Call for submissions for the June 2027 issue of Textes et Contextes (22-1) “Using English-language Picturebooks to Teach and Learn English from Primary to Secondary School” Children's literature picturebooks are visual literary works, the narration of which relies on iconography that is essential to the unfolding of the story, its context, or its characters. They are objects to be handled – in fact, the materiality of picturebooks is one of their particularly prominent characteristics (O

Description: Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Global China, Chinese Programme School of Humanities, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world’s top universities. Agile, bold, and inventive, NTU Singapore shapes the future by combining technology and human creativity to tackle the toughest challenges facing society today. Th

Call for Papers: Please submit your abstract as a PDF (max. 500 words excl. references) until 6 April 2026 to: dgkl2026@uni-bremen.de A selection of the contributions are intended to be published in an anthology. „Religion and Spirituality are among the most language dependent of human activities“ (Bouma / Aarons 2004: 351). Following this premise, both German-language research in the Linguistics of Religion (Fritzsche et al., eds. 2023, Lasch/Liebert 2025) and the English-language di

Focus: Forensic Linguistics Description: Grundlagen der forensischen Linguistik ist ein Einführungskurs für Forschende, Studierende und Praktiker*innen, der linguistische Analyse, Recht und digitale Methoden systematisch miteinander verbindet. Nachdem der englischsprachige Forensic Linguistics Short Course (FLsc) über Jahre hinweg große Resonanz erfahren hat, wird am 28. und 29. September 2026 erstmals ein Einführungskurs in deutscher Sprache angeboten. Forensische Linguistik fungiert a

Artificial intelligence is currently transforming not only the production of texts, images, and knowledge, but also the communicative and cultural practices of identity and relationship management. The “interface” (cf. Hookway 2014) between humans and machines generates interactive practices shaped by both human and non-human systems of order, leading either to an imitation of human interaction practices or to emergent “interface practices” (cf. Hector 2025). This also has implications for cultu

A 3-year fully funded PhD research fellow position in psycholinguistics, multilectalism, and language processing is available at the Department of Language and Literature, Volda University College. The position is affiliated with the research project Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading (MInDReading): Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development. The project investigates both reading and auditory language processing using a diverse range of behaviora

Focus: State Language Department, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics are pleased to invite applications for a week-long Third International Summer School in Sociolinguistics, running from Monday 27 July to Sunday 2 August 2026. Conducted in person in the First Campus of Tbilisi State University. The Third International Summer School in Sociolinguistics focuses on the theory and practice of sociolinguistics, language contact

Artificial intelligence is currently transforming not only the production of texts, images, and knowledge, but also the communicative and cultural practices of identity and relationship management. The “interface” (cf. Hookway 2014) between humans and machines generates interactive practices shaped by both human and non-human systems of order, leading either to an imitation of human interaction practices or to emergent “interface practices” (cf. Hector 2025). This also has implications for cultu

Shortlisted for the M. A. K. Halliday Prize 2025 Beginning with a review of the theory and pedagogic practices that have been influential in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, this book examines the practice of joint construction in a genre-based approach to literacy pedagogy. It investigates how teachers guide students to co-construct a text, drawing attention to the contested rationale for teachers taking a leading role when writing collaboratively with their students. Infor

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play. It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic meaning potentials, exemplifying how they are used in different contexts, such as home and preschool, and how these uses are regulated by parental, pedagogic and marketing discourses. Building on the work of semioticians such as Barthes, Baudrillard and Krampen, as well as on the social semiotics of Halliday, Hodge, Kr

This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world. This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes, theorizes, re-positions and re-conceptualizes myriad structural, systemic, ideological, political and pedagogical issues

This introductory textbook on the structure of English gives a comprehensive, descriptive grammar of contemporary standardized and non-standardized American English dialects. It helps students understand, analyze, and appreciate grammatical patterns from a variety of American dialects, including African American English, Appalachian English, Chicano English, and Southern American English-deepening students' comprehension of grammar and their analytical skills. Grammatical structures and featu

In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate. With the rise of new environmentalist movements and their subsequent backlash, we are now exposed to a plethora of different and often opposing discourses on the environmental crisis and our relationship with nature. This book argues for the need to develop classroom practices which aid students in critically reviewing and evaluating different perspectives on discourses of envi

In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), paradigmatic relations are formalised in system networks. This book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing system networks for language description, one of the key aspects of SFL theory and analysis. Including examples from English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish, and exercises with answer keys for each of the main chapters, this book offers a broad coverage and guides learners through the process of designing system networks for the purpo

Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP. Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship, interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile. Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards, and policy actors who are committed to building durable language resource ecosystems. We a

We are pleased to announce that registration (free but required) for the conference "Parameters of Language Staging: Forms, Functions, and Multimodal Dynamics of Staged Discourse" (PLS8), to be held on Thursday, May 21, and Friday, May 22, 2026, at the University of Paris Nanterre, is open until April 20. The conference program and registration form are available on the conference website: https://pls8.sciencesconf.org/

Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP. Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship, interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile. Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards, and policy actors who are committed to building durable language resource ecosystems. We a

We are pleased to announce that registration (free but required) for the conference "Parameters of Language Staging: Forms, Functions, and Multimodal Dynamics of Staged Discourse" (PLS8), to be held on Thursday, May 21, and Friday, May 22, 2026, at the University of Paris Nanterre, is open until April 20. The conference program and registration form are available on the conference website: https://pls8.sciencesconf.org/

Kilmer is a free, browser-based tool for creating syntactic tree diagrams in the generative framework. It requires no installation or account, running entirely in the browser as a single-file web application. You can access Kilmer here: https://carlosgonzalezvergara.github.io/kilmer/ Its central design principle is direct visual editing. Unlike most tree-drawing tools, which require users to write bracket notation or code and then render the result, Kilmer works as a WYSIWYG editor. Nodes

Call for Papers: Extended abstract deadline: 3rd April 2026 Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic ‘north’ of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre. We are adopting a fairly loose definition of what constitutes 'northern Englishes