University of Fribourg

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Fribourg*

Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement: Special issue of the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:1 (2024)

EditorJennifer Schumann & Steve Oswald

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 12:1] 2024. v, 138 pp. | special issue

Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition: Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 (2022)

Edited by Stephanie Durrleman

Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics

[Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, 4:1] 2022. | special issue

Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions. Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 (2020)

Edited by Steve Oswald, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli & Andrea Rocci

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Journal of Argumentation in Context, 9:1] 2020. | special issue

The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers: Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 (2005)

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Corinne Rossari

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 6:2] 2005. | special issue

Laien in der Philosophie des Mittelalters: Hinweise und Anregungen zu einem vernachlässigten Thema

Ruedi Imbach

Subjects Medieval philosophy

[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 14] 1989. 174 pp. | monograph

Duchêne, Alexandre 2026 Problems with problems and solutions in Applied Linguistics: Some considerations and propositions

Keywords: applied linguistics | problem–solution orientation | reflexivity | historiography | inequality | knowledge production | disciplinary boundaries

In: 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research, Miras, Grégory, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc & Shona Whyte (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 22] pp. 168–180 | open access

Mair, Christian 2025 Review of World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language by Bertus van Rooy (2024)

English World-Wide 46:1 pp. 122–126 | book review | open access

Bentea, Anamaria, Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi & Stephanie Durrleman 2025 Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number

Keywords: language acquisition | comprehension | relative clauses | intervention | features | gender | number | agreement

In: The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 20] p. 2 | open access

Solaimani, Ehsan, Franziska Baumeister, Anamaria Bentea, Vicky Chondrogianni, Hélène Delage, Pauline Wolfer & Stephanie Durrleman 2025 Bilingualism, working memory, and relative clause comprehension in children

Keywords: bilingualism | working memory | child language acquisition | relative clauses

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:2 pp. 171–202 | article | open access

Thomas, Anita 2025 Researching L2 French input and instructed learning

Keywords: input | implicit/explicit | corpus linguistics | experimental research | intervention studies | French L2 | French language

In: Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research, Howard, Martin (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 9] pp. 261–283

Berthele, Raphael 2025 Old whines in nuevas bouteilles

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 pp. 41–45 | article commentary | open access

Maillat, Didier & Steve Oswald 2024 Manipulation in exceptional times: Exploiting overwhelming contextual parameters for manipulative purposes

Keywords: manipulation | epistemic vigilance | Context Selection Constraint | Relevance Theory | scientific authority

In: Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation in Times of Crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 339] pp. 62–84

Salvadori, Justine, Rossella Varvara & Richard Huyghe 2024 Measuring affix rivalry as a gradient relationship

Keywords: affix rivalry | quantitative method | nominalization | deverbal suffix | French

In: Competition in Word-Formation, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Akiko Nagano & Vincent Renner (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 284] pp. 104–138

Tseronis, Assimakis, Ramy Younis & Mehmet Ali Üzelgün 2024 A proposal for the evaluation of multimodal argumentation: Assessing reasonableness and effectiveness in environmental campaign posters

Keywords: argument from negative consequences | evaluation of multimodal argumentation | reasonableness | effectiveness | strategic maneuvering | environmental posters | semiotic design | semiotic complexity

Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:2 pp. 292–317 | article | open access

Schumann, Jennifer & Steve Oswald 2024 Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement

Keywords: pragmatics | argumentation | disagreement | meaning-making resources

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:1 pp. 1–16 | review article | open access

Schwab, Sandra, Faustine Etter, Julie Kamber, Michael Mouthon, Lars Rogenmoser, Lea B. Jost & Jean-Marie Annoni 2024 The influence of linguistic and cognitive background on word stress processing in an unknown language

Keywords: lexical stress perception | unknown language | working memory capacity | musical aptitude | task complexity

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:2 pp. 204–231 | article

Wetzel, Mathis, Sandrine Zufferey & Pascal Gygax 2024 The role of complexity in the ability to notice incoherent uses of connectives for L2

Keywords: discourse connectives | second language | online reading | frequency | modality | register | self-paced reading task | sentence-evaluation-task

Journal of Second Language Studies 7:1 pp. 44–74 | article

Peristeri, Eleni, Eleni Baldimtsi, Ianthi M. Tsimpli & Stephanie Durrleman 2024 Bilingualism matters: A study of children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder

In: Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 66] pp. 204–231

Lombard, Alizée, Richard Huyghe, Lucie Barque & Doriane Gras 2023 Regular polysemy and novel word-sense identification

