In this bold attempt to challenge readers鈥� assumptions about racial prejudice, JPB Gerald explores how racism and hierarchies of language hinder effective education and harm societies around the world. Through a wide range of interviews with experts in areas ranging from US states generally perceived as being progressive to countries including Finland, Algeria and Japan, the author explores how a centuries-long battle for control of the narrative around race and language continues to be fought a
Language plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of social inequalities, but it can also be a key factor in their deconstruction and in the creation of a more multilingual and inclusive world. This book guides the reader through an exploration of creative and effective tools for examining the role that languages play in the life trajectories of speakers and how they can shape personal identities and promote social justice. The authors demonstrate the use of personal language family
This book presents empirical evidence of the academic and disciplinary literacies that learners engage with in educational contexts. The chapters focus on the languages of schooling (in first, second or foreign language contexts) across primary, secondary and higher education.
The book is divided into two main sections. The first section focuses on students鈥� voices and perceptions, providing new insights into the difficulties they encounter when developing academic or disciplinary literacies
This book represents a vital step forward in the process of decolonizing language policy and planning (LPP). It addresses both theoretical and practical aspects of LPP, while exploring its intersection with domains including security, politics and education. A decolonized LPP invites us to view language as an interconnected phenomenon, with boundaries that are not defined by structural, territorial, ethnic or historical limitations.
The chapters in this book problematize the positivist, instr
2025. vi, 240 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Expanding the scope of questionable research practices in applied linguistics
Luke Plonsky, Scott Sterling, Katherine Yaw, Tove Larsson & Merja Kyt枚
pp.鈥�183鈥�191
Articles
The Ulysses pact: An emic perspective on registered reports in applied linguistics
Meng Liu, Yuan Sang, Phil Hiver & Ali H. Al-Hoorie
pp.鈥�192鈥�218
Investigating researcher perceptions of Questionable Research Practices
Scott Sterling, Kate Yaw, Luke Plonsk
2025. iii, 110 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Futurity and modality in the Old Frisian Skelta Riucht
El偶bieta Adamczyk & Arjen Versloot
pp.鈥�121鈥�177
鈥楤usked hem redy boun鈥�: Integrating Norse鈥慸erived busken into the class of 鈥榩repare鈥� verbs in medieval English
W. Juliane Elter
pp.鈥�178鈥�215
The runic inscription on the spearhead from Mos
Staffan Fridell
pp.鈥�216鈥�220
Book review
Javier Mart铆n Arista (ed.),Sara Dom铆nguez Barrag谩n,Luisa Fidalgo Allo,Laura Garc铆a Fern谩ndez,
2025. v, 224 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Guest Editors鈥� Foreword
p.鈥�129
Articles
Equity, diversity and inclusion in academic production and dissemination in languages other than English: Possibility or wishful thinking?
Cl谩udio Fran莽a & Kyria Finardi
pp.鈥�130鈥�159
Individual differences in English-medium education: Comparing multilingual identity, beliefs, motivations and perspectives in EME in Spanish and Chinese undergraduates
Jennifer Ament & Mengjia Zhang
pp.鈥�1
2025. iii, 152 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Development of aspect in children鈥檚 narrations in German Sign Language
Vera Kolbe
pp.鈥�183鈥�207
The use of constructed action and its relationship with age and sign language development among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language
Laura Kanto, Anna Puupponen & Doris Hern谩ndez
pp.鈥�208鈥�262
Researcher鈥檚 resources
Sign language adaptation of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales 鈥� 21 (DASS-21)
Rose Stamp, Svetlana Dachkovsky, Vered
2025. iii, 233 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
鈥業t runs in the family鈥�: Reconstructing the kinship terminology of Tugu Creole Portuguese
Raan-Hann Tan & Silvio Moreira De Sousa
pp.鈥�203鈥�261
Pacific transformations of the 鈥楥ountry of Babel鈥�: The legacy of a colonial language myth in nationalist discourses on Hawai鈥榠 Creole and Tok Pisin
Christoph Neuenschwander
pp.鈥�262鈥�301
Remarks on the syntax of bare nouns in Papiamentu
Luis L贸pez, Rodi Laanen, Charlotte Pouw & M. Carmen Pa
We would like to invite master鈥檚 students, doctoral candidates, and post-doctoral researchers (within 3 years of their PhD defense) to submit a paper to the Young Scholar's Forum (YSF) at the 13th International Conference of the European Association for Chinese Linguistics (EACL-13) in Paris-Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet (2-4 September 2026).
