Language and Communication is on the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) science breakthrough radar (https://www.gesda.global/) for the first time this year! That means we as a field have a chance to tell the world what exciting discoveries linguistics has made, and where the field is headed. I will present a report on this at the UN in September, and GESDA has commissioned a survey to accompany the report. Language evolution, AI, empirical method in linguistics, and multilingualism

Over time and across a highly complexified and enigmatic glocal space, reminiscent human existential and survival dynamics lay bare incessant (in)advertent attempts to accommodate adversities so as to guarantee harmonious existence. This notwithstanding, coping in such a nexus of uncertainty wrought by ideological and behavioral inconsistencies has constituted a veritable challenge. Through an interdisciplinary perspective, this compendium hinges on cutting-edge approaches and delves into the se

Sagen ist das häufigste lexikalische Verb im gesprochenen Deutsch. Es tritt in zahlreichen verfestigten Wendungen mit besonderen Gesprächsfunktionen auf – beispielsweise um Aussagen abzuschwächen, Aufmerksamkeit zu steuern, Wissen anzuzeigen oder das Thema zu wechseln. Neben einer Dokumentation und Systematisierung des Gesamtbestands dieser Ausdrücke im gesprochenen Deutsch bietet der Band exemplarische Detailstudien der pragmatischen Marker sozusagen, sagen wir, wollt grad sagen und wie gesagt

Über einen geschlechtergerechten Sprachgebrauch wird in Deutschland seit über 40 Jahren diskutiert. In Folge der Verbreitung gegenderter Formen und grafischer Sonderzeichen ist der Ton der Debatte deutlich rauer geworden; die beiden ‚Lager‘ stehen sich inzwischen nahezu unversöhnlich gegenüber. Dieser Band vereint Beiträge zu elf europäischen Sprachen, in denen sprachgeschichtliche Aspekte und die gegenwärtige Debatte möglichst wertneutral und ohne Polemik behandelt werden. Ziel ist es, Denkan

Das „Oberwalliser Orts- und Flurnamenbuch“ erschließt den Bestand der alemannischen Oberwalliser Namen sprachhistorisch und sprachgeographisch. Die verzeichneten Orts- und Flurnamen wurden in den 1970er Jahren erhoben. Sie stammen aus dem agrarischen, alpinistischen und touristischen Bereich, seltener handelt es sich auch um Namen von Straßen und Plätzen. Die Hauptlemmata der Orts- und Flurnamen werden in den Bänden ausführlich dargestellt, etymologisch kommentiert und geografisch verortet. Sie

Diese Einführung bietet einen verständlichen Überblick über die Phonetik und Phonologie des Spanischen. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf prosodischen Phänomenen wie Silbe, Akzent, Rhythmus und Intonation sowie auf der Variation zwischen europäischen und amerikanischen Varietäten des Spanischen. Eine Anleitung zum Umgang mit der Sprachanalysesoftware Praat und Ausblicke auf neuere theoretische Ansätze wie Optimalitätstheorie und Autosegmentale Phonologie ergänzen den Überblick. Die Neuauflage wurde

Dt. er geht weg kann auf Französisch und Spanisch mit einer eingeschobenen Partikel ausgedrückt werden: fr. il s’en va, sp. él se va, wörtlich übersetzt: er geht sich. Diese Partikel ist formal identisch zu den Reflexivpronomina, ihre Funktion ist jedoch nicht eindeutig bestimmbar. Nichtsdestotrotz ist ihre Verwendung hoch frequent und sehr alt. Das Werk beschäftigt sich mit folgenden Fragen: Welche Verben und semantischen Gruppen werden mit dieser Partikel verwendet? Funktioniert sie in verschi

We are organizing the 3rd edition of the International Sociolinguistic Research Symposium on 30-31 October 2025, to explore the social dynamics of language and its role in social interaction. The symposium is planned to be hybrid, allowing for both in-person and online participation. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, communication, literature, and other related disciplines to share new knowledge and develop diverse perspect