Keywords: novel word sense | neological intuition | regular polysemy | metonymy | metaphor

The Mental Lexicon 18:1 p. 94 | article

Bugayong, Lenny Kaye 2023 Exploring the potential of implicatures for assessing interpreting quality in the Swiss asylum procedure

Keywords: assessing interpreting quality | public service interpreting | implicatures | cognitive pragmatics

In: Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter & Thomas C. Messerli (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 337] pp. 30–50

Maillat, Didier 2023 On the manifestness of assumptions: Gaining insights into commitment and emotions

Keywords: manifestness | strength of assumptions | accessibility of assumptions | evidentiality | commitment | emotion

Pragmatics 33:3 pp. 460–485 | article | open access

Lombard, Alizée, Marine Wauquier, Cécile Fabre, Nabil Hathout, Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac & Richard Huyghe 2022 Evaluating morphosemantic demotivation through experimental and distributional methods

Keywords: demotivation | semantics | experimental approach | distributional semantics | lexicon

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:1 p. 83 | article

Atanasiu, Vlad 2022 Applications of the Document Towers method of representing document structures

Keywords: document structure | document representation | document analysis | information systems | visual metaphors

Information Design Journal 27:2 pp. 144–190 | article | open access

Durrleman, Stephanie, Eleni Peristeri & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli 2022 The language-communication divide: Evidence from bilingual children with atypical development

Keywords: language | communication | bilingualism | cognitive control | theory of mind | social comprehension | high functioning autism | specific language impairment

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 pp. 5–51 | article

Dembinski, Paul H., Philippe Rudaz, Hannah Soissons & Marc Chesney 2022 Does global English influence the perception of professional ethical dilemmas?

In: Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz & Nike K. Pokorn (eds.) [Studies in World Language Problems, 9] pp. 531–554

Herman, Thierry & Steve Oswald 2022 “You want me to be wrong”: Expert ethos, (de-)legitimation, and ethotic straw men as discursive resources for conspiracy theories

Keywords: rhetoric | argumentation | ethos | ethotic straw man | legitimation | de-legitimation | conspiracy | Raoult | expertise

In: Conspiracy theory discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] p. 99

Guasti, Maria Teresa, Elena Pagliarini & Stephanie Durrleman 2021 The acquisition of disjunction under negation and recursive ni in French

Keywords: disjunction | negation | scope | negative concord | child French

In: L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance, Avram, Larisa, Anca Sevcenco & Veronica Tomescu (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] pp. 315–330

Schwab, Sandra & Volker Dellwo 2021 Explicit versus non-explicit prosodic training in the learning of Spanish L2 stress contrasts by French listeners

Keywords: stress ‘deafness’ | perceptual prosodic training | instructional treatment | explicit | non-explicit | phonetic variability | shape/word matching task

Journal of Second Language Studies 5:2 pp. 266–306 | article

Siegenthaler, Perina, Andreas Fahr & Alexander Ort 2022 The effects of different narrative structures in public service announcements on transportation and counterarguing

Keywords: narratives | transportation | story structure | health communication | counterarguing | stress

Information Design Journal 26:3 pp. 216–236 | article

Mensah, Eyo, Vivian Dzokoto & Kirsty Rowan 2021 The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio

Keywords: emotion | personal names | personality | psychology of identity | selfhood | linguistic ideology | Ibibio

International Journal of Language and Culture 8:2 pp. 218–244 | article

Flack, Patrick 2021 

Historiographia Linguistica 47:2/3 pp. 360–369 | book review

Maillat, Didier 2020 The Argument and the Honey Pot: A pragmatic account of fallacies of seduction

Keywords: argument ad carotam | argument of authority | cognitive biases | context selection constraint | fallacies | halo effect | manipulation | pragmatics | seduction

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 pp. 124–147 | article

Vanhove, Jan 2020 Towards simpler and more transparent quantitative research reports

Keywords: rounding | nonparametric tests | open science | data visualisation | superfluous significance tests

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 172:1 p. 3 | article

Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli & Andrea Rocci 2020 Argumentation and meaning

Keywords: argumentation | meaning | pragmatics | semantics | inference

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 pp. 1–18 | article

Azzopardi, Sophie & Richard Huyghe 2017  « La cena será en el restaurante La Rueda, que está en la calle San Miguel » : Analyse de l’emploi de ser et estar dans les expressions locatives en espagnol contemporain

