SUMMARY With this introduction to language policy, Oxford University Press has added a modern topic to its slim guides series. This volume by highly accomplished Florian Coulmas is a long, necessary, and easy-to-follow overview and introduction to a potpourri of issues related to language policy. It is divided into 11 chapters on vastly different topics within the realm of policy, polity, and politics. Each chapter starts off with an insightful quote from outside of linguistics and academia,

Focus: TARGET AUDIENCE & PREREQUISITES We warmly invite advanced MA students, PhD candidates, and early-career postdocs, but as well as any researchers interested in the intersection of diachronic and theoretical linguistics. As ETHL classes are designed to bridge the gap between historical and generative frameworks, participants are expected to have a foundational background in either generative linguistic theory or historical linguistics. Description: The ETHL Summer School at the Unive

Focus: The HiSoN 2026 Summer School offers a series of advanced courses in historical sociolinguistics, covering a wide range of languages, periods, and methodological approaches. Courses are taught by internationally leading scholars and combine theoretical discussion with empirical case studies. Teachers and course titles Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Extremadura) Orality and the study of Irish English spoken discourse in historical sources James Clackson (University of Cambrid

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Framing von Extremismusvarianten im medialen Diskurs der Jahre 1999 – 2021 und entwickelt eine corpus-driven Methode zur Erschließung und Visualisierung semantischer Frames. Sie verbindet Frame-semantische Theorie nach Busse mit Methoden und Annahmen der distributionellen Semantik und entwickelt ein Verfahren, um diskursives Wissen aus der musterhaften Verteilung von Wörtern in Korpora induktiv zu rekonstruieren. Als Datengrundlage dient ein umfangreiches

2026. iii, 121 pp. Table of Contents Articles The skin of belonging: Acts of linguistic citizenship through skinscapes Matthew Skidmore pp. 115–139 Observing and interpreting jiāzhuàng as a semiotic device in small business signs Di Liang pp. 140–166 Why language matters: Territorialization processes of purpose-built mosques in Scandinavia Helle Lykke Nielsen, Tove Rosendal & Maria Löfdahl pp. 167–200 How do Linguistic Landscapes affect tourists’ emotional experiences

2026. iii, 167 pp. Table of Contents Articles Mediated spectatorial views in the arts and beyond: From artwork titles to film subtitles as transcultural interfaces Marie-Noëlle Guillot pp. 163–199 Deviations as precursors: A spectral view of (re)translation Ziling Bai pp. 200–233 From wilderness to wonderland: Bridging anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in the translation of The Swiss Family Robinson during late Qing China Jinxin Qi pp. 234–259 Child and adult readers’ p

2026. iv, 164 pp. Table of Contents Articles (Mis)representation of Hong Kong as an English-speaking city: An analysis of study abroad agency websites for Japanese students Yoko Kobayashi pp. 1–22 Historical and Partisan shifts in Korean press representation of feminism (1990–2022): A keyness analysis and topic modeling study Dayei Oh & Bokyong Shin pp. 23–52 Language choice and ideology: Representations of the LGBT community in Malaysia’s multilingual newspapers Jiin-Yih

2026. v, 141 pp. Table of Contents Articles Us and them: Discourses on October 20, 2020 #endsars shooting at the Lekki toll gate in Nigerian newspapers Ayo Osisanwo & Ruth Karachi Benson Oji pp. 153–174 Stances and ideologies in Nigerian pro-gay tweets: A linguistic perspective Olubunmi Funmi Oyebanji pp. 175–195 The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria Ibukun Filani pp. 196–222 Noun forms of address among matatu touts in

2025. vi, 235 pp. Table of Contents Preface Multidisciplinary perspectives on Human-AI team trust Nicolo’ Brandizzi, Morgan E. Bailey, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myke C. Cohen, Francesco Frattolillo & Alan R. Wagner pp. 151–163 Articles Multidisciplinary perspectives on human‑AI team trust Myrthe L. Tielman, Morgan Bailey, Francesco Frattolillo, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Anna-Sophie Ulfert & André Meyer-Vitali pp. 164–199 Trusting machine teammates: The role of personifying a

