Review: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology: Friederike Lüpke (ed.) (2025)
SUMMARY
The “Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa,” edited by Friederike Lüpke (2025), is a guide that systematically documents and typologises the Niger-Congo language family’s Atlantic branch in 32 chapters. The edited guide combines comprehensive grammatical overviews with comparative and sociocultural analyses, with four thematic parts anchoring its intellectual structure. Whereas Part I, “Background and Classification of the Atlantic Languages,” is dedicated to contextua
Confs: Language Documentation & Archiving 2026
Language documentation and archiving are key activities in the effort to preserve and support linguistic and cultural diversity globally. As new technologies emerge and evolve, new opportunities and challenges present themselves for how we record, curate, preserve, and disseminate linguistic and cultural materials. This conference invites documenters, scholars, activists, technologists, and others engaged in language documentation and archiving to present papers and posters exploring new approac
FYI: Linguistics Seminars on Abstraction – October 16 & 17, 2025 (Bologna & online)
I am pleased to invite you to two linguistics seminars scheduled for October, dedicated to the theme of abstraction and included in the series of periodic meetings organized by the Abstraction research group (https://site.unibo.it/abstraction/en):
Time: October 16, 2025, 3:00–4:00 PM (CEST)
Location: Bologna (Room 2, Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi, Bologna) or online via Microsoft Teams: https://shorturl.at/0fw5a
Speaker: Prof. Filippo Domaneschi, Director of the Laboratory of Language a
Confs: Language Documentation & Archiving 2026
Language documentation and archiving are key activities in the effort to preserve and support linguistic and cultural diversity globally. As new technologies emerge and evolve, new opportunities and challenges present themselves for how we record, curate, preserve, and disseminate linguistic and cultural materials. This conference invites documenters, scholars, activists, technologists, and others engaged in language documentation and archiving to present papers and posters exploring new approac
TOC: Spanish in Context Vol. 22, No. 2 (2025)
2025. iii, 176 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Expressing future tense in Spanish: A cross-dialectal comparative analysis
Juan Manuel Escalona Torres, Dylan Jarrett & Manuel Antonio Díaz-Campos | pp. 311–343
Revisiting stop aspiration: A view from Mayan bilingual communities in Quintana Roo
Mariela Abigail Chi-Baack | pp. 344–369
Glotopolítica de la lengua española: El antipanhispanismo a debate desde el materialismo filosófico
Daniel Pinto Pajares | pp. 370–392
Sociolinguis
FYI: Language Attrition Network 2025/2026: 1st meeting on the 23rd October at 14:00 CET
The Language Attrition Network meets once a month (from October to June) in a 1-hour online session to discuss projects, papers, and chapters related to Language Attrition. You can see our past and next meetings here: https://languageattrition.org/language-attrition-network/
We would like to invite you to our next session: Thursday, 23rd October, at 14:00 CET (13:00 UK) 2025, where Abdulkadir Şenel (Gaziantep University) will present his project "Cross-linguistic influence of heritage languag
FYI: British Library Doctoral Open Day: Music, Sound and Vision
The British Library's Doctoral Open Days introduce researchers to our collections and the staff who can support their research. Each day covers the practicalities of using our collections, offers the opportunity to meet reference staff and curators of relevant collections, and enables researchers to meet peers with similar interests.
Our Music, Sound and Vision day covers a number of collections of relevance to linguistics research, including:
Spoken English collections
Oral History collect
TOC: Information Design Journal Vol. 29, No. 3 (2025)
2024. ii, 100 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
User interface, usability, and user experience: A bibliometric mapping for previous research and future research insight
Hadeel Mohammad Mustafa, Oraib Alsbaihi, Safaa Jahameh, Asma Sayed & Mustafa Othman | pp. 204–222
Enhancing distance reading for low vision: A reading acuity experiment on letter width
Héctor Mangas, Peter Biľak, Roberto Arista & Sofie Beier | pp. 223–239
Exploring the impact of map visualization features to improv
TOC: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Vol. 30, No. 2 (2025)
2025. v, 145 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics
Martin Schweinberger & Michael Haugh | pp. 119–129
Articles
Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics
Joseph Flanagan | pp. 130–149
Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types
Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray & Tove Larsson | pp. 150–170
Reuse of social media data in corpus linguistics
M
TOC: Journal of Language and Politics Vol. 24, No. 6 (2025)
2025. iii, 129 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’: Nationalism and populism in Vlaams Belang’s discourse about farmers
Gijs Lambrechts & Benjamin De Cleen | pp. 837–860
“We pursue justice”: Legitimation strategies in the public-facing communications of philanthropic foundations in global sustainability governance
Mark Dehlsen, Agni Kalfagianni & Carole-Anne Sénit | pp. 861–888
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidenti
TOC: Journal of Language and Politics Vol. 24, No. 5 (2025)
2025. iii, 123 pp
Table of Contents
Articles
Capturing power in diplomatic language use: The case of a closed-door mediatory negotiation and its aftermath during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia
Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Tadej Todorović, Matjaž Klemenčič, David Hazemali, Tomaž Onič & Katja Plemenitaš | pp. 713–740
The power of old ideas newly expressed: Building legitimacy and the new discourse of humanitarian intervention
Ariane Bélanger-Vincent | pp. 741–759
Far-rig
Jobs: English; Applied Linguistics: Instructors for the MA degree in Technology-Mediated Language Teaching and Learning, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Description:
We are looking for course instructors for the MA degree in Technology-Mediated Language Teaching and Learning at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Department of Arts and Humanities).
