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Volume 27 - December 2023

Book Review

Pam Peters and Kate Burridge (eds.), Exploring the ecology of World Englishes in the twenty-first century: Language, society and culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 392. ISBN 9781474462853 (hardback), 9781474462877 (e-book).

Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs (eds.), Records of real people: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. viii + 310. ISBN 9789027207951.

Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith and Carla Suhr (eds.), Genre in English medical writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural contexts of production and use (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xviii + 322. ISBN 9781009108683.

Peter J. Grund, The sociopragmatics of stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 329). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. ix + 246. ISBN 9789027258236.

Elly van Gelderen, Third factors in language variation and change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 222. ISBN 9781108831161.

Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum and Brett Reynolds, A student's introduction to English grammar, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx + 400. ISBN 9781316514641 (hb), 9781009088015 (pb).

Erik Smitterberg, Syntactic change in Late Modern English: Studies on colloquialization and densification (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 302. ISBN 9781108564984.

Ingrid Paulsen, The emergence of American English as a discursive variety: Tracing enregisterment processes in nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers (Language Variation 7). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. vi + 450. ISBN 9783985540341.

Lynn Anthonissen, Individuality in language change (Trends in Linguistics 360). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. Pp. xvi + 323. ISBN 9783110725841.

Sonja Poulsen, Collocations as a language resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology (Human Cognitive Processing 71). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi + 348. ISBN 9789027210838.

Ee Ling Low and Anne Pakir (eds.), English in East and South Asia: Policy, features and language in use (Routledge Studies in World Englishes). London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xvi + 336. ISBN 9781138359857.

Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber (eds.), Corpus-based approaches to register variation (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 103). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. xi + 341. ISBN 97827210548.

Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics (Constructional Approaches to Language 33). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xviii + 274. ISBN 9789027210913.

José A. Sánchez Fajardo, Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English (Studies in Language Companion Series 222). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. xvi + 229. ISBN 9789027210609.

Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer (eds.), English noun phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective (Studies in Language Companion Series 221). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. vii + 433. ISBN 9789027210173.

Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña (eds.), ‘All families and genera’: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. xv + 310. ISBN 9789027209245 (Hb), 9789027259622 (e-book).

Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares (eds.), Paradigms in word formation: Theory and applications (Studies in Language Companion Series 225). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. Pp. vii + 382. ISBN 9789027211583.

Noelia Castro-Chao, Argument structure in flux: The development of impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of desire (Linguistic Insights 274). Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. Pp. 300. ISBN 9783034341899.

Andreas H. Jucker, Politeness in the history of English: From the Middle Ages to the present day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 210. ISBN 9781108589147.

Maryann Overstreet and George Yule, General extenders: The forms and functions of a new linguistic category. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 238. ISBN 9781108837231.

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