applied linguistics with a shared interest in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. The conference thus fostered an exchange of knowledge and expertise among researchers from various disciplines, including educational linguistics, cultural linguistics, terminography, translation studies and studies of specialised languages. 

The present book is the first of two volumes containing a selection from the approximately 120 papers that were presented at that three-day event. 
","""Multilingualism and applied comparative linguistics is an impressive collection of articles, all based on original research, that investigate key and current issues in applied linguistics. Its main focus is on multilingualism and intereactions between speakers of different languages, but it also branches out into the areas of translation and interpreting, and the relationship between language and culture. It does all of this whilst maintaining a strong overall coherence. It is thus a 'must read' for anyone working in the areas of applied linguistics, translation studies, or TESOL.”
—Dr Jeannette Littlemore, Senior Lecturer, Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham

“This is an unusually solid and interesting multi-author collection of papers – a number of which, I venture to say, will be widely cited in years to come. Two principle strands of thematic kinship among the contributions are indicated by the title. Additionally, all eleven chapters have clear and direct bearing on foreign language teaching with all but the first presenting new experimental findings. 
One attractive feature of the collection is that it asks, and answers, a wide variety of pertinent questions, some well off the beaten track. For example: 
*Is English more idiomatic than Spanish? If not, a lexical approach should be applicable to Spanish too. (Hélène Stengers)
*Because it has traditionally been aimed at bilinguals, interpreting training focuses on such matters as memory training and includes no ostensible language teaching. But do classic methods of interpreting training work as language teaching activities and if so, in what respects and why? (Alessandro Zannirato)
*Does increased use of lexical chunks really result in learners being perceived as more proficient? (June Eyckmans)
*Are teachers of L2 for the specific purposes of business and economics justified in thinking that L2 technical terms require relatively little attention (compared to sub-technical terms) on account of such factors as greater transparency? (Lieve Vangehuchten)
*What does controlled experimentation say about the relative effectiveness of teaching grammar with consistent, explicit reference to the mother tongue? (Michal B. Paradowski)”
—Seth Lindstromberg, Hilderstone College, Broadstairs, kent



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2007-12-01,Jon Burmeister and Mark Sentesy,"On Language: Analytic, Continental, and Historical Contributions",Hardback,9781847183910,34.99,"Language was at the heart of philosophical inquiry for Plato and Aristotle, and in contemporary discussion it is no less central. In addition to the history of philosophy's extensive investigations of language, analytic and continental philosophy too have focused intensively on the matter. But since most inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own methodology, terminology, and tradition, the multiplicity of approaches is often accompanied by their mutual isolation. This book shows that these traditions can, however, speak meaningfully to each other on language: rather than preventing dialogue, their differences provide opportunities for fruitful inquiry.  
The essays in this volume each treat a central topic in the contemporary study of language. Part One addresses how expression determines thought according to Humboldt, the use of paraphrase in Quine's semantic ascent, and the non-ambiguity of the Frege-Russell senses of ‘is.’ Part Two includes treatments of the possibility and impossibility of promising in Nietzsche, and Derrida's re-working of Saussure's distinction between language and world. Topics in Part Three include the origin and end of language for Heidegger and Foucault, and the mutual sharpening of logic and ordinary speech in Anselm.
This book fills a gap in current scholarship by bringing together nine essays that, through rejecting the debilitating yet often unquestioned divisions between disciplines, are able to illuminate the fundamental nature of language.



","""In each part of this thought-provoking volume on the nature of language, there are essays that demonstrate the immense intellectual potential of writing that refuses to see any decisive distinction between the present of philosophy and its history, or between the ways in which Kant’s work has been inherited in Anglo-American and Franco-German traditions.""
—Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford University, author of Wittgenstein's Private Language

""With its robust range of complementary topics, each subjected to penetrating examination, this collection of essays makes a welcome contribution to the philosophy of language, past and present.""
—Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University, author of Heidegger’s Concept of Truth

""The contributions to this impressive volume ignore traditional divides between “analytic” and “continental,” historical and systematic philosophy. This enables the authors to put a number of key issues in the philosophy of language into a striking new light…. Fully accessible to the advanced undergraduate in philosophy, the book also contains many provocative ideas for the specialist.""
—Martin Kusch, University of Cambridge, author of Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2007-12-01,Artemis Alexiadou,Studies in the Morpho-Syntax of Greek,Hardback,9781847183842,34.99,"The volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I of the book deals with argument alternations, part II with clitics and part III with the syntax and semantics of free relatives.
The book will be interesting for scholars working on Greek but also in theoretical linguistics, as it exemplifies how the study of Greek feeds the development of generative theory.
The issues discussed in the book are currently highly relevant for the develop­ment of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax as well as the interface between syntax and morphology and syntax and semantics. Thus the analyses put forth here will contribute to the elaboration of such a theory and to our understanding of cross-linguistic variation.

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2008-01-01,"Rolf Kailuweit, Björn Wiemer, Eva Staudinger, Ranko Matasović","New applications of Role & Reference Grammar: Diachrony, Grammaticalization, Romance languages",Hardback,9781847184092,44.99,"The first part is comprised of seven articles dealing with possible applications of RRG to diachronic syntax and grammaticalization. Beside an overview article, the papers are mainly concerned with changes either in the interaction between topic-focus structure and the Layered Structure of the Clause or in the selection of Privileged Syntactic Arguments and case assignment. The second part consists of applications of RRG to Romance languages, and most of these applications are mainly concerned with the syntax-semantics interface. Different aspects of verbs (verbs as operators, verbs as sentence predicates, verb alternations) and the syntactic and semantic structures they involve are analyzed from an RRG perspective.







","“For the first time in the history of RRG, the framework is shown to be a powerful tool also in the realm of diachronic linguistics. Thus, it is to be expected that this book will trigger a new wave of diachronically minded in-depth studies for which RRG serves as the frame of reference. Accordingly, some of the papers demonstrate convincingly that RRG has substantial things to say when it comes to analyzing data from extinct languages or older stages of languages. Moreover, the many thought-provoking ideas expressed in this edited volume suggest that RRG and grammaticalization theory can work hand in hand successfully.”

Prof. Thomas Stolz, University of Bremen




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2008-01-01,Jörg-U. Keßler,Processability Approaches to Second Language Development and Second Language Learning,Hardback,9781847184160,34.99,"A fundamental issue in second language acquisition research and in applied linguistics is the question of how learners acquire a second language. Today it is general knowledge that any second language learning follows certain, theoretically established and empirically supported developmental sequences. Based on Processability Theory (Pienemann 1998 and 2005) one can diagnose current states of individual learners’ second language development. Knowing about the path of second language development provides important insights into what learners are ready to acquire in the second language at a given point in time. This can support second language learning both in natural and instructional settings. Pienemann’s Processability Theory (PT) provides a well researched and empirically substantiated framework to explain the developmental sequences in second language learning across languages.
Taking Pienemann (1998 and 2005) as the point of departure the chapters of this book apply, test and extend PT. The book is organised in four parts, (I) Introduction, (II) Current Theoretical Issues within the PT Framework, (III) Applying PT to the Second Language Classroom, and (IV) Work in Progress within the PT Framework.




","""This work is an excellent summary of the current stage of the development of Processability Theory itself and an illustration of the wide range of issues it covers.""

Camilla Bettoni, University of Verona, Cambridge Journals - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 31 - 2009
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2008-03-01,Shakila Abdul Manan and Lalita Sinha,"Exploring Space: Trends in Literature, Linguistics and Translation",Hardback,9781847184726,29.99,"This book embodies the current trends towards inter- and intra-disciplinary studies specifically within the areas of Literature, Linguistics, and Translation.  It is a collection of original and insightful essays by Malaysian academics, reflecting state-of-the-art research, and seen through traditional and modern lenses of conceptualising reality or “spaces” within the fields mentioned.  The uniqueness of this book lies in its attempts to provide textual and theoretical readings from a variety of positions and perspectives. The multi-disciplinary approach taken will appeal to readers from diverse backgrounds, particularly with the contemporary emphasis on  and celebration of heterogeneity in all its forms within a global context. 





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2008-03-01,Marijke Mooijaart and Marijke van der Wal,"Yesterday’s Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography",Hardback,9781847184696,39.99,"Yesterday’s Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography reflects the main issues of scholarly discussion in the fields of historical lexicography and lexicology including the historiography of lexicography. The state-of-the-art volume offers a wide range of contributions in five chapters. 

After the editors’ introduction to Yesterday’s Words, the chapter Dictionaries and Dictionary-Makers of Former Ages concentrates on historical lexicography, including both the main lexicographical works in English and German and dictionaries of minority languages such as Frisian, Welsh, Irish and Scots. The Vocabulary of the Past discusses historical lexicological and etymological issues such as the results of early language contact in the West-Germanic area and in Jamaica in more recent times. Researchers involved in ongoing lexicographical projects, such as the first dictionary of Old Dutch, report on their practice and methodological approach in Current and Future Lexicography and Lexicology. Many dictionaries or dictionary research projects discussed in the volume have been or are being carried out in a digital environment. In the final chapter, Technology of Today for Yesterday’s Words, special attention is paid to projects in which computer techniques and the development of new applications have been essential. 
 
The volume is an essential text for lexicographers, historiographers and historical linguists.
 


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-04-01,"Chryssoula Lascaratou, Anna Despotopoulou and Elly Ifantidou","Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives",Hardback,9781847185198,44.99,"How are pain and joy constructed, articulated, represented, manipulated, and, ultimately, socially determined? This is the first collection of essays that investigates how such multi-faceted and subjective domains of human experience as pain and joy—which combine physical, psychological, private, public, conceptual, and cultural dimensions—are represented and reconstructed in language, literature, and culture. Adopting a genuinely interdisciplinary approach, the book is organized around themes and divided into four parts which blend literary, cultural, and linguistic examinations of theoretical angles, socio-cultural appropriations, stage and screen constructions, and the body. Contributors include eminent scholars from a variety of fields—Catherine Belsey, Declan Kiberd, Zoltán Kövecses, and Elaine Scarry—whose work informs a current academic conversation also developed by other authors in the volume from original angles. With its multi-cultural focus, cross-historical, and interdisciplinary scope—featuring studies of literature, language, art, philosophy, religion, theatre, film, music, television, the internet—this book not only surveys past and contemporary theoretical and critical grounds, but also anticipates future developments: an invaluable resource for all scholars and students exploring the representation of joy and/or pain.





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“In an important contribution to contemporary thinking about pain and its cultural and literary representations,  Lascaratou, Despotopoulou, and Ifantidou bring together essays from widely divergent theoretical and historical fields to explore the relationship of pain to joy.  How was pain transformed to triumphant joy in the fiery deaths of the Protestant martyrs? How is it that audiences derive pleasure from the depiction of pain on screen or stage? Is it possible for past pleasure to outweigh present pain? These questions—amongst many others raised by this intriguing book—suggest ways in which academic discussions of pain have developed from early investigations of its inexpressibility to considering it as a phenomenon that can only be fully understood in broad theoretical and historical terms. This is a splendid book that draws on the work of such groundbreaking critics as Elaine Scarry and Catherine Belsey and sets these alongside emerging voices to produce something new, provocative, and persuasive.”

Lucy Bending, Lecturer, University of Reading, Author of The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.


“A stimulating collection of essays, providing insightful research and reflection on the relation between the textual construction of pain and the ultimate ineffability of experienced pain.”

Theo van Leeuwen, Professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK.
Co-author of Kress, G. and Van Leeuwen, T. (2001) Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. London: Edward Arnold.



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2008-04-01,Joan O'Sullivan,"""Talkin' Different"": Linguistic Diversity and the Irish Traveller Minority",Hardback,9781847185204,39.99,"The Irish Travellers are one of Ireland's oldest minorities, a minority who have frequently lived on the margins of the ""majority"" or settled community. This volume explores linguistic change amongst this cultural group with a particular focus on the influence of the educational system. This book analyses whether increased attendance by young Traveller women in secondary education is influencing long-term change in linguistic usage and speech patterns. The tendency for convergence/non-convergence to the settled community's speech patterns is analysed as is the question of whether such speech variations are a strategy for ""survival"" in the school environment. This study is based on an analysis of both naturally-occurring conversation and speech as explored within an informal interview setting.






",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-05-01,Leda Bisol and Cláudia Regina Brescancini,Contemporary Phonology in Brazil,Hardback,9781847185402,39.99,"Contemporary Phonology in Brazil is a collection of phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese and Indigenous Brazilian Languages which are developed in Prosodic Phonology, Historical Change, Segmental Phonology, First Language Acquisition and Indigenous Languages. 
The Prosodic Phonology is present in the following works about Brazilian Portuguese: Accommodation of intonational patterns in short utterances: compression or truncation; The stress of non-verbs in the Multidimensional Metrical Plane and Secondary stress, vowel reduction and rhythmic implementation.
The Historical Change is the subject of Sandhi: a comparative study between Archaic and Brazilian Portuguese; Clitic prosodization in Brazilian Portuguese: analysis of documents from the nineteenth century and Faithfulness demotion in the historical phonology of Portuguese: a constraint-based account. 
The Segmental Phonology is the base of  The nominal metaphony of Brazilian Portuguese in the light of the Optimality Theory;  Allomorphy in the Brazilian Portuguese verbal system and Variable aspects of Brazilian Portuguese phonology: laterals in coda position. 
First Language Acquisition comprises two studies: Phonological acquisition and phonological theory: formilizing patterns considering features and segments and  Optimal geometries in the acquisition of Portuguese 
Indigenous Languages are discussed in Brazilian Indigenous Languages: a brief history and some hope for the future;  The rhythm class hypothesis and Indigenous Languages  and  The development of creaky voice in Munduruku.
","“Although Mattoso Câmara Junior’s work is still the point of reference for many studies in Brazilian Portuguese phonology, as the editors of this volume correctly state in their introduction, it is equally true that the person who has contributed most to the vitality of contemporary phonology in Brazil is Leda Bisol, of the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), a renowned expert in contemporary phonology in Brazil whose name rightly graces the cover of this book. Contemporary Phonology in  Brazil provides a representative cross-section of phonetic and phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese (and even gives some attention to the indigenous languages of the country) thereby presenting an overview of the lively field of phonological research currently underway in Brazil. It addresses a gamut of historical and synchronic issues in phonological theory and analysis, intonation, language acquisition, and phonetics. This book is not only a necessary addition to the bookshelves of any scholar or student interested in Brazilian phonetics and phonology, but also recommended reading for those involved in or curious about comparative Romance phonetics and phonology.”
—W. Leo Wetzels, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP), CNRS/Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle & VU University Amsterdam.
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-05-01,"Sophie Kern, Frédérique Gayraud and Egidio Marsico",Emergence of Linguistic Abilities,Hardback,9781847185327,39.99,"This book attempts to address an interrelated set of issues about the emergence of linguistic abilities in the child.
The various chapters intend to shed light on a particular and critical period in language development: the first three years of life. It is generally assumed in the field of the ontogeny of language that the child's first years of life are particularly crucial. This period is even sometimes considered as predictive at least in the short term, of the later abilities to communicate. During these first three years, gestures, phonetico-phonological, lexical and morpho-syntactic skills chronologically emerge.
The main goal of this book is to address the issue of continuity between the developments of the different language components, by the means of recent findings of experts in each domain.
Furthermore, the originality of this selection of chapters is to broaden the scope of the discussion by including papers dealing with related phenomena but from different perspectives such as phylogeny, pathology and animal communication.

This book primarily concerns graduate students and researchers in the field of language acquisition but the audience can also include scholars from evolution of language, language pathology, animal communication, ontogeny/phylogeny research fields.
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2008-07-01,Anna Gavarró and M. João Freitas,Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2007,Hardback,9781847186188,44.99,"This volume gathers fifty papers from the conference Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, GALA 2007, celebrated in Barcelona between the 6th and 8th of September, 2007. It covers the areas of syntax and phonology of child language from the theoretical perspective of generative grammar – the theoretical outlook which first placed language acquisition at the centre of linguistic inquiry.

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2008-08-01,Roswitha Fischer and Hanna Pułaczewska,Anglicisms in Europe: Linguistic Diversity in a Global Context,Hardback,9781847186560,39.99,"The present volume deals with the influence of the English lexis on other European languages in various fields of discourse, social attitudes towards this phenomenon and its reflections in recent lexicographical work. It contains some of the papers read at the conference Anglicisms in Europe 2006, which took place at the University of Regensburg, Germany. It links linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political and cultural issues, tracing relationships and differences between the respective research interests and findings. Its aim is to put the influx of anglicisms into languages other than English into a wide perspective encompassing the European heterogeneity of cultures, traditions and developments. 

The volume is divided into four parts, which reflect the particular foci of interest in the recent research on anglicisms in the languages of Europe: I. 'Cognitive and Semantic Approaches to Anglicisms', comprising articles that deal with the cognitive, communicative and semantic motivation for contact-induced innovation; II. 'Attitudes Towards the Influx of Anglicisms', with contributions about various national attitudes towards anglicisms and their reflection in the respective languages; III. 'The Use of Anglicisms in Specialized Discourse', with articles focussing on particular practices and domains such as business, sports, the sciences, and on language varieties used in communication within particular subcultures; and IV. 'Anglicisms in Dictionaries', comprising articles that deal with the existing dictionaries of anglicisms in European languages and provide a future-oriented perspective by making suggestions and recommendations regarding future lexicographic works. 






",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-08-01,"Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian and Donald Stilo",Aspects of Iranian Linguistics,Hardback,9781847186393,44.99,"Aspects of Iranian Linguistics introduces readers to recent research into various properties of a number of Iranian languages. The volume consists of twenty chapters that cover a full range of Iranian linguistics, including formal theoretical perspectives (from a syntactic and morphological point of view), typological and functional perspectives, and diachronic and areal perspectives.  It also contains papers on computational linguistics and neurolinguistics, as well as the modern history of lexicography in Iran.  Various Iranian languages are discussed in this volume, including Hawrami and Kermanji, two of the major dialects of Kurdish, Medival, Classical and Modern Persian,  Balochi, Taleshi and Pamir.  With the exception of Persian, other Iranian languages had not received much attention in the past. Thus this work, as the first volume ever published on various aspects of these languages and their linguistic properties, is a valuable contribution to our understanding of a less commonly studied language family. The theoretical, descriptive, and applied approaches pursued by various authors in this volume, together with the colorful range of languages discussed, provide a unique perspective that is appealing to researchers in different domains of linguistics and language studies.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-08-01,Galina T. Polenova and Olga E. Bondarets,"Collected Articles of the IInd International Linguistics Conference (Taganrog, Russia)",Hardback,9781847186522,39.99,"This book is a collection of articles which were presented at the II-nd International Linguistic Conference in Taganrog, Russia. The most interesting and the most important ideas and researches are represented. The book consists of five parts: Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics and Translation. 

In the first part there are articles of the yenisseic phenomenon from historical point of view by prof. H.Werner (Germany), the role of mythology in the linguistic researching, the diachronic approach to the typological analysis of mental vocabulary, the expression of possessivity in the paleoaisatic languages, the diachrony of grammatical categories in different languages, historical linguistics and Lev Gumilev’s theory of ethnogenesis.

The second part deals with a concept-centered approach to the researching of the vocabulary on the base of cognitive theory, some articles are devoted to the problems of lexicography. In the third part articles consider different grammatical problems, for example – the problem of  the zero-sign by Pyotr Tschesnokov.

The next part deals with problems of pragmalinguistics, and the last part  considers the questions of etnolinguistics and translation, as simultaneous interpreting, ethical Concepts formation of national linguo-cultural communities.

The book appeals to philologists, teachers and students.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-08-01,Emanuele Occhipinti,New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture: Case Studies from an International Perspective,Hardback,9781847186386,44.99,"New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture fills a major gap in existing scholarship and textbooks devoted to the teaching of Italian language and culture. A much-needed project in Italianistica, this collection of essays offers case studies that provide a coherent and organized overview of contemporary Italian pedagogy, incorporating the expertise of scholars in the field of language methodology and language acquisition from Italy and four major countries where the study of Italian has a long tradition: Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States. 

The twenty four essays, divided into six main parts, offer a tremendous variety of up-to-date approaches to the teaching of Italian as a foreign language and L2, ranging from theoretical to more practical, hands-on strategies with essays on curricular innovations, technology, study abroad programs, culture, film and song use as effective pedagogical tools. Each case study introduces a systematic approach with an overview of theory, activities and assessment suggestions, collection of research data and syllabi. The book addresses the needs of instructors and teacher trainers, putting in perspective different examples that can be used for more effective teaching techniques according to the ACTFL guidelines and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.





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""Emanuele Occhipinti has collected a series of excellent essays by renowned researchers and practitioners worldwide into a volume that constitutes a noteworthy contribution to Italian pedagogy.  The topics, which address curricular and technological innovations, translation methodology and the teaching and assessing of culture through various art forms, reflect state-of-the-art discourse that will enrich the articulation of any program, at any institutional level, at any stage of development.  The range of seminal information and lessons learned, from scientific research to practical guidelines and bibliography, provide an invaluable, multi-faceted tool for those entering the field, for those involved in teacher training, and for those well-established colleagues who seek sources that will provide stimuli for trying out new methods and approaches.  As the coordinator of the Italian language program at Harvard and member of the Dean’s Foreign Language Advisory Group, I reacted particularly to the unit on Curricular Innovation with its cogent discussion of content and language integrated instruction and the practical considerations of experiential learning, since they are issues of priority in our deliberations campus-wide.  Similarly, the unit on Translation merits careful review for the many pedagogical implications inherent in the methodology and brought out in the essays.  The exemplary units on the teaching and assessment of culture as integral to language study provide salient theory and extraordinary practical guidelines for the successful and sensible incorporation of this fundamental component.  As the person responsible for the training of new teaching fellows, I will encourage my graduate student trainees to study this collection so that they might learn, put into practice and contribute to the dialogue fostered by these international scholars. This outstanding tome is sure to become a standard manual for teaching Italian language and culture.""

Elvira G. Di Fabio, Ph.D., Sr Preceptor and Course Head in Italian, RLL Associate Director of Undergraduate Education, Harvard University

""Grounded in contributions from recognized experts in the field and enlivened by new and original voices, New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture: Case Studies from an International Perspective is a must for Italian language professionals. Occhipinti's thought-provoking volume contains perspectives on curricular innovations, teaching with technology, and teaching Italian culture that will enrich the working and intellectual lives of its readers.  I personally appreciate the international context — important for our field today — and came away with many ideas that I will try in the Italian classroom.""
 
Prof. Risa Sodi, Senior Lector II, Language Program Director, Italian Language and Literature, Yale University
 




",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,Klaus Stierstorfer and Monika Gomille,Cultures of Translation,Hardback,9781847186959,34.99,"The essays of this volume reflect the tremendous semantic extension the term 'translation' has experienced in the recent debates, which have transformed it into a key term in current issues about language, literature and culture. In the wake of the culture concepts of the 1980s, translation has emerged as the central analytical term for the contact of cultures, while the poststructuralist idea of the infinite chain of the signification process has helped to establish it as a dynamic model. In the course of recent research developments, the issues discussed in an ever-widening field of translation studies began to interconnect with issues discussed in equally topical and newly-established research areas of postcolonial studies and questions of 'World Englishes' and their lively cultural and literary exchanges. The essays of this volume take up and develop this general premise of a close interrelationship in processes of translation between language and culture, and the resulting linkage in the study of these processes between research in language and translation studies, on the one hand, and cultural and literary studies, on the other. The thematic scope stretches across the entire spectrum from issues in translations from one language and culture to another, through problems of and new avenues for cultural interchange as presented in works of art, to questions of translation theory and intercultural exchange on the most general level.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,"Jean-Jacques Defert, Trevor Tchir and Dan Webb",Declensions of the Self: A Bestiary of Modernity,Hardback,9781847187260,39.99,"This work is a collective reflection on the modern self as a narrative. Modernity as a metamorphic conglomeration of permeating discourses, new practices and institutional forms, a historical unfolding of centrifugal and centripetal discursive dynamics of regulation and normalization offers limitless grounds for a critical investigation. The modern self, both as the revelation of the inner self and as a reflection of the collective, arises from the dialogical interplay within the intersubjective communicative space of social discourse.

The bestiary proposed in this series of articles attempts to rethink the spectacle consisting of modern dichotomies by which the self is declined along ontological, metaphysical, and ethical premises: the real and the ideal, the said and the unsaid, the rational and the irrational, the bound and the free, the familiar and the exotic, the universal and the particular, self and world.

The reader is therefore encouraged to engage in a multiple reading of the articles presented in this collection. As individual scholarly pieces of inquiry, these articles provide thoughtful insights into the inexhaustible topic of modernity and the modern subject–they tell stories of the past, the present, and of a prospective future.

As academic works, however, they also reflect and/or unsettle disciplinary paradigms and  scholarly practices, from which they acquire legitimacy and visibility; they conform,  apply, reconfigure and/or experiment with new grounds by borrowing from an eclectic mix of  various thinkers, their tools, and their axiomatic propositions that constitute their  theoretical and critical apparatus.

This exercise is ultimately an introspective journey in which we are placed not only as the  spectator–the one who gazes through the bars–but also the spectacle–the beast subject to  the gaze–finding itself in a predicament of which the subject, itself, is the architect.




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""Declensions of the Self takes the critical reader on a deeply interdisciplinary foray into that bestiary of the ""other"" that populates modern narratives of the self [.] this is the rare multi-author volume where the whole outweighs the parts through an ongoing insistence on critical dialogism.""

Richard Cavell, Professor of English, University of British Columbia


""This volume exemplifies exceedingly well the synergies of multi / inter - disciplinary collectives which are arising within the 21st century academy [.]Scholars and students will find this book a sometimes challenging but always illuminating and insightful volume. This is cutting edge analysis of the theorization of the self within multiple cultural contexts and perspectives. It is a solidly documented volume in which theory and cultural analysis are inseparable.""

Donald Bruce, Professor of French and Dean of Arts, University of Guelph


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,"Franks Boers, Jeroen Darquennes, Koen Kerremans and Rita Temmerman",Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (Volume II),Hardback,9781847186706,39.99,"In February 2006 the first international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (MACL) was held in Brussels, Belgium. The aim of the MACL conference was to bring together scholars from various branches of applied linguistics with a shared interest in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. The conference thus fostered an exchange of knowledge and expertise among researchers from various disciplines, including educational linguistics, cultural linguistics, terminography, translation studies and studies of specialised languages. 

The present book is the second of two volumes containing a selection from the approximately 120 papers that were presented at that three-day event. The book comprises five chapters, reflecting different research perspectives on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. The first chapter covers research articles on metaphors and planned languages. The second chapter comprises articles dealing with language attitudes, language proficiency and language practices in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural, communicative contexts. Chapter three features articles in the field of discourse-analysis research. In the fourth chapter research is presented that pertains to terminology and specialised languages. Finally, chapter five deals with translation studies.





","""For those readers interested in applied comparative linguistics this volume offers an updated, varied landscape of suggestive contributions which will undoubtedly become a reference to further studies. This collection addresses some burning issues in the applied linguistics field both from a theoretical and practical point of view, such as universality and cross-cultural communication; bilingualism, trilingualism and language proficiency; discourse analysis in cross cultural communication research; terminology and specialized languages and translation studies. The international authorship adds up to a comprehensive and globalized perspective on the problems studied without any lessening of its overall coherence, and confirming  the vitality in this field and the richness of approaches.""

—Dr. Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, Senior lecturer, Department of Applied Linguistics for science and technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

“The international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics was held on multilingual ground, where people fiercly defend their own language while happily speaking their neighbour’s. This second volume of the conference proceedings fuels – or so it seems – the linguist’s mythical image: a language juggler and a breaker of borders, dealing in turn with politics, sentiment, education, artificial intelligence, corporate communication… Even going so far as to scrutinise the excellent work put forth by his fellow journalists and translators! Upon reading these presentations, the reader will certainly discover the self-effacement of a field that, beyond its flaws and its jargon, focuses all its attention on homo loquens, the speaking man. Linguistics, even applied, remain first and foremost a form of humanism.”

—Marc Van Campenhoudt, professor, Termisti research centre, Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes, Haute École de Bruxelles.







",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,Ahmar Mahboob and Naomi Knight,Questioning Linguistics,Hardback,9781847186676,34.99,"QUESTIONING LINGUISTICS brings together different perspectives on language studies and applications into a single volume and allows readers to examine how linguists of diverse traditions study and use this expert knowledge of language. By doing so, this volume invites us to reconsider the nature and focus of the field of study and questions a number of current thoughts about language theory, application, and use. In effect, the nature of linguistics, linguistic theory, and languages are called into question, as are the methods that we as linguists may take for granted in our developed research traditions.
Scholars and researchers from within linguistics and beyond will find this volume both accessible and engaging, as it gathers the thoughts and opinions of experts in the field alongside new theorists in an open forum for discussion that diminishes the borders between these diverse threads.





",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-09-01,"Ewa Wałaszewska, Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk, Aniela Korzeniowska and Małgorzata Grzegorzewska","Relevant Worlds: Current Perspectives on Language, Translation and Relevance Theory",Hardback,9781847187796,34.99,"The present volume examines Relevance Theory, one of the most influential pragmatic approaches to communication rooted in human cognition, by testing both its internal coherence and its applicability to such forms of communication as translation and literature.
Part I addresses a wide range of issues which, over recent years, have been of central interest to pragmatists, including relevance theorists, but may well appeal to readers less familiar with pragmatic theory. The papers discuss selected pragmatic phenomena as diverse as conversational humour, politeness, echoicity, garden-path utterances, the explicit-implicit distinction and the role of inferential processes in communication, with a view to applying, evaluating and revisiting the basic tenets of Relevance Theory.
Part II is devoted to various aspects of translation. The papers test the applicability of Relevance Theory, depending on the subject, the genre and the aim of the given translation. Most of the articles analyse specific areas of translation practice, for example the translation of popular science, legal texts, film and fiction. 
A collection of papers on varied linguistic and cultural phenomena, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of pragmatics (including cognitive and experimental pragmatics), semantics, sociolinguistics and Translation Studies.


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“This is a highly recommendable and much awaited collection of essays, intellectually challenging, though with a clear – and much welcome – practical bent, covering a surprisingly wide span of divergent themes, which should be valuable to anyone interested not only in cognitive and communication studies, or in the theory and practice of translation, but also - more generally – in the most pressing, topical issues of contemporary culture.”

Prof. Jerzy Jarniewicz; Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland


“There are good reasons why Relevant Worlds: Current Perspectives on Language, Translation and Relevance Theory deserves publication. The issues discussed are in the mainstream of relevance-theoretic debates. The arguments presented and solutions offered, though not necessarily conclusive, contain some seminal ideas for new developments in the ongoing research, to which the papers successfully contribute.”

Prof. Ewa Mioduszewska, Institute of English Studies, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-10-01,"Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi, Modupe Moyosore Alimi and Patrick James Ebewo",English Language and Literature: Cross Cultural Currents,Hardback,9781847189523,39.99,"
English Language and Literature: Cross Cultural Currents is a collection of essays that interrogate the precarious positions of English and African languages in an era in which English is increasingly becoming the dominant language in Africa while at the same time there is a growing resistance against it. Though many Africans take pride in their own cultural heritage that is expressed by their African languages, they require the economic and social benefits of English. The book presents a language dilemma in which both African languages and English enhance, inhibit, and influence each other.
The data used by the authors spans a broad spectrum of sources including: fiction, courts, parliamentary Hansards, House of Chiefs, classrooms, internet, roads and bus ranks. Thus, it is reflective of the most and least educated, the most and least influential Africans. The presentations provide broad insights about African symbols, metaphors, imagery and folklores representing undocumented literature that challenge scientific imperialism and deficit theories. The diversity and freshness of the ideas in the book stem from the unique blend of the background of the contributors: English language and literature teachers, teachers of African languages, educationalists, sociologists, historians and politicians. Thus the book is a valuable asset to scholars in linguistics, anthropology and language policy makers.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-10-01,Kenneth Holmqvist and Jarosław Płuciennik,Infinity in Language: Conceptualization of the Experience of the Sublime,Hardback,9781847189554,29.99,"The book Infinity in Language is a research monograph on the problem of the sublime in language. The authors use methods from cognitive semantics and poetics in order to thoroughly describe how the sublime is used in language. It is a unique attempt to account for one of the most fascinating problems of the human mind: the concept of infinity, and how the experience of infinity and enthusiasm is expressed in language. 
The book includes new findings in cognitive semantics relating to rhetorical figures such as hyperbole, gradation and accumulation. Cognitive semantics has focused so far on metaphor. This book fills the gap and gives an account of other rhetorical figures. It contains also a historical review of major theories of the sublime by Pseudo-Longinos, Boileau, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and others, i.e. it spans a period from the first century AD till twentieth century. The authors answer the question how is it possible to present the unpresentable. It is an attempt to outline and develop a model of the rhetoric of the sublime. The model consists of three elements: antimimetic evocation of the unimaginable, a mimesis of emotions and figures of the discourse of the sublime. 
The books argues in favour of non-cartesian semantics which takes into account not only reason but also emotions, especially very intensive ones. However, the authors also express reservations regarding omnipresent rhetoric of the sublime. They follow those thinkers in the human history who argued against fanaticism and in favour of tolerance and empathy. The book is an original result of an interdisciplinary and international collaboration, lasting many years, between a cognitive scientist and a linguist and literary scholar. 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-10-01,Ewa Waniek-Klimczak,Issues in Accents of English,Hardback,9781847188649,39.99,"Adopting a central theme of variability, the book explores different  aspects of native and non-native accents of English. The dominating perspective is that of a non-native speaker, although – as argued by some contributors  – the very distinction between native and non-native English may need to be redefined. As the debate on the pronunciation of English as a lingua franca continues, this volume presents well-focused studies investigating the acquisition and use of the sound system by native and non-native speakers, problems with the choice and variability in pronunciation models and pedagogical aspects of  pronunciation instruction. The issue of accents calls for a comprehensive approach; this book aims to provide such a broad perspective, based on expertise and experience of the contributors, who are specialist in linguitics, applied linguitics, phonetics, phonology and ESL.

