http://linguistlist.org Latest Review Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:03 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1391.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1391.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY Multilingualism is often taken to be merely an extension of bilingualism, or it is used as a superordinate category that includes bilingualism within it. The basic premise of the volume under review is that multilingualism is widespread and “normal” among many human speech communities and constitutes a field worthy of research in its own right, distinct from but related to bilingualism. This stance is reminiscent of the earlier work of Stavans and Hoffman (2015), which stresses that http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1390.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1390.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY After a general introduction, the book, made up of 35 chapters, is divided into five great parts. The first part is devoted to phonology. It is divided into eight chapters. The first one deals with “Phonological Processes in Germanic languages” (Tracy Allan Hall, p. 11-32). The following four form a consistent whole, concerned respectively with syllable structure (Marc van Oostendorp, p. 33-48), foot structure (Laura Catharine Smith, p. 49-72), word stress (Birgit Alber, p. 73-96) http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1372.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1372.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY From the perspective of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis, this collective volume focuses on how specific syntactic structures, from subordination to coordination, are used as resources in talk-in-interaction. The aims are to “explor[e] the ways in which patterns of complex syntax – that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause – relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction, and how they are tied to participants’ nonverbal (proso http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1371.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1371.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY “Language, culture, and education. Challenges of Diversity in the United States” aims at contributing to policy reforms to better integrate children and families of minority groups living in New York. Divided into three major parts, the book focuses on policy and planning, households’ conditions and engagement, and issues of general health and some language disorders, respectively. Specialized authors inform on each field following different criteria of analysis but common ecological http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1360.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1360.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY Robert Blake, with Gabriel Guillén in this third edition, offers a comprehensive overview of how new digital technologies revitalize foreign/second language (L2) curriculum and how interactionist and sociocultural approaches to L2 teaching enhance language task design and interaction in digital learning environments. Brave New Digital Classroom addresses computer assisted language learning (CALL) practitioners and both experienced and novice teachers in technology-enhanced L2 teaching http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1359.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1359.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z Reviewed by Andreas Blümel and Mingya Liu SUMMARY This book by Karen De Clercq (KDC) studies the morphosyntax of canonical predicate negators such as the negative adverbs “not/n’t” and negative affixes “non-”, “un-”/“dis-”/“iN-” in English. While these negative markers (NMs) are usually conceived as belonging to different descriptive domains, KDC develops a uniform treatment of their internal structure and external distribution within nanosyntax (NS, Starke (2009) et seq), a framework whic http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1348.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1348.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY In the introductory chapter of “From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness” (FSALUP), “Im/politeness between the analyst and participant perspective: An overview of the field”, Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, the book editors, propose a brief historical overview of politeness research, with a focus on the third wave characterized by the development of metapragmatic approaches and the shift towards lay people’s conceptualizations of politeness phenomena. The http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1347.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1347.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY This edited volume has introduced an innovative approach by integrating historical linguistics (which studies language change in communities at some certain points in time) and psycholinguistics (which investigates individual’s cognitive processes) together. These two linguistic subdisciplines have always ignored each other, but Hundt, Mollin and Pfenninger have found “a serious gap in the understanding of processes of linguistic change” (p. 1). While two factors of language change http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1312.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1312.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z “Linguistic Diversity in Greece: Local Challenges with International Implications” is an edited collection consisting of 18 chapters (including an introduction) that describe various aspects of minority and heritage language education in Greece. The volume comprises theoretical and empirical contributions, which cover a timespan from 1997 onwards, and focus on four linguistic groups: (a) people with refugee and migrant background, (b) the officially recognised minority in the North-eastern Greek http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1311.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1311.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY The Oxford Handbook of Negation, edited by Viviane Déprez and M. Teresa Espinal, is an impressive 896-pages piece of work divided into seven main sections. Like all handbooks in the OUP series, it comes with an introduction by the editors, an extensive list of abbreviations, a list of contributors, as well as a summarized list of references at the end of the book. The first section is about the “Fundamentals” of negation. It starts with Laurence R. Horn’s introduction to the basic http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1302.