University of Westminster

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

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What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates: Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 (2022)

Edited by Jonathan R. Kasstan

Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 8:2] 2022. | special issue

Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages: Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020)

Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan & Miriam Meyerhoff

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Language Ecology, 4:1] 2021. | special issue

Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in Collaboration. Special issue of Target 32:2 (2020)

Edited by Alexa Alfer & Cornelia Zwischenberger

Subjects Translation Studies

[Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 32:2] 2020. | special issue

Syea, Anand 2025 Indo-Aryan influence in Mauritian Creole

Keywords: Indo-Aryan influence | NP so NP genitives | null impersonal subjects | topic sentences | serial verbs

In: New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use, Alleesaib, Muhsina & Julie Lefort (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 61] pp. 135–183

Sylvester, Louise, Megan Tiddeman, Richard Ingham & Kathryn Allan 2025 The semantics of word borrowing in late medieval English: A preliminary investigation

Keywords: loanwords | polysemy | Middle English | French | Latin

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. 263–278

Karatsareas, Petros & Rexhina Ndoci 2024 Tracing trajectories of vulnerability in the biographical narratives of Albanian onward migrants from Greece in the UK

Keywords: onward migration | vulnerability | biographical narratives | Albania | Greece | UK

Language, Culture and Society 6:2 pp. 158–189 | article

Ingham, Richard 2023 The Middle English prepositional dative: Contact with French

Keywords: dative | dative alternation | Middle English | argument realisation | verbs | language contact | French | possession transfer

In: Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects, Zehentner, Eva, Melanie Röthlisberger & Timothy Colleman (eds.) [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 7] pp. 56–79 | open access

Denroche, Charles 2023 Translating figurative language

Keywords: translation | interpreting | figurative language | metaphor | metonymy | translation shift | indeterminacy | construal | semantic space | master tropes

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:1 pp. 173–198 | article

Wang, Caiwen & Raquel de Pedro Ricoy 2023 Introduction: Revisiting mediation in translation and interpreting

Translation and Interpreting Studies 18:2 pp. 255–260 | introduction

Delistathi, Christina 2023 Translator work practices and the construction of the correct interpretation of Marxism in post-war Greece

Keywords: work practices | translator work practices | translation of Marxism | Marxism in Greece | translation and knowledge production | history of Marxism

Target 35:4 pp. 573–594 | article

Kasstan, Jonathan R. 2022 Introduction: What’s so standard about standards?

Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 pp. 139–149 | introduction

Zwischenberger, Cornelia & Alexa Alfer 2022 Translaboration: Translation and labour

Keywords: translaboration | (collaborative) translation | labour | work | action

Translation in Society 1:2 pp. 200–223 | article

Denroche, Charles 2021 The Three Grammars and the sign

Keywords: semiotics | the sign | ontological realms | reification | construal | construction | grammar | metaphor | metonymy

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1 pp. 206–231 | article

Cameron, Deborah & Sylvia Shaw 2020 Constructing women’s “different voice”: Gendered mediation in the 2015 UK General Election

Keywords: election debates | gendered mediation | speech style | UK politics | women.

Journal of Language and Politics 19:1 pp. 144–159 | article

Kasstan, Jonathan R. 2021 Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages

Keywords: variation and change | language obsolescence | language death | language documentation | style shifting | Francoprovençal

Language Ecology 4:1 pp. 73–94 | article

Meyerhoff, Miriam, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Roey J. Gafter, Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Peter Keegan & Jeanette King 2021 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics

Keywords: style variation | language standards | minority languages | sociolinguistic theory | superposed variety | indicators | markers | stereotypes

Language Ecology 4:1 pp. 1–16 | introduction

Alfer, Alexa 2020 The translaborative case for a translational hermeneutics

Keywords: translation | understanding | hermeneutics | transdisciplinarity | translaboration

Target 32:2 pp. 261–281 | article

Denroche, Charles 2019 Employing cognitive metonymy theory in the analysis of semantic relations between source and target text in translation

Keywords: metonymy | translation | facetization | zone activation | metonymization | contiguity | indeterminacy | metonymic processing | metonymic shift

