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The past few decades have witnessed a veritable research boom in interlanguage, cross-cultural, and contrastive pragmatics, as well as in the area of (im)politeness, resulting in a widening perspective with regard to data types, objects of inquiry, and analytical methods. The present edition takes stock of recent developments in the field, as well as offering a selection of empirical papers that explore new research avenues, with a focus on different types of variation in English, on the use of

This monograph is the first attempt at a comprehensive dynamic description of future tenses that have been attested in a whole language family, namely the Indo-European one. In general, future tenses are known as a non-obligatory feature of grammar which are repeatedly lost and acquired anew. Together with this, futures are particularly prone to variation, displaying a variety of additional (morpho)syntactic and functional properties. The authors intend to identify factors which trigger and/or f

Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, Typology; Jeremy Coburn: "The Hadza Language: Vitality, Phonetics, and Phonology"

De Gruyter Mouton is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Joshua A. Fishman Award. The award, now in its third edition, recognizes exceptional Ph.D. dissertations that push intellectual boundaries and offer innovative, forward-looking perspectives in the sociology of language. This year, three early-career scholars were selected among many promising applicants from across the globe: Joshua L. Martin: Automatic Speech Recognition Systems, Spoken Corpora, and African American Language

If anyone is working on diphthongs, triphthongs or tetraphthongs (yes, they exist!*) in typical or atypical speech, from the viewpoint of phonetics, phonology, or acquisition, please contact me. We are looking for help at the levels of contributor and/or co-editor. Output as edited book collection (University of Toronto Press), but also as conference presentations if wished. Authors already recruited for several varieties of Chinese, and for Celtic languages but those working with other language

The influence of pop-culture on mainstream language Thu 21 Nov, 5 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST Save your spot: http://tiny.cc/OED-pop-culture-language Pop-culture language commonly starts as specific to particular groups with shared interests, and is frequently adopted into mainstream vernacular. We warmly invite you to join us for this discussion around the language of science-fiction, fantasy, and gaming: 鈥� How and why language that develops in these communities is adopted more widely 鈥� Ho

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Matteo Colombo and Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg University) entitled "In the Thick of It. Do Thick Terms Constitute a Distinctive Class of Affectively-charged Language?". The talk will take place online on OCTOBER 14, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to p

I am a doctoral student at CUNY Graduate Center studying Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. I am conducting a research on vowel devoicing, which is one of the characteristic phenomena in Japanese, especially so-called standard Japanese (Tokyo Japanese). I am looking for native speakers of Japanese who are interested in participating in the study. I will ask a participant to read some Japanese words while observing tongue movements using a diagnostic ultrasound machine as well as tracking movemen

The Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics SIG of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) (https://researchsynthesis.weebly.com/) has a new section in our monthly newsletter to SIG members, where we ask our members ONE question about research synthesis to get a sense of its state-of-play in Applied Linguistics. We would also like to involve the rest of the applied linguistics community in this. We would appreciate it if you can take 5 seconds of your time to respond to this qu

The Institute is the largest linguistics summer school in the world, and has been held since 1928. This year's institute will feature over 90 courses arranged over 2 terms, each 2.5 weeks long, July 7 - 22, and July 24 - August 8, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Institute is 鈥淟anguage in Use鈥� Eugene is a city of ~170,000 people, home to the University of Oregon, located at the southern end of the beautiful Willamette Valley. Within a 90-minute drive, you will find snow-capped mountains, a gorgeous

UMRs in Boston Summer School 鈥� 1st Call for Applications June 9-13, 2025 Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA We invite applications for a five-day summer school on Uniform Meaning Representations (UMR). Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded

2024. iii, 120 pp. Table of Contents Articles Domain dichotomy and sociolinguistic inequality in Philippine museum spaces: Evidence from the Linguistic Landscape Nicko Enrique L. Manalastas | pp.鈥�223鈥�252 [Japanese] toilets are not garbage cans: Discriminatory multilingual signage in the Linguistic Landscape of Japan Keolakawai K.G. Spencer | pp.鈥�253鈥�272 Bergen? A semiotic landscape analysis of arrival in Bergen, Norway Susanne Mohr | pp.鈥�273鈥�301 Modeling Linguistic Landscapes: A compariso

