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
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
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
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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鈥檚 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
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
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
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
La Asociaci贸n Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED), Discurso Net (DN) y la Benem茅rita Universidad Aut贸noma 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 M茅xico 2026: "Panoramas discursivos: voces, perspectivas, retos y desaf铆os en sociedades de crisis globales"
Que se llevar谩n a cabo de manera sincr贸nica y presencial (h铆brida para doctorandos) en el Instituto
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
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
La Asociaci贸n Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED), Discurso Net (DN) y la Benem茅rita Universidad Aut贸noma 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 M茅xico 2026: "Panoramas discursivos: voces, perspectivas, retos y desaf铆os en sociedades de crisis globales"
Que se llevar谩n a cabo de manera sincr贸nica y presencial (h铆brida para doctorandos) en el Instituto
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
We offer a three-year PhD position at the University of G枚ttingen (Department of German Philology) within the DFG-funded project 鈥淟ying and Commitment in the Visual Modality.鈥� 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
2025. v, 259 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Sandra Auderset, Rikker Dockum & Ryan Gehrmann
pp.鈥�267鈥�277
Articles 鈥� Aufs盲tze
Tonogenesis in the Gulf of Guinea Creoles
Ana L铆via Agostinho
pp.鈥�278鈥�304
Dialectal tone description enhances historical tonology
Mirella L. Blum
pp.鈥�305鈥�323
Towards reconstructing grammatical tone in the northwestern Bantu verb phrase
Nadine Grimm
pp.鈥�324鈥�356
Tone and voicing in Cao B岷眓g Tai: Implications for tonal evolution and chang
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
OSUCHiLL is one of the premier graduate student conferences on Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics hosted in the US. 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 on many different aspects of Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, or any other indigenous language.
For this conference, we welcome papers in English, Spanish, or Portu
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.鈥�109鈥�140
L2 disagreement through social media
Marta Gonz谩lez-Lloret & F谩tima Gat贸n Gabriel
pp.鈥�141鈥�167
English as an instructional resource for optimizing L2 Chinese use in the classroom: An applied CA perspective
Ding Wang-Bramlett, Katharine E. Burns & R茅mi A. van Compernolle
pp.鈥�168鈥�
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
As part of the ERC-funded CongUbangi project, this colloquium aims at bringing together scholars from different disciplines interested in Ubangi, Bantu and Central Sudanic languages and language speaking-communities in northern Republic of Congo, southern Central African Republic and northern Democratic Republic of Congo. Spanning multiple ecozones within the Congo rainforest, this area is home to an intricate demographic configuration where Bantu (Niger-Congo) and Central Sudanic (putative Nilo
Keynote Speakers: Lindsay Preseau (Iowa State University) & Jenny Robins (Iowa State University)
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The Germanic Graduate Student Association (GGSA) at The Ohio State University invites submissions from graduate and undergraduate students for its upcoming 18th annual conference exploring the diverse 鈥榣ifeworlds鈥� (Lebenswelten) that inform and transform our understanding of German Studies. This year鈥檚 theme centers the concept of 鈥榣ifeworld鈥� (Lebenswelt), making use of Edmund Husserl鈥檚 (185