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John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher of journals, books and online resources focused on linguistics and the language sciences. We publish 88 journals and between 80–100 new book titles per year.

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New Course book

Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Matt Kessler

This edited volume examines topics related to digital and internet-based research methods in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics. The book brings together internationally recognized experts with diverse interests from across the field. Covered are key approaches, methods, tools, and… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] 2026. xii, 433 pp.

New Course book

Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research

Edited by Yuko Goto Butler and Annamaria Pinter

In recent years, child-centered research has garnered increasing attention among scholars working with children. However, it remains under-explored within the field of applied linguistics. This gap is partly attributable to the conceptual complexity of the notion itself; “child-centered research”… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 13] 2025. ix, 202 pp.

New Special Issue

Researching Occitan in the 21st Century: Un dialòg interdisciplinari

Edited by Marc Olivier and Anna Paradis

Special issue of Revue Romane 60:1 (2025) v, 151 pp.

New Special Issue

Future Perspectives in Medical Argumentation

Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:3 (2025) v, 110 pp.

New Special Issue

Instructing Bodies

Edited by Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström

Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 5:1/2 (2025) v, 228 pp.

New Special Issue

Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 16:1 (2026) v, 177 pp.

New Reference work

Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment

Edited by Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 28] 2025. xiii, 194 pp.

New Special Issue

Diachrony of Tone

Edited by Sandra Auderset, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann

Special issue of Diachronica 42:3/4 (2025) v, 259 pp.

New Special Issue

The Grammar of Canonical and Non-canonical Wh-constructions

Edited by C.-T. James Huang

Special issue of Concentric 51:2 (2025) v, 172 pp.

New Special Issue

Epistemological issue

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.

New Special Issue

Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

Edited by Reem Khamis and Mira Goral

Special issue of Arabic Linguistics 1:2 (2025) v, 134 pp.

New Special Issue

Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Anton Granvik, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä

Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 (2025) vi, 357 pp.

New Journal

InContext

Studies in Translation and Interculturalism

Edited by Ho-Jeong Cheong

ISSN 2799-6190 | E‑ISSN 2799‑8592

New Course book

Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Approaches to Second Language Development

Edited by Wander Lowie, Rosmawati and Vanessa De Wilde

This edited volume is a timely and significant contribution to second language development research from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective. The book addresses the growing need for consistent and practical methodologies for CDST research. Each chapter presents an innovative method… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 14] 2025. x, 222 pp.

Journal

Nota Bene

Journal for Linguistics in Belgium and The Netherlands

Edited by Steven Schoonjans and Helen de Hoop

ISSN 2950-189X | E‑ISSN 2950‑1881

New Special Issue

Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4

Edited by Thorsten Piske and Thomas Herbst

Special issue of Pedagogical Linguistics 7:1 (2026) v, 219 pp.

New Special Issue

Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025) v, 209 pp.

Open Access

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Latest books

January 2026

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.

January 2026

New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang

Edited by Andrew Simpson

This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. viii, 489 pp.

January 2026

A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English: Structural, functional, and typological perspectives

Chao Li

The book examines similarities and differences between Chinese and English from structural, functional, and typological perspectives. The linguistic comparison undertaken covers various aspects of the two languages, including, for example, typological features, the phonological system, the writing… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 239] 2026. xv, 399 pp.

January 2026

A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions

Edited by Sune Gregersen and Kees Hengeveld

Habitual constructions, such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions, arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category, but rather a family of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 136] 2026. vii, 389 pp.

January 2026

This is the Thing: A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’

Michael Fortescue

This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 79] 2026. ix, 220 pp.

January 2026

Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Matt Kessler

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] 2026. xii, 433 pp.

December 2025

Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”

Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno

Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 24] 2025. xiv, 384 pp. | open access

November 2025

Morphology by Serial Optimization

Edited by Gereon Müller

Harmonic Serialism is a derivational version of Optimality Theory that has widely been pursued for phonology and syntax but so far much less for morphology. The harmonic serialist approach to inflectional morphology underlying the contributions to the present volume is virtually unique in that it… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 289] 2025. v, 348 pp.

November 2025

Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel

Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam

This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more

[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.

November 2025

Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages

Edited by Henry Tyne and Stefania Spina

Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages. Covering four Mediterranean Romance languages – French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan – the volume provides a thematically structured… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122] 2025. vi, 406 pp.

November 2025

Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation

Edited by Vasso Giannakopoulou and Elin Sütiste

A prominent keyword of the 21st century humanities, the concept of transmedia describes, in essence, an age-old phenomenon: texts tend to spread in a fragmented fashion, in various media, and be appropriated and further developed by multiple agents. However, the concept of transmedia and the… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 167] 2025. xi, 242 pp.

November 2025

The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky

Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins

What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 20] 2025. xv, 577 pp. | open access

November 2025

The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries

Edited by Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer

Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather, lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 238] 2025. v, 252 pp. | open access

November 2025

Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity

Edited by Laura Rosseel and Eline Zenner

This volume, resulting from the fifth edition of the conference series Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA), brings together research at the intersection of language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Work within the ViLA tradition explores how learners—from preschoolers to adult second-language… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 34] 2025. vi, 262 pp.

November 2025

Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality

Edited by Jean Albrespit, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson

Researchers in the fields of logic, philosophy and linguistics have for many years been pondering over the elusive nature of modality and grappled with ways of capturing it. This book provides a broad overview of issues relevant to the study of modality and reflects the diversity of theoretical… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 237] 2025. vi, 370 pp.

