Lodz Studies in Language

The prolific series Lodz Studies in Language aims at providing a forum for contributions to the study of Linguistics, especially in English Language and Literature. The monographs and collected volumes of the series focus on Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics and Language Pedagogy, with such various topics as the cognitive aspects of Linguistics, identity via language, trends in Linguistics and Translational Studies and language and media.

86 publications

History and Language

ISSN: 1062-2306

6 publications

Language and Forensics

Language and Forensics is a trans- and inter-disciplinary book series dedicated to exploring the complex relationship between language and forensic practice. Bridging theoretical foundations and applied research, the series includes contributions that range from introductory manuals and historical overviews of the field to in-depth analyses of real-world forensic cases and cross-national comparisons of linguistic methodologies. Reflecting the diverse nature of forensic linguistics, the series features three main types of volumes: theoretical works introducing specific subfields (such as audio analysis or textual comparison), applied research addressing linguistic challenges in forensic contexts (e.g., authorship attribution, voice comparison), and edited collections emerging from collaborative research or academic conferences. In line with its inclusive and international scope, Language and Forensics welcomes publications in English as well as other Romance languages. This multilingual approach aims to support a broader scholarly community and provide a prestigious publishing platform for researchers who often face limited options beyond specialized scientific journals.

2 publications

Language as Social Action

This Series explores new and exciting advances in the ways in which language both reflects and fashions social reality--and thereby constitutes critical means of social action. As well as these being central foci in face-to-face interactions across different cultures, they also assume significance in the ways that language functions in the mass medias, new technologies, organizations, and social institutions. Language As Social Action does not uphold apartheid against any particular methodological and/or ideological position, but, rather, promotes (wherever possible) cross-fertilization of ideas and empirical data across the many, all-too-contrastive, social scientific approaches to language and communication. Contributors to the Series will also accord due attention to the historical, political, and economic forces that contextually bound the ways in which language patterns are analyzed, produced, and received. The Series will also provide an important platform for theory-driven works that have profound, and oftentimes provocative, implications for social policy.

37 publications

Gdańsk Studies in Language

ISSN: 2196-016X

The series Gdańsk Studies in Language focuses on all areas of theoretical and applied linguistics, especially on semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, first and second language acquisition, English language teaching, ethnolinguistics and translation. In the series, we publish monographs (including outstanding doctoral dissertations) submitted not only by scholars affiliated with the University of Gdańsk, but also by researchers representing other academic centres in Europe and elsewhere. Collections of papers are considered for publication as well. The language of the series is English.

23 publications

FLS - Foreign Language Studies

ISSN: 0721-3034

In der Reihe "FLS - Foreign Language Studies" werden zentrale Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Anglistik/Amerikanistik veröffentlicht. Sie beschäftigt sich sowohl mit englischer- und amerikanischer Landeskunde als auch mit pädagogischen Themen, etwa der Didaktik der englischen Sprache und Literatur sowie dem Spracherwerb. Herausgegeben wird die Reihe von Professor Hartmut Breitkreuz, zu dessen Forschungsschwerpunkten unter anderem die Fehlerforschung und frühes Fremdsprachenlernen sowie projektorientiertes und medial gesteuertes Lernen gehört. In der Reihe "FLS - Foreign Language Studies" werden zentrale Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Anglistik/Amerikanistik veröffentlicht. Sie beschäftigt sich sowohl mit englischer- und amerikanischer Landeskunde als auch mit pädagogischen Themen, etwa der Didaktik der englischen Sprache und Literatur sowie dem Spracherwerb. Herausgegeben wird die Reihe von Professor Hartmut Breitkreuz, zu dessen Forschungsschwerpunkten unter anderem die Fehlerforschung und frühes Fremdsprachenlernen sowie projektorientiertes und medial gesteuertes Lernen gehört. In der Reihe "FLS - Foreign Language Studies" werden zentrale Studien aus dem Fachbereich der Anglistik/Amerikanistik veröffentlicht. Sie beschäftigt sich sowohl mit englischer- und amerikanischer Landeskunde als auch mit pädagogischen Themen, etwa der Didaktik der englischen Sprache und Literatur sowie dem Spracherwerb. Herausgegeben wird die Reihe von Professor Hartmut Breitkreuz, zu dessen Forschungsschwerpunkten unter anderem die Fehlerforschung und frühes Fremdsprachenlernen sowie projektorientiertes und medial gesteuertes Lernen gehört.

