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Confs: Le ‘langage des jeunes’ : Évolution des Usages et Représentations / ‘Youth speech’: Evolving Uses and Representations

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 19:05
We are pleased to share with you the conference program for the conference "Le 'langage des jeunes' : évolution des usages et représentations" that will take place at the University of Vienna on May 16-17, 2024. The conference program, summaries of invited talks, and other information are available on the conference website: https://colloque-langage-jeunes.univie.ac.at/ We are looking forward to welcoming Françoise Gadet (Université Paris Nanterre), Daniel McAuley (Queen’s University Belfast),

Calls: Placeholders in East and West

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 18:05
2nd Call for Papers: Placeholders such as eng. thingy or whatchamacallit or French truc, machin, bidule, chose (often, but not only, nouns) do not differ from lexemes in their syntactic distribution. However, unlike lexemes, they do not contribute to the proposition through their semantic content. They rather function as placeholders for lexemes, during word-finding problems in the formulation process, to fill lexical gaps, but also in the context of taboos and deliberate avoidance of lexical s

Fund: A Message from the Moderators

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 18:05
Dear Linguists and Readers, First of all, we would like to thank you all for continuing to subscribe to the LINGUIST List. It is you all that make this forum relevant. You make the LINGUIST List the largest, most globally distributed community of linguists on the planet. We have subscribers from every inhabited continent, and posts to the list come from all corners of the Earth. We have been working hard this year to improve the site; many of these changes will not be immediately visible, as t

Review: Translation: Loison-Charles (2022)

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 18:05
SUMMARY Is writing a form of translation? Is translation a form of writing? How do the two underpin and reinforce each other in the creative output of a bilingual writer? These questions are fundamental to Julie Loison-Charles's book “Vladimir Nabokov as an Author-Translator”, which seeks the answers through in-depth immersion into three related themes: Nabokov's relation to pseudotranslation, the practice and theory behind his translation of Eugene Onegin into English, and his role as co-trans

Review: Applied Linguistics: Sardegna and Jarosz (eds.) (2023)

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 17:05
SUMMARY “English Pronunciation Teaching” is an edited volume compiled by Veronica G. Sardegna and Anna Jarosz on methodologies and research for teaching English Pronunciation. It is dedicated to Professor Ewa Wanik-Klimchak. The purpose of this book is to present a research-based knowledge of what makes for efficient English pronunciation instruction. The volume contains five parts. Part I includes two main chapters. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter in which the two editors provide backgrou

Review: Syntax: Roberts (2023)

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 17:05
SUMMARY Ian Roberts’s “Beginning Syntax: An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis” is the first installment of a three-part series. This is an introductory textbook on generative syntax that is meant to guide undergraduate students through this framework without assuming any prior knowledge of the topic. It addresses core aspects of the theory that form the bedrock of any syntax course. With respect to its layout, the book is a bit over 200 pages in length. There is an Introduction, eight chapters

Fund: Fund Drive Challenge 2024

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 17:05
We are excited to announce the Linguist List Fund Drive 2024 donor challenge! We appreciate each and every reader who donates to our Fund Drive, and we couldn't do our work without your generous support. This year, we've set a goal for $30,000 dollars in donations. This gracious support is dire, as the fate of the Linguist List hangs in the balance. With your donations, linguistics students will have the necessary support to pursue their passionate studies, and our unique work of connecting the

Books: Spreading the Word: Koutamanis (2024)

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 16:05
When bilingual children use one language, they may be influenced by their knowledge of their other language. While such cross-linguistic influence is known to occur in children at the morpho-syntactic level, lexical effects have mostly been studied in bilingual adults. It is unclear to what extent bilingual children’s two languages also influence each other at the lexical level. This thesis therefore aims to uncover the internal structure of the bilingual child’s lexicon and the processes that m

Fund: Fun Fact: Reflection/Mirrors

Sun, 03/24/2024 - 02:05
Hello Linguist List readers, In honor of our Fund Drive, we at Linguist List are pleased to present Fun Facts that inspire reflection and, of course, have linguistic intrigue. This week, we're delving into the rich linguistic landscape of Hawaiian, or ōlelo Hawaiʻi, where the concept of rain is expressed through an array of over 200 words. In Hawaiian, rain is not merely a singular concept but a nuanced spectrum of experiences captured through distinct terms: Ua: Serving as a general term

Jobs: English, Spanish; General Linguistics: Online instructors -MA in Technology-Mediated Language Teaching and Learning, Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 17:05
We are looking for course instructors for the MA degree in Technology-Mediated Language Teaching and Learning at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Department of Arts and Humanities). https://www.uoc.edu/ca/estudis/masters/master-universitari-ensenyament-idiomes-tecnologia Responsibilities: Based in an online learning environment, course instructors introduce, guide, plan, stimulate, focus, motivate and tie together students' learning processes with a proactive approach. They provide teachi

