Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Table of Contents -- 0 Introduction -- Part I: The theory and history of discourse -- traditions and discourse traditional knowledge -- 1 Discourse traditions research: foundations, theoretical issues and implications -- 2 Discourse traditions and variation linguistics -- 3 Conceptual developments in discourse tradition theory -- 4 Discourse traditions and the historicity of language: discourse traditional knowledge and discourse universes -- 5 Discourse traditions in synchrony -- 6 Discourse traditions and linguistic dynamics -- 7 International diffusion of the discourse traditions model -- Part II: Discourse traditions within historical -- linguistics and textual linguistics: models, concepts, and -- approaches -- 8 Discourse traditions and the construction of discourse from a historical perspective -- 9 Discourse traditions, linguistic standardisation and elaboration: reflections from Spanish -- 10 Discourse traditions, text linguistics and historical pragmatics -- 11 Discourse traditions, functional and cognitive linguistics -- 12 Discourse traditions and Construction Grammar -- 13 Discourse traditions, genres, and rhetoric -- 14 Discourse traditions, text linguistics, and translation studies -- 15 Discourse traditions and models of discourse segmentation -- Part III: Discourse traditions in the history of -- Romance: applications and case studies -- 16 Discourse traditions in the early Romance period (with a focus on Gallo-Romance varieties) -- 17 Discourse traditions in early Italo-Romance varieties -- 18 Discourse traditions in early Ibero-Romance varieties -- 19 Romance and Latin in medieval discourse traditions: the elaboration of vernacular writing between inscriptions and in-scripturation -- 20 Discourse traditions and translation: interference between Latin and Romance in the Early Modern Period (poetry, dialogue, doctrinal prose) -- 21 Discourse traditions in the history of French -- 22 Discourse traditions in the history of Italian -- 23 Discourse traditions in the history of European Spanish -- 24 Discourse traditions and the history of American Spanish: social settings, contacts, ideologies and challenges -- 25 Diachronic approaches to discourse traditions in Spanish America -- 26 Discourse traditions in the history of Brazilian Portuguese: a case study on forms of address -- 27 Discourse traditions in the history of Romanian -- 28 Discourse traditions in the history of Catalan: a case study on additive discourse markers -- 29 Discourse traditions in the history of Romansh -- 30 Discourse traditions in multilingual contexts: the Kingdom of Naples -- Part IV: Contacts with further approaches -- 31 Discourse traditions and corpus linguistics -- 32 Discourse traditions and computational linguistics -- 33 Discourse traditions and lexical innovation -- 34 Discourse traditions and formulaic language studies -- 35 Syntactic complexity in Standard Average European: language contact and discourse traditions in the domain of communicative distance -- 36 Discourse traditions and literary studies: the example -- of Ancient Greek and Latin literature(s) -- 37 Interdiscursivity in French theatre: crossing linguistic and literary perspectives -- 38 Discourse traditions, multimodality and media studies -- Appendix -- Discourse traditions: on their status in language theory -- and on their dynamics -- Contributors -- Index