The Konstanz 2025 Workshop on Normative Generics:
Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives of Normative Generics, Scripts, and Stereotypes.
Normative generics are generic sentences like their descriptive counterparts, but rather than merely describing a kind of generalization, their meanings are said to have a distinctively more normative flavor. How the meanings of normative and descriptive generics differ, and the source of the normative flavor, is a matter of intense debate, and further
Université Grenoble Alpes, France (Saint-Martin-d’Hères campus, IMAG building)
Keynote speakers
Eugenia San Segundo, Materials Science Institute of Madrid – CSIC
Felix Schaeffler, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Radek Skarnitzl, Charles University, Prague
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow
Over the past decades, the enthusiasm generated by prosodic studies has spread well outside the boundaries of the traditional subfields of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, syntax, sema
The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is excited to announce the return of our Summer Seminar Series for its fifth consecutive year, scheduled for July and August 2025. We are now accepting proposals for presentations for this year’s series.
In keeping with DRAOI’s inclusive ethos and the diverse research interests of our membership, we welcome submissions that focus on discourse research in all its forms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- (Critical) Discou
Dear Colleagues,
Glossa Psycholinguistics is seeking nominations for two Editors in Chief (EiC). The EiC(s) will have overall responsibility for management and creative direction of the journal. Leadership and management of the journal is team-based, and involves substantial support from the team of Associate Editors, as well as the Managing Editors (out-going Editors in Chief). The role involves managing all aspects of journal finances, submissions, review, copy-editing and publication. This
Focus: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Python, Digital Humanities
Description:
The Zurich Summer School in Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics (ZuKoKo) invites applications from PhD students, postdocs, and MA students for one of 30 available spots!
Over five days, participants will explore the acquisition, processing, and analysis of linguistic data. The program includes a tailored introduction to Python for corpus research and hands-on training in data-driven linguistic analysis.
Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce that a number of corpus collection tools that I've been developing over the past few years are now available from the following web page: https://corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Florent Moncomble
2025. iii, 182 pp.
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Articles
The interaction of syntax, non-manuals, and prosodic cues as potential topic markers in Austrian Sign Language
Julia Krebs, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Dietmar Roehm & Evie A. Malaia | pp. 1–48
The indefinite-interrogative affinity in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Raquel Veiga Busto, Marco Degano & Floris Roelofsen | pp. 49–103
Structure of simple declarative clauses in South African Sign Language
Ella Wehrmeyer | pp. 104–139
Dissertation a
2024. iii, 148 pp.
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Articles
Effects of experience and directionality on cognitive load in dialogue interpreting
Aleksandra Adler | pp. 187–208
Morphological complexity as a predictor of cognitive effort in neural machine translation post-editing
Hussein Abu-Rayyash & Shatha Alhawamdeh | pp. 209–238
Adaptability in metaphors for translators’ self-concepts
Chiara Astrid Gebbia | pp. 239–264
Effects of raters’ nativeness and interpreting expertise on the asse
2025. iii, 161 pp.
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Articles
The question of universals in ethnobiological nomenclature: Re-examination with southeast Asian linguistic data
Aung Si & Nathan Badenoch | pp. 1–41
Weaving and loom terminology in Japhug
Guillaume Jacques, Christopher D. Buckley & Shang Li | pp. 42–59
Preliminary study of the verbal morphosyntax of Dolpo: A Tibetic language of Nepal
Zuzana Vokurková | pp. 60–98
The ergative and its differential marking in Mùwe Ké
Jon Archer |
2025. iii, 165 pp.
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Articles
Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您
Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House & Hao Liu | pp. 155–184
Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles
Tomoyuki Kawase | pp. 185–201
Modifying requests in a foreign language: A longitudinal study of Australian learners of Chinese
Wei Li | pp. 202–229
Embodied interaction with face masks and social distancing: Brazilian health care wor
2025. vi, 192 pp.
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Introduction
Emerging issues in content-based minority language immersion education contexts
Laurent Cammarata & Pádraig Ó Duibhir | pp. 1–9
Articles
Equality of access to minority language assessments and interventions in immersion education: A case study of Irish-medium education
Sinéad Nic Aindriú | pp. 10–30
Majority and minority language elementary school children with and without reading difficulties in a regular foreign language and
2025. iii, 206 pp.
