Review: Semantics, Sociolinguistics: Julianne House & Dániel Kádár (2025)

SUMMARY Julien House and Dániel Z. Kádár’s ‘Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective’ is a valuable and fascinating contribution in the field of language and politics with pragmatics approaches. It is a book with 231 pages, including references sections. The book breaks new ground by approaching language and politics from a pragmatic perspective instead of relying on the more established traditions of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. It introduces a strictly lang

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Confs: Panel at IPC20: Emancipating Grammatical Concepts From English and Indo-european Languages

Standard grammatical concepts such as agreement, case, subject, direct object, phrases, clauses, and sentences are predominantly derived from the study of dominant Indo-European languages, including Latin, Greek, German, and English. It raises a crucial question: how can we ensure that these concepts are suitable for analyzing languages from different language families? A brief examination of representative non-Indo-European languages reveals significant differences compared to languages like En

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Calls: From Theory to Practice: Linguistics in the Additional Language Classroom

Call for Papers: There is a heightened and growing interest in integrating (formal) linguistics into the language classroom (Trotzke & Kupisch, 2020), as evidenced by the recent launch of the journal Pedagogical Linguistics in 2020 (Hudson, 2020; Trotzke, 2023; Widdowson, 2020) and large-scale pedagogical projects like Sheehan and colleagues’ Modern Foreign Languages in the UK (Sheehan et al., 2021, 2024). The claim is that appropriate adaptation of theoretical linguistic concepts and knowled

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Calls: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura - "Volume 4, Issue 7" (Jrnl)

The Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura (RLEE) invites submissions in English, Spanish, or Portuguese for Volume 4, Issue 7, scheduled for publication during the first half of 2027. RLEE is an international, multilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal currently pursuing inclusion in academic indexes. Its multilingual approach seeks to consolidate a space for scholarly exchange in which researchers from different regions can disseminate their work, with particular attentio

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Calls: Journal of Language Science Studies - "Special English Issue"(Jrnl)

Call for Papers: Journal of Language Science Studies Special English Issue The Journal of Language Science Studies, published by Allameh Tabataba'i University, invites original, unpublished research papers for its upcoming Special English Issue. We welcome high-quality contributions across all areas of language sciences, including theoretical and applied linguistics, and diachronic studies. Submission Deadline: August 31, 2026 Guidelines: Manuscripts must be in English and format

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Confs: Special Interest Panel at LAGB 2026 - Symphony in Four Movements: New Perspectives on Music and Language

Linguistic Association of Great Britain – Special Interest Panel LAGB 2026 Annual Meeting, Edinburgh Futures Institute, the University of Edinburgh, UK Movement I: rhythmic structure and textsetting Movement II: pitch organisation and tonal structure Movement III: cognitive and perceptual mechanisms Finale: round table Register here: https://tickts.co.uk/events/lagb-2026-annual-meeting 10 September 2026 08:30–16:00 Panel organiser: Davide Di Prete (UCL) (d.diprete@ucl.ac.uk)

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Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Lecturer in Singapore Sign Language, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Other Specialties: Singapore Sign Language Description: The School of Humanities invites suitable candidates to apply for a faculty position in Singapore Sign Language (SgSL) in the Centre of Modern Languages at the rank of Lecturer. The Centre for Modern Languages (CML) is a diverse department offering 15 Asian and European languages (Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Singapore Sign Language, Spanish, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese)

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Confs: Panel at IPC20 - Artificial Others: Bridges or Barriers? Discursive Perspectives on Robots in Polarised Societies

Abstract submission by 15 September 2026 to: artificialothers@proton.me Panel organisers: Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura, Natalia Riva Bridges are not built only between people. They are also imagined through the figures, technologies, and social actors that societies create to negotiate difference. Among these figures, humanoid robots and biomimetic agents occupy a revealing position: they are simultaneously technological artefacts, cultural objects, and discursive constructions. In a pe

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Books: Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: Madlener-Charpentier, Verspoor, Weder, and Häcki Buhofer (eds.) (2026)

Over the last three decades, usage-based (UB) approaches have developed into a leading paradigm in research on language, language use, and (first and second) language acquisition. This volume shows how current UB approaches—embracing diverse perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies—place authentic language use in interaction at center stage. The contributions explore a broad range of related questions: How can linguistic representations be described? How does constructional knowledge, includ

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Books: Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: Palancar, Chamoreau, and Donabédian (eds.) (2026)

This volume places topicality at the very heart of grammatical explanation, drawing on richly annotated discourse corpora from lesser-studied languages across the Americas and beyond. Through nine original studies, it demonstrates how aspects of discourse relevance (rather than just abstract syntactic relations) shape word order, argument encoding, case marking, and voice systems in natural speech. Several chapters revisit and critically reassess Givón's seminal work on topic continuity and disc

