SUMMARY This book, “Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare” by Elena Semino, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Luke Collins and Tony McEnery is a recent and substantial contribution to applied corpus linguistics, offering a comprehensive methodological and analytical guide to corpus-based research in the domain of illness and healthcare. The book consists of thirteen chapters, which can be grouped into three main clusters: (i) foundational steps of corpus-based research, including

SUMMARY A Descriptive Grammar of Ollari Gadaba (DGOG) is a revision of Mendem Bapuji’s 2019 dissertation for the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of Hyderabad, under the guidance of Panchanan Mohanty. Ollari Gadaba, spoken in the Koraput district of Odisha (formerly, Orissa), is a Central Dravidian language, closely related to Kolami, Naiki and Parji (see Krishnamurti 2003). It is not to be confused with Gotub Gadaba, a language belonging to the Munda b

Title: New Immigrants and Multilingual Linguistic Landscape in Taiwan Publication Year: 2026 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Author(s): Ching-Yu Na and Serafín M. Coronel-Molina Reviewer: Teresa Wai See Ong Summary Written by Ching-Yu Na and Serafín M. Coronel-Molina, New Immigrants and Multilingual Linguistic Landscape in Taiwan is a monograph that explores the linguistic landscape transformation observed in Taoyuan City when immigration takes place. There are eight chapters i

Description: As one of Europe’s leading research universities, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching. Building on its more than 500-year-long tradition, it offers a broad spectrum that covers all areas of knowledge within its 18 Faculties, ranging from the humanities, law, economics and social sciences, to medicine and the natural sciences. The Faculty of Languages and Literatures invites ap

The research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leuven is looking to hire a salaried predoctoral researcher and PhD candidate to staff the FWO-funded project "BUG-OR-FEATURE: Variation, optionality, and dysfluencies" (PIs: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Thomas Van Hoey & Matt Hunt Gardner). In IT speak, a bug is an unintended (software) error. A feature is an intended design functionality. The project explores if langu

Call for Papers: This conference aims to support and promote research that significantly utilizes sources in Turkish or other Turkic languages by graduate students from fields including but not limited to literature, history, linguistics, language education, and related fields at North American academic institutions. It also offers a collaborative platform for the student presenters to share their work and exchange research ideas with their peers and the colleagues in attendance from the fiel

Special early-career poster session at 54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (Sunday, 20 Sep 2026) This session will be geared towards researchers at the early stages of their academic journey, including undergraduate, MA, PhD, and early-career post-PhD scholars, wishing to present their projects to a larger scientific community and, thus, receive valuable feedback on their work. Proposals are welcome from individuals at any stage of their career. Researchers should submit their abstracts via the on

Ever since the beginning of the minimalist enterprise in the early 90-ies, the Program has been trying to reconcile the ambitious task of formulating a comprehensive, compact and streamlined theory of grammar with the need for broad empirical coverage and adequacy. In the process, the theory has impacted research on particular constructions and languages and, in turn, particularly successful empirical analyses fed theory-oriented proposals. For the past 35 years the Program has been evolving but

Call for Papers: For this edition of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting, we invite participants to engage with the leitmotif “Linguistics in dialogue: looking for parallels beyond language”. We would like to encourage reflection on how linguistic phenomena can be illuminated/informed by other domains. Linguistics has long relied on analogies to describe, explain, and model language: language as a system, as a network, as a biological capacity, as a cultural phenomenon. Such metaphors often sha

Call for Papers: Important note: Conference venue change: From Macao Polytechnic University to The Hong Kong Hang Seng University Conference date change: May 16-17 to May 15-16, 2026 English Department, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Global Digital Applied Linguistics Association (GloDAL) & Methodology SIG, Kansai Chapter, Language Education and Technology (LET), Japan May 15–16, 2026 · Friday and Saturday, The Hong Kong Hang Seng University · On‑site only Submission deadli

Call for Papers: This international workshop explores the dynamic nature of register variation in spontaneous speech, and examines how situational contexts, cognitive processes, and developmental pathways shape our adaptive language use. To advance a comprehensive understanding, we invite contributions from diverse theoretical frameworks and linguistic sub-disciplines. To increase communicative efficiency, speakers adapt their speech to different audiences and circumstances according to so

Call for Papers: Organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by United College, CUHK, the 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-15) will take place at CUHK on June 5-6, 2026 as one of the commemorative activities for the 60th anniversary of the Centre. The Workshop will be held in an in-person mode. We are pleased to invite submissions for a 20-minute talk (followed by 10 minutes of

The very first days of 2026 have witnessed the proliferation of Grok AI-generated deepfakes on X. Over the past decade, institutional reports have constantly reported the presence of gender-based violence online (e.g. Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy 2016; UN Human Rights Council 2018; Amnesty International 2020; Haut Conseil à l’Égalité 2024). In 2017, the European Institute for Gender Equality estimated that one in ten women had already experienced a form of cyber violence since the

The Second International Conference South Slavic Languages in the Digital Environment (JuDig 2026) will be held from 26–28 October 2026 at the Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade, Serbia. The conference is organised by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Mining and Geology and Faculty of Philology, in cooperation with the Language Resources and Technologies Society (JeRTeh), the Institute for Serbian Language of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Universit

We are delighted to invite chapter proposals for our upcoming edited volume: Sociolinguistics of Emojis: Implications for Customer Psychology and Behavior (Under consideration with Springer, Edward Elgar, and Bentham Science) This book explores how emojis function as sociolinguistic tools in digital communication—shaping tone, politeness, stance, and perception across platforms like customer service chat, CRM, B2B messaging, influencer ecosystems, and D2C apps. We are especially interested

The I-LanD Research Centre (https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/) is pleased to announce the second seminar in the I-LanD Seminar Series - 4th Edition (2nd semester). Innovative in format and interdisciplinary in scope, the I-LanD Seminar Series brings together scholars to discuss key issues in their fields of expertise, with particular attention to theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, research challenges, and emerging directions of inquiry. Each seminar opens with a brief introd

Bringing together an international team of scholars from various linguistic areas, theoretical viewpoints, and educational contexts, this book makes the case for strengthening the role of linguistics in second language (L2) teaching and learning. Seeing firsthand how the strengths and tools of the science of language contribute greatly to pedagogical effectiveness in the L2 classroom, the authors of each chapter lay out the strengths of linguistics for L2 teaching and learning with examples, cas

Including a wide range of examples, this book provides a meticulous examination of Basque's argument structure and voice. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Basque and its typological properties, such as researchers and students of syntax, morphology, linguistic typology, and formal linguistics.

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