2025. v, 135 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Reem Khamis & Mira Goral pp. 145–146 Articles No effect of L1 on learners’ sensitivity to noun-adjective agreement patterns in an explicit judgment task Halimah Alalawi & Cynthia Lukyanenko pp. 147–167 Acquisition of noun plurals in Egyptian‑Arabic speaking children: Using language corpora to inform language milestones Samantha Ghali, Heba Salama & Mira Goral pp. 168–187 Modeling distance-based variable sibilant harmon

2026. iii, 138 pp. Table of Contents Articles Constructional contamination between two constructions with krijgen ‘to get’ in Dutch: National variation, bidirectionality and ambiguity avoidance Gauthier Delaby & Timothy Colleman pp. 1–36 Are phonemes constructions? A plea for distinguishing function and meaning Cameron Morin pp. 37–63 Oh, multimodality where art thou? Raised eyebrows in the constructional network Claudia Lehmann pp. 64–99 Rhetorical schemes and Constr

La Chaire de sciences de la communication et de la cognition de l’Université de Neuchâtel recrute : 1 assistant-e doctorant-e à 75 % Titre exigé : MA en sciences cognitives, linguistique, psychologie ou philosophie. Profil: - Vous manifestez un vif intérêt pour l’étude de la communication dans le contexte des sciences cognitives. - Vous envisagez de vous inscrire en thèse de doctorat à l’Université de Neuchâtel, sous la supervision de la professeure Diana Mazzarella. Le sujet de vo

We are delighted to announce that the Institute of Linguistics at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, is organising the 13th meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within – International Linguistics Conference in Lublin. The conference, to be held on 22–23 October 2026 in Lublin, will be hosted by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, the Department of Contrastive English-Polish Studies and the Department of Celtic Studies. This year, th

The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Thu, March 26th at 14:30 - 15:30 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Swedish embodied pronunciation training: Results from a lab study on the second language acquisition of quantity Federica Rashellà (Linnaeus University), Frida Splendido (Lund University) and Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University) The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by

Final Call For Papers: (with postponed submission DL) Submission deadline (postponed): April 1, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 ComputEL-9 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California, as a one-day workshop on Sat July 4, 2026. This time, we are co-ordinating our activities with Americas-NLP, held on the previous day. We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics,

We are delighted to announce that the Institute of Linguistics at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, is organising the 13th meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within – International Linguistics Conference in Lublin. The conference, to be held on 22–23 October 2026 in Lublin, will be hosted by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, the Department of Contrastive English-Polish Studies and the Department of Celtic Studies. This year, th

MHALC is organized by students and faculty in the Hispanic Applied Linguistics master’s degree program at the University of Maryland. This virtual symposium offers undergraduate students the unique opportunity to present their course papers on any aspect of Hispanic applied linguistics in a formal academic setting to an audience of experts and peers. The theme of MHALC 2026 is "Collaborative Futures in Hispanic Applied Linguistics." This year's theme explores the dynamic, bidirectional relat

Polysemy in the Evalutive Sphere is a seminar pertaining to the project Slurs and the Lexicon: A Rich-Lexicon Approach to Slurs and Other Evaluative Expressions - LEXISLUR (https://danzeman.weebly.com/lexislur.html) featuring monthly talks by specialists in polysemy. We cordially invite you to a talk by Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Maciej Tarnowski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) entitled "What 'We' Can Mean" (see the abstract below). The event takes place online on Friday, MARCH 27, 11.00-12.3

MHALC is organized by students and faculty in the Hispanic Applied Linguistics master’s degree program at the University of Maryland. This virtual symposium offers undergraduate students the unique opportunity to present their course papers on any aspect of Hispanic applied linguistics in a formal academic setting to an audience of experts and peers. The theme of MHALC 2026 is "Collaborative Futures in Hispanic Applied Linguistics." This year's theme explores the dynamic, bidirectional relat

Language variation and change has been a major focus of linguistic research for decades, and empirical approaches to language variation can strongly benefit from systematic manipulation of variables. The goal of ExAPP is to gather scholars employing experimental methods to investigate linguistic variation. We welcome abstracts for posters and papers that cover aspects of variation on all linguistic levels, and the perception as well as the production thereof. These include, but are not limited t