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Books: Task-Based Approaches to Teaching Additional Languages in Primary School: Timpe-Laughlin, and Butler (2026)

How can primary school children develop real communicative ability in an additional language? How can teachers move beyond isolated vocabulary and grammar practice toward meaningful language use that aligns with children’s cognitive, social, and developmental needs? This volume provides the first comprehensive, research-based guide to Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) specifically designed for primary education. Timpe-Laughlin and Butler bring together insights from child first language develo

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Books: Grammar and History of Français-Tirailleur: Parkvall (2026)

Français-Tirailleur (FT) was a French-lexicon pidgin spoken in the French African army between 1860 and 1960, and by civilians in contact with it. Despite their importance, pidgins remain understudied, often dismissed as mere precursors to creoles. Yet FT, like other pidgins, was a rule-governed, functional language—streamlined for communication, stripped of unnecessary complexity, and optimised for ease of learning. Born in the crucible of colonial encounters, FT’s history reflects both unlikel

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Books: The Makú Language of the Auari River, Northern Amazonia: Zamponi (2026)

This book provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of Makú (Máku), a language isolate formerly spoken in a remote region of northern Brazilian Amazonia. Based on materials collected by researchers since 1912, it documents a language that became extinct around 2000 with the passing of Kuluta (Sinfrônio Magalhães). Makú represents a remnant of a historically diverse and complex ethnolinguistic landscape, largely erased through the expansion of neighboring groups and colonization. Th

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TOC: Linguistique et Langues Africaines Vol. 11, No. 2 (2025)

ARTICLES Angoua Jean-Jacques Tano et Siesson Amos Diallo Étude comparative du lexique des sentiments, des émotions et des activités mentales entre la Langue des Signes Américaine en usage en Côte d’Ivoire et la Langue des Signes de Bouakako (LaSiBo) Ekaterina Aplonova et Victoria Pozdniakova Grammar sketch of Ginyanga Denis Creissels et Alain Christian Bassène Complex predicate effects in biverbal constructions expressing the comparison of superiority: The case of Jóola Fóoñi (Atla

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Books: A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic: Hopkins and Fassberg (eds.) (2026)

The "Handbook of Neo-Aramaic" aims to provide an introduction to, and details of the complex world of Neo-Aramaic. This large family of endangered Neo-Semitic languages is (or until recently was spoken by Jewish, Christian and Mandaean minorities in parts of the Middle East. Most members of these communities now live in various diasporas. Following a series of general chapters dealing with historical background, classification, salient linguistic features, Neo-Semitic context, contact languages

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FYI: Invited Online Lecture: Jannis Androutsopoulos on the Online-Offline Nexus

The Japanese Society for Digital Communication Studies is pleased to announce its 2026 Special Invited Online Lecture. Speaker: Jannis Androutsopoulos (Professor of German and Media Linguistics, University of Hamburg) Lecture Title: Online-offline nexus: Scaling the interface of physical and virtual action Date and Time: Friday, 11 September 2026 9:00 CEST Venue: Online via Zoom Registration: https://forms.gle/TccShN3CgJdnEW4h8 The lecture is co-hosted by the National Insti

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FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Teaching Translation in the Age of AI: Rethinking its Place in Language Degrees

Editors: Christine Schallmoser, Alice Dias-Mercier and Raquel Fernández-Sánchez (King's College London) We invite proposals for chapters for an edited volume provisionally titled Teaching Translation in the Age of AI: Rethinking its Place in Language Degrees. This edited collection explores the role of translation in language degree programmes at a time when artificial intelligence and machine translation are changing how students, future professionals and educators work with languages. It

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FYI: III Colóquio do Grupo de Pesquisa em Linguística de Texto-GPLINT

INSCRIÇÕES ABERTAS para o III Colóquio do GPLINT, no dia 28 de agosto, totalmente on-line e gratuito, transmitido pelo nosso canal do YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4KUjiyy9kvnqno2m_vPOGw . Basta preencher o formulário de inscrição: https://forms.gle/DNQoQJ6vGWTZY3fW6 – serão conferidos certificados. Teremos duas mesas-redondas: - Mesa-redonda 1 Texto e ensino: das 14h às 16h - com a mediação de Dennis Castanheira (UFF) e a participação das Professoras Doutoras Ana Elvira G

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TOC: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Vol. 31, No. 3 (2026)

2026. iii, 139 pp. Table of Contents Articles Deduplicating corpora: Introducing the Document Similarity tool Monika Bednarek & Kelvin K. H. Lee | pp. 299–332 Not all linguistic variation is equally predictable: Evidence from two case studies with large language models Felix Morger & Aleksandrs Berdicevskis | pp. 333–366 Sensitivity of dispersion measures to distributional patterns and corpus design Lukas Sönning & Jesse Egbert | pp. 367–395 Data interference: Emojis, homog

