Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Khoshsirat, Zia (ed.), Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Iran: Essays on Language, Culture, and Society. (Iranian and Persian Studies) 252 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <758-954>
ISBN 978-981-9526-15-4 hard ¥35,570.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book contributes to understandings of linguistic anthropology within the context of the wider Persianate world, covering Iranian language societies in both their homelands, and in the diaspora. It demarcates language ideologies - feelings, beliefs of language, and linguistic forms in their broad terms; semiotic processes - signs and their indexical meanings; affect - emotions, or what sensory perceptions do in society; language socialization and language development; discourse analyses; and literacy, secrecy and textuality. Bringing together linguists and anthropologists to chart the far-reaching diaspora of the Iranian community under the rubric of poetics and anthropology, it is a relevant collection for scholars in Near Eastern studies, in areas of languages and linguistics, literature, semiotics, cultural studies, social sciences, and diaspora studies.

Malyuga, Elena N. (ed.), Contemporary Approaches to Linguistics and Teaching Methods in Business and Professional Communication: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Topical Issues of Linguistics and Teaching Methods. (Springer Proceedings in Humanities and Social Sciences) 340 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-872>
ISBN 978-3-032-06296-3 hard ¥45,734.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book presents the proceedings of the 11th edition of Topical Issues of Linguistics and Teaching Methods in Business and Professional Communication (TILTM 2024), held at RUDN University, which present a diverse collection of studies in applied linguistics and specialized language training. This book brings together research on a wide range of topics, including innovative approaches to language teaching, virtual reality technologies, business English in the context of global transformations, and corpus-based methods for generating foreign language learning materials. The book interests scholars and practitioners engaged in language globalization, business discourse analysis, professional communication, and the integration of technology in linguistics and education.

McGowan, Mary Kate, On Silencing: What It Is and Why It Matters. 184 pp. 2026:3 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <758-49>
ISBN 978-0-19-783729-0 hard ¥7,623.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Georgallidou, Marianthi / Boukala, Salomi, The Language of Politics and the Greek Paradigm. (The Language of Politics) 275 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-591>
ISBN 978-981-9520-61-9 hard ¥33,029.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book seeks to identify the manifold ways in which the multiple European crises, debt, financial, sociopolitical, refugee (re)construct political polarizations in Greece on the basis of the country's divided past. This is the first book in the context of Discourse Studies and Political Communication which addresses specifically the Greek political particularities and their importance in both the construction and the expression of different notions of political identity in discourse. The book, written by two linguists, provides a critical interactional approach that combines critical discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, argumentation, political sociology, and social theory. Its interdisciplinary character enriches its theoretical platform and makes it distinctive. While the book centers on the Greek political landscape, it offers valuable insights for the broader study of Western politics and societies, which, like Greece, have in recent years been marked by overlapping crises, polarization, and political instability. We anticipate that readers will identify parallels between the Greek case and their own political realities. Coupled with an innovative methodological approach, this study aims to open new pathways in the analysis of political discourses.

Montgomery, Derek E. / Tompkins, Virginia, Language and Theory of Mind: How Children Learn About the Mind Through Language. 416 pp. 2026:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <758-1129>
ISBN 978-0-19-890967-5 hard ¥36,850.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00

Theory of mind is the capacity for understanding how thoughts and feelings underlie what people say and do. It is the interpretive key that helps people make sense of the social world. Children's language acquisition is the pathway for their participation in the social world. With language, children share thoughts, feelings, and meaning with others. Together, theory of mind and language catalyze the development of social understanding in childhood. This book is about research and theory devoted to understanding how that happens. Research on language and theory of mind spans multiple disciplines and multiple decades. This book organizes and integrates the expansive literature, providing a comprehensive portrait of what we know, and still need to know, about the role of language in children's understanding of the mental world. The authors discuss how children come to talk about the mind, the contributions of caregiver-child conversation to theory of mind development, and the pragmatic skills infants and children need for a meeting of the minds within conversation. Coverage also explores the fundamental relation that theory of mind has with narrative comprehension and engagement with fiction throughout the lifespan. Excerpts from parent-child conversations in each chapter illuminate how the social use of language is tied to understanding the mind. The authors synthesize the language-theory of mind literature into a cohesive presentation intended for researchers and graduate students in psychology and related fields such as education, philosophy, and psycholinguistics, as well as practitioners who work with children in clinical and educational settings.

Huld, Martin, Naming the Horse. 312 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <758-1414>
ISBN 978-0-19-767259-4 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 105.00

Lu, Nan, The Discursive Construction of Legal Reasoning: A Genre Study of the United States Supreme Court Opinions. (The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series) 250 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <758-1416>
ISBN 978-981-9530-39-7 hard ¥33,029.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book presents a fine-grained and dynamic description of the discursive construction of legal reasoning in judicial opinions, drawing upon the Systemic Functional linguistic perspective of language and genre. It aims to explore the discursive resources in constructing legal reasoning across metafunctions, at different levels, and of various sizes. This book contributes to the linguistic understanding of legal reasoning in judicial opinions and extends genre studies to large texts with complex and hierarchical structures. It presents an applicable model for a deep analysis of relations between legal reasoning and language. The findings of this research may also provide subject-specific knowledge for common law students in case reading and learning.

Moser, David (ed.), Thinking in Chinese and English: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Whorfian Question. 232 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-1420>
ISBN 978-981-9511-64-8 hard ¥35,570.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Do Chinese and English speakers think differently? While the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - the idea that language determines thought - has long been discredited, this book offers a more nuanced perspective on whether linguistic differences between Chinese and English influence how native speakers perceive the world. Bringing together a multidisciplinary collection of papers from fields such as philosophy, translation studies, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics, this volume explores the complex interplay between language and thought in these two languages. It will serve as a valuable reference for sinologists, linguists, and scholars of Asian studies alike.

Pereltsvaig, Asya M., Language Rules!: Secrets of a Uniquely Human Ability. 2026:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <758-1421>
ISBN 978-1-009-65829-4 hard ¥19,162.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-009-65828-7 paper ¥6,485.- (税込) GB￡ 22.00

What are the key design elements of human language? How does it work? What makes it different from how animals communicate and convey information? How did it evolve, biologically speaking? In what respects do animals fail to do what we humans do so effortlessly? Language is a uniquely human trait, but without a degree in linguistics, it is difficult to comprehend how it works. This fascinating book addresses these and related questions in a lively and engaging way, and demonstrates the 'nuts and bolts' of how language actually works. Readers are introduced to key discoveries in the study of language, such as Chomsky's ideas about 'language faculty', and parallels are drawn with well-known issues in science, such as 'flat earth', the nature-nurture debate, and the teaching of language to apes. Language - something so universal to all human experience - is a fascinating cognitive system, and this book explains how, and why.