Call for Guest Editor Proposals:
We would like to invite Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from prospective guest editors for our 2026 Special Issue, the second issue of the calendar year. This issue is an opportunity to bring together a collection of scholarly and practice-oriented articles that address a theme of current interest and significance in the field of TESOL and/or EAL/D.
EOIs should be submitted via email to Managing Editor Dr Fiona Xiaofei Tang by 1 July 2025 as per the instruct
The conference Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words aims to take a closer look at Latin words that have played an important role in the medieval culture. Every two years we propose to focus on a different major medieval concept and its linguistic expressions. In this edition, we turn our attention to the concept of "boundaries" 鈥� a fundamental theme that permeates medieval thought, language, and society. Medieval boundaries manifested in diverse forms: physical frontiers between territorie
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce that, since the first Call for Papers was published, Prof. Andrey N. Sobolev of the RAS Institute for Linguistic Research and University of Marburg has joined the list of invited speakers at this year's FABL II, so that there will be four invited talks. Also, conference website is now up, featuring additional info and updates at: https://www.klasicnenauke.rs/fabl2/ Please find the second Call for Papers below.
Background & motivation:
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Focus: Generative Grammar (Basic & advanced courses in Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Phonology)
Description:
Eastern Generative Summer School
Tuition: see website
We're happy to announce that the Third Edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles was published on 15 May 2025. You can find the new edition, DCHP-3, online at:
http://dchp.ca/dchp3
(The older editions can be accessed at http://dchp.ca/dchp2 and http://dchp.ca/dchp1).
The Third Edition is a major technical upgrade and a more minor editorial update.
We鈥檝e added 136 terms and 187 new meanings of Canadianisms to this edition, many of which are mentioned in the intr
Nominations for the 2026 DELAMAN Award are now being accepted. The deadline to submit a nomination is 02 November 2025. The winner will be announced in March 2026, and the prize will be awarded at the Language Documentation & Archiving conference in Berlin, Germany, in September 2026.
The Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network (DELAMAN) was established in 2003 with the goal of documenting and archiving endangered languages and cultures worldwide.
The DELAMAN Award recogn
In this newsletter:
New publications:
BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Audio
BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Transcripts and Translations
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New publications:
BOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Mainland Mandarin Chinese Audio was developed by LDC and consists of 93 hours of speech from 236 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of the Mandarin Chinese dialect spoken in mainland China. The calls were collected
Now available in paperback!
This volume contributes to the growing body of research on developmental dyslexia, focusing on the disorder鈥檚 behavioural manifestations at different levels of the language system. It is organised into three sections that cover the three main vantage points from which the effects of dyslexia on communication can be observed: neuropsychology, linguistics and the perspective of educators. Together, the chapters provide an insightful overview of the ways in which dys
This book presents, discusses and explores questions around teachers鈥� (mainstream teachers, student teachers, EAL teachers) conceptions of language and literacy practices as they seek to meet the educational needs of pupils from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. The book captures the voices of a range of educators from various educational contexts and has implications for the future of literacy education in both pre- and in-service teacher education programmes. Learning from ind
This book provides a much-needed overview of the theory and practice of intercultural service learning (ISL), an approach that combines curricular learning, intercultural encounters and community service. It includes a model that outlines the essential components of this pedagogy and which is intended to serve as a foundation for practitioners developing their projects. Practical examples offer templates and inspiration, while the scholarly examination of the projects demonstrates the approach's
Dear colleagues,
This spring鈥檚 final Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Fri, May 23rd at 13:00 - 14:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). Join the webinar at https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/65558081185 or via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Awareness is the key? Perspectives on the role of phonetic awareness in L2 pronunciation learning
Pekka Lintunen, University of Turku
News:
- The webinar series continues in September. The autumn term is full of interestin
Going Romance is a European conference series that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of current linguistic theorising and experimental research. Over the past 30 years, it has evolved into a major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.
Besides the main sessions, the conference includes a workshop on 鈥淕ender in Romance languages鈥�, exploring how formal approaches can inform communication policies.
Please visit the official websit
The paper is a description of both fields and how they interact in discourse; their usage and use, plus the misuse of the term SEMANTICS when it is actually PRAGMATICS at play.
One of my best and most admired friends, former and now retired professor of Linguistics at the. University of London expressed disagreements with my specific thesis. As a result of that I decided to turn to other experts in the pertinent fields for their opinions; in other words , do they agree or disagree with m
Focus: Methodology of Corpus Linguistics and statistics, especially as applied to the English Language.
Description:
The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running our 12th Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics online from 25-27 June 2025.
This Summer School is an accessible and inspiring introductory course in Corpus Linguistics for students of linguistics and students of the English language.
The course will be taught online over three days in
Going Romance is a European conference series that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of current linguistic theorising and experimental research. Over the past 30 years, it has evolved into a major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.
Besides the main sessions, the conference includes a workshop on 鈥淕ender in Romance languages鈥�, exploring how formal approaches can inform communication policies.
Please visit the official websit
The JENom workshop series aims to bring together researchers who are interested in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations. This year, JENom 11 takes place in Graz (Austria) on July 3-4, 2025, and is organized by the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Graz. The workshop program is available on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/jenom-nominalizations/program.
Invited speakers:
Predrag Kova膷evi膰 (University of Novi Sad)
Rossella Varvara (University of Pavia
The JENom workshop series aims to bring together researchers who are interested in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations. This year, JENom 11 takes place in Graz (Austria) on July 3-4, 2025, and is organized by the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Graz. The workshop program is available on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/jenom-nominalizations/program.
Invited speakers:
Predrag Kova膷evi膰 (University of Novi Sad)
Rossella Varvara (University of Pavia
2025. iv, 180 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans鈥慹diting: A critical narrative analysis of English and Chinese narratives on the 2014 Hong Kong protests
Yuan Ping & Kefei Wang | pp.鈥�365鈥�389
The power of language: Socio-political fracture in Tunisia鈥檚 post-Arab Spring revolution
Zouhir Gabsi | pp.鈥�390鈥�414
Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe鈥檚 outermost regions
Marina D铆az-Peralta | pp.鈥�415鈥�436
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2025. iii, 140 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Being sensible is now a radical concept I LOVE that quote haha : Quotations in political speeches and user comments
Anita Fetzer | pp.鈥�1鈥�31
Salience management: The role of metadiscourse in online new product launch conferences
Ping Liu & Wenli Xu | pp.鈥�32鈥�57
鈥淒o not approach men. You will be miserable.鈥�: Feminist humor in 鈥渕isandry鈥� memes on Chinese microblogging
Yi Zhang & Luoxiangyu Zhang | pp.鈥�58鈥�85
The pragmatics of hashtag
2024. iii, 155 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Modeling lexical attrition in L2 mental lexicon for Chinese EFL learners
Jie Liu, Shifa Chen & Xuefang Feng | pp.鈥�341鈥�371
Mental representation of words and concepts in late multilingualism: A replication and extension of the Revised Hierarchical Model
Laura Sperl, Anna Schroeger, J眉rgen M. Kaufmann & Helene Kreysa | pp.鈥�372鈥�413
Polysemies and the one representation hypothesis
Agust铆n Vicente | pp.鈥�414鈥�438
Orthographic uncertain