Recent Publications

This list acknowledges recent works (except offprints of single articles) that appear to bear on the scientific study of language. The receipt of individual books cannot be separately acknowledged and no book can be returned to the publisher. Note especially that by accepting a book the Editor implies no promise that it will be reviewed in this journal.

Ainiala, Terhi, and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) 2017. Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names. (Pragmatics & beyond new series 275.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Pp. vi, 231.

Anderson, Wendy; Ellen Bramwell; and Carole Hough (eds.) 2016. Mapping English metaphor through time. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xii, 321.

Antonini, Rachele; Letizia Cirillo; Linda Rossato; and Ira Torresi (eds.) 2017. Non-professional interpreting and translation: State of the art and future of an emerging field of research. (Benjamins translation library 129.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vii, 415.

Arregui, Ana; María Luisa Rivero; and Andrés Salanova (eds.) 2017. Modality across syntactic categories. (Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 345.

Athanasiadou, Angeliki (ed.) 2017. Studies in figurative thought and language. (Human cognitive processing 56.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. x, 327.

Bajcic, Martina. 2017. New insights into the semantics of legal concepts and the legal dictionary. (Terminology and lexicography research and practice 17.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xi, 222.

Bakker, Peter; Finn Borchsenius; Carsten Levisen; and Eeva Sippola (eds.) 2017. Creole studies—Phylo-genetic approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. x, 414.

Bellamy, Kate; Michael W. Child; Paz González; Antje Muntendam; and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.) 2017. Multidisciplinary approaches to bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world. (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics 13.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vii, 327.

Berk-Seligson, Susan. 2017. The bilingual courtroom: Court interpreters in the judicial process. 2nd edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. xviii, 363.

Bubenik, Vit. 2017. Development of tense/aspect in Semitic in the context of Afro-Asiatic languages. (Current issues in linguistic theory 337.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xx, 228.

Büring, Daniel. 2017. Intonation and meaning. (Oxford survey in semantics and pragmatics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. ix, 313.

Cap, Piotr, and Marta Dynel (eds.) 2017. Implicitness: From lexis to discourse. (Pragmatics & beyond new series 276.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vi, 306.

Chesterman, Andrew. 2017. Reflections on translation theory: Selected papers 1993–2014. (Benjamins translation library 132.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. x, 396.

Church, R. Breckinridge; Martha W. Alibali; and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.) 2017. Why gesture? How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating. (Gesture studies 7.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. vii, 433.

Colina, Sonia, and Claudia V. Angelelli (eds.) 2017. Translation and interpreting pedagogy in dialogue with other disciplines. (Benjamins current topics 90.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. v, 154.

Coon, Jessica; Diane Massam; and Lisa Demena Travis (eds.) 2017. The Oxford handbook of ergativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 1,262.

Crystal, David. 2017. Making sense: The glamorous story of English grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvii, 289.

Dakin, Karen; Claudia Parodi; and Natalie Operstein (eds.) 2017. Language contact and change in Mesoamerica and beyond. (Studies in language companion series 185.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xv, 433.

Dupraz, Emmanuel, and Liana Tronci. 2017. Aspects de la définitude: Langues, textes, grammaires. (Cahiers de l’ERIAC.) Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. Pp. 148.

Dyson, Bronwen Patricia, and Gisela Håkansson. 2017. Understanding second language processing: A focus on processability theory. (Bilingual processing and acquisition 4.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. x, 211.

Enfield, N. J., and Paul Kockelman (eds.) 2017. Distributed agency. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xviii, 282.

Everaert, Christine. 2017. Essential Hindi grammar: With examples from Modern Hindi literature. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Pp. xvi, 181.

Farjami, Mahmud. 2017. Iranian political satirists: Experience and motivation in the contemporary era. (Topics in humor research 5.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. x, 213.

Fernández-Soriano, Olga; Elena Castroviejo; and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.) 2017. Boundaries, phases and interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte. (Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today 239.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. viii, 369.

Fortescue, Michael. 2017. The abstraction engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain. (Advances in consciousness...