This Elements presents a series of studies investigating the relationship between language, Theory of Mind, and other cognitive skills, across different languages and cultures. The first set of studies focuses on longitudinal relationships between English-speaking children's understanding of complement-clause constructions (e.g., The cow knows the sticker is in the red box), mental verbs (e.g., know vs. think), modal verbs (e.g., must vs. might), and Theory of Mind. The second set of studies inv

Now in its second edition, this handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that explores the applications of corpus-based research in linguistics. Since the first edition, corpus linguistics has evolved dramatically, and this edition has been fully updated to reflect these developments, with new chapters on emerging areas such as online language, legal discourse, and lexical complexity in learner language. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, it critically evaluates me

Call for Papers: The key role that pragmatic markers (PMs) such as English actually, well, you know, and I mean play in social interaction, collaborative meaning-making, and successful communication is well known in a range of different languages (Fischer 2006, Degand et al. 2022, inter alia). PMs are essential to achieving communicative goals such as managing interaction or expressing attitudes. What is far less well understood is how language learners acquire and use PMs in an L2 or additio

Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the second conference on Formal Models in Linguistics (FML 2026) will take place on November 11-12, 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University. The conference focuses on the study of natural language within both generative and non-generative formal approaches, using any methodological tools (experimental, corpus-based, etc.). We invite submissions of original work focusing on formal analysis of natural language data. Submitt

Call for Papers: The Departments of African Studies and Linguistics at the University of Vienna are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 12th edition of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 12). We warmly invite researchers, academics, and students, particularly those working in African Studies, African languages, and African literatures, to participate in this global scholarly gathering. Apart from the general sessions, there will be two thematic workshops: Wor

We invite colleagues examining the interactional accomplishment of intimate relationships at a distance to join us for the panel “The Pragmatics of (intimate) relationships at a distance” (panel description below). If you have a relevant contribution, please send a provisional title and an abstract (max. 350 words) to Andrea Rodriguez by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be expected to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The

ComputEL-10 will be co-located with the 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 10) in Honolulu, Hawaii. ComputEL-10 and ICDLC 10 do not have joint registration. If you wish to attend ICDLC 10, visit their website: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/. ComputEL-10 explores the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. We encourage submis

The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased to announce the third edition of the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. The conference invites participation from both PhD candidates and early-career researchers. This edition focuses on margins and marginality across the fields of Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures. Contributions may explore t

Commercial names are far more than marketing tools: they are condensed narratives that communicate identity, values, memory, aspiration, and cultural positioning in a highly compressed linguistic format . In line with the congress theme “Names as condensed narratives,” this session explores how brand names, product names, company names, and other forms of commercial naming function as carriers of economic, social, and cultural meaning across languages and societies. The session welcomes prese

Description: Director of the Center for Language Education Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: School of Humanities and Social Science Job Functions: The Director provides leadership and vision to achieve excellence in language education at HKUST. With responsibility for a Center at the cutting edge, this role offers a great opportunity to shape the future of language education particularly in Human-AI interaction for language learning at scale. Reporting to the Dean of t

Today, we're sharing our call for papers for an edited volume, provisionally entitled "Drawing the Language Teacher: Visual Stories of Becoming and Unbecoming in ELT", under consideration with Multilingual Matters, as we have already been in touch with the series editors who have expressed a great interest within. The question this edited volume seeks responses to is: What does becoming, and sometimes unbecoming, a language teacher actually look like? Each chapter pairs one to three handmade

The first textbook to bring together the linguistics of both BSL and ASL, this accessible book provides a uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of signed languages. Presupposing no prior knowledge, it covers all levels of linguistic structure: phonetics/phonology, morphology, the lexicon, syntax, semantics and discourse. Photographic illustrations of BSL and ASL signs feature throughout every chapter, and are linked to over 500 online videos, making this a

This Element introduces the conceptualization of language weaponization, examining how dominant groups use language to control, marginalize, and harm minoritized communities. It proposes a three-phase framework- (1) stigmatization and othering, (2) dehumanization, and (3) harm-to explain how linguistic practices evolve from prejudice to violence, shaping both social structures and individual identities. Through analysis of the dynamics between dominant and minoritized groups and case studies foc

This Element offers a critical exploration of institutional health communication in an era marked by information overload and uneven content quality. It examines how health institutions can navigate the challenges of false, misleading, and poor-quality health information while preserving public trust and scientific integrity. Drawing from disciplines such as health communication, behavioral science, media studies, and rhetoric, this Element promotes participatory models, transparent messaging, a

A thorough introduction to formal syntactic typology by a leader in the field, Comparing Syntax systematically covers syntactic variation across languages. The textbook covers word-order parameters, null subjects, polysynthesis, verb-movement, ergativity, interrogatives and negation within a comparative framework, ensuring that readers are able to engage with the key topics in the most up-to-date primary research literature. The comprehensive glossary, end-of-chapter exercises and annotated furt

Considering a number of factors such as cross-linguistic influences, saliency and detectability of language cues, language complexity, and the interfaces involved, this book provides a systematic and coherent study of non-native grammars of Chinese. It covers a broad range of language aspects of Chinese as a non-native language, such as syntax, semantics, discourse, and pragmatics, as well as language phenomena specific to Chinese, such as classifiers, sentence final particles, the topic structu

Hi! My name is Runyu Wu, and I am a PhD candidate at the Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen. My project investigates the intelligibility of different English accents and whether different types of accent training can improve intelligibility for learners of English. The study has received ethical approval from the University of Groningen. We are currently recruiting female speakers of the following varieties of English: Indian English Australian

You are cordially invited to participate in a research study on Indigenous language use in Equatorial Guinea. The objective of this study is to examine the key factors influencing the decline of indigenous African languages, with a particular emphasis on parental language choices and intergenerational language transmission. Link to the questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_rOfLdVVk84MFhZ4wCRQ8rPfW8RInWmO6dMoZDXDkH35fzg/viewform?usp=header Eligibility Criteria: We are s

Gestures are integral to spoken language. However, much of modern linguistic enquiry has been based on analyses of language as text. This book is situated in the turn towards face-to-face interaction as the primary source of linguistic data. Taking a cognitive and usage-based approach, it provides data-driven investigations of the conventions of spontaneous conversation, going beyond linguistic features of utterances to include manual gestures, head movements, shoulder shrugs, postural shifts, e

SUMMARY In The Discursive Construction of Veganism: An Ecolinguistics Approach, Mario Leto offers both an academic analysis of the discursive representations of veganism and a practical toolkit for vegan advocacy. Published in 2026 as part of the Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics series, the book draws on critical discourse analysis (CDA), ecolinguistics, and positive discourse analysis (PDA) to examine how veganism is constructed, challenged, and defended across a range of media. Leto's