Keywords: ser | estar | event | spatial location | Spanish

Revue Romane 54:2 pp. 205–229 | article

König, Ekkehard 2017 The comparative basis of intensification

Keywords: intensifiers | comparison | demonstratives | exclamatives | semantic typology

In: Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria & Miriam Ravetto (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 189] pp. 15–32

Oswald, Steve 2016 Rhetoric and cognition: Pragmatic constraints on argument processing

Keywords: argumentation | contextual constraint | persuasion | pragmatics | rhetorical effectiveness

In: Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, Padilla Cruz, Manuel (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 268] pp. 261–285

Christen, Helen & Daniel Elmiger 2015 Gender in Swiss German

In: Gender Across Languages: Volume 4, Hellinger, Marlis & Heiko Motschenbacher (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 36] pp. 173–201

Rossari, Corinne & Frédéric Gachet 2014 Parenthetical verbs as a challenge for discourse units

Keywords: discourse organization | parenthetical verbs | prosody | syntax

In: Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages, Pons Bordería, Salvador (ed.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 250] p. 95

Berthele, Raphael 2013 Disentangling manner and path: Evidence from varieties of German and Romance

Keywords: lexicalization pattern | manner | motion event | path

In: Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events, Goschler, Juliana & Anatol Stefanowitsch (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 41] pp. 55–76

Screti, Francesco 2014 “Let’s live like Galicians”: Nationalism in advertising

Keywords: identity | advertising | multimodality | indirectness | argumentation | indirect persuasion | intersemiotic complementarity | nationalism

Journal of Argumentation in Context 2:3 pp. 299–321 | article

Berthele, Raphael 2012 On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of Romansh

In: Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta & Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 100] pp. 145–166

Rácz, Péter & Péter Rebrus 2012 Variation in the possessive allomorphy of Hungarian

In: Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency. Selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, Kiefer, Ferenc, Mária Ladányi & Péter Siptár (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 322] pp. 51–64

Maillat, Didier & Steve Oswald 2011 Constraining Context: A Pragmatic Account of Cognitive Manipulation

In: Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition, Hart, Christopher (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 43] pp. 65–80

Mair, Christian 2010 Review of St. Helenian English: Origins, evolution and variation by Daniel Schreier (2008)

Diachronica 27:1 pp. 166–169 | book review

Maillat, Didier 2010 The pragmatics of L2 in CLIL

In: Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms, Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula & Ute Smit (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 7] pp. 39–58

Stukenbrock, Anja 2009  Sprachgeschichte und Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft. Herausgegeben von Daniel Jacob und Thomas Krefeld

Historiographia Linguistica 36:1 pp. 151–162 | book review

Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando, María Rosa Elosúa de Juan, Pascal Gygax, Carol J. Madden & Santiago Mosquera Roa 2009 Reading between the lines: The activation of background knowledge during text comprehension

Keywords: embodied cognition | narrative text comprehension | neuropsychology of narrative | situation models | sensorimotor representations

Pragmatics & Cognition 17:1 p. 77 | article

Fricke, Harald 2008 11. How scientific can literary evaluation be? Arguments and experiments

In: The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation, van Peer, Willie (ed.) [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 4] pp. 191–207

Cojocariu, Corina 2006 Dendale, P. et L. Tasmowski (eds.). 2001. Le conditionnel en français

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 28:2 pp. 330–333 | other

Beaulieu-Masson, Anne 2006 Flaux, Nelly et Danièle Van de Velde. 2000. Les noms en français : esquisse de classement

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 28:2 pp. 328–330 | other

Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt & Corinne Rossari 2005 The evolution of pragmatic markers: Introduction

Keywords: Pragmatic markers | particles | address terms | data | methodology

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 pp. 177–187 | article

Trudgill, Peter 2001 Review of New Zealand English edited by Allan Bell & Koenraad Kuiper (2000)

English World-Wide 21:2 pp. 312–320 | book review

Trudgill, Peter, Elizabeth Gordon, Gillian Lewis & Margaret Maclagan 2001 The role of drift in the formation of native-speaker southern hemisphere Englishes: Some New Zealand evidence

Diachronica 17:1 pp. 111–138 | article

Gordon, Elizabeth & Peter Trudgill 1999 Shades of Things to Come: Embryonic Variants in New Zealand English Sound Changes

English World-Wide 20:1 pp. 111–124 | article

Genaust, Helmut 2011 Compléments à la “Bibliographia Saussuriana, 1916–1972”

Historiographia Linguistica 3:1 pp. 37–87 | other

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.