The book is divided into three parts. Part one discusses complex conditioning of  production and perception of native and non-native accents. It contains acoustic and auditory studies investigating the effect of such independent variables as identity, L1 or contextual factors on the elements of the sound system. Part two links the accent variability studies to the pedagogical context by presenting problems with the pronunciation model, its choice and variability. The main focus of part three is on pronunciation teaching: papers presented in this section report on the methods and results of phonetic instruction in different settings. 




","""...the volume under review gives a nice overview of the wide range of research agendas to 'accents of English',""

Alexander Kautzch,University of Regensburg, English World-Wide, 31:3
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-10-01,Jane Warren and Heather Merle Benbow,Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity,Hardback,9781847188342,34.99,"As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema. The book considers the relationships between language and cultural identity in Europe at a time of increasing multicultural complexity, with contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, and the linguistic and imaginative spaces between and beyond. The volume highlights the ongoing significance of language and identity for an expanding Europe, and the ways in which situations of linguistic hybridity, interlocution and language contact continue to define Europe and its others.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-11-01,Anastasia Smirnova and Matthew Curtis,Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics,Hardback,978-1-4438-0002-0,29.99,"Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics is a collection of papers dealing with a range of syntactic and semantic phenomena across a variety of Slavic languages. The papers included in this volume were presented at the Graduate Colloquia on Slavic Linguistics held at the Ohio State University, reflecting cutting-edge research in Slavic Linguistics by a new generation of scholars from top American and European universities. Topics include the word order of noun phrases with classifying adjectives, the correlation between morphosyntactic realization and semantic roles of the nouns, semantics and syntax of subordinate imperative constructions, clausal structure and semantic properties of impersonal constructions, temporal properties of embedded subjunctive clauses, and the semantics of yes/no questions. The authors present the analyses of the studied phenomena within a variety of formal syntactic and semantic frameworks, such as the Minimalist program, semantics of events, and temporal semantics. These studies consider syntactic and semantic issues in Russian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, and Lithuanian. In addition, some of the papers also offer diachronic analyses of the studied phenomena. Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics definitely will interest linguists engaged in the formal study of natural language syntax and semantics and to Slavicists generally. 




","""...the book impresses the reader by the diversity of topics and languages and the look - the cover and the text itself are beautiful.""

Natalia V. Fitzgibbons, Concordia University in The Linguist List, 22.2885, July 2011
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-11-01,"Nikolaos Lavidas, Elissavet Nouchoutidou and Marietta Sionti",New Perspectives in Greek Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-0008-2,34.99,"New Perspectives in Greek Linguistics is a selection of papers presenting some of the ongoing research in Greek Linguistics. The contributions in this volume, which have their origin in the 4th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, refer to various theoretical frameworks and cover a wide range of topics (from phonology of dialects to acquisition of syntax); however, they share the common reference to Greek and Theoretical Linguistics. The second common feature is a tendency to investigate already known problems using new methods, considering different factors from previous research or introducing innovative ideas. The volume is dedicated to Professor Gaberell Drachman and Professor Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman as a small token of gratitude for their ceaseless presence and their contribution to Theoretical Linguistics, to Greek Linguistics and to postgraduate studies in Linguistics in Greece. 
This volume is of particular interest to linguists working on various areas of Greek Linguistics, especially those who would like to keep up with ongoing research. It presents an opportunity to see the application of linguistic theory in Greek and the current comparative research. 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-11-01,Esther Usó-Juan and Maria Noelia Ruiz-Madrid,Pedagogical Reflections On Learning Languages In Instructed Settings,Paperback,9781847189998,19.99,"Pedagogical Reflections on Learning Languages in Instructed Settings is intended to provide the latest pedagogical reflections that derive from research in a variety of key areas within the discipline of language learning. Thus, this volume aims at helping practising language teachers to update their teaching methodology.
The book has fifteen chapters that are grouped around five sections. The first section of the book includes three chapters, which outline past approaches to language learning and highlight advances in our understanding of how languages are likely to be learned and taught. These three chapters provide the theoretical grounding for the rest of the volume by discussing outstanding concepts in the language learning field, namely: those of eclecticism (Chapter 1), communication (Chapter 2), and learner autonomy (Chapter 3). The second section of the book contains three chapters, which explore new directions in the field that have recently caught the attention of language researchers and practitioners, namely: the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in language learning (Chapter 4) the use of language corpora (Chapter 5) and finally, the use of the portfolio as a new assessment tool responding to new pedagogical demands (Chapter 6). The third section of the book consists of three chapters, which discuss the role of learners’ individual variables such as affect (Chapter 7), learning styles (Chapter 8), and learning strategies (Chapter 9), crucial for understanding the nature of language learning. The fourth section of the book has five chapters and provides insights into understanding the nature of the four language skills, that is to say, listening (Chapter 10), speaking (Chapter 11), reading (Chapter 12) and writing (Chapter 13). This section also addresses the issue of assessment with the aim of increasing awareness on the duality teaching/assessing and its pedagogical dimension (Chapter 14). The book concludes with the fifth section, which includes a single chapter, that pulls all aforementioned topics together and highlights connections to a student-centred approach, which involves a reformulation of language teachers’ teaching practices (Chapter 15).



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-12-01,Christopher Stanling,Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe: A Perspective from R.P.,Hardback,978-1-4438-0037-2,29.99,"Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe – A Perspective from R.P. features exclusive insights and anecdotes about living in E. Europe and working as a freelance English teacher - an exciting occupation for college students and graduates hoping to integrate into the local work force. It has 43 chapters including The Nature of Work and Qualifications; English the International Language; Outsourcing, Multinational  Corporations and English; Eastern Europe Turns to English; Job Offers, Competition, and Cowboy Schools; the School Contract; Advertising; Combining Work With Travel and Entertainment; Impressions From a Different Culture, and Conditions, Resources, and Contract for Freelancing. 

Readers won’t find such an extensive, information-rich account of EFL work and social climate in the region in any other book, useful for teacher-traveler types who wish to broaden their horizons and combine work with travel, those wishing to learn about foreign culture, professional EFL teachers seeking to better informed, career-minded people who want to enrich their CV or resume, those wishing to be more competitive in the international job market, and any potential entrepreneurs for the ELT industry. Tutors and consultants who wish to venture into the E. European ELT market for the first time as freelancers should find the book invaluable. 




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-12-01,Kjersti Fløttum,Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse,Paperback,978-1-4438-0046-4,19.99,"This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium “Academic Voices in Contrast”, organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose; see www.uib.no/kiap/). In this project, a special focus has been put on the study of the voice(s) of the academic author, in the doubly contrastive perspective of language and discipline. 
A narrow selection of distinguished scholars were invited to participate at the symposium. They were asked to address issues related to “traditional” linguistic versus contextual approaches or to interlingual and interdisciplinary similarities and differences in academic discourse. By the papers of the following, the symposium and the present book constitute a clear advancement of the research on academic discourse: M. A. A. Ariza, L. Berge, M. Bondi, S. V. Bonn, S. Carter-Thomas, T. Dahl, K. Fløttum, A. M. Gjesdal, F. Grossmann, K. Hyland, T. Kinn, L. Lundquist, A. Mauranen, M. Pabón, E. Rowley-Jolivet, F. Salager-Meyer, P. Shaw, J. M. Swales, J.L. Tønnesson, E. T. Vold, F. Wirth.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-12-01,Xavier Blanco and Max Silberztein,Proceedings of the 2007 International NooJ Conference,Hardback,978-1-4438-0053-2,34.99,"This volume contains a selection of 18 papers, chosen from among the 38 papers that were presented at the 2007 NooJ conference, Autonomous University of Barcelona, June 7-9, 2007.
NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize a wide gamut of linguistic phenomena, and then test, adapt, share and accumulate each elementary description to build linguistic “modules”, i.e. structured libraries of linguistic resources.
NooJ is also used as a corpus processor that can launch sophisticated queries over large corpora in order to produce various results (concordances, statistical analyses, information extraction, etc).
NooJ’s linguistic engine is integrated in several research centers and software companies in order to build numerous Natural Language Processing applications.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-12-01,Fethi Mansouri,Second Language Acquisition Research: Theory-Construction and Testing,Paperback,978-1-4438-0044-0,19.99,"There is a growing interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research in interdisciplinary approaches as that are by theoretical as much as practical need of understanding language learning and performance. Intellectually, second language acquisition research is now a recognised independent field of academic inquiry concerned with cognitive, psychological, social and pragmatic aspects of the phenomenon of second language development. SLA research tends to be both highly theoretical and experimental and as such lends itself well to the rigour of scientific research. It is in this context that the use of well articulated theories and concepts is increasingly seen as an essential research and ‘thinking’ tool for understanding and conducting SLA research. Processability Theory (Pienemann 1998) is one of the more prominent theories that have been applied across a number of second languages. The logic underlying processability theory is that at any stage during the developmental process, the learner can produce and comprehend only those target language linguistic forms which the current state of the language processor (i.e. the learner lantguage) can handle. It is therefore crucial to understand the architecture of the language processor and the way in which it handles second language development. 

The chapters included in this book will report on the various technical and theoretical aspects of experimental SLA research across a number of typologically different languages. The book includes detailed chapters outlining the key theoretical claims and methodological requirements underpiniing this kind of SLA research. Many of the subsequent chapters report Procesability Theory-related studies to the wider field of SLA research. Though the emphasis is on cross-linguistic experimental research undertaken within the parameters of Processability Theory, the book nevertheless sheds the light on  the nexus between bilingualism and theory-driven second language acquisition research.




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2008-12-01,Amedeo De Dominicis,Undescribed and Endangered Languages: the Preservation of Linguistic Diversity,Paperback,978-1-4438-0054-9,19.99,"The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De Dominicis (Viterbo), Maurizio Gnerre (Napoli), Antonino Melis (N’Djamena).
It will appeal to linguists, phoneticians and phonologists as a contribution to the debate it discusses and it will be welcomed by a wide range of students and researchers as an ideal overview of recent works.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-01-01,Marta Dynel,Humorous Garden-Paths: A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study,Hardback,978-1-4438-0140-9,44.99,"Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception tends to afford.

The central issue under investigation is the nature of short humorous texts in the form of one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”. The monograph provides a survey of relevant linguistic research, recapitulating and assessing other authors’ theses in the context of their applicability in the analysis of garden-path humour. Discussions are conducted in the light of not only humour studies but also cognitive and pragmatic literature on human communication in general, with a view to presenting a meticulous description of short garden-path texts.  

The book should be of interest to anybody who finds humour research appealing, whether or not already familiar with this field. No background knowledge is necessary on the reader’s part, given that all relevant postulates and theories are revisited. Also, the author steers a clear course through many terminological and conceptual obstacles that can be encountered in the study of humour (e.g. verbal/non-verbal humour, ambiguity types, punning, etc.).





","“Humor is a challenging issue, and Marta Dynel faces it admirably. Her investigation into garden path humor is a well documented and highly stimulating piece of research. The approach is soundly and competently linguistic, but the perspective is broad, and it is of interest and appeal also for other disciplines, psychology in the first place.” Prof. Giovannantonio Forabosco

“This thoroughly researched volume represents a convincing amalgamation of linguistics and humor theory. Garden-path humor provides a perfect testing ground for Marta Dynel’s semantic, cognitive and pragmatic perspectives.” Prof. Neal Norrick










",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-01-01,Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Phoevos Panagiotidis,Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntaxfest,Hardback,978-1-4438-0129-4,39.99,"This volume presents a selection of contributions from the week-long Cyprus Syntaxfest in 2006, which brought together research in syntax by several respected and prolific theoretical linguists from all over the world. During the six days of the Syntaxfest, work from a variety of viewpoints in modern generative grammar was presented, and the research discussed and debated followed diverse methodological paths, with the thematic focus on left peripheries in linguistic structures and (their) interface interpretation.

The current collection of expanded versions of selected research presented at the Cyprus Syntaxfest reflects a wide variety of approaches to these topics; it also provides a glimpse of the rich sample of cross-linguistic data that informed the discussions of syntactic peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal left-peripheral phenomena and their (role in) interpretation in a variety of typologically unrelated languages. More significantly, the contributions collected here underscore the by now established importance and theoretical interest of studying the edge of constituents, whether phasal or not. In every chapter, the blueprint of a general interpretive hierarchy driving and constraining syntax is also retraced throughout.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-02-01,"Faiz Sathi Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah and Tan Bee Hoon",Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order,Paperback,9781847183408,39.99,"The papers in this book explore language use in a broad range of discourse fields. They provide theoretical perspectives on global orientations to social, political and economic transformations in the “New World Order” (NWO), and extend these with studies on the impacts of such transformations at the local, national, regional and global levels. The discussions highlight current concerns among academics and political commentators about the potential social impact of representations of the NWO in language and discourse. The present work is important in raising social consciousness towards the central role that language and discourse play in the construction of shifting/multiple identities. In this way, the roles of critical discourse analysis and indeed that of the analysts themselves are emancipative and socially transformative. The value of such consciousness-raising for potential social action in language user empowerment terms cannot be overstressed, particularly given the ascendant position of the English language in the NWO. This collection is a significant contribution to the ongoing critical discussion on global order discourse. 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-02-01,"Nasreen Hussain, Azra Ahmed and Mohammad Zafar",English and Empowerment in the Developing World,Hardback,978-1-4438-0144-7,39.99," This book is a collection of thought-provoking papers that investigate empowerment within the context of language, education, and technology. In the seventeen papers published in the book, local and international ELT practitioners and researchers have analysed their experiences within a range of socio-linguistic situations. Adding significant insights and depth to a previously under-researched area, the publication will be of interest not only to ELT teachers and students, but also to social science researchers in developing and marginalised countries. 
 The book based on selected papers presented at the 2007 Aga Khan University, Centre of English Language seminar in Karachi exemplifies the issues of language and empowerment. The papers deal with complex educational and socio-cultural issues and force readers to undertake a cultural journey to see them from a different perspective. The collection of papers, whatever one’s teaching-learning context, will become an essential resource book for all English language teachers, scholars, and researchers interested in learning more about the success stories and problems facing language education in the developing countries, especially Asia today.  
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-02-01,Honglin Chen and Ken Cruickshank,Making a Difference: Challenges for Applied Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-0034-1,39.99,"The rapid worldwide growth in migration, asylum seekers and refugees and reactions to this, the expansion of media and technology, political and economic changes at international and local levels are both challenges and opportunities for research in applied linguistics.  

This book presents 23 articles by key researchers exploring the ways in which applied linguistics can play a role making a difference in people’s lives. It is a timely publication when access to powerful discourses is increasingly an issue for many of the world’s populations. The book showcases the contribution of applied linguists working in such areas as language teaching and learning, policy development, discourse analysis, language assessment, language development and bilingualism in the UK, Asia and Australasia. 

The book is aimed at teachers, teacher educators, undergraduate and postgraduate students who are working in the areas of the applied linguistics and language education, but also to anyone with an interest in language and the impact that it has on our lives.

“The whole idea is that so many of us live our lives applying linguistics and yet we don’t even think about it”. – Shirley Brice Heath, in Heath and Kramsch (2004, 82): Individuals, Institutions and the Uses of Literacy: Shirley Brice Heath and Claire Kramsch in Conversation. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1(1):75-94.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-02-01,"Jordan Zlatev, Mats Andrén, Marlene Johansson Falck and Carita Lundmark",Studies in Language and Cognition,Hardback,978-1-4438-0174-4,54.99,"Using a plethora of concepts, theories and methods, the theoretical and empirical studies described in this volume are united in their approach of treating language not in isolation (e.g. as a “module”), but as both based on structures and processes of cognition, and at the same time as affecting the human mind. The book is organized in 7 parts, corresponding to some of the major fields in language research today: (a) linguistic meta-theory and general issues, (b) lexical meaning, (c) metaphor, (d) grammar, (e) pragmatics, (f) gesture and bodily communication, and (g) historical linguistics. At the same time, the non-modular approach to language adopted by the authors is reflected by the fact that there are no strict boundaries between the parts. Thus, the book is a valuable contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of Language and Cognition. 

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-03-01,"Gloria Álvarez-Benito, Gabriela Fernández-Díaz and Isabel Mª Íñigo-Mora",Discourse and Politics,Hardback,978-1-4438-0334-2,39.99,"Drawing on political discourse from a wide rage of settings and perspectives, this book is set to provide a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse and will be welcomed by anyone interested in discourse analysis in general, and in political discourse in particular.

Topics covered in this book include the study of political discourse styles, the use of rhetorical strategies (vocabulary, metaphors, quotations, parentheticals, etc.), the relation between political discourse and society (legitimization, the private-public interface, identities), role of gestures in relation to speech, methods for analysing political discourse, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.


","""This book departs from the premise that the analysis of political discourse is an interdisciplinary field covering linguistics, communication studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology and other disciplines. Such a view provides a multilateral presentation of relationship between politics and discourse in different countries both in verbal and non-verbal modes of interaction. The interdisciplinary scope or research is widened by the synthesis of theoretical frameworks and practical application.

Being the insightful volume of papers evolving our understanding of political discourse, the book ""Discourse and Politics” is recommended both for specialists and for a wide range of audiences.""

- Edward Budaev, PhD, Editor of the journal Political Linguistics

“The book “Discourse and Politics” is an edited volume of chapters, based on papers presented at the conference in Seville.  The chapters focus on political discourse strategies, on verbal and nonverbal elements in political interaction, and on methods of analysis.  This timely volume on political discourse brings together many different approaches and perspectives from many different countries; as such, it is highly to be recommended.”

- Peter Bull, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK. 

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-04-01,Zeinab Ibrahim,"Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic: Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco",Hardback,978-1-4438-0342-7,39.99,"Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic presents several aspects concerning Modern Standard Arabic. It analyzes the different forms of lexical variation, and the causes for these variations. This starting point led to many other vital issues related to the present state of the Arabic Language such as language planning, native speakers' identity and fears and most importantly the relationship between the different Arabic varieties: Classical, Modern Standard, and dialects. The book analyzes lexical variation comprehensively and provides deep insights on the present state of the language with some speculations on its future. 


","""This is a valuable contribution in the areas of Arabic lexicology and variationism in written language...It is, therefore, a pioneering attempt to identify and analyze lexical variationin the written MSA of different Arab countries.""

Islam Youssef, CASTL, University of Tromso in The Linguist List 21.293 (2009)
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-04-01,"Harri Veivo, Christina Ljungberg and Jørgen Dines Johansen",Redefining Literary Semiotics,Hardback,978-1-4438-0499-8,39.99,"This volume marks a shift. For it reveals how literary semiotics at present has moved toward methodological pluralism. The sharp lines of division, especially between the two most dominant approaches, those of C.S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, have dissolved and a manifest synergy has emerged from the deepening appreciating that the focal concern of literary scholarship is irreducibly heterogeneous. This heterogeneity necessitates a variety of approaches. The significance of literary texts is neither entirely identifiable with authorial intention nor susceptible to empirical verification. Even so, the possibility of shared meaning and mutual understanding, whether or not acknowledged, animates the work of literary scholars. Approaches and theories in which communication and representation are explained, rather than explained away, deserve a fuller hearing than they have received in the recent past. The contributors to this volume highlight the communicative functions of literary texts and, more controversially, the representational possibilities secured by literary production.

","""This is a learned, lucid, and innovative book edited by some of the leading scholars in the field. At once a very useful resource for students and also a major contribution to scholarly thinking, it offers a refreshing new perspective on key issues in literary semiotics and the theoretical debates these issues have sparked. Contributors display a consistent ability to explain clearly complex theoretical concepts while preserving the inherent difficulty of these ideas. The collection is clearly focused but wide-ranging,  providing is a stimulating account of the contemporary state of play in one of the most challenging and progressive fields of contemporary literary and cultural scholarship.

Redefining Literary Semiotics is the best study of its kind to date in literary semiotics.""

– Deborah L. Madsen, University of Geneva

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-05-01,Olga Karpova and Faina Kartashkova,Lexicography and Terminology: A Worldwide Outlook,Hardback,978-1-4438-0542-1,39.99,"The present book contains a collection of works devoted to current trends in theoretical and practical lexicography, terminology and terminography. All papers are divided into two main sections. Part I: Lexicography deals with analysis of historical and typological problems in lexicography with special reference to English, Italian, Russian and Southern African dictionaries for general- and special- purposes. The main focus is given to the description of principles in lexicographic presentation of non-equivalent lexics, rhyming slang, idioms, clichés and gender nominations of people in bilingual and monolingual  dictionaries.

Part II: Terminology and Terminography is devoted to description of the current tendencies observed in terminology and terminography studies with special reference to modern European languages such as English, Russian, Norwegian, etc. Terms of different special domains are viewed from the angle of the latest achievements of modern science, cognitive linguistics in particular. It reveals specific features of terminological word-combinations, terms in colloquial use, peculiarities of terms belonging to newly formed Languages for Special purposes, typical features of recently appeared LSPs and presentations of new dictionaries’ projects of different subject areas. This part reveals international nature of current tendencies in terminology studies and shows the national ways of their functioning and presentation in special dictionaries.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-06-01,Marta Dynel,Advances in Discourse Approaches,Hardback,978-1-4438-0609-1,44.99,"Taboo words, Quentin Tarantino’s films, humorous dialogues from “Sex and the City”, witty advertising slogans, the Bible, Barack Obama’s speeches, or legal discourse are only a few of the topics addressed in the volume.

The study of discourse is a diversified and fast-developing field of language research, embracing methodological proposals, discourse analyses, comparative research, translation studies and teaching perspectives. Within each of the approaches, theoretical frameworks and postulates abound. The list of research topics is inexhaustible, especially that each year brings new real-life material subject to analysis and issues to elaborate.

Each chapter is devoted to a different topic and deploys a separate theoretical framework. The diversity of research data, methodologies and theoretical viewpoints guarantees the volume’s being a representative sample of multifarious developments in discourse approaches. The book should thus be an interesting resource for enterprising researchers and students of linguistics.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-06-01,Laura Alba Juez,Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice,Hardback,978-1-4438-0597-1,49.99,"Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice provides the student/reader with the basic theoretical knowledge and the empirical tools of some of the most relevant approaches to the analysis of discourse. It has been mainly conceived of as a general (university) course on Discourse Analysis, but it can also be useful for any person or group whose main concern is to acquire the basic necessary knowledge and skills for analyzing any type of discourse. The subject matter of the book could not only be of use for linguists or prospective linguists: given its interdisciplinary character, its findings can be (and in fact are) used and applied by practitioners and scholars from different fields, such as sociology, psychology, medical science, computer science, and so on. Thus the book can be used by any person who, having certain linguistic knowledge, is interested in exploring the fascinating world of discourse.
All the chapters contain both a theoretical and an empirical section, the latter containing examples of analysis, as well as exercises (Practice) and self-evaluation questions, whose answers can be found at the end of the book (in the Practice key and Key to self-evaluation questions sections).
The book is divided into 12 chapters. The first two introduce basic information about discourse analysis and text linguistics, as well as the necessary techniques for gathering data, including a very brief introduction to corpus linguistics.  Chapters 3-11 present and discuss some of the most prominent and well-known approaches to discourse analysis, namely Pragmatics, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Conversation Analysis, The Ethnography of Communication, Variation Analysis and Narrative Analysis, Functional Sentence Perspective, Post-Structuralist Theory and Social Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis and Positive Discourse Analysis, and Mediated Discourse Analysis. Finally, Chapter 12 deals with crucial and further issues, such as the type of discourse chosen for the analysis, the strategies and functions of discourse, or the problem of choosing an appropriate unit of analysis which will suit the aims of research.  
Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice may prove of value to all those who are professionally involved in the area of discourse and pragmatic studies, or simply to those who wish to acquire the necessary basic knowledge and techniques for analyzing any type of discourse, from medical, journalistic or political discourse to computer-mediated, humoristic, or hegemonic discourse (where the use and abuse of power is an important issue), just to name a few of the innumerable possibilities.
A desirable and intended effect of this book is also the development of an open and tolerant mind, which will eventually lead to a better understanding of the different and varied manifestations of language, culture and communication in human society.  




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-06-01,Marija Brala Vukanović and Lovorka Gruić Grmuša,Space and Time in Language and Literature,Hardback,978-1-4438-0567-4,34.99,"Space and time, their infiniteness and/or their limit(ation)s, their coding, conceptualization and the relationship between the two, have been intriguing people for millennia. Linguistics and literature are no exceptions in this sense. This book brings together eight essays which all deal with the expression of space and/or time in language and/or literature. 
     The book explores the issues of space, time and their interrelation from two different perspectives: the linguistic and the literary. The first section—Time and Space in Language—contains four papers which focus on linguistics, i.e. explore issues relative to the expression of time and space in natural languages. The topics under consideration include: typology regarding the expression of spatial information in languages around the world (Ch.1), space as expressed and conceptualized in neutral, postural and verbs of fictive motion (Ch. 2), prepositional semantics (Ch.3), aspectuality (in Tamil, Ch. 4). All articles propose innovative topics and/or approaches, crossreferring when possible between space and time. Given that all seem to propose at least some elements of “language universality” vs. “language variability”, the strong cognitivist nature of the approach (even when the paper is not written within a cognitive linguistic framework) represents a particularly strong feature of the section, with a strong appeal to experts from fields that need not necessarily be linguistic.
     The second section of this volume—Space and Time in Literature—brings together four essays dealing with literary topics. Inherent in each narrative are both temporal and spatial implications because a literary text testifies of a certain time, it is from and about a certain period, as well as about a certain space, even if virtual. A particularly strong feature of these papers is that they envision space and time as complementary parameters of experience and not as conceptual opposites, following the transfer of perspective through the whole century. Departing from the late nineteenth century England’s and Croatia’s fictive spaces (Ch. 5), the topic moves via the American Southern Gothic, focusing on Faulkner from the thirties to the early sixties (Ch. 6), via the post-WWII perspectives on history, probing the postmodern context of temporality (Ch 7), to finally reach the contemporary era of post 9/11 space-time (Ch 8). The voyage from chapter five to eight is thus a journey through space and time that allows for some answers to the nature of reality (of a variety of space-times) as conceived by both the authors of these essays as well as by the authors that these essays discuss.
	The main goal of the editors has been to bring together different scientific traditions which can contribute complementary concerns and methodologies to the issues under exam; from the literary and descriptive via the diachronic and typological explorations all the way to cognitive (linguistic) analyses, bordering psycholinguistics and neuroscience. One of the strengths of this volume thus lies in the diversity of perspectives articulated within it, where the agreements, but also the controversies and divergences demonstrate constant changes in society which, in turn, shapes our views of space-time/reality. All this also suggests that science and literature are not above or apart from their culture, but embedded within it, and that there exists a strong relativistic interrelation between (spatio-temporal) reality and culture. The only hope to objectively envisage any if not all of the above, is by learning how to move (our thought) through space, time or, to put it in simpler terms, how to shift perspectives. 






",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-06-01,Adam Bednarek,Studies in Canadian English: Lexical Variation in Toronto,Hardback,978-1-4438-0590-2,34.99,"This publication focuses on vocabulary, which reflects unique Canadian traits; elements that share not only a Canadian origin but also reference to everyday contexts present on both the micro and macro stage. The conducted study aimed to show variation on the lexical level, which may result from a fluid sense of national identity. The Toronto region, due to its extensive multi-cultural and multi-ethnic background bears a sense of diversity both on the social and linguistic ground. The conducted study involved the distribution of questionnaires, which tested speakers’ knowledge of Canadian register, their ability of using them in the context of everyday discourse and the identification of items. Furthermore, the author had obtained two years worth of texts from the Toronto Sun, which enabled the observation of Canadianisms within the written medium of a media context. The resulting data formed a database labeled by the author as the LCTES (Lodz Corpus for Toronto English Study). 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-07-01,"Reyes Gómez Morón, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Lucía Fernández Amaya and María de la O Hernández López",Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning,Hardback,978-1-4438-0972-6,54.99,"This volume presents a wide ranging overview of key theoretical and practical issues, empirical research and various analyses of pragmatic phenomena that will certainly be most useful and helpful to students and researchers in pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines and, of course, to L2 teachers. It is divided into five parts that include chapters addressing cognitive issues on L2 teaching, how and what to teach when dealing with specific speech acts, intercultural aspects of communication, the teaching of languages for academic and specific purposes and some other methodological issues on pragmatics teaching. 





","""Pragmatics is of central importance in foreign and second language teaching and learning, and yet many people are unclear about how and why this is so. This volume provides a wide ranging exploration of the area, offering extensive evidence for the advantages of including pragmatic issues in the learning and/or teaching curriculum.""

- Professor Helen Spencer-Oatey, Director, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick

""This volume is a valuable resource for everyone interested in the pragmatics of foreign/second language teaching and learning.  It brings together innovative research from a variety of perspectives within different sub-fields of pragmatics that has important implications for the F/SL classroom. It goes beyond traditional topics of research in the study of pragmatics and F/SL teaching and learning, such as speech act realization, into the examination of small talk phenomena, for example. It also considers the application of certain theories and models from other disciplines (e.g. computer science) for the development of tools that can facilitate the teaching/learning of pragmatics."" 

- María Elena Placencia, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London (School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture).




",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-07-01,Jörg-U. Keßler and Dagmar Keatinge,Research in Second Language Acquisition: Empirical Evidence across Languages,Hardback,978-1-4438-0961-0,44.99,"Research in Second Language Acquisition: Empirical Evidence Across Languages provides an overview of current research within the Processability Theory framework (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The articles in this volume combine a more theoretical approach in order to further extend the theory and studies utilizing PT to further investigate bilingual language acquisition and language development in natural and institutional settings. Taking these different aspects into consideration, this volume is organised in two parts. Part 1 Second Language Processing: Contributions to Theory Development contains a number of papers discussing the inclusion of further theoretical aspects into PT, focusing on English as a second language. In Part 2 Second Language Grammars across Languages, PT is applied to a number of typologically different languages and contexts.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-07-01,Rosanna Masiola and Renato Tomei,"West of Eden: Botanical Discourse, Contact Languages and Translation",Hardback,978-1-4438-1005-0,39.99,"West of Eden is an extensive cross-disciplinary study covering a huge range of topics in the field of botanical discourse within colonial and post-colonial contexts. Stemming from an existing European tradition of name giving to take possession of the ‘rarities’ of the new world, it extends to female writing, songs and Bible translation into Creoles. It analyses the diversity of nomenclature in the different geographic areas: the Americas, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.

What is at stake here is also the loss of roots and identity when, as in the case of the Afro-Caribbean plants have been brought along the slave-route from the different parts of Africa. 

With other established authorities (Allsopp, Alleyne, Cassidy), the authors take vibrant stance against the prejudice that contact languages develop endless synonyms for one plant, when phytonyms are allonyms, i.e. coming from other places and other languages. But most of all West of Eden tells us a lot about the richness of an eco-literature which is at risk. The loss of a flower or plant, may also mean the loss of the name it had in language system, and vice-versa. The two factors are inter-dependent. 
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-08-01,"Mario Brdar, Marija Omazić and Višnja Pavičić Takač","Cognitive Approaches to English: Fundamental, Methodological, Interdisciplinary and Applied Aspects",Hardback,978-1-4438-1111-8,49.99,"The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Cognitive Approaches to English, an international event organized to mark the 30th anniversary of English studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek, which was held in Osijek on October 18–19, 2007. The participants were invited to discuss issues in cognitive accounts of English, ranging from fundamental to methodological to interdisciplinary and applied. The volume is accordingly divided into four parts. Part I, Motivation in grammar, deals with various phenomena in the grammar of English in the broadest sense of the term, all of which are shown to be motivated by metaphorical and/or metonymic operations. Part II, Constructing meaning (between grammar and lexicon), contains five chapters dealing with phenomena ranging from various peculiarities of form-meaning pairings (such as synonymy, polysemy, and figurative meanings) to concept formation. The four chapters that make up Part III are concerned with the phenomenon of interlinguistic and intercultural variation in the use of metaphorical and metonymic processes. The volume is concluded by Part IV, the three papers of which attempt to reconsider some TEFL issues from a cognitive linguistic point of view.

