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09/08/2024

Today is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples! Check our selection of content on exploring indigenous languages through their documentation, study and education. Selected content is open until September 10th. http://brill.ws/indi. Additionally, you can browse the collection from our colleagues at De Gruyter Mouton here: https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/indigenouslanguages. Enjoy!

31/07/2024

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀

Intentionality, Identity, and Interpersonal Interaction

Discover the dynamics underlying . The chapters investigate the ways in which individuals shape and interpret intentions, construct identities, and engage in interpersonal exchanges. Online platforms, from forums and to , and are approached with multifaceted qualitative methods.

To the book ➡️ brill.ws/SIP23

26/07/2024

Ten Lectures on Grammaticalization: An Introduction

Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics, Volume: 33

On the basis of analyzed examples from many languages, in this collection of lectures by Christian Lehmann, basic concepts of grammaticalization theory are explained. Degrees of grammaticalization are assessed by well-defined criteria and parameters. Many well-documented cases from different functional domains are analyzed in depth.

To the book ➡️ brill.ws/Lehmann

18/07/2024

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗥𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲

Dear scholars, this new volume offers invaluable non-"Anglo" perspectives through its main focus on public discourse. Discover the interaction between multimodal communication and (sub)cultural influences in , , and discourse.

To the book ➡️ brill.ws/SIP22

05/07/2024

🏖️ Whether you're planning to do your summer research in the library or out in the field (i.e. on the beach), we hope you'll spend it with a good book—one from De Gruyter Brill!

From today, get a cool 50% off our publications until the end of August! 👉 https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/summersale24

18/06/2024

We congratulate Brill author Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart, Germany, who was awarded the prestigious 2024 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy! 🥳

It was jointly awarded to Hans Kamp and Irene Heim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, “for (mutually independent) conception and early development of dynamic semantics for natural language.” (Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences/ Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien)

To learn more about the Prize: www.kva.se/en/news/science-art-and-music-meet-in-the-rolf-schock-prizes-2024/

H Kamp has published books and articles in our CRISPI-Series, such as:

📚 brill.ws/Kamp

Congratulations!

Photo: Kerstin Sänger.

11/06/2024

(English below)

📖 In Open Access!

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗴𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁ä𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗵𝗿𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿
Exkurse zur Erforschung des Lehrens und Lernens fremder Sprachen

Dieser neue Band zeigt, dass wir es in der Forschungslandschaft des Lehren und Lernen von mit Gegenständen zu tun haben, die komplexe und facettenreiche Phänomene sind und dementsprechend einen disziplinübergreifenden Reflexionsprozess sowie ein multiperspektivistisches und kollaboratives Agieren erfordern.

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This volume addresses the issues in inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue as well as the interaction of individual disciplines in handling complex research topics related to learning and . The contributions confirm that the contemporary research landscape of foreign language learning and teaching involves dealing with complex and multi-faceted phenomena and, accordingly, requires a cross-disciplinary process of reflection as well as multi-perspectivist and collaborative action.

Read the book here: ➡️ brill.ws/Forschungsgegenstaende

04/06/2024

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗼-𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝘀

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume: 41

At the intersection of and linguistic research, the essays assembled in this book by Laura Minervini and Frank Savelsberg approach the topic of the languages of Jews from different perspectives, spanning chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on diverse sources – from medical glossaries to inquisition archives, from rabbinic responsa to recordings of today's speakers – the scholars collaborating on this project have endeavoured to reconstruct fragments of a complex and elusive linguistic reality, which over the centuries has been shaped by the historical experience of its speakers.

Find out more: ➡️ brill.ws/JudeoSpanish

28/05/2024

⬇️ English below

𝗪𝗶𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝘁𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗲 𝘇𝗲𝗶𝗴𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗺 ö𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗿ä𝗰𝗵?

Dieses zweibändige Werk von Ulrich Welbers bietet einen Antwortversuch auf der semantischen Langstrecke. Im ersten Teil des ersten Bandes steht zunächst der ›Welt‹-Begriff in einer begriffsgeschichtlich-hermeneutischen Sprachanschauung im Mittelpunkt. Zur Kritik und Erwartung strukturalistisch gedachter Weltanordnung schließt sich ein zweiter Teil an, der dazu den öffentlichen Sprachraum untersucht.