We are organizing the 3rd edition of the International Sociolinguistic Research Symposium on 30-31 October 2025, to explore the social dynamics of language and its role in social interaction. The symposium is planned to be hybrid, allowing for both in-person and online participation. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, communication, literature, and other related disciplines to share new knowledge and develop diverse perspect

Under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain El Abedeen, President of Ain Shams University Prof. Amani Osama Kamel, Vice President of the University for Graduate Studies and Research Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Languages (Al-Alsun) Prof. Ashraf Attia, Deputy Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Is to be held International Conference of the Department of Italian Studies The roots of the Italian language run deep in Egypt. As early as the first half of the 18th century,

The call for abstracts for the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is open now. It is an annual conference held in rotating locations in the western part of the United States and Canada since 1988. It focuses on any aspect of linguistics based at California State University, Fresno. - Applied linguistics: language acquisition, language teaching, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. - Theoretical linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics,

Program and abstracts: https://tinyurl.com/2025-tms-conference There has recently been a growing interest in truthmaker semantics as an alternative to the standard possible-worlds approach in philosophical and formal semantics. Following a successful initial meeting in 2023, the second Advances in Truthmaker Semantics conference will take place in:  Munich, July 28–30, 2025, at Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens Foundation, Südliches Schlossrondell 23, 80638 Munich, Germany The aim of the confere

The call for abstracts for the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is open now. It is an annual conference held in rotating locations in the western part of the United States and Canada since 1988. It focuses on any aspect of linguistics based at California State University, Fresno. - Applied linguistics: language acquisition, language teaching, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. - Theoretical linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics,

Program and abstracts: https://tinyurl.com/2025-tms-conference There has recently been a growing interest in truthmaker semantics as an alternative to the standard possible-worlds approach in philosophical and formal semantics. Following a successful initial meeting in 2023, the second Advances in Truthmaker Semantics conference will take place in:  Munich, July 28–30, 2025, at Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens Foundation, Südliches Schlossrondell 23, 80638 Munich, Germany The aim of the confere

The conference KogWis 2025, which will take place 01.09. - 03.09. at Ruhr-University Bochum, will provide a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas. The conference program is now online: https://kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com/program/ Call for Registration: Early Bird registration i

The conference KogWis 2025, which will take place 01.09. - 03.09. at Ruhr-University Bochum, will provide a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas. The conference program is now online: https://kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com/program/ Call for Registration: Early Bird registration i

This book is concerned with the licensing and usage of the elliptical construction topic drop in German. The term topic drop refers to the omission of the preverbal constituent in declarative verb-second sentences, for example, the omission of the subject ich (‘I’) in the sentence Bin gleich zurück (‘Am right back’). Topic drop exists in most of the Germanic verb-second languages and typically occurs in spoken language and text types such as SMS, chats, notes, etc. While much of the previous

This book is composed of four studies that all investigate different aspects of word stress in Papuan Malay, an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia. These aspects, in order of presentation, include acoustic realisation, auditory perception, lexical analyses and word disambiguation. The introduction provides the theoretical background against which the studies are undertaken. All studies are empirical in nature; they either report acoustic analyses, production or perception experime

Fillers are non-silent linguistic devices used in disfluencies to gain time while searching for words. In addition, they are frequently used intentionally to avoid words for reasons of politeness, ‘conspirational’ motivations, or rhetorical purposes. Two syntactically distinct types of conventionalized fillers can be distinguished: placeholders and hesitatives (also called hesitators). Placeholders are referential and morphosyntactically integrated, while hesitatives are neither. Strikingly, eve

The book Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data is devoted to the principles of data organisation in the Bulgarian FrameNet, which has been in development for more than 20 years and has gone through various phases. Originally it was developed as an independent resource, but for about fifteen years it has been correlated with the Berkeley FrameNet, observing the following basic principles: The information in the FrameNet that is relevant for the description of Bulgar