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TOC: Journal of Language and Sexuality Vol. 15, No. 2 (2026)

2026. iii, 166 pp. Table of contents Articles From gay to LGBTI+ advocacy group: A diachronic corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of COC Netherlands’ annual reports, 2008–2023 Jesper Verhoef | pp. 137–167 Coda /r/, sexual orientation, and the performance of online identity in Spanish Michael Andrew Sciacca | pp. 168–199 “Baby, we were born this way”: A critical discourse analysis of U.S. gay men’s discussions of diva-worship and feminism Ekkarat Ruanglertsilp | pp. 200

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TOC: English Text Construction Vol. 18, No. 2 (2025)

2025. v, 171 pp. Table of Contents Articles English moves: Hegemony, hybridity, and the (trans)portability of English in literature, translation, and beyond the page Eva Ulrike Pirker & Julie Deconinck | pp. 111–135 An ‘English home’: Constructions of familiarity and instability in Lucy Atkinson’s Recollections of Tartar steppes and their inhabitants (1863) Maxime Louise Honinx & Marjolein Goethals | pp. 136–165 Transportable but untranslatable? A style-sensitive approach to th

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Confs: Digital Religion V: Interfaces of Discourse, Society, and Politics

Positioned within contemporary struggles over public meaning, social affiliation and political legitimacy, digital religion is articulated through mediated practices in which claims about faith, community, authority and truth become resources for negotiating belonging, morality, identity and power. Digital Religion V invites papers that examine these practices at the interfaces of discourse, society and politics, with a focus on digital religious discourse both as product and as practice: as a

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Calls: Okinawa Chapter of Japan Association for Language Teaching Global Summit

Call for Papers: This is a three-day international conference hosted by the Okinawa Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching). It focuses on innovations in language education, bringing together educators, researchers, and professionals for presentations, workshops, and networking. Key details: Dates: Friday–Sunday, October 9–11, 2026 (coinciding perfectly with the Naha Great Tug-of-War Festival, a major cultural event with parades and the world’s largest tug-of-war on/arou

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Confs: 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

The 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC18) will take place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 20-24 August 2027 with pre-conference workshops from the 18th to the 20th and post-conference excursions on the 25th. The ICLC is the leading biennial meeting in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), bringing together researchers from around the world to present new research on the relationship between language and cognition, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging th

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Confs: International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research

Modern societies are increasingly characterised by multilingual realities. Migration and transnational exchange have led to highly heterogeneous, “superdiverse” societies (Blommaert & Rampton 2011; Vertovec 2007), in which individuals routinely draw on multiple linguistic resources from their repertoires, including national, regional, minority, heritage and other acquired languages. In recent years, disciplines concerned with language learning—such as Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Third

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Confs: Panel at IPC20 - The Pragmatics of Online Influence: Persuasion and Authority in Online Coaching Discourses

From the perspective of pragmatics, coaching can be understood as a communication-based, co-constructed discourse genre in which coach and client jointly build meanings, goals, and courses of action turn by turn (see Fleischhacker & Graf 2023). Rather than merely transmitting information, coaching works through persuasion: it relies on speech acts such as advising, evaluating, goal-setting, while also managing uptake and creating an expert identity for the coach (see Weinzinger 2016, Dayter & Rü

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Confs: 59th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

The Department of Tenyidie, the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Naga Tribal Language Studies, Nagaland University, are delighted to announce that the 59th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL-59) will be held from 14-16 December 2026 at Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema, Nagaland, India. We invite the submission of abstracts on any aspect of Sino-Tibetan languages and linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

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Confs: Japan Second Language Association Autumn Conference 2026

The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. Date: 24 October, 2026 Venue: Chuo University (Tama Campus, Tokyo) Abstract submission deadline: 7th September 2026, 23:59 (Japan Standard Time) There are two formats for research presentations at J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. (1) Student oral presentations (2) Poster presentations Please refer to the following website for abstract submission guidelines.

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All: In Memoriam: Professor Svetlana Kurteš

It is with great sadness that we announce that Professor Svetlana Kurteš passed away on 13 March 2026. Svetlana was a UK-based scholar whose work in linguistic and intercultural education spanned almost three decades. She held academic positions at universities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East and was most recently affiliated with the University of Madeira. Her international academic experience was reflected in her research, which brought together communication, culture and society, with p

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TOC: Sign Language & Linguistics Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (2026)

2026. vi, 352 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Editors’ notepad p. 1 Introduction Cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics Olga Capirci & Sabina Fontana | pp. 2–8 Articles Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic approach Chiara Bonsignori, Elena Tomasuolo, Pasquale Rinaldi & Virginia Volterra | pp. 9–32 Italian Sign Language: Searching for common ground between the sociosemiotic perspective and computational annotation

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