https://www.uoc.edu/en/studies/masters/certified-masters-degree-technology-language-teaching
The language of instruction will be Spanish or English depending on the candidate's profile. The collaboration with the UOC will be based on the provision of professional services.
Please refer to t
Jobs: English; Applied Linguistics: Instructors for English Subject for the Modern Languages Center of the UOC, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Description:
We are looking for collaborating teachers for the English subject for the Modern Languages Center of the UOC. The collaboration with the UOC will be based on the provision of professional services.
Please refer to the following link for information regarding job functions and conditions:
https://selection.uoc.edu/web/offersjob/offers.aspx?y=PD
Confs: 6th International Conference on Situating Strategy Use
We are pleased to announce that the sixth International Conference on Situating Strategy Use (SSU6): Learning strategies and Self-regulation in the time of AI will be held in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 11-13 of September 2026. Organized by the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood, School of Education Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, this interdisciplinary conference aims to be a leading forum for cutting-edge research at the dynamic intersection of learning strategies,
Confs: 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives
We are delighted to invite you to present your work at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held online as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025 (https://2025.jcdl.org//) on December 15, 2025. The workshop will consist of 2 live sessions scheduled to accommodate participants from different time zones across the world. Session recordings and transcripts will be available for workshop participants.
This interactive virtual workshop seeks to addre
Confs: 6th International Conference on Situating Strategy Use
We are pleased to announce that the sixth International Conference on Situating Strategy Use (SSU6): Learning strategies and Self-regulation in the time of AI will be held in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 11-13 of September 2026. Organized by the Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood, School of Education Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, this interdisciplinary conference aims to be a leading forum for cutting-edge research at the dynamic intersection of learning strategies,
Jobs: Clinical Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor-RISE Thrive, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Description:
Assistant Professor-RISE Thrive
- Requisition Number: JR10003724
- Remote Type: On Site
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin
- Category: Faculty
- Time Type: Full time
- Application Period Opens: Sep. 16, 2025
- Apply By: Nov. 6, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. CST
- Apply: https://jobs.wisc.edu/
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Jobs Hub to apply through the internal application process.
Job Category: Facul
Confs: 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives
We are delighted to invite you to present your work at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held online as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025 (https://2025.jcdl.org//) on December 15, 2025. The workshop will consist of 2 live sessions scheduled to accommodate participants from different time zones across the world. Session recordings and transcripts will be available for workshop participants.
This interactive virtual workshop seeks to addre
Calls: Linguistique de l'écrit - "Special Issue: Writing at the Prague Linguistic Circle" (Jrnl)
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Prague Linguistic Circle, the journal Linguistique de l’écrit wishes to devote its 2026 special issue to this research group's contribution to linguistic approaches to writing.
The theme of writing is not spontaneously associated with the activities of the Prague Linguistic Circle (PLC). It even contradicts the image usually associated with the Circle, which remains attached to the invention of phonology – its "battle cry" according to its preside
Calls: Translation in Transition Conference 8
Call for Papers:
The Translation in Transition conference series has served as a meeting site for empirical translation scholars for over ten years now. After seven successful editions of this conference series, the tradition will be continued with the 8th edition taking place in 2026 in Aachen, where a special focus will be on translation and interpreting at the intersection of various multilingual text production contexts. In keeping with tradition, the conference will make room for discuss