Articles Farzana Yesmen Chowdhury The role of social networks in language maintenance among Bangladeshi migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia 1 Johanna Holzer Language biographical schemas, response modalities and L2-strategies: a sociolinguistic approach to language biographies 27 Philip Rehnberg and Fanny Forsberg Lundell Language and civic education requirements as gatekeepers or tools for economic integration: a question of gender? 53 Helena Borrell Carreras Building

This book describes how the teaching of English can be organised by educational systems, institutions (e.g., schools, language centres, universities), and teachers. Accessibly written, the book combines theory and practice of curriculum development by explaining key concepts through real-life examples from a range of international contexts, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, Spain, the UK and the USA. It includes activities that encourage students to analyse curricul

It is crucial to apply robust analytic methods to the study of discourses deemed 'ideological'. This book applies the Guidelines and Procedures for ideological research, as presented in Verschueren's Ideology in Language Use, to an exciting new area of study; discourses intended to improve humanity. It analyses the discourse of Amnesty International appeal letters, to show (contrary to what the field of critical discourse analysis often assumes) that ideological discourse can sometimes have a po

Teacher emotion is a topic of increasing interest in the fields of applied linguistics and TESOL. Bringing together cutting-edge research from an international team of renowned scholars, this book provides a collection of studies that explore this fascinating topic from an extensive range of contexts and perspectives. The volume includes real case studies from educators around the world, providing a fully global overview of teacher emotions. Through linking emotions to personal experiences, iden

Religious texts played a central role in the historical development of English. Harnessing corpus linguistic techniques, historical pragmatics, and the history of the English church, this book interrogates the keywords that have dominated English religious expression from the end of the medieval period to the eve of the Darwinian age. Exploring a number of historical religious works from the late medieval period to the nineteenth century, it shows how changes in the deployment of key words refle

Grounded in descriptive linguistics, this textbook introduces the basics of the major subfields of linguistics, as well as the Chinese writing system, for students with no prior linguistic training. It presents the Chinese language from the perspective of both modern linguistics and its longstanding philological legacy, as well as providing historical and sociolinguistic context. Chapters cover phonology and phonetics, morphology, lexicon, lexical semantics, syntax, sign language and braille. Au

The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)

We are pleased to invite submissions for the panel outlined below. Pragmatics is defined by the International Pragmatics Association—now celebrating its 20th conference—as the “the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication” (IPrA webpage, our italics). This reflects the scholarly consensus that pragmatics is a study of communication because “communication is what language is a

Call for Papers: ARR submission deadline: Aug 3, 2026 EACL commitment deadline: Oct 11, 2026 Details: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/ Overview: EACL 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program. In addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a ne

JACOR Call for Papers – (Jul-Dec2026) Submission Deadline: 19 September 2026 The Journal of Advanced Corpus-Oriented Research (JACOR) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit original manuscripts for its upcoming issue (Jan–Jun 2026). JACOR is a bi-annual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of language, technology, and digital humanities. Scope and Topics: We welcome submissions across the followi

Call for Papers: Lo desen Obrador de Lingüistica Occitana (OLO10) se tendrà a l’Institut für Romanistik de l’Universitat de Viena, Àustria, los 19 e 20 de mai de 2027. L’Obrador de Lingüistica Occitana es lo fòrum que recampa los lingüistas que trabalhan sus l’occitan, dins un esperit d’escambi e de collaboracion. Las proposicions de comunicacion son a mandar abans lo 31 de genièr de 2027 sus EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/OLO10/) o sus ignasi.planas.villalba@univie.a

Topics: AI, Robotics, Technology; Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnography; Conversation Analysis/EMCA; Interactional Pragmatics Abstract: Assistants based on large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable uptake as a new medium advertised as conversational partners. They may be marketed as companions (Malfacini, 2025) for therapy (Scholich et al., 2025), used for programming, research, and writing (Haase et al., 2026), and a variety of other purposes. On the surface, such assistant

I enclose the link to the interview on "Understanding multilingualism" with Viorica Marian (Northwestern University), https://tv.uvigo.es/video/6a5f725e2383fed4cd48f582?track_id=6a6214de2383fee849408752

This fascinating open access study explains and describes the process by which young children can acquire a second language incidentally, via joyful and regular exposure to animated cartoons. This multi-year activity can replicate some aspects of the mother-tongue acquisition process, especially when supported by a co-viewing caregiver. Rosalia Di Nisio emphasises two important elements in the acquisition process: the mediation of co-viewing adults as a motivating factor, and the multimodal n

BOOK PROPOSAL TITLE: Phonetics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Speech, Language Technology, and the Future of African Linguistics Editors: Dr. Evans Gesura Mecha & Dr. Samwel Komenda Correspondence: evans-mecha@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke 1. Working Title Phonetics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Speech, Language Technology, and the Future of African Linguistics 2. Rationale and Overview Africa's linguistic landscape, with an estimated 2,000 languages exhibiting tone systems

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

This study applies Fillmore’s Frame Semantics and corpus linguistics to analyze love fraud. It demonstrates the stages of the event as well as the words and phrases used to activate each frame and cause the victim to love and trust the fraudster. The fraudster thus constructs a romantic relationship with the victim, solely through language. This relationship begins with friendship, progresses to ‘soulmateship’ and engagement, and finally ends in an online ‘marriage’. Since one word can activate

Automated translations can break down language barriers and increase access to information, but they can also be highly inaccurate. This timely book explores the social challenges and ethical considerations of using artificial intelligence (AI) translations in high-stakes professional environments. Based on contributions from over two thousand professionals from critical sectors including healthcare, social work, emergency services and the police, the analysis explores the motivations and conseq

Translation plays a consequential role in how states govern, manage multilingual affairs, and project influence, yet this role is rarely examined through a comparative, state-centred framework. This Element introduces the State Translation Programme (STP) to analyse translation as state-organised action. Comparing China with Japan, Türkiye, the United States, South Korea, Canada, and Poland, it identifies three strategic modes: Architects build national capacity and identity, Influencers project

This Element explores transformations of translator education in the context of market forces and digital advancements. It firstly examines complex interactions among the translation industry's trends, notably the increasing role of AI in performing translation tasks that humans traditionally did, evolving market demands and specialised needs of the workplace. Based on this, this Element evaluates how university curricula reflect these transformations, including the pedagogical approaches in tra