ENG: How did our current knowledge of the world come about and how does it manifest itself in public discourse? This two-volume work by Ulrich Welbers attempts an answer within the semantic long haul. The first volume focuses on the concept 'world' in a historical and hermeneutic linguistic perspective. This is followed by an examination of the public linguistic sphere in order to critique and anticipate a structuralist conceptualization of the world.

To the book: brill.ws/Welbers

21/05/2024

𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝘀 - Vol. 7 out now!

This volume is both a continuation of the six already published titles in the series (2021-23) and an addition to the "Concise Dictionary of Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages". It continues mapping the medical terminology features in medieval Hebrew medical works to facilitate study of medical terms that do not appear in the existing dictionaries. It also examines the medical terminology used by specific authors and translators in order to identify anonymous medical material.

To the book: ➡️ brill.ws/GerritBos

16/05/2024

𝗜𝗻-𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

The title concept ‘in-between’ (metaxu) refers to identity that remains in perpetual disjunction, dispersion and crisis. This book, edited by Joanna Senderska and Anna Wileczek, proves that ‘in-between’ is not an empty space, but a productive mode of creating new qualities, experiences, ideas and representations.

The authors of individual chapters interpret selected aspects of metaxu in relevant to contemporary cultural communication areas, i.e. linguistic and more broadly semiotic, and make contemporary discourses the object of exploration. Most of the analyses are based on the Polish-language linguistic context; however, they refer to a universal perspective of culture and communication.

Find out more: 📖 brill.ws/Inbetween

14/05/2024

𝗧𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 - 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀

In this book, Christopher Hart provides a comprehensive description of an applied form of Cognitive Linguistics in Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA). Across the ten lectures, various frameworks in cognitive linguistics are applied, including cognitive grammar, conceptual semantics, conceptual metaphor theory and discourse space theory. Texts and talk from a variety of contexts and genres are analysed. In the final two lectures, Cognitive CDA is extended to multimodal data in the form of images and gestures.

Learn more: brill.ws/Hart

13/05/2024

13/05/2024

The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics Online is the first reference work in the field of cognitive semantics, the interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. Edited by Fuyin Thomas Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments.

Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This online version includes all content from the print set (4 volumes) in one consolidated database and adds practical features such as full-text search and easy options for browsing. More info: http://brill.ws/hcso_

Institutional trials are available. Ask your librarian to contact: [email protected].

10/05/2024

Just published and available for trial: 'Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online'. This is a thoroughly revised expansion of the previously published 'Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics', now encompassing the entire history of Greek: from Proto-Greek to modern times.

The Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online is the culmination of many years’ efforts by over 400 scholars. It provides an authoritative and comprehensive treatment of all important aspects of the language in its 3,500-year documented history, offering a systematic overview of the language on all levels and from many different angles and theoretical traditions.

About 65% of the content is completely new, while the remaining 35% consists of revised and expanded entries from the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. The Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics Online launched in April 2024 with around 25% of the total content. Completion is expected in 2025. More info: http://brill.ws/gllo_

Institutional trials are available. Ask your librarian to contact: [email protected].

29/03/2024

📘 Introducing our latest publication: 'Variedades del español: aproximaciones desde la sociolingüística, la pragmática, la traducción y la interpretación,' edited by Gonzalo Francisco Sánchez, Diana Castilleja, Juan Jiménez-Salcedo, Cristal Huerdo-Moreno, and Marta Bonet Bofill. 🌟 Delve into a comprehensive analysis of Spanish and its diversity through the lenses of linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and more! Explore the richness of our language in various contexts, including translation, interpretation, and foreign language teaching. Discover more: https://brill.com/display/title/64764

¡Sí, también publicamos en español sobre estudios literarios, culturales y de traducción española! 🇪🇸

28/03/2024

Join us in shaping the discourse of modern language studies! 🌍 Explore opportunities to contribute to 'The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies.' Some vacancies remain open for scholars in European languages and literatures. Discover more: https://brill.com/view/journals/ywml/ywml-overview.xml

27/03/2024

New at Brill! We are very happy to announce that our Diamond 'Applied Linguistics Journal' just published its first issue. It contains 11 high-quality articles, all free to read and download here: https://brill.com/alj

04/03/2024

02/02/2024

If you are at in Utrecht, come meet our new Acquisitions Editor Seçil Ümitvar to talk about your work and publishing ideas!

