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Meiyuan Zhao
An Extraordinary Chinese Translation of Holocaust Testimony

This Element focuses on two Holocaust testimonies translated into Chinese by translator, Gao Shan. They deserve attention for the highly unorthodox approach Gao adopted and the substantial alterations he …

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Maria Heitmeier, Yu-Ying Chuang, Harald Baayen
The Discriminative Lexicon

The 'Discriminative Lexicon Model' is a new theory of how we process words, which moves radically away from most standard theories of morphology. This book introduces the Discriminative Lexicon from both …

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Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, Amy Fountain
Language and Social Issues

This engaging textbook provides a unique introduction to language and society, by showing students how to tap into the linguistic resources of their communities. Assuming no prior experience of linguistic…

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The Open Handbook of (In)Definiteness

A hands-on, accessible guide for investigating the meaning of noun phrases.Why do many languages have definite and indefinite articles, while many others do not? What principles govern the use of articles…

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Naomi Adam
Metaperspectives in Contemporary Literary Fiction

Metaperspectives in Contemporary Literary Fiction offers a literary-linguistic investigation of hypothesis and the metaperspective within contemporary Booker Prize-winning novels. This highly innovative b…

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Carmen Lee
Doxxing Discourse

Doxxing is the deliberate, unauthorized disclosure of personal information, often with malicious intent. Notably, it became a key method of public shaming and vigilantism during the 2019-2020 Hong Kong pr…

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Pavel Caha, Karen de Clercq, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
Nanosyntax and the Lexicalization Algorithm

This book presents the latest research in the Nanosyntax framework, a late-insertion theory based on the idea that the elementary building blocks of syntactic trees are limited to single features. The cha…

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Michael Hammond
Speech Technology

In recent years, speech recognition devices have become central to our everyday lives. Systems such as Siri, Alexa, speech-to-text, and automated telephone services, are built by people applying expertise…

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Thomas Hoffmann, Mark Turner
Creative Construction Grammar

Constructions are long-term pairings in memory of form and meaning. How are they created and learned, how do they change, and how do they combine into new utterances (constructs, communicative performance…

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Douglas Robinson
A Zombie Theory of Translation

In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the …

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The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Now in its second edition, this Handbook is a current overview of Second Language (L2) research, providing state-of-the-art synopses of recent developments in each sub-area of the field, and bringing toge…

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Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Chan Pui Yu Ivy, Zhang Xiaohan Harry, Ng Chui Yin Judy
Gender and Uptalk in Hong Kong English

This Element interrogates the complex role of gender in shaping the sociolinguistic variable of UPTALK within Hong Kong English, highlighting its interaction with other sociodemographic factors. Foregroun…

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Susan Samata
Ainu of Japan Resisting the Suppression of Languages

This volume shows that, by moving away from code models that foster restrictive perceptions of language as learned words and rules, and towards an ecolinguistics capable of integrating with concepts of em…

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Ma Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
Translating His-Stories

Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories can var…

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Bei Hu
Charting Translation Reception

This Element conceptualises translation reception as a form of cultural negotiation in which cognitive processes and sociocultural factors converge to form understanding. Drawing on empirical examples fro…

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Sara Rubinelli
Institutional Health Communication in the Information Age

This Element offers a critical exploration of institutional health communication in an era marked by information overload and uneven content quality. It examines how health institutions can navigate the c…

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Eilika Fobbe
Forensische Linguistik

Narr Studienbücher

Forensische Linguistik beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse mündlicher und schriftlicher Texte, die Gegenstand polizeilicher Ermittlungen oder gerichtlicher Verfahren sind. Die linguistische Auswertung umfass…

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Kevin Watson, Patrick Honeybone, Lynn Clark, Amanda Cardoso
Liverpool English

The Dialects of English series provides concise, accessible, authoritative and up-to-date documentation for varieties of English, including English-based pidgins and creoles, from all over the English-spe…

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James Geary
The World in a Phrase

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.Aphorisms are literature's hand…

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Hongbing Yu
Living by Models

This book provides an intensive interdisciplinary study of Modeling Systems Theory (MST), a significant post-modern theoretical framework that transcends the long cold war between the Saussurean and the P…

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