SOCIOLINGUISTICS

NEW BOOK SERIES FOUNDATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LAW

Edited by Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein

Series | De Gruyter Mouton | 2627-3950 e-ISSN 2627-3969

Edited by Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein, the Foundations in Language and Law series aims beyond the traditional surveys of scholarship in law and language. Monographs in the series will provide foundational materials – theoretical, methodological, critical, practical – to advance study of important topics in the eld. And even as each volume engages conceptually with current scholarship in the area, it presents original research which breaks new ground and indicates future directions for scholarship in law and language.

Forthcoming Volumes

Janet Giltrow, Frances Olsen (Eds.)

Legal Meanings and Language Rights

International, Social and Philosophical Perspectives 08/2021. Approx. 300 pages

HC

RRP *€ 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-072091-4

eBook

RRP *€ 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072096-9 EPUB ISBN 978-3-11-072100-3 Victoria Guillén Nieto

Hate Speech

Linguistic Approaches 01/2022. Approx. 200 pages

HC

RRP *€ 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-067246-6

eBook

RRP *€ 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-067261-9 EPUB ISBN 978-3-11-067276-3 Janet Giltrow

Law, Language and Indigeneity in Canada and Beyond

Pragmatic Approaches 01/2022. Approx. 200 pages

HC

RRP *€ 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1766-2

eBook

RRP *€ 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-1233-9 EPUB ISBN 978-1-5015-1205-6

Kazumi Matsuoka, Onno Crasborn, Marie Coppola (Eds.)

EAST ASIAN SIGN LINGUISTICS

This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign Language, and Taiwanese Sign Language.

Sign Languages; East Asia; China; Hong Kong; Japan; Korea; Taiwan

K. Matsuoka, Keio University, Japan; O. Crasborn, Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands; M. Coppola, University of Connecticut, US.

Collection, English, 3rd quarter 2021

Series Sign Language Typology [SLT] 10

Approx. 350 pp. HC RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1698-6 eBook RRP € 119.95 / *US$ 137.99 / *£ 109.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-1024-3 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-1016-8 Ronice Müller de Quadros (Ed.)

BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES

An increasing number of deaf researchers are becoming sign language linguists, document the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and build robust resources for linguistic research. The book brings together a fine collection of studies on Libras covering a variety of areas from phonology to creative literature.

Sign Language; Brazil

Ronice Müller de Quadros, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Collection, English, 3rd quarter 2020

Series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] 11

383 pp., 125 fig. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1640-5 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-0787-8 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-0781-6 Annelies Kusters, Mara Green, Erin Moriarty, Kristin Snoddon (Eds.)

SIGN LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES IN PRACTICE

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditoryoral modality.

Sign Language Studies; Deaf Studies; Sociolinguistics; Applied Linguistics; Intercultural Studies

A. Kusters, Heriot-Watt U; M. Green, Barnard College; E. Moriarty, Gallaudet U & Heriot-Watt U; K. Snoddon, Ryerson U.

Collection, English, 3rd quarter 2020

Series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] 12

362 pp. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-1-5015-1685-6 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-1-5015-1009-0 ePUB ISBN 978-1-5015-1002-1

Roland Pfau, Asli Göksel, Jana Hosemann (Eds.)

OUR LIVES – OUR STORIES: LIFE EXPERIENCES OF ELDERLY DEAF PEOPLE

Sign languages are non-written languages. Hence, the life stories of elderly Deaf signers (i.e., signers born in the 1930s and 1940s) are under serious threat of being lost. This volume constitutes the first effort to document some of these unique stories, both positive and negative ones, thus contributing to the preservation of the cultural and linguistic heritage of Deaf communities.

Deaf Community; Sign Language; Deaf Culture; Elderly People

Roland Pfau, Amsterdam University, Netherlands; Aslı Göksel, Boğaziçi University, Turkey; Jana Hosemann, Cologne University, Germany.

