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Benjamins Current Topics Series

108 primary works • 108 total works
Special issues of established journals tend to circulate within the orbit of the subscribers of those journals. For the Benjamins Current Topics series a number of special issues of various journals have been selected containing salient topics of research with the aim of finding new audiences for topically interesting material, bringing such materi…

Book 1

Letter Writing
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Table of contents
About the authors vii
Introduction…

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    Book 2

    Application-Driven Terminology Engineering
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    A common framework under which the various studies…

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    Book 3

    The Soft Power of War
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    The Iraq war, officially declared in March–April 2…

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    Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context
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    Discourse and Human Rights Violations
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    Narrative - State of the Art
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    Book 7

    What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness
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    What counts as evidence in linguistics? This quest…

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    Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
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    The contributions in this volume (first published …

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    Book 9

    Healthcare Interpreting
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    This volume – the first-ever collection of researc…

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    Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
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    Research into gestures represents a multifaceted f…

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    Perspectives on Grammar Writing
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    With over half the languages of the world currentl…

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    Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition
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    Technology has long been a helpful aid in human co…

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    Vocalize to Localize.
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    Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific …

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    Sign Language Acquisition
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    How children acquire a sign language and the stage…

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    The Pragmatics of Making It Explicit
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    Robert Bran-dom's Making it Explicit (1994) marks …

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    Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds
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    Our species has been a maker and user of tools for…

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    Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics
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    Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It conc…

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    Words, Grammar, Text
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    John Sinclair’s work is widely known and has had a…

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    Named Entities. Recognition, Classification and Use.
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    Named Entities provides critical information for m…

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    The Metalanguage of Translation
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    “Let the meta-discussion begin,” James Holmes urge…

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    Book 21

    Symbol Grounding.
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    When explaining cognition one must explain how rep…

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    Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses
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    This collection of papers explores some facets in …

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    Probing Semantic Relations
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    Semantic relations are at the core of any represen…

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    Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis Vs Compositionality
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    Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years…

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    Parts of Speech
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    Doing Justice to Court Interpreting
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    Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition
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    The use of technology in learning has increased dr…

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    Gestures in Language Development.
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    Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightl…

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    Interpreting Chinese, Interpreting China
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    China’s emergence has generated a wave of interest…

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    Contrastive Pragmatics
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    Historical Sociopragmatics
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    Book 32

    Identity and Status in the Translational Professions
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    This volume contributes to the emerging research o…

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    The Typology of Asian Englishes
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    When considering the structure of New Englishes wh…

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    Distributed Language
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    The volume presents language as fully integrated w…

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    Teaching and Learning Terminology
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    This volume, which was originally published in Ter…

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    Book 36

    Language Change in Contact Languages
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    The studies in Language Change in Contact Language…

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    Book 37

    Media Intertextualities.
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    This collection of critical essays, originally pub…

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    Book 38

    Pidgins and Creoles in Asia.
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    This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole St…

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    Book 39

    Gesture and Multimodal Development
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    We gesture while we talk and children use gestures…

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    Book 40

    Textual Choices in Discourse: A View from Cognitive Linguistics
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    In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics…

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    Book 41

    Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational Linguistic Practice Over Time and Across Cultures
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    Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultura…

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    Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China
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    China's opening up to the West, its extraordinary …

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    Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics
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    Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization
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    This volume brings together five papers offering c…

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    Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the Emergence and Evolution of Human Communication
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    In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Sauss…

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    Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Morris Swadesh
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    Book 47

    Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research
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    The study of how words are represented and process…

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    Book 48

    First Language Attrition
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    Book 49

    Thematising Multilingualism in the Media
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    This volume analyses the complex relations between…

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    Great houses of Italy
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    Grammaticalization and lexicalization are at the h…

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    Typology of Writing Systems
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    Typology research is extremely important in both p…

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    Book 52

    Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora
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    The papers brought together in this volume illustr…

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    Book 53

    Nonmanuals in Sign Language
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    In addition to the hands, sign languages make exte…

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    Book 54

    Eurocentrism in Translation Studies
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    In the wake of post-colonial and post-modernist th…

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    Book 55

    Prosody and Humor
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    This is the first-ever book-length collection of a…

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    Book 56

    Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
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    The contributions in this volume go beyond the Con…

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    Book 57

    Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
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    It is generally assumed that Creole languages form…

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    Book 58

    Advances in Frame Semantics
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    This volume presents some of the latest research i…

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    Cognitive Sociolinguistics
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    This volume is intended to be a contribution to th…

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    Book 60

    Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children
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    For many years, studies of the development of prag…

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    Book 61

    SMS Communication
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    The media often point an accusatory finger at new …

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    The Acquisition of French as a Second Language
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    Within the field of second language acquisition, i…

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    Book 63

    Evidentiality in Interaction
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    In recent decades, linguists have significantly ad…

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    Argumentation and Health
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    In recent years, there has been a growing interest…

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    Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse
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    Recent years saw a growing interest in the study o…

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    Book 66

    The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies
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    Increasing attention has been paid to the agency o…

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    Book 67

    Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics
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    Aptitude for Interpreting
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    Book 69

    The Known Unknowns of Translation Studies
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    After several paradigm changes and even more turns…

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    Book 70

    Where do nouns come from?
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    Signs and Structures
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    As sign language linguistics has become an importa…

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    Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research
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    Book 73

    Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
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    No literary tradition in early modern Europe was a…

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    Current Issues in Phraseology
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    Proto-Indo-European Syntax and its Development
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    Although for some scholars the very possibility of…

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    Book 76

    Argumentation in Political Deliberation
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    Describing Cognitive Processes in Translation
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    This volume addresses translation as an act and an…

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    Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
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    The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretic…

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    Book 79

    On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
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    In much writing on language change, there is a tac…

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    Book 80

    Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing
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    The human ability to understand and produce spoken…

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    Book 81

    Gaze in Human-Robot Communication
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    Gaze in Human-Robot Communication is a volume coll…

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    Book 82

    Constructions across Grammars
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    Occupy
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    Large-scale protest movements have recently transf…

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    "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures
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    In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies an…

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    Book 85

    Queering Borders
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    In recent years, migration has moved to the forefr…

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    Book 86

    Exploring Language Aggression against Women
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    Exploring Language Aggression against Women presen…

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    Book 87

    Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast
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    Book 88

    Advances in Research on Semantic Roles
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    Book 89

    Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts
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    This book represents concurrent attempts of multip…

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    Book 90

    Translation and Interpreting Pedagogy in Dialogue with Other Disciplines
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    Book 91

    Language and Citizenship
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    Book 92

    Expressing and Describing Surprise
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    Among emotions, surprise has been extensively stud…

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    Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres
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    This unique volume brings together various academi…

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    Book 94

    Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies
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    Discourse analytic approaches are central to trans…

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    Audiovisual Translation
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    The exponential growth of Audiovisual Translation …

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    Book 96

    The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse
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    This volume examines the way participants orient t…

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    Book 97

    The Locus of Linguistic Variation
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    This volume explores how the patterning of surface…

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    Book 98

    Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes
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    At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar…

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    Book 99

    Applying Cognitive Linguistics
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    In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has es…

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    MetaNet
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    The papers in this collection document the work of…

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