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From Migritude to F茅migritude: African Women Writers Theorizing Migration and Displacement Inspired by Jacques Chevrier's notion of migritude, which identifies a body of African writing concerned with migration, exile, and displacement (Chevrier 97-102), and building on Filomina Chioma Steady's conception of African feminism as rooted in women's material realities, survival, and collective well-being (Steady 8-15), this panel proposes f茅migritude as a framework for reading African women's lit

SUMMARY Aviation English as a Global Lingua Franca is a concise scholarly monograph published as part of Cambridge University Press's Elements in Applied Linguistics series. Authored by Hyejeong Kim of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the work brings together more than fifteen years of the author's sustained research program on radiotelephony communication between pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCs) in international aviation contexts. The Element examines the nature, challenges, an

This PhD thesis provides new insights into the development and the assessment of productive vocabulary knowledge and written vocabulary use in two L2s, English and French. Through three empirical studies, the thesis investigates the productive vocabulary knowledge and written vocabulary use of L2 learners in two grades of secondary school and for two L2s, while also examining the role of learner-related factors (e.g., formal instruction, out-of-school contact) and methodology-related factors (e.

Focus: The following are the featured courses: 1. Data Annotation for linguists 2. Text processing and benchmark 3. Audio processing and benchmark 4. Benchmark Dataset and Data business 5. Subregular phonology and syntax 6. SQL for linguists 7. Topics in phonology 8. Topics in syntax 9. How to develop software for linguists 10. The science of strings 11. AI ethics for linguists Description: This is a month intensive summer school targeted at African linguists and scholars. The g

I am looking for native speakers of Peninsular Spanish to record short audio tracks (under one minute) to be included in a material for teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (listening sections)

Call for Papers: We are very happy to announce the workshop "At-Issueness and Commitment: Interfaces and Interactions", which will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt from September 21鈥�22, 2026. We invite submissions for talks and posters on the relationship between at-issueness and commitment in natural language semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, and related fields. At-issueness and commitment are central notions in the analysis of meaning and disco

FLaP FIRST Volume #3 Call for Papers FLaP FIRST, a postgraduate student-led journal to present 鈥淔rank, Initial, Raw, Surprising Thoughts鈥� broadly related to Formal Linguistics and Philosophy, is now making a global call for papers. For more information, see: https://flapfirstjournal.wordpress.com/ We welcome: a. original manuscripts and/or working papers b. squibs c. unabridged and/or unmutilated manuscripts of papers published elsewhere d. critical viewpoints e. reviews of monograph

Aktuelle Forschung zu Sprache in Politik und Gesellschaft: 鈥�4. Politolinguistisches Nachwuchskolloquium鈥� Am 29. und 30. September findet zum vierten Mal das Politolinguistische Nachwuchskolloquium der AG Sprache in der Politik in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsstelle f眉r linguistische Gesellschaftsforschung statt. W盲hrend des zweit盲gigen Programms werden insgesamt 16 Promovierende im Rahmen eines Vortrags oder einer offenen Poster-Session ihr Dissertationsprojekt aus dem Bereich Sprache in

Meeting Description: The Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences organizes the 'r-atics 9 workshop in Vienna, Austria, on June 2-4 2027. 'r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds. It is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic and diachronic aspects of rhotics. We invite contributions on any theme c

Since the first DIA colloquium, held in 2010 at Ghent University, Romance variationist linguistics has experienced a significant epistemological renewal. This renewal has encompassed reflections on the role of variation within the linguistic system, the interdependence between variation and linguistic change, the empirical and theoretical objectives of diasystemic description, and the preferred methodologies for accessing variation (cf. Krefeld & Pustka 2010; Boutier, Hadermann & Van Acker 2013;

The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10鈥�12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing for four decades. Since 1987, PAC

SUMMARY Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner鈥檚 Creative Construction Grammar is a timely and engaging book in the Elements in Cognitive Linguistics series. It is 88 pages long, including an extensive references section, and is published by Cambridge University Press. The book is situated in cognitive linguistics and addresses the relationship between Construction Grammar (CxG), cognition, and creativity. The central concern of the book is how constructions are created, extended, combined, and unde

The objective of this survey is to learn about the potential availability of reduced independent clauses in the languages of the world. (More information on our project can be found here: https://nytud.hu/en/tender/grammaticality-grammar-and-the-minimal-clause-new-cross-linguistic-evidence-from-colloquial-registers). Reduced independent clauses are structurally deficient (they lack features and structure that independent clauses are normally supposed to have) and yet, they are interpreted as ind

This thesis is a sociolinguistic examination of the variation and change in the use of discourse-pragmatic features in Najdi Arabic (NA), spoken in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia. It investigates three discourse-pragmatic variables: (i) MA: 2ADRI: (鈥業 don鈥檛 know鈥�), presenting three variants: ma: 2adri:, ma: dri:, and madri:; (ii) TAYYIB (鈥榳ell, okay鈥�), with two variants: Tayyib and Tab; and (iii) intensifiers, such as marrah, jiddan (鈥榲ery鈥�), wallah (鈥榲ery, indeed鈥�), and Sidg (鈥榬eally鈥�). Quantitative

Focus: Este curso pr谩ctico proporciona una introducci贸n al lenguaje de programaci贸n Python para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), junto con los fundamentos del PLN, el Aprendizaje Autom谩tico y la Inteligencia Artificial. Est谩 dise帽ado para proporcionar a los participantes habilidades pr谩cticas para trabajar con datos textuales y tecnolog铆as del lenguaje. Como parte del curso, aprender谩s a trabajar con el SDK de Wowool y el lenguaje Wowool. Este curso est谩 especialmente dirigido a est

Builds on the profound and challenging legacy of sociolinguist Jan Blommaert, one of the most important thinkers in contemporary sociolinguistics, who dismantled the theoretical and ideological orthodoxies of his time. This volume honours the influential work of Jan Blommaert, furthering his critical and constructive engagement with power dynamics across numerous domains. It takes Blommaert鈥檚 work as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social world, using his frameworks

Engages directly with the delicate intersections between homogenizing state policies and the extraordinary linguistic diversity on the ground. This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of multilingualism in Israel, spanning Hebrew-only ideologies, immigrant and heritage languages, and grassroots community initiatives. The first section ('Ideologies') examines the persistence of monolingual Hebrew language ideologies and state efforts to regulate Yiddish, Arabic and other lang

This essential guide for parents raising their children multilingually has proved an invaluable source of support and advice in the 20 years since its first publication. An English language teacher, independent researcher and mother of three more-or-less bilingual children, Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert brings her professional and personal experience to this realistic yet inspirational guide to the One-Parent-One-Language approach to childhood bilingualism. The book also contains the experiences of

This book explores how silence occurs across languages, literatures and cultures, fulfilling a wide range of communicative functions. It examines how silence can be collective or individual, intentional or unintentional, conveying meanings that extend beyond words and shaping interaction, perception and expression. The volume investigates the multifaceted nature of silence from literary, semiotic and cultural perspectives, weaving together analyses that reveal its complexity across different

Call for Papers: Co-organised by the International Linguistic Society and DELAD (Database Enterprise for Language and Speech Disorders) Language disorders affect individuals across all ages and languages. While many are congenital and emerge in early childhood, others develop later in life as a result of neurological conditions, illness, or injury. Addressing this global and multilingual reality requires robust, well-documented, and ethically managed language disorder corpora. This spec