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Wed, 11/26/2025 - 14:05
La Sociedad de Científicos españoles en Alemania organiza una conferencia sobre el español como lengua de herencia, la atrición y la vida bilingüe en Alemania. Las científicas Ana Goás Pérez y Pamela Villar González hablarán de sus investigaciones sobre los retos a los que se enfrentan los niñ@s al aprender español en el seno familiar cuando viven en Alemania y sobre el fenómeno de pérdida de un idioma que se hablaba con fluidez y sus mecanismos. ¿Cuándo? 10 de Diciembre 2025, 17:45 h ¿Dón

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 14:05
The Language Attrition Network meets once a month (from October to June) in a 1-hour online session to discuss projects, papers, and chapters related to Language Attrition. You can see our past and next meetings here: https://languageattrition.org/language-attrition-network/ We would like to invite you to our next session: Thursday, 11th December, at 14:00 CET (13:00 UK) 2025 entitled "First Language Attrition and Second Language Acquisition of the Geminate-singleton Contrast" by Budur Alqarn

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 13:05
What kind of language do we use to name and describe the animals that feature in our lives? What names do we give to animals as individuals and groups, and how do these influence our perceptions of them? How do our descriptions of different species overlap with the words we use about categories of people? Answering these questions and more, this book presents evidence from an extensive research project into how animals are represented in contemporary English. It draws on a multi-million word

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 13:05
The profile written in English and French has been published on https://lexhnology.hypotheses.org/948 The proposed internship will take place in the context of the final stages of the project led by ATILF (CNRS & Université de Lorraine), that aim to create online learning resources for learners and teachers of legal English, specifically for reading comprehension of American judicial decisions. Goal of the internship: The contribution of the intern will be twofold: - Create tutorial

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 13:05
Environmental Awareness and Governance: Ecolinguistic and Discourse Perspectives is a comprehensive exploration that delves into the intricate relationship between language, discourse, and environmental issues. This book begins by examining the role of environmental governance in Moroccan political parties' electoral programs, followed by an analysis of how Moroccan online media communicates water stress as a risk issue. It also provides an ecolinguistic analysis of a computer-animated Netflix f

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 12:05
At the University of Göttingen -Public Law Foundation-, Graduiertenkolleg 2906 Neugier, there is a position as PhD Position in Psychology of Language [B4] (all genders welcome) Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L/75% to be filled. Starting date is 1st of August 2026. The position is limited to 31st of July 2029. As part of a research network that has been established at the University of Göttingen in 2024 - Research Training Group (RTG) 2906 Curiosity - we advertise here a PhD position for an initia

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 12:05
This book takes a queer linguistic and intersectional approach to the analysis of young LGBTQ+ people's identity constructions, showing how their language use reveals their marginalisation in society. The author develops a framework for an intersectional sociocultural linguistics (ISL) and applies it to linguistic ethnography with members of four LGBTQ+ youth groups in the UK. She shows how the young people's identities are informed by different intersecting categories (including race, class,

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 12:05
This book employs a social semiotic methodology to investigate how comedians use impersonation and expectation to create humour in stand-up comedy. It advances the linguistic cartography of how meaning-making resources contribute to humour in interactive humour genres. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) underpins the book's approach and is integrated with recent work on multimodality and paralanguage as well as humour studies. The author develops a consolidated analytical framework for id

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 11:05
This open access book explores how people in England who are affected by dementia (either by having a diagnosis or being a carer or loved one of someone who does) navigate different dementia discourses, interpret social texts and recommend discursive change. Drawing on thematic discourse analysis, and in particular multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA), it examines how different communicative modes can be used to reinforce or challenge particular worldviews and social practices, such as

