In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation, in which only the body (not the mind, not the spirit, not the sense) of the source text survives. Smash these two brilliant theorists' ideas together and arguably what emerges is a zombie theory of translation: zombies, after all, are m
This Element investigates the interplay between language, discourse, and materiality by focusing on everyday social practices within corner shops and markets in Sydney, Australia. Drawing on linguistic ethnography and data from interactions involving objects, talk, and people, it explores how discourse and materiality are co-constituted. Employing theoretical perspectives from actor-network theory and the concept of mediational means/tools, the study reconceptualizes the role of non-human entiti
Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories can vary depending on the historian/translator who recounts the facts. Translating His-stories focuses on how women 鈥� Jen Bervin, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Erin Mour茅, and many others 鈥� dare to translate stories previously told by men. In line with contemporary theories of translation, these
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Editorial
Five Paradigms About Language Use In Africa
Djouroukoro Diallo,Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Billian Otundo, Bert van Pinxteren, Addisalem T. Yallew
Articles
Partir des obstacles pour concevoir l鈥檈nseignement de la lecture dans les classes de CP au Burkina Faso
Cheick F茅lix Bobodo Ouedraogo
Officialisation des langues nationales - enjeux et d茅fis pour le Burkina Faso
Mamadou Lamine Sanogo
Postcolonial Englishes moving towards/past endono
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Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023).
The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on Por
We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse.
Submissions received by March 1st, 2026 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue.
Dialogue and Discourse (D&D) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to w
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The 2026 European Society for the Study of English Conference
Seminar 10.- Disinformation in and out: Qualitative Linguistic Analyses of Digital Disinformation Texts
With the challenges and crises of recent years, digital disinformation texts (in popular 鈥� though not always precise 鈥� usage also referred to as 鈥榝ake news鈥�) have become increasingly popular and seem to have gained ground among various groups of internet users. Defined as 鈥渇alse information [that] is knowingl
H2D (Revista de Humanidades Digitais) is an interdisciplinary Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to advancing research and dialogue in Digital Humanities. We welcome contributions that explore how digital tools and methods reshape humanities scholarship and practice, bridging humanistic inquiry and technological innovation while engaging contemporary societal challenges aligned with the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Since 2024, H2D has expanded as an inter-institutional journal wi
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Many indigenous languages currently face endangerment. Language shift involves not only social practices of bi/multilingualism with a dominant language(s), but also impacts on the structure of an endangered language itself. Specifically, it can lead to great variation and significant changes in its phonetics and morphosyntax (cf. Dorian 1981; 1989; 2010; Schmidt 1985; Grinevald & Bert 2011; Stanford & Preston 2009; Hildebrandt et al. 2017).
The work
Organis茅 pendant le 93e Congr猫s de l'Acfas, ce colloque offre aux chercheuses et aux chercheurs en histoire et en linguistique une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs r茅flexions au sujet des trajectoires migratoires des communaut茅s du bassin m茅diterran茅en au Qu茅bec, des formes d'int茅gration linguistique, sociale et politique ainsi que de la diversit茅 des rapports 脿 la langue fran莽aise dans une perspective transversale. Il vise 脿 茅clairer les logiques d'appartenance, de reconnaissance et
We would like to invite everyone to the third iteration of the Software Mention Detection and Coreference Resolution (SOMD 2026) shared task. Building on the success of the previous editions(SOMD 2024, SOMD 2025), this edition continues to focus on resolving software mentions across scholarly documents.
We address the task of coreference resolution of software mentions across multiple documents, i.e. given a set of software mentions extracted from multiple scientific publications, related ext
Organis茅 pendant le 93e Congr猫s de l'Acfas, ce colloque offre aux chercheuses et aux chercheurs en histoire et en linguistique une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs r茅flexions au sujet des trajectoires migratoires des communaut茅s du bassin m茅diterran茅en au Qu茅bec, des formes d'int茅gration linguistique, sociale et politique ainsi que de la diversit茅 des rapports 脿 la langue fran莽aise dans une perspective transversale. Il vise 脿 茅clairer les logiques d'appartenance, de reconnaissance et
We would like to invite everyone to the third iteration of the Software Mention Detection and Coreference Resolution (SOMD 2026) shared task. Building on the success of the previous editions(SOMD 2024, SOMD 2025), this edition continues to focus on resolving software mentions across scholarly documents.
We address the task of coreference resolution of software mentions across multiple documents, i.e. given a set of software mentions extracted from multiple scientific publications, related ext
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Dialectal and non-standard varieties pose persistent challenges for linguistic resource development. While in-depth study and large-scale resource creation for dominant or standard varieties have driven major advances in language technology, linguistic resources that adequately represent dialectal variation remain scarce. It therefore remains an open question whether standard-centric practices address dialectal variation or instead create new prob
It is a great pleasure to announce the 1st International Conference 鈥淟anguage, Literature & Education鈥� which will be organized and hosted by the Department of Preschool Education of the University of Crete, Faculty of Education, University of Crete.
In the context of this first conference emphasis will be put on aspects stemming from the interrelation between language and literature. Despite the fact that literature is intrinsically connected with language, since words represent 鈥渋ts material鈥�
It is a great pleasure to announce the 1st International Conference 鈥淟anguage, Literature & Education鈥� which will be organized and hosted by the Department of Preschool Education of the University of Crete, Faculty of Education, University of Crete.
In the context of this first conference emphasis will be put on aspects stemming from the interrelation between language and literature. Despite the fact that literature is intrinsically connected with language, since words represent 鈥渋ts material鈥�
The 7th International Conference on Language Education and Research (LERC2026) invites researchers, educators, and practitioners worldwide to submit papers, posters, and workshop proposals for our fully online international conference.
Under the theme 鈥淟anguage Acquisition at the Interface of Linguistic Theory and Practice鈥�, LERC2026 provides a platform to explore the intersections between linguistic theory, empirical research, and applied language learning. The conference welcomes contributi
In this Element, the authors propose a new framework for studying how trust is built and manipulated in discourse and apply it to one of the most notorious cases of corporate misconduct in history: the Enron fraud. The framework outlines the discursive strategies speakers commonly use to manage trust, providing a tool for examining how language shapes relationships and enables wrongdoing in both physical and digital environments. The analysis, which focuses on a previously unexplored corpus of t
Constructions are long-term pairings in memory of form and meaning. How are they created and learned, how do they change, and how do they combine into new utterances (constructs, communicative performances) in working memory? Drawing on evidence from word-formation (blending, Noun-Noun-compounds) over idioms and argument structure constructions to multimodal communication, we argue that computational metaphors such as 'unification' or 'constraint-satisfaction' do not constitute a cognitively ade
This Element conceptualises translation reception as a form of cultural negotiation in which cognitive processes and sociocultural factors converge to form understanding. Drawing on empirical examples from a variety of translational phenomena, it maps a range of methodologies, including surveys, interviews, eye-tracking experiments, and big data analytics, to examine how heterogeneous reader expectations are either reconciled or divided. This Element argues that the ambiguities surrounding reade