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1302.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY This is the fourth volume in the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions series from Berlin’s Language Science Press, and includes seven research articles spanning psycholinguistic, corpus, and computational investigations into a range of issues surrounding the production, comprehension, representation, and interpretation of complex expressions. The umbrella term used here is “multiword expressions” (MWEs), a term that the editors define extensionally to include particle verbs, noun-nou http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1301.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1301.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY Being popular culture texts addressed to wide audiences, comic strips (and similar genres) have more often than not used colloquial, informal language varieties in their panels. This has been one of the main reasons why they have been negatively evaluated as ‘inappropriate’ for children and, in general, as ‘less significant’ genres suitable only for ‘illiterate’ or ‘semi-literate’ readers (see among others Ben Rafael & Ben Raphael 2012: 142, Gibson 2012). Kristy Beers Fägersten’s stud http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1229.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1229.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY “Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages. MIPVU around the world” is an illustration and discussion of MIPVU ‘Metaphor Identification Procedure developed at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’, a method for reliable and replicable metaphor identification in discourse originally designed for English language data, and the problems and challenges that emerge when applying MIPVU to other languages. The edited volume begins with an introduction of the purpose of the book and a brief overv http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1228.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1228.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY Luna Filipović’s Bilingualism in Action: Theory and Practice details her framework, Complex Adaptive System Principles (CASP) for Bilingualism, intended to both analyze and predict bilingual behaviors by taking into account the interaction of languages within the individual speaker’s mind as well as language use throughout communities. The author critiques the field of bilingualism for its tendency to study factors in isolation and conduct myopic empirical procedures for the sake of http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1224.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1224.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY ‘East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education’ is a peer-reviewed edited volume presented in the field of Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching. This 200-page volume comprising nine chapters is intended for researchers, second language instructors, and administrators in English language education. The chapters of this volume provide differing views on silence and take various approaches to exploring silence among English language learners from East Asian con http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1223.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1223.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY The works that make up ‘Definiteness across languages’, edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Julia Pozas Loyo and Viola Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado, were selected from presentations given at the workshop with the same name held on 23-25 June 2016 in Mexico City. As the name suggests, these papers are united by their commitment to broadening our knowledge regarding the expression of definiteness and the interpretation thereof in natural languages, both spoken and signed. ‘Definiteness across lan http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1168.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1168.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-6 explained below: Step 1: Go to the LINGUIST Reviews page http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/ and click on the "Review a Book" link. Step 2: If you are not already logged in to your LINGUIST account, click "log in". If you do not already have a LINGUIST accou http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1141.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1141.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY Robert B. Arundale’s 400-page manuscript, Communicating & Relating: Constituting Face in Everyday Interacting (C&R) deals with how we interact and relate. The eleven chapters are divided into two main parts: Communicating, dealing with the Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating (Chapter 1-6) and Relating covering Face Constituting Theory (Chapters 7-11). The first part addresses the question “How do participants constitute turns, actions, and meanings in everyday interacting? http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1140.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1140.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY Second language acquisition (SLA) research has paid considerable attention to the importance of language learners’ emotions – particularly language anxiety (Dewaele & Thirtle, 2009; Gkonou et al., 2017; Horwitz, 2017) and, recently, language enjoyment (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2016). However, researchers over the last decade have shown increased interest in exploring language teacher psychology, which has been affected primarily by the general education field’s focus on teachers’ emotions http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1097.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1097.html 2021-04-20T21:04:06Z SUMMARY House names are a significant aspect of British life, in a way that is not true of other countries familiar to me. In France, even a house on a rural lane and surrounded by fields will be numbered, but in Britain its name will be its only identifier. In towns, most streets will have house-numbers assigned by the local authority, but at least in leafier neighbourhoods the houses will also have names, bestowed by the developer or by the first residents. It has often been said that En