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 11:05
Join our mailing list: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/ We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the third series of the Data in Historical Linguistics seminar series is now open. These seminars will be run by King’s College London and are aimed at PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 11:05
We are delighted to announce that the ninth meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics will be held in conjunction with the ACL 2026 meeting in San Diego. Confirmed keynote speakers include Jennifer Hu and Noah Smith. We see this as an exciting opportunity to bridge the ACL and SCiL communities and sincerely look forward to your participation. SCiL will be included as an official workshop associated with the conference and occur during the workshop days on July 6th and 7th. We have

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 10:05
This multidisciplinary workshop aims at bringing together language studies that can contribute to the discussion of a) the neurocognitive foundation of language, b) the characterization, assessment and diagnosis of language pathologies, and c) language processing. High quality research papers describing original results of experimental and theoretical work in all areas of Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Clinical linguistics are invited for presentation. Plenary speaker: tba

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 10:05
We are pleased to announce that the 27th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (DiGS27) will be held at the University of Padova (Italy) from June 16-19, 2026. Since its first edition in 1990, DiGS has established itself as the leading venue for the formal investigation of syntactic change in the generative framework. More information about the history (and near future) of this conference series can be found at http://walkden.space/digs/. DiGS will be hosted by the Department of linguist

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 10:05
La Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED), Discurso Net (DN) y la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) tienen el honor de compartir con ustedes la convocatoria a los magnos eventos de 2026: Congreso Internacional ALED-DN 2026 Y X Congreso Nacional ALED México 2026: "Panoramas discursivos: voces, perspectivas, retos y desafíos en sociedades de crisis globales" Que se llevarán a cabo de manera sincrónica y presencial (híbrida para doctorandos) en el Instituto

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 09:05
Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation. Chaucer's Language leads the reader gently through basic linguistic concepts with appropriate explanation, highlighting how Chaucer's English differs from present-day English, and the significance of this for interpreting and understanding his work. It provides close ana

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 09:05
We offer a three-year PhD position at the University of Göttingen (Department of German Philology) within the DFG-funded project “Lying and Commitment in the Visual Modality.” The position provides the opportunity to contribute to empirical research in an interdisciplinary team and includes responsibilities in empirical data collection, dissemination of research results, and participation in the organization of workshops and conferences. More information can be found here: https://www.uni-goetti

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 09:05
2025. v, 259 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Sandra Auderset, Rikker Dockum & Ryan Gehrmann pp. 267–277 Articles – Aufsätze Tonogenesis in the Gulf of Guinea Creoles Ana Lívia Agostinho pp. 278–304 Dialectal tone description enhances historical tonology Mirella L. Blum pp. 305–323 Towards reconstructing grammatical tone in the northwestern Bantu verb phrase Nadine Grimm pp. 324–356 Tone and voicing in Cao Bằng Tai: Implications for tonal evolution and chang

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 08:05
2025. iii, 116 pp. Table of Contents Articles Interactional competence in online text chat: Prefatory moves, entitlement, and contingency in L2 requests Xingcheng Wang & Carsten Roever pp. 109–140 L2 disagreement through social media Marta González-Lloret & Fátima Gatón Gabriel pp. 141–167 English as an instructional resource for optimizing L2 Chinese use in the classroom: An applied CA perspective Ding Wang-Bramlett, Katharine E. Burns & Rémi A. van Compernolle pp. 168–

Wed, 11/26/2025 - 08:05
The 29th Edition of the Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium (OSUHALSS) OSUHALLS is an annual symposium on Hispanic and Lusophone Literary and Cultural Studies. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and many different aspects of literature and cultures in the Luso-Hispanic speaking world. The graduate students

Tue, 11/25/2025 - 19:05
SUMMARY Mattiello’s Transitional Morphology monograph investigates combining forms (CFs) in present-day English, which she categorises into neoclassical CFs, abbreviated CFs, and secreted CFs. Through this categorisation, Mattiello explores the notion of transitional morphology, which blurs the boundaries of traditional morphology by straddling two main word-formation processes (i.e., compounding and derivation by affixation). The 211-page volume is divided into eight chapters, followed by a

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