6 publications

Sport, Sprache, Medien / Sport, Language, Media

ISSN: 2701-2816

Sport plays a large role in modern societies and is often the subject of intense media coverage. An extensive lexicon has developed around sport, both within the individual sports themselves but also in the media, and new text types and forms of media coverage have emerged that have increasingly become the subject of academic studies. The series Sport, Language, Media is designed to serve as a forum for studies of sports language and media communication. Volumes in the series will primarily focus on German-speaking regions, but comparative studies on sports language, sports media coverage and fan communication in other countries and cultures, including non-European ones, are welcome. Research on the history of individual sports languages is also encouraged. In addition to football, the ‘king’ of sports, other disciplines may also be the subject of linguistic studies to be included in the series. Book proposals are welcome and may be sent to the series editors. Der Sport nimmt im Leben moderner Gesellschaften breiten Raum ein und ist Gegenstand vielfältiger Formen der medialen Berichterstattung. In den Sportarten selbst, aber auch in den Medien sind eine umfangreiche Lexik sowie neue Textsorten und mediale Formen entstanden, die wiederholt zum Thema wissenschaftlicher Studien wurden. Für das Thema Sportsprache und Medienkommunikation soll mit der Reihe Sport, Sprache, Medien ein eigenes Forum geschaffen werden. Der Fokus der Bände liegt in erster Linie auf dem deutschsprachigen Raum, doch auch vergleichende Studien zu Sportsprache, Sportberichterstattung und Fankommunikation in anderen, auch nicht-europäischen Ländern und Kulturen sowie zur Geschichte der jeweiligen Sportsprachen sind willkommen. Neben „König" Fußball sollen in der Reihe auch andere Sportarten in den linguistischen Blick genommen werden. Manuskriptvorschläge können an die Herausgeber gerichtet werden.

4 publications

Language, Migration and Identity

ISSN: 2296-2808

This series fills a hitherto neglected but now growing area in the treatment of migration: the role of language and identity. This topic is central in a globalized world where the definition of community is constantly challenged by the increased mobility of individuals. Linked to this mobility is the issue of identity construction, in which language plays a key role. Language practices are indicators of the socialization process in bilingual and multilingual settings, and part of the strategies by which speakers assert membership within social groups. Migrant speakers are constantly engaged in identity construction in varying settings. Language, Migration and Identity invites proposals for revised dissertations, monographs and edited volumes on language practices and language use by migrant speakers. A wide range of themes is envisaged, within the area of migration, but from a broadly linguistic perspective. The series welcomes studies of migrant communities and their language practices, studies of language practices in multilingual educational settings, and case studies of identity building among migrants through language use. Proposals might focus on topics such as second language acquisition in social contexts, variation in L2 speech, multilingualism, acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, hybridity and ‘crossing’ in relation to identity. A multiplicity of approaches in the treatment of this interdisciplinary area will be welcome, from quantitative to ethnographic to mixed methods. The series welcomes established scholars as well as early career academics and recent PhD research.

5 publications

Foreign Language Teaching in Europe

Foreign Language Teaching in Europe is a series focusing on dissemination of ideas, experiences, and research on modern language pedagogy and language teacher education from sources throughout Europe and beyond. This series aspires to represent the field in its diversity and forms a forum for the expansion of contributions on modern language learning. Thus, this series’ ambition is to be of a high quality, and innovative, and to stimulate further research in the field. The editors of this series welcome submissions of monographs and edited volumes in the field of modern language pedagogy. Book proposals may be submitted to the series editor, Dr. Manuel Jiménez Raya (mjraya@ugr.es). Foreign Language Teaching in Europe ist eine Buchreihe, die fokussiert ist auf die Verbreitung von Ideen und Erfahrungen sowie auf Forschungsarbeiten zur Pädagogik im Bereich der Fremdsprachenvermittlung durch europäische und außereuropäische Beiträge. Diese Reihe bemüht sich, die Fremdsprachendidaktik in seiner Vielgestaltigkeit darzustellen und bildet ein Forum für die Verbreitung von Beiträgen zum Fremdsprachenlernen. Diese Reihe beansprucht, von hoher Qualität und innovativ zu sein und zu weiterer Forschung auf diesem Gebiet anzuregen. Die Herausgeber dieser Reihe begrüßen das Einreichen von Monographien und Sammelbänden auf dem Gebiet der Fremdsprachendidaktik. Vorschläge für Buchpublikationen sind zu richten an den Herausgeber Dr. Manuel Jiménez Raya (mjraya@ugr.es).