","“Cognitive Approaches to English features a careful selection of scholarly contributions to four stimulating areas of linguistic enquiry that are at the cutting edge of present-day research in cognitive linguistics: motivation in grammar, lexical-grammatical interaction, intercultural variation, and theory-driven second language pedagogy. Two important assets of the volume are the emphasis on usage-based analysis and the broad range of compatible theoretical perspectives. Because of its richness in topics and perspectives, I expect the book to be of great value to a broad readership both within cognitive linguistics and in neighboring approaches to language with an interest in the influence of cognition and culture on linguistic structure, language learning and language use.”
—Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, University of La Rioja

“This volume convincingly demonstrates the fruitfulness of cognitive linguistics as a paradigm for the elucidation of the lexico-grammatical and semantic structure of English in its socio-cultural context. The authors analyze such diverse and theoretically challenging topics as idioms, compounds, conversions, nominalizations, light verbs, modality, polysemy, figurative meaning, and cross-cultural variation in metaphor use. A particularly useful feature of the book is a set of papers that apply cognitive linguistic models to the teaching of English as a foreign language. This collection testifies to the vibrancy of cognitive linguistics in Central Europe. It is a most welcome contribution to the growing body of research on the conceptual, functional, and cultural motivations of language structure and use.""
—Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg, University of Hamburg

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-08-01,"Joshua Parker, Lucie Tunkrova and Mohamed Bakari",Metamorphosis and Place,Hardback,978-1-4438-1104-0,39.99,"If personal and national identity is often constructed in terms of place, how do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? What happens to the spaces in which we live as societal values and identities change? These questions can be asked of almost any discipline, whether one is taking a photograph or mapping a literary topography, tracing linguistic change in a geographic region or language’s importance to our conception of a political territory, building a house or place of worship on a physical plot of land, or constructing them from words on a page or computer software.
Few places are ever uniquely our own. We share them, knowing that the geographic points stabilizing our own identities serve, on their reverse side, to support an entirely different set of meanings. We project our cultural (or disciplinary) markers onto landscapes which are already hardly blank, but full of others’ meanings. This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines including literary and cultural studies, history, political science, architecture, anthropology, photography and art history, communications, sociology, lexicography, linguistics, tourism management and theoretical psychoanalysis, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object. 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-08-01,"Rosane Silveira, Márcia Zimmer and Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves",Pronunciation Instruction for Brazilians: Student's Book,Paperback,978-1-4438-1113-2,29.99,"If you are looking for information or activities concerning the problematic /r-l/ phonemic distinction in English, look elsewhere. If, instead, you are interested in finding out about the pronunciation problems that afflict Brazilian learners of English, then you will find this book a goldmine. Pronunciation Instruction for Brazilian Learners: Student’s Book was designed with a specific target of learners in mind: Brazilian Portuguese speakers learning English as a foreign language. 

What is unique about Pronunciation Instruction for Brazilian Learners is its approach to teaching pronunciation. It brings together current developments in Applied Linguistics, insights from recent empirical studies on the acquisition of English phonology, and effective practices in pronunciation instruction, within a communicative approach to teaching foreign languages. Filled with clear and succinct explanations about difficult and hard-to-perceive sounds in English, the book provides eye-pleasing and practical activities that cover the different steps involved in the mastery of a foreign sound system, going from the mechanical articulation of a problematic sound to its ultimate use in an authentic communicative interaction. This is an important contribution to the field of pronunciation teaching and, accordingly, a must-read for anyone interested in studying and teaching the pronunciation of English as a second or foreign language.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-08-01,"Michael A. Watkins, Andreia S. Rauber and Barbara O. Baptista",Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: Perception and Production,Hardback,978-1-4438-1125-5,44.99,"Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: Perception and Production reports the findings of seventeen interphonology studies on perception/production of sounds by different first language speakers. All the papers describe careful empirical research, and as such will be of great interest to anyone working, or intending to work, in the specific field of second language phonological acquisition. However, given that speech production and perception are highly complex skills, the research findings in this volume will also be relevant to those with a broader interest in language learning or cognition in general.
","“The study of second-language perception and phonology is exciting because it is very interdisciplinary, addressing topics such as age-related changes in neural plasticity, the architecture of human speech processing, and practical techniques for improving second-language learning. This book provides a highly useful international survey of work in this field, and is particularly strong in its coverage of phonetic, phonological, and pedagogical approaches.”
– Paul Iverson, University College London
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,Anna Mauranen and Elina Ranta,English as a Lingua Franca: Studies and Findings,Hardback,978-1-4438-1296-2,44.99,"English as a lingua franca has become a hot topic in Applied Linguistics and English Studies. While it has been a subject of controversy for some time, linguistic observations on actual use have largely been missing out of the debate. This is now changing fast, and the study of English as a lingua franca has become a vibrant research field. This book reflects achievements in the growing field; it presents a good selection of empirical findings, thus providing substance to arguments. It comprises contributions from pioneers and established scholars in the field, along with reports from substantial ongoing research projects. 

The papers offer insights into the workings of English as a lingua franca in different contexts—conversational, academic, professional, and business situations. They tackle essential theoretical issues, analyse linguistic and interactional features of ELF, and discuss attitudes towards ELF. The studies are firmly anchored in analyses of authentic language in social interaction, some also using survey and interview data. Many papers also touch upon debates on language policy and linguistic ideologies. 

This collection of papers from the key areas of current ELF research will be of interest to English linguists and applied linguists, graduate and undergraduate students of English, educational and language planners, and teachers of English.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,Floriana Popescu,Perspectives in Translation Studies,Hardback,978-1-4438-1256-6,39.99,"Based on a great deal of recent research performed by academics investigating works translated from/into English, this book provides fresh perspectives to the field of translation studies.
It combines theoretical and practical aspects of the translation process with a comprehensive set of thoroughly commented examples.
Perspectives in Translation Studies is a structurally complex volume which:

•	Is especially designed to cover insights into  a wide range of British and American literary products (novels, short stories and poetry)

•	Comparatively examines patterns of language use in English and other languages, referring both to pairs of verbs and phraseological constructions (collocations and idioms, pre-fabricated or ready-made phrases and proverbs)

•	Explores some of the globalization challenges in the translation of national films into English 

It is ideal for every person with an interest not only in the art or the making of a translation but also in the result of the translation process. 


","“It is a practical, user-friendly volume that gives a balanced and comprehensive insight into Translation Studies and works as a stimuli for further research”. 
- Diana Popa, co-editor with Salvatore Attardo of New Approaches to the Linguistics of Humour, Academica, 2007

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,"Silvia Bruti, Roberta Cella and Marina Foschi Albert",Perspectives on Lexicography in Italy and Europe,Hardback,978-1-4438-1263-4,44.99,"Lexicography is a very special field of research, in which theory arises from concrete problems and practice moulds on theoretical assumptions in a way of working that is at the same time technical and innovative. The volume offers an overview of the main aspects of the state of art of lexicographical research in Europe, with contributions concerning both historical and synchronic dictionaries and a wide spectrum of the main European languages (French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish). Several contributions show the beneficial effects deriving from the close connection between modern lexicography and information technology, which in the last few years profoundly changed the way of designing, realising and using dictionaries. An appendix contains some reflections on lexicography and translation, one of the most important functional goals for both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries.



","‘Without a doubt, the publication of the monograph “Perspectives on Lexicography in Italy and Europe” is an outstanding even in modern theory of lexicography’
--IALIK, No.83, 16-17, St. Petersburg State University.

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,Anne Marie Goodfellow,Speaking of Endangered Languages: Issues in Revitalization,Hardback,978-1-4438-1238-2,39.99,"Speaking of Endangered Languages: Issues in Revitalization provides an overview of the current state of various indigenous languages around the world, describes some local responses to maintaining them, and in some cases suggests a re-examination of the goals and content of indigenous language retention programs. Each chapter presents a case study of a threatened language and possibilities for continued vitality through a description of the history of culture contact in a particular language community, early attempts at assimilationist-style education, the current language situation in the community, and recent local grassroots efforts at language revival and maintenance. Some also include examples of differences between past and present spoken forms of the language, and the implications of these for present and future generations of indigenous language learners.

The authors are all actively engaged in research on the maintenance of indigenous languages, and many of them do applied work in communities as well. It is hoped that the ideas and approaches presented in this book will encourage others working in the field of indigenous language revitalization and maintenance to keep up their efforts, and in so doing consider approaches to indigenous language education that operate at the local level and involve various members of the community.


","""Speaking of Endangered Languages: Issues in Revitalization contains chapters that will attract a wide range of readers – from academic professionals to practitioners of language revitalization work. The book’s contributors introduce the historical and often tragic circumstances under which language shift occurred and continues to take place in Canada (Kwak’wala on Vancouver Island, Innu and Inuit in Labrador, Cree/Mushkegowuk in Ontario), in the United States (Athabascan languages in Alaska, Nakoda and Gros Ventre in Montana, Choctaw in Oklahoma, Nahuatl immigrants and Navajo in the Southwest), in Mexico (Pan-Mayan movement in Chiapas), and in the Pacific (Rapa Nui on Easter Island, Te Reo Mäori in New Zealand). Issues touched upon in the thirteen chapters are diverse. The issues range from: collaborative work between the speaker community and academic professionals to local politics; conflicting perceptions of the indigenous language between older and younger generations; the attempt to maintain the traditional ways of speaking to accepting language change as an adaptation to a changing world; and, the challenges of recruiting members of speaker communities to support and participate in strengthening revitalization efforts -- future teachers and learners -- who believe in the value of indigenous languages and commit themselves to revitalizing, maintaining, and strengthening their heritage languages.

Through exposure to diverse language situations of these indigenous languages, readers learn the needs of speaker communities and how they and academic professionals can work together toward revitalizing their languages. Practical inspirations will come from the current practices described by members of speaker communities. They all emphasize that language transmission cannot and should not take place only at school. It must be a continuum from school to home to community in which language places feed on each other. This book is a welcome addition to the literature on revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures.""

Dr. Akira Yamamoto
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
University of Kansas, USA


""An excellent collection of essays by community members and linguists describing the passion, persistence and personal commitment in a range of endangered language and language revitalization situations from the Pacific through central, north and arctic America.

Throughout the shared struggles and separate circumstances the essays describe the central importance of community in maintaining heritage languages and addressing language loss. Many of the communities and languages described here face incredible challenges as changed futures emerge from a history of loss.""

Dr. Jeanette King
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
University of Canterbury, New Zealand

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,Ahmar Mahboob and Caroline Lipovsky,Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning,Hardback,978-1-4438-1239-9,44.99,"Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning brings together new and original studies in the area of critical applied linguistics, language policy and planning, and language learning and teaching. The book, divided into three sections, first offers critical views on various aspects of language in society, ranging from the construction of national identity, language and justice, racial and identity issues in the ELT industry, to language in business discourse. It then reports on language policy in the school curriculum, language learning in tertiary education, and Aboriginal languages policy. In the third section, it addresses issues in language learning and teaching, such as the role of parents in literacy learning, multiple script literacy, and language learning and maintenance strategies. 






","""This volume is a very welcome addition to the literature on applied linguistics research. It covers a broad range of topics, both comprehensively and thoroughly, and shows the wide range of research being carried out in this area in Australia. Many of the chapters take a critical perspective on their topics taking our thinking forward in many important ways, not just about what we do as researchers, but also what this research has to say about wider social and cultural issues. This book will be of interest to both newer and established researchers with an interest in what applied linguistics research can tell us about sites of professional practice as well as our broader social and cultural worlds.""

- Brian Paltridge. Professor of TESOL, University of Sydney



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2009-10-01,Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and Renata Povolná,Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse,Hardback,978-1-4438-1308-2,39.99,"Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse provides new insights into the various ways coherence works in a wide spread of spoken and written text types and interactional situations, all of which point to the dynamics and subjectivity of its nature. Despite the variety of approaches the authors adopt, they share an understanding of language as a dynamic and heterogeneous system mediating interaction in social and cultural contexts and explain how coherence and cohesion are reflected in different contextually bound aspects of human communication.

The chapters of the book comprise essays by linguists working in the fields of pragmatics, discourse analysis and stylistics which explore features contributing to the perception of cohesion and coherence in spoken and written varieties of English, namely impromptu, academic and political discourse within the former variety, and media, academic and fictional discourse within the latter.

This volume, which combines theoretical insights with practical analyses of different varieties of spoken and written English discourse, will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, scholars and students of English. 







","“The overall concern of the present volume is the way coherence is manifested in spoken and written texts. This is an intriguing question, since the interpretation of coherence has shifted from a semantic to a dynamic property, which depends not only on upcoming information and the contextual development but also on the cooperation between speaker/writer and hearer/reader for its understanding. 
The manifold manifestations of coherence demonstrated in these articles provide an excellent insight into the many ways coherence works in a wide spread of spoken and written text types and interactional situations, which all point to the dynamics of its nature. It goes without saying that the volume is of immediate interest to all students and researchers of coherence and cohesion.”
—Professor Fil.Dr. Anna-Brita Stenström, Bergen University, Norway

“This volume offers fresh insights on central and controversial issues in language description by bringing together contributions that explore the relationship between cohesion and coherence from various perspectives and in relation to a range of different text types including impromptu face-to-face conversation, public speaking, fiction, media and academic discourse. This collection therefore is to be welcomed as an empirical contribution to our understanding of these complex features of spoken and written discourse and will provide stimulating ideas for future inquiry.”
—Dr. Gunther Kaltenböck, MA, University of Vienna, Austria

'This is an interesting collection of papers'
''...articles are worth reading and offer a glimpse of the range of approaches towards coherence.''
-Carmen Konzett, Institut fur Romanistik, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-10-01,Biljana Čubrović and Tatjana Paunović,Ta(l)king English Phonetics Across Frontiers,Hardback,978-1-4438-1303-7,39.99,"Highlighting some interesting and intriguing aspects of English phonetics and phonology from a variety of perspectives, this book brings up a number of empirical questions in order to emphasize the necessity of taking a very broad view of what spoken English means in today's socio-cultural context. English has become a truly global means of communication, used as a first, second, or additional language by millions and millions of diverse speakers, in a multitude of different communicative contexts, so that the very notions of native and non-native seem to have changed profoundly, as have the notions of central/ peripheral and standard/ non-standard with regard to English varieties spoken around the globe. Therefore, today more than ever before, in studying English phonetics many small research steps need to be taken to provide diverse and broad empirical data from as many different standpoints as possible. This collection indeed looks at English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives, including those of native or EFL speakers, language varieties, L2 language teaching and learning, as well as language contact, development, and change. 



","“This collection of research papers indeed takes the study of English phonetics across frontiers, bringing together different phonetic perspectives and different practical and theoretical approaches to the attention of an inquisitive reader.[…] This volume aims at drawing attention to well-known phonetic questions which have gained new facets in today's changed socio-cultural context of the 21st century. […] The kaleidoscopic picture this collection aims to paint emerges from the contributions addressing different aspects of English phonetics and phonology. Therefore, it offers valuable information to researchers in the fields of phonetics and phonology, but also in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and translation studies. […] Covering a wide range of topics, research questions and English varieties, this mosaic collection vividly illustrates the diversity and complexity of questions the multi-faceted field of English phonetics has grown to cover.”

Dr. Boris Hlebec, Professor of English Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade



“The present book […] makes the reader think once again over many intriguing and inspiring questions. Also, it highlights some areas for further studies, attracting researchers not only from the field of phonetics, but from the fields of psychology, general and applied linguistics, pragmatics, semantics, methodology, culture and others. […] This collection, bringing together researchers of different backgrounds, linguistic traditions and approaches, presents an important contribution not only to English phonetics, as it is marked in the title, but also to many other fields and disciplines, especially to general and applied linguistics.”

Dr. Snežana Gudurić, Professor of Phonetics and Phonology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad




",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-10-01,Peter Baofu,"The Future of Post-Human Language: A Preface to a New Theory of Structure, Context, and Learning",Hardback,978-1-4438-1314-3,49.99,"To what extent is there really a universal structure, whether innate or not, of language for learning? Or conversely, is language learning mainly context-based? And, in the end, does the very nature of language delimit our mental world—such that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world” or, in a different parlance, constitute “the prison house of language”?

Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many in history, all these seemingly plausible views are highly misleading, to the extent that something vital is missing in the conventional debate, such that the nature of learning has yet to be more comprehensively and systematically understood.

This is not to say, however, that the literature in the study of language (and other related fields) hitherto existing in history has been much ado about nothing. In fact, much can be learned from different theoretical approaches in the literature.

The virtue of this book is to provide an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of learning, especially (though not exclusively) in relation to language—which, while incorporating the different views in the literature, transcends them all in the end, with the use of language and also beyond it. 

This inquiry may sound academic, but it has enormous implications not just for the narrow concern with the nature of language, but also, more importantly, for the larger concern with the nature of thinking, feeling, and doing in learning, both with the use of language and beyond it.

If true, this seminal work will fundamentally change the way that we think, not only about the nature of language, in a small sense— but also about the nature of learning, with the use of language and also beyond it, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, for the human future and what I originally called its “post-human” fate, in a broad sense.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-10-01,Peter A. Dimitrov,Thracian Language and Greek and Thracian Epigraphy,Hardback,978-1-4438-1325-9,34.99,"Before one embarks upon reading Thracian Language and Greek and Thracian Epigraphy, one should keep in mind that one should be facing an extremely complex situation.There is a methodological problem, originating in the past, which caused various misunderstandings. It is due to the volume of different entries assembled in the goal to compose a thesaurus of the Thracian language. Somehow, over the years during the last two centuries, there was a whole set of methods applied that were not in accordance to the progress made by linguistics. For example, the choice made in assembling the two main corpora so far, that of Tomaschek and Detschew, present data from literary and epigraphic sources. These data combined were not at all times convincing. Sometimes controversial entries were included whose interpretation provoked long discussions. More attention was paid to details, which in most of the cases were not concerned with the discussion of the whole body of evidence.

There was one other issue: whilst modern linguistics made a huge progress, Thracian scholars stayed within the general Indo-European theory of the Neogrammarians.
The method the author used rests on the description of Thracian onomastics obtained after phonological analysis, because he is concerned with the fact that every single phonologically attested form of phonemes and morphs is relevant. For, it helps to list all possible forms of names thus showing all of the graphemes independently.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-11-01,Sonja L. Lanehart,"African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity",Hardback,978-1-4438-1359-4,44.99,"African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity is a groundbreaking collection of research on African American Women’s Language that is long overdue. It brings together a range of research including variationist, autoethnography, phenomenological, ethnographic, and critical. The authors come from a variety of disciplines (e.g., Sociology, African American Studies, Africana Studies, Linguistics, Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Literacy, Education, English, Ecological Literature, Film, Hip Hop, Language Variation), scientific paradigms (e.g., critical race theory, narrative, interaction, discursive, variationist, post-structural, and post-positive perspectives), and inquiry methods (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic, and multimethod) while addressing a variety of African American female populations (e.g., elementary school, middle school, adults) and activity settings (e.g., classrooms, family, community, church, film). 

Readers will get a good sense of the language, discourse, identity, community, and grammar of African American women. The essays provide the most current research on African American Women’s Language and expand a literature that has too often only focused on male populations at the expense of letting the sistas speak.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-11-01,Esa Penttilä and Heli Paulasto,Language Contacts Meet English Dialects: Studies in Honour of Markku Filppula,Hardback,978-1-4438-1339-6,44.99,"This book presents a collection of fresh research on language contacts and dialects, and the interface between the two. The volume celebrates the work of Professor Markku Filppula, an eminent scholar in the fields of Irish English, Celtic contacts in the history of English, and language contacts and vernacular universals in nonstandard Englishes.

The articles in this volume explore theories and methods employed in the study of language contacts and variation, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles. The writers’ perspectives range from cognitive processing to sociolinguistics, and from theoretical and comparative discussions to new empirical, corpus-based studies.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Junichi Toyota,Kaleidoscopic Grammar: Investigation into the Nature of Binarism,Hardback,978-1-4438-1446-1,34.99,"This monograph deals with binary features in the evolution of human civilisation and cognition, with a particular focus on language. Our life is surrounded by various pairs of binary features, and this is termed binarism in this work. Binarism is pervasive, ranging from nature (biological) to culture (anthropological and archaeological) and, without a doubt, to language. Binarim serves as a good base for further development, and as a system becomes more complex, binarism is broken and more complex systems involving third or fourth options emerge.

In the case of language, the earliest human language, as argued here, consisted only of nouns; however, these nouns had a distinction between active and inactive nouns. The active nouns referred to action or productivity, which later turned into verbs and inactive nouns stayed as nouns. It was during this period that language became equipped with a base to develop further with a distinction between noun and verb. This is the onset of various changes towards the complexity of modern languages, essentially, kaleidoscopic grammar. Various changes in language stem from binarism, and as languages evolve, the pairs such as noun v. verb are broken and a grammatical system in general becomes more complex.

The importance of binarism is not restricted to language and it is a powerful tool in evolution at different levels. The pervasiveness of binarism is a specific feature that should not be overlooked in evolution as a whole.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Laura Alba Juez,Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice,Paperback,978-1-4438-1632-8,29.99,"Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice provides the student/reader with the basic theoretical knowledge and the empirical tools of some of the most relevant approaches to the analysis of discourse. It has been mainly conceived of as a general (university) course on Discourse Analysis, but it can also be useful for any person or group whose main concern is to acquire the basic necessary knowledge and skills for analyzing any type of discourse. The subject matter of the book could not only be of use for linguists or prospective linguists: given its interdisciplinary character, its findings can be (and in fact are) used and applied by practitioners and scholars from different fields, such as sociology, psychology, medical science, computer science, and so on. Thus the book can be used by any person who, having certain linguistic knowledge, is interested in exploring the fascinating world of discourse.
All the chapters contain both a theoretical and an empirical section, the latter containing examples of analysis, as well as exercises (Practice) and self-evaluation questions, whose answers can be found at the end of the book (in the Practice key and Key to self-evaluation questions sections).
The book is divided into 12 chapters. The first two introduce basic information about discourse analysis and text linguistics, as well as the necessary techniques for gathering data, including a very brief introduction to corpus linguistics.  Chapters 3-11 present and discuss some of the most prominent and well-known approaches to discourse analysis, namely Pragmatics, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Conversation Analysis, The Ethnography of Communication, Variation Analysis and Narrative Analysis, Functional Sentence Perspective, Post-Structuralist Theory and Social Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis and Positive Discourse Analysis, and Mediated Discourse Analysis. Finally, Chapter 12 deals with crucial and further issues, such as the type of discourse chosen for the analysis, the strategies and functions of discourse, or the problem of choosing an appropriate unit of analysis which will suit the aims of research.  
Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice may prove of value to all those who are professionally involved in the area of discourse and pragmatic studies, or simply to those who wish to acquire the necessary basic knowledge and techniques for analyzing any type of discourse, from medical, journalistic or political discourse to computer-mediated, humoristic, or hegemonic discourse (where the use and abuse of power is an important issue), just to name a few of the innumerable possibilities.
A desirable and intended effect of this book is also the development of an open and tolerant mind, which will eventually lead to a better understanding of the different and varied manifestations of language, culture and communication in human society.  





",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Agnieszka Pysz,The Syntax of Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Old English,Hardback,978-1-4438-1398-3,44.99,"This book is the first monograph which provides a comprehensive discussion of the syntactic behaviour of Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. Drawing on the empirical data retrieved from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (Taylor,  Warner, Pintzuk & Beths 2003), the author proposes an analysis of OE adjectives by means of a theoretical apparatus couched in the framework of Chomsky’s generative grammar. The analysis incorporates the following properties of OE adjectives:

• their inflectional patterning, i.e. whether adjectives take “weak” and “strong” inflectional endings 
• the so-called ""adjective stacking"", i.e. whether adjectives can occur in uninterrupted strings
• the surface placement with respect to their complements 
• the surface placement with respect to the nominal head

The author observes that the differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives go far beyond the superficial difference in their surface placement. She argues therefore that the two types of adjectives require two different theoretical treatments. 

The volume consists of five chapters. It is supplemented by four appendices and an extensive bibliography.




","""Agnieszka Pysz presents a very competent study of the adjectival syntax in Old English within the generative framework. In her book she uses the minimalist model to successfully explain the structure of the Old English noun phrase in the cross-linguistic perspective. The book is an important and valuable contribution to the diachronic studies of early mediaeval English.""
—Rafał Molencki, Professor of English at University of Silesia

""The work makes an original contribution to the research in the area of English historical syntax. One of its major strengths lies in combining the traditional (descriptive) approaches to diachronic phenomena with the recent advances in formal (generative) syntax. Pysz skillfully straddles the border between the two realms and provides the reader with an insightful perspective on the nature of adjectives in the Old English period.""

— Jacek Witkos, Ph.D., School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland







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2010-01-01,Patricia Donaher,Barbarians at the Gate: Studies in Language Attitudes,Hardback,978-1-4438-1703-5,44.99,"The study of language attitudes is the investigation of beliefs expressed about the nature of language and its diverse usages, how these attitudes came to exist and persist, and how these attitudes shape social action and policy. Language attitude studies have illuminated our understanding of racial issues, social and economic stratification, cultural stereotypes, educational issues, folk linguistics, and, more recently, popular culture. This volume is an examination of four intersections in language attitudes research: Authority, Affiliation, Authenticity, and Accommodation. In each section, the contributors introduce new dimensions to the study of language attitudes while providing examples of the ways in which the study of language attitudes can continue to inform and shape our understanding of language diversity.
","“Barbarians at the Gate is a cogent and provocative contribution to both popular culture studies and language attitudes studies.  The collection argues passionately for language diversity and for the importance of studying mass media for language attitudes.  Taken together, the lively articles examine thoroughly the factors and contexts at play in understandings of language diversity.  It does a particularly good job of addressing issues of identity construction, place, and cultural stereotyping.  From analysis of grammar guides to country music, the National Writing Project to popular television sitcoms, the collection covers a lot of ground and successfully demonstrates the importance of this kind of wide-ranging study to assessing language attitudes.  From the point of view of popular culture studies, it is exciting to see more of this kind of analysis by linguists and it how it can engage some shared enduring questions, particularly issues of authenticity and legitimacy.  The collection's specialized assessment of language use in popular culture is a significant contribution to both fields.”
—Leigh H. Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of English, Florida State University

“This engaging and accessible volume makes a valuable contribution to the field of sociolinguistics.  The essays argue persuasively that language variation reflects the diversity of human experience, that voices that are not always heard contain rich structures and ideas, and that their study may yield fresh insights and perspectives.  The reader is compelled to reconsider generally accepted prescriptive notions and stereotypes about the speech patterns of stigmatized groups and their languages.”
Dr. Stacey Katz, Director of Language Programs, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University

“It has been far too long since the last book with this breadth on this subject. There is something here for just about anyone who has an interest in language. 
The book is consistently well written. That is important because I believe it will engage a larger audience, including teachers who do not do (and those who do not trust) empirical research. I cannot emphasize this too much. Teachers (K-12 and college) need to constantly be reminded of facts about language. For most of my academic life, I taught a linguistics course for future teachers (for most, it was the only linguistics course taken). We read many of the works cited in this book, and the students worked on dialect and grammar problem sets; some even
did research projects on dialect variance. But when I met those same students later, when they were teaching, many had reverted to the old attitudes of right/wrong. Not contextual right/wrong (e.g., style standards for journals or newspapers or even physics or linguistics professors) but absolute right/wrong. Bishop Lowth, John Simon, et al. paved easier roads to follow. 
My hope is that this book will inspire many others to begin doing their own research (and having their students conduct such research). As I read the book, I almost wished I were back in the trenches. With each new chapter came many researchable questions. I found myself saying,
""But what if we manipulated this or that variable?"" or ""Would the results be the same if we replicated on a different population"" or ""Do we really know that or do we just assume it (and how can I test it)?"" The best part, of course, is that the language and the speakers will change, so the research constantly has to redone.
Were I still teaching, especially graduate students, this would be a required book in several different courses. There is not just a range of foci, but a range of methodologies, so the book would also be useful in a research methods and design course. However, there is also an
important consistency: In each piece, the author's conclusions are based on the evidence. That is what we need to impress on everyone. Look to the evidence, not the ""convenient belief.""”
—William L. Smith, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Oregon Health & Science University 
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-01-01,Georgeta Raţă,Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice,Hardback,978-1-4438-1641-0,44.99,"Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice is a collection of essays that appeal to teachers of modern languages (almost exclusively English) regardless of the level of instruction. The essays deal with three main aspects of the opposition Linguistic Identity vs. Multilingualism: language education (mother tongue – Turkish, Kurdish, and Serbian; contact linguistics – the impact of Slavic and of German on modern Romanian; the opposition L1 vs. L2 – Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Serbian vs. English; and contrastive studies – German and Macedonian); English language teaching and learning (English as a Foreign or Second Language taught to Serbian and Ruthenian students; English for Specific Purposes – Business English, Information Technology English, the English of hotel terminology, and the English of business media taught to Romanian students; English language teaching and assessing methods to Thai, Italian, Malaysian, and Croatian students; and the profile of the language teacher in the universities of the F.Y.R. of Macedonia and of Romania); and linguistic issues (with focus on some English word histories and on some English modal verbs, on French spelling and on some French verbs of animal communication, and on the Latin Plesiosauria Nomenclature). 







","“Targeting teachers of foreign languages and educationalists in general, this collection of articles covers a wide range of topics dealing with descriptive, contrastive, semantic or etymological aspects of languages and language teaching, underscoring the numerous benefits of bi- or multilingual education. One of the great merits of this collection is the impressive cultural diversity of contributors whose opinions converge nevertheless with regard to language education fostering intercultural competence and furthering communication and cooperation across racial, ethnic and cultural divides.” 
- Reghina Dascăl, Assistant Professor, West University, Timişoara

“This volume covers an exhilarating range of problems and topics related to contemporary linguistics and language teaching methodology across cultures. Each of the contributors, the bulk of whom live and work in Romania and South-Eastern Europe, shares in English or French his or her own way of dealing with a particular challenge in language education. While adding to the appealing cultural diversity of the book, their innovative perspectives and valuable practical approaches confirm the perennial mission of language teachers and educators to continue developing a deeper sensitivity to the cultural uniqueness of each language on our planet alongside an awareness to, and acceptance of, global change.”
—Roumyana Petrova, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Rousse (Bulgaria) and Fulbright adviser, scientific reviewer of Journal of Linguistic Studies.




",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-01-01,Anthony J. Liddicoat and Angela Scarino,"Languages in Australian Education: Problems, Prospects and Future Directions",Hardback,978-1-4438-1673-1,39.99,"Australia has a reputation for sustained work in language policy and has had over 20 years of experience of language policy development. During these years, language policies have sought to increase and reshape languages education in Australian schools, but have had only limited success in achieving their objectives. This means that Australia’s extensive work in language policy has not yet guaranteed a secure place for languages within education. After a period of comparative neglect of languages and multiculturalism, Australia is now entering a new phase of activity in language policy and it is timely to consider critically what has and has not been achieved to date and the reasons why.

The aim of this book is to examine the current state, nature, role and purposes of languages in Australian education as a basis for considering a viable, encompassing language education policy. The book is divided into four specific focus areas for discussion, each of which is based on a core theme in Australian languages education: engaging with diversity; the current state of policy and participation in languages education and languages teacher education; current orientations to languages education, and future possibilities and directions in languages education. Underlying the discussion is the recognition that at this particular juncture in languages education policy in Australia it is necessary to re-examine constructs, research, evidence and practice as the basis for renewal. The book presents a collection of papers dealing with each of the themes and aims to give greater focus to the contemporary debates around languages in education in Australia and more generally. 

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-01-01,Hans Götzsche,"Memory, Mind and Language",Hardback,978-1-4438-1639-7,44.99,"Memory, Mind and Language celebrates the 30th anniversary of the The Nordic Association of Linguists (NAL) and the main contribution is the history of those first 30 years. The book is also an overview of trends and basic problems in linguistics in the first decennium of the 21st century. It takes up a number of topics in the field, among them the question of synchrony vs. diachrony in the language sciences, and issues of how to investigate the relationship between language, brain and mind. The book proposes some preliminary solutions to that problem, and, most significantly, it touches on both general and specific issues in theory and analysis, e.g. ‘adverbs in English and Norwegian,’ ‘verb semantics,’ ‘pronouns in Estonian,’ ‘morphology and neurolinguistics,’ ‘word order and morphology,’ ‘the nature and use of prepotions’ and ‘speech acts.’ The contributing scholars come from a variety of traditions in linguistics, a fact that shows the broadness of the content.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-01-01,Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka,Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I: Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies,Hardback,978-1-4438-1711-0,54.99,"Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, brings together twenty essays which critically examine linguistic action and explore ways in which it can be accounted for.

The articles presented in this collection are all focused on “doing things with words”, but in most cases do not subscribe to speech act theory in the tradition of John L. Austin and John R. Searle. The linking thread through the volume is not a theoretical commitment to one of the speech-act theoretical models, but the authors’ perspective on language as a means of action, how linguistic expressions become effective in context and how this effectiveness can be explicated. The papers represent different pragmatic approaches and varied levels of expertise in the research area; among the authors there are eminent linguists and philosophers, well established researchers, and young beginners. The texts include purely theoretical discussions, case studies, reports on research in experimental pragmatics, contrastive and corpus studies, and considerations of the pedagogical implications of pragmatic reflection on the nature of language. Without purporting to cover all relevant topics, this variety reflects the complex character of linguistic pragmatics and integrates studies which cross-cut other research fields.

The book is divided in three parts. The seven papers gathered in the first part of the volume, “Speech Action in Theory”, are concentrated on theoretical issues pertaining to speech as a type of action with emphasis both on linguistic forms (e.g. fragments) and theoretical commitments and particular theories’ explanatory power. Part two, “Case Studies & Experimental Pragmatics”, includes reports on research into irony processing in Polish and in English as a second language, intercultural differences in interactions broadcast in the media, power relations in doctor/patient interaction, and metaphors in media discourse at the time of crisis. Part three, “Pragmatics, Grammar, and Language Pedagogy”, contains five essays, which explore both more “formal” pragmatics through analyses of grammatical forms and the interface which the analysis of these forms share with context-grounded research, and the practical implications of pragmatic knowledge in language didactics. This collection is supplemented by the essays gathered in volume two, entitled Pragmatics of Semantically Restricted Domains.


","""A wide-ranging collection of papers on linguistic action and agency, with a strong theoretical component and some interesting empirical work, including case studies, experimental work and pedagogical applications. It gives an excellent sense of the range of topics and methodologies in this field.""
- Robyn Carston, University College London, UK and Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Oslo, Norway

""Some of the most important  driving forces in current theoretical and more empirical work on language and communication can be found in pragmatics. The new volume on Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies is a welcome contribution (the first volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics 2009), and an interesting collection of papers; it contains both original theoretical contributions and new empirical studies of pragmatic phenomena in language and communication.""
- Jens Allwood, University of Göteborg, Sweden



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2010-02-01,Christopher Hart and Dominik Lukeš,Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: Application and Theory,Paperback,978-1-4438-1748-6,19.99,"In contemporary linguistics, both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been elaborated in some detail.  Unfortunately, the two perspectives have seldom converged, despite the potential theoretical advances such collaboration offers. The contributions to this volume explore the convergence of cognitive and critical trends in the guise of Cognitive Linguistics and critical discourse analysis.

