Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics – serie

This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive engagement with Persian discourse analysis in the Western hemisphere, addressing the shadowy borders that exist between culture, language, linguistics, and historicity, which are often overlooked in cultural linguistics and pragmatics more broadly.

This handbook brings together current research on the phonetics and phonology of the Modern Iranian languages to provide a comprehensive overview of the main phonetic and phonological phenomena in these languages.

This collection explores relevant pedagogical and sociolinguistic topics in the teaching and learning of Persian as a foreign and second language. Owing to the dearth of research in many areas pertaining to the teaching and learning of Persian, this handbook provides empirically-supported insights into various aspects of these areas. While the literature on teaching and learning Persian is growing, the field lacks a cohesive collection on Persian as a foreign/second language. The book addresses issues pertaining to the standardization and validation of teaching and assessment methods, which remain under-explored in the contexts of teaching and learning Persian. It also covers the teaching of Persian pragmatics, the use of corpora, as well as a range of different areas within linguistics, including phonetics, prosody, and historical linguistics. This comprehensive collection contributes substantially to the scientific study of many aspects of teaching and learning Persian which have been neglected for decades. A must-have text in Persian language pedagogy and Persian sociolinguistics, it an essential book for those in teaching and learning in Persian language programs worldwide.

This handbook addresses the interrelatedness of nationalism, identity, language, linguistics, and multilingualism in an African context. It covers multilingualism, language and identity, language endangerment, language shift, language maintenance, language contact, diglossia, language decline, language death, language vitality, and much more in, linguistically, one of the richest regions on earth. The variety of alphabets and oral traditions immersed in folklore, made more linguistically complex through issues of inter-borders, and the long history of foreign intrusions and colonialism, has meant a collision of identities and linguistic peculiarities. This book considers these facets in relation to language endangerment in numerous geographies within the African continent. It confronts these questions under the rubric of multilingualism, linguistic geography, and a panoply of other sub-studies. By investigating a multitude of topics around the themes of multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in Africa, this volume brings together these dimensions to showcase interdisciplinary research in studies of African languages and linguistics. Relevant to applied linguists, socio-linguists, cultural linguistics, language teachers, anthropologists, and scholars in African cultural studies more broadly, this is a vital, urgent text challenging language, and identity, endangerment.

Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers global, comparative insights into the field.

This handbook is the largest and most comprehensive publication on Berber linguistics to date, covering the variety of Berber dialects and related linguistics trends.