01/01/2024

Chinese Texts in the World – www.brill.com/CTW
This new series is looking for your contribution – send book proposals to masja.horn[at]brill.com

"Chinese Texts in the World" published on 04 Jul 2022 by Brill.

19/12/2023

Submissions to the 2024 Joshua A. are now open for early-career scholars in the sociology of language. Submit your application until January 15th for a chance to get your dissertation published and to win €1000 and a €150 book voucher!

Apply now, or help us spread the word: http://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/fishmanaward


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15/12/2023

Open Access! Why is the dragon idea globally distributed when no such creature existed? This posthumous publication by the late Robert Blust, here presented by his family, Jasmine and Laura Chang-Blust, argues that the idea of dragons evolved from preliterate attempts to explain the causality and nature of rainbows.

Robert Blust argues that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of the traits that are attributed to dragons in widely separated parts of the planet are also attributed to rainbows, and that the number and antiquity of such shared traits cannot be attributed to chance or common inheritance, but rather to common cognitive pathways by which human psychology has responded to the natural environment in a wide array of cultures around the world.

To the book: brill.ws/RobertBlust

02/11/2023

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱?

Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years, this monograph, here presented by author Diego Gabriel Krivochen, develops a new, mathematically grounded framework in which objects known as graphs and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish.

Find out more! ➡️ brill.ws/Krivochen

30/10/2023

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀?

is over, but never here at Brill! Publishing all your research in is now possible with Brill's Transformative Agreement.

You receive full reading access and can publish an unlimited number of papers across Brill's 340+ journals in the humanities, social sciences, international law and life sciences.

Learn more about how you can publish with Brill's Transformative Agreement here: youtu.be/fw8g6b6BC0c

Is your university already taking part? Find it out here: brill.ws/TransforAgreement

Would you like all your research to be Open Access?This is now possible with Brill's transformative agreement! You receive full reading access and can publis...

12/10/2023

Brill and De Gruyter have agreed to join forces to become the leading academic publisher in the .

The enlarged scale will accelerate our transition to Open Access and increase our ability to deliver cutting-edge technology. Together, we will publish over 3,500 books and 800 journals per year while providing the best possible service and infrastructure to our communities.

Please find our joint press release here: https://ow.ly/gg1Q50PVSUc

Today’s announcement is kicking off a formal process. As Brill is a listed company, De Gruyter will launch a public offer for all of Brill shares. Once the transaction is successfully concluded, we will become De Gruyter Brill. Sharing similar cultural values with deep roots and a long tradition in the academic community, we are looking forward to continue our growth path with De Gruyter.

23/08/2023

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀: 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

The Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics Online is a unique and comprehensive reference work, offering a systematic treatment of the Turkic languages from Old Turkic to the languages and varieties spoken today. Learn about the features of our encyclopedia and how to use it via this youtube video (both eng and tr): youtube.com/watch?v=sfb2HA0-gks

Dive into this vast work of research of Turkic linguistics today! To the encyclopedia: brill.ws/Etll

The Encyclopedia of Turkic Language and Linguistics is a unique and comprehensive reference work, offering a systematic treatment of the Turkic languages fro...

18/08/2023

𝗡𝗼𝘄 #𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲

Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time during the Bronze Age. By combining, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the complementary approaches of linguistics, history, and philology, "Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World" offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art study of linguistic and cultural contacts in a region that is often described as the bridge between the East and the West. With contributions by Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Maurizio Viano, and Ilya Yakubovich. To the book: brill.ws/Hittiteworld

14/08/2023

"Ancient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology," ed. by Michele Bianconi, Marta Capano, Domenica Romagno, and Francesco Rovai.

Through the lenses of contact, variation, and reconstruction, this edited collection investigates a broad variety of case studies of Indo-European languages in an & way.

More information here www.brill.com/display/title/61779

14/08/2023

We proudly present Anju Saxena's amazing book "The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas: Languages in Kinnaur"!

This book is a contribution to the documentation of the so far almost undescribed situation of the district in (Indian Himalayas).

The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region.

www.brill.com/display/title/34338