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2nd Call for Papers:
Convenors:
Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier)
Barbara Schlücker (FU Berlin)
Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context, and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored different facets of the role of context. By ‘context’ we mean the linguistic context, both immediate (e.g. preceding and following words) and with a larger scope (e.g. text types), and the extralinguistic context such as the speaker and the listener or the situation of s
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The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, March 24–29, 2026.
Scope & Aims:
Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these approaches to scale across l
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The Challenge of Subtitling Offensive and Taboo Language into Spanish: A Theoretical and Practical Guide was first published in 2023 and released in paperback in 2025. The book has a brief Introduction, followed by three more chapters. Each of these three chapters closes with extensive exercises, and there is an answer key at the end of the volume. At the front of the book is a list of abbreviations; in its final pages are lists of films and TV series, web addresses, references, and a
The topic of language and brain is a large and significant area of research and study, and this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field. Bringing together contributions from an interdisciplinary team of internationally-renowned scholars, it focuses on important theoretical positions that have changed the study of language and brain in the first two decades of the 21st century. It is split into seven thematic parts, covering topics such as theoretical foundations of language and
2025. iii, 175 pp.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Preface
pp. 145–147
Articles
The Finnish definite article
Nathaniel Jacob Torres | pp. 148–178
Epistemic perspective of temporal deictics: A study on Mari retrospectivizing particles
Silja-Maija Spets | pp. 179–216
Verb second in Estonian and the syntax-prosody relation
Anders Holmberg, Heete Sahkai & Anne Tamm | pp. 217–268
Binding in Finnish and the language-cognition interface
Pauli Brattico | pp. 269–319
2025. iii, 165 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Exploring young Chilean learners’ ‘thick’ voices about English language learning: A longitudinal participatory approach
Pía Tabali & Annamaria Pinter | pp. 153–176
Integrating technology-mediated language learning tasks into the young learner English as a foreign language classroom: Unravelling a pre-service teacher’s competence development
Euline Cutrim Schmid & Andrea Kratzer | pp. 177–201
Extensive reading of digital science reso
2024. iii, 148 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
The development of discourse competence in learner academic writing
Sonca Vo | pp. 141–165
Evaluative stance in academic arguments: A study of that-structures in applied linguistics research article introductions
Ebtesam Abbasi Montazeri & Alireza Jalilifar | pp. 166–207
Thom Gunn’s poetry and capital: A reading through Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology
Fatemeh Shahpoori Arani | pp. 208–233
Deconstructing OUT-prefixation: A constructi
2025. iii, 169 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Simple language, sophisticated actions: Sequence-initiating actions by novice English users in an educational context
Eric Hauser & Zachary Nanbu | pp. 777–805
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media
Ronald R. Jacobsen | pp. 806–827
Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube: A qualitative study of comments on product-promoting videos in Spanish
Sanna Pelttari | pp. 828–84
2025. iii, 144 pp.
Table of Contents
Preface
Edda Weigand | pp. 347–348
Discussion article
Why we must communicate: Dewey’s contribution to the dialogic theory of language
Yael Mishani-Uval | pp. 349–361
Articles
Dialogue: Translation activities and human–land relationship
Jianzhong Xu | pp. 362–379
How are suggestions formulated in Saudi Arabia and New Zealand? A cross-cultural pragmatic study
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs & Anna Siyanova-Chanturia | pp. 380–410
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As of Volume 38 (2026), the John Benjamins journal Target welcomes on board two new Associate Editors: Rhona Amos (University of Geneva) & Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds). Also, Riku Haapaniemi (Tampere University) will become the new Multilingual Website Editor.
Target is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal aiming to promote the interdisciplinary scholarly study of translational phenomena from any part of the world and in any medium. The journal presents research on various forms of
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A description of Changki-Ao phonology with a note on orthography
T, Temsunungsang; Changkija, Amenla, I
https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35216
A study of the Morphological Patterns of Collocation in Assamese: A Thematic Overview
Handique, Mouchumi
https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35204
Negation in Mising
Doley, Normoda
https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.47090
A Phonological Sketch of Maring
Kanshouwa, Susie
https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35233
Reduplication In Khiamniungan
Thaam, Keen
"(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt" is the first book-length study of (im)politeness in ancient Egyptian texts. Leading experts in their respective corpora examine a range of textual sources spanning approximately 2,000 years, using the latest frameworks for analyzing language in usage. This edited volume asks how ancient Egyptians adapted and modified their language to persuade, complain, or mock, and how they assessed the risks and benefits of communicating with those above or below them in the
We constantly refer to counterfactual events—things that didn’t happen but could have—through conditional, wish, and modal constructions. Yet, despite their ubiquity, we still know surprisingly little about how these constructions have evolved across languages and through history. This book breaks new ground by tracing, for the first time, the development of counterfactual systems across different constructions, texts, linguistic registers, and historical stages. Drawing on extensive corpus data
Khortha is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Jharkhand, India. Netra P. Paudyal provides an in-depth analysis of Khortha grammar based on the data recorded during his field trips, elicited data, and sentences culled from printed literature. Alongside, it includes a fully glossed text, a comparative wordlist of lexical items from three different varieties of this language and verb paradigms, making it of great interest and value to linguists and typologists. Additionally, it highlights Kho
Over the past two decades, linguistic research into embodiment has paid considerable attention to the human body and its individual parts, particularly within typological and cognitively oriented studies. This volume continues that line of inquiry with a specific focus on the lower limb. It shows that, like other major body parts, the lower limb serves as a highly productive source domain for a wide range of conceptualisations across the world’s languages and cultures. More generally, the book c
Students of teacher education need to be prepared for increasingly diverse classrooms. Internationalising their studies is one way to make them aware of the many dimensions of diversity and prepare them for their future lives in the classroom. It is important to expose them to international learning opportunities, to enable mobility abroad and implement international modules into their studies. The DAAD project to internationalise teacher education is conducted with partner universities worldwid
The DFG Research Unit ‘Cyclic Optimization’, starting its second phase on March 1 2026 with 13 new research positions, explores the interaction of cyclicity and optimization in all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The two PhD positions announced here are part of the subproject ‘The Clash of Negation and Imperatives through the Lense of Cyclic Optimization’ (PI: Paula Fenger). The subproject investigates the morphosyntactic variation across imperatives and prohibit
The two 4-year PhD positions announced here are part of the subproject 'The derivation of clause-embedding predicates' (PI: Barbara Stiebels) of the Research Unit (RU) 'Cyclic optimization', whose second funding period will start in March 2026. The starting date of the positions will also be March 1st, 2026.
Salary: E 13 TV-L, 65% part-time
The position is fully funded, including social security, health insurance, and other benefits. The specific salary follows the pay scale of the German pu
One 4-year PhD position in the project ‘The Cyclic Integration approach to clitics and the syntax-prosody mapping’ as part of the DFG Research Unit ‘Cyclic Optimization’
Starting date: March 1, 2026
Salary: Fully Funded Position
Deadline: December 15, 2025
The DFG Research Unit ‘Cyclic Optimization’ starting its second phase on March 1 2026 with 13 new research positions explores the interaction of cyclicity and optimization in all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and sem