Books published by John Benjamins Publishing Co

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners' performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these theories in a series of empirical studies. The book examines different types of planning (i.e. task rehearsal, pre-task planning and within-task planning), addressing both what learners do when they plan and the effects of the different types of planning on L2 production. The choice of planning as the variable for investigation in this book is motivated both by its importance for current theorizing about L2 acquisition (in particular with regard to cognitive theories that view acquisition in terms of information processing) and its utility to language teachers and language testers, for unlike many other constructs in SLA 'planning' lends itself to external manipulation. The study of planning, then, provides a suitable forum for demonstrating the interconnectedness of theory, research and pedagogy in SLA.

The term "applied linguistics" is used in a broad sense and describes several examples of the cooperation between linguists and public service institutions or commercial companies. This title aims to highlight the importance of applied linguistic research concerning the deployment of multilingualism, and to stimulate the debate about it.

Describes methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents research based on the "Norwegian Newspaper Corpus". This book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and presents tools used for tasks such as text harvesting, annotation, topic classification and extraction and more.

Presents developments in the linguistics of humour. This volume depicts theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope.

How interpersonal relations are established and negotiated in online message boards by giving an overview of panoply of interpersonal relations, including positively and negatively marked behavior. This book provides refinement of theoretical positions of fields of research, students and professionals are (re-)acquainted with subject at hand.

Beginning with an overview of terminology, this work goes on to discuss the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the foundations of terminology, terminography, computerized terminology, terminology and standardization, and the role of terminologists in a language service,

This collection seeks to represent the state of the art in cognitive stylistics - a field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.