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

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Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice: Special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 24:1 (2025)

EditorBenjamin De Cleen, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Jana Goyvaerts, Maximilian Grönegräs & Yannis Stavrakakis

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Political science | Pragmatics

[Journal of Language and Politics, 24:1] 2025. vi, 175 pp. | special issue

Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice. Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 (2021)

Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis & Ilija Tomanić Trivundža

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Journal of Language and Politics, 20:1] 2021. | special issue

Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo & Roger Hawkins

Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 49] 2009. ix, 272 pp. | edited volume

Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández & Harald Clahsen

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 44] 2008. xviii, 190 pp. | course book

Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill

Edited by David Britain & Jenny Cheshire

Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 16] 2003. x, 344 pp. | edited volume

Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction

Hiroko Tanaka

Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 56] 2000. xiv, 242 pp. | monograph

Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect

Peter L. Patrick

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp. | monograph

Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct perception constructions

Claudia Felser

Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Romance linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 25] 1999. xiv, 278 pp. | monograph

Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons

Edited by Harald Clahsen

Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 14] 1996. xxviii, 499 pp. | course book

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Ciancia, Carmen, Peter L. Patrick & Pasquale Esposito 2026 Lexical frequency effects on language variation

Keywords: lexical frequency | conditional frequency | (t)-glottaling | British English | language variation

In: Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello & Dirk Geeraerts (eds.) [Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] pp. 179–196

Schneider, Julius, Rebecca Warren & Jason Glynos 2025 Community organising and radical democracy: From praxis to theory and back again

Journal of Language and Politics 24:1 pp. 69–90 | article | open access

Tipton, Rebecca, Jemina Napier, Natalia Rodríguez Vicente, Alys Young, Sarah Vicary & Celia Hulme 2025 ‘Just interpret’: Problematising demands and controls for effective interprofessional working in statutory mental health assessments

Keywords: controls | demands | interprofessional working | Mental Health Act assessments | signed and spoken-language interpreting

Interpreting 27:2 pp. 221–251 | article | open access

Marten, Lutz & Hannah Gibson 2025 Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: ‘False cognates’ in Swahili

Keywords: language contact | borrowing | cognates | Swahili

In: Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri & Martin Maiden (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] pp. 184–197

Camilleri, Maris 2025 On the interplay between case and focus in Classical and dialectal Arabic systems

Keywords: dialectal tanwīn | differential subj-marking | nom-marked obj | oblique subj | in situ new-information focus

Arabic Linguistics 1:1 pp. 34–56 | article | open access

De Cleen, Benjamin, Jason Glynos, Jana Goyvaerts & Yannis Stavrakakis 2024 Discourse theory and the turn to practice: Lessons from the populist moment

Keywords: Discourse Theory | populism | practice | Discourse Analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 24:1 pp. 1–24 | article | open access

Fisher, Josephine B., Katharina J. Rohlfing, Ed Donnellan, Angela Grimminger, Yan Gu & Gabriella Vigliocco 2025 Explain with, rather than explain to : How explainees shape their own learning

Keywords: explanations | explainee | interactive learning | types of questions | presence of referents

Interaction Studies 25:2 pp. 244–255 | article | open access

Gibson, Hannah, Chege Githiora, Fridah Kanana Erastus & Lutz Marten 2024 Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya

Keywords: language contact | youth languages | morphosyntax | Sheng | Swahili

Studies in Language 48:4 pp. 909–950 | article | open access

Saikia, Pori & Marc Allassonnière-Tang 2023 Nominal classification in Assamese: An analysis of function

Keywords: classifier | Assamese | functions

In: Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania: Functional and diachronic perspectives, Allassonnière-Tang, Marc & Marcin Kilarski (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 362] pp. 30–55

Camilleri, Maris & Louisa Sadler 2023 Raising in Arabic: Forms and structures

Keywords: (hyper)raising | grammaticalization | non-canonical ‘seem’ predicates | complementizer formation | Arabic vernaculars

