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1. Christopher Butler
2. Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen

Colours in Poetic Contrast

1. Lee Elliot Major
2. Anne-Marie Sim

Cracking the Class Code

Lee Elliot Major is Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, based at the University of Exeter. He was previously Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust, the UK’s leading social mobility foundation. A leading voice in national and international education debates, he advises corporate, government and education leaders across the globe. His award-winning books include Equity in Education and Social Mobility and Its Enemies. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded an OBE in the 2019 Queen’s Honours. Anne-Marie Sim is co-founder and lead of the South-West Social Mobility Commission at the University of Exeter. She was previously a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, where she worked with leading UK and global companies. She holds a DPhil and Masters in anthropology and Bachelors in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.

1. Christopher Butler
2. Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen

The Colours the Words Cast

The authors’ main aim is to investigate in detail the use of colour terms, and in particular to link this to the associations between colours and their connotative symbolic meanings, which form the basis for what have been called colour metaphors.

Reconnecting Language

Although the contributors to this book do not belong to one particular ‘school’ of linguistic theory, they all share an interest in the external functions of language in society and in the relationship between these functions and internal linguistic phenomena. In this sense they all take a functional approach to grammatical issues. Apart from this common starting-point, the contributions share the aim of demonstrating the non-autonomous nature of morphology and syntax, and the inadequacy of linguistic models which deal with syntax, morphology and lexicon in separate, independent components. The recurrent theme throughout the book is the inseparability of lexis and morphosyntax, of structure and function, of grammar and society. The third and more specific common thread is case, which in some contributions is adduced to illustrate the more general point of the link between word form on the one hand and clausal and textual relations on the other hand, while in other papers it is at the centre of the discussion.The interest of the proposed volume consists in the fact that it brings together the views of leading scholars in functional linguistics of various ‘denominations’ on the place of morphosyntax in linguistic theory. The book provides convincing argumentation against a modular theory with autonomous levels (the dominant framework in mainstream 20th century linguistics) and is a plea for further research into the connections between the lexicogrammar and the linguistic and extralinguistic context.

1. Louis Goossens
2. Paul Pauwels
3. Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

By Word of Mouth

The empirical depth to which this volume examines one coherent area of metaphorization in English, including theoretical and historical discussion, is a true benefit to the maturation of Cognitive Linguistics.

Language in Epistemic Access

Caroline Kerfoot is Associate Professor in the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University, Sweden. She was formerly Head of Language Education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her current research focuses on multilingualism, identities, and epistemic access in educational sites characterised by high levels of diversity and flux. She is co-editor (with Kenneth Hyltenstam) of Entangled Discourses: South-North Orders of Visibility, forthcoming in Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism. Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium, where she is currently an associated researcher. She has published on various aspects of English and contrastive grammar, especially modality and pragmatic markers, from a functional linguistic point of view, and she was an editor of the journal Functions of Language for 20 years. Her most recent interest is in multilingual education, especially in the South African context, and in issues arising from linguistic diversity in Flemish education as a result of immigration.