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The book review discusses "Fiction and Pragmatics" by Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, and Thomas C. Messerli, which explores the intersection of pragmatics and fictional language. The book delves into essential concepts such as the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, communicative structures in various forms of fiction, and the evolving roles of readers, viewers, and co-producers. It also scrutinizes story world construction and character depiction across different modalities, offering valuable insights for scholars and enthusiasts interested in the relationship between language and fiction. The review highlights the book's comprehensive exploration of fictional language but notes that it may pose challenges for newcomers without a background in pragmatics and fiction. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin" edited by Gómez and Berger is a significant contribution to the study of ancient politeness. It brings together a highly international team of experts in the field and covers various theoretical frameworks. The book is divided into four parts, with each part focusing on different aspects of politeness in ancient Greek and Latin. The chapters explore topics such as the expression of politeness, conversational openings, interruptions, and ancient perceptions of politeness. Overall, this book serves as an excellent starting point for newcomers to the field and brings politeness research into the mainstream of Classical Studies. [Extracted from the article]

"The Linguistic Challenge of the Transition to Secondary School" by Alice Deignan, Duygu Candarli, and Florence Oxley explores the difficulties students face when transitioning to secondary school due to the differences between academic and everyday language. The book, published in 2023, provides insights into linguistic challenges through a corpus study, focusing on language changes across subjects and key stages. While the research offers valuable information for educators and curriculum designers, it may be challenging for teachers to grasp the complex technical details presented in the book. Despite some limitations, the study highlights the importance of understanding linguistic challenges in educational transitions and may inspire further research in this area. [Extracted from the article]

"Constructions" are here defined in the wide sense typical of Construction Grammar approaches, encompassing linguistic units at different levels of complexity (from morphemes to clausal patterns) and schematicity (from fully specified to abstract underspecified units). The benefactive alternation, illustrated in (5), describes the ability of a particular class of verbs to occur in both a double-object construction (DOC) and a prepositional object construction (POC) with the preposition I for i . In "Constructionalization, Constructional Competition and Constructional Death", Lotte Sommerer argues that even though the emergence and disappearance of constructions are often intricately connected, constructional "death" has so far gained little attention in Diachronic Construction Grammar. Meanwhile, the author also discusses previous evidence (e.g., [7]) that many new verbs came to be used with the I way i -construction during the same period, suggesting that the schematicity of the construction and the productivity of its verb slot may not be entirely independent. [Extracted from the article]

To enhance the conviction of the EC-model, within the framework of which DO-PERIPHRASIS is re-discussed as an empirical finding to demonstrate the coherence or self-consistency of the EC-model. Schmid, Hans-Jörg The dynamics of the linguistic system: Usage, conventionalization and entrenchment Oxford Oxford University Press 2020 978-0-19-881477-1 397 Hardback £85.00 Usage plays a crucial role in sustaining and reshaping linguistic systems. As regards the unique characteristics, the EC-model is the first one to draw a clear cut between usage, conventionalization and entrenchment and provides a precise model of how they constantly interact. The EC-model is mainly established on the basis of the English linguistic system, and further investigation into other language systems is still needed to test the reliability and universality of the EC-model. [Extracted from the article]

Marcus sums up this very full and compact chapter by noting that, although they have fewer verbal lexical bundles expressing discourse organisation and stance than the ced, Early Modern English letters, represented by the Bess corpus and the ceec, can be considered a relatively oral text type. Some of the most common vocatives in the entire Bess corpus, such as I My Lord i and I Sir i , are further compared with the occurrence of these forms in the ceec, with the conclusion that Bess's use of vocatives in letters to her immediate family, in particular, was quite conventional. Marcus, Imogen 2018 The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing: Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics Cham Palgrave Macmillan xviii + 357 The primary objective of Imogen Marcus's monograph is to investigate how linguistic features that are characteristic of spoken communication are used in Early Modern English epistolary prose. In Chapter 3, "Prose structure", the author draws on the distinction between Bess's holograph and scribal letters, using a thirty-four-letter sub-sample of the corpus - seventeen holograph and seventeen scribal letters. [Extracted from the article]

That said, Thakkar pushes Horkheimer's inferences too far, especially in his efforts to reconcile both Plato and critical theory to liberal democracy. To do so, Thakkar outlines the affinities between Plato's critique of moneymaking and Marx's critique of capitalism as well as the complimentarity of their imagined ideal societies. But if by espousing Aristotle's emancipatory ambitions Horkheimer elided Aristotle's famous justification of slavery, Thakkar perhaps also downplays some limitations to Plato's ideal society for us today. [Extracted from the article]

Another unique quality to Mayer's book is this very study of fright in music, primarily via Hoffmann's reception of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony but also via Wackenroder and Tieck as well as other writings by Hoffmann. But Hoffmann refers to the listener of the Fifth Symphony as a I Geisterseher i and says Beethoven's music is the lever to awe, terror, and pain. Hertz maintains that what is profoundly disturbing in Hoffmann, and what Freud bypasses, is the contagion of repetition, most notably of the visual metaphors that even infiltrate the narrator's discourse. [Extracted from the article]

I Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research i , edited by Paul Baker and Jesse Egbert, provides a systematic and comprehensive comparison of various corpus linguistic approaches through ten empirical studies carried out by experts in the field of corpus linguistics. In Chapter 1, the editors of the volume briefly describe the concept of corpus linguistics and triangulation, which basically refers to triangulating (i.e., combining) the results of two or more corpus-linguistic methods in one study. Amanda Potts compiles a reference sub-corpus for each country and topic to carry out a comparative semantic analysis across sub-corpora using usas and Wmatrix tools through comparing certain overused semantic meanings in one sub-corpus with another. [Extracted from the article]

i Sarah Maitland's objective is to reclaim what she calls "the interlingual model of translation" for the broader project of cultural translation (2017, 28). On the one hand, Maitland positions her project against scholars in translation studies who fear that translation "risks being diluted into nothing" after such cultural expansion (Chesterman 2010, quoted in Maitland 2017, 19). What kind of "translation thinking" and "knowledge of translation" does Maitland have in mind? This might be true, but this scholarship is not taken into consideration at all, and thus has no impact on Maitland's definition of CT in the following sections, not even in the few places where "inter-cultural" translation is at issue (27-29; 50-53). [Extracted from the article]

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) regards human cognition as embodied, and meaning as a "cognitive phenomenon" that can be analyzed ([2]: 5). I Cognitive Linguistics in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom i is a multidisciplinary endeavor to test such assumption by reporting an empirical study on teaching phrasal verbs via CL-informed awareness-raising methods. Chapter 6 serves as a connection between CL-informed pedagogy and educational psychology by introducing basic notions of the cognitive load theory and how CL-inspired learning is related to this. [Extracted from the article]

Hans-Jörg Schmid The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment2020 Oxford University Press Oxford397 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-881477-1 (hardback) Formalists' view of the object of study of language as an abstract system is a premise for the classic dichotomy of langue and parole by Saussure and that of competence and performance by Chomsky. Part II (Chapters 7-10) takes a considerable step further to address conventionalization as a continual process of establishing and readapting regularities of communicative behavior among the members of a speech community. Chapter 12 opens a sequence of three chapters looking at the routinization of syntagmatic (Chapter 12), symbolic (Chapter 13), and pragmatic associations (Chapter 14). [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Language, Usage and Cognition," by Joan Bybee.

The article reviews the book "Akan Kasa Nhyeyeee" (The Akan Grammar Book), by Kofi Agyekum.

The article reviews the book "The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language & the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published," by David Skinner.