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Articles
Love, actually: Cultural narratives expressed in emerging adults’ stories of romantic relationships
Alaina Leverenz, Jennifer G. Bohanek & Robyn Fivush | pp. 1–25
Turning points as a tool in narrative research: A tentative typology as exemplified by a case on police identity
Malin Wieslander & Håkan Löfgren | pp. 26–46
How Turkish citizens perceive Syrian refugees in Turkey: An agency and communion analysis
Merve Armağan-Boğatekin &
2025. iii, 133 pp.
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Editorial
Changing the Editorship of JAIC
Frans van Eemeren & Bart Garssen | pp. 1–2
Articles
Interlegal argumentation in the UK Drill Music decision of Meta’s Oversight Board
Gabriel Alejandro Encinas Duarte | pp. 3–39
Evaluating visual arguments in science: A case study of the Mars Phoenix lander’s images
Hédi Virág Csordás & Alexandra Karakas | pp. 40–60
Argument schemes and soundness/strength in published research article discussi
2025. iii, 126 pp.
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Articles
Conventionalization and variation in computer-mediated communication: New perspectives on Nigerian Pidgin spelling
Dagmar Deuber, Muhammad Shakir & Folajimi Kehinde Oyebola | pp. 1–27
Primary-stress placement in Nigerian L1 English: An empirical investigation
Rotimi Olanrele Oladipupo & Tinuade Onabamiro | pp. 28–51
Vowel variation in a segregated and isolated religious community
Gia Hurring & Lynn Clark | pp. 52–92
Treebanks an
2025. v, 100 pp.
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Introduction
Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to SL research
Máiréad Moriarty & Maida Kosatica | pp. 111–117
Articles
Unsettling vulnerability in the wake of violence
Natalia Volvach | pp. 118–134
Sharing the vulnerable self: LL constructions of narratives of suffering
Stefania Tufi | pp. 135–155
Embodied vulnerability: Semiotic landscapes of suicide
Máiréad Moriarty | pp. 156–171
On the skids: Mediating anguish, visibilising ab
2025. iii, 136 pp.
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Articles – Aufsätze
Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness: A proof of concept in Romance and Pamean diachrony
Borja Herce & Balthasar Bickel | pp. 1–46
Tracing the development of the perfect alternation in Early Modern English
Marianne Hundt & Yoko Iyeiri | pp. 47–81
Consonant stability in Portuguese-based creoles
Carlos Silva & Steven Moran | pp. 82–117
Some problems involving Proto-Mǐn onsets and new Ol
2025. iii, 187 pp.
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Articles
A unified semantic account of Mandarin ordinal phrases
Yi-Hsun Chen | pp. 199–223
Pitch, vowel duration, and phonation in Baima and neighboring languages
Katia Chirkova | pp. 224–261
Num-Cl adjacency and the morphological movement of numerals in Mandarin
Chen Ran | pp. 262–293
Labialized onsets in Rma
Nathaniel Aaron Sims | pp. 294–322
Measure schematicity through information content: A quantitative approach to grammaticaliz
2025. iii, 144 pp.
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Articles
Opening up research on English-medium instruction: New interdisciplinary perspectives
Anna Kristina Hultgren, Dogan Yuksel, Beatrice Zuaro, Marion Nao & Peter Wingrove | pp. 1–15
“So, you’re speaking Dutch?”: An interdisciplinary analysis of language policy negotiation in the EMI classroom
Alexander De Soete | pp. 16–43
A collaborative autoethnography on English as a medium of instruction: Perspectives across disciplines
Sarah Hopk
2024. iii, 136 pp.
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Articles
Four types of English evidential -ly adverbs: Criteria, semantics and syntactic correlates
Lois Kemp | pp. 239–261
Potential grammaticalization of epistemic phrases: What could be might be
David Lorenz | pp. 262–288
Everything-cleft constructions in spoken British English: A neglected construction
Eleni Seitanidi, Nele Põldvere & Carita Paradis | pp. 289–326
On the discourse marker yěshì ‘also’ in Chinese constructions of blame
2024. ii, 111 pp.
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Editorial
Designing information for today, and maybe for tomorrow
pp. 89–91
Articles
Developing a new urology questionnaire from the patient’s perspective
Florine W. M. Schlatmann, Michael R. van Balken, Andrea F. de Winter, Igle-Jan de Jong & Carel J. M. Jansen | pp. 92–107
When multiple route map designs are used by the same bus company: Cause, usability testing, and implications
Ilma Yusrina, Hisayasu Ihara & Shoji Sunaga | pp. 108–165