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This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings and context-dependent inferences. State-of-the-art corpus linguistic methods are used to track their functional changes over two and a half centuries. The book presents new evidence of grammatical chang http://dlvr.it/T6Y2fH

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Going beyond hypocrisy as a mere moral vice, this volume establishes its pragmatic space and confronts it with adjacent notions which, unlike hypocrisy, have been subject t http://dlvr.it/T6Y2fF

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The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach, by Laura Wright, is a study in lexical sociolinguistics from a historical perspective. The author traces the historical origins and social developments of a number of English words, thereby putting into effect the various methodologies employed in the area of lexical sociolinguistics. This area, which belongs to historical sociolinguistics, investigates “the circumstances in which a word came into being, how and where it spread, who used http://dlvr.it/T6Y2cM

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In this expanded and revised version of her PhD dissertation, Theresa Neumaier analyzes conversational patterns in five hours of audio-recorded face-to-face conversations in Southeast Asian English and Caribbean English. The book is situated at the intersection of Conversation Analysis (CA) and World Englishes, two areas of research which have rarely been combined before. The book investigates the mechanics and linguistic resources of turn-taking, focusing on the practices used for turn http://dlvr.it/T6XvM8

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Annamaria Pinter’s “Engaging Children in Applied Linguistics Research” is meant for anyone interested in researching language education with children’s perspectives. The book provides an alternative version of conducting research on children through the use of partnerships. Pinter proposes that child second and foreign language education may be enhanced if children’s perspectives are invited into the research.

Chapter 1, “Setting the Scene,” advocates for a shift in the field of applie http://dlvr.it/T6XvLm

The directors and staff of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) are thrilled to announce that on May 1, 2024, we successfully launched a brand new AILLA repository, which features a Portuguese user interface, in addition to the already existing English and Spanish ones. Please visit the website at https://ailla.utexas.org/ to see it for yourself. So far half of the collections have been migrated to the new repository (all the unrestricted collections), and the rest wi http://dlvr.it/T6XvLb

Dear all,

I am looking for L1 Spanish participants (Peninsular or Argentinian) to take part in a study which is part of my PhD thesis at the University of Nebrija, Madrid. The study is investigating perceptions of impoliteness and connections to morality. The study consists of completing an online questionnaire (25/30 minutes), which includes watching some very short video clips and answering some multiple choice questions.

The link to the questionnaire is:

https://forms.gle/9eACPJgJ7maRmxMZA http://dlvr.it/T6VvC2

The Third Language Acquisition Lab (https://www.thirdlanguageacquisition.com/) at Western University is conducting a study on how Persian/English successive bilinguals learn Spanish as a third language. Please email me at aomidi2@uwo.ca if you are interested in participating and you have all the conditions below:

1. You are +18 years old.

2. You speak Persian (Farsi or Dari) as your first language.

3. You learned English after the age of 6, and you are highly fluent in it.

4. You are learnin http://dlvr.it/T6VvBz

I’m a PhD student at Indiana University, and I’m conducting a study to better understand how people perceive and remember speech sounds in their second language. I’m looking for participants who speak Korean as their first language and English as their second language. The study is completely online and can be done from anywhere. It lasts approximately 55-75 minutes, and participants will be paid $20 USD.

We’re looking for 5 more participants by May 20. For eligibility details and/or for more i http://dlvr.it/T6Vv9w

3:1 2024. v, 132 pp.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTORY ARTICLE

Locating the digital in literary translatorship
Wenqian Zhang, Motoko Akashi & Peter Jonathan Freeth
pp. 1–16

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The translator as a social activist in the digital age: An autoethnographic study of translating Insulted. Belarus as part of the Worldwide Readings Project
Martina Pálušová
pp. 17–39

The instafamous translator: Exploring the manifestations of Francesca Crescentini’s literary translatorship on social media platfor http://dlvr.it/T6Vn66