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers form the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 12] pp. 153–184

Cole, Amanda & Patrycja Strycharczuk 2023 The search for linguistically coherent accents: Unsupervised clustering of diphthong variation in Southeast England

English World-Wide 45:1 pp. 1–29 | article | open access

Myles, Florence 2022 Attitudes and motivation towards learning French in primary school: The role of developmental changes between the ages of 5 and 7

Language Teaching for Young Learners 4:2 pp. 240–263 | article | open access

Gu, Yan 2022 Time in Chinese hands: Gesture and sign

Keywords: bimodal bilinguals | Chinese Sign Language | Mandarin | time spatialization

In: Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela & Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 75] pp. 209–232

Horesh, Uri, Enam Al-Wer, Deema AlAmmar & Moayyad Al-Bohnayyah 2022 Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme

Keywords: feminine ending | variation and change | morphophonology | Levantine dialects | Peninsular dialects

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019, Ali, Abdel-Khalig & Atiqa Hachimi (eds.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 11] pp. 27–50

Spencer, Andrew 2021 Morphomes all the way down!

In: All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller & Andrija Petrovic (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 353] pp. 239–254

Cole, Amanda & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade 2021 Haagse Harry, a Dutch chav from The Hague?: The enregisterment of similar social personas in different speech communities

International Journal of Language and Culture 9:1 pp. 72–96 | article

Jaensch, Carol 2021 What about partial access to UG?

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 pp. 70–74 | article commentary

Gánem-Gutiérrez, Gabriela Adela & Karen Roehr-Brackin 2020 Talking about language: L2 learners’ use of metalinguistic knowledge on contrasting pedagogic tasks

Keywords: metalinguistic knowledge | gap-fill | dictogloss | languaging

In: Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies, Suzuki, Wataru & Neomy Storch (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 55] pp. 175–196

Gilmore, Alex & Gabriela Adela Gánem-Gutiérrez 2020 Investigating complexity in L2 writing with mixed methods approaches

Keywords: complex dynamic systems | L2 writing | mixed methods | triangulation | interdisciplinarity

In: Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development, Fogal, Gary G. & Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 54] pp. 183–206

Porter, Alison, Florence Myles, Angela Tellier & Bernardette Holmes 2020 Supporting foreign languages in an Anglophone world: Implementation challenges in English primary schools

Keywords: young FL policy | education policy implementation | FL learning

Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:2 pp. 213–239 | article

De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis & Ilija Tomanić Trivundža 2020 An introduction to the special issue on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice’

Keywords: discourse theory | discourse analysis | Ernesto Laclau | Chantal Mouffe

Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 pp. 1–9 | article

De Cleen, Benjamin & Jason Glynos 2020 Beyond populism studies

Keywords: populism | discourse theory | populism studies

Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 pp. 178–195 | article

De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos & Yannis Stavrakakis 2020 Moving discourse theory forward: A five-track proposal for future research

Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 pp. 22–46 | article

Glynos, Jason 2020 Critical fantasy studies

Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 p. 95 | article

Glynos, Jason, David Howarth, Ryan Flitcroft, Craig Love, Konstantinos Roussos & Jimena Vazquez 2020 Logics, discourse theory and methods: Advances, challenges and ways forward

Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 pp. 62–78 | article

Hawkins, Roger 2019 Prosodic transfer and its relation to hypotheses of morphological development

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 pp. 843–848 | article commentary

Gibson, Hannah 2020 The grammaticalisation of verb-auxiliary order in East African Bantu: From information structure to tense-aspect

Keywords: Bantu | grammaticalisation | word order | language contact | information structure

Studies in Language 43:4 pp. 757–799 | article

Marín García, Álvaro 2019 The opportunities of epistemic pluralism for Cognitive Translation Studies

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 2:2 pp. 165–185 | article

Angelone, Erik & Álvaro Marín García 2019 Expertise acquisition through deliberate practice: Gauging perceptions and behaviors of translators and project managers