The volume addresses a range of socio-political discourses in various international contexts, including discourses on nation, education, immigration, and war. One single integrated model is not presented, but rather, a number of methodologies are developed and assessed across the chapters.  The application of established Cognitive Linguistic theories, including conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory and frame semantics, are discussed, as well as developing theories, such as metaphor power theory and discourse space theory.
 
The book is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society, including both students and scholars of Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.

","“This collection gives a timely and vigorous contribution to a fast-developing field of research at the interface between Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. The editors and contributors are genuinely committed to both disciplines, and show how the application of Cognitive Linguistics to Critical Discourse Analysis can lead to significant advances in both research paradigms. In sum, this is an exciting and ground-breaking book, which represents the state-of-the-art in cognitively-oriented Critical Discourse Analysis” 
—Elena Semino, Lancaster University

“This book is a welcome addition to the rising tide of research combining critical and cognitive approaches to discourse. As such, it features the work of established and young scholars who apply a range of notions from cognitive linguistics to the study of authentic data. Each chapter is firmly grounded in such empirical research and provides a balanced discussion of cognitive and critical linguistics. The book will be of interest to postgraduate students in linguistics and media studies, as well as to researchers in both Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis who seek to integrate the two” 
—Veronika Koller, Lancaster University

“Critical Discourse Analysis has grown at a surprising rate over the past two decades. It has grown in terms of the range of social and political issues that it confronts. Practitioners of CDA are now found in many countries across the globe. The present volume reflects these developments. In addition it paves the way for new theoretical and methodological frameworks. In parallel with CDA, Cognitive Linguistics has produced exciting new ways of linking human language to the human mind and the human experience. The present volume brings together these currents of thought in a way that propels critical approaches to language in new ground-breaking directions. Anyone who is looking for new ways to do CDA will have to consult this excellent collection of papers” 
—Paul Chilton, Lancaster University

“This collection of articles illustrates and explores theoretically how cognitive linguistics (CL) in its various forms can contribute to a more psychologically robust critical discourse analysis (CDA). Its value lies in the scholarly depth of its theoretical explorations, the range of  theories it touches upon, and the variety of texts (from the literary to the political) and cultures (USA,  Belgium, Egypt, UK etc.) from which it takes its illustrative texts. Analysis is never for its own sake but always to exemplify different kinds of theoretical symbiosis between CDA and CL.  This coherent and well-planned volume represents a major contribution to the multi-disciplinary project bridging the cognitive and the social approaches to discourse description, pragmatic interpretation and ideological explanation, and will prove a mine of source material on the diversity of possible theoretical approaches, and a stimulating challenge for any seriously engaged student or analyst.” 
—Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University

“This intellectually stimulating volume successfully integrates different approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis with a range of Cognitive Linguistic approaches. It is unusual to see such a high degree of thematic integration between chapters that bring together theoretical reflection on metaphor and conceptualisation from a critical linguistic perspective. Together they enhance understanding of how language draws on cognition in both construal and understanding. The excellent and detailed index makes the volume highly accessible to a wide range of readers.” 
—Jonathan Charteris-Black, University of West of England

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,Anna Mauranen and Elina Ranta,English as a Lingua Franca: Studies and Findings,Paperback,978-1-4438-1726-4,24.99,"English as a lingua franca has become a hot topic in Applied Linguistics and English Studies. While it has been a subject of controversy for some time, linguistic observations on actual use have largely been missing out of the debate. This is now changing fast, and the study of English as a lingua franca has become a vibrant research field. This book reflects achievements in the growing field; it presents a good selection of empirical findings, thus providing substance to arguments. It comprises contributions from pioneers and established scholars in the field, along with reports from substantial ongoing research projects. 

The papers offer insights into the workings of English as a lingua franca in different contexts—conversational, academic, professional, and business situations. They tackle essential theoretical issues, analyse linguistic and interactional features of ELF, and discuss attitudes towards ELF. The studies are firmly anchored in analyses of authentic language in social interaction, some also using survey and interview data. Many papers also touch upon debates on language policy and linguistic ideologies. 

This collection of papers from the key areas of current ELF research will be of interest to English linguists and applied linguists, graduate and undergraduate students of English, educational and language planners, and teachers of English.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,"Anastasia Smirnova, Vedrana Mihaliček and Lauren Ressue",Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-1716-5,39.99,"Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics is a collection of selected papers presented at the Graduate Colloquia on Slavic Linguistics held at the Ohio State University, and as such presents current research of young scholars from top European and American universities. The present volume is a continuation of Issues in Slavic Syntax and Semantics (2008). Unlike its predecessor, Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics exclusively focuses on synchronic analyses of challenging phenomena in various Slavic languages and expands its theoretical scope to include essays in virtually all areas of theoretical linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The papers in this volume discuss consonant deletion in Russian and phonetic patterns in Russian loan words, properties of Slovenian clitics and the constructions involving the prefix na- in Slovenian, subjunctive clauses in Polish, Serbo-Croatian multiple wh questions, negative-contrastive ellipsis and impersonal constructions in Russian. The formal frameworks employed in the analyses of these phenomena range from optimality theory to minimalism. Given its broad empirical and theoretical scope, Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics is bound to be of interest to Slavic scholars and general linguists alike. 




","
The book impresses the reader by the diversity of topics and languages and the look of the text itself is beautiful. (2012) Natalie Fitzgibbons
                                                                                                                                                             
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,Ewa Waniek-Klimczak,Issues in Accents of English 2: Variability and Norm,Hardback,978-1-4438-1736-3,44.99,"This book explores variability and norm in accent production and perception by native and non-native speakers of English. The issues discussed range from description of selected phenomena in native and non-native accents of English, analysis of similarities and differences between accents, their intelligibility and attitudinal value, through reports on the role of identity and motivation in learning English pronunciation, research methods in pronunciation teaching and ultimate attainment, to discussion of different aspects of stress, rhythm and timing in the organisation of speech.

The volume contains contributions based on original data collected and analysed by researchers active in the fields of accent variability and English pronunciation teaching. The studies adopt sociolinguistic and/or applied linguistics perspectives in their descriptive and experimental accounts of native and non-native accents, addressing questions as to the sources of variability and the nature of the norms accepted or imposed in language acquisition and usage. By bringing the results of numerous studies into the foreground, the volume hopes to contribute to accent and pronunciation teaching and stimulate further discussion in the field of applied phonetics.  




","“The Polish teachers of English whom I have had the pleasure to know are true scholars interested in not only the pedagogical aspects of how students acquire English as a second language, but also in the details of the phonetic and phonological differences between the two languages, the dynamics of the articulatory process, and the acoustic correlates of non-native accent. The “Accents” conferences in Łódz are both an effect and a cause of this interest. 
I have attended two of these conferences and have been uniformly impressed both with academics from Poland and with contributors from other countries . Most delegates want their students to achieve a native-like pronunciation of some form of English. Whether this should be the desired outcome, how this can be achieved if so, and what sort of English should serve as target are subjects of endless debate, as are the intricacies of the English vowel system(s) and of the suprasegmental aspects of English and other languages. 
I believe that the collection of papers you will find in this volume is a fair representation of the very high standard of discussion and debate at Accents 2008.” 
—Linda Shockey, Ph.D., Pronunciation Linguist, B.B.C.





",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,Gemma Bel-Enguix and M. Dolores Jiménez-López,Language as a Complex System: Interdisciplinary Approaches,Hardback,978-1-4438-1762-2,39.99,"Language is one of the most challenging issues that remain to be explained from the physiological and psychological points of view. As a complex system, its formal modelling and simulation present important difficulties. Models proposed up to now have not been able to give either a coherent explanation of natural language or a satisfactory computational model for the processing of natural language. To investigate natural language, we need to cross traditional academic boundaries in order to solve the different problems related to language.

This book is an attempt to connect and integrate several academic disciplines and technologies in the pursuit of a common task: the study of language.  The main goal of the book is to boost the interchange of knowledge and viewpoints between specialists who, working on linguistics, biology or computation, have an interest in bringing their methods together in order to provide innovative and challenging tools and formalisms to approach and improve theories and models on languages. 

The subject of this book will attract researchers from many fields who are interested in natural or artificial languages and want to enrich their scientific research with theories, methods and ideas coming from different disciplines. People dealing with linguistics, computer science, formal language theory and biology may find in this book new and challenging ideas. 


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,Nikolaos Lavidas,Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony: Changes in Argument Structure and Voice Morphology,Paperback,978-1-4438-1749-3,44.99,"Τhis book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in causative verbs and transitivity alternations, based on data mainly from the Greek and English diachrony (all historical data are transcribed and accompanied by glosses and translations into Modern English). Data from earlier periods provide new information on burning questions in both Historical and Theoretical Linguistics. The study shows that (a) causativisations are the result of reanalysis of intransitive verbs as transitive on the basis of the linguistic cue of Case; (b) the changes in voice morphology do not depend on the derivation and direction of new transitivity alternations. Finally, the study demonstrates that the generalisation that guides the changes in voice demands morphological differentiation of the anticausative from the passive types.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-02-01,Richard Xiao,Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies,Hardback,978-1-4438-1755-4,54.99,"The corpus-based approach has developed into a well established paradigm in translation studies and has been recognised as a principal reason for the revival of contrastive linguistics since the 1990s, while corpus-based contrastive and translation studies have in turn significantly expanded the scope of corpus linguistics. 

This book features a selection of twenty-three papers from the 2008 meeting of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS), an international conference series launched to provide an international forum for the exploration of theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and translation studies.

The papers in this collection represent the latest developments in corpus-based translation studies, corpus-based contrastive studies, parallel corpus development and bilingual lexicography. They are useful resources for researchers as well as postgraduates and their supervisors in translation studies, comparative and contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics.

","""This book provides firm evidence for the “coming of age” of corpus-based approaches to both translation and contrastive language studies. This book provides a host of examples of why any serious researcher in these fields should embrace the corpus-based approach as a matter of priority.""
				
- Professor Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK


""The use of electronic corpora is transforming more and more fields in the study of language, including contrastive and translation studies, providing new insight into language relationships and characteristics of translation. Apart from showing the wide range of issues in current research, the present volume is significant with respect to the number and variety of languages included: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tok Pisin, and Uygur. The book represents an important step forward compared with previous corpus-based contrastive and translation studies, which have tended to focus on a limited number of (chiefly European) languages.""  

- Professor Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway


""This is an important book that provides us with a wealth of empirical evidence derived from a broad range of genres, languages and translation modalities. It builds on established corpus-based methodologies and explores new avenues of scholarly enquiry that are of true value to the international research community."" 
    		                                              
- Sara Laviosa, University of Bari, Italy

‘An important asset of the volume is that it does justice to the variety of corpora and corpus methods currently used in TS and CL.’

‘This is a necessary step towards bringing more scientific rigour to cross-linguistic research.’

‘It constitutes stimulating and thought-provoking reading for translation scholars and contrastive linguists alike, enabling them to benefit...’
--John Benjamins Publishing Company, Languages in contrast, 11:2.


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-03-01,Michael Chiou,NP-Anaphora in Modern Greek: A Partial Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach,Hardback,978-1-4438-1861-2,39.99,"Anaphora is one of the most fascinating linguistic phenomena as it constitutes a unique and universal property of human language. Every single natural language provides linguistic means which facilitate speakers to refer to entities in the world. The understanding of the complexity of anaphora and of the problems surrounding it will ameliorate our understanding of the nature of human languages. This explains why anaphora constitutes a central research topic in contemporary linguistic science.

This study examines the phenomenon of NP-anaphora with the main focus on modern Greek. By maintaining the empirical and theoretical benefits of the classical generative approach to binding, in this study we propose a partial pragmatic reduction of the interpretation of NP-anaphora in modern Greek in terms of the neo-Gricean pragmatic principles of communication. The proposed analysis is articulated on the following basis: it is argued that the choice of anaphoric expressions and their interpretation by Greek speakers and addressees respectively is heavily dependent on preference, which is regulated by principles of language use and communication. Therefore, by employing a model, which is based on the systematic interaction of the neo-Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, we provide a neat and more elegant approach to NP-anaphora resolution for modern Greek.

In a nutshell, this study offers a quite new perspective into the study of NP-anaphora in modern Greek but it is also a little step towards a better understanding of the phenomenon of anaphora across languages.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-03-01,Hayo Reinders,The Effects of Task Type and Instructions on Second Language Acquisition,Hardback,978-1-4438-1778-3,39.99,"Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role of tasks in second language acquisition and a substantial body of research now exists to show their potential contribution to language learning and teaching. However, not much is known about the effects of different task types, nor about their accompanying instructions. Which tasks are more successful under what circumstances? What type of instructions should be included? 

This book attempts to answer the questions above by first examining previous studies on the use of tasks, the roles of input, output and interaction, and by placing these in a broader cognitive framework. It argues that in order to understand the effects of different task types, it is important not only to look at learning outcomes (acquisition), but also at the effects on immediate task performance (intake), and by doing so, to arrive at a more complete picture of the learning process. 

The book presents the results of a study on the effects of 1) implicit and explicit inductive instructions and 2) three task types on both intake and acquisition of two English grammatical structures. The study used various measures to determine intake as well as the development of both implicit and explicit knowledge. The results of the study support the claims made for the benefits of Focus-on-Form, but do not support the claims made for the benefits of more explicit types of instruction. Further, the results show that there is no direct relationship between intake and acquisition and that different task types can have a differential effect on immediate task performance on the one hand and learning on the other. The book discusses these findings in the light of previous research and considers their implications both at the theoretical level and for language teaching practice. 


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu,Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Perspective,Hardback,978-1-4438-1929-9,39.99,"This study is a phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English, a postcolonial variety of English. Its focus is on the usage of specific tones, paratone and the intonational marking of the information status in discourse. Two main descriptive frameworks are used, namely the Discourse Intonation and the Auto-Segmental Metrical frameworks. Findings of the study are based on the auditory and acoustic analyses of natural conversation as well as read speech and, with relation to the sociolinguistic variables of education and gender, the linguistic variable speaking style. These findings demonstrate for example that, unlike speakers of other postcolonial Englishes (cf. Nigerian English), Cameroon English speakers make new information more prominent (or louder) than given information in the discourse structure. Furthermore, it is shown that Cameroon English speakers make extensive use of the falling pitch movement in speech, which leads the author to conclude that the falling tone does a lot of work in Cameroon English. Lastly, the findings also reveal that sociolinguistic theories postulated in native English communities do not necessarily apply in postcolonial English settings given that native English and postcolonial Englishes have being developing along different lines. 

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,Olga Karpova and Faina Kartashkova,New Trends in Lexicography: Ways of Registrating and Describing Lexis,Hardback,978-1-4438-1945-9,39.99,"The present book contains a collection of works developing new trends in theoretical and practical lexicography devoted to manifold description of lexis. All papers are divided into two main sections: Part I, Systemic and Cross-cultural Relations of Words in the Dictionary, presents analysis of cultural issues and phraseology with special reference to English dictionaries for general- and specific-purposes. The main focus is given to the principles of lexicographic presentation of non-equivalent lexis, idioms, clichés, nominations of non-verbal behaviour and proper names of people in bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. Part II, entitled Specialized Dictionaries: Traditions and Innovations, deals with peculiarities of Author Lexicography, Learners lexicography, LSP dictionaries, dictionaries of English verbs, and varieties of the English language in its synchronic and diachronic aspects. 

This book is based on plenary presentations of the VIIIth school on Lexicography “Synchronic and Diachronic Lexicography: A New Age of Theory and Practice” (Ivanovo State University, September 10–12, 2009) and continues the series of monographs devoted to theoretical and practical problems of modern and historical lexicography: Essays on Lexicon, Lexicography, Terminography in Russian, American and Other Cultures (2007) and Lexicography and Terminology: A Worldwide Outlook (2009) published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
","“This book is a significant contribution to lexicographical and terminographical research traced through detailed criticism of existing general- and special-purpose dictionaries in different languages. The scope of topics discussed is rather wide and at the same time focuses on English, Russian, and other groups of dictionaries having rich experience in national lexicographies. Authors’ contribution to modern studies is great and noticeable.” 
—Professor Konstatin Ya. Averbukh, Russian State Social University, Moscow

“The book is a set of papers devoted to burning problems of European and world Lexicography. Theoretical and practical problems of dictionary making as well as reviews of learners dictionaries, quotations and LSP reference resources give modern users reliable user guides in modern world of current lexicography. Based on plenary lectures of the VIIIth International School on Lexicography “Synchronic and Diachronic Lexicography: A New Age of Theory and Practice” (Ivanovo, September 10-12, 2009), the book offers new research results which are valuable for modern users and lexicographers involved in compiling dictionaries for general- and special-purposes.” 
—Professor Dmitriy O. Dobrovolsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Russian Language, Moscow
	
“This book based on plenary presentations of famous Russian and foreign scholars at the VIIIth International School on Lexicography “Synchronic and Diachronic Lexicography: A New Age of Theory and Practice” describes the results of theoretical and practical research in modern and historical lexicography. The reader is offered description of new dictionary projects of new types of dictionaries along with comprehensive reviews of traditions and innovations in lexicography of different age that is of great importance nowadays.” 
—Rector of Vladimir Humanitarian University, Professor Victor T. Maligin, 

“This book is the 3rd one in the series of books devoted to theoretical and practical lexicography which were presented by the authors at the VIIIth International School on Lexicography “Synchronic and Diachronic Lexicography: A New Age of Theory and Practice” (Ivanovo, September 2009).
Its significance both for participants and theoreticians in the field of lexicography is evident, because the most recent observations and results of current research are presented here. Both parts of the book (Part I “Systemic and Cross-cultural Relations of Words in the Dictionary” and Part II “Specialized Dictionaries: Traditions and Innovations”) contain discussion and description of mega-, macro- and microstructure of authors, learners, dialect and other dictionaries which have not received the full research in the world of lexicography. This book is a noticeable contribution into investigation of different types of dictionaries.”
—Doctor Liudmila A. Devel, St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg




",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,Ahmar Mahboob ,The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL,Hardback,978-1-4438-1910-7,44.99,"
About the book

The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives of a NNEST (Non Native English Speakers in TESOL) lens to re-examine our assumptions, practices, and theories in the field. The NNEST lens as described in and developed through this volume is a lens of multilingualism, multinationalism, and multiculturalism through which NNESTs and NESTs—as classroom practitioners, researchers, and teacher educators—take diversity as a starting point in their understanding and practice of their profession. The 16 original contributions to this volume include chapters that question theoretical frameworks and research approaches used in studies in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as chapters that share strategies and approaches to classroom teaching, teacher education, and education management and policy. As such, this volume will be of interest to a wide range of students, practitioners, researchers, and academics in the fields of education and linguistics.






","Endorsements for the volume

“In its relatively short history, the NNEST movement has shown us how to be better teachers, more respectful colleagues, and fairer employers. The NNEST Lens further expands the scope of NNEST research and challenges long established assumptions, causing us to reconsider notions of norms and voice, and indeed how we should teach English as it continues to be claimed by diverse users for diverse purposes. Mahboob has made a significant contribution to the field.”
—Brock Brady, President 2010–2011, TESOL

“Over the years, Ahmar Mahboob has made a lasting contribution to the nonnative speaker movement. His doctoral dissertation titled “Status of nonnative English-speaking teachers in the United States” was one of the first to explore the nonnative speaker issue in English language teaching, and he later became an energetic Chair of the Nonnative Speaker Caucus within the TESOL organization. Now, with the publication of the The NNEST Lens, Mahboob has made another significant contribution to the nonnative speaker movement. The anthology consists of both research studies and critical essays and provides an opportunity for both experienced and novice scholars to contribute to a common cause. For years to come, The NNEST Lens will prove to be a valuable resource for researchers and scholars in applied linguistics.”
—Prof. George Braine, Chinese University of Hong Kong

""A quality item has been added to an ever-growing collection of books an papers on this topic.""
--Prof Peter Medgyes, Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest

This study adds a unique dimension to our understanding of student perceptions by applying appraisal analysis to student narratives. Appraisal analysis provides a mean for not only capturing student evaluative attitudes but also the linguistic construction of those attitudes.

Bryan Meadows 
Assistance Professor for Applied 
Linguistic at University of Texas 
The Linguistic Journal 2011



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,Ahmar Mahboob ,The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL,Paperback,978-1-4438-1911-4,29.99,"
About the book

The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives of a NNEST (Non Native English Speakers in TESOL) lens to re-examine our assumptions, practices, and theories in the field. The NNEST lens as described in and developed through this volume is a lens of multilingualism, multinationalism, and multiculturalism through which NNESTs and NESTs—as classroom practitioners, researchers, and teacher educators—take diversity as a starting point in their understanding and practice of their profession. The 16 original contributions to this volume include chapters that question theoretical frameworks and research approaches used in studies in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as chapters that share strategies and approaches to classroom teaching, teacher education, and education management and policy. As such, this volume will be of interest to a wide range of students, practitioners, researchers, and academics in the fields of education and linguistics.





","Endorsements for the volume

“In its relatively short history, the NNEST movement has shown us how to be better teachers, more respectful colleagues, and fairer employers. The NNEST Lens further expands the scope of NNEST research and challenges long established assumptions, causing us to reconsider notions of norms and voice, and indeed how we should teach English as it continues to be claimed by diverse users for diverse purposes. Mahboob has made a significant contribution to the field.”
—Brock Brady, President 2010–2011, TESOL

“Over the years, Ahmar Mahboob has made a lasting contribution to the nonnative speaker movement. His doctoral dissertation titled “Status of nonnative English-speaking teachers in the United States” was one of the first to explore the nonnative speaker issue in English language teaching, and he later became an energetic Chair of the Nonnative Speaker Caucus within the TESOL organization. Now, with the publication of the The NNEST Lens, Mahboob has made another significant contribution to the nonnative speaker movement. The anthology consists of both research studies and critical essays and provides an opportunity for both experienced and novice scholars to contribute to a common cause. For years to come, The NNEST Lens will prove to be a valuable resource for researchers and scholars in applied linguistics.”
—Prof. George Braine, Chinese University of Hong Kong

""A quality item has been added to the ever-growing collection of books and papers on this topic.""
--Prof Peter Medgyes, Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,John Considine,Webs of Words: New Studies in Historical Lexicology,Hardback,978-1-4438-1952-7,39.99,"Webs of Words: New Studies in Historical Lexicology brings together ten papers on aspects of the history of words and vocabulary, which address aspects of Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English (including Caribbean varieties), German, Italian, Māori, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and other languages.

In the first four essays, focussing on pre-1800 material, Karel Kučera and Martin Stluka’s opening essay discusses the plotting of the relative historical frequency of common words, drawing on their work with the diachronic portion of the Czech National Corpus; Ian Lancashire asks why Tudor England had no monolingual English dictionary; Chiara Benati discusses the interplay between Low German, High German, and Latin in an early modern surgical text, and Mateusz Urban sorts out the competing etymologies of English balcony, Italian balcone, and similar forms in Persian and Russian. The next six turn to more recent material. Jane Samson analyzes the nineteenth-century debate as to whether the Māori language was too primitive to have a word for “blue”; Vivien Waszink discusses the Dutch prefixes bio- and eco- and their documentation in a new dictionary; Tommaso Pellin examines a series of attempts to provide a grammatical terminology in Chinese; Lise Winer surveys the naming of fauna in the English / Creole of Trinidad and Tobago; Mirosława Podhajecka writes on the treatment of Russian loanwords in the current revision of the Oxford English Dictionary, with special attention to Google Books as a research tool; and Isabel Casanova asks whether Portuguese dictionaries should register English words.

The contributions to this volume share an interest in empirical evidence rather than in lexicological study at a highly theoretical level, and in the wide contextualization of the words which constitute this evidence in the social and cultural lives of their users.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,Saudi Sadiq,A Comparative Study of Four English Translations of Sûrat Ad-Dukhân on the Semantic Level,Hardback,978-1-4438-2060-8,39.99,"Through combining a knowledge of translation theory and application, the present book aims at holding a semantic comparison of four English translations attempted by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, ‘Abdullâh Yûsuf ‘Alî, Arthur J. Arberry and Muhammad Mahmûd Ghâlî of Sûrat Ad-Dukhân (the Chapter of Smoke). As a theoretical framework, the book deals with several linguistic and cultural problems of translation, with special reference to Qur'ân translation, and the principles that should be considered on translating the Qur'ân. The core of the book is a comparison of sixty-eight lexical, syntactic and stylistic selections from Sûrat Ad-Dukhân. The comparison depends on various Qur’ân interpretations and Arabic dictionaries to decide the precise meaning(s) of the selections. Then, a translation is suggested, and the four translations are judged: the correct ones are acknowledged and the mistaken shown, along with the reasons underlying the mistake(s). To reach the precise meaning in English and judge the translations compared accurately, many English dictionaries are utilized. The comparison shows that the best translation in terms of meaning precision and easiness of expression is that of Ghâlî, followed by Pickthall's, Arberry’s and ‘Alî’s respectively. 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,"Rosa Lorés-Sanz, Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Enrique Lafuente-Millán",Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on Written Academic Genres,Hardback,978-1-4438-1981-7,44.99,"The view that academic discourse is, by definition, impersonal has long been superseded. It seems unquestionable now that the interpersonal component of texts, that is, the ways in which the writers project themselves and their audience in the discourse, is an essential factor determining the success of scholarly communication and has become a fundamental issue in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP).

Interpersonality is the key issue around which the articles in this edited book focus on. The eighteen contributions included in this volume provide a wide exploratory view of the many academic genres in which interpersonality is manifested and the various analytical approaches from which the textual manifestation of that interpersonality can be studied. The varied origin of the contributors is also representative of the global interest that the issue of interpersonality arouses in the field of academic discourse analysis at an international level.

The present volume constitutes a highly valuable tool for applied linguists and discourse analysts with an interest in EAP as well as for students, instructors and language teachers interested in academic discourse. The book may also be of interest to other agents intervening in the research publication process, such as translators, proofreaders, reviewers and editors.

","""This is a wide-ranging volume in terms of the academic genres it covers, but yet remains tightly-focussed on what the editors call “interpersonality”. For them, this is an “umbrella term” for all the various means, covert, discreet and overt, employed by academic writers to establish their presence in their own texts. In consequence, this collection will be of interest to all those involved in written academic discourse, especially in English, whether as producers, analysts or instructors. Although the chapter authors come from many European countries, a majority are based in Spain, once again underlining that country’s current pre-eminence in this important and fast-growing field.""

- Professor John M. Swales, University of Michigan, USA

""Interpersonality is now widely recognized as a key feature of academic discourse.  To create knowledge, to get their ideas accepted and to establish their reputations, academics must present themselves and engage with their peers in ways readers find familiar and persuasive.  Exactly how this is done in different contexts has become a hot topic in applied linguistics and this book is a timely and authoritative contribution to the debate. Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple perspectives on written academic genres  provides an accessible and thought-provoking dimension to the issues surrounding questions of interpersonality, bringing together contributions from top scholars in the field to investigate the theoretical and empirical implications of taking interpersonality seriously. Featuring an array of theoretical positions, exploring contrasts across disciplines, languages, and genres, and covering a range of genres from research articles to academic weblogs, this book will be of considerable interest to students and researchers in EAP, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics.""

- Professor Ken Hyland, City University of Hong Kong

Focusing on a very specific theme, interpersonality in written academic discourse, was a major strength of the conference and consequently of the present volume too. The conference managed to create the perfect atmosphere for a fruitful dialogue among people in a perfect communication of ideas, metalanguage and goals. The present result is a monograph that provides authoritative, updated and forward-looking perspective on a major issue in the LSP and EAP fields. The different papers in the volume are not only of an outstanding academic robustness but also of much practical relevance for both EAP teachers and students. In our view, this brilliantly edited volume will be a landmark in the field, and an invaluable source of inspiration for researchers and scholars.""

Javier Fernandez Polo, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Miscelanea Journal, Vol. 41 (2011)





",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,"Mario Cal Varela, Francisco Javier Fernández Polo, Lidia Gómez García and Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez",Current Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning: An International Perspective,Hardback,978-1-4438-1967-1,44.99,"This volume contains a selection of the papers, seminars and workshops presented in the First International Conference on English Language Teaching and Learning (ICELTL1), held at the University of Santiago, Spain, in September 2008, as well as a number of valuable original contributions by other specialists who were involved in the conference. It aims to represent the views of teachers, scholars, researchers, teacher trainers and curriculum developers from all over the world, from the USA and Japan to Europe. It is addressed to ELT teachers, researchers and professionals who want to reflect upon and develop their knowledge and practice of current issues in English language teaching and learning. Current problems in many of the areas of ELT are given different solutions depending on the context in which respective contributors conduct their work. It is precisely this international perspective that makes this volume unique and illustrative of different realities with a similar objective in mind: the implementation and improvement of English language teaching. The various contributions have been organised in four main sections that correspond to the major focal topics of the conference: teacher training and development, classroom management and practice, new technologies and language teaching, and research on learner language.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,"Said M. Shiyab, Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Juliane House and John Duval",Globalization and Aspects of Translation,Hardback,978-1-4438-1965-7,39.99,"This book is for students of translation, interpretation, linguistics and languages who would like to enhance their understanding of the relationship between these areas of study. More specifically, the book attempts to capture the quintessence or the epitome embodied in the concepts of translation and globalization. It also attempts to bridge the gap between the globalizing and globalized worlds. It brings to light the diversity of areas in globalization and aspects of translation that have impacted the notions of cultural communication, translator’s code of ethics, metaphorical meaning, code switching, media, etc. Scholars from different parts of the world contributed to this book, representing countries such as the US, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Tunisia, Bahrain, Jordan, and United Arab Emirates. Those scholars have done their research in their home countries on other parts of the world. Because of this diversity, the editors believe this book genuinely offers an international experience.

Thirteen chapters cover different aspects of globalization in relation to translation. Areas covered include, but are not limited to, faces of globalization, English as the world’s most prestigious language in its role as a global lingua franca, ELF as a threat to multilingualism, on-line resources designed for trainee and practicing interpreters, translation as a paradigm, and aspects of literary translation.

Each chapter provides a blend of theory and practice, and a demonstration on how globalization impacted the profession and the notion of cultural communication. Examples are drawn from English, Arabic, French and other languages. This book can be used as a reference book, and it can also be used at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,J. Normann Jørgensen,Love Ya Hate Ya: The Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Language and Youth Identities,Hardback,978-1-4438-2061-5,39.99,"This volume shows the formidable range of variation in youth language. Youth language is analyzed as a phenomenon in negotiations of identities and social relations. The contributions particularly concentrate on youth language in late modern urban societies. This is an area of study which has been gaining increasing attention in sociolinguistics over the past few years. One observation that is almost inevitable is that there is a string of similarities to be found between youths in quite different circumstances, ranging from university students in Argentina, to juvenile delinquents in Greece and to skaters in Greenland. A wide range of language situations are covered, from Danish, Cypriot Greek, Turkish, to Spanish, Greenlandic, Norwegian, Catalan, and of course English. The articles in this anthology document and analyze linguistic youth styles and behaviors as well as attitudes. In their totality they present a picture of youth language as functional, socially valuable, and flexible, with a special emphasis on identity negotiations.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,Caroline Lipovsky,Negotiating Solidarity: A Social-Linguistic Approach to Job Interviews,Hardback,978-1-4438-1991-6,34.99,"Negotiating Solidarity: A Social-Linguistic Approach to Job Interviews explores the linguistic co-construction of self-presentation in job interviews. It shows how candidates construct their professional identities, and establish co-membership and build rapport with their interviewers. Specifically, it illustrates how candidates enact their professional expertise and put their qualities forward, and highlights the linguistic features that succeed (or fail) to make a good impression on interviewers. Using extracts from authentic job interviews, Lipovsky illustrates the influence of candidates’ communicative styles on the impression they make on their interviewers, and the part that candidates’ semantic and lexico-grammatical choices play in defining the personal affinity between interviewer and candidate, and consequently in the hiring decision.

","""...This is a very interesting and useful monograph. It is written in clear, accessible prose. Lipovsky  compares her findings to those reported in the popular literature on job interviews, which aim to help jobseekers achieve success, and concludes with the hope that her book will contribute to this same enterprise. Negotiating Solidarity: A Social Linguistic Approach to Job Interviews is therefore an example of an academic book that will have a readership beyond academia. Within academic circles, it will be of interest to researchers working with systemic functional analysis, face, and politeness theories.""

Laura Cullahan, The City College of the City University of New York in The Linguist List 22.2871, July 2011
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-05-01,Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka,Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II: Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains,Hardback,978-1-4438-2063-9,49.99,"Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume, Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Most of the texts collected in this book, representative of advanced independent research and that of an informed exercise in the application of a pragmatic framework, result from the Fourth Symposium on “New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics,” organized at the University of Łódź, Poland, in May 2008.

Accepting the inevitable failure of any attempt to pose a strict and clear-cut division between the research area of semantics and that of pragmatics, the volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of data which are best described as “semantically” limited. While Volume One concentrated on speech as a type of action, the present volume, without denying the inherently actional nature of language use, concentrates on limited contexts. Pragmatic phenomena in semantically-restricted domains are addressed from a variety of both theoretical and applied perspectives.

