2nd Call for Papers: Im Rahmen der zweiten DGfS-Sommerschule für Lehramtsstudierende aller Schulformen des Faches Deutsch, die vom 01.09. bis 06.09.2025 an der Freien Universität Berlin stattfindet, laden wir am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2025, zu einem Tag für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs ein. Er richtet sich an Doktorand:innen im Bereich der Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen, die sich dezidiert für Fragestellungen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachdidaktik interessier

Sprache fungiert nicht nur als Instrument der Verständigung, sondern auch als ein wirkungsvolles Mittel sozialer Strukturierung. Sie kann Gemeinschaften formen und Identitäten festigen, zugleich aber auch Grenzen markieren und Exklusionsmechanismen verstärken. Durch spezifische Diskurspraktiken, Terminologien oder sprachliche Kodierungen werden Zugehörigkeiten definiert und Grenzen gezogen – teils subtil, teils mit explizit ausgrenzender Intention. In der zehnten Innsbrucker Winterschool „Pot

The research project "The Therapeutic Game" (PI Stefan Rinner) funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and based at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Duisburg-Essen is organising an interdisciplinary two-day online conference on questions regarding language and its use in psychotherapeutic settings, to be held via Zoom on May 8 and 9 2025. Our goal is to bring together researchers interested in this topic from different fields, including philosophy, linguistics, psychology, psychi

SUMMARY In an oft-referenced post on Twitter (now ‘X’) approximately one decade ago, Dan Ariely analogized big data to teenage sex, remarking that “everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it” (qtd. in Reis and Housley, 2023, p. 8). In the case of Steven Coats and Veronika Laippala’s edited volume, readers are offered the opportunity to engage with methodological and theoretical concerns in corpus l

Una Europa-Africa Lecture | Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo Date: 20 May 13h00 CEST Register here to receive the zoom link: https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/basua ‘We died the day we left the forests’ Join Professor Saudah Namyalo of Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda) for this special lecture exploring the cultural threats faced by the Basua, following their forced displacement from their traditional home in the Uganda

In this newsletter: LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website Connect with LDC on Bluesky New publications: DEFT Spanish Light and Rich ERE Annotation MATERIAL Kazakh-English Language Pack ________________________________________ LDC launches upgraded, mobile-friendly website We are pleased to announce the launch of the newly upgraded LDC main website: https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/. Designed with a modern layout, the site now offers an improved experience across all devices. While t

Through an ethnographic study that took place in highly diverse primary school classrooms in London and the East of England, UK, this book engages with teachers’ perspectives and children's descriptions of their plurilingual experiences, as it explores what constitutes, hinders and potentially facilitates teachers’ agency in multilingual pedagogies. The concept of teacher agency offers a powerful lens for critical reflections on the – often monolingual – status quo and on possible transformation

Because of its focus on mutual understanding, the language classroom is uniquely situated to discuss and enact ideas about social justice. This book brings together authors from different geographical and professional contexts united by a common goal: to bring about a change in language teacher education and language classrooms. The chapters represent the perspectives of authors at a range of stages in their careers; together they take the reader on a journey from conceptual dilemmas and their p

This book traces the motivational dynamics embedded within lifelong foreign language learning trajectories, examining the factors which generate and sustain motivation throughout a learner’s life. Embracing a complexity approach, it views motivation as a long-term individual process that evolves along a narrative continuum, developing over the course of life, personal experiences, choices and events. This narrative inquiry delves into the captivating and unique experiences of three exceptionally

This book explores the social, educational and linguistic acculturation of a group of Saudi wives and mothers sojourning in New Zealand while their husbands undertook full time study. Such sojourners, and their families, are faced with many challenges due to linguistic, social and cultural distance – as well as ethnic stereotyping and prejudice. They tell their stories in a series of interviews and focus groups, relating their pre-sojourn background, the challenges they faced and the changes the

While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguistic justice, there is a lack of investigation looking inward at the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. This edited collection opens a healing space for storytelling and deepens readers' understanding of raciolinguistics in practice through autoethnography. The book brings together language education researchers and scholars, w

Call for Papers: We are excited to announce the call for the Workshop on Individual Differences in Reading (IndiREAD, https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread), to take place at Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany, 26-27 November 2025. IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project “Individualized Interaction in Discourse” IDDISC and the MultiplEYE COST action “Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research”. Whi

O Congresso “Sociolinguística: variação e interfaces” diz respeito a estudos sobre variação linguística nas diferentes propostas da Sociolinguística, em suas múltiplas versões: Sociolinguística Variacionista, Sociolinguística Funcional, Sociolinguística Cognitiva, Sociolinguística Paramétrica, Sociolinguística Histórica, Sociofonética e Dialetologia Pluridimensional. Cada uma dessas áreas trabalha com a noção de variação. Mas será que a noção trabalhada envolve a definição proposta por William L

Call for Papers: Open Qualitative L2 Research: From Tensions to Transformative Opportunities (Special Issue of SSLA) Guest Editors: Meng Liu (Beijing Foreign Studies University); Ali H. Al-Hoorie (Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu); Phil Hiver (Florida State University) Despite the growing momentum for open scholarship (also known as “open science” or “open research”) in L2 research, discussions of open scholarship have primarily focused on quantitative methods. Qualitative research

Call for Papers: The Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin invites submissions for our annual symposium, to be held on November 14th, 2025. This year’s theme, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Power, seeks to explore the dynamics of hegemony, oppression, and resistance across various fields of study. We follow Stuart Hall's definition of power, bringing together Gramsci, Foucault, and Said’s perspectives to argue that power takes many forms, from coercion t

Call for Papers: We are organizing a special issue entitled “The syntax of child language”. Children’s acquisition of syntax is an amazing feat. How children, exposed to a relatively small sample of language input, come to acquire the complex structures of their language has been a central topic both in theoretical linguistics and in psycholinguistics. This question has been extensively investigated in the past 50 years or so. However, research findings on children’s acquisition of sentence s

IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together, on 21-23 February 2026 at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan). Invited speakers Mutsumi Imai Noburo Saji TBA

This volume presents the most comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Efforts to describe and document Central Andean languages, as well as philological research into colonial documentation and texts, have blossomed in recent decades; here, the major protagonists and drivers of these exciting developments are given the opportunity to showcase their research achievements in one volume. Following an introductory part providi

Nations all have stories about themselves--where they came from, what it means to be a citizen of that nation, what its values are. In 'Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse', Samuel Bennett looks at British national myths about immigration and the country's colonial history. Combining Critical Discourse Studies with decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigorous analysis of a wide range of material to show how current

This book demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier examines these semantic structures with particular reference to how languages convey information about the location of an entity or an event and the movements of an entity in space, drawing on data from eight typologically distinct languages that belong to three branches of the Chadic family. These languages were chosen because some display locative expressions with