We are pleased to announce the workshop New Insights on Demonstratives (NID2025), to be hosted at the University of Debrecen on 13 June 2025. This event provides a forum for original work exploring the latest insights, developments, and recent advances in the study of demonstratives across different languages, and it seeks to bring together presentations that offer novel theoretical contributions, methodological innovations, and empirical findings from a cross-linguistic perspective. The work

We are pleased to announce the workshop New Insights on Demonstratives (NID2025), to be hosted at the University of Debrecen on 13 June 2025. This event provides a forum for original work exploring the latest insights, developments, and recent advances in the study of demonstratives across different languages, and it seeks to bring together presentations that offer novel theoretical contributions, methodological innovations, and empirical findings from a cross-linguistic perspective. The work

The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings. The thematic focus of Protolang is on delineating the genetic, anatomical, neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological requirements for evolving (proto)language. Sign use, tools, cooperative breeding, pointing, vocalisation, intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis, planning and navigation are among many examples of

The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings. The thematic focus of Protolang is on delineating the genetic, anatomical, neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological requirements for evolving (proto)language. Sign use, tools, cooperative breeding, pointing, vocalisation, intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis, planning and navigation are among many examples of

The Department of Languages and Literature (School of Humanities and Social Sciences) of the University of Nicosia is pleased to announce the Advances in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition: Heritage Language Acquisition and Learning international conference, the fourth edition of the ASeFoLA series. ASeFoLA 2025 will take place online on 24 May 2025. ASeFoLA aims to bring together researchers from around the world who are working to better understand the second/foreign language acquisition p

The Department of Languages and Literature (School of Humanities and Social Sciences) of the University of Nicosia is pleased to announce the Advances in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition: Heritage Language Acquisition and Learning international conference, the fourth edition of the ASeFoLA series. ASeFoLA 2025 will take place online on 24 May 2025. ASeFoLA aims to bring together researchers from around the world who are working to better understand the second/foreign language acquisition p

Call Deadline: 01 February 2025 “Heritage Phonetics and Phonology” is a satellite workshop of the 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference taking place on 25 June 2025 in Palma, Spain. We welcome abstracts dealing with phonetic and phonological aspects in heritage language acquisition, including both segmental and suprasegmental levels (as well as their interfaces to other domains) and both children and adult populations. We are interested in individual differences and vari

Call Deadline: 01 February 2025 “Heritage Phonetics and Phonology” is a satellite workshop of the 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference taking place on 25 June 2025 in Palma, Spain. We welcome abstracts dealing with phonetic and phonological aspects in heritage language acquisition, including both segmental and suprasegmental levels (as well as their interfaces to other domains) and both children and adult populations. We are interested in individual differences and vari

Authors are asked to submit their anonymous abstracts as a PDF file to the following site: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/CGG34/ If you do not have an account, please follow the instructions provided by the platform and create one. Submission guidelines: - Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed two pages of text (A4), in 12-point font, single line spacing and 2.5cm margins, with examples and/or figures interspersed, and including references. - Abstracts should

Other Specialties: Language Revitalization Description: The Departments of Indigenous Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba invite applications for a full-time Probationary (tenure-track) appointment in Indigenous Language Revitalization and/or Documentation at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. The appointment has an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. Review of applications will begin on February 18, 2025, and will continue until the position i

Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological, discourse-pragmatic, and sociolinguistic perspectives - this book provides a comprehensive overview of L2 prosodic features, highlighting patterns of intonational phrasing, f0 range, and the use of tones and uptalk.

The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century to the present and across regions, languages, media and genres. The seventeen chapters explore different framings of emotional life in terms of ‘sentiments’ and ‘affects’ and consider how emoti

Literary drafts are a constant in literatures of all ages and linguistic areas, and yet their role in writing processes in various traditions has seldom been the subject of systematic comparative scrutiny. In 38 chapters written by leading experts in many different fields, this book charts a comparative history of the literary draft in Europe and beyond. It is organised according to eight categories of comparison distributed over the volume’s two parts, devoted respectively to ‘Text’ (i.e. the t

Accesibilidad, traducción y nuevas tecnologías es un volumen académico esencial en el que se presentan nueve interesantes artículos escritos por expertos en los campos de la accesibilidad y la traducción. Esta completa colección ofrece análisis académicos rigurosos y perspectivas innovadoras sobre la lectura fácil, la accesibilidad lingüística legal, los enfoques educativos del subtitulado para el público sordo y con discapacidad auditiva y la intertextualidad en la audiodescripción. Cada

Completing a thesis is a crucial final stage in many bachelor’s and master’s programmes across Europe and beyond. However, the process of thesis writing, how it is experienced by the writers, and how those experiences impact on writing remain underexplored. This book examines the student experience of thesis writing through an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on theories of learning, emotions, and genre and narrative/discursive analysis. As a result of this approach, the thesis is reconcept

The biannual SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics is published by the Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE) as an electronic, free-access journal. All articles are anonymously reviewed by external peer-reviewers. SCOPE: Synchronic research into phonology, inflectional morphology, word-formation, lexical semantics, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and other areas of linguistic research including interd

The biannual SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics is published by the Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE) as an electronic, free-access journal. All articles are anonymously reviewed by external peer-reviewers. SCOPE: Synchronic research into phonology, inflectional morphology, word-formation, lexical semantics, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and other areas of linguistic research including interd

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 12(2) – a special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology – of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/32. JLM is indexed by SCOPU

SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation (ISSN 1336-7811) is published by the Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE) as one of its specialised journals in the Series. It is an English-language peer-reviewed on-line journal with free access, currently indexed in SCOPUS, ERIH, EBSCO Open Access Journals, and Lund University Libraries. URL: http://www.skase.sk/ Table of Contents 1. Pius ten Hacken, Renáta Panocová & Laura Giacomini. Editorial. | pp. 2-3 2. Sukayna Al

SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation (ISSN 1336-7811) is published by the Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE) as one of its specialised journals in the Series. It is an English-language peer-reviewed on-line journal with free access, currently indexed in SCOPUS, ERIH, EBSCO Open Access Journals, and Lund University Libraries. URL: http://www.skase.sk/ Table of Contents 1. Isabel Tello. Translating Diminutives: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Gravitational Pull