In: Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes, Risku, Hanna, Regina Rogl & Jelena Milosevic (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 105] pp. 123–160

Wilkins, Arnold J. 2018 A theory of visual stress and its application to the use of coloured filters for reading

Keywords: coloured filters | reading difficulty | visual stress | flicker | stripes

In: Progress in colour studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam & Galina V. Paramei (eds.) pp. 319–339

Roehr-Brackin, Karen & Angela Tellier 2018 Esperanto as a tool in classroom foreign language learning in England

Language Problems and Language Planning 42:1 p. 89 | article

Schmid, Monika S. & Barbara Köpke 2017 The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development

Keywords: bilingual development | language attrition | crosslinguistic influence | usage-based perspective | nativist approaches

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6 pp. 637–667 | article

Keijzer, Merel C. J. & Monika S. Schmid 2017 Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals

Keywords: language and aging | executive function | language attrition | late bilinguals | bilingual advantage

In: Growing Old with Two Languages: Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging, Bialystok, Ellen & Margot D. Sullivan (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 53] pp. 77–98

Kula, Nancy C. 2017 Uniqueness in element signatures

In: Sonic signatures, Lindsey, Geoff & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 14] pp. 117–132

Spencer, Andrew 2016 How are words related?

In: Morphological Metatheory, Siddiqi, Daniel & Heidi Harley (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 229] pp. 1–26

Al-Wer, Enam & Khairia Al-Qahtani 2016 Lateral fricative ḍād in Tihāmat Qaḥtān: A quantitative sociolinguistic investigation

Keywords: lateral fricative | merger | sociolinguistics | southern Arabia | variation

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013, Davis, Stuart & Usama Soltan (eds.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 3] pp. 151–169

Keijzer, Merel C. J. & Monika S. Schmid 2016 Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals

Keywords: language and aging | executive function | language attrition | late bilinguals | bilingual advantage

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 pp. 64–85 | article

Roehr-Brackin, Karen 2015 Explicit knowledge about language in L2 learning: A usage-based perspective

Keywords: complexity theory | Explicit knowledge and learning | instructed L2 learning | usage-based approach

In: Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages, Rebuschat, Patrick (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 48] pp. 117–138

Tracy-Ventura, Nicole & Florence Myles 2015 The importance of task variability in the design of learner corpora for SLA research

Keywords: tense and aspect | L2 Spanish | Aspect Hypothesis | oral learner corpora | task variability

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:1 pp. 58–95 | article

Gánem-Gutiérrez, Gabriela Adela 2013 Chapter 7. Sociocultural Theory and second language development: Theoretical foundations and insights from research

In: Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, García Mayo, María del Pilar, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado & María Martínez-Adrián (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 9] pp. 129–152

Myles, Florence 2013 Foreword

Radford, Andrew 2013 The complementiser system in spoken English: Evidence from broadcast media

In: Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] pp. 11–54

Tellier, Angela & Karen Roehr-Brackin 2013 Metalinguistic awareness in children with differing language learning experience

EUROSLA Yearbook 13:1 p. 81 | article

Hawkins, Roger 2012 Knowledge of English verb phrase ellipsis by speakers of Arabic and Chinese

Keywords: English verb phrase ellipsis | L2 speaker knowledge of ellipsis | Poverty of the stimulus in L2

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:4 pp. 404–438 | article

Jaensch, Carol 2012 Acquisition of L3 German: Do some learners have it easier?

