http://linguistlist.org Latest Books Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:02 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1381.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1381.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book, Evangelia Adamou widens the net by integrating advances in the field of bilingualism with the study of endangered languages. Drawing on recent studies from Europe and Latin America, she demonstrates that experimental psycholinguistic methods can be successfully applied outside the lab and, conversely, how data from these understudied populatio http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1380.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1380.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms are characterised not only by language-specific choices between Q-projection and Q-adjunction, and between overt and covert movement of Q, but also in terms of the locus where they check the features r http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1379.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1379.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z Stress and accent are central, organizing features of grammar, but their precise nature continues to be a source of mystery and wonder. These issues come to the forefront in the phonetic manifestation of stress and accent, their cross-linguistic variation and the subtle and intricate laws they obey in individual languages. Understanding the nature of stress and accent systems informs all aspects of linguistic theory, methods, typology and especially the grammatical analysis of language data. The http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1378.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1378.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z This book offers new empirical insights into the current state of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) characterisation (through an innovative proposal to link CLIL to English as a Lingua Franca), implementation (via observation protocols and SWOT analyses), and research (by examining the effects of CLIL on the L1, foreign language, key competences, and content subjects taught through English). The book provides a state of the art of the CLIL arena, identifies the chief challenges tha http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1358.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1358.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z Combining statistical modelling and archival study, English and Empire investigates how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian characters have been voiced in British fiction and drama produced between 1768 and 1929. The analysis connects patterns of linguistic representation to changes in the imperial political economy, to evolving language ideologies that circulate in the Anglophone world, and to shifts in sociocultural anxieties that crosscut race and empire. In carrying out his investigation, http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1357.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1357.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z "The Corporate Terminologist" is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found in global companies and institutions. It describes the needs of large corporations and how those needs demand a new, pragmatic approach to terminology management. The repurposability of terminology resources is a fundamental criterion that motivates the design, selection, and use of http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1356.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1356.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z Opportunity and Curiosity find similar rocks on Mars. One can generally understand this statement if one knows that Opportunity and Curiosity are instances of the class of Mars rovers, and recognizes that, as signalled by the word on, rocks are located on Mars. Two mental operations contribute to understanding: recognize how entities/concepts mentioned in a text interact and recall already known facts (which often themselves consist of relations between entities/concepts). Concept interactions o http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1355.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1355.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z This collection examines a diverse range of approaches to multilingualism in teacher education programmes across Europe and North America. The authors investigate how pre-service teachers are being prepared to work in multilingual contexts and discuss the key features of current pre-service teacher education initiatives that address the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity evident in classrooms in their respective countries. The focus is not only on migrant-background learners but includ http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1341.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1341.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three argument construction and in other constructions, lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar point of view, and central and extended meanin http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1340.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1340.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages. The collected work showcases the importance of a holistic analysis: prosodic realization and the placement of OKAY in its larger sequential and multimodal context emerge as constitutive for distinct use http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1339.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1339.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z Grammar is integral to teaching English as a second language, and yet there is often a disconnect between theory and practice. This book bridges that gap by introducing key theories of English grammar and showing how they can be applied in teaching. By drawing on an eclectic range of sources, and using a multidisciplinary approach, Berry links advances in our knowledge of grammar, from theoretical and descriptive viewpoints, with developments in pedagogical practices, to provide a comprehensive http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1338.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1338.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title. By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and methods from each other, as they more frequently did in the 1960s and 1970s, when both subfields, in their modern forms at least, were getting started. The volume addresses f http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1324.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1324.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the positive and negative poles, the individual papers probe into the modality systems in English and Japanese. The papers cover issues such as the conceptual nature of modality in both languages, the characterization of modulation in Japanese, the trans-grammatical aspects of moda http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1323.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1323.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web. These are the documents that readers encounter every time they do a Google search, from registers like news reports, product reviews, travel blogs, discussion forums, FAQs, etc. Based on analysis of a large, near-random corpus of web documents, this monograph provides comprehensive situational, lexical, and grammatical descri http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1322.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1322.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z This book highlights reliable, valid and practical testing and assessment of interpreting, presenting important developments in China, where testing and assessment have long been a major concern for interpreting educators and researchers, but have remained largely under-reported. The book not only offers theoretical insights into potential issues and problems undermining interpreting assessment, but also describes useful measurement models to address such concerns. Showcasing the latest Chinese http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1306.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1306.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z This book presents an extensive dictionary of the Dagaare language (Niger-Congo; Gur (Mabia)), focussing on the dialect of Central Dagaare, spoken in the Upper West region of Ghana. The dictionary provides comprehensive definitions, example sentences and the English translations, phonetic forms, inflected forms, etymological notes as well as information dialectal variation. This work is intended as a resource for linguists, but also as a resource for Dagaare speakers. Also included is a grammati http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1305.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1305.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z With an eye to the playful, reflexive, self-conscious ways in which global youth engage with each other online, this volume analyzes user-generated data from these interactions to show how communication technologies and multilingual resources are deployed to project local as well as trans-local orientations. With examples from a range of multilingual settings, each author explores how youth exploit the creative, heteroglossic potential of their linguistic repertoires, from rudimentary attempts t http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1304.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1304.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z Sociophonetics focuses on the relationship between phonetic or phonological form on the one hand, and social and regional factors on the other, working across fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech sciences and psycholinguistics. Covering methodological, theoretical and computational approaches, this engaging introduction to sociophonetics brings new insights to age-old questions about language variation and change, and to the broader nature of language. It includes examples of http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1280.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1280.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z Sign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have – except for a few scattered fragments in film – not been documented and are therefore under serious threat of being lost. The chapters compiled in this volume document important aspects of past and present experiences of elderly Deaf signers across Europe, as w http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1279.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1279.html 2021-04-20T01:39:28Z The author examines who language teacher educators are in the field of language teaching and learning. This includes a description of the different types of language teacher educators working in a range of professional and institutional contexts, an analysis of the reflections of a group of experienced English teacher educators working in Colombia and enrolled in a doctoral program to continue their professional development, and an exposition of the work that language teacher educators do, parti