The YSF provides an inclusive platform for eligible participants to present ongoing research, discuss methodological challenges, connect with peers wh
Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and Epistemic Modality
Date: 18 February 2026
Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshop-expsyntax
Contact: vasfunproject@gmail.com
The workshop brings together researchers working on the syntactic and interpretative properties of exclamatives鈥攑articularly those that involve complementizers鈥攁s well as scholars investigating epistemic modal adverbs, expressive particles, and other elements
We are pleased to announce the NUMBES Symposium: Numbers, Motion and Multimodality, which will take place in Cabo de Palos (Murcia, Spain) on 28鈥�29 May 2026.
The symposium theme, Representing abstract concepts through metaphor, places a particular emphasis on the conceptualization of number, while also inviting an interdisciplinary discussion at the crossroads of linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, gesture studies, and cultural analysis, including contributions on other abstract domai
Focus: Linguistic Diversity, Language Documentation, Under-resourced Languages, Typology
Description:
The Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), the Humboldt Universit盲t zu Berlin (HU-Berlin) Institut f眉r deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, and the Leibniz-Zentrums Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) are offering an in person summer school in Linguistic Diversity and Language Science from Monday, August 31st through Friday, September 4th, 2026. The training will take place in person in Berlin,
TraductAL is a multilingual, multimodal translation system, still under development, that runs entirely offline. It uses two free and open source translation engines:
1. NLLB-200 (Meta) for neural machine translation of 50 mainstream (European, African and Asian) languages
2. Apertus-8B for 15 low-resource languages (e.g., dialectal variations of Swiss-German)
The web interface and command line tools provide optional speech-to-text, audio transcription, text-to-speech, translate-and-spe
This dataset was collected for the following 1997 monograph:
Kortmann, Bernd. 1997. Adverbial subordination: A typology and history of adverbial subordinators based on European languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110812428/html)
Thirty years after the completion of the book manuscript Adverbial subordination, the bulk of the database forming the empirical foundation for this monograph is made available to the research community. So most
Episode 3 of HELLO Lab Presents (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdTrF457qO7PAtDiSAJfEg) has just been released 鈥� When will my kid say their first word? (https://youtu.be/7Uv8kLz_Xq4)鈥� which is the first of two episodes related to word learning.
Spanish dubbed versions of episodes coming soon, thanks to Irene de la Cruz-Pav铆a at Universidad de Deusto.
More information about HELLO Lab Presents below. Thanks again for your words of encouragement, input, and idea 鈥� and for liking, subscrib
2nd Call for Papers:
Description du colloque :
La bande dessin茅e de langue fran莽aise pr茅sente une diversit茅 socioculturelle et linguistique qui suscite un int茅r锚t croissant depuis quelques ann茅es, tant dans la recherche que dans l鈥檈nseignement du fran莽ais. Ce colloque vise 脿 explorer de mani猫re transdisciplinaire 鈥� 脿 travers les prismes de la linguistique, de la litt茅rature et de la didactique 鈥� cette diversit茅 dans les albums de bande dessin茅e, le roman graphique et les webtoons contempora
Second and Final Call for Papers
We invite applications for a 'seminar' (i.e. a theme session or workshop, in ESSE parlance) at the next conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The general conference website is at https://www.esse2026.com. The website with further information (including illustrations of the theme) and submission platform for this seminar is at https://metasocial.unamur.be. The convenors are Lieven Vandel
The 2026 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States will be held ONLINE, July 8-10, 2026, hosted by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, The University Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, with local hosts Gaby Semaan and Kasumi Yamazaki.
Abstracts:
While abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework into aspects of the conference theme are especially welcome, LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approa
The 2026 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States will be held ONLINE, July 8-10, 2026, hosted by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, The University Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, with local hosts Gaby Semaan and Kasumi Yamazaki.
Abstracts:
While abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework into aspects of the conference theme are especially welcome, LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approa