This work was a critical examination of power and ideology in the discourse of members of the Nigerian Air Force (henceforth NAF). The research placed specific focus on how language is used to create, enforce, and promote power relations between soldiers, as well as between soldiers and civilians, within selected NAF settings. Data for the study comprised observations and diary recordings, selected excerpts of press releases on the war against insurgency, as published on the verified Facebook pa

Calling Levantine Arabic-English bilingual speakers! Dear Arabic- English speaking friends, We are excited to invite bilingual speakers of English and Arabic to participate in a unique research study aimed at analyzing conversational strategies in English in different cultural contexts. This study focuses on understanding how Levantine Arabic and English bilingual speakers interact and ask questions in various situations, which is crucial for effective cross-cultural communication.

SUMMARY The edited volume “Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts” provides an innovative approach regarding the impacts of corpus linguistics. After an introductory chapter, the reader is presented with eleven chapters from a variety of authors, each dealing with corpora in areas from law enforcement to education. Each chapter is tied to the theme of the numerous contexts in which corpus linguistics (CL) can be applied, along with the impacts—both direct and in

Call for Papers: Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2027: "Sprache und Literatur" Die 63. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim steht unter dem Motto "Sprache und Literatur" und zielt darauf ab, Phänomene literarischer Sprache aus der Perspektive linguistischer