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BTL 173
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Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training

Third edition

Daniel Gile

In the 1980s, Daniel Gile thought of the potential benefit for translation and interpreting students of simple conceptual building blocks that could help them make sense of their classroom experience and of their instructors’ advice, especially as regards recurring challenges. The first edition of Basic Concepts and... full description
Expected November 2026. xxv, 370 pp. + index
SiHoLS 134
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Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary)

A critical edition of the manuscript Rinuccini 22 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana)

Gabriele Tola

This publication is the first and long-awaited critical edition of the Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary) by the Franciscan missionary Basilio Brollo (1648–1704; Chinese name, Ye Zunxiao 葉尊孝). This publication thoroughly researches for the first time a lexicographical milestone, copied and... full description
Expected November 2026. xxvii, 1024 pp.
Impact 58
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Borderscapes

The de/construction of borders as an everyday practice in contemporary Italy

Stefania Tufi

The book expands and transforms multidisciplinary scholarship on the border by exposing the normative power of border making and introducing novel perspectives on borders as fluid and changeable spaces of potentiality. Building on work uncovering processes of border de/construction, the monograph highlights the... full description
Expected December 2026. xviii, 228 pp. + index
IHLL 46
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Bridging Boundaries

Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics

Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord

Bridging Boundaries: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics is a new collection of research expanding the field of Hispanic linguistics. Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord, this volume brings together established and rising scholars to span the full range of Spanish language study from... full description
Expected December 2026. vi, 434 pp. + index
CLCC 21
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Children’s Literature Across Media

Concepts and perspectives of transmedia narratives

Edited by Nina Christensen, Ute Dettmar and Sarah Mygind

This volume presents interdisciplinary research on children’s texts and media, transmedia storytelling and transmediality across production, artefacts, and reception.Based in international, interdisciplinary research, the chapters explore a wide range of transmedia narrative phenomena. They highlight narratological... full description
Expected December 2026. ix, 231 pp. + index
DS 36
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Dialogues of the Clinic

Encounters across medicine and beyond

Edited by Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Shelby Forbes

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond is a unique anthology that centers dialogue as practice and challenge of medical encounters, taking up Mishler's famous provocation of a dichotomy between the voice of the lifeworld and the voice of medicine, or an awareness of the asymmetries of knowledge... full description
Expected December 2026. ix, 260 pp. + index
BTL 172
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Digital Translation History

Processing historical data with digital humanities methods

Edited by Diana Roig-Sanz and Philipp Hofeneder

This book aims at establishing digital translation history as a specific field within the broader discipline of translation studies, and at the intersection of translation history and digital humanities. The book responds to the urgent need to encourage source-based and empirical research that is able to identify, at... full description
Expected November 2026. xiv, 440 pp. + index
VEAW G73
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English in Kuwait

Development, status and usage

Mohammad A.N. Alenezi

This volume presents the first in-depth exploration of Kuwait within the framework of World Englishes. It examines the historical trajectory of English language contact, the contemporary spread of the language, and public attitudes toward its use in the country. Central to the study is the development and analysis of... full description
Expected November 2026. xiv, 228 pp. + index
SiGL 11
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From Carving Runestones to Digitizing Skaldic Poetry

Studies in Germanic philology and historical linguistics

Edited by David Bolter, Erin Noelliste, Christopher D. Sapp and Lane Sorensen

This volume collects papers that bring Germanic philology into the 21st century. The collection is distinguished by a multitude of approaches ranging from critical editing to theoretical linguistics. It covers a wide variety of subfields, including: Old Norse poetry, Runic inscriptions, onomastics, historical Germanic... full description
Expected December 2026. vi, 370 pp. + index
CLCC 18
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Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Edited by Giuliana Fenech and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

This volume explores how literature for young readers shapes and is informed by the geopolitical realities of our world. Bringing together perspectives from across the globe, the volume shows how children’s and YA texts foster young people’s agency by engaging with national identity, conflict, ecological crises,... full description
Expected August 2026. ix, 229 pp. + index
Z 245
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Historical Dutch for Reading Knowledge

Grammar guide and reading strategies

Frans R.E. Blom, Bryan Averbuch and Wijnie de Groot

Historical Dutch for Reading Knowledge aims to help students and scholars in any field, from history and anthropology to environmental studies and art history, learn how to read historical Dutch sources. Authored by scholars of historical Dutch with expertise in the culture and history of both the Netherlands and its... full description
Expected December 2026. x, 313 pp. + index
CHLEL 38
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Nordic Literature: A comparative history

Volume II: Figural nodes

Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders

Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a two-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this... full description
Expected December 2026. xix, 914 pp. + index
P&bns 356
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Patterns of Context