2024. iii, 145 pp. Table of Contents Articles Cognitive processes and strategies of bilingual students when attempting assessments in an L2 Xing San Teng, Janet Hsiao & Yuen Yi Lo | pp.鈥�135鈥�161 The impact of adjunct instruction on EFL academic writing at university Helena Roquet Pug猫s, Noelia Navarro Gil & Florentina Nicol谩s-Conesa | pp.鈥�162鈥�191 Fluctuating cognitive benefits in children attending early bilingual immersive instruction Cristina-Anca Barbu, Sophie Gillet & Martine Poncelet |

2024. iii, 184 pp. Table of Contents Articles They were not radical, even when they committed that: An appraisal-driven discourse analysis of feelings and attitudes towards the 17-A terrorist cell in Barcelona Miguel-脕ngel Ben铆tez-Castro, Encarnaci贸n Hidalgo-Tenorio, Katie Jane Patterson, Manuel Moyano & Irene Gonz谩lez | pp.鈥�139鈥�170 The expression of hate speech against Afro-descendant, Roma, and LGBTQ+ communities in YouTube comments Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled, Cl谩udia Silva, Fernando

2023. iii, 173 pp. Table of Contents Articles Lexical and contextual emotional valence in foreign language vocabulary retention: An experimental study and the Deep Epistemic Emotion Hypothesis Yu Kanazawa | pp.鈥�339鈥�365 Eye-voice and finger-voice spans in adults鈥� oral reading of connected texts : Implications for reading research and assessment Andrea Nadalini, Claudia Marzi, Marcello Ferro, Loukia Taxitari, Alessandro Lento, Davide Crepaldi & Vito Pirrelli | pp.鈥�366鈥�400 Bilingual and monol

2024. v, 138 pp. Table of Contents Introduction: Translanguaging and multimodality for Chinese discourse analysis in the context of teaching and learning Qi Zhang | pp.鈥�155鈥�163 Articles Digital multimodal composing as a translanguaging space: Understanding students鈥� initial experiences and challenges Danping Wang | pp.鈥�164鈥�187 Co-constructing translanguaging space to facilitate participation in a novice CFL classroom Jiaxin Tian | pp.鈥�188鈥�217 Translanguaging learning strategies (TLS): A n

Greetings, Linguists! The October 2024 issue of Speculative Grammarian鈥攖he premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics鈥攊s now available online for your browsing pleasure. 聽 聽 聽http://specgram.com/CXCIV.2/ The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including our unprecedented endorsement for president, an info

2nd Call for Papers: Version fran莽aise : Les langues de sp茅cialit茅 (LSP), que l鈥檕n peut d茅finir largement comme les usages sp茅cialis茅s de la langue par une communaut茅 dans un domaine particulier, font partie int茅grante de la culture populaire. Selon Johns (1994, p. 4), les discours 茅crits et oraux des langues de sp茅cialit茅 peuvent 锚tre vus comme des 芦 art茅facts culturels 禄, voire des 芦 genres servant des objectifs de communication au sein de groupes d鈥檌ndividus qui se consid猫rent comme apparten

November 16 (Sat) 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-9:35 Opening Remarks 9:35-10:35 (Keynote Speech) "On the subject of subject depictives and subject-oriented adverbials" Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest & Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon) (10 minute break) 10:45-11:20

Call for Papers: We invite 100-word abstracts until October 25, 2024. Please send your abstract to Diogo Pinheiro (diogopinheiro@letras.ufrj.br). We will let you know whether we can incorporate your abstract in the proposed theme session by the end of October. If our theme session is accepted, we will ask authors of provisionally accepted abstracts to submit an extended abstract (max. 500 words) via the conference submission system until January 15th. The extended abstract will then be subject