We are delighted to invite you to attend the third workshop of the EXREAN project* at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on individual differences in pragmatic processing. Pragmatic processing plays a central role in how speakers and hearers arrive at intended meanings in context. In everyday communication, language users routinely infer speakers’ intentions, resolve underspecification, enrich meanings, align perspectives, and negotiate common ground. These processes are not only fundamental

English has become a pervasive feature of everyday life in Norway, where it functions across a wide range of domains, including education, media, digital communication, commerce, and public space. Norwegians rank among the most proficient speakers of English worldwide. The country consistently scores high on the EF English Proficiency Index, a global statistic on English language skills in countries where it is not the first language of the majority of the population. In 2025, Norway ranked 5th

We are delighted to invite you to attend the third workshop of the EXREAN project* at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on individual differences in pragmatic processing. Pragmatic processing plays a central role in how speakers and hearers arrive at intended meanings in context. In everyday communication, language users routinely infer speakers’ intentions, resolve underspecification, enrich meanings, align perspectives, and negotiate common ground. These processes are not only fundamental

2nd Call for Papers: We are inviting proposals for presentations at the 21st Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society to be held at Seoul National University (Korea), from August 12 to 14, 2026. Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics, within any theoretical framework or methodological approach, are welcome. The abstract submission deadline is April 15, 2026. Keynote Speakers: John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook University) Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine Universität) Motoki Nomachi

Fully Funded PhD Positions in Romance Languages (Linguistics or Literature) The Department of Romance Studies and Classics at Stockholm University, Sweden, invites applications for fully funded PhD positions in Linguistics or Literature in Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. Doctoral candidates are employed on a full-time basis for up to four years. The positions include a monthly salary and full exemption from tuition fees. The programmes offer interdisciplinary training and participa

Focus: The programme will explore the interplay between case, binding, and agreement syntactically, and look at distinct discourse strategies with special reference to the syntax and semantics of particles. The teaching faculty will consist of the following experts in formal linguistics: Ashwini Deo University of Texas, Austin Topic: Discourse strategies with special focus on Indo-Aryan languages Troy Messick Rutgers University Topic: Case, binding, agreement, concord, noun/adposition

Hi! I’m a PhD student in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. For my PhD project, I’m currently looking for participants for an online study on how people describe cartoons in different languages. What’s involved? You’ll complete a series of language tasks (including describing cartoons). The study takes about 60 minutes. Compensation: You’ll receive £10 for your time. Who can take part? Native speaker of French or German Aged 18–35 Loca

Call for Papers: Keynote with Charlotte Bosseaux with a Screening and Q&A of Surviving Translation Roundtable discussion with poets and translators Anna Błasiak, Maria Jastrzębska, and Piotr Florczyk Political literature encapsulates and brings to light how the political permeates our everyday lives and situations, using a range of literary devices and genres as tools to share ideas and observations, thus actively taking part into shaping societies and individuals. As there are laws suppo

Basque is a language of central importance to linguists because it is a 'language isolate,' a rare type of language that is typologically 'alone' and cannot be classified as a part of any language family. Language isolates remain somewhat a mystery, and this book aims to provide an important piece of the puzzle, by both exploring the structure of Basque and shedding new light on its unique place within the languages of the world. It meticulously examines various properties of Basque, including

For more than a decade, linguistics has moved increasingly away from evaluating language as an autonomous phenomenon, towards analysing it 'in use', and showing how its function within its social and interactional context plays an important role in shaping in its form. Bringing together state-of-the-art research from some of the most influential scholars in linguistics today, this Handbook presents an extensive picture of the study of language as it used 'in context' across a number of key lingu

This engaging textbook provides a unique introduction to language and society, by showing students how to tap into the linguistic resources of their communities. Assuming no prior experience of linguistics, it begins with chapters on introductory methods and ethics, creating a foundation for students to think of themselves as linguists. It then offers students the sociolinguistics tools they need to look both locally and globally at language and the social issues with which it interacts. The boo

It has long been received wisdom in semantics and pragmatics that 'the head' and 'the heart' are two opposing forces, a view that has led scholars, until now, to explore the mental processes behind cognition, and the mental processes behind emotion, as two separate entities. This bold, innovative book challenges this view, and provides an original study of how we communicate our emotions through language, drawing on both pragmatic theory and affective science. It begins with the assumption that

The first of its kind, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of semantics and pragmatics from an interactionist perspective, grounded entirely on empirical methods of social/behavioural science. Designed for advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and practicing researchers, it responds to the growing requirement that rather than relying on their own native speaker intuitions, students gather and analyze semantic data in a broad range of research

'Transfiction' refers to the phenomenon of language mediators portrayed as characters in literature. Research investigating this phenomenon has developed through a long series of case studies. While providing in-depth analyses of different instances of transfiction, case studies have produced findings that are anchored to specific texts, consequently precluding theoretical observations at a higher level of abstraction. Thus, this Element constructs a concentrated profile of transfiction. It asks

Many lawsuits arise over disagreements about language and about the meanings of everyday words, phrases, and sentences. This book draws on over fifty cases involving disputed meanings in the American legal system where the author served as an expert witness or consultant, to explore the interaction between language and law. Stepping back from the legal specifics and their outcomes, it analyzes the disputes from the perspective of the language sciences, especially semantics and pragmatics, and la

Tarifit is an Amazigh language spoken in northern Morocco. This Element provides an overview of some aspects of the phonetics of this under-studied language, focusing on patterns of variation and ongoing sound changes. An acoustic analysis of productions by native speakers is provided, comparing clear and fast speaking styles, focusing on the phonetic realization of vowels in Tarifit: three full vowels /a, i, and u/, and variation in the realization of schwa. The analysis reveals phonetically vo

This Element examines aviation English as a global lingua franca through the lens of communities of practice. Pilots and air traffic controllers involved in international operations belong to multiple communities, including local professional, broader local aviation, and international aviation communities. Their ongoing learning within these communities and the repertoire they develop – which influences their interactions – are explored. Against this framework, the inadequacy of the current inte

Southern Min – the most commonly spoken variant of Taiwanese – has over 100 million speakers. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) phonology, filling a critical gap in linguistic research. It demonstrates how the language's sound patterns have evolved over time, and explores its key phonological and tonal features. Beginning with an overview of the language's phonological system, it progresses to specialized topics, including segmental and tonal mut

The 'Discriminative Lexicon Model' is a new theory of how we process words, which moves radically away from most standard theories of morphology. This book introduces the Discriminative Lexicon from both a practical and a theoretical perspective. The first half explains the basic theory and the main parts of 'JudiLing', the Julia package implementing the theory. This is complimented by theory boxes introducing the core concepts underlying the model, such as Matrix Multiplication and the Rescorla

The integration of corpus-based and experimental methodologies offers a unique perspective for investigating how learners acquire, process, and use lexical and phraseological combinations (e.g., collocations, binomials, compounds, idioms, and other phraseological units). Corpora provide large-scale, authentic evidence of the input learners are exposed to and the output they produce, allowing researchers to identify patterns of language use in real contexts. Experimental techniques – such as eye-