Collection, English, 1st quarter 2021

Series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] 14

Approx. 250 pp., 20 fig. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-070180-7 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-070190-6 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-070201-9 Anna Čermáková, Markéta Malá (Eds.)

VARIATION IN TIME AND SPACE

Observing the World through Corpora

This collection of articles addresses the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. It explores a fascinating number of topics; the unifying element of this broad variety of research is the corpus linguistic methodology. The volume focuses on questions of intertextuality and meaning and variation across time, covering linguistic variation since the 16th century up to present, and in geographical space.

English Language; Second Language Acquisition; Corpus (Linguistics)

Anna Čermáková, Cambridge University, UK, and Charles University; Markéta Malá, Charles University Prague, Czechia.

Collection, English, 4th quarter 2020

Series Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns 20

Approx. 416 pp., 47 fig. HC RRP € 109.95 / *US$ 126.99 / *£ 100.00 ISBN 978-3-11-060192-3 eBook RRP € 109.95 / *US$ 126.99 / *£ 100.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-060471-9 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-060240-1

Li Yuming, Li Wei (Eds.)

THE LANGUAGE SITUATION IN CHINA

Volume 6

China, with the world’s largest population, numerous ethnic groups, and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China’s State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on “language life” in China. These reports cover language policy and planning, new trends in language use, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Now these reports are available in English.

Language Policy and Planning; China; Chinese Language

Li Yuming, Ministry of Education, China; Li Wei, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

Collection, English, 1st quarter 2021

Series Language Policies and Practices in China [LPPC] 8

Approx. 370 pp., 65 fig. HC RRP € 129.95 / *US$ 149.99 / *£ 118.00 ISBN 978-3-11-071176-9 eBook RRP € 129.95 / *US$ 149.99 / *£ 118.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-071179-0 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-071181-3

Lukáš Zámečník

BREAKING THE LINGUISTIC DILEMMA

Investigations of Explanatory Strategies in Linguistics

Linguistic theories often suffer from the dilemma that their explanatory power is based on extralinguistic assumptions. The book delineates the essence of linguistic theory and linguistic explanation and, in doing so, proposes a solution to the dilemma. Simultaneously, the book is one of the first attempts to profile the philosophy of linguistics as a distinct sub-discipline of the contemporary philosophy of science.

Philosophy of Linguistics, Quantitative Linguistics, Linguistic Explanation and Description

Lukáš Zámečník, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Monograph, English, 4th quarter 2021

Series Quantitative Linguistics [QL] 73

Approx. 250 pp. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-071267-4 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-071275-9 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-071280-3 Janet Giltrow, Frances Olsen (Eds.)

LEGAL MEANINGS AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS

International, Social and Philosophical Perspectives

New book series

This collection is about how law makes meaning and how meaning makes law. Through clear methodology and substantial findings, chapters expose the deficits of ‘literal’ meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. Further, we see the impediments to national and international commitments to all speakers understanding the meaning.

Linguistics; Law; Courts

Frances Olsen, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Janet Giltrow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Collection, English, 3rd quarter 2021

Series Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] 1

Approx. 300 pp. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-072091-4 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-072096-9 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-072100-3 Victoria Guillén Nieto

HATE SPEECH

Linguistic Approaches

New book series

Hate speech creates environments that are conducive to hate crimes and broad-scale conflict. This book discusses the mechanics of hate speech and its expression from a linguistic perspective. The author addresses the challenges that legal practitioners and linguists meet when dealing with hate speech, especially with the advent of social media, and offers the reader a comprehensive linguistic approach to the legal problem of hate speech.

Applied Linguistics; Forensic Linguistics; Hate Speech

Victoria Guillén Nieto, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.

Monograph, English, 1st quarter 2022

Series Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] 2

Approx. 200 pp. HC RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 ISBN 978-3-11-067246-6 eBook RRP € 99.95 / *US$ 114.99 / *£ 91.00 PDF ISBN 978-3-11-067261-9 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-067276-3