Modelling cultural and contextual influence in utterance interpretation

Edited by Elke Diedrichsen and Frank Liedtke

Human language in its performances is not to be considered without taking into account the environment in which it takes place, i.e. its physical, social, or cultural setting. A description of the regularity or pattern driven character of this relationship is, however, still a desideratum for modern pragmatics. The... full description
Expected September 2026. vi, 295 pp. + index
DS 35
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Principles of New Science

Dialogue in the stream of life

Edda Weigand

This book looks beyond the limit of certainty which has long been taken as a defining characteristic of science. Beyond certainty lies complexity. How can complexity be addressed in the framework of science? What can science of complexity mean? The first and basic principle is that we recognize that it is not the... full description
Expected October 2026. xiii, 169 pp. + index
RMAL 17
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Research Synthesis Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Sin Wang Chong

This edited volume offers a critical examination of research synthesis in Applied Linguistics at a moment when such work is increasingly influential – and increasingly misunderstood. The volume brings together reflective accounts of conducting and editing different types of research syntheses. Rather than functioning... full description
Expected November 2026. xix, 383 pp. + index
CLU 25
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Talk Goes Many Ways

Language and social life in a Papua New Guinea village

Darja Hoenigman

'The Talk Goes Many Ways' is a fascinating anthropological study of language use among the Awiakay, a small village society in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Innovative in the way it integrates written analysis with segments of observational film, the book pairs key social themes with corresponding linguistic... full description
Expected October 2026. xxxix, 481 pp. + index
SiBil 69
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Theoretical Issues in Second Language Research

Challenges and new directions

Edited by Junya Fukuta, John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi

This edited volume offers a systematic and critical examination of how theories in second language acquisition have been formulated, justified, and sustained, with particular attention to their status as explanatory accounts. Rather than introducing theories in isolation, the chapters revisit influential hypotheses... full description
Expected December 2026. xiii, 232 pp. + index
LA 294
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Theoretical Issues in the Languages of the Caucasus

Edited by Ümit Atlamaz, Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk

This volume presents a collection of original articles on various morphosyntactic issues in the Languages of the Caucasus with a focus on their theoretical implications. The articles not only present detailed descriptions of various structural aspects of the Languages of the Caucasus but also provide in-depth analyses... full description
Expected November 2026. vi, 395 pp. + index
CLCC 19
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Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation

Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin

The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it presents case studies that... full description
Expected October 2026. xiii, 292 pp. + index
BTL 171
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Translating at Work

Paraprofessional translation in organizations

Edited by Kaisa Koskinen

In the daily life of multilingual and multinational organizations, knowledge, ideas and practices are constantly crossing borders and boundaries. To make this movement happen, employees of many fields beyond professional translation participate in translating across languages, organizational and national cultures as... full description
Expected September 2026. vi, 360 pp. + index
BTL 174
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Translation Studies between Disciplines and Practices

Edited by Luc van Doorslaer and Yves Gambier

This volume explores how Translation Studies is shifting from interdisciplinarity toward the blurring of disciplinary boundaries. It collects 20 co-authored chapters looking at Translation Studies from the perspectives of other disciplines and practices. Moving beyond earlier models of exchange between well-defined... full description
Expected December 2026. xiv, 400 pp. + index
PALART 10
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Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition

The role of prosody in turn-end prediction

Emilia Nottbeck

This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native speakers with... full description
Expected September 2026. xv, 246 pp. + index
Impact 57
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Verbal Aggression in Contemporary Polish

A usage-based and perception-oriented study

Artur Świątek

This monograph investigates verbal aggression in contemporary Polish from a usage-based and perception-oriented perspective. Drawing on a mixed-methods design, the study combines survey data on speakers’ evaluations of aggressive expressions with a corpus-based analysis of their occurrence in authentic discourse. The... full description
Expected November 2026. xv, 232 pp. + index
AALS 23
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Virtual Reality in Inclusive Language Learning

Enhancing vocabulary acquisition for dyslexic university students

Giulia Staggini

This monograph offers a timely and original contribution to applied linguistics by bringing into dialogue second language acquisition, inclusive language learning, and immersive technologies. The volume addresses a persistent gap in current research by focusing on specific language needs and diverse learner profiles,... full description
Expected September 2026. xiii, 323 pp. + index
CLCC 20
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The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature

Edited by Mateusz Swietlicki, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka

This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of children’s literature and culture, who apply various theoretical perspectives to capture transcultural and interdisciplinary links between global and local canons. The chapters are divided into three thematic clusters: School Canons, Children’s... full description
Expected October 2026. xxiii, 249 pp. + index
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