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 represent “its material”

In this Element, the authors propose a new framework for studying how trust is built and manipulated in discourse and apply it to one of the most notorious cases of corporate misconduct in history: the Enron fraud. The framework outlines the discursive strategies speakers commonly use to manage trust, providing a tool for examining how language shapes relationships and enables wrongdoing in both physical and digital environments. The analysis, which focuses on a previously unexplored corpus of t

Constructions are long-term pairings in memory of form and meaning. How are they created and learned, how do they change, and how do they combine into new utterances (constructs, communicative performances) in working memory? Drawing on evidence from word-formation (blending, Noun-Noun-compounds) over idioms and argument structure constructions to multimodal communication, we argue that computational metaphors such as 'unification' or 'constraint-satisfaction' do not constitute a cognitively ade

This Element conceptualises translation reception as a form of cultural negotiation in which cognitive processes and sociocultural factors converge to form understanding. Drawing on empirical examples from a variety of translational phenomena, it maps a range of methodologies, including surveys, interviews, eye-tracking experiments, and big data analytics, to examine how heterogeneous reader expectations are either reconciled or divided. This Element argues that the ambiguities surrounding reade

Focus: Our comprehensive, skill-based program helps you strengthen every essential area of the language: Grammar: Build a strong foundation in the main structures of modern Russian. Vocabulary: Learn 500–1,000 new words, including both everyday and academic terms. Listening: Improve understanding through Russian songs, films, news, and cultural video content. Speaking: Develop fluency and confidence with daily role-plays, discussions, and guided conversations. Writing: Consolidate progress

Storytelling is a powerful tool for understanding. This casebook presents seventy dilemma-based narrative cases, providing language teachers with a thorough overview of key topics in language education. The cases cover a broad range of language teaching and learning concerns relevant to the development of pre- and in-service language teachers. They include narratives of language teachers, learners, teacher educators, researchers, administrators, and other professionals working in a variety of ed

Bridging the gap between linguistic theory and practice, this timely book demonstrates the transformative potential of corpus linguistics research and methods across a wide range of contexts. With contributions from a diverse range of authors, this book provides contemporary reflections on both established applications in language education, as well as emergent contexts in which corpus methods are driving social change, such as the media and law. Each chapter provides case studies that clearly d

A comprehensive yet concise history of the English language, this accessible textbook helps those studying the subject to understand the formation of English. It tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day, especially the effects of globalisation and the spread of, and subsequent changes to, English. Now in its third edition, it has been substantially revised and updated in light of new research, with an extended chapter on World Englishes, and a completely update

I am a PhD student in linguistics at the Universitat Politècnica de València, where my doctoral research is focused on discourse analysis, with a particular emphasis on the automation of discourse analysis. Within my PhD, I am especially interested in discourse-oriented approaches to language and related theoretical frameworks. At the same time, I have a strong and long-standing interest in theoretical and structural linguistics, especially in questions related to linguistic universals and th

Garo ASR is an AI-powered automatic speech recognition system that converts spoken Garo language (A'chik) into written text. Built using transformer-based neural networks (Whisper architecture with 244M parameters), the model achieves production quality transcription with transfer learning approaches. The system handles Latin-script Garo orthography used across Meghalaya, Assam, and Tripura in India. Technical performance includes 9.74% Word Error Rate, 3.82% Character Error Rate on held-out

ALAPP aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, especially language and communication research and professional domains (e.g., business, organization studies, education, banking, health care, therapy, journalism, law, social care and welfare, immigration and border control, police work, translation and interpreting) to share ideas and discuss innovations and interventions. Plenary Speakers: Claire Kramsch, University of California Berkeley, USA Tammy A. Gales

The 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026) will take place virtually on July 3 or 4, 2026 as part of the 64th Annual Meeting of the the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026). Scope and Topics: CHum 2026 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimoda

Description: Applicants are invited to apply for the postdoctoral research fellow position at the Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia. The position is funded by the Estonian Research Council project Native Language Background and the Brain’s Perception and Learning of a Foreign Language,” led by Dr. Siqi Lyu. The research project adopts both the behavioral and EEG methods to investigate how three groups of native speakers, i.e., Mandarin Chinese speakers, Estonian speaker

The Institute of Western European Languages and Literature of the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University announces a Call for Applications for the interdisciplinary symposium “Dialogue of Cultures: Georgia and the Outside World (Literary, Cultural, Historical, and Diplomatic Relations)” to be held on October 22–23, 2026, at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The aim of the symposium is to bring together Georgian and international researchers, translat

Description: This post-doctoral position is within the research and teaching team of Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp at the Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University of Cologne, Germany. The team focus on combining linguistic modelling and quantitative data collection/analysis using various experimental methods and written, oral and audiovisual corpus analyses in the fields of phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and multimodal communication. The target language is

Call for Papers: On 7-9 May 2026, the Romanian Lectureship and the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Salamanca, together with the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest are organising the RoSal conference, 80 years of Romanian Studies at the University of Salamanca, which celebrates the introduction of Romanian language courses at this institution in 1946. The conference is aimed at the scientific community in Romania, Spain and other countries and is open to any topic

A workshop of the PALA-LAND Special Interest Group (http://www.pala.ac.uk/land-sig.html) on the stylistics of landscape, place and environment will be led by Daniela Francesca Virdis (University of Cagliari) and Elisabetta Zurru (University of Genoa). Its primary aim will be to survey current stylistic approaches to concepts of landscape, place and environment (and related notions such as space, setting, cityscape, etc.) against the backdrop of one of the prominent challenges the world is fac

We are pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Workshop on Linguistic Theories and the Teaching of L2/L3/Ln to take place on February 6th 2026. This year’s edition focuses on curricular documents and their relationship with linguistic theories and language pedagogy, and will bring together researchers and practitioners to reflect on the role of curricular documents in language teaching. The workshop will present experiences in the design of curricular frameworks for adult additional

El objetivo del encuentro es reunir a personal investigador interesado en analizar, debatir y visibilizar las múltiples manifestaciones de la discriminación lingüística en diferentes contextos sociales, educativos, institucionales y mediáticos. La discriminación lingüística constituye una de las formas menos visibilizadas, pero más persistentes, de desigualdad social. Las lenguas, los indicios sociales asociados a ellas y las variedades lingüísticas no son únicamente medios de comunicación, s

Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic ‘north’ of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre. We are adopting a fairly loose definition of what constitutes 'northern Englishes': this includes everything from the North of England and as far so