Website: https://uni-goettingen.de/de/vorschau_d3913cfa2356964224d1f3a903d75724/678871.html
Workshop Program: https://uni-goettingen.de/de/document/download/8d53a26018a20841e846a9b874ac231a.pdf/POQAL%203%20Schedule%20(under%20construction)-3.pdf
Registration Link: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1402/registrations/1150/
Zoom participation is not possible.
After the success of our initial two workshops focused on meaning and form, we are excited to launch a third POQAL meeting, this time wit
The annual Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it) reaches its 12th edition this year and will be hosted, for the first time, in Palermo, Italy. Over the years, CLiC-it has become a central meeting point for the Italian research community in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
The conference will present current research and methodological advances in automatic language processing, covering both written and spoken language. It brings togethe
Each year, hundreds of students all across the globe start their PhD journey to help shape the conversations on language education, acquisition, and policy though their doctoral research. Some of their contributions will directly impact the ways languages are taught and learned in their home countries, other contributions will go far beyond and affect the international community. To facilitate knowledge exchange and networking among PhD students working in these areas, the Centre of Training and
Website: https://uni-goettingen.de/de/vorschau_d3913cfa2356964224d1f3a903d75724/678871.html
Workshop Program: https://uni-goettingen.de/de/document/download/8d53a26018a20841e846a9b874ac231a.pdf/POQAL%203%20Schedule%20(under%20construction)-3.pdf
Registration Link: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1402/registrations/1150/
Zoom participation is not possible.
After the success of our initial two workshops focused on meaning and form, we are excited to launch a third POQAL meeting, this time wit
In many countries, newly arrived migrant students (NAMS) constitute a significant and growing share of the school population, making their educational integration a pressing concern for schools, policymakers, and researchers alike. European countries differ considerably in how they organise the school-based integration of NAMS: while some favour direct inclusion in mainstream classrooms from the outset, many employ separate or preparatory instructional settings in which newly arrived students re
In many countries, newly arrived migrant students (NAMS) constitute a significant and growing share of the school population, making their educational integration a pressing concern for schools, policymakers, and researchers alike. European countries differ considerably in how they organise the school-based integration of NAMS: while some favour direct inclusion in mainstream classrooms from the outset, many employ separate or preparatory instructional settings in which newly arrived students re
Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics, published by Edinburgh University Press,
Journal Editor Reem Bassiouney
ISSN: 2755-1911, eISSN: 2755-192X.
Special issue on
鈥淧erspectives on Media Informed Sociolinguistics: The Case of North Africa鈥�
Guest Editors for this special issue: Abdelaadim Bidaoui and Hasnaa Essam Farag
This special issue invites contributions that apply sociolinguistics to understand or account for how various forms of media allow us to develop a good understanding of th
We're thrilled to announce that the International Conference on Web and Social Media 2027 (ICWSM 2027) will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland!
ICWSM 2027 foregrounds the central role of language in digital life, offering a key venue for advancing research in computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and large-scale text mining across social media and web data. Its interdisciplinary scope highlights how linguistic signals shape and reflect social behavior in online environments. By bringi
We're thrilled to announce that the International Conference on Web and Social Media 2027 (ICWSM 2027) will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland!
ICWSM 2027 foregrounds the central role of language in digital life, offering a key venue for advancing research in computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and large-scale text mining across social media and web data. Its interdisciplinary scope highlights how linguistic signals shape and reflect social behavior in online environments. By bringi
This book presents a contemporary, primarily synchronic, linguistic analysis of the essential dialectal features characterizing the dialects spoken in the Ukrainian-Belarusian-Russian border area.
Utilizing sociolinguistic and unique focus-group data, Salvatore Del Gaudio analyzes specific local dialects at the crossroads of Ukraine, Belarus, and the Russian Federation, both locally and cross-regionally, to best highlight stable characteristics and ongoing tendencies over the span of a decade
'Traditional' language teaching has come to be equated with old, dysfunctional, outdated, or backward pedagogies. But is that really all there is to it? This book breaks through the disinterest in tradition and challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about the realm of the traditional in language education, gradually revealing that the common and dismissal of traditional language teaching is inadequate and flawed 鈥� a fabrication.
To disrupt this fabrication of traditional language teaching,
The Discursive Construction of Veganism is a linguistic exploration of the stories we tell about veganism in popular media.
Negative representations of veganism dominate, however, if veganism were represented in a more positive way, more people might be inclined to consider it in the interest of health: the health of our bodies, the health of our minds, the health of our communities and the health of our planet.
This book examines 'destructive stories' and 'beneficial stories' in podcasts, o
This book provides educators with the necessary tools and strategies to help English learners succeed.
Drawing from feedback from dual-language learners and teachers on improving assessments, Maryann Hasso develops and details strategies for the education of English learners (ELs) and covers how educators can help students complete assignments and engage with lessons. The instructional strategies outlined in this book include offering students multiple options for taking tests, ensuring each
This book offers an intimate ethnographic window into the ways Chinese Muslims produce, maintain, and transmit religious, cultural, and historical knowledge through their everyday practices of heritage literacy.
Sino-Muslims in China inhabit a unique landscape of religious and spiritual expression, shaped by the intersections of the Islamic faith with Chinese cultural traditions, and where the spoken and written word plays a vital role in sustaining Islamic heritage across generations.
Drawi
涩里番ians presented their work at the Montr茅al-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH), hosted by McMaster University in Hamilton on April 11th 2026! Talks included:
While Deafness can function as a cultural鈥搇inguistic identity with its own language and community norms, Deaf individuals may belong simultaneously to other social groups while sharing a Deaf identity.
Throughout this work, Belenyi and Flora interpret Deafness and ethnicity through the lens of Social Identity Theory (SIT), which posits that individuals derive part of their self-concept from membership in social groups and predicts that group memberships shape self-concept and self-esteem. Whi
Providing a systematic approach to English academic writing for the Humanities and Social Sciences, this book examines the word-formation patterns typical of discourse across distinct academic disciplines.
Academic writing for research requires lexical sophistication, as it often addresses abstract concepts needing unique names, and a skilful use of complex derived/affixed words. The author provides data that allows for addressing the issues of expanding the learners' vocabulary, the developmen
This book sheds light on the array of transformative literacies in the Global South, which English language teachers and educators seek to integrate within their pedagogical practices.
In English language teaching (ELT), there is an increasing need for a shift away from dominant literacy thinking, knowledge and practices that originate in the Global North. This collection brings together contemporary research and practice on how literacies are theorized, challenged, embedded and enacted in EL
This open access book provides practical and theoretical perspectives for thinking about and promoting activism in language teaching and language teacher education.
Featuring work from a range of global contexts, this edited volume showcases the innovative ways language education professionals engage in and embrace activism. Contributions detail practices and pedagogies to foster curricular innovation and activist stances within teacher education, professional development, and language teachi
The Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Ling眉铆stica y Traducci贸n of the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico is pleased to announce the upcoming 2nd Experimental Linguistics Meeting.
The meeting will take place on November 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2026 in a hybrid format (virtual and in-person). The purpose of the Experimental Linguistics Meeting is to bring together researchers and students interested in the analysis of linguistic phenomena from experimental approaches, with the aim of fostering acade