Crafting Resources for Language Pedagogy in the Digital Era delves on the significance of diversified multidisciplinary approach as the need for 21st century language pedagogy. This volume which stemmed from a webinar discusses the multifaced problems and loopholes that are exposed in transition from the physical to the digital platform. The different chapters in this volume address these challenges by adopting a paradigm shift in language pedagogy. This book offers multidisciplinary approaches
This is a valuable book on social media as valued channels for information dissemination with positive and negative implications in language and Literature. Social media provides an excess of conflicting and often imprecise information which can be both inadvertent and deliberately propagated by individuals and groups. Today all crises are inconspicuously communicated through social media, which are widely accepted platforms for public information exchange and crises management communication. Th
The Cochimian language family of central Baja California has been linked to the languages of the Yuman family. This contribution surveys the four Cochimian languages -- Jesuit Cochim铆, Gabb Cochim铆, Robinia, and Neb茅 -- in order to assess the family's phonological and morphological correspondences. The sound patterns of these languages are remarkably similar, with phonological divergence in some Neb茅 roots. Prefixes and suffixes (both derivational and inflectional) clearly reconstruct for Pr
Wer nur einigerma脽en die australischen Sprachenverh盲ltnisse kennt, sieht leicht, wie interessant, aber auch wie schwierig das Kapitel von den Personalpronomina in diesen Sprachen ist. Die Schwierigkeiten ergeben sich einerseits aus der Reichhaltigkeit der vorhandenen Formen - neben Singular und Plural auch Dual und stellenweise selbst Trial; in der 1. Person Plural, Dual (Trial) vielfach zwei Formen, eine inklusive und eine exklusive, ferner eine doppelte Formenreihe im Ganzen, je nachd
Georgian is the official language of Georgia. It鈥檚 the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself (about 83 percent of the population), and of another 500,000 abroad (chiefly in Turkey, Iran, Russia, USA and Europe). It is the literary language for all ethnographic groups of Georgian people, especially those who speak other South Caucasian languages (or Kartvelian languages).
Georgian can be characterised as an agglutinative language. It shows split ergativity, poly-personal
The Indians of the Yokuts linguistic family, sometimes also called Mariposan, inhabited the southern end of the San Joaquin basin in California. Roughly, their territory extended from the Sierra Nevada to the Coast Range, and from the Tehachapi mountains which shut off the San Joaquin basin on the south from the desert, to the Fresno and Chowchilla rivers in the north. The higher Sierras all along this territory, and certain foothill regions in the south, were occupied by Indians belonging
The present analysis builds upon and extends proposals from recent research regarding the interpretation of null subjects (NSs) in consistent and partial NS languages. These proposals suggest that the interpretation of a NS depends on its connection to a specific type of Topic, notably the Aboutness-Shift Topic (A-Topic), which initiates a Topic chain (cf. Frascarelli 2007). The investigation seeks to determine: (i) whether NSs in Chinese are interpreted within a topical chain headed by an A-Top
Of the many linguistic families in California most are confined to single areas, but the large Moquelumnan or Miwok family is one of the few exceptions, in that the people speaking its various dialects occupy three distinct areas. These three areas, while actually quite near together, are at considerable distances from one another as compared with the areas occupied by any of the other linguistic families that are separated.
The northern of the three Miwok areas, which may for convenience be
Language is predominantly a social phenomenon. Understanding language and its function in society has always been an object of research in sociolinguistics. Besides communication being the main purpose of language, it is also a crucial tool in economic development in modern societies. It plays a vital role in wealth creation, a distinct disposition of human beings. This research attempts to establish the relationship between language and economy, as the use of language plays a significant role i
This book is a study of a minority Dardic language Kohistani as spoken in Ganderbal in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The Kohistani speech community in Ganderbal is nested in a multilingual context, where it co-exists with Kashmiri, dominant language of the region, Gojri and Urdu. Urdu is used as a lingua franca among the diverse multilingual communities in Ganderbal.
The Kohistanis in Ganderbal are multilinguals with varying degree of competence in Kashmiri, Gojri and Urdu. In this book, the str
The field of East Slavic historical linguistics has undergone dramatic change over the past 50 years. Progress in dialectology and accentology, along with the steady accretion of new primary materials (Novgorod birchbark texts), has rendered obsolete many of the formulas that have traveled from handbook to handbook. The teacher of the history of East Slavic faces the problem of how to combine the facts established and insights gained by recent scholarship with what remains valuable in traditiona
Seeking help to update information on South American languages for The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), at www.endangeredlanguages.com.
Recent references, definitely after 2012, are needed that supply, where possible, speaker numbers, vitality status, and location, though information via personal communication is also welcome.
I鈥檝e updated the information on most of the Indigenous languages of South America (though it will not appear in the catalogue for some time yet). It
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The School of Philosophy, Linguistics and Science Studies at Tel-Aviv University invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position beginning March or October 2026.
We seek candidates with a record of excellence in research and teaching in one or more of the following areas:
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- Linguistics
- History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
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2nd Call for Papers:
Invited speakers: Kriszta Sz茅cs茅nyi (University of Deusto) and Stefan Keine (UCLA)
Subproject A01 鈥淐reativity in morphosyntax: The role of analogy鈥� of the Bielefeld University Collaborative Research Centre 1646 鈥淟inguistic Creativity in Communication鈥� is organising a three day workshop (Wednesday afternoon to Friday midday) on long-distance dependencies in October 2025. A01 studies long-distance movement (in particular islands) and long-distance agreement phenomena and
The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is pleased to announce the full schedule for our fifth annual Summer Seminar Series, taking place online every Wednesday* at 15:00 Irish Standard Time during July and August 2025.
All seminars are free and open to the public. Join us for a vibrant series of talks by researchers working across discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, multimodality, discourse theory, and more.
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Liz Kiely, University College Cork
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The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Germany, the United States and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL.
Ellipsis is the anaphoric phenomenon that has aroused mos
The dialect of Lesbos is one of the major dialects still spoken in Greece. It belongs to the group of 螡orthern Greek Dialects, featuring, among other things, two phonological traits missing from the varieties of the south: high-vowel deletion and mid-vowel raising in unstressed position. The dialect of Lesbos displays an interesting vocabulary and a number of intriguing phenomena that reveal aspects of the diachronic evolution of Greek and contact with Turkish and Italo-Romance.
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An essential resource for understanding linguistic landscapes and their role in multilingual contexts worldwide
The Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism provides an in-depth exploration of linguistic landscapes as a tool to understand multilingualism across diverse global contexts. Edited by leading scholars Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, this authoritative volume brings together pioneering research on the evolving interactions between language, place, space, and society.
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A field-defining survey of research in the rapidly growing field of English for Specific Purposes, now in its second edition
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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes is the first resource of its kind, providing authoritative coverage of the spread of English around the globe. Unparalleled in breadth and depth, this comprehensive reference work covers the linguistic features of geographical varieties of English worldwide and discusses critical issues, cultural-political considerations, language debates, language policies, a