SUMMARY The introductory chapter to the volume “The Sociopragmatics of Emotion” is lengthy (pp. 3-37) and theoretical, because its authors, the editors of the volume, Laura Alba-Juez and Michael Haugh, have set ambitious goals. They would like the book to “illustrate what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly understanding of emotion and its role in social life” and to “lay the foundations for a sociopragmatic theorization of emotion” (p. 7). In the chapter, Alba-Juez a

Focus: Cognitive and Functional Linguistics Description: The Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University organizes Braga Summer School in Linguistics, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics. The event will offer advanced training in several areas of linguistic studies, especially from the perspective of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics in their most recent developments and in a

We are pleased to announce the release of AfBo 2.0 (https://afbo.info/), a significantly expanded and updated version of the Affix Borrowing (AfBo) database, originally published in 2013. AfBo 2.0 provides detailed descriptions of 132 cases of affix borrowing, i.e., cases where one language borrowed at least one affix from another language, involving a total of 754 borrowed affixes. It also includes an online interface with descriptions of borrowed affixes, examples of combinations of borrowed a

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Persian allows the use of the noun bande 'slave' as a full-fledged 1sg pronoun, so that when used as subject it has the verb appear in 1sg. So this is one or more steps beyond the much more common usages such as English your humble servant, which remains third person. I am even more interested in self-aggrandizing usages of which I also know just one clear example, the Hittite kings referring to themselves as 'My sun', again often with the verb in 1sg., so again different from the (once-common

Focus: We aim to introduce participants to the theoretical and practical aspects of four major themes in forensic linguistics: Authorship Analysis, Spoken Interactions, Online Harmful Discourse, and Disputed Meanings. The afternoon sessions are going to be particularly focused on providing attendees an opportunity to try the methods they learn about for themselves on actual data. We aim to provide a thorough grounding in the field so that attendees can build on it from there in future studies or

Call for Papers: Se invita a la presentación de comunicaciones orales sobre cualquier aspecto de la variación dialectal del español en los ámbitos de la morfología y sintaxis formales y teniendo en cuenta los enfoques tanto diacrónicos como sincrónicos. Uso de recursos digitales: Se valorarán especialmente las propuestas que hagan uso de recursos on-line y corpus digitales para el estudio de la variación dialectal, tales como (lista no exhaustiva): - ASinEs - ALPI - PRESEEA - CO

This DSLL Special Issue invites submissions that examine how the concept of genhumanism can be used to understand the transformative dynamics of human–AI collaboration in translation and interpreting studies. Distinct from posthumanist narratives that anticipate the decentring or obsolescence of the human, and from transhumanist visions of technological enhancement, genhumanism conceptualises the ongoing, generative co-evolution of human and artificial intelligence as a process in which both ope

Call for Papers: It is a great pleasure to announce the 1st International Conference “Language, Literature & Education” which will be organized and hosted by the Department of Preschool Education of the University of Crete, Faculty of Education, University of Crete. In the context of this first conference emphasis will be put on aspects stemming from the interrelation between language and literature. Despite the fact that literature is intrinsically connected with language, since words re

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the II International Conference on Academic Literacies in Multilingual Contexts (19-20 November, 2026 in Bilbao), which will bring together researchers interested in the development of academic and disciplinary literacies in multilingual educational settings. The conference focuses on how learners develop the language and literacy practices required for academic success across subjects, with particular attention to primary and secondary educa

Call for Papers: From 18 to 20 November 2026, the second Biennial of Czech Linguistics will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. The aim of the Biennial is to cover Czech linguistics in its full methodological and thematic breadth. We welcome contributions and participants from all linguistic disciplines and philologies, representing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference is structured around thematic workshops and will also i

Call for Papers: 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

International Conference: Europa-Universität Flensburg, 16–19 June 2027 “Language abuse and language criticism in the history of linguistics / Sprachmissbrauch und Sprachkritik in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft / Abus des mots et critique du langage dans l'histoire de la linguistique” From 16–19 June 2027, the international conference “Language abuse and language criticism in the history of linguistics” will take place at Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF). Proposals for presentations

We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue, a workshop that brings together researchers from computational linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science working on multimodal face-to-face communication. Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/ The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided). We welcome work on topics includin

The Center for the Study of Language Development and Linguistic Communication, University of Bucharest, invites submissions for an online workshop on the acquisition of aspect, organized as part of the annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest. Keynote Speaker: Petra Schulz, Goethe University Frankfurt Aspect has generated a wide array of research directions in the language acquisition literature, shedding light on the development of the s

About the Forum: The Buckeye East Asian Linguistics (BEAL) Forum provides a supportive platform for students and emerging scholars to present and exchange research findings in East Asian linguistics. This one-day event is designed to foster a collegial and constructive environment through a combination of keynote speeches and breakout sessions. After the Forum, presenters are invited to publish their work in the open-access Buckeye East Asian Linguistics series via The Ohio State University’s

UC Santa Cruz will host the 35th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics from May 1, 2026 to May 3, 2026. The conference program and registration information, including an option to attend online, can be found on the conference website: https://fasl35.github.io/.

SUMMARY Insecurities in Language Policy and Planning: Decolonial Theories and Practices, edited by Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Gorski Severo, Ashraf Abdelhay, and Alissa J. Hartig, examines the epistemological foundations of language policy and planning (LPP). In doing so, it asks what it means to ‘decolonise’ the field. The volume spans diverse contexts and engages with core concepts in LPP, particularly its roots in Western academic traditions. The volume includes fifteen chapters, alongside a

SUMMARY Half Silver, Half Gold presents ten Modole (mqo) stories documented by Dutch missionary G. J. Ellen, and a grammar sketch based on this data. The book consists of three sections, an introductory section, a grammar sketch, and the ten texts. The first part, Preliminaries (p. 1-23), gives an overview of the language background and context, as well as contextualizing the Modole people themselves. The language is a Papuan family that belongs to the North Halmahera family, and is spok

Focus: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a clear paradigm shift: the transition from rule-based approaches to data-driven language models. While rule-based approaches dominated NLP for many years, during the 1990s and early 2000s they gradually gave way to statistical and machine-learning methods. It would be fair to say that data-driven models—and, most prominently, Deep Learning (DL), including more recently Large Language Models (LLMs)—have taken the world by storm. Deep Learnin