Metaphor and the Social World 9:2 pp. 177–198 | article

Ingham, Richard, Louise Sylvester & Imogen Marcus 2019 Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains

Keywords: French | lexis | loanwords | contact | thesaurus

In: Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27–31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela & Claudia Fabrizio (eds.) Parlato, Renato[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] pp. 459–478

Stein, Achim, Richard Ingham & Carola Trips 2019 What is a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation?: The case of the English recipient passive

In: The determinants of diachronic stability, Breitbarth, Anne, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert & Melissa Farasyn (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 254] pp. 215–244

Wang Caiwen 2018 Decoding and encoding the discourse meaning of punctuation: A perspective from English-to-Chinese translation

Keywords: punctuation | semantic relationship | discourse | translation pedagogy | ponctuation | relation sémantique | discours | pédagogie de la traduction

Babel 64:2 pp. 225–249 | article

Barnes, Katrina 2018 Reviving pedagogical translation: An investigation into UK learners’ perceptions of translation for use with their GCSE Spanish studies and beyond

Keywords: translation in language teaching | second language acquisition | pedagogical translation | UK language education | explicative translation | communicative translation

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:2 pp. 248–281 | article

Denroche, Charles 2018 Text metaphtonymy: The interplay of metonymy and metaphor in discourse

Keywords: chains | clusters | extended metaphor | extended metonymy | discourse | metaphor | metaphtonymy | metonymy | text

Metaphor and the Social World 8:1 pp. 1–24 | article

Alfer, Alexa 2017 Entering the Translab: Translation as collaboration, collaboration as translation, and the third space of ‘translaboration’

Keywords: translation | translatorship | authorship | agency | collaboration | collaborative translation | translaboration

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 3:3 pp. 275–290 | article

Cranfield, Steven & Claudio Tedesco 2017 Reformulating the problem of translatability: A case of literary translaboration with the poetry of Francisco Brines

Keywords: literary translation | collaboration | translaboration | Francisco Brines | activity theory | community of practice

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 3:3 pp. 304–322 | article

Yildiz, Yasemin & Hande Koyuncuoglu 2017 The attrition of Turkish as a third language: A preliminary case study investigation

Keywords: Turkish | third language attrition | multilingualism

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 168:2 pp. 278–304 | article

Kathrani, Paresh 2017 ‘Kandinsky-fying’ the law: A translaborative use of abstract art in the law classroom

Keywords: law | legal language | legal pedagogy | intersemiotic translation | Kandinsky

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 3:3 pp. 370–387 | article

Karatsareas, Petros 2016 Convergence in word structure: Revisiting agglutinative noun inflection in Cappadocian Greek

Keywords: Cappadocian Greek | inflectional class shift | language contact | multiple causation | noun inflection | agglutinative | fusional

Diachronica 33:1 pp. 31–66 | article

Fuchs, Christian 2016 Red Scare 2.0: User-generated ideology in the age of Jeremy Corbyn and social media

Keywords: social media | Twitter | Jeremy Corbyn | Labour Party | anti-socialist ideology | Red Scare | redbaiting | socialism

Journal of Language and Politics 15:4 pp. 369–398 | article

Syea, Anand 2013 Serial Verb Constructions in Indian Ocean French Creoles (IOCs): Substrate, universal, or an independent diachronic development?

Keywords: reanalysis | covert coordination | consecutive imperatives | Serial verbs | serialization | substrates and creolization

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1 pp. 13–64 | article

Chambers, Mark & Louise Sylvester 2012 Multilingualism in the vocabulary of dress and textiles in late medieval Britain: Some issues for historical lexicology

In: English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén & Alexandra Fodor (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 325] pp. 313–326

Syea, Anand 2009 Review of Noun phrases in creole languages: A multi-faceted approach edited by Marlyse Baptista & Jacqueline Guéron (2007)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1 pp. 193–198 | book review

Baker, Philip & Magnus Huber 2002 Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languages

English World-Wide 22:2 pp. 157–208 | article

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