Boston College

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Boston College*

Titles

Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education. Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:1 (2019)

Edited by Zhongfeng Tian & Holly Link

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Translation Studies

[Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 5:1] 2019. | special issue

Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language

Margaret Thomas

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 6] 1993. x, 234 pp. | monograph

McKeon, Kerry Ann 2025 The Tennessee three: Mapping the discursive boundaries of inequality in statehouse political debate

Keywords: supermajorities | racist discourse | democratic backsliding | gun violence | inequality | right-wing global movement

Journal of Language and Politics 25:3 pp. 383–404 | article

Thomas, Margaret 2024 Three documents bearing on the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America in the age of scientific racism

Keywords: Foundation of the Linguistic Society of America | racism in linguistics | scientific racism | Leonard Bloomfield

In: History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August–1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini & Enrica Galazzi (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 133] pp. 198–210

Gámez, Perla B., Marina Vasilyeva & Jordan Sierra Perry 2022 Structural priming in bilingual children

Keywords: bilinguals | cross-linguistic priming | second language | language production | shared syntax | lexical boost | language experience | parallel structures

In: Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications, Messenger, Katherine (ed.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 31] pp. 107–128

Zeng, Ruoyan & Ellen Winner 2022 Preaching to the Choir and Beyond: The power of a narrative to change moral attitudes

Keywords: story | narrative | empathy | attitude | immigrant | moral

Scientific Study of Literature 12:1/2 pp. 133–163 | article

Rivera, Juan C. 2022 

Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 24 pp. 201–203 | book review

Tandoc Jr., Edson C., Andrew Duffy, S Mo Jones-Jang & Winnie Goh Wen Pin 2021 Poisoning the information well?: The impact of fake news on news media credibility

Keywords: credibility | Facebook | fake news | journalism | social media | trust

Journal of Language and Politics 20:5 pp. 783–802 | article

Thomas, Margaret 2021 The monolingual approach in American linguistic fieldwork

Keywords: field methods | monolingual approach | monolingual demonstration | linguistic fieldwork | 20th century American linguistics | Franz Boas | Kenneth L. Pike | Daniel L. Everett

Historiographia Linguistica 47:2/3 pp. 266–302 | article

Thomas, Margaret 2020 On the reception and revivification of Cartesian linguistics

Keywords: Cartesian linguistics | 20th century American linguistics | historiography of generative grammar | biolinguistics

In: History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie & Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 127] pp. 157–170

Lau, Sunny Man Chu & Zhongfeng Tian 2020 Ko-Yin Sung and Hsiao-Mei Tsai. (2019). Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8:1 pp. 137–140 | book review

Tian, Zhongfeng & Holly Link 2019 Editorial

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:1 pp. 1–4 | editorial

Khote, Nihal & Zhongfeng Tian 2019 Translanguaging in culturally sustaining systemic functional linguistics: Developing a heteroglossic space with multilingual learners

Keywords: systemic functional linguistics (SFL) | culturally sustaining SFL | translanguaging | multiliteracies | multilingual learners | heteroglossic space

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:1 p. 5 | article

Thomas, Margaret 2014 Jakobson’s circles

In: History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011, Kasevich, Vadim, Yuri A. Kleiner & Patrick Sériot (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 123] pp. 145–155

Thomas, Margaret 2013  The doctorate in Second Language Acquisition: An institutional history

Keywords: doctoral programs in Second Language Acquisition; | graduate education in Linguistics/Applied Linguistics; | history of graduate education

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:4 pp. 509–531 | Squib

Thomas, Margaret 2013 Otto Jespersen and “The Woman”, then and now

Historiographia Linguistica 40:3 pp. 377–408 | article

McKaughan, Daniel J. 2012 Speech acts, attitudes, and scientific practice: Can Searle handle ‘Assuming for the sake of Hypothesis’?

Keywords: speech acts | belief | conjecture | Assertives | Searle | sincerity conditions | illocutionary point | hypothesize | science

Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1 p. 88 | article

Thomas, Margaret 2010 What do we talk about, when we talk about ‘universal grammar’, and how have we talked about it?

In: Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.)  pp. 301–314 | open access

Thomas, Margaret 2008 Words and concepts for child language learning in late 19th versus late 20th century America

In: History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 112] pp. 344–355

Thomas, Margaret 2007 The evergreen story of Psammetichus’ inquiry into the origin of language

Historiographia Linguistica 34:1 pp. 37–62 | article

Almeida, Joselyn M. 2008 Romanticism and Nonfictional Prose in Spanish America, 1780–1850

In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders, Sondrup, Steven P., Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] pp. 181–193

Richardson, Alan 2008 Romanticism, the Unconscious, and the Brain

In: Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders, Sondrup, Steven P., Virgil Nemoianu & Gerald Gillespie (eds.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVIII] pp. 349–364

Thomas, Margaret 2003 Roger Bacon and Martin Joos: Generative linguistics’ reading of the past

Historiographia Linguistica 29:3 pp. 339–378 | article

Reason, Peter & William Torbert 2001 The action turn: Toward a transformational social science

Concepts and Transformation 6:1 pp. 1–37 | article

Sholl, M. Jeanne 2003 The Functional Separability of Self-Reference and Object-to-Object Systems in Spatial Memory

In: Spatial Cognition: Foundations and applications, Ó Nualláin, Seán (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 26] pp. 45–67

Shell, Susan 2014 Eating Crow: Rousseau on the Fable

Bestia 4:1 pp. 75–86 | article

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