Word and Plan

John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.

Virtual Exchange as Justice-Oriented Practices

This book brings a justice-oriented focus to virtual exchange, highlighting how equity, inclusion and critical awareness can be meaningfully integrated into global learning environments. Readers are introduced to diverse justice-based perspectives, frameworks, protocols, case studies and material...

How Metaphors shape Biotechnology

This volume presents the proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop at Braunschweig University of Technology in a collection of English and German articles (English summaries are provided for all German articles). Focusing on biotechnology, experts from biology, biotechnology, ethics, philosoph...

La delimitación morfológica, sintáctica y pragmática de las unidades léxicas

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied  Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality mo...

Für das erste Schuljahr

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The Language of Lawyers

Clarity of court proceedings is increasingly considered essential to both the efficiency and the quality of a modern judiciary. One particularly under-researched area is the language of pleadings, i.e., texts written by lawyers representing the parties in court. Building on the results of the Att...

New Approaches to Transcodification

The series explores the complexity and the interconnections of arts and languages by merging, comparing and contrasting themes from different sources, methodologies or fields of studies. Its main results derive from the “Arts, Languages, and Media: Translation and Transcodification” project but i...

Smart Speaker im Dialog

Die empirische, auf qualitative oder quantitative Korpusanalyse gestützte Beschreibung von geschriebener und gesprochener Sprache hat sich in der Sprachwissenschaft als zentrales Paradigma etabliert. Die Reihe bietet eine Plattform für synchron-linguistische Ansätze und interdisziplinäre Arbeiten...

Polarised Discourse

Polarisation, the ideological positioning at extreme ends of a continuum actively combating opposite views, is a major concern these days as it spreads beyond the political sphere and permeates public discourse on current socio-political issues. Critical socio-cognitive approaches to discourse an...

Interpunktion im Korpus

Dieser Band bietet eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung und Beschreibung aller zwölf Interpunktionszeichen des Deutschen. Dabei wurden die genauen Fragestellungen für die jeweiligen Zeichen angepasst – die Anpassung kann durch einen neuen, veränderten Forschungsstand oder durch das jeweilige Zei...

Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence

This volume illustrates how the adoption of discourse approaches can cast light on the complex and often subtle ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) discursively operates. The focus is on careful theorisations and empirical contributions that foreground GVB as a human rights violation motiva...

Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora

Specialized corpora of the language of Computer-mediated Communication and Social Media are increasingly vital for the analysis of the "unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in terms of speakers and settings" in digital contexts, as well as of "language evolution seen through the lens of us...

Quantitative Perspective on Stylistics

This book explores the syntactic variation across various styles and genres in contemporary written Czech using quantitative methods. The research is based on the large, balanced corpus, SYN2020, which is part of the Czech National Corpus. The aim is to demonstrate the potential of corpus-based q...

The Pragmatics of Metadiscourse

Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, ...

»Kinder können nicht mehr richtig schreiben!«

Die Buchreihe Linguistik – Impulse & Tendenzen (LIT) ist ein attraktives Forum für hochwertige Arbeiten zur Sprachwissenschaft – insbesondere zur germanistischen Linguistik. Sie sucht aktuelle Tendenzen aufzunehmen und widerzuspiegeln, gleichzeitig aber wegweisende Impulse für das Fach und se...

Legal Language and the Sea

While maritime law and law of the sea are highly-researched domains of law, there are few studies about the language associated with these fields. In a global society that is increasingly impacted by environmental, health, social, humanitarian, and political crises that partly unfold on the sea, ...

Language in Social Interaction

The central idea underlying the studies in this volume is that when speakers act in social context language acquires a social signature whose details have not yet been fully understood. This volume brings together eleven original, empirical studies in the fields of conversation analysis, interact...

The Coloniality of Language in Digital Humour

Humour has not yet been systematically analysed from a decolonial perspective. This book addresses the coloniality of language in online humour from an interdisciplinary decolonial linguistics approach that places attentional processes at the centre of the analysis. Its chapters contribute to lin...

Mastering M&A Narratives

This book reimagines mergers and acquisitions as emotionally charged, narrative-driven processes rather than linear business events. Challenging traditional models that separate pre- and post-acquisition phases, it introduces a dynamic framework that emphasizes the sequence and emotional impact o...

Erkenntnisperspektiven und Methoden der Kommunikations- und Mediengeschichte

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge gehen auf eine gemeinsame Fachtagung des Instituts für Zeitungsforschung und der Fachgruppe Kommunikationsgeschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) im April 2022 zurück. Rahmenthema waren Erkenntnisperspe...

Language, Borders and Bordering Practices / Lenguaje, fronteras y prácticas de fronterización

Las fronteras no son solo líneas físicas en un mapa, sino divisiones y procesos sociales y simbólicos que se configuran continuamente a través del lenguaje y la interacción cotidiana. Este volumen bilingüe desafía las nociones estáticas y binarias de las fronteras, revelando cómo se construyen ...

Revalorizing Occitan in the 21st Century

Situated, Historical, Embodied Semiosis

Situated, Historical, Embodied Semiosis offers a new synthesis of Peircean biosemiotics, empirical research on situated activity (including talk, gesture, and inscriptions), and intra-active frameworks for becoming-with. Examining and integrating a wide range of theory and research, the authors c...

»Schizophrenie« in der Alltagssprache

Der Terminus Schizophrenie hat seit seiner Prägung durch Eugen Bleuler im Jahr 1908 eine erstaunliche Verbreitung und Veränderung erfahren. Verhältnismässig rasch im Fach aufgenommen, gehört er bis heute zu den zentralen Diagnosetermini der Psychiatrie. Zugleich ist Schizophrenie zusammen mit sei...

Grammatik des Modernen Chinesisch

Das Standardwerk „Xiandai Hanyu" (现代汉语, Modernes Chinesisch) der Peking-Universität (1993/2018) gehört zu den prägenden sprachwissenschaftlichen Lehrwerken an Instituten für chinesische Sprache (中文系Zhongwen Xi) in der VR China.Die vorliegende komplette Übersetzung des umfangreichen Kapitels „Gram...

Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulte...

Lingua Ex Machina

An investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern mediaAfter lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber to become a living modern vernacular. This revitalization is unique and unprecedented in world ...

Hieroglyphs

Today the history of ancient Egypt is known around the world, recognisable in precious museum collections and countless retellings from popular culture. Yet for hundreds of years, from the late Roman Empire to the 19th century, the wonders of this ancient civilisation were frozen in time, locked ...