Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-铿乺st century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matte
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics 鈥� namely typology and universa
Although multilingual education is still a relatively new field, it has already become a solid and dynamic area of academic investigation growing worldwide. Bringing together a stellar line-up of leading experts, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics crucial for understanding the concept of multilingual education and its implementation. It includes a wide range of overviews and case studies from diverse systems of education from across the globe, to help facilitate effective multilingual i
We are pleased to invite participation in the First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interaction with Generative Language Models (ORIGen) to be held in conjuction with the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) in Montreal, Canada, on October 10, 2025!
With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as 鈥渃ollaborators鈥� wi
LabPhon 20 will be held in Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, Canada from June 26鈥�28, 2026, with pre-conference workshops and a keynote lecture on June 25. This 20th anniversary meeting will take place at Coeur des Sciences at UQAM, located in downtown Montreal, and is being organized by a multi-university team from 9I制作厂免费, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. As we mark the 20th LabPhon meeting, our theme, Looking Back and Looking Forward, invites reflection on the field鈥檚 foundational
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The book 鈥楿nderstanding Interaction in the Second Language Classroom Context鈥� co-authored by Noriko Iwashita, Phung Dao, and Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen is a hybrid textbook/primer on second language acquisition theory that takes the perspective of classroom interaction as its starting point. The work is based on the authors鈥� experiences as classroom teachers who came to view interaction in the second language classroom as essential to language teaching, regardless of the methodological
Call for Papers:
We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 48th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Trier. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics, ranging from models of language across all linguistic areas to corpus lingusitics, multimodal approaches and studies on LLM capability assessment. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate.
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Final Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the third edition of the 'Current issues in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics' workshop. Like in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the 脰LT (49th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place December 5-8, 2025 in Klagenfurt, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as at the interfaces. We invit
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Theory-Informed GenAI-Mediated Language Pedagogies
This Digital Studies in Language and Literature Special Issue invites original empirical research that rigorously applies, tests, or validates theoretical frameworks in the study of GenAI-mediated language pedagogies. We seek contributions that foreground the crucial link between theory and practice by explicitly engaging with theoretical frameworks鈥攚hether cognitive, sociocultural, ecological, or critical鈥攖o guide the d
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The Department of Communication is looking for a scholar of language and social interaction and/or interpersonal communication who conducts applied empirical research of interaction and/or communication in complex social and relational contexts. Responsibilities of the position include undergraduate and graduate teaching, an active program of research in the candidate鈥檚 area of expertise, and service contributions in accordance with university policy. A Ph.D. or equivalent doctor
Fernanda Ferreira (2025). Psycholinguistics: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192886774. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192886774.001.0001.
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Ferreira鈥檚 Psycholinguistics: A very short introduction consists of nine chapters, of which the final one is an outlook chapter, followed by a subject index and a list of references and further reading. The book is intended to be an accessible and short, yet insightful and critical, introduction to p
This open-access book casts light on an understudied corpus of Indian Francophone literatures by writers originally from former French territories of India and from other regions of India, who also engage in processes of translation: Ari Gautier (Pondicherry), M. Mukundan (Mah茅), Manohar Rai Sardessai (Goa), Toru Dutt (Calcutta) and Shumona Sinha (Calcutta).
By examining the range of ways in which these writers write between languages, Sheela Mahadevan advances theories of translation and lit
Queer Correctives explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual.
In Singapore, Christian discourses of sex and sexuality have materialised in the form of testimonials that detail the pain and suffering of homosexuality, and how Christianity has been a salve for the tribulations experienced by the storytellers. This bo
At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner's work involves knowing how interaction works: knowing what a pause does, or why a particular intonation contour changes a line from interrogative to accusative, or what goes into inferring something about a character. Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance uses case studies from dramatic performances and data from real-world interaction to present findings from interaction ana
Laurestine Bradford聽presented a poster titled 鈥淎spectual classes as lexically-conditioned predictors of aspectual choice鈥� at the SCiL (Society for Computation in Linguistics) 2025 meeting on July 18th-20th. The meeting was hosted by Wellesley College but held in Eugene, Oregon, co-located with the LSA Summer Institute.
Ada Tur (CS + Linguistics 9I制作厂免费 undergraduate) and Gaurav Kamath presented their work entitled “Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences” at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025). 聽The paper received a Senior Area Chair award at the conference, and can […]
Congratulations to Xuanda Chen, who successfully defended his dissertation, 鈥淟inguistic Experience and the Representation of Phonological Features: Perception, Processing, and Second Language Acquisition,鈥� on August 5th!
On August 8th, Connie Ting successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淚nvestigating Cross-linguistic Patterns of Intrinsic F0 Effects in Production and Perception.鈥� Congratulations, Connie!
Brendan Gillon travelled to Japan for the last two weeks of April. He made three stops there: first in Tachikawa, a satellite city Tokyo; second in Kyoto; and third in Kobe. In Tachikawa, he gave a talk to Prof. Yusuke Kubata’s research group at the National Institute for Japanese language and Linguistics, in Tachikawa. The […]
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