Fund: Staff Letter: Natasha Singh

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 17:05
Hello Linguist List Readers, My heartfelt greetings to each one of you. I hope this letter finds you well. My name is Natasha Singh, and I am currently a final-year MS Computational Linguistics student specializing in morpho-syntax. My research interests primarily revolve around Machine Translation, Language Models, and Code Generation. These fields hold immense potential for advancements in various industries, including technology, communication, and linguistics. By delving deeper into these

Qs: Arabic, Polish and Turkish L2 German speakers - short recording with compensation

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 14:05
We are looking for speakers of German as a Second Language with *Arabic, Polish or Turkish* as L1 who are willing to record themselves reading a very short (one paragraph) reading passage. Their level of English should be at least B2. We are looking for speakers with a noticeable (but not extreme) accent. Speakers will be compensated with 10 Euros. Finally, some background on the project: This is initiative is part of the ERASMUS+ project “Counteracting accent dIscrimination pRactiCes in Educat

Qs: Arabic and Polish L2 English speakers - short recording with compensation

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 14:05
We are looking for speakers of English as a Second Language with *Arabic or Polish* as L1 who are willing to record themselves reading a very short (one paragraph) reading passage. Their level of English should be at least B2. We are looking for speakers with a noticeable (but not extreme) accent. Speakers will be compensated with 20 Euros. Finally, some background on the project: This initiative is part of the ERASMUS+ project “Counteracting accent discrimination practices in Education” (https

Calls: Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2024

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 03:05
Call for Papers: Masterclasses These will be held on 26 November before the start of the academic program of the conference. Masterclasses are teaching-focused sessions aimed at professional development. Examples are masterclasses on statistics or phonetic analysis. They are typically facilitated by an expert in the relevant field. Masterclasses may have a specific audience, e.g. students, or be open to anyone. Proposals are welcome on any area that is relevant to linguistics. Please submit pr

Calls: First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 02:05
Call for Papers: Full call for proposals available at: https://indigenous.indiana.edu/conference/call-for-proposals/

Calls: Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience: Language, Cognition, and Culture

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 02:05
2nd Call for Papers: We invite contributions from disciplines concerned with the topic, including both theoretical and applied perspectives: cognitive science, neuroscience, social, cultural, clinical, and developmental psychology, psychophysiology, psychiatry, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, cognitive linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, history, computer science. Suggested topics include (but are not restricted to): • the role of cognitive processes and cultural determinants in em

Calls: II Jornadas de Filología y Lingüística Histórica

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 02:05
Call for Papers: Invitamos a los interesados en el cambio lingüístico a enviar sus propuestas bajo las siguientes indicaciones: Se aceptarán propuestas individuales o en coautoría. Los resúmenes deberán ser enviados a través de la plataforma Easy Chair mediante la siguiente liga: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfilih2. Sólo en casos excepcionales se podrán enviar los resúmenes por correo electrónico a la siguiente dirección: jornadas.filih.fll@gmail.com. Las propuestas deberán de ser d

Calls: The Fantastic and the Supernatural in the Medieval Germanic Traditions

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 01:05
To apply, please send an abstract of a maximum of 1000 characters (including spaces), together with a short bibliography and a bio, to Martina Giarda at martina.giarda@unibg.it no later than June 15th, 2024 (23:59 CET). The call is open to PhD students and PhDs (who obtained the title from March 2023 onwards) in the research fields of Germanic Philology. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The acceptance of proposals will be notified via the official emai

Calls: 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2024)

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 01:05
2nd Call for Papers: 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference - XPRAG.it 2024 September 26-27, 2024 San Camillo IRCCS Hospital – Venice Lido website: https://sites.google.com/view/xpragit2024/ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions of abstracts in any area of experimental pragmatics, including neuropragmatics, developmental pragmatics, and clinical pragmatics, as well as pragmatics in multimodal communication and formal/computational approaches to pragmatics. Three types of submi

Calls: Regional, Overseas and Minority Languages: What Language Emergencies?

Sat, 03/23/2024 - 01:05
Call for Papers: The deadline for submitting proposals for our symposium "Regional, overseas and minority languages: what language emergencies?" (October 9-10-11, 2024, Rouen Normandy University) has been extended to March 29. You can consult the event description and submit your proposal directly on sciencesconf, via this link, in English or in French: https://urgencelinguistique.sciencesconf.org -- Coraline Pradeau Maîtresse de conférences en sciences du langage - Didactique des langues et p

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