23 publications

Language Testing and Evaluation

Aims and Scope The aim of this series is to provide a forum for publishing theoretical and empirical research of a high standard in all areas of language testing and evaluation. Our focus is on research into language tests and assessment tools as well as on programme evaluation in which emphasis is placed on the characteristics of the instruments themselves. It is our intention to enhance the possibilities for international scholarly debate among experts as well as to make research findings and new developments known to practitioners and the interested public worldwide. We welcome contributions in English, German or French. Zielsetzung Die Serie dient als Publikationsforum für anspruchsvolle theoretische und empirische Forschung zum Testen und Evaluieren im Bereich des Lehrens und Lernens von Sprachen. Dabei geht es sowohl um Sprachtests und Assessment-Instrumente als auch um Fragen der Sprachprogrammevaluation, bei denen die Messinstrumente selbst im Vordergrund stehen. Die Absicht ist, einerseits zur Verbesserung der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Diskussion beizutragen sowie andererseits Forschungsergebnisse und neue Entwicklungen sowohl den in der Praxis Tätigen als auch einem breiteren interessierten Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Die Publikationssprachen sind Englisch, Deutsch oder Französisch.

53 publications

Studies in Language, Culture and Society

ISSN: 2195-7479

Until the publication of volume 16, the series was coedited by prof. Piotr Ruszkiewicz. The series will publish books addressing the nexus between language, culture and society. Contrastive studies are welcome in particular, whether of a synchronic or diachronic orientation. Various perspectives on language/communication are of interest: grammatical, pragmatic, sociolinguistic, discoursal and semiotic. A wide range of theoretical and methodological positions is accepted: cognitive /anthropological / corpus linguistics, as well as pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, (specialized) genre analysis, or critical discourse studies. The cutting edge of the series is to publish innovative research elucidating the processes of inter- and intra-language variation and change, and – at the same time – relating them to flows in and across cognate categories of culture, community and society. The series will publish monographs and edited volumes reporting on data-driven research that carries a potential for application in translation studies, language teaching, multilingual (multicultural) education, and interdisciplinary critical discourse studies. The languages of publication will be English and German, yet book proposals in other major languages will also be considered, if centrally contributive to the main aim of the series.

20 publications

LaCuLi. Language Culture Literacy

In the LaCuLi. Language Culture Literacy series, studies in foreign language research and intercultural communication will be published, as well as studies in foreign-language didactics. Research on the processes of language acquisition and language teaching, with a special focus on language awareness, cultural awareness and learner perspectives, is central to the series. It focuses on empirical research in intercultural foreign didactics as well as on cultural aspects of the workplace. Multi-perspective, multi-language and multi-cultural comparative approaches are highlighted. Fields of application are comparative analyses of political speeches, news, ads and business communication in an international context, as well as in learner texts in multi-language and multi-cultural learning environments. In der Reihe LaCuLi. Language Culture Literacy erscheinen Studien zur Fremdsprachenlehr- und -lernforschung und Interkulturellen Kommunikation sowie zur Fremdsprachendidaktik. Im Zentrum stehen Forschungsergebnisse im Bereich von Spracherwerbs- und -vermittlungsprozessen mit den Schwerpunkten Language und Cultural Awareness und Lernerperspektivität, ebenso empirische Untersuchungen zur interkulturellen Fremdsprachendidaktik sowie zu kulturellen Aspekten des Arbeitsplatzes. Im Fokus stehen mehrperspektivisch, mehrsprachig und mehrkulturell vergleichende Herangehensweisen. Anwendungsfelder sind vergleichende Analysen von politischen Reden, Nachrichten, Werbetexten und Businesskommunikation im internationalen Kontext sowie von Lernertexten in mehrsprachigen und multikulturellen Lernumgebungen.

