Articles
Farzana Yesmen Chowdhury
The role of social networks in language maintenance among Bangladeshi
migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia 1
Johanna Holzer
Language biographical schemas, response modalities and L2-strategies:
a sociolinguistic approach to language biographies 27
Philip Rehnberg and Fanny Forsberg Lundell
Language and civic education requirements as gatekeepers or tools for economic
integration: a question of gender? 53
Helena Borrell Carreras
Building
This book describes how the teaching of English can be organised by educational systems, institutions (e.g., schools, language centres, universities), and teachers. Accessibly written, the book combines theory and practice of curriculum development by explaining key concepts through real-life examples from a range of international contexts, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, Spain, the UK and the USA. It includes activities that encourage students to analyse curricul
It is crucial to apply robust analytic methods to the study of discourses deemed 'ideological'. This book applies the Guidelines and Procedures for ideological research, as presented in Verschueren's Ideology in Language Use, to an exciting new area of study; discourses intended to improve humanity. It analyses the discourse of Amnesty International appeal letters, to show (contrary to what the field of critical discourse analysis often assumes) that ideological discourse can sometimes have a po
Teacher emotion is a topic of increasing interest in the fields of applied linguistics and TESOL. Bringing together cutting-edge research from an international team of renowned scholars, this book provides a collection of studies that explore this fascinating topic from an extensive range of contexts and perspectives. The volume includes real case studies from educators around the world, providing a fully global overview of teacher emotions. Through linking emotions to personal experiences, iden
Religious texts played a central role in the historical development of English. Harnessing corpus linguistic techniques, historical pragmatics, and the history of the English church, this book interrogates the keywords that have dominated English religious expression from the end of the medieval period to the eve of the Darwinian age. Exploring a number of historical religious works from the late medieval period to the nineteenth century, it shows how changes in the deployment of key words refle
Grounded in descriptive linguistics, this textbook introduces the basics of the major subfields of linguistics, as well as the Chinese writing system, for students with no prior linguistic training. It presents the Chinese language from the perspective of both modern linguistics and its longstanding philological legacy, as well as providing historical and sociolinguistic context. Chapters cover phonology and phonetics, morphology, lexicon, lexical semantics, syntax, sign language and braille. Au
The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)
We are pleased to invite submissions for the panel outlined below.
Pragmatics is defined by the International Pragmatics Association鈥攏ow celebrating its 20th conference鈥攁s the 鈥渢he science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication鈥� (IPrA webpage, our italics). This reflects the scholarly consensus that pragmatics is a study of communication because 鈥渃ommunication is what language is a
The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)
We are pleased to invite submissions for the panel outlined below.
Pragmatics is defined by the International Pragmatics Association鈥攏ow celebrating its 20th conference鈥攁s the 鈥渢he science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication鈥� (IPrA webpage, our italics). This reflects the scholarly consensus that pragmatics is a study of communication because 鈥渃ommunication is what language is a
Call for Papers:
ARR submission deadline: Aug 3, 2026
EACL commitment deadline: Oct 11, 2026
Details: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/
Overview:
EACL 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program. In addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a ne
Topics: AI, Robotics, Technology; Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnography; Conversation Analysis/EMCA; Interactional Pragmatics
Abstract: Assistants based on large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable uptake as a new medium advertised as conversational partners. They may be marketed as companions (Malfacini, 2025) for therapy (Scholich et al., 2025), used for programming, research, and writing (Haase et al., 2026), and a variety of other purposes. On the surface, such assistant
JACOR Call for Papers 鈥� (Jul-Dec2026)
Submission Deadline: 19 September 2026
The聽Journal of Advanced Corpus-Oriented Research (JACOR)聽invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit original manuscripts for its upcoming issue (Jan鈥揓un 2026). JACOR is a bi-annual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of language, technology, and digital humanities.
Scope and Topics:
We welcome submissions across the followi
Call for Papers:
Lo desen Obrador de Ling眉istica Occitana (OLO10) se tendr脿 a l鈥橧nstitut f眉r Romanistik de l鈥橴niversitat de Viena, 脌ustria, los 19 e 20 de mai de 2027. L鈥橭brador de Ling眉istica Occitana es lo f貌rum que recampa los ling眉istas que trabalhan sus l鈥檕ccitan, dins un esperit d鈥檈scambi e de collaboracion.
Las proposicions de comunicacion son a mandar abans lo 31 de geni猫r de 2027 sus EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/OLO10/) o sus ignasi.planas.villalba@univie.a
Topics: AI, Robotics, Technology; Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnography; Conversation Analysis/EMCA; Interactional Pragmatics
Abstract: Assistants based on large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable uptake as a new medium advertised as conversational partners. They may be marketed as companions (Malfacini, 2025) for therapy (Scholich et al., 2025), used for programming, research, and writing (Haase et al., 2026), and a variety of other purposes. On the surface, such assistant
I enclose the link to the interview on "Understanding multilingualism" with Viorica Marian (Northwestern University),
https://tv.uvigo.es/video/6a5f725e2383fed4cd48f582?track_id=6a6214de2383fee849408752
This fascinating open access study explains and describes the process by which young children can acquire a second language incidentally, via joyful and regular exposure to animated cartoons. This multi-year activity can replicate some aspects of the mother-tongue acquisition process, especially when supported by a co-viewing caregiver.
Rosalia Di Nisio emphasises two important elements in the acquisition process: the mediation of co-viewing adults as a motivating factor, and the multimodal n
BOOK PROPOSAL TITLE:
Phonetics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Speech, Language Technology, and the Future of African Linguistics
Editors: Dr. Evans Gesura Mecha & Dr. Samwel Komenda
Correspondence: evans-mecha@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke
1. Working Title
Phonetics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Speech, Language Technology, and the Future of African Linguistics
2. Rationale and Overview
Africa's linguistic landscape, with an estimated 2,000 languages exhibiting tone systems
Focus: Cognitive and Functional Linguistics
Description:
The Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University organizes Braga Summer School in Linguistics, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics. The event will offer advanced training in several areas of linguistic studies, especially from the perspective of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics in their most recent developments and in a
This study applies Fillmore鈥檚 Frame Semantics and corpus linguistics to analyze love fraud. It demonstrates the stages of the event as well as the words and phrases used to activate each frame and cause the victim to love and trust the fraudster. The fraudster thus constructs a romantic relationship with the victim, solely through language. This relationship begins with friendship, progresses to 鈥榮oulmateship鈥� and engagement, and finally ends in an online 鈥榤arriage鈥�. Since one word can activate