October 2025

Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis

Edited by Simon Borchmann, Anne H. Fabricius and Ida Klitgård

This volume invites its readers to rethink the linguistic basis for framing analysis by problematizing the existing foundation and presenting eight new pragmatically based framing analyses.The book challenges the assumption that there is a unilateral, one-to-one relationship between words and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] 2025. v, 279 pp.

October 2025

What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity

Edited by Herbert L. Colston

This volume presents works seeking to re-think the very nature and scope of figurativity, calling into attention some of the received tenets in accounts of figurativity, both as a holistic category and for individual types and families of figures, but also attempting to expand upon the current… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 19] 2025. vi, 322 pp.

October 2025

Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy

Edited by Shawn Loewen, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang and Matthew D. Coss

This book brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the rich inter-section of technology and second language (L2) learning and teaching. This innovative volume offers a unique blend of cutting-edge empirical research, pedagogy-informed perspectives, and practical… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] 2025. x, 365 pp.

October 2025

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door

Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.

October 2025

The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use

Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is, how language… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 46] 2025. xix, 348 pp. | open access

October 2025

Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications

Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos

This book is a panorama of contemporary quantitative linguistics, as developed over decades. It highlights the main topics of QL: statistical laws of language, taxonomy of linguistic phenomena, authorial attribution, quantitative analysis of syntax (e.g., dependency grammar), measurement of text… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 370] 2025. vi, 241 pp.

October 2025

First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages

Edited by Minna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman

This book is the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the first language acquisition of four Finno-Ugric languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and North Saami. Ten chapters review research on phonological, lexical, and grammatical development, bringing the research within the… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] 2025. vii, 349 pp.

October 2025

Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder

Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.

October 2025

COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures

Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses

The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. vi, 344 pp.

October 2025

Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell

Edited by María J. Arche, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer

This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language, grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the field of Linguistics… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] 2025. xiii, 368 pp.

September 2025

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe

Edited by Rossella Resi and Frieda Steurs

This book provides an overview of the various methods adopted for terminology planning in the languages under examination. Collectively, the authors attempt to establish an overall understanding of terminology planning in Europe, starting from an examination of the organizations engaged in… read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 4] 2025. viii, 799 pp.

September 2025

English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires

Axel Bohmann

This book presents an account of English in the communicative repertoires of anglophone West-Africans living in Southwestern Germany. Adopting an ethnographically grounded perspective, it analyzes how participants perceive and utilize English as well as other linguistic resources at their disposal… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G72] 2025. xi, 244 pp.

September 2025

Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment

Edited by Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 28] 2025. xiii, 194 pp.

September 2025

Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English

Denisa Latić

This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language, exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this, cultural values, political ideology, language models, and reported self- and other-perception as… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 19] 2025. xviii, 289 pp.

September 2025

The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages

Edited by Alessandro Carlucci and Jerzy Nykiel

This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 236] 2025. xi, 356 pp.

September 2025

Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English

Anna Finzel

The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes. With the help of different methodologies and empirical data in the form… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 17] 2025. xxi, 229 pp.

September 2025

Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Approaches to Second Language Development

Edited by Wander Lowie, Rosmawati and Vanessa De Wilde

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 14] 2025. x, 222 pp.

September 2025

Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches

Edited by Eugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo

This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.

September 2025

Eyes on Text: Eye movements in reading and language processing

Cengiz Acartürk

Eyes on Text presents a contemporary overview of research on eye movements in reading and language processing by spinning around the heptagon of cognitive science, which consists of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, education in its corners. The book… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 16] 2025. xiii, 342 pp.

September 2025

Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research

Edited by Yuko Goto Butler and Annamaria Pinter

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 13] 2025. ix, 202 pp.

September 2025

Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States

Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi

Storytelling is a means of fostering a sense of identity, belonging, and continuity. Through stories, Indigenous peoples understand and interpret the world, and learn how to survive in spite of external forces such as colonialism. Storytelling has been studied by many scholars across myriad… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 28] 2025. xiii, 250 pp.

September 2025

The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues

Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión

This book comprehends a unique collection of articles on the rhetorical tools, with special reference to both discursive and verbo-visual metaphor. It focuses on monomodal and multimodal figurative representations in wine discourse, in political discourse, and in the sports media. Moreover, it… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 20] 2025. vi, 198 pp.

September 2025

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Edited by Mark Amengual and Amanda Dalola

The study of Romance linguistics has long been a vibrant and dynamic field, enriched by diverse theoretical perspectives and a range of methodological innovations. This volume gathers contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in the field to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] 2025. vi, 331 pp.

August 2025

Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics

Pierfranca Forchini

This book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus, a collection of authentic, verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research, it broadens both the scope of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 124] 2025. vii, 329 pp.

August 2025

Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English

Hang Su

This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 123] 2025. xxii, 224 pp.

July 2025

Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction

Edited by Víctor Fernández-Mallat and María Irene Moyna

Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 6] 2025. vi, 266 pp.

July 2025

Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact

Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed

This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] 2025. vii, 222 pp.

June 2025

Love, Sex, and the Sacred: A metaphor analysis of Hungarian folk songs

Veronika Szelid

Most Hungarian folksongs are about SEX – according to a widely accepted opinion of ethnographers. But what is SEX about? How is it connected to LOVE, and what does THE SACRED have to do with these? Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this book reveals the profound connections between the three… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 18] 2025. xi, 265 pp.

New Journal

InContext

Studies in Translation and Interculturalism

Edited by Ho-Jeong Cheong

ISSN 2799-6190 | E‑ISSN 2799‑8592

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