20 publications

Inquiries in Language Learning

ISSN: 1868-386X

The series contains empirical as well as theoretical findings from the field of language acquisition research. Contributions from disciplines like psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and language learning and teaching combine to provide a cross-sectional perspective. The focus is on first and second language acquisition, bilingualism and the multilingual classroom. Die Schriftenreihe umfasst empirische sowie theoretische Beiträge zur Sprachlern- und Spracherwerbsforschung. Die Reihe verbindet interdisziplinär Forschung aus den Bereichen Psycholinguistik, Angewandte Linguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik. Besondere thematische Schwerpunkte sind Erst-/Zweit- und Fremdspracherwerb sowie Bilingualität und Mehrsprachigkeit im schulischen Umfeld.

41 publications

Language in the Digital Age / Las lenguas en la era digital

ISSN: 2940-9306

In an increasingly digital world, language is evolving at a rapid pace and new forms of communication and learning are coming into being. Books published in the series Language in the Digital Age / Las lenguas en la era digital explore various aspects of digital linguistics, ranging from natural language processing to translation, transcreation, and discourse analysis. The series is aimed at linguists and practitioners interested in the fascinating and complex ways in which language and technology intersect, and in how this intersection is transforming human interaction in the digital age. Each volume of the series provides readers with a detailed and accessible introduction to the key concepts and techniques in the field, as well as the latest research and developments. The books are written by leading experts in the field and are designed to serve as a comprehensive guide for beginners and a valuable resource for advanced research. En un mundo cada vez más digital, el lenguaje evoluciona a gran velocidad y, con ello, emergen nuevas formas de comunicación y aprendizaje. Los títulos de la colección Las lenguas en la era digital versan sobre diversos ámbitos de la lingüística digital, desde el procesamiento del lenguaje natural hasta la traducción, la transcreación y el análisis del discurso. Esta serie está dirigida a académicos y profesionales de la lingüística interesados en las complejas formas en que convergen lengua y tecnología, y en cómo esta confluencia está transformando la interacción humana en la era digital. Cada volumen de la colección presenta de forma detallada y accesible los conceptos y las técnicas clave, así como las últimas investigaciones y avances en este campo. Los libros, escritos por expertos en la materia, se encuentran diseñados para servir tanto de guía para principiantes como de referente para investigadores experimentados Editorial Board: Carolyn Blume (Technische Universität Dortmund), Karen Miladys Cárdenas Almanza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Ron Darvin (The University of British Columbia), Óscar Ferreiro Vázquez (Universidade de Vigo), Jesús García Laborda (Universidad de Alcalá), María de los Ángeles Gómez González (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Andréia Guerini (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Chuah Kee Man (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak), Blanka Klímová (Univerzita Hradec Králové), Javier Pérez Guerra (Universidade de Vigo), Miguel Luís Poveda Balbuena (Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie), Nino Angelo Rosanía Maza (Universidad de San Buenaventura), William Rowlandson (University of Kent), Giselle Spiteri Miggiani (L-Università ta' Malta), Chelo Vargas Sierra (Universidad de Alicante), José Yuste Frías (Universidade de Vigo), Juan Miguel Zarandona Fernández (Universidad de Valladolid).

6 publications

Reflections on Signs and Language

This book series proposes themes that are generally associated with the so-called language and sign sciences, in the first place semiotics, linguistics and philosophy of language, inclusive of literary language. It also focuses on problems that interest the communication sciences, including mass-medial communication and the question of translation. However, the perspective is not limited to any one of these disciplinary spheres. Moreover, the series intends to propose a vision that is critical, open and dialogic, which means to say developed in terms of interdisciplinary dialogue. Such an approach is proficuous if it is not limited to encounter among specific disciplines, competencies and interests at a scientific level alone. In fact, a priority characterising this series is to create the conditions for encounter between the sciences of signs, language and communication, on the one hand, and the problems of everyday life which are closely involved, indeed are engendered in them, on the other. We live in a world where life overall as much as the life of each one of us depends increasingly on signs, language and communication. But there’s more: not only human life, but life in general, as biosemiotics now evidences unequivocally, consists of communication and is made of signs. We are looking forward to receiving contributions from all over the world, mindful of the series’ interdisciplinary orientation, characteristics and interests. Submissions should be written in English and will be peer-reviewed by the relevant specialists.

2 publications

Critical Literacies and Language

6 publications