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鈥淲e look inward in order to fight forward鈥� (p. 6).
The edited collection Autoethnographic explorations of lived raciolinguistic experiences among multilingual scholars: Looking inward to move forward by Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman is a unique and timely work that brings together deeply personal autoethnographic narratives of multilingual scholars from diverse cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds across the globe, spanning 14 institutions of higher education and 6
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The idea of modeling language as a dynamical system is not new, but it has not caught on widely. With this entry in the Cambridge Elements series, Edgar W. Schneider draws attention to how concepts of complex dynamic systems theory can be used to better understand language, particularly the varieties of English spoken around the world.
In keeping with the scope of the Elements series, the book is very short, only 85 pages including the references. It consists of six chapters: four
I teach an undergraduate course entitled 鈥淚ndigenous languages: their past, present, and future,鈥� with 鈥渇uture鈥� referring to ongoing processes of revitalization, reclamation, and change. Since most of the Indigenous students at Syracuse University are from the United States or Canada and since I conduct my own research in Brazil, my syllabus focuses on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the languages that they speak (or spoke in the past). My students express interest in transnational p
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The edited volume 鈥淓arly Language Education in Instructed Contexts鈥� offers a comprehensive, empirically grounded exploration of early additional-language learning for children aged approximately 5 to 12. Bringing together fourteen chapters from international scholars, the book surveys contemporary research on assessment, literacy development, classroom practices, teaching materials, teacher cognition, parental views, and transitional experiences between primary and secondary schooling
Dear Linguist Listers,
Linguist List turns 36 years old this month! Our first issue was posted in December, 1990:
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We've come a long way since these humble beginnings. From a few dozen linguists on a new electronic mailing list -- to over 125,000 subscribers and followers worldwide!
But with age, inevitably comes change鈥�
Linguist List's creators and its first moderators retired long ago. But before they did, they formed the eLinguistics Foundati
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Morirse, salirse, comerse y otros pseudorreflexivos sin motivaci贸n argumental, by Martha Guzm谩n, is a relevant contribution to the field of Romance linguistics, as it provides a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of pseudo鈥恟eflexivity in French and Spanish verbs. Researchers working on contrastive grammar of Spanish and French will see this text as a useful and complete analysis of these constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic angle, since the book is pre
Guest Editors:
Todor Koev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, tkoev@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Maria Esipova, Bar-Ilan University, masha.esipova@nyu.edu
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The concept of at-issueness revolves around the intuition that the information conveyed by an utterance is segmented into main (at-issue) content and peripheral/background (not-at-issue) content. This distinction has played a key role in understanding various linguistic phenomena, like presupposition (e.g., Kartt
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鈥淟ogic for Everyone: From Proof to Paradox鈥� (henceforth, 鈥淟ogic for Everyone鈥�), written by Jason Decker (2025), Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science in Carleton College, is an academic textbook designed for undergraduate students who seek a rigorous yet accessible introduction to formal logic. It can also be intended for a broader interdiscip
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In 2025, the researcher Lauren Gawne published "Gesture: A slim guide" (Oxford). This book is a significant addition to the communication field, providing a necessary and substantial resource for a wide range of communication enthusiasts. It is a valuable asset for interested readers, including those who have not received formal education in languages, as well as postgraduate students and researchers. The primary objective of this publication is the provision and introduction of resea
How are invented languages created? Artificially constructed languages ('conlangs') shed light on how we can apply the universal principles of language to produce whole new languages. Grounded on world building and linguistic typology, this engaging book provides a step-by-step guide to language invention, introducing the basic blocks of language building (such as sounds, morphemes and sentence structure) and demonstrating their use in both natural languages from English to Swahili, and invented
Australian languages form a large genetic group with many interesting and distinctive phonological and morphological properties. Written by two experts in the field, this is the first book-length treatment of this topic, providing an in-depth discussion of a wealth of little-known data on the sound systems and word structures of Australian Indigenous languages. It includes a critical evaluation of theoretical approaches from the 1950s up to the current day, including recent experimental, psychol
Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication. This book is the first critical examination of the current state of our knowledge of pragmatic disorders and provides a comprehensive overview of the main concepts and theories in pragmatics. It examines the full range of pragmatic disorders that occur in children and adults and discusses how they are assessed and treated b
This Element introduces the study of forensic linguistics, particularly in southern Africa, but also in Africa more generally. In the past six decades, there has been clear evidence that the discipline of forensic linguistics is, or was, unknown to general linguists, legal linguists, and applied linguists on the African continent. Now, however, the situation is rapidly changing, with forensic linguistics studies gaining momentum in various parts of Africa. In this Element the authors introduce t
This Element deals with the relationship between cognition, understood as the process of acquiring and developing knowledge, and diverse types of conspiracy theories, or short, 'CTs'. Section 1 lays the groundwork for the analysis by determining four components of narrative argumentative framing in CTs, of which the first three are constitutive for all CTs, with a fourth representing the 'optional' collective action-guiding 鈥渟cenario鈥� component. Section 2 exemplifies manifestations of these comp
Uniformitarianism is the widely held assumption that, in the case of languages, structural and other changes in the past must have been triggered and constrained by the same ecological factors as changes in the present. This volume, led by two of the most eminent scholars in language contact, brings together an international team of authors to shed new light on Uniformitarianism in historical linguistics. Applying the Uniformitarian Principle to creoles and pidgins, as well as other languages, t
This Element addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in the study of sound systems of understudied languages within the context of language documentation, an expanding field that seeks to develop records of the world's languages and their patterns of use in their broader cultural and social context. The topics covered in this Element focus on different elements of language documentation and their relationship to phonological analysis, including lexicography, documentary corpora, mu
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an educational approach that combines the teaching of subject content with language learning. Originally developed in Europe, CLIL has since been adopted across diverse educational and geographical contexts. This Element offers a comprehensive overview of CLIL, tracing its origins and global development. It examines the theoretical foundations of the approach, as well as key implementation strategies and their impact on language acquisition, con
The modern era we are living in is marked by a significantly rapid pace of globalization and pervasive diffusion of technological advancements. These synergistic forces have effectively eradicated geographical barriers and forged what van Dijk (1991) and Castells (1996) refer to as the 鈥渘etwork society,鈥� which metamorphoses disparate national entities into an intricately interconnected tapestry of societies and cultures (Castells, 2000). The nature of this global structure places new, urgent dem
We are pleased to invite scholars to participate in the 10th International Conference on Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, to be held on November 6鈥�7, 2026, at National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan). Under the theme 鈥淣ew Trends in the Study of Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in Eastern and Western Contexts,鈥� the conference welcomes contributions from researchers in Taiwan and abroad. Through perspectives from linguistics, literary studies, history, cultural studies,