In: Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood, Cabrelli, Jennifer, Suzanne Flynn & Jason Rothman (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 46] pp. 165–194

Myles, Florence 2012 Complexity, accuracy and fluency: The role played by formulaic sequences in early interlanguage development

In: Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA, Housen, Alex, Folkert Kuiken & Ineke Vedder (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 32] pp. 71–94

Cunnings, Ian, Claire Batterham, Claudia Felser & Harald Clahsen 2010 Constraints on L2 learners’ processing of wh-dependencies: Evidence from eye movements

In: Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill & Jill Jegerski (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] p. 87

Tanaka, Hiroko 2010 Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun: Displaying involvement without topical engagement

In: Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber & Margret Selting (eds.) [Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] pp. 303–332

Roehr, Karen 2010 Explicit knowledge and learning in SLA: A cognitive linguistics perspective

AILA Review 23:1 p. 7 | article

Clift, Rebecca, Paul Drew & Ian Hutchby 2009 Conversation analysis

In: The Pragmatics of Interaction, D’hondt, Sigurd, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 4] pp. 40–54

Alfred, Zibiah 2009 Sharing oral history with the wider public: Experiences of the Refugee Communities History Project

Keywords: audience | community | informed consent | oral history | refugees

In: Oral History: The challenges of dialogue, Kurkowska-Budzan, Marta & Krzysztof Zamorski (eds.) [Studies in Narrative, 10] pp. 179–192

Stavrakaki, Stavroula & Harald Clahsen 2009 Inflection in Williams Syndrome: The Perfective Past Tense in Greek

The Mental Lexicon 4:2 pp. 215–238 | article

Spencer, Andrew 2008 Does Hungarian have a case system?

In: Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard Comrie, Corbett, Greville G. & Michael Noonan (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 81] pp. 35–56

Costa, João & Nancy C. Kula 2008 Focus at the interface: Evidence from Romance and Bantu

In: The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure, De Cat, Cécile & Katherine Demuth (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] pp. 293–322

Jaensch, Carol 2008 Defective adjectival inflection in non-native German: Prosodic transfer or missing surface inflection?

EUROSLA Yearbook 8:1 pp. 259–286 | article

Cunnings, Ian & Harald Clahsen 2008 The time-course of morphological constraints: A study of plurals inside derived words

The Mental Lexicon 3:2 pp. 149–175 | article

Roca, Iggy 2008 The Spanish stress window

Keywords: abutting vowels | glides | non-verb stress | stress bearers | stress windows

In: Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando & Sonia Colina (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] pp. 239–277

Hawkins, Roger, Saleh Al-Eid, Ibrahim Almahboob, Panos Athanasopoulos, Rangsiya Chaengchenkit, James Hu, Mohammad Rezai, Carol Jaensch, Yunju Jeon, Amy Jiang, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung, Keiko Matsunaga, Martha Ortega, Ghisseh Sarko, Neal Snape & Kalinka Velasco-Zárate 2006 Accounting for English article interpretation by L2 speakers

EUROSLA Yearbook 6:1 p. 7 | article

Roca, Iggy 2008 Strata, Yes; Structure Preservation, No. Evidence from Spanish

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November, Geerts, Twan, Ivo van Ginneken & Haike Jacobs (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] pp. 197–218

Thomas, Emma 2005 On ‘Syntactic’ versus ‘Semantic’ Telicity: Evidence from In and On

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 18:1 pp. 145–166 | article

Hawkins, Roger & Sarah Ann Liszka 2008 2. Locating the source of defective past tense marking in advanced L2 English speakers

In: The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition, van Hout, Roeland, Aafke Hulk, Folkert Kuiken & Richard J. Towell (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 30] pp. 21–44

Franceschina, Florencia 2002 Case and φ-feature agreement in advanced L2 Spanish grammars

EUROSLA Yearbook 2:1 pp. 71–86 | article

Al-Hamad, M., E. Al-Malki, G. Casillas, Florencia Franceschina, Roger Hawkins, J. Hawthorne, D. Karadzovska, K. Kato, Sarah Ann Liszka, Cristóbal Lozano, S. Ojima, Natsumi Okuwaki & Emma Thomas 2002 Interpretation of English tense morphophonology by advanced L2 speakers

EUROSLA Yearbook 2:1 pp. 49–69 | article