The book is divided in three parts. Part One, “Pragmatics, Politics and Ideology,” gathers seven papers centered on issues pertaining to political linguistics. In Part Two, “The Pragmatics of Humour, Power and the Media,” there are eight papers which explore issues of politeness and modesty, pragmatic aspects of mediated and gendered discourse, or dynamicity of power relation in interaction. Part Three, “Focus on Textual Properties,” concentrates on text, excluding political discourse. It integrates discussions of equivalence and specialized translation, intertextual properties and pragmatically-motivated lexical choices in business communication, in law, and in science.

","“This volume is the second collection of papers in the series Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, carefully edited by Dr Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (Vol 1: Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010). The volume explores pragmatic phenomena such as power distribution and humour which appear in selected semantically and lexically restricted domains, i.e. political discourse, translation, and terminology. The collection is recommended both to individual scholars and to libraries—it is representative of today’s cognitive-functional orientation in pragmatics and includes contributions by well-known scholars alongside with new voices entering the field.”
—Prof. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-06-01,John Considine,Current Projects in Historical Lexicography,Hardback,978-1-4438-2116-2,39.99,"Current Projects in Historical Lexicography brings together seven papers by present and recent editors of historical dictionaries and lexical databases. 

The collection is introduced with an overview of the history of historical lexicography from the ancient world to the present day, with particular emphasis on the major nineteenth-century dictionaries of German, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish, and on their successors. In the first paper, Javier Martín Arista describes the present state of, and the prospects for, the Nerthus lexical database of Old English. The next two introduce specialized dictionaries of the language of medieval and early modern texts: Fernando Tejedo-Herrero’s comprehensive dictionary of the language of the great thirteenth-century lawcode Siete Partidas, and Juhani Norri’s Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1530. Marijke Mooijaart’s paper discusses the online integration of the four historical dictionaries which cover Dutch from the earliest times to the twentieth century. The next two papers, Stefan Dollinger on the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles and the Bank of Canadian English, and Maggie Scott on the Concise Scots Dictionary, describe projects to revise twentieth-century historical dictionaries as the language varieties which they register evolve. Finally, Jeremy Bergerson’s paper presents a project for an etymologically rich historical dictionary of Afrikaans. An appendix to the volume comprises two previously unpublished short documents by Katherine Barber and John Considine which bear on the history of the Dictionary of Canadianisms revision project.

The contributions to this volume offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological issues such as inclusion criteria and the balance between diachronic and synchronic coverage, and practical issues such as publication media and funding.

","""The publication of the collection of issues ""Webs of Words: New Studies in Historical Lexicology"" is without any doubt a remarkable event for linguists as it highlights problems of studying lexicography in historical perspective.

Olga Karpova, Ivanovo State University, (translated by Dimitry Zabelin)
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-06-01,"Ewa Wałaszewska, Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk and Agnieszka Piskorska",In the Mind and across Minds: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Communication and Translation,Hardback,978-1-4438-2129-2,44.99,"The present volume demonstrates the multifaceted potential of Relevance Theory, which, for more than two decades now, has been inspiring studies of the relationship between human communication and cognition. In the Mind and across Minds reflects the main strands of relevance-theoretic research, by expanding, evaluating and revising the researchers’ ideas in a collection of papers by an international array of scholars. The papers explore various aspects of communication including such issues as non-literal meaning with the focus on irony and metaphor, the construction of ad hoc concepts, the conceptual-procedural meaning distinction, metarepresentation, context and politeness as well as test the applicability of Relevance Theory to the domain of translation. 
A set of readings on varied linguistic and sociocultural phenomena, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students investigating meaning in natural language and an insightful reference for those interested in relevance-theoretic pragmatics, or pragmatics in general, semantics, sociolinguistics and Translation Studies.
Ewa Wałaszewska, Marta Kisielewska-Krysiuk and Agnieszka Piskorska work at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw as Assistant Professors. They pursue their individual research connected with Relevance Theory and jointly organise a biennial conference Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation.


","“In the Mind and Across Minds: a Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Communication and Translation, a new volume of Interpreting for Relevance Conference related series, deserves publication for at least three reasons.
(1)	It presents a wide array of very up-to-date relevance-theoretic papers originating in a variety of academic circles world-wide and prepared by researchers of different levels of academic career advancement, which gives a representative survey of the state-of-the-art in relevance-theoretic research.
(2)	It covers a broad range of topics undertaken (mental versus occasion-specific concepts, conceptual versus procedural meaning, context construction, the role of metarepresentation ability, irony, relevance-theoretic view on translation, contrastive relevance-theoretic pragmatic analyses) and problems tackled, which provides useful guidelines to the current focus of relevance-theoretic studies.
(3)	Interesting solutions are offered and provoking questions are posed, concerning the status of ad hoc concepts and free enrichment, (mental) context construction, relevance-theoretic view on propositional attitudes and relevance-theoretic interpretation of contrastive stress. Discussions on irony and metarepresentation are continued.
The choice of the papers and book construction make the volume an important voice in the on-going debate on the potential of Relevance Theory.”
—Ewa Mioduszewska, Institute of English Studies, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities

“Each of the eighteen chapters in this volume puts Relevance Theory to the test by exploring its scope or probing its foundations. About half of the papers address topics not previously much considered in Relevance-theoretic pragmatics: taboos, blind children's use of shape-related concepts, the semantics of 'they', negative imperatives, indirect complaints, banter, the translation of pronominal expressions, the translation of Parables, the cultural translation of Montaigne's essays, and the relation between word order and stress in the pragmatics of English and Polish. Other chapters address well-known issues in Relevance Theory: pragmatic enrichment of  linguistic meaning, the relation between literalness and metaphor, the relation between metaphor and truth-conditional meaning, the interpretation of 'but', the problem of context selection, the interpretation of speaker attitude, the processing of ironical utterances, and the importance of providing a theoretical pragmatic foundation of translation.        

The range of topics and the depth of analyses presented make this book a valuable source of information on current research in modern pragmatics, and essential reading for all those wanting to keep abreast of developments in Relevance Theory.”
—Vladimir Žegarac, Reader in Language and Communication, University of Bedfordshire




",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-06-01,Loredana Frăţilă and Hortensia Pârlog,Language in Use: The Case of Youth Entertainment Magazines,Hardback,978-1-4438-2126-1,34.99,"Language in Use: The Case of Youth Entertainment Magazines is a collection of seven studies by several Romanian, Bulgarian and Slovenian linguists on the discourse of entertainment magazines targeted at young readers, and published in their respective countries. 

The starting point of the seven studies was the idea that  the discourse specific to the variety of printed media products selected for analysis was characterized by distinctive features and that these features might exert a manipulative influence on the linguistic and social behavior of the targeted readership. The scholars’ initial aim was to validate these hypotheses and to confirm their soundness across countries. However, they hope that, besides suggesting new perspectives on the discourse chosen for analysis and thus filling a gap in the eastern European literature in the field, they may also develop (admittedly, within limits) media literacy in young readers, by equipping them with skills that could transform them from passive media consumers into responsible readers, able to make informed decisions and thus be less vulnerable to the strategies of manipulation employed by those who control information.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-06-01,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and Laura Domínguez,New Directions in Language Acquisition: Romance Languages in the Generative Perspective,Hardback,978-1-4438-2123-0,49.99,"This volume presents sixteen new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages by both well-established researchers and vital new contributors to the field.  Under a generative umbrella, the articles in this collection investigate the acquisition of French, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese across different contexts including first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, specifically impaired first language acquisition, child L2 acquisition, second language acquisition, as well as first language attrition. This volume advances our understanding of how languages are acquired and how the study of Romance languages contributes to clarifying challenging open questions on the acquisition of key functional categories and other related phenomena. In particular, the articles included assess complexity as a relevant factor shaping children’s acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures, they refine crucial theoretical constructs such as parameter setting and language transfer, and propose language change as another crucial factor affecting the process of language acquisition and attrition. 
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Nikos Gogonas,Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education: Investigating Ethnic Language Maintenance among Pupils of Albanian and Egyptian Origin in Athens,Hardback,978-1-4438-2138-4,39.99,"Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education investigates the factors affecting language maintenance/shift among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. Using a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology, it explores the influence of three sets of variables on language maintenance. These are a) ethnolinguistic vitality, defined by the demography, status and institutional support of each group in Greece, as well as migrant and Greek pupils’ perceptions regarding these factors; b) migrant parents’ attitudes to language maintenance and their role in language transmission in the home; and c) the attitudes of teachers and the institutional approaches of mainstream Greek education to linguistic and cultural diversity. Results indicate that:

•	knowledge of Greek is common among today’s children of Albanian and Egyptian immigrants and preference for that language is dominant;

•	bilingualism varies slightly between Albanian and Egyptian second-generation pupils with Egyptians being more dominant in the parental language, due to their higher degree of identification with their ethnic group in comparison to the Albanian pupils;

•	the school context plays a significant role in the ability of second-generation youths to achieve and maintain bilingual fluency.



","“A brilliant synthesis of ethnolinguistics, migration studies and in-depth fieldwork, this comparative study of Albanian and Egyptian pupils in Athens deserves wide readership. Located in one of Europe’s newest countries of mass immigration, it is a sensitive investigation of second-generation language use based on interviews with teenagers, parents and teachers.”
—Professor Russell King, Department of Geography, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton

""This book focuses on two migrant communities in Greece and their 'other' languages, Albanian and Arabic. It is the first ethnolinguistic vitality study in the Greek context. Its originality lies in its unprejudiced approach to migrant languages: rather than 'glossing over' them in order to focus on migrants' Greek language learning -like a lot of studies of this kind- it highlights the importance of their maintenance and transmission, and criticises their marginalisation in mainstream Greek education.""
                    
—Spiros A. Moschonas, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Athens


""This book tries to accomplish a difficult task: to shed light on issues of language and inter-group relations among second-generation immigrant pupils and their Greek classmates, not on a theoretical approach, but based on the results of a study. 

Given the new Law 3838/2010 in Greece, according to which second generation immigrant pupils, onwards, are considered to be Greek citizens with equal rights, this book offers valuable insights for policy makers in the direction of  the education and teaching towards new groups of immigrant pupils who arrive in Greece.""

— Dr. Nektaria Palaiologou, Assistant Professor School of Education, University of Western Macedonia www.nured.uowm.gr/nekpalaiologou International Education Journal, Editorial Board 



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,"Costas Canakis, Venetia Kantsa and Kostas Yiannakopoulos",Language and Sexuality (through and) beyond Gender,Hardback,978-1-4438-2146-9,39.99,"This volume is a collection of papers on aspects of language and sexuality as understood and problematized by scholars in linguistics and anthropology. The idea behind this volume was to bring together people working on language-and-sexuality issues from within these two fields given that linguistic research on this topic is, more often than not, fieldwork-related and anthropological research characteristically focuses on issues of sexual onomasiology and semasiology, a concomitant of its preoccupation with social categories and categorization. This endeavor is in many respects a continuation of the discussion on the social constitution of gender while following up on a slowly but steadily growing tradition of research on language and sexuality, both in relation to gender and beyond it. Although gender and sexuality may be thought of as distinct, in principle, they interact not only in the framework provided by heteronormativity, but also in contexts where their presupposed alignment is questioned, if not summarily rebuked. Therefore, if there is, indeed, something to be said about language and sexuality beyond gender, any such discussion will also have to go through it. On the other hand, work on gendered language will have to co-estimate the findings of research on language-and-sexuality. Contributors in this volume have assumed a variety of theoretical positions from which to tackle their diverse topics, covering a wide range of sexually relevant language pertaining to heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and queer experience but also to voice, silence, the unconscious, and nationalism. Issues of identities and desires inevitably take center stage in many of the papers, reflecting dominant theoretical approaches and tensions in the field, even as authors may remain skeptical of the usefulness of the ensuing polarizations. At the same time, the polyphony envisioned by the editors and contributors in this volume will be operative in the ongoing critical appraisal of theoretical stances towards the intricate indexical relation between language, gender, and sexuality.

","Many of the chapters prove particularly revealing in terms of their analyses and certainly lending solid support to the claim made in the introduction that research on language and sexuality has managed to claim visibility for a field that goes against both social and academic’s ‘responsibility’ (p.7). This is the case not only because they report on original research in underground contexts, but also because they scrutinize the detailed and not always apparent indexical meanings of several taboo words and expressions, whose analysis might be considered provocative….In addition, of particular merit are the last two chapters, which suggest the incorporation of interdisciplinary perspectives in understanding the relationship among language, gender, and sexuality.


…with its diverse and deep analysis of interesting aspects of the relationship between language and sexuality, the volume can be hailed as a landmark in the field’s development. It will definitely appeal to scholars working not only in (socio) linguistics and (social) anthropology of gender and sexuality but also to people interested in other fields, such as political science and/or Modern Greek studies. 

Irene Theodoropoulou
Assistance Professor of Sociolinguistics and  
Discourse analysis at Qatar University
The Linguist Journal August 2011

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Rusudan Makhachashvili,Linguophilosophic Parameters of English Innovations in Technosphere,Hardback,978-1-4438-2139-1,29.99,"The monograph researches the aspects of the English vocabulary development processes in the sphere of new computer technologies. The primary supposition of cyber word-stock terminological nature leads into the study of both linguistic (morphological and semantic) and ontological paradigmatic parameters of innovative cyber-vocabulary of the English language.

Linguistically, the development of English cyber-vocabulary acquires an ambivalent character. Primarily, the sources of English computer vocabulary root in the conventional word-formation types. However, the enrichment process of the computer terminology of English incorporates the emergence of the word-formation ways and means, authentic for the given lexical sub-system. Moreover, the evolutionary progress of cybervocabulary determines the new conceptual approach to the “word-formation element” notion.

The ontological paradigmatic parameters of English cyber-vocabulary are featured from the following perspectives: lexico-semantic perception of basic metaphysic dimensions of the technosphere (that being “space” and “time”) and the anthropologic terminological categorization of technosphere, thus both the anthropocentric and the sociocentric paradigmatics of English innovative cyber-vocabulary being reflected.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Andrea Kenesei,Poetry Translation through Reception and Cognition: The Proof of Translation is in the Reading,Hardback,978-1-4438-2145-2,34.99,"The observation of poetry translation is an interdisciplinary field, comprising the translation-linguistic aspects of poetic language and one or more supplementary methods which enable critical assessment. This necessitates the involvement of supplementary disciplines, for example, reader response and its amalgamation with cognitive linguistics. Chapter One provides a short historical review of text research, translation theory and cognitive linguistics, highlighting the common points where possible. Chapter Two outlines the practical implementation of the research. Chapter Three outlines the common points of information processing (as assumed in mental conceptual units) and readers’ interpretations. Chapter Four provides an outline of poetry translation with the cognitive approach to it. Chapter Five discusses the results of reception as measured through conceptualisation on the global level of the whole poem. Chapter Six is devoted to the observation of data as gained by conceptualisation on local level. Chapter Seven contains the model of poetry translation criticism, which is based on 9 categories.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Katherine E. Russo,Practices of Proximity: The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature,Hardback,978-1-4438-2161-2,39.99,"Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official ‘white’ Australia—the apparent owners of both the land and the English language—and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations—the ‘empty’ Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin—it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhabit the intersubjective space of literature, rendering the inherited authority of who ‘owns’ meaning problematical and ethically suspect. Documenting the complex practices of bricolage and re-lexification of a multi-accentuated Australia, the book invites readers to consider Australian Indigenous literature as a space from which a re-routing of issues of co-habitation, sovereignty, and being and becoming Australian might begin. This interdisciplinary study of Australian Indigenous practices of appropriation ranges from texts produced during the first encounters of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to the work of established and rising authors, such as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Jack Davis, Lionel Fogarty, Romaine Moreton and Kim Scott.

","“Katherine Russo’s ground-breaking study is the first comprehensive analysis of the transformations of Aboriginal English in literature. Russo’s study goes deeper and further than anything yet produced and shows the development of Aboriginal English as a lived phenomenon. Practices of Proximity is a lively, sophisticated and compelling analysis of a central post-colonial phenomenon.”
—Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Sydney

“As an Italian Australian scholar Russo engages with Aboriginal literature within the parameters of her own complex intimacies. She brings a thoughtful, new perspective to bear upon the literature, analysing established foundational writers such as Oodgeroo and Jack Davis alongside rising stars such as Romaine Moreton. She examines these writers within the context of pressing global issues such as anxieties about border control and migration ... This is a compelling and thought-provoking read which changes the way we think about Aboriginal literature and sets it within current global conditions.”
—Anne Brewster, University of New South Wales, Sydney
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Samir Diouny,Some Aspects of Moroccan Arabic Agrammatism,Hardback,978-1-4438-2155-1,39.99,"This book is a contribution to the ongoing debate in agrammatism, an acquired language disorder resulting from left hemisphere brain damage. The aim of the book is (1) to give a comprehensive account of agrammatism and outlines and critically examines the different accounts of agrammatic production and asyntactic comprehension, (2) to address morphological and structural properties of Moroccan Arabic agrammatic speech and (3) to put under scrutiny Friedmann and Grodzinsky’s (1997)  syntactic account of tense and agreement in production and across modalities. The book attempts to answer two important research questions: Are tense and agreement dissociated as predicted by the Tree-Pruning Hypothesis (Friedmann and Grodzinsky, 1997)? Is the tense/agreement dissociation “production-specific”, or does it extend to comprehension and grammaticality judgment? A third objective of the book is to examine the comprehension abilities of four Moroccan Arabic-speaking agrammatic subjects in the light of the Trace Deletion Hypothesis (Grodzinsky, 1995 a, b). A major research question is whether or not active sentences and subject relative sentences are  understood better than object relative sentences.
The book takes the view the tense/agreement dissociation reported for Hebrew (Friedmann and Grodzinsky, 1997) and German (Wenzlaff and Clahsen, 2003) can be replicated in Moroccan Arabic. However, the syntactic account as outlined in Friedmann and Grodzinsky (1997) cannot account for the tense/agreement dissociation as Moroccan Arabic has the agreement node above the tense node. In addition, the Trace Deletion Hypothesis cannot account for the comprehension difficulties experienced by the four Moroccan Arabic-speaking agrammatic subjects; the case is so because both subject relatives and object relatives are understood below chance level. Based on data collected through different experimental methods, it is argued that the deficit in agrammatism cannot be explained in terms of a structural account, but rather in terms of a processing account. Access to syntactic knowledge tends to be blocked; grammatical knowledge, however, is entirely intact.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,Edward S. Mitchell,St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix: A Study of Language Choice and Attitudes,Hardback,978-1-4438-2147-6,54.99,"This new work brings together both reviews and critiques of current theories of creolization and provides new data from a sociolinguistic case study of speakers of St. Lucian French-lexifier Creole (Kwéyòl) on the island of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.

St. Lucian Kwéyòl has its origins in the 17th century after the French settled there in 1651 from Martinique with their slaves. In the following years, thousands more African slaves were imported. A rugged volcanic island with a roadless interior, St. Lucia provided a haven for runaway slaves (nègres marrons or maroons) from other islands. Buffeted by the forces of globalization and the continued impact of English, Kwéyòl continues to be widely-spoken on St. Lucia today.

The crux of the book is the case study that examines Kwéyòl-speaking St. Lucians as a minority community on St. Croix where Kwéyòl is but one of numerous languages spoken, including Caribbean English, Crucian Creole, several other Caribbean Creole languages, Spanish, and Arabic. The collection of data and analytical attention are centered on questions of language choice, language attitudes, ethnolinguistic identity, and bilingualism.

This book will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics and anthropology with a special interest in Creole languages and linguistic minorities in multilingual speech communities.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-07-01,"Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo and John Denton",The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective,Hardback,978-1-4438-2141-4,44.99,"This volume examines a fundamental concept of language within a historical perspective. The concept is that of public and private communication, the historical period ranges from the late middle ages to the late modern, and the language is English. In short, what are the linguistic traits, discursive practices, communicative settings and intentions which identify and contrast public from private communication, supposing it is possible to make such a fine distinction?

The volume contains contributions from top international scholars working in the fields of, for example, historical correspondence, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century print news, sixteenth-century liturgy and political discourse, the language of quack doctors, late modern travel writing, personal notebooks, and even the eighteenth-century public discourse of shopping.

As this ground-breaking volume is not just about key concepts in the history of the English language, but also examines at a more general level the concept of private and public communication, the various chapters will interest scholars working in language and communication generally as well as English historical discourse.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-08-01,Judita Giparaitė,The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian,Hardback,9781443817233,39.99,"The study The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian is one of the first attempts to apply the methods of generative grammar to the analysis of a fragment of Lithuanian grammar, i.e., constructions with secondary predicates of the type V [NP1 NP2] and V [NP1 AP], the sub-strings [NP1 NP2] and [NP1 AP] of which in generative works are usually called small clauses. The investigation is contrastive; the evidence of Lithuanian is compared with that of English. Whereas the syntactic study of secondary predicates in English has a certain tradition, traditional Lithuanian grammar does not have a single notion to what is known elsewhere as secondary predicates. In Lithuanian traditional grammar secondary predicates are usually referred to as a part of compound nominal predicates, predicative attributes, a part of complex objects and are not singled out as a distinct category but are given different, often contradictory treatments. Thus the research can be considered pioneering work as far as Lithuanian is concerned. It not only contributes to the theoretical discussion about the adequate way of dealing with secondary predicates in Government and Binding framework, but can also be considered instrumental in propagating modern methods of syntactic analysis in tradition-ridden Lithuanian grammar.

The present work addresses an important problem whether the Lithuanian and English constructions under investigation express a subject-predicate relationship and form a constituent and can be described as having the syntactic function of a clause. For this purpose, the syntactic and semantic as well as clausal properties of the sequences [NP1 NP2] and [NP1 AP] in the two languages under consideration are discussed. The clausal properties of the sub-strings [NP1 NP2] and [NP1 AP] are investigated on the basis of the presence of agreement features, sentence negation, the resemblance to full clauses, theta-role assignment, word order, and applying sentence constituency tests.




","""Judita Giparaitė’s research addresses an important problem of general, English and Lithuanian linguistics, namely, the phenomenon of secondary predication and its clausal status ... The research gives an excellent account of the problem and is not restricted with the limitations of any deductively closed theory. The apparatus of the book is good and transparent, with glosses and comments to almost all the examples provided in the text. Therefore, Judita Giparaitė’s book is an easy reading for those linguists, who are not fluent in Modern Lithuanian.""

-Dr. Anton Zimmerling, Moscow State University in Humanities, MGGU	

“The main novelty of Judita Giparaitė’s book is that it deals with problems of Lithuanian syntax from a generative perspective. <…> Though it will not become a milestone in generative grammar, it is worth reading and raises a number of questions that will have to be tackled by subsequent researchers.”

- Axel Holvoet, Professor in the University of Warsaw, Senior research worker at the Institute for the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius

""Part I includes three essays. There is a useful review and analysis of that 1935 production of The Mother by the Anne Fletcher, the author of a useful new study of the Brecht collaborator, designer Mordecai Gorelik (reviewed in the last volume of The Brecht Yearbook). Her efforts gets Part I off to a strong start...

I applaud the attention it brings to Jones, one of America's immensely and uniquely talented actors/authors.""

Don B. Wilmeth, emeritus, Brown University, Brecht In/And Asia, 2011

Giparaite’s book is an important and valuable contribution to the study of Lithuanian syntax and I wish to express hope that it will be followed by other high (and higher) quality books by Lithuanian scholar realising that their language deserves being analysed from the standpoint of contemporary.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Peter M Akaswly                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Institute of Slavic Studies
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Baltic Linguistics Journal 2/2011

                                                                         










",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-08-01,Saihong Li Rasmussen,To Define and Inform: An Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark,Hardback,978-1-4438-2233-6,44.99,"""To Inform and Define: An Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark""  presents a masterly synthesis of lexicographical theory in relation to bilingual and learner's dictionaries and advances a radical argument about how such dictionaries are used and how they should be improved for the convenience of students. By tracing the history of the terms 'semantic' and 'pragmatic' in linguistics and philosophy, Saihong Li shows the weakness of any conceptual distinction between them. She goes on to demonstrate how inappropriate these terms are for thinking about the ways in which words are defined and explained in dictionaries. The theoretical argument is supported by detailed and comparative empirical research: learners of English as a second language in both China and Denmark were interviewed about their experiences as users of standard learner's dictionaries. The results are presented in tabular form and their interpretation is statistically informed.
   This is a path-breaking study. Saihong Li makes an important contribution to lexicographical theory, and advances a sophisticated methodology for the comparative study of English-language leaning on an international scale and in the global marketplace of learner's dictionaries. Her work will be of great value for language teachers, lexicographers, and students of interpretation, translation and language pedagogies.  ""To Inform and Define"" should also attract serious attention from editors and publishers of learner's dictionaries.








",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-09-01,"Massimo Pettorino, Antonella Giannini, Isabella Chiari and Francesca Dovetto",Spoken Communication,Hardback,978-1-4438-2276-3,39.99,"The overall goal of the volume is to offer an extensive and qualified description of the current research that may stimulate genuine attention on Spoken communication. 
The volume gives updated insights on theoretical aspects, specific case studies and the issues of speech representation as well. In the first part different aspects of the cognitive and pragmatic perspectives are analyzed. An insightful account of language pathologies, multimodal spoken dialog interaction and voice expressiveness is given in part two, while sign languages, representation of intonation and automatic detection of disfluencies in speech transcriptions are investigated in the last section.  

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Yasemin Yildiz,Age Effects in the Acquisition of English Onset Clusters by Turkish Learners: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach,Hardback,978-1-4438-2398-2,49.99,"Age Effects in the Acquisition of English Onset Clusters by Turkish Learners: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach offers a state-of-the-art examination of the acquisition of English onset clusters by Turkish learners, and considers the age effects in second language (L2) phonology. Unlike previous research trends, this research examines the developmental paths of L2 phonology, rather than the ‘end-state’ of acquisition. This in return will yield insightful data which appeals to both L2 theory and phonological theory. The L2 data presented here will be accounted for within a constraint-based framework known as Optimality Theory (OT).

The first two chapters provide an overview of first and second language phonology, and are also discussed under OT framework in chapter 3. Chapter 4 serves to highlight the syllable structure of Turkish and English and addresses a number of partially overlapping themes: synchronic and diachronic analysis of English and Turkish consonant inventory, loan phonology, and prosodic development. The remaining chapters provide a detailed presentation of the novel empirical results, along with a discussion of its wider implications in phonological theory and phonological acquisition.

Indispensable for students and researchers working in the areas of phonological theory and phonological acquisition, this volume will also appeal to applied linguists and speech language pathologists.
","“This study provides an invaluable source data from Turkish learners of English. Yildiz offers the reader a unique perspective on the way in which a second language is acquired by children and by adults, thus it is relevant to the study of the acquisition of both of L2 and L1 phonology.”
—Dr Wyn Johnson, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,"María José Luzón, María Noelia Ruiz-Madrid and María Luisa Villanueva","Digital Genres, New Literacies and Autonomy in Language Learning",Hardback,978-1-4438-2341-8,39.99,"The exponential growth in the amount and complexity of information transmitted and shared on the Internet and the capabilities afforded by new information technologies result in the continuous emergence of new genres and new literacy practices that call for new models of genre analysis and new approaches to teaching literacy and language, where language learning autonomy has to take centre stage. Any pedagogical approach which seeks to develop autonomy in online language learning should also be concerned with the development of new literacies, with raising an awareness of digital texts and with the cognitive processes learners engage in when constructing meaning in hypertext.

The purpose of this volume is to lay the foundations for an approach to online language learning which draws on the analysis of digital texts and of the practices and strategies involved in using such texts. With this aim in mind, this book incorporates and draws relations between research on digital genres, autonomy, electronic literacies and language learning tasks, combining theoretical reflections with pedagogical research.

The chapters in this volume, written by researchers from different academic traditions, report research concerning digital genres, new literacy skills and the design of webtasks for effective language learning. These chapters will be useful resources for researchers and doctoral students interested in the development of autonomous language learning in digital environments.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra,"Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse: A Selected and Edited Collection of Papers from the Fifth International Language and Gender Association Conference (IGALA5)",Hardback,978-1-4438-2364-7,39.99,"The chapters in this book illustrate a range of cutting edge research in language and gender studies, with contributions from a number of internationally recognised experts. The three themes, femininity, feminism and gendered discourse are central to research in language and gender, and the book thus makes a valuable contribution to a number of current debates.

Femininity comprises a central aspect of gender performance and the process of “gendering” individuals is on-going and unavoidable. For many people, the word “femininity” has associations with “frilly pink party dresses,” with demureness, deference, and lack of power and influence. The first section of this book demonstrates some alternative conceptions of femininity, and a range of ways in which femininity is performed in different contexts and cultures. The analyses illustrate that we are all continually performing aspects of femininity (and masculinity) in flexible, dynamic, ambiguous, predictable and unpredictable ways.

Language and gender research has a long tradition of engagement with the political, and specifically with feminism and feminist goals. The chapters in the second section of this book demonstrate the value of identifying gendered patterns in order to challenge their potentially repressive effects in social interaction in a range of spheres. The researchers analyse contemporary international evidence of sexism in language use, including material from Japanese spam emails expressing sexual desire, and from media reporting on male and female candidates in the 2007 French elections.

The final section of this book focuses on the different ways in which we negotiate our gender through discourse. Gender is just one of many facets of our intrinsically hybridized social identities. Nevertheless, it is a very significant facet, a salient dimension in everyday life, with a pervasive social influence on everything we do and say. Interaction is typically viewed through “gendered” spectacles much of the time. The chapters in the third section focus in detail on diverse ways in which gender is constructed through discourse, examining the interaction between individual agency and the larger constraining social structures, including socio-cultural norms, within which that agency is enacted.

Finally, the different contributions in this book represent research from a multiplicity of geographic and cultural backgrounds, supporting efforts to internationalise language and gender research, and to raise awareness of empirical studies undertaken in a wide range of linguistic and cultural contexts.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Zsuzsa Tóth,Foreign Language Anxiety and the Advanced Language Learner: A Study of Hungarian Students of English as a Foreign Language,Hardback,978-1-4438-2377-7,39.99,"Does anxiety about learning and using a foreign language decline as learners become more competent in the target language, or is anxiety also relevant at higher levels of proficiency?

This is the question Foreign Language Anxiety and the Advanced Language Learner sets out to explore. The aim of the book is to give readers an insight into what role anxiety plays in the language learning and communication processes of advanced language learners. Specifically, the study examines how advanced EFL learners’ foreign language anxiety (FLA) can be characterized; how anxiety relates to other individual differences (cognitive, affective, personality); and explores the relationship between FLA and various aspects of learners’ performance and communication experience in the target language.

The research context is Hungary. The findings, however, are not confined to the Hungarian EFL setting. In addition to making a contribution to the clarification of some unresolved issues in language anxiety research—including the role of proficiency in the development of anxiety, the relationship between anxiety and other learner variables, and the much-debated question of whether or not anxiety accounts for differential success in L2 learning—this study has important implications for language teachers as well.
","“Zsuzsa Tóth’s book on foreign language anxiety among advanced learners is a welcome addition to the body of literature on individual differences that influence the success of second language acquisition. The volume presents an interesting research project which investigated the factors that affect and induce anxiety among an under-researched group of learners: university students at high levels of proficiency. Zsuzsa Tóth’s excellent mixed-method study challenges the belief that language learning anxiety is mainly apparent at lower levels of language competence and presents new insights into the nature of anxiety.”
—Dr Judit Kormos, PhD Habil, Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

“The book is a must for everyone interested in the state of the art of foreign language anxiety research and how it can be researched in meaningful ways. I highly recommend the volume to teachers of modern foreign languages, students in MA and doctoral programmes and researchers of individual differences.”
—Professor Marianne Nikolov, Chair, Department of English Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Marinus van den Berg and Daming Xu,Industrialization and the Restructuring of Speech Communities in China and Europe,Hardback,978-1-4438-2380-7,44.99,"This book documents the changing language situation in urban centres in China, gauging the impact of industrialization and the consequent population movement on forms of language communication. Research reports detailing aspects of the new and emerging language situation demonstrate the interplay of the Chinese standard language, Putonghua, and various Chinese dialects. Urban areas covered are Baotou (Inner Mongolia), Jintan (Jiangsu), Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hainan island. The Chinese transition to an industrial society is contrasted with post-industrialized societies in Europe. The latter are represented by studies of the Dutch and German language situation. The empirical studies are preceded by an overview of China’s language planning efforts, an analysis of the position of the Chinese language in the World Language System, a comparison of Chinese and European urban environments, an introduction of the Chinese Dialect Preservation Project, and an experimental study of the mutual intelligibility between Chinese dialects. The contributions are all original and they address current issues in the Chinese language situation, exemplifying innovative applications and development of sociolinguistic theories. The book therefore is a must-read for linguists, sociolinguistics, Chinese language students and China experts.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,John Partridge,Interfaces in Language,Hardback,978-1-4438-2399-9,44.99,"This volume resulted from the first Interfaces in Language conference held at the University of Kent, England, as a result of the need perceived for the orthodox distinctions made between the various perceived divisions in language study, e.g. syntax vs. semantics vs. pragmatics vs. phonology vs. morphology, to be expanded into a wider concept of linguistic interfaces, for example language and music, language and politics, languages in mutual contact, languages in mutual conflict, and language and literature.

Potential contributors at the conference were encouraged to define and explore the particular interfaces which interested them, to see where there was common ground, where distinctions were to be made and where grey areas invite further investigation. The results were startling: contributors responded from America, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, Spain and Switzerland as well as the UK, with themes ultimately grouped under three headings which have been roughly retained in this volume.

Many of the wide range of resultant perspectives are represented here, as well as those treated by colleagues prevented at the last moment from attending the conference. Categories and Orthodoxies addresses some of the most traditional interfaces, whilst Contact and Conflict examines clashes and coalescences between languages, languages and politics, the mutual interaction of variants of a language and the imposition or choice of a non-native language over its native counterparts; and Language and Cognition sees language behaviour as partly at least influenced by factors other than those formally identified as strictly linguistic.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,"João Costa, Ana Castro, Maria Lobo and Fernanda Pratas",Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009,Hardback,978-1-4438-2394-4,54.99,"This edited collection contains 43 papers presented at the GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) conference 2009, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The volume contains a very wide and rich range of topics, reflecting the immense quality of the event: the acquisition of languages from different families is studied; comparisons between acquisition of L1, L2 and atypical language development are made; all areas of language development are explored (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, pragmatics and interactions between components).

The proceedings of GALA are an invaluable reference for those interested in Language Acquisition, Language Development and Child Language.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo and John Obiero Ogone,Language and Politics in Africa: Contemporary Issues and Critical Perspectives,Hardback,978-1-4438-2383-8,54.99,"Language and Politics in Africa is a fine collection of both empirically and theoretically based articles from across the African continent and beyond, but all focusing on the twin issues of Language and Politics in post colonial African countries. The authors offer critical perspectives on contemporary theoretical, empirical and policy issues related to language and how such issues manifest themselves at the inevitable interface with politics in a number of African countries. Coming at a time when most African countries are still grappling with language policy and planning issues while others are increasingly having to contend with the political outcomes of linguistically and ethnically heterogeneous nation-states, the present volume is a must read for scholars and students who are interested on the twin issues of language and politics since it represents one of the first attempts at documenting how language and politics affect each other in a number of African countries. The volume is divided into two sections dealing with the politics of language and the language of politics in African countries.

","""This volume presents the reader with an eclectic collection of papers that go a long way towards painting an accurate and detailed picture of the main issues in the language of politics and the politics of language in contemporary Africa. Particularly noteworthy, as Vice Chancellor Mugenda observes in her foreword, is the opportunity this volume offers for the contributing young African scholars.""

Adnan Ajsic, Northern Arizona University in The Linguist List 22.2873, July 2011
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Elaine Grolla,Pronouns as Elsewhere Elements: Implications for Language Acquisition,Hardback,978-1-4438-2374-6,34.99,"This book investigates the acquisition of pronominal elements by monolingual children acquiring English and Brazilian Portuguese as their native languages. Previous studies have found non-adult behavior in children’s use and comprehension of pronouns in two syntactic contexts: resumptive pronouns in relative clauses and anaphoric pronouns bound by argumental noun phrases. Children perform similarly on both contexts, incorrectly accepting these cases at chance level. The age-range when this chance performance is detected is the same in both cases, around 4 and 5 years.

The present study offers a unifying account for such behavior, assuming that bound pronouns are always last resort, whose use requires trans-derivational comparison. Along the lines of previous work done by Grodzinsky and Reinhart (1993), it is claimed that such a comparison is too demanding for young children, as their limited working memory cannot handle complex computations.

Two sets of experiments were carried out, testing the same children on both contexts. The results show that those behaving at chance in one context had the same behavior in the other. They also showed that children had chance level performance not only with pronouns bound by referential antecedents, but also with quantified ones.

These results are compatible with the view that children’s problems with bound pronouns are related to processing difficulties rather than to the lack of some linguistic knowledge.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Somdev Kar,Syllable Structure of Bangla: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach,Hardback,978-1-4438-2402-6,34.99,"Syllable Structure of Bangla: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach is a three part study designed to provide students/readers with a better understanding about the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. The book is divided into twelve chapters with each chapter focusing on one particular area of the study.

The first part of this three part study focuses on the frequency of occurrences of different consonant clusters in Bangla. It argues that these clusters are best described with the help of the Bangla lexicon into three strata that include native Bangla words (NB) as well as Sanskrit borrowings (SB) and other borrowings (OB). This part of the study focuses on the analysis of these syllabic structures in Bangla with the help of the Optimality Theory (OT).

The second part of the study focuses on a morphological analysis of the standard verbal inflectional paradigms of Bangla in the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). This includes categories of tense/mood, levels of politeness and persons. This analysis is then compared with the English verbal inflectional morphology. In a later stage, Kar picks up the Optimality Theory from where he left it at the first part and applies it to analyze the outcomes of the morphological analysis in DM and following phonological changes on them.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Rosina Neginsky,"Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences",Hardback,978-1-4438-2392-0,64.99,"The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its essence in an article that appeared on April 24, 1887, in L’Art moderne. He wrote that the notion of a symbol in the Symbolist movement is the opposite of the notion of the symbol in classical usage: instead of going from the abstract to the concrete (Venus, incarnated in the statue, represents love), it goes from the concrete to the abstract, from “what is seen, heard, felt, tasted, and sensed to the evocation of the idea.”

This volume attempts to give a glimpse into the power of the Symbolist movement and the nature of its fundamental and interdisciplinary role in the evolution of art and literature of the twentieth century. It records the studies of a group of scholars, who met and discussed these topics together for the first time in 2009. While illuminating the specificity of Symbolism in art, architecture and literature in different European countries, these articles also demonstrate the crucial role of French Symbolism in the development of the international Symbolist movement.

The authors hope that an expanding group, a society of Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), born out of the first meeting, will continue to further this discussion at future conferences and in the printed conference proceedings.


","“The high quality of the scholarship, the exceptionally broad chronological range and the truly international and multi-disciplinary nature of the subjects covered make the book a unique and valuable contribution to the study of Symbolism.”
—Peter Cooke, Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Georgeta Raţă,Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes,Hardback,978-1-4438-2404-0,49.99,"Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes is a collection of essays which will appeal to teachers of modern languages no matter the level of instruction. The essays deal with three main approaches of the teaching of languages for special purposes in Europe, Asia and Africa: theoretical linguistics (lexis: French vocabulary; and semantics: French copulative verbs); descriptive linguistics (compared linguistics: English – Romanian, English – Serbian, French – Romanian, French – Serbian, and German – Macedonian); and applied linguistics (language acquisition: English in Romania and Spanish in Serbia; language education: Arabic in Italy, English in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Iran, Malaysia, Russia, Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates; German in Serbia; lexicography: English, French, Romanian, Ruthenian and Serbian; stylistics: English, French and Spanish; and translation: English, Italian and Romanian).
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-11-01,Ranamukalage Chandrasoma,Academic Writing and Interdisciplinarity,Hardback,978-1-4438-2487-3,34.99,"Applied linguistics as a discipline embodies a wide canvass of knowledge pertaining to language studies. One dimension of this knowledge that has whetted the appetite of scholars is student academic writing. Professor Chandrasoma´s book critically explores academic interdisciplinarity, a relatively new area of student writing in our contemporary contexts, from different perspectives: approaches to ESL/EFL/EAP, disciplinary integration, linguistic capital, pedagogical practices in applied linguistics, generically diverse assessment tasks, extra-disciplinarity, pedagogic desire, curricular issues, and socio-economic imperatives. His work also offers a comprehensive study of how student writers grapple with interdisciplinary knowledge in the academy.

In Chapter two, the author introduces a typology of interdisciplinarity, and he substantiates his claims with empirical evidence, thus demystifying its abstract and vague definitions abounding in the literature. This is an area where he really breaks fresh grounds. The intellectual intensity of this book emerges largely from the novel concepts introduced in his discussions on interdisciplinary integration in the university curricula in the last two decades. 

Since almost every discipline has crossed its boundaries, student writing has become a more complex and intricate academic exercise as has never been before. Professor Chandrasoma emphasizes the need for knowledge for specific purposes programs peripheral to the currently used English for academic/specific purposes programs in universities  in order to enculturate novice student writers into the new culture of interdisciplinary integration.
 
This seminal work proposes critical interdisciplinarity as a sustainable pedagogical practice to cope with a plethora of difficulties encountered by student writers at various stages of constructing their texts. The book meets a long felt need as evidenced by the paucity of literature on interdisciplinary studies in particular reference to student writing.

Hence this book is an asset to language teachers, academic support advisors, curriculum developers, researchers in linguistics, and student writers. As far as academic disciplines are concerned, the book has a specific focus on English language (ESL/EFL/EAP), applied linguistics, and education. The book will also serve as an invaluable resource for various programs where academic literacies are vital. In particular it lends itself to programs such as foundation studies, developmental education, and interdisciplinary studies both at graduate and postgraduate levels in universities and colleges.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-11-01,Engin Arik,A Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space: Sign and Spoken Languages,Hardback,978-1-4438-2491-0,34.99,"This book examines spatial language in sign languages (Turkish Sign Language, Croatian Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Austrian Sign Language) and spoken languages (Turkish, English, and Croatian). The book presents a novel model, the Crossmodal Spatial Language, to account for similarities and differences in these languages. The model, which consists of Spatial Representations, Reference Frames, Temporal Representations, Conceptual Structure, and Linguistic Representations, shows that the features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped on the spatial descriptions regardless of modality and language.
 
The book reports several studies to examine the descriptions of static and dynamic spatial scenes which involve, among others, spatial relationals such as left-right, front-back, besides, in, on, to, toward, pass by, away, and cause to move. The findings suggest that language users construct a spatial relation between the objects in a given time, employ a reference frame, which may not be encoded in the message, and use the same conceptual structure consisted of BE-AT for static spatial situations and GO-BE-AT for static dynamic situations.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-11-01,Sara Sanchez,Discourse Dynamics,Hardback,978-1-4438-2486-6,39.99,"This volume presents a reasoned study of the discourse connectives of attainment of the French language. For the most part, the studies on connectives are based on referentialist descriptive frameworks, which are sustained more or less explicitly on what we have called the general problem of causality, the epistemological foundation of a scientific paradigm which has been used for centuries but which, in our opinion, is now outdated. In the first place, we have submitted this old paradigm to critical debate, showing the limits of its scientific validity. Next, we have placed ourselves in a non-referentialist linguistic framework, the Theory of Argumentation in the Language-System, developed by the French linguist Oswald Ducrot, in which we have formulated a new descriptive proposal for discourse connectives, taking into account both the argumentative configuration and the polyphonic configuration of each of the discourse dynamics generated around a given connective. We have described the argumentative configuration in terms of semantic blocks, and the polyphonic configuration in terms of discourse algorithms, original and innovative heuristic instruments with which we attempt to stimulate a new approach to language more in line with the general scientific approaches of the 21st century, and with the new scientific paradigm which is currently valid.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-11-01,Shannon Bischoff,Formal Notes on Coeur d’Alene Clause Structure,Hardback,978-1-4438-2418-7,34.99,"Coeur d’Alene, also known as Snchitsu’umshtsn, is a Southern Interior (Idaho, USA) Salish language. This work presents a formal account of the basic clause structure of this polysynthetic language within the tradition of Minimalism and Distributed Morphology. The work arrives at an account of the basic clause structure and an articulation of the left periphery of Coeur d’Alene. In addition, an account of lexical affixation is presented. Thus providing the first formal account of the language and adding to our understanding of Coeur d’Alene, Salish languages, and languages of the world more generally. 

In addition, the work draws attention to the excellent scholarship of Gladys Reichard, whose work has been crucial in any study of the Coeur d’Alene language in the last ninety years. Using Reichard’s unpublished manuscripts and field notes, as well as consultation with the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, the work draws on a corpus of data that demonstrates the value of legacy material and illustrates the importance of language documentation, maintenance, and preservation to linguistic inquiry.
","“Bischoff’s book is an excellent example of how descriptive work in the tradition of the American Structuralists combined with fieldwork can inform minimalist analyses and thus shed light on the nature of Universal Grammar. It is the first (surprisingly exhaustive) formal account of Coeur d’Alene clause-structure making it possible to explicitly compare this endangered and understudied language within a universalist setting.”
—Dr Martina Wiltschko  Associate Professor Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Canada
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-11-01,Vincenzo Moscati,Negation Raising: Logical Form and Linguistic Variation,Hardback,978-1-4438-2506-1,34.99,"With this book, the author explores the syntax of negative sentences, tracing the fine-grained contours of linguistic variation and offering a detailed cartographic representation of the distribution of negative markers.

The goal is to show the existing tension in language between the variable surface realization of negation and its stable logical representation. In order to solve this tension and to unify the interpretation of negative sentences, a mapping operation, LF-Negation Raising, is proposed.

Verbal arguments related to negation such as n-words, negative quantifiers and negative polarity items are also considered, in order to derive negative concord phenomena from the inner semantics of nominal constituents.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-11-01,Łukasz Bogucki,Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Challenges and Practices,Hardback,978-1-4438-2500-9,39.99,"In a world increasingly dependent on translation and localisation, translator and interpreter training is becoming one of the more dynamic areas in academic exchanges. Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Challenges and Practices strives to meet the growing interest in this field. The book offers a general and up-to-date overview of current trends in teaching translation at university level. The innovative and exciting articles offer a comprehensive selection of topics for discussion and reflection that will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike. Though the research projects described in the essays are to some extent rooted in the Polish reality, their conclusions are largely universal and applicable worldwide.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,John Considine,Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography,Hardback,978-1-4438-2576-4,44.99,"Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day.

The first five treat English and French lexicography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Heberto Fernandez and Monique Cormier discuss the outside matter of French–English bilingual dictionaries; Kusujiro Miyoshi re-assesses the influence of Robert Cawdrey; John Considine uncovers the biography of Henry Cockeram; Antonella Amatuzzi discusses Pierre Borel’s use of his predecessors; and Fredric Dolezal investigates multi-word units in the dictionary of John Wilkins and William Lloyd. Linda Mitchell’s account of dictionaries as behaviour guides in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries leads on to Giovanni Iamartino’s presentation of words associated with women in the dictionary of Samuel Johnson, and Thora Van Male’s of the ornaments in the Encyclopédie. Nineteenth-century and subsequent topics are treated by Anatoly Liberman on the growth of the English etymological dictionary; Julie Coleman on dictionaries of rhyming slang; Laura Pinnavaia on Richardson’s New Dictionary and the changing vocabulary of English; Peter Gilliver on early editorial decisions and reconsiderations in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary; Anne Dykstra on the use of Latin as the metalanguage in Joost Halbertsma’s Lexicon Frisicum; Laura Santone on the “Dictionnaire critique” serialized in Georges Bataille’s Surrealist review Documents; Sylvia Brown on the stories of missionary lexicography behind the Eskimo–English Dictionary of 1925; and Michael Adams on the legacies of the Early Modern English Dictionary project.

The diverse critical perspectives of the leading lexicographers and historians of lexicography who contribute to this volume are united by a shared interest in the close reading of dictionaries, and a shared concern with the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities, which cannot be understood without attention to the lives of the people who undertook them.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,"Tamás Váradi, Judit Kuti and Max Silberztein",Applications of Finite-State Language Processing: Selected Papers from the 2008 International NooJ Conference,Hardback,978-1-4438-2573-3,39.99,"NooJ is both a corpus processing tool and a linguistic development environment: it allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling, lexicons for simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions, inflectional, derivational and productive morphology, local, structural syntax and transformational syntax. For each of these levels, NooJ provides linguists with one or more formal tools specifically designed to facilitate the description of each phenomenon, as well as parsing tools designed to be as computationally efficient as possible. This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic tools, which provide a single formalism that should describe everything. As a corpus processing tool, NooJ allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic queries to large corpora in order to build indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform statistical analyses, etc.

NooJ is freely available and linguistic modules can already be downloaded for Acadian, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, French, English, German, Hebrew, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.

The present volume contains papers from the 2008 International NooJ conference which was held 8–10 June 2008 in Budapest. While the focus of the Budapest conference was on making NooJ compatible with other applications, the papers vary with respect to whether they regard Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a research goal or as a tool. However, they all present a slightly different problem either in the field of NLP, or in one that can be solved using NLP, or present a new development in the tool itself. The range of problems dealt with in the volume is quite varied, which will hopefully enable the readers to find contributions that are relevant to their field of interest.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,Vesna Lopičić and Biljana Mišić Ilić,Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes,Hardback,978-1-4438-2557-3,44.99,"The book Identity Issues: Literary and Linguistic Landscapes is a collection of essays, set out to explore the notion of identity as a constantly relevant, very complex, multi-faceted phenomenon. Understanding identity in a very broad sense, the authors approach it from various angles, highlighting its various aspects. The first section includes literary explorations that discuss identity issues of class, race, nation and history, as depicted in several works of, mostly, contemporary Anglo-American literature. The second section brings various linguistic studies of identity, starting with the usual sociolinguistic issues, but also including a range of other research routes, which draw upon insights from psychology, sociology, historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, lexicology, functional grammar, and applied linguistics.

The book addresses a broad academic audience. Due to its wide scope, both in topics covered and in varied theoretical approaches, it is not only aimed towards literary scholars studying modern Anglo-American literature, nor only at sociolinguists interested in language identity, but at numerous academics, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, who are interested in some of the disciplines that provided the framework for various articles (literary studies, sociology, cognitive linguistics, lexicology, functional grammar, academic writing, and English teaching). The book would be particularly appealing to all those who are interested in examining a variety of identity issues from diverse angles.

The authors of the articles come from Serbia, the UK, Canada, Japan, Norway, and Romania.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,Dimitra Anastasiou,Idiom Treatment Experiments in Machine Translation,Hardback,978-1-4438-2515-3,39.99,"In 1975, Searle stated that one should speak idiomatically unless there is some good reason not to do so. Fillmore, Kay, and O’Connor in 1988 defined an idiomatic expression or construction as something that a language user could fail to know while knowing everything else in the language. Our language is rich in conversational phrases, idioms, metaphors, and general expressions used in metaphorical meaning. These idiomatic expressions pose a particular challenge for Machine Translation (MT), because their translation for the most part does not work literally, but logically. The present book shows how idiomatic expressions can be recognized and correctly translated with the help of a bilingual idiom dictionary (English-German), a monolingual (German) corpus, and morphosyntactic rules. The work focuses on the field of Example-based Machine Translation (EBMT). A theory of idiomatic expressions with their syntactic and semantic properties is provided, followed by the practical part of the book which describes how the hybrid EBMT system METIS-II is able to correctly process idiomatic expressions. A comparison of METIS-II with three commercial systems shows that idioms are not impossible to translate as it was predicted in 1952: “The only way for a machine to treat idioms is—not to have idioms!”

This book furnishes plenty of examples of idiomatic phrases and provides the foundation for how MT systems can process and translate idioms by means of simple linguistic resources.


","""Idiom Treatment Experiments in Machine Translation"" offers a specific approach to handle a specific type of idioms within the framework of EBMT. It provides valuable resources such as heuristics and rule templates for EMBT.""

This book is structured clearly, from theoretical review to system description and finally to system comparison and evaluation. It offers the reader a relatively comprehensive view of theories of idioms, provides a brief history of
EBMT and introduces different stages to identify and translate idioms in one of
these EBMT systems.

Yuancheng Tu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in The Linguist List 22.2758, July 2011

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,"Kemmonye Collete Monaka, Owen S Seda, Sibonile Edith Ellece and John McAllister",Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World: Issues in Language and Literature,Hardback,978-1-4438-2566-5,44.99,"Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World addresses issues of representations of Africa in the English speaking world. English has become a global language which has turned the world into a global village, and as Graddol (2008) states, it “is now redefining national and individual identities worldwide; shifting political fault lines; creating new global patterns of wealth and social exclusion; and suggesting new notions of human rights and responsibilities of citizenship.” This book grapples with the relationship between Africa and the rest of the English speaking world, and touches on issues of (Euro-American) misrepresentations of the continent in literary works and films, misrepresentations which are nevertheless passed as true and infallible knowledge of Africa, marginalization of Africans, African languages and culture, African scholarship, language policy, language diglossia, African theatre in post colonial Africa, identity negotiations in post colonial Africa, and relations between gender and language, among other issues. These issues are bound to stimulate debates on Africa and its representation(s) in the English speaking world.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-01-01,Jasmine Dum-Tragut and Uwe Bläsing,"Cultural, Linguistic and Ethnological Interrelations In and Around Armenia",Hardback,978-1-4438-2645-7,39.99,"The geographical region of the Southern Caucasus, the lowlands between the Black and the Caspian Sees and the Armenian and Anatolian highlands is located on the peripheries of Europe from Asia. This region shares a common pre-history, with pre-Christian and pre-Muslim cultures and beliefs. The later periods, however, starting from the pre-Christian Iranian dominations, followed by the Arab conquest and the later campaigns of Seljuks, Mongols and Ottomans, had a heavy impact on the development of the region’s various ethnic languages and cultures.

Nevertheless, many similarities can be found in the languages, cultures and religious traditions of the people living in this region. Armenia has often been a bridge between various cultures. Even though Armenians have succeeded in preserving their original language and culture through the centuries, many of their traditions and myths, their linguistic peculiarities, particularly in Armenian dialects, may be explained by an often long-lasting influence of other cultures, be it occidental (Hellenistic/Roman, later Byzantine and Medieval European) or oriental (Iranian, later Arab, Turkic, Mongolian, etc.) or even Caucasian. The Armenians have also left many traces in the languages and cultures of the Occident, Orient and the Caucasus.

This volume gives an impressive approach to an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties which Armenians share with their neighbours.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-01-01,Iyabode Omolara Daniel,Introductory Phonetics and Phonology of English,Hardback,978-1-4438-2638-9,34.99,"Introductory Phonetics and Phonology of English attempts to provide a practical guide to the learner in all ramifications of theoretical and practical uses of the phonetics and phonology of the English language. Useful suggestions and tips are also given on how to overcome the terror of the sounds of English. An attempt is also made to give detailed information on the workings of the prosodic features of English. This is especially necessary, as they remain, largely, the most confounding aspect of the English language to the average Nigerian speaker of English.

The distinctive phonological features of the English sounds are also painstakingly discussed to help make the identification and description of the sounds of English even more interesting and accessible. The discussion about the phonological tendencies of the sounds of the English language is meant to help the reader see the English sounds as functional entities that go beyond the theoretical descriptions of their articulatory processes in the classroom.

This book thus serves as a useful introductory text. If the success of the first edition is anything to go by, it is obvious that many students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels have found the book a helpful guide into understanding and mastering the phonetics and phonology of English. Moreover, certificate class students at secondary school level have also found the many segmental and suprasegmental examples very practical and helpful to their mastery of English phonetics.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-01-01,Isabel Balteiro,New Approaches to Specialized English Lexicology and Lexicography,Hardback,978-1-4438-2577-1,39.99,"This book gathers some of the latest approaches to Lexicology and Lexicography, which span from research on language for specific purposes to the study of lexical constellations and translation. It aims to present a multifaceted insight on current trends and, thus, includes papers that explore lexical processes in several areas, which comprise fields so diverse and riveting such as the language of cinema, fashion, tourism, and even comics. In addition, other papers examine the lexicon of well-established professional languages, such as the language of law, medicine and business, by revealing leading-edge perspectives on topics such as translation, word-formation, cultural clashes, or lexical selection. Key issues on learning and teaching are also considered, as part of a long tradition in the study of professional and academic languages that posits users’ learning needs as the cornerstone to the study of these languages. Therefore, this work proposes a strong emphasis on lexis and terminology, which are highlighted as the fundamental core of the definition and analysis of specialized languages. All in all, this publication intends, on the one hand, to embrace current trends in the study of specialized lexicon and terminology from the perspective of both Lexicology and Lexicography, and, on the other hand, to open new possibilities for future research.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-01-01,Thapelo J. Otlogetswe,Text Variability Measures in Corpus Design for Setswana Lexicography,Hardback,978-1-4438-2637-2,44.99,"This book is about the design of a Setswana corpus for lexicography. While various corpora have been compiled and a variety of corpora-based research has been attempted in African languages, no effort has been made towards corpus design. Additionally, although extensive analysis of the Setswana language has been done by missionaries, grammarians and linguists since the 1800s, none of this research is in corpus design. Most research has been largely on the grammatical study of the language.

The recent corpora research in African languages in general has been on the use of corpora for the compilation of dictionaries and little of it is in corpus design. Pioneers of this kind of corpora research in African languages are Prinsloo and De Schryver (1999), De Schryver and Prisloo (2000 and 2001) and Gouws and Prisloo (2005).

Because of a lack of research in corpora design particularly in African languages, this book attempts to fill that gap, especially for Setswana. It is hoped that the finding of this study will inspire similar designs in other languages comparable to Setswana.

We explore corpus design by focusing on measuring a variety of text types for lexical richness at comparable token points.

The study explores the question of whether a corpus compiled for lexicography must comprise a variety of texts drawn from different text types or whether the quality of retrieved information for lexicographic purposes from a corpus comprising diverse text varieties could be equally extracted from a corpus with a single text type. This study therefore determines whether linguistic variability is crucial in corpus design for lexicography.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-02-01,Subhash Chandra and Girish Nath Jha,Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections: Methods and Implementation,Hardback,978-1-4438-2684-6,34.99,"Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections: Methods and Implementation is the result of Research and Development (R&D) at the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) level at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The title of the dissertation was “Machine Recognition and Morphological Analysis of Subanta-Padas.” The work, which is based on the reverse engineering implementation of Panini’s Sanskrit Grammar, brings together new and original studies in the area of computational linguistics, language technology and natural language processing with reference to parsing Sanskrit nominal inflections.

On the surface level, Panini has defined rules in a forward looking generative fashion which makes reverse analysis necessary for parsing. Since parsing inflections is the first basic step towards complete analysis, the present work has relevance for any larger system that may evolve in future.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-02-01,Olga Karpova,English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.),Hardback,978-1-4438-2659-4,39.99,"This book is devoted to the description of typical trends in development, formation and the present state of English Author Lexicography, the roots of which go back to concordances to the Bible and glossaries of the complete works of Chaucer (xvi c.). Part I, “Linguistic Dictionaries to English Writers,” presents lexicographic analysis of old and new concordances, indices, glossaries and lexicons of famous English writers with special reference to Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Dickens. It presents a modern scene of author glossaries for unfamiliar words, terms and other groups of writers’ vocabulary (e.g. Shakespeare’s insults and his erotic language). The reader is offered a detailed review of author concordances, glossaries and lexicons on the Internet, along with criticism of printed dictionaries. Part II, “Encyclopedic Reference Works to English Writers,” deals with English author encyclopedic reference books, i.e. encyclopedias, guides and companions; dictionaries of characters and place names; quotations and proverbs, and Internet encyclopedic resources. The book also provides a comprehensive list of references on author lexicography and an Index of Dictionaries to the English Writers (xvi–xxi cc.), including 300 titles of linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries, which is a reliable user guide in the world of English author lexicography.


","“The book ”English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth- the XXIst cc.) by Olga Karpova is due to see print in some weeks it is sure to become a bestseller among the manuals on lexicography. 

The book is written in plain English, the ideas are rendered logically, the illustrations are numerous and ample, but the greatest merit of the book is that the scholar managed to make it clear to the reader how English author dictionaries covered the way from linguistic dictionaries to outstanding English writers up .o encyclopaedic reference books (indexes, calendars and other references) whose compilation required all the experience of national English lexicography.”

F.I. Kartashkova 
Ivanovo State University


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-02-01,Elena Tarasheva,Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts: An Approach to Establishing Text Structure,Hardback,978-1-4438-2662-4,34.99,"This book explores how experienced authors repeat word forms in three different genres: research articles, short stories and political speeches. Methods from corpus linguistics are used to elicit all the repeated word forms in each text and then the material is analysed to establish the nature of the repetitions. The analysis seeks answers to the questions: in what naming complexes are the words repeated; is the same concept evoked; is the referential type repeated; are there metaphoric, pragmatic or other shifts in the meaning of the word? Taxonomy of repetition types is evolved which leads to conclusions about the role of repetition in creating coherent texts.

The book provides evidence that repetitions amount to about 60% of the words in a text and they form groups of chains typical for each genre. Thus the way words are repeated serves to create the skeleton of a genre. Comparisons show that in texts written by inexperienced authors the repetitions are considerably fewer than in the work of the experienced ones. The study also reveals which types of repetition decrease the quality of the text.

Specific applications of the theory are suggested for assessing the quality of a text, creating short summaries and building good texts in the respective genres.

The study is placed within the framework of discourse studies of lexical repetitions and presents a brief non-technical description of the linguistic field. Inasmuch as the issue of how words relate to objects in reality is one of the criteria for assessing the repetitions, an overview is given and the analysis elicits specific reference types.


","""The book is full of attention-grabbing insights. The idea of categorising lexical chains is most interesting, but I also value the interplay between corpus linguistic and discourse analytical approaches. Actually, some details of the analysis are arguable but this is an almost inevitable side-effect of the interplay between the two approaches.""
—Michael Hoey, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Internationalisation, The University of Liverpool



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-02-01,"Azra Ahmed, Graeme Cane and Mehnaz Hanzala","Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts: Current Challenges, Future Directions",Hardback,978-1-4438-2673-0,39.99,"This collection of innovative, thought-provoking papers discusses contemporary issues, practices and research related to the role and teaching of English in multilingual countries. The papers, written by experienced practitioners in the field from a number of different countries, examine how the English language can be more effectively taught to students in Asia who speak English as their second, third or fourth language. The book will be of interest not only to linguists, language teachers and educators but also to social science researchers involved in exploring the effects language policy can have on education and society at large.

The eleven chapters in this book are divided into three sections: multilingual aspects in the teaching and learning of English, code-switching and code-mixing, and assessment. Their authors came to Karachi from different academic, cultural and geographic backgrounds and with diverse experiences of the world of English Language Teaching in order to participate in the Fifth International Seminar hosted by the Aga Khan University Centre of English Language.

The contributors are all multi-linguals for whom the question of how best to teach languages is a challenge they face on a daily basis. This small collection of papers is likely to become a powerful resource for English teachers, scholars, and researchers interested in the problems facing language educators in today’s multilingual, multi-cultural world.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-03-01,Dolores Fernández Martínez,Introducing Discourse Analysis in Class,Hardback,978-1-4438-2717-1,34.99,"Introducing Discourse Analysis in Class is a practical introduction to discourse analysis for undergraduates in linguistics degrees or any reader who is interested in how texts function.

Introducing Discourse Analysis in Class

·     gives a balanced insight into basic theoretical concepts within discourse analysis;
·     offers a set of tools for analysing texts, especially cohesive devices;
·     contains numerous practical activities;
·     provides a wide variety of authentic texts for analysis.

Introducing Discourse Analysis in Class encourages the use of discourse analysis as an instrument to develop students’ critical thinking skills.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-03-01,Rocío Pérez Tattam,Second Language Competence: The Acquisition of Complex Syntax in Spanish,Hardback,978-1-4438-2701-0,34.99,"This volume looks at the development of linguistic competence and convergence in second language acquisition by analysing the acquisition of complex syntax by non-native learners of Spanish. It looks at the knowledge that is transferred from the native language and the changes that occur as learners become more proficient. It focuses on a particular class of grammatical constructions that are central to understanding the transition from simple to complex syntax in language development: Control, Raising and Exceptional Case Marking structures. The formal properties of these constructions have been described extensively in theoretical syntax. This volume presents an empirical study, as well as a comprehensive review of seminal and current theories, that ultimately seeks to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and its applications.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Gemma Bel-Enguix and M. Dolores Jiménez-López,Bio-Inspired Models for Natural and Formal Languages,Hardback,978-1-4438-2725-6,44.99,"This volume is a collection of papers written by several researchers that have in common the use of bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages. The main goal of the volume is to promote interdisciplinarity among linguistics, biology and computation. The area of convergence between these three disciplines is giving rise to the emergence of new scientific paradigms that will have an epistemological, social and cultural impact. 

The book is organized around three thematic areas. Every area relates two of the three main topics: language, computation and biology.

This volume stands out from existing publications because of its interdisciplinary nature. There has been a long tradition of interchanging methods among the aforementioned three disciplines, but it is difficult to find a single volume where this interchange of methods is shown. The volume includes chapters that clearly illustrate these interdisciplinary approaches and their benefits. 

This book will be of value to specialists who work in linguistics, biology or computation, and have interest in using methods from other disciplines that can provide new ideas, new tools and new formalisms to approach their problems, and that can help in the improvement of their theories and models.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Amel Kallel,The Loss of Negative Concord in Standard English: A Case of Lexical Reanalysis,Hardback,978-1-4438-2738-6,34.99,"The loss of Negative Concord (NC) has long been attributed to external factors. This study readdresses this issue and provides evidence of the failure of certain external factors to account for the observed decline and ultimate disappearance of NC in Standard English. A detailed study of negation in Late Middle and Early Modern English reveals that the process of the decline of NC was a case of a natural change, preceded by a period of variation manifested in the obtained S-curves for all the contexts studied. Variation existed not only on the level of the speech community as a whole but also within individual speakers (contra Lightfoot, 1991). A close study of n-indefinites in negative contexts and their ultimate replacement with Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) in a number of grammatical environments shows that the decline of NC follows the same pattern across contexts in a form of parallel curvature, which indicates that the loss of NC is a natural process. However, this study reveals that the decline is not constant across time and thus the Constant Rate Hypothesis (Kroch, 1989) does not, in that respect, fully account for this change. Context behaviour suggests an alternative principle of linguistic change, the Context Constancy Principle. A Context Constancy Effect is obtained across all contexts indicating that the loss of NC is triggered by a change in a single underlying parameter setting. Accordingly, a theory-internal explanation is suggested. N-words underwent a lexical reanalysis whereby they acquired a new grammatical feature [+Neg] and were thus reinterpreted as negative quantifiers, rather than NPIs. This lexical reanalysis was triggered by the ambiguous status of n-words between [±Neg] and thus between single and double negative meanings. This change is treated as a case of parameter resetting as this lexical reanalysis affected a whole set of lexical items and can thus economically account for the different observed surface changes.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Andrew Mangham ,The Poetry of Menotti Lerro,Hardback,978-1-4438-2844-4,29.99,"Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. Born in a small village just outside of Salerno, Southern Italy, in 1980, he has produced an impressive range of publications, including essays, poetry, fiction, autobiography, and drama. His is a poetry concerned with powerful imagery, the physicality and vulnerability of the body, the meaning of objects, the interpretation of memories, and the philosophical importance of identity. For the first time, the rich colours and textures of Lerro’s verse are available in English. This volume presents the power of the poet’s voice in all its aching magnificence and demonstrates how it represents the sounds and rhythms of a new generation.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Wojciech Kasprzak,Translating Nature Terminology,Hardback,978-1-4438-2850-5,39.99,"Translating Nature Terminology hopes to fill a vacuum in the market, combining practical advice for translators with aspects of linguistics and natural sciences. It is a response to the growing popularity of bilingual (Polish-English) publications on nature in Poland, which, however, abound in mistranslated nature terminology. Using cognitivism-based analysis, it traces the vagaries of categorisation of the natural world within one language as well as interlingually, with a view to helping translators find suitable equivalents of concepts and terms representing them. Translators can learn, for instance, when overspecification, underspecification or domestication are justified and when they become a translation error, what to do with the names of cultivars, or in what context one should render turzycowisko as “tall sedge swamp” and where as “sedge fen.”

The book also demonstrates that terminological correctness is not only a must for informative texts but it is often indispensable to ensure the coherence of literary works. It pays particular attention to the penetration of folk terms into specialist texts and vice versa. The reliability of dictionaries, both general and specialist, is called into question and keeping in touch with up-to-date professional sources is recommended instead. All the above claims are thoroughly researched and amply exemplified.
","“The author shows very vividly how the divergent approaches of different disciplines may result in terminological variance, which can in turn influence the world we live in (for example, affecting the decision to preserve—or not—certain habitats). The author stresses some striking terminological disparities between Polish and English and points out the limited usefulness of bilingual dictionaries. The book abounds in interesting conclusions concerning translations of LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) texts, the translator’s competence and translation quality assessment.”
—Krzysztof Hejwowski, Professor of Translation Studies, The Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland

“The book . . . addresses target readers and future translators who are in the position to help promote the author’s desired communication and integration between cultures. With the help of the analysis and translation suggestions and solutions presented, they may learn a great deal—not only how to translate works dealing with the natural world, but also how to approach translation per se. Its very uniqueness is also recommendation itself.”
—Aniela Korzeniowska, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies, The Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-05-01,Andrew Carnie,Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-2903-8,49.99,"This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics and morphology of the Celtic languages. Based on presentations given at the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics Conference in 2009, this book contains articles by leading Celtic linguists on Breton, Modern Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics ranging from the syntax and semantics of clefts to the articulatory phonology of fortis sonorants.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-05-01,Phyllis Kaburise,Speech Act Theory and Communication: A Univen Study,Hardback,978-1-4438-2885-7,34.99,"Speech Act Theory: A Univen Study was undertaken to investigate the pragmatic value of the utterances of selected students at the University of Venda, South Africa. Utterances of second-language users of a language reflect the wealth of their language experiences and hence caution has to be exercised when conducting an investigation into such utterances. It is within this background that this investigation was conducted into the meaning-creation strategies and abilities of the participants in this study. The very idiocyncratic utterances investigated demonstrated vividly the multi-dimensional thought process exploited by the creators of these samples. Also demonstrated by the analyses is the nature of communication and the amount of linguistic interaction necessary for interlocutors to create meaning.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-05-01,Attila Krizsán,"""The EU is Not Them, But Us!"": The First Person Plural and the Articulation of Collective Identities in European Political Discourse",Hardback,978-1-4438-2860-4,39.99,"This volume contributes to the latest trends in discourse studies by presenting a Hallidayan corpus-driven critical linguistic analysis. The results are tested statistically, which enhances their reliability as compared with most previous corpus-driven systemic functional analyses. The linguistic analysis is conducted on context-specific corpora built out of speeches delivered on the topic of European integration by key politicians of similar institutional functions in their respective countries, Finland, Hungary and the UK. 

The empirical findings offer insights into differences and similarities between articulations of collective identities in the political discourse on EU integration. The results indicate that the different (power) positions assigned in the enlargement negotiations were reflected in the language use of politicians. The findings also reveal shared European patterns of identification among speakers of different national backgrounds. What is more, these patterns reflect the limitations set on ‘being European’ by the so called ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU. 

This monograph can be of interest to researchers, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates working in the fields of discourse analysis, applied linguistics, political science, sociology and European studies. EU institutions and national government agencies running projects connected to European integration may find this volume useful as well.
","“Krizsán has written a book which is a more than welcome addition to the currently under-populated field of large scale corpus research projects grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Krizsán’s book illustrates the gains not only of using SFL theory to make sense of corpus data but also shows how rigorous quantitative findings can be enhanced by follow up qualitative investigation.”
—Dr Gerard O'Grady, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff School of English Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Wales

“[This] is a well structured and interesting book with clear innovative aspects in the field of political discourse in general and EU political discourse in particular. The results of the study—through both qualitative and quantitative analyses—contribute substantially to the understanding of how the EU as a political project is construed in practice.”
—Prof Kjersti Fløttum, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway

“In this volume Krizsán contrasts construals of self-inclusion in the discourse of representatives of three member states of the EU. The methodology developed provides a positive step in integrating micro and macroanalysis of textual features in the critical analysis of discourse.”
—Dr Tom Bartlett, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff School of English Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Wales
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Rainer Vesterinen,"A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European Portuguese: The Infinitive, the Clitic Pronoun Se and Finite Verb Forms",Hardback,978-1-4438-2928-1,34.99,"The study of adverbial clauses in Portuguese is related to the fact that the Portuguese speaker may chose between three different structures, i.e. the adverbial clause may contain the plain infinitive, the inflected infinitive or a finite verb form. In the field of Portuguese Linguistics, the analysis of these structures has traditionally been conducted from a Generative Grammar perspective postulating abstract rules and transformations in order to explain the variation between these structures.  As a result, focus has been put on purely structural aspects, while conceptual differences have been highly neglected.

The present book challenges this view of linguistic analysis. Instead of proposing a general semantic content for finite and infinitive adverbial clauses in Portuguese—traditionally based on notions like deep structure and surface structure—the hypothesis put forward is that these clauses evoke different meanings and that the use of one adverbial structure or another can be explained by the context in which it occurs and by the conceptual content it designates. From a Cognitive Grammar perspective of linguistic analysis, it is shown that Portuguese adverbial structures illustrate the iconic nature of language and that their conceptual meaning can be explained by notions such as prominence, mental spaces, control and subjectification.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Galini G. Sapountzaki,"Auxiliary Functions of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Agreement Markers in Greek Sign Language: Implications on Language Universal Principles",Hardback,978-1-4438-2910-6,44.99,,,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Huajing Zhao,Gender Construction and Negotiation in the Chinese EFL Classroom,Hardback,978-1-4438-2905-2,39.99,"This book is developed from an ethnographic case study which investigated Chinese adolescents’ construction of their gender identity and the way it is negotiated in the course of learning English as a foreign language (EFL) from a sociolinguistic, sociocultural and sociopsychological point of view. It documented the unseen connections between the micro-level of the students’ face-to-face verbal interactions and the macro-level of the role of learning EFL that can play in students’ construction and negotiation of their gender identity.

The book aims to help both teachers and students to develop a more comprehensive view of English learning as a means to social and educational development. On the whole, the study showed that second language learning pedagogy which integrates CLT can be used as an important tool to open up opportunities for the improvement of gender awareness in cultures where gender and sex are not linguistically differentiated. It demonstrated that the EFL class can be used as a means of opening up a space where adolescents can become aware of gender and play around with this awareness. It can be educationally valuable with regard to making students and teachers think about a number of social and intercultural issues alongside cross-linguistic issues. The fieldwork of the research showed that interventions directed at attracting students’ attention to gender roles and the way they behaved in interactions in English highlight an educational function of the place of EFL in the curriculum which is so far unrecognised in China.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira,On Meaning: Individuation and Identity—The Definition of a World View,Hardback,978-1-4438-2925-0,39.99,"Meaning, the complex phenomenon of individuation and the definition of identity are the core theme of this work. Grounded on a theoretical framework that gives particular emphasis to the semiotic process common to all forms of cognition, human cognition is conceived here as specific of organisms that, in the course of their interactions, produce symbolic forms, defining the specific physical, social and cultural environments in which they evolve.

Individuation, inherent to that semiotic process, is complex and double-sided. It involves, on one hand, the definition of semantic identities and their acknowledgment as world objects – naming; on the other hand, it comprehends the specific lexical and morphosyntactic strategies different languages have found to designate particular entities – referring.

The definition of world objects and its symbolic translation presents variations from language to language. In the second part of the book, we define what we have called a “structure-motivated ontology” to represent how this symbolic translation is accomplished in English and European Portuguese. Plus, we try to show how the nature of this symbolic translation affects structural realisation, namely the individuation of reference and the construal of “one-off referring” expressions.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Carmen Pérez-Llantada and Maida Watson,Specialised Languages in the Global Village: A Multi-Perspective Approach,Hardback,978-1-4438-2909-0,44.99,"The status of LSP (Languages for Specialised Purposes) in the contemporary socio-cultural context is an ongoing central issue of scholarly debate. Specialised Languages in the Global Village examines the impact of globalisation on intercultural communication within specialised communities of practice. The contributions to the volume provide linguistically and pedagogically-informed discussion on modes of communication practice in professional and institutional domains, frames of social action and the construction of professional identities. The contributors also address issues of languages and social entrepreneurship, and the acquisition and development of linguistic/cultural competence in foreign languages for specialised purposes. The edition is a valuable resource for researchers in LSP, specialists in the fields of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and scholars in the area of rhetoric and composition. It will also be of interest to professional translators, language editors and language advisors in the fields of specialised academic/professional communication. LSP instructors and foreign language teachers will also find informed guidelines and useful pedagogical proposals for classroom implementation.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-07-01,Sergio Maruenda-Bataller and Begoña Clavel-Arroitia ,"Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse: Current Issues in Specialised Language Research, Teaching and New Technologies",Hardback,978-1-4438-2971-7,64.99,"The demands of today’s society for greater specialization have brought about a profound transformation in the humanities, which are not immune to the competitive pressure to meet new challenges that are present in other sectors. Thus, lecturers and researchers in modern languages and applied linguistics departments have made great efforts to design syllabi and materials more attuned to the competences and requirements of potential working environments. At the same time, linguists have attempted to apply their expertise in wider areas, creating research institutes that focus on applying language and linguistics in different contexts and offering linguistic services to society as a whole.

This book attempts to provide a global view of the multiple voices involved in interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages while offering contributions that attempt to fill the demands of a varied scope of disciplines such as the sciences, professions, or educational settings. The chapters in this book are made up of current research on these themes: discourse analysis in academic and professional genres, specialized translation, lexicology and terminology, and ICT research and teaching of specialized languages.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-07-01,Irina Zyubina,Prosecutors’ Forensic Speech in Implicit Pragmalinguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-2961-8,34.99,"What does a new branch of linguistics, Implicit Pragmalinguistics, mean? And what methods of analysis does it use? What are the peculiarities of prosecutors’ forensic speech as a speech genre? What kinds of individual speech behavior and stereotyped speech behavior do English-speaking and Russian-speaking prosecutors have from the point of view of Implicit Pragmalinguistics? Within these pages, you will find not only the answers to these questions but also a lot of useful information concerning human beings.

This book consists of three parts devoted to the description of the methods and requirements for linguistic analysis in Implicit Pragmalinguistics, and to the peculiarities of English-speaking and Russian-speaking prosecutors’ individual and stereotyped speech behavior on the grounds of the pragmalinguistic experimental results. 65,280 items of analysis or small syntactical groups were studied to diagnose individual-personal qualities of the Russian-speaking and English-speaking prosecutors, their stereotyped speech behaviour according to their periods of working, their speech addressees and national-cultural belonging of the speech senders.

The book will appeal to philologists, courtroom professionals, psychologists, sociologists, teachers and students.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Federico Gobbo and Marco Benini,Constructive Adpositional Grammars: Foundations of Constructive Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-3007-2,39.99,"This book presents a new paradigm of natural language grammar analysis, based on adposition as the key concept, considered a general connection between two morphemes – or group of morphemes. The adpositional paradigm considers the morpheme as the basic unit to represent morphosyntax, taken as a whole, in terms of constructions, while semantics and pragmatics are treated accordingly.

All linguistic observations within the book can be described through the methods and tools of Constructive Mathematics, so that the modelling becomes formally feasible. A full description in category-theoretic terms of the formal model is provided in the Appendix. A lot of examples taken from natural languages belonging to different typological areas are offered throughout the volume, in order to explain and validate the modeling – with special attention given to ergativity. Finally, a first real-world application of the paradigm is given, i.e., conversational analysis of the transcript of therapeutic settings in terms of constructive speech acts.

The main goal of this book is to broaden the scope of Linguistics by including Constructive Mathematics in order to deal with known topics such as grammaticalization, children’s speech, language comparison, dependency and valency from a different perspective. It primarily concerns advanced students and researchers in the field of Theoretical and Mathematical Linguistics but the audience can also include scholars interested in applications of Topos Theory in Linguistics.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Christoph Haase and Natalia Orlova,ELT: Converging Approaches and Challenges,Hardback,978-1-4438-2980-9,39.99,"This volume represents an outgrowth of the 7th international ATECR conference, which brought together researchers and educators from fields as diverse as language teaching in a variety of contexts, corpus linguistics and literary studies. The contributions in this volume show— despite their diversity—a strong common denominator: an aim to bundle efforts and unify parameters in order to optimize English Language Teaching as a world-wide endeavor. Thus, for our teaching it can only be beneficial when linguists talk to literary-minded teachers or methodology specialists investigate whether their theoretical underpinnings make their way into practice by talking to language instructors or language service providers. In general, the authors present a multifaceted picture of the English Language Teaching context with themselves as practitioners but also as investigators and researchers at the same time. The research that reflects back on their teaching thus creates a force-feedback loop not only for the investigating scholar but also for the practicing instructor who reapplies his/her knowledge after failed or suboptimal attempts as evidenced by the data.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,"Renato Oniga, Rossella Iovino and Giuliana Giusti",Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives in Comparative Grammar,Hardback,978-1-4438-2988-5,49.99,"This volume offers a coherent collection of 26 papers presented at an international conference held in November 2010, exploring the latest achievements of formal and comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. The three sections (syntax and morphology, semantics and pragmatics, history and theory of teaching) compare Latin with different ancient and modern languages, aiming to represent grammar rules as the product of mental processes. The book is addressed to linguists, teachers and students, who are looking for new perspectives to update their approach to classical Latin.



","“Formal linguistics is more explicit and more precise than other types of grammar. Since it has access to more sophisticated tools of grammatical analysis, it tends to achieve more explanatory results, which in turn leads to a deeper level of understanding on the part of the student. The 26 papers in this volume are arranged into three sections covering morphology and syntax (with emphasis on word order), semantics and pragmatics, and the history and theory of teaching.  Various ways of bridging the gap between formal linguistics and more traditional approaches are discussed, and the potential applications of formal linguistics in the classroom are explored.

The goals of this volume are as practically important as they are theoretically desirable.  Latin teachers everywhere will greatly benefit from this presentation of recent theoretical ideas.”
— Andrew M. Devine, Professor of Classics, Stanford University, USA, Laurence D. Stephens, Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

 
“This book presents a valuable contribution to the Linguistics of Latin not only in relation to Romance languages stemming from it, but also in relation to Classical Greek and other languages of Europe. Some articles connect their theoretical observations with a methodology for the formal teaching of Latin. The reflection on the grammatical structures of a language used to be one of the main, if not the most important tool to foreign language learning. Nowadays, however, this approach is generally abandoned in the teaching of modern languages. But it is still the center of classical language teaching, which however calls for an update on new theoretical approaches and the advances reached by recent studies. 

The greatest merit of this volume lies in its attempt to match theoretical reflections on the linguistic structures of Latin with methodological issues of teaching.”
— Lorenzo Renzi, Professor of Romance Philology, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, Vice-President of the Société de Linguistique Romane.



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,"Piotr Bański, Beata Łukaszewicz, Monika Opalińska and Joanna Zaleska","Generative Investigations: Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology",Hardback,978-1-4438-2989-2,44.99,"This volume is a collection of studies in generative (morpho)syntax and phonology, which grew out of the 6th Generative Phonology in Poland (GLiP) meeting that took place at the University of Warsaw in the spring of 2008. The sixteen papers, written by the leading scholars in linguistics as well as young researchers, give a representative flavour of investigations across (morpho)syntax and phonology from the current generative perspective.

Drawing on recent advances in formal linguistics, the majority of studies in this volume test the applicability of available theoretical frameworks to selected bodies of data. Some papers discuss the adequacy of competing theoretical solutions in the light of new experimental results. The empirical data is drawn from a variety of languages including standard and dialectal Polish, Russian, Croatian, Czech, English, Frisian and Swahili. The purpose is not only to illustrate long-standing problems but also to highlight less known facts. The collection will thus be relevant to those concerned with theoretical accounts, experimental findings, Slavic and general linguistics.
","“I am pleased to recommend Generative Investigations: Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology, a collection of 16 studies in generative (morpho)syntax and phonology. The collection presents valuable up-to-date research in generative linguistics, covering a wide range of interesting topics and discussing a wealth of relevant data from various languages. It is worth mentioning that several authors address theoretical issues from the perspective of insightful experimental results. The book is an important contribution, relevant to anyone interested in recent developments in generative theory and its applicability to linguistic data.”
– Jerzy Rubach, Professor and Chair, Institute of English Studies, Department of Linguistics, University of Warsaw

“The Generative Linguistics in Poland conference series represents some of the finest linguistic scholarship being produced in Poland and about the Polish language over the past dozen years. This series strives both to highlight the work of young Polish scholars and to bring leading experts to Poland to present their latest research. The current volume – which brings together sixteen papers from the most recent GLiP – is no exception. The papers collected here, covering an impressive range of topics and insightfully written, offer fascinating data and sophisticated treatments of some of the most longstanding puzzles for linguistic analysis. Linguists of diverse stripe are sure to find something of interest in this compelling volume.”
– Prof. Steven Franks, Chair, Director of Graduate Studies (Linguistics), & Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor, Linguistics Adjunct Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Slavic Linguistics
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Dr. Richa,Hindi Verb Classes and their Argument Structure Alternations,Hardback,978-1-4438-3148-2,34.99,"This book is an endeavour to probe into the areas of Hindi syntax which have been rather under-explored in generative literature. It investigates the syntax and semantics of Hindi verbs and their argument structure alternations within the minimalist framework. In the course of this exploration it examines unaccusativity, unergativity, transitive, causative alternations and passives in Hindi. The book will be of interest to theoretical linguists and computational linguists, as well as to Hindi syntax specialists.


","“An important contribution to the study of South Asian languages within the generative tradition. Dr Richa brings together a wealth of facts about verb classes in Hindi and probes their implications for syntactic theory. The empirical range as well as the theoretical reach of this work is impressive. I expect it to become a must-read for anyone wishing to work on any topic related to Hindi verbs.”
—Prof. Veneeta Dayal, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

“This book is crucially based on the classification of Hindi verbs into distinct groups, subject to syntactic tests. It studies the behaviour of these different classes and their argument structure alternation. The work as a whole is based both on general theoretical work and on the analyses of Hindi from [the] earliest days of generative grammar. The discussion is remarkably clear and admirably well organized, forming a lucid and useful contribution to the understanding of Hindi syntax and semantics.”
—Prof. Alice Davison, University of Iowa, USA

“This book is a major contribution to our understanding of Hindi-Urdu syntax. It provides the beginning of a lexical semantic classification of Hindi-Urdu verbs along the lines of Levin and Rapaport-Hovav. As far as I know, this is the first attempt of this sort and is likely to spur further work in this important area. . . . One major contribution made here is the foregrounding of the role animacy plays in the unaccusative/unergative distinction in Hindi-Urdu. Another is the analysis of passivization, which makes a good case that contrary to what has been assumed elsewhere, there is never any promotion to subject position in Hindi-Urdu passives.”
—Dr Rajesh Bhatt, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Massachusetts, USA

“This book is a very important contribution to our understanding of the syntax and semantics of Hindi verb classes and argument structure alternations, and breaks new ground in a number of respects, both theoretically as well as empirically.”
—Dr Ayesha Kidwai, Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Galina G. Matveeva and Irina A. Zyubina,IVth International Conference on Pragmalinguistics and Speech Practices,Hardback,978-1-4438-3009-6,39.99,"This book is a collection of articles in English, German and French which were presented at the IVth International Conference on Pragmalinguistics and Speech Practices in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The most interesting and important ideas and researches are represented in this work. The book consists of two parts: Pragmalinguistics and Speech Practices. It will be of interest to philologists, teachers and students.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,"Rita Cancino, Lotte Dam and Kirsten Jæger","Policies, Principles, Practices: New Directions in Foreign Language Education in the Era of Educational Globalization",Hardback,978-1-4438-2998-4,39.99,"This book addresses the various challenges facing university foreign language teaching in non-anglophone countries in the era of educational globalization. Growing student mobility, net-based cross-border university education, and universities opening subsidiaries in other countries force university teachers to offer their teaching in English rather than in their mother tongue, and universities to equip their staff members with the necessary foreign language competencies. As a reflection of societal and institutional globalization processes, dedicated language teachers strive to adjust teaching methods to new student identities, the availability of advanced learning technologies, and social media enabling multiple forms of cross-border contact. Thus, understanding the situation of contemporary university language teaching requires a consideration of macro-level social changes, institutional policies, as well as developments in classroom practice.

The point of departure is the case of Denmark. The problems addressed and the remedies offered, however, apply to all non-anglophone universities with the ambition to stay competitive in the global market of university education.

The book includes contributions from foreign and second language teaching specialists representing a broad spectrum of Danish universities and years of sustained scholarly effort to improve the standard of university language teaching and the political recognition of the importance of advanced foreign language skills.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Maria Garraffa,The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures: Impoverishment of Grammatical Features in a Non-fluent Aphasic Speaker,Hardback,978-1-4438-2982-3,34.99,"An important development in linguistic models is the shift from construction-oriented rules to elementary computations that generate complex grammatical expressions.

In this monograph, the author presents a systematic linguistic examination of an Italian aphasic speaker focusing on locality conditions as configurational restrictions on syntactic computations and on functional elements as fundamental triggers for computational processes.

The explanatory framework which has been adopted considers the grammar to be an integral part of language processing; it is a derivational model compatible with well-known parsing strategies such as the minimal link condition and the minimal chain principle. This approach to aphasia supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities that manifests itself in reduced syntactic structures.

The book is recommended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics, as well as medical researchers and speech therapists interested in the same fields. It can be adopted as principal text for the specific domain (syntax and aphasia).
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,Nugrahenny T.  Zacharias and Christine Manara,Bringing Literature and Linguistics into EFL Classrooms: Insights from Research and Classroom Practice,Hardback,978-1-4438-3185-7,34.99,"The articles presented in this book bring together educators’ work and experiences from around the world (Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, and Australia) in the context of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This publication, therefore, offers a richness and diversity of contexts and experiences to its readers. What sets this book apart is its balance between and explicit coverage of both research and the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching. This project has been prompted by the increasing split between the fields of linguistics, literatures and English language teaching, and will uniquely address this gap. Additionally, the volume gives practical applications on how to use theories of linguistics and literary texts in the classroom.

This book provides undergraduate and graduate students, teacher-learners, practicing teachers, and teacher educators some theoretical and contextual knowledge of English language teaching practices and settings. Articles in this book can be used as supplementary texts for courses in the areas of English Language Teaching, pre-service and in-service teacher education, applied linguistics, literature, and language and culture studies.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,David Hornsby,Interfaces in Language 2,Hardback,978-1-4438-3165-9,39.99,"This volume presents a collection of papers from the second Interfaces in Language conference, hosted from 5–7 May 2009 at the University of Kent at Canterbury by the University’s Centre for Language and Lingustic Studies (CLLS). Borne of a dissatisfaction with the rigid division of linguistics into sub-disciplines, Interfaces 2 offered specialists a platform to explore links between different approaches, and attracted participation from ten countries on four continents, addressing a wide range of themes. Contributions are arranged under three thematic headings: Categories and Orthodoxies; Contact, Conflict and Repertoire; and Language and Cognition. All, in their different ways, offer a challenge to received thinking or the rigidity of established categories.

The papers explore a range of linguistic interfaces, probing the frontiers at the structural level between semantics and pragmatics, or challenging the notion of a clear division between semantics and syntax. A number of papers examine, in different ways, the interface between speech and writing, while other contributors apply the techniques of linguistic analysis to the study of translation, or to the stylistics of literature or journalism. The rejection of rigid modes of thinking has produced, in Interfaces in Language 2, an eclectic collection of thought-provoking papers of rare originality and quality.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,Annamaria Arnall and Uldis Ozolins,Proceedings of the “Synergise!” Biennial National Conference of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators: AUSIT 2010,Hardback,978-1-4438-3202-1,39.99,"The Australian national association for the translating and interpreting profession, AUSIT, has been organising biennial conferences for the last decade. As they steadily grew in quality and importance, the time to share their proceedings with a global readership has arrived. For the first time, AUSIT is releasing in book format the proceedings of its latest conference, held in November 2010 with the slogan “Synergise!”

Presentations from an international gathering of speakers are collected in this volume, grouped into five chapters and addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural communication, the training of future practitioners, and a wide range of specific circumstances influencing the day-to-day work of translators and interpreters – including the business side of managing a professional practice.
 
The hallmark of the conference was the balance it achieved between academic interest and professional reality, between research and detailed practice, between theory and the exigencies of translators’ and interpreters’ lives. The synergies achieved were much more than the simple sum of the components.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,"Ana Mª Roldán Riejos, Joaquín Santiago López and Paloma Úbeda Mansilla",The Language of Architecture and Civil Engineering,Hardback,978-1-4438-3167-3,34.99,"This book not only provides unique and in-depth information to understand the language of architecture and civil engineering, it is also helpful for students and professionals who need to improve their linguistic skills. The Language of Architecture and Civil Engineering includes plenty of examples and practical exercises that engage the reader’s participation. It also contains an updated bibliography that offers a wide perspective on this subject matter. It is written in a rigorous and at the same time accessible style, so readers will surely profit from its content.

The compilation and updating of all technical terms needed by students, architects and engineers is enormously welcome. This book fills a gap long-existing in the market which makes its authors worthy of our recognition. This book gives us wings to fly again on the paths of new technologies and should not be missing from any university library.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-10-01,Georgeta Raţă,Academic Days of Timişoara: Language Education Today,Hardback,978-1-4438-3284-7,64.99,"Academic Days of Timişoara: Language Education Today is a book of the proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium “Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice” held in Timişoara, Romania, on May 6–7, 2011, under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. It will appeal to teachers of modern languages no matter the level of instruction. The papers it contains deal with two main approaches of the teaching of languages in Europe, Asia, North America and South America: linguistics (theoretical linguistics: English, French, German, Serbian, and Swiss French; descriptive linguistics: Albanian, English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Serbian; applied linguistics: Albanian, Aromanian, Bahasa Malaysia, Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish) and languages for specific purposes (Croatian, English, French, German, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Serbian, and Spanish).
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-10-01,"Alasdair Archibald, Alessia Cogo and Jennifer Jenkins",Latest Trends in ELF Research,Paperback,978-1-4438-3299-1,24.99,"English as a Lingua Franca, or ELF for short, is currently one of the most dynamic topics in the fields of applied and socio-linguistics and English Language Teaching. It has been a thriving field of research for the last twenty years with a growing number of books and journals dedicated to the subject. The field has also seen the foundation of an annual international ELF conference series, which started in 2008 and attracts growing numbers year on year. This book has developed out of contributions to the Second International ELF conference held in Southampton (UK) in 2009. The papers in this volume provide new insights into ELF, by presenting and exploring the implications of some of the latest findings of empirical research in key ELF research areas including business and academic ELF, intercultural communication, language attitudes and ideologies, code-switching, and accommodation. These papers will have a broad appeal among applied- and socio-linguists, both academics and under/post-graduate students, as well as ELT practitioners around the world. They will also be of interest to language planners because of the potential of the research to inform English language policies and practices.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-11-01,Heriberto Avelino,New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-2424-8,44.99,"New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics is a collection of papers synthesizing the research on Mayan languages at the beginning of the 21st century. One of the most prominent features of the articles included in this book is the balance between the use of the most recent linguistic theories and the empirical data from which analyses are drawn. A definitive characteristic of the book is that all of the papers provide rich and new descriptive material gathered in the field by their respective authors. The findings reported in this book have implications for a deeper understanding not only of particular aspects of the individual grammars of the Mayan family, but might have consequences for linguistic theory as well as for typological and universal generalizations. The volume brings together linguists of diverse areas of specialization phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, epigraphy, lexicography and anthropological linguistics to discuss recent analyses and data from a variety of Mayan languages.

For its broad scope summarizing the recent methodologies, theoretical models and findings of research in Mayan languages, the volume is of particular interest to the academic community at large, including researchers, teachers and students alike.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-11-01,Junichi Toyota,The Grammatical Voice in Japanese: A Typological Perspective,Hardback,978-1-4438-3350-9,39.99,"This monograph investigates how Japanese employs different structures found in the grammatical voice, both synchronically and diachronically. The Japanese voice system, especially the passive voice, has provided much interesting data for typological comparison, and Japanese examples are often cited in various linguistic works. However, the basic structure consisting of a suffix -(r)are is taken for granted as the passive voice, but it has not been thoroughly compared with various structures with similar functions in other languages. It is argued here that various typological comparisons can reveal different interpretations of structures often analysed under a term ‘grammatical voice’ in Japanese.

The main argument proposed in this book is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice structure. As the language evolved, the middle voice lost its core function and became more like the passive voice, leaving some residues of earlier middle voice structure even in Modern Japanese. This developmental path is typologically very common, but it has not been recognised in the history of Japanese. This will make the voice continuum in Japanese more complex, i.e. from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair. Thus, the presence of the middle voice in Japanese can provide various solutions to questions that are previously considered in relation to the passive voice.

The book starts off with a description of different structures normally discussed under the passive voice in Japanese, and five structures are presented here. Following this, both syntactic and semantic features of the Japanese voice system are discussed separately. These discussions will raise some oddities that are not dealt with satisfactorily in previous analysis, and these points are analysed in historical comparison. Apart from the basic description of five structures, certain grammatical features are studied by comparing Japanese data with similar structures and functions in other languages. In addition, there is a small amount of data used for indicating frequency of structures in the basic description.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-12-01,Azamat Akbarov,Languages for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice,Hardback,978-1-4438-3381-3,44.99,"Languages for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice is a collection of essays which will appeal to teachers of modern languages no matter the level of instruction. The essays highlight the latest developments of Foreign Language Teaching in the Balkan countries, Eastern and Western Europe and the Middle East. The field of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) is one of the richest areas of second language research and practice because increasing globalization and changing technologies spawn new modes of intercultural connection and new occasions for second language use. Languages for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice compasses this burgeoning field by presenting new research and commentary from some of the field’s leading practitioners.

This book surveys the approaches and methods in foreign language teaching, such as grammar translation, language evaluation, communication competence, critical thinking skills, communicative language teaching, and the natural approach. Teachers and teachers-in-training will discover in this book a comprehensive survey and analysis of the major and minor teaching methods used around the world. It is addressed to a wide audience that includes Language for Specific Purposes teachers and researchers, although the contents will also be relevant to applied linguists working in other fields. This book contains research studies as well as educational experiences and proposals, presented from different perspectives and backgrounds (both geographical and cultural), all of which are theoretically grounded and with a clear and sound rationale. Readers will find a variety of educational projects and research studies situated in specific educational contexts and in particular geographical locations.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-01-01,Sławomir Zdziebko,Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity,Hardback,978-1-4438-3463-6,39.99,"This book primarily provides a detailed description and interpretation of one of the most fascinating and poorly understood processes in English accentology, i.e. Aitken’s Law, also known as the Scottish Vowel Length Rule by which vowel quantity in Scottish English is fully predictable, as opposed to the other regional accents of English speakers. The research also contributes to the understanding of the working of long-short vowel distinctions in the languages of the world and argues that all phenomena observed in connection with the presence and absence vowel quantity contrasts are a direct consequence of the working of a relatively small set of universal and inviolable principles of grammar.

","“It is my immense pleasure to recommend the book ‘Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity’ by Mr Slawomir Zdziebko to your publishing house.
   Mr Zdziebko’s book is a priceless and detailed documentation of the long standing debate about one of the most intriguing problems of English dialectology, i.e Aitken’s Law. It also constitutes a brave, innovative, and successful attempt at understanding the abovementioned phenomenon based on a meticulous investigation of empirical data and historical records.
Apart from that, ‘Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity’ is a substantial contribution to the understanding of the working of vowel quantity in the languages of the world.
   I strongly recommend the book for publishing.”
          

Sincerely Cyran

Head of the Institute of English Studies
Faculty of Humanities
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. 

",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-01-01,Yukiko Sugiyama,The Production and Perception of Japanese Pitch Accent,Hardback,978-1-4438-3466-7,34.99,"The word prosody of Tokyo Japanese is often labeled as pitch accent, and is characterized by a steep fall in F0 from the accented mora into the following unaccented mora. The description of Japanese pitch accent in earlier research was primarily based on the observation of a small set of minimal pairs that differed only by pitch accent, and its bearing on the perception of pitch accent was not clear. This book attempts to overcome these limitations by conducting production and perception experiments using a larger set of minimal pairs. It first examines whether earlier descriptions of Japanese pitch accent hold generally true in Japanese by thoroughly searching minimal pairs in an electronic database. It then conducts a perception study to examine whether acoustic differences found between the minimal pairs are used by listeners in word identification. The results show that some acoustic properties related to pitch accent were not used in auditory identification, underscoring the need to look at both production and perception in studying speech.

This volume also includes a short review on the literature of Japanese pitch accent.

The book is ideal for those interested in the issues related to phonetics and the perception of accent and word prosody.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-02-01,Roberta Facchinetti,A Cultural Journey through the English Lexicon,Hardback,978-1-4438-3509-1,39.99,"This book is a metaphorical journey through the English lexicon, viewed as a vehicle and a mirror of cultural identity.

From the translatability of phrases and metaphors to genre-specific terms, from English as a Lingua Franca to English language teaching, the studies collected here testify to the fact that in English – and overall in language – word contextualization or lack of contextualization impinges on linguistic utterances and leads to differing interpretations of the textual message.

The book may be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students who are concerned with the study of the English lexicon, bearing in mind that this lexicon provides the bricks of any language, and language, in turn, needs the cornerstone of Culture to stand firmly and thrive.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-02-01,Montserrat Sanz and José Manuel Igoa,Applying Language Science to Language Pedagogy: Contributions of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics to Second Language Teaching,Hardback,978-1-4438-3572-5,44.99,"This book establishes a bridge between current research in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics and language pedagogy in the classroom. It reformulates the debates about teaching approaches by calling the reader’s attention to discoveries about the structure of grammar, the universals of language, mind processes while comprehending, producing and storing language, and facts about learning.

The popularization of L2 teaching brought with it a need to find efficient teaching methods. Debates have hinged mainly around the alleged advantages of communicative vs. traditional methods. However, most approaches have their roots in linguistic and psychological theories that have been questioned by language researchers. Some language teachers are probably unaware of these advances and to that extent, continue to adhere to teaching approaches mainly based on intuitions. Consequently, evaluating materials may be often performed in rather uninformed circumstances.

The book contains chapters on relevant issues by leading researchers, classified into three main areas. The editors contribute a chapter to each of these sections about the implications for second language teaching.

This book facilitates an approximation between researchers in the theoretical and experimental fields of language and those responsible for innovation in language teaching. It is designed so that L2 teachers can adopt and adjust the knowledge drawn from the book to their particular environment and group of students.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-02-01,Tatjana Paunović and Biljana Čubrović,Exploring English Phonetics,Hardback,978-1-4438-3515-2,39.99,"Exploring English Phonetics is conceived as a meeting point of the diverse perspectives, approaches and interests of scholars working in the field of English Phonetics worldwide. The focus of the volume is on the topics in the domain of language varieties, mutual language influences, and also on issues pertaining to the research, study, and teaching of English to speakers from other language backgrounds. Authors raise a number of novel, motivating and noteworthy questions, relevant from the point of view of either phonetic research or phonetic training and EFL teaching. These questions cover a wide range of phonetic topics: the nature of vowels and consonants in several dominating varieties of English, the phenomena of connected speech and the nature of intonation, issues in the methodology of phonetic research, problems encountered by speakers of other languages striving to acquire English pronunciation, and attitudes to different native and non-native varieties of English. Despite such a broad variety of topics, the volume offers a unifying approach to the study of speech and puts forward intriguing results gained by original research. Whatever their focus and sample size, most chapters deal with the English spoken and learned by speakers of other languages, thus highlighting both the current status of English as the language of global communication, and the international orientation of this volume.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-02-01,Christina Gitsaki and Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,Future Directions in Applied Linguistics: Local and Global Perspectives,Hardback,978-1-4438-3573-2,54.99,"The field of applied linguistics covers a diverse range of research and practice, and has developed somewhat differently in various parts of the world due to variations in local socio-cultural conditions, needs and issues. However, this local diversity does not reflect a field that is incoherent, but rather one which has a broad, shared international agenda which is invigorated by the diversity brought to the field by local perspectives. The papers in this volume represent some of the major global directions that research in applied linguistics is taking and shed light on how language is used to affect practice.

The aim of this volume is to explore some of the key methods and issues which are guiding applied linguistics into the future through an examination of these issues in local contexts, thereby providing a basis for understanding the global directions the field is taking. These directions follow two historically defined paths: those related to educational studies and language teaching, and those related to social issues involving language. In the volume, half the papers focus on the former, examining issues of language teaching, language teacher education and second language acquisition, while the other half examine social issues related to language use, bilingualism and multilingualism, and language policy and planning. The collection of papers presented in this book illustrates how these traditional themes are influenced by the rising forces of globalisation and the use of technology, thus exemplifying both the new and old ways in which the study of language is realised.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-02-01,"Roberta Facchinetti, Nicholas Brownlees, Birte Bös and Udo Fries","News as Changing Texts: Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis",Hardback,978-1-4438-3566-4,39.99,"This book focuses on the dialectic interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’, whereby news is intended as a textual type in its evolutionary – and revolutionary – development, while change is discussed with reference to the form, content and structure of such typological variety explored across the centuries, largely in the British environment.

The time spans in the chapters have been distributed according to (a) historical key moments in the process of news-writing changes, and (b) extant computerized corpora covering such periods, thereby permitting specific linguistic analyses. Indeed, each chapter makes use of a set of corpora specifically devised to suit the needs of scholars studying the periods under scrutiny.

The topics discussed and the corpora exploited to analyze them call into question basic methodological issues that are tackled from different perspectives in the book, while the epicentre of all research remains the news itself, in a continuous process of adjustment and renewal.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-03-01,Julie Louise Steele,A Hubterranean View of Syntax: An Analysis of Linguistic Form through Network Theory,Hardback,978-1-4438-3577-0,44.99,"""This book is an inquiry into the foundations of linguistic theory by a young writer, Julie Louise Steele, whose untimely passing means that prospects for her contribution being recognized in the market place of ideas rests on this single and singular publication of her PhD dissertation, submitted to the University of Queensland in 2009.""  Dr J Ingram

 In A Hubterranean View Of Syntax JL Steele explores the notion that ""patterns in nature may be realised in the linguistic form of our own conversations; that our words dance to the same tune that is played out in our world.”  To show this ""the branch configuration of a tree and its leaf structure echoed in the distributary arrangement in a river delta and the blood vessels of a kidney. Recall the spiral of a shell, its shape reflected in the wind currents of a tornado, the florets of a sunflower head and the curl of a ram's horn.""

Splendidly written in the beautiful country of Australia where the Aborigines have a innate relationship with their language and the land.""

""Language is nature and nature is language""


Michael Steele

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-03-01,Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza,A Phonetic and Phonological Account of the Civili Vowel Duration,Hardback,978-1-4438-3609-8,44.99,"This is an experimental phonetic investigation into the vowel duration system of Civili, an indigenous language spoken in Gabon and some of its neighboring countries. Apart from providing insight into how mother-tongue speakers articulate and perceive certain vowels, it contributes significantly to the establishment of a credible orthography for this language. Speech data acquired through extensive fieldwork were analyzed acoustically to determine sound qualities, after which perception tests were administered to determine how listeners perceive vowel sounds in different environments. The findings are of significance for linguistic descriptions per se, as well as for eventual use in the field of human language technologies. This seven-chapter book is mainly intended for an expert readership and for students of phonetics and phonology.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-03-01,Concepción Orna-Montesinos,Constructing Professional Discourse: A Multiperspective Approach to Domain-Specific Discourses,Hardback,978-1-4438-3629-6,39.99,"This book explores the fascinating role that language plays in the construction of non-verbal objects by mapping out the ontological meaning of the specialised concepts and the domain-specific knowledge embedded in them. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive linguistic insight into the discourse of professional domain-specific communities and hence, into the communication practices and procedures of those communities. In this respect, the book offers a response to the claims made by many of the most influential applied linguists today, such as Vijay Bhatia (1993, 2004), John Swales (1990, 2004) or Ken Hyland (2002), among others, who have consistently defended the need for applied linguistic research into the textual, generic and social perspectives on the under-researched interrelatedness of the discoursal and professional practices of a discipline.

Specifically, this book provides readers with an integrative multi-perspective approach to the study of professional, domain-specific discourses. While it mainly draws on the tenets of genre theory and discourse semantics, it also nurtures from the theoretical and empirical foundations of applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics and ontological engineering. The book starts from the analysis of domain specific texts as final written products with specific lexico-grammatical, semantic and rhetorical features to later enquire into the written products as textual artefacts closely linked to the social context of production and interpretation of the text. This integrative approach provides fresh new insights into the way the processes of writing are affected by the community-specific, institutional and socio-historical circumstances in which domain-specific texts are produced.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-03-01,Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and Renata Povolná,Discourse Interpretation: Approaches and Applications,Hardback,978-1-4438-3632-6,39.99,"Discourse Interpretation: Approaches and Applications provides new insights into the complex area of discourse interpretation in a wide range of discourse types and genres. The authors adopt a variety of approaches to the representation and interpretation of meaning in discourse to share the understanding that discourse interpretation is a dynamic construct constantly open to reinterpretation in the light of the intentions and purposes of in particular social, historical and situational contexts.

The chapters of the book comprise essays by linguists working in the fields of (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, stylistics and sociolinguistics which address methodological issues in discourse interpretation (Part I) and explore various aspects of representation and interpretation of meaning in different genres of spoken and written discourse, namely conversational, academic, media, political and fictional discourse (Part II).

This volume, which combines theoretical insights with empirical investigations, contributes to a better understanding of the interpretative process and will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, scholars and students of English.
","“Dontcheva-Navratilova and Povolna’s collection is an informative and well-structured contribution to the complex area of studies in discourse representation and interpretation. Combining theoretical (Part I) and empirical (Part II) insights from authors working at the intersection of critical linguistics, socio-pragmatics and stylistics, it offers tools to scrutinize many of the central questions in this heterogeneous and challenging field.”
—Piotr Cap, University of Łódź

“This volume focuses on discourse interpretation in very different discourses. Apart from the two introductory more theoretical chapters, this volume provides a wealth of empirical examples and analyses. The genres discussed range from political texts (like political advertising or opening addresses of conferences) to academic genres (like research articles and social-science textbooks), journalistic writing (like crime reports and life-style magazines), and interpersonal texts (like complements and short stories). This remarkable spread proves that new discourse pragmatic concepts can be fruitfully applied to many domains. It makes this volume interesting to many readers in all subdisciplines of English, either to catch up with latest empirical research or to gain inspiration for further work in the modern analysis of discourse. This collection is therefore highly welcome.”
—Josef Schmied, Chemnitz University of Technology
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-03-01,"Adam Głaz, Hubert Kowalewski and Anna Weremczuk",What’s in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia,Hardback,978-1-4438-3636-4,39.99,"Numerous linguists of various orientations, translators and literary scholars share an interest in text. As students of language with very diverse interests and aims, they ask themselves, if only subconsciously, the following questions:

What kind(s) of texts do we study?
Why do we study them?
What are we looking for?
What do and don’t we find?
What do we do with whatever we do find?
What does it tell us about language, its speakers or the human mind?
Generally, what is (a) text for me as a linguist and/or translator?

In the present volume, the questions are brought onto the level of the conscious and addressed by several practitioners in the fields of linguistics and translation – contributions with a literary slant also have a linguistic orientation. Although ultimate answers to these questions may not exist, the ambition of the book is to help the reader appreciate the richness of text and the variety of texts as a treasure-trove for scholars representing multifarious approaches to language.
","“Unusually for a scholarly work, What’s In a Text? asks the right question and then goes on to provide answers along several rational dimensions. This is an impressively wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary book from an internationally significant set of contributors. The scope of textuality explored is breath-taking: from Chaucer to Dan Brown, from Beckett to Twilight, from politicians to conversations, dictionaries, ideograms, biblical prophecy and more; there is something here for everyone interested in texts, textuality, reading and rational analysis. The quality of chapters is exceptionally high, and the collision of disciplines mean that the reading is always stimulating and surprising. Even on the margins of your own field, you will find jewels of insight in every chapter.”
– Prof. Peter Stockwell, Chair in Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,"Kristina Vučković, Božo Bekavac and Max Silberztein",Automatic Processing of Various Levels of Linguistic Phenomena: Selected Papers from the NooJ 2011 International Conference,Hardback,978-1-4438-3711-8,39.99,"Every year since 2002, the linguistic development environment NooJ has been enhanced with new online features that allow social scientists to develop new applications and explore new domains. The 2011 conference was no exception and the arrival of v3.0 has brought many more features and a new range of applications, from the analysis of ancient Arabic and old English texts to the analysis of conversations held by the Mars500 mission’s astronauts. At the 2011 conference, members of the European Meta-Net CESAR project announced that NooJ will soon be available Open Source and will become the de-facto standard tool for Corpus processing in European research in Social Science.

Today, NooJ is used as a research tool in over 30 academic and research centers in the world and there are NooJ modules available for over 20 languages. The international NooJ conference is organized every year; 50 participants present their work in the domains of Linguistic formalization, Corpus processing and Natural Language Processing applications.

The present volume contains a selection of papers from the NooJ 2011 International Conference which was held from 13–15 June 2011 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This volume presents problems dealing with machine translation, information extraction, processing of multi-word units, automatic disambiguation, semantic analysis, and psychological and literature analysis of various corpora.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,Vladimir Polyakov and Valery Solovyev,Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-3653-1,34.99,"Created as intercultural and interdisciplinary, conferences of the series “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” have been successfully held since 1998. Over the years, CML has visited a number of countries, attracting more and more scientists from all over the world and thus broadening the scope of its topics.

The conference has worked out its scientific character and now it has a constant core of participants; and the term “cognitive modeling” has become a popular topic of high profile conferences in linguistics and artificial intelligence, which affirms the CML’s direction of movement.

The present volume gathers the most outstanding and interesting articles from participants of the XIIIth International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”, whose studies will no doubt be of interest to both scientists who have tied their lives with linguistics, as well as to those people who treat it as a hobby.

For information about CML conferences, please visit www.cml.msisa.ru
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,Vanja Kljajevic,Comprehension of Wh-Dependencies in Broca’s Aphasia,Hardback,978-1-4438-3666-1,34.99,"This book investigates whether Croatian aphasics, in particular those diagnosed with Broca’s aphasia, have difficulty comprehending wh-dependencies. The tested structures include subject and object direct, embedded, long-distance and passivized who and which questions as well as relative clauses introduced by which.

It is shown that differences in the deficit patterns between English- and Croatian-speaking Broca’s aphasics are due to structural as well as processing differences. The Croatian data are explained in terms of a case-cueing comprehension strategy and the competition model.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,Bahaa-eddin M. Mazid,HateSpeak in Contemporary Arabic Discourse,Hardback,978-1-4438-3650-0,34.99,"HateSpeak in Contemporary Arabic Discourse fills in an obvious gap in discourse studies on Arabic. After a detailed semantic and metaphorical account of hate in English and its equivalents in Arabic and an exploration of the causes of hate, the book illustrates major cases of hate and HateSpeak in contemporary Arabic discourse – Arabs vs. Israel, Sunnis vs. Shi’ites, Ahly vs. Zamalek, Egypt vs. Algeria, Men vs. Women, Rebel vs. Mainstream, and Sa’idi vs. Cairene. There is a separate section on HateSpeak in Arabic in the context of the revolutions in many Arab countries – the Arab Spring – with a focus on Egypt. The book contains a number of apt and interesting digressions on hate in general and hate in Arabic in particular, and a discussion of the issues involved in translating HateSpeak in Arabic. The ultimate goal is not to celebrate hate and HateSpeak, not to side with any party at the expense of another, but to provide a diagnosis followed by a number of remedies that may help convert HateSpeak into HeartSpeak.
","“Dr Mazid is one of the few linguists anywhere with such an amazing range of talent in both Arabic and English linguistics, including stylistics and language variation. He has my highest praise and recommendation as a scholar, colleague . . . and author.”
– The late Professor Alan S. Kaye, communication with LINCOM Europa, 2007

“In addition to its treatment of HateSpeak in Arabic, this book is a very timely exploration of the many technical problems and possible solutions facing translators in an era of globalization, where communication across languages becomes ever more important [in] maintaining clarity of meaning without engendering conflict and hate.”
– Stephen A. Bird, Chair, Department of General Linguistics, UAE University

“Mazid’s HateSpeak is refreshing, humorous and educational [and makes] the reader aware of many facets of a specific contemporary Arabic discourse. Although hate speech is far more pervasive in the Arab world than recognized, this is the first scholarly work to explore its ramifications, semantics and uses as generated from different historical and cultural settings well into the current Arab Spring. Undoubtedly, a fascinating must-have book for readers interested in the Arab world.”
– Iván Humberto Jiménez-Williams, Visiting Professor, Department of General Linguistics, UAE University
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,"Aurelija Usonienė, Nicole Nau and Ineta Dabašinskienė",Multiple Perspectives in Linguistic Research on Baltic Languages,Hardback,978-1-4438-3645-6,44.99,"The ten contributions to this volume present original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. They reflect the diversity of approaches in linguistic research on Baltic languages that has developed in recent years, after a period where these languages were studied almost exclusively from the perspective of historical-comparative linguistics. Current research perspectives include, among others, perspectives from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language acquisition research, corpus linguistics, contrastive studies, and linguistic typology.

The studies in this volume explore new ways of describing the system and use of Latvian or Lithuanian from a synchronic, non-normative point of view. They focus on grammatical categories and constructions (modality, evidentiality, case, existential clauses), grammatical characteristics of lexical classes (reflexive verbs, numerals), the characteristics of certain forms of discourse (academic discourse, food discourse), and the effects of an ideology of “correct language” on language users.
","“This book testifies to the fact that the linguistics of the Baltic languages profits again from international developments in the field, and, conversely, that linguistics gets input from the facts, often remarkable, which are observed in the Baltic languages. Thus this collection will appeal to both the specialist and the general linguist. Most of the studies collected here are corpus-based and contrastive, usually with English but also with Russian. Most studies deal with grammar and semantics (modality, evidentiality, hedging, reflexivity, numerals), and some take a sociolinguistic or discourse perspective (language planning, advertising). The book is strongest on Lithuanian, but Latvian is present with two studies. In all cases the analyses are embedded in the international research context.”
– Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp

“This collection of papers is an important contribution to making the modern linguistic research of the Baltic languages internationally accessible. It is valuable for the wide variety of empirical data presented, but especially due to the modern linguistic approaches employed in the individual contributions, ranging from corpus-based contrastive studies and analyses of various types of discourses up to presenting new perspectives on Baltic grammatical categories such as the Latvian oblique and reflexive verbs and the Lithuanian existential sentences. This in so many ways fascinating collection of papers should be of great interest particularly to specialists in the Baltic languages but can also be warmly recommended to anyone interested in discourse linguistics, sociolinguistics and contrastive linguistics in general.”
– Anneli Sarhimaa, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

“This volume presents the reader with a collection of articles which are representative of contemporary studies devoted to the structural, pragmatic and sociolinguistic description of Baltic languages. It is among the first to keep up with developments in modern linguistics and their application to both Lithuanian and Latvian. It therefore fills a gap in showing how linguists both from the Baltic countries and from outside have, in recent years, started investigating these two languages from new perspectives. For this reason its contributions are of outstanding value especially for those linguists who, not necessarily being specialists in Baltic philology, are interested in cross-linguistic work involving the Baltic languages, as well as for generally interested linguists eager to receive competent and up-to-date information on these languages.”
– Björn Wiemer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,Peter Baofu,The Future of Post-Human Semantics: A Preface to a New Theory of Internality and Externality,Hardback,978-1-4438-3648-7,54.99,"Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, primitive tribe, “it is impossible in principle to be absolutely certain of the meaning or reference that a speaker of the primitive tribe’s language attaches to an utterance”? (WK 2011)

This thought-provoking stand in semantics can be contrasted with an opposing view like “literal translation” (or “metaphrase,” in contrast with “paraphrase”), in that, as John Dryden put it, “when [words] appear . . . literally graceful, it were an injury to the author that they should be changed.” (WK 2011a; C. Kasparek 1983)

Contrary to these opposing ideas (and other views as will be discussed in the book), semantics, in relation to internality and externality, is neither possible or impossible, nor desirable or undesirable to the extent that the respective ideologues on different sides would like us to believe.

Surely, the challenge to these opposing ideas in semantics does not mean that semantics is useless, or that those fields of study related to semantics like philosophy of language, linguistics, psychology, communication studies, hermeneutics, logic, computer science, semiotics, pragmaticism, and so on should be rejected too. Of course, neither of these extreme views is reasonable.

Instead, this book provides an alternative, better way of understanding the future of semantics, especially in the dialectic context of internality and externality—while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them or integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other. In other words, this book offers a new theory (that is, the interactive theory of semantics) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way.

If successful, this seminal project will fundamentally change the way that we think about semantics, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what the author originally called its “post-human” fate.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-04-01,Maria Sidiropoulou,Translating Identities on Stage and Screen: Pragmatic Perspectives and Discoursal Tendencies,Hardback,978-1-4438-3717-0,44.99,"This book takes a pragmatic/semiotic approach to real-life translating for the stage and screen, with a view to showing the potential of systematic linguistic analysis to reveal aspects of meaning-making. Functionalist, interpretive and critical perspectives merge to describe shifting aspects of phenomena in acculturating Pinter, Shakespeare, Wilde, Leonard, Shaw, Austen, etc., in the second half of the 20th century, for the Greek stage and/or screen. More specifically, the book tackles rendition of politeness in staging Pinter, implementation of narrative perspectives in stage and screen versions of Hamlet, rendition of semantic oppositions for humour generation across versions in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, rendition of subcultural linguistic variety in Shaw’s Pygmalion on stage and screen, target identity inscription in versions of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and Leonard’s Da, rendition of phenomena in subtitling and dubbing The Hunchback of Notre Dame animation film for the young, and the similarities between translation and cinematic adaptation of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Hislop’s The Island. Awareness of specificities in the treatment of linguistic phenomena is expected to inform the agenda of what is to be further explored in Translation Studies.
","“Maria Sidiropoulou draws on a number of key theories from a variety of disciplines to illuminate the intricacies and power of translation in two highly influential media: drama and film. The range of features analysed and the attention paid to the impact of translation choices on identity formation make this an important contribution to a field of study in which interdisciplinarity holds the key to further innovation.”
– Mona Baker, Professor of Translation Studies, Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester

“. . . An excellent, innovative exploration of translation shifts that can occur when literary works written in English are translated (and adapted) in Greek for performance on stage and screen . . . A theoretically and linguistically sophisticated and empirically well informed study of an important current sub-field of translation studies: translating for the stage and the screen. The author is a highly competent and well-known translation scholar with a number of influential publications . . .”
– Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Juliane House, Institut für allgemeine und angewandte Sprachwissenschaft Abteilung Sprachlehrforschung, Fakultät 5//SLMII, Universitӓt Hamburg

“At a time when audiovisual translation has established itself as a subfield of research within Translation Studies, Maria Sidiropoulou offers a fresh insight into elements that have often been neglected . . . Prof. Sidiropoulou studies a variety of texts that form part of the Western culture and that have made an impact upon generations of readers and viewers. Her book delves into how translation modifies original texts for the benefit of the audience, but also explores how translation manipulates them for ideological reasons. From the theatre to the cinema, from play adaptation to subtitling, the vast array of examples and the wide scope of her approach certainly provides the readers with a new understanding of how translation shapes our perception of media texts.”
– Roberto A. Valdeón, Profesor Titular, Universidad de Oviedo; Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Senior Research Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Editor-in-Chief, Perspectives Studies in Translatology
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-05-01,Alexander Kravchenko,Cognitive Dynamics in Linguistic Interactions,Hardback,978-1-4438-3774-3,39.99,"In the era of globalization, issues of international and intercultural communication in different professional areas become even more acute. There is a growing demand to increase the efficiency of higher learning educational programs, called upon to enhance second or foreign language communicative competence of would-be specialists. Yet the existing methods of teaching a foreign or second language are far from being satisfactory in terms of expected efficiency. This is symptomatic of a general methodological problem: we lack holistic understanding of how natural language shapes the cognitive domain of human interactions.

Orthodox linguistic science is based on a premise that language is a tool for expressing and conveying thought, thus making communication between humans possible. This dualistic assumption ignores the fact that just as there may be no language without interacting human subjects, there may be no human thought (or, largely, humanness) to speak of without languaging as species-specific behavior, because ‘we as humans happen in language’ (Maturana). The study of language, therefore, must focus on the dynamics of linguistic interactions, and dialogue should be pursued between applied linguists and theoreticians about the conceptual-theoretic foundations of linguistic education. This volume is just such an attempt.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-05-01,Karim Achab,Internal Structure of Verb Meaning: A Study of Verbs in Tamazight (Berber),Hardback,978-1-4438-3751-4,39.99,"Internal Structure of Verb meaning: A Study of verbs in Tamazight (Berber) makes available to a wide audience years of academic research in linguistics. It is written in such a way that it serves as an introduction to the domains of lexical semantics and the organization of grammar for students. The book investigates the internal structure and the predicate-argument structure of verbs of (change of) state, including unaccusatives, verbs of spatial configuration, causatives, and those traditionally referred to as verbs of quality in the linguistic literature on Tamazight. The Tamazight data investigated is so peculiar that it reveals a lot about the construction and derivation of verb meaning from both the ontogenetic and the phylogenetic views. The analysis provided in this book also shows in a parsimonious and most lucid way how lexical semantics interacts with other syntactic approaches including Government and Binding and the Minimalist program.

As most of the literature available on Tamazight is written in French, the author also made a pledge to inform the English speaking world about the reality of Tamazight not only as a living language but also as a culture and an identity that is still cherished and defended by its owners across North Africa, from Morocco to Egypt and in some Sub-Saharan countries including Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in a variety known as Tuareg. Although the language is still spoken by some 40 million people in these two regions, political regimes in these various have had enough of a nerve to even deny its existence (see some quotes p. iv). You will be surprised to find out that Sheshonq, the founder of the 22nd dynasty of Pharaohs in Egypt, was an Amazigh (Berber) from Libya, or how this multi-millennium language has resisted some of the most oppressive tyrants and regimes of our era.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-05-01,Oliviu Felecan,Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives,Hardback,978-1-4438-3752-1,49.99,"Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives aims to analyse names and the act of naming from an intercultural perspective, both synchronically and diachronically.
The volume is divided into four main parts (Theory of Names, Anthroponomastics, Toponomastics, Names in Society), which are, in turn, organised into thematic chapters and subchapters.
The book sets to offer a bird’s-eye view of names and naming, a synthesis that is made possible, on the one hand, by the blending of synchronic and diachronic viewpoints in the investigation of language facts and, on the other, by the fruitful conjunction of modern and classic theories. The originality and the novelty of the subject lies in the multi-disciplinary approach, in which the field of onomastics merges with that of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, history, literature, stylistics, religion etc. The thematic diversity also derives from the meeting, within the pages of this book, of specialists (35 linguists and literati) from 11 countries on 3 continents.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-06-01,"Georgeta Raţă, Florin Sala and Ionel Samfira",Agricultural English,Hardback,978-1-4438-3890-0,44.99,"Agricultural English is a collection of essays on the English of Agriculture. The approach is a linguistic one: the different aspects of the English used in the field of agriculture (agricultural practices, agricultural systems) and in some fields related to agriculture (agricultural zoology, agri-tourism, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, gastronomy, land measurement, plant pathology, zoology) are analysed from a morphological (combination, derivation), syntactical (nominal phrases, verbal phrases), lexical and lexicographical, semantic (homonymy, semantic fields, synonymy, terminology), pragmatic (academic discourse, idiom, metaphor), etymological (etymon, Latin heritage), and contrastive (English–Croatian, English–French, English–German, English–Romanian, Romanian–English) points of view. The book will appeal to agriculturists, animal breeders, professors, researchers, students, and translators from Croatian-, English-, French-, German-, and Romanian-speaking countries, active in their own countries or abroad. The types of academic readership it would appeal to include academic teaching staff, researchers and students in the fields of agriculture and related fields – agricultural zoology, agri-tourism, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, gastronomy, land measurement, plant pathology, and zoology.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-06-01,"Cedric Boeckx, María del Carmen Horno-Chéliz and José-Luis Mendívil-Giró","Language, from a Biological Point of View: Current Issues in Biolinguistics",Hardback,978-1-4438-3781-1,49.99,"The present volume offers a collection of essays covering a broad range of areas where currently a rapprochement between linguistics and biology is actively being sought. Following a certain tradition, we call this attempt at a synthesis “biolinguistics.” The nine chapters (grouped into three parts: Language and Cognition, Language and the Brain, and Language and the Species) offer a comprehensive overview of issues at the forefront of biolinguistic research, such as language structure; language development; linguistic change and variation; language disorders and language processing; the cognitive, neural and genetic basis of linguistic knowledge; or the evolution of the Faculty of Language. Each contribution highlights exciting prospects for the field, but they also point to significant obstacles along the way. The main conclusion is that the age of theoretical exclusivity in Linguistics, much like the age of theoretical specificity, will have to end if interdisciplinarity is to reign and if biolinguistics is to flourish.
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2012-06-01,"Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Aljona Shelkovaya and Dionysios Zoumpalidis ",Linguists of Tomorrow: Selected Papers from the 1st Cyprus Postgraduate Student Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,Hardback,978-1-4438-3876-4,39.99,"This volume is a selection of papers presented at 'Linguists of Tomorrow', the 1st Cyprus Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, held at the University of Cyprus on 7-8 May 2010. The collection includes 9 chapters by postgraduate students of linguistics as well as two illustrious keynote papers by Prof. Barbara Lust and Prof. Thomas McFadden. The topics range from theoretical linguistics (syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology) to psycholinguistics (first and second language acquisition, language impairments, and language processing) and applied linguistics (bilingualism, dictionaries, writing, and ethnolinguistics). As such, this collection of papers by established as well as up-and-coming researchers appeals to a wide range of scholars, students and academics alike, interested in current issues in linguistics. 

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2012-06-01,Cristina Vertan and Walther v.Hahn ,Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages: Low-Resourced Technologies and Translation ,Hardback,978-1-4438-3878-8,49.99,"W.v.Hahn received his PhD in linguistics in Marburg/Lahn and is
professor for linguistics  and computer science in Hamburg/Germany. His research fields are specialized languages and machine translation.


C. Vertan has a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest ans is senior researcher at the university of Hamburg /Germany. Her major research fields are: machine translation and crosslingual retrieval.

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2012-06-01,Kristy Beers Fägersten,Who’s Swearing Now? The Social Aspects of Conversational Swearing,Hardback,978-1-4438-3793-4,44.99,"Who’s Swearing Now? represents an investigation of how people actually swear, illustrated by a collection of over 500 spontaneous swearing utterances along with their social and linguistic contexts. The book features a focus on the use of eight swear words: ass, bitch, cunt, damn, dick, fuck, hell, shit and their possible inflections or derivations, e.g., asshole or motherfucker, offering a solution to the controversial issue of defining swear words and swearing by limiting the investigation to the core set of words most common to previous swearing studies. The specific focus results in accurate depictions of contextualized swearing utterances. Precise frequency counts are thus enabled which, along with offensiveness ratings of contextualized and non-contextualized swearing, enable a clarification of The Swearing Paradox, referring to the phenomenon of frequently used swear words also being those which traditionally are judged to be the most offensive.

The book revisits the relationship between gender and swear word usage, but considers the distribution based on the core subset of swear words, revealing similarities where others have claimed differences. Significantly, Who’s Swearing Now? considers the aspect of race with regards to swear word usage, and reveals behavioral differences between, for example, White and African American males and females with regards to word preferences as well as social impetuses for and effects of swearing. Questionnaire and interview data supplement the swearing utterances, revealing participants’ individual credos about their own use or non-use of swear words and, interestingly, about others’ allowed or ideally prohibited use of swear words. These sets of data present thought-provoking and often entertaining statements regarding the unwritten set of rules governing swearing behavior. Who’s Swearing Now? concludes with close analyses of four recent and highly publicized incidences of public swear word usage, considered in light of the spontaneous swearing utterances, speaker and addressee variables such as gender, race and age, and perceptions of offensiveness and propriety.
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2012-07-01,Melvin González-Rivera and Sandro Sessarego,Current Formal Aspects of Spanish Syntax and Semantics,Hardback,978-1-4438-3898-6,44.99,,,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2012-07-01,Andrew Littlejohn and Sandhya Rao Mehta,Language Studies: Stretching the Boundaries,Hardback,978-1-4438-3972-3,39.99,"As a defining characteristic of what it means to be human, the use of language plays a central role in almost all human activity. Language functions as a cornerstone in the construction of our identity and in the relationships we build. It takes a central role in facilitating every enterprise we undertake, creates the thread which forms our own biographies, and enables us to play a part in the transmission and maintenance of our culture. 

This pervasive nature of language means that it may form the starting point for an investigation into virtually any aspect of social life. In recent years, this has led to a stretching of the boundaries of language studies, prompted by an intense cross-fertilisation of ideas with a wide range of disciplines. It is this cross-fertilisation which forms the focus of the present collection. Taken together, the thirteen papers it contains provide an absorbing, rich array of subjects touched by the centrality of language. Encompassing themes from social psychology, translation theory, computer science, forensics, educational policy, language change, archaeology, and literature, the collection demonstrates that the study of language offers limitless possibilities to aid an understanding of the world in which we live. 

International in scope, the collection includes contributions from scholars well-established in their fields, at work in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Asia. As such, the collection offers a stimulating perspective for readers in a wide range of contexts, whether they themselves are principally concerned with language or are simply eager to see how the study of language may be relevant to their own discipline. 



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