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

The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive to a more descriptive approach. Bringing together contributions from a team of distinguished scholars, this book explores sociolinguistic and structural dimensions of variability in English usage throu

Journal of Second Language Writing (JSLW) is accepting proposals for a special topic issue to be published late 2027 or early 2028 from interested guest editors. We seek proposals that address a theme that will be of interest and relevance to the journal’s international readership of L2 writing scholars. We are especially interested in special issue themes that will highlight work in underrepresented contexts and areas of inquiry in second language writing. Past and upcoming special issues have

The Research Workshop on Gender, Youth, and Media in Asia is organized by the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (GSRC) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. The event will take place from 20 to 22 February 2027 and will include a two-day conference followed by a one-day workshop. The workshop brings together researchers working on gender and sexuality across disciplines such as geography, linguistics, anthropology, communications, and media stu

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.ac.at, en PDF anonimi

We are delighted to invite submissions to the 8th General Conference of the International Language and Law Association (ILLA), to be held at the University of Naples Federico II from 30 June to 2 July 2027. The General Conference will be preceded, on 29 June, by the 6th ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence. The relationship between language and law is complex, multifaceted, and constantly evolving. It unfolds across a wide range of dimensions, such as legal inte

IPrA 2027 Panel: Handling Different Voices in Science Communication: From linguistic polyphony to artificial agents Kerstin Fischer, Annette Lessmöllmann & Francois Nemo Current societal challenges require complex solutions, and accordingly, science communication has to resist giving easy answers. Instead, the complexity and polyphony of societal discourse needs to be accounted for and represented while avoiding overwhelming the recipients. This panel integrates two lines of research: On t

We invite contributions to the panel "Narrating inherited trauma: Pragmatic, narrative, and cross-cultural perspectives," to be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 27 June – 2 July 2027. Scholars who are considering a contribution are welcome to contact us with a provisional title and a brief description of the proposed paper by September 15, at: Bracha Nir, bnir@univ.haifa.ac.il; Tomoko I. Sakita, tsakita@mail.doshisha.ac.jp. The panel focus

The conference aims to bring together voices from around the world to share knowledge, experiences and transformative projects related to linguistic diversity, social cohesion, culture and innovation working on the present and future of Basque and other minoritized and minority languages around the world. It will be an opportunity to reflect collectively on how languages can help build stronger, more open and more connected communities.

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) The Pragmatics of ‘doing Family’ in Everyday Life Co-organisers: Zhiyi Liu, Valeria Sinkeviciute, Andrea Rodriguez The University of Queensland Family discourse, including interaction between parents and children, siblings and adult (extended) family members, is a complex social phenomenon where social meanings are jointly constructed and negotiated. For several decades now, various aspects of family talk have

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) The Pragmatics of Doing ‘being Siblings’ in Talk-in-interaction Valeria Sinkeviciute The University of Queensland In interactional studies, it has been observed that, in and through family conversations, children are socialised into and show their understanding of the social order through their enactment of pragmatic and normative behaviours as members of society (e.g. Minks, 2010; see also overviews in Cekaite,

The Pragmatics of Organized Crime and Conflict: Identity, Ritual, and Transnational Mediations Convenors: Takako Kawabata (SOAS University of London) Daniela Cesiri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Panel Description: Organized crime groups such as the Italian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, and the Hong Kong Triads are not merely criminal enterprises; they are communicative communities sustained through highly ritualized linguistic and semiotic practices. Existing research has shown tha

- Arka Banerjee. Factivity alternation: A case study on Bangla attitude verb bhab- - Corrado Bellifemine. An exploratory study of multimodal self-repairs: New insight into the developmental gap between children with and without language disorder - Violetta Cataldo, Claudia Crocco. Phonetic cues to diatopic variation in Campania Italian intonation - Preeti Kumari, Pritha Chandra. Honorificity feature as an enabler: Bridging the person gap - Ana Matić, Maja Kelić, Eva Pavlinušić Vilus, Marijan

2026. iv, 164 pp. Table of Contents Articles Terminology: Ancient Chinese way Xingfeng Liu | pp. 155–174 Investigating Western social science terminology in China’s late Qing and early Republican Eras: A case study of Yan Fu’s translations Lichun Tao, Yanjun Pan & Zixuan Wang | pp. 175–200 Terminology in genetic-linguistic studies as a political issue: The case of the South Slavic dialectal continuum Igor Ivašković | pp. 201–221 Translation of medical terms from an ethical

Language documentation of the American Sign Language (ASL) communities is essential to preserve and share our language use and interaction, something we cherish. Yet there is no conventionalized written system that can be used, instead we've been using video. Currently these videos are mostly not accessible in a way we can search the contents for language expressions. The ASL Signbank, an empirical-based resource-driven database, labels ASL use in transcripts time-aligned to ASL videos along wit

This Element explores the analysis of deception in written texts from a forensic linguistic perspective. It provides an overview of the evolution of deception research and philosophy, from its earliest conceptualisation as a sin against God, to cue leakage theories and pseudoscientific beliefs built on medieval concepts of deceptive behaviour, to current psychology and linguistic based approaches to identifying lying. This requires an appreciation of where linguistic analysis fits into the eight

This Element explores the concepts, benefits, and limitations of the use of AI in language learning, teaching, and assessment. It also looks at AI tools for language teaching and language teachers' roles and competencies required for AI-powered language teaching. In addition, it offers practical ideas for AI-powered language teaching and presents AI-powered language teaching activities based on an AI literacy framework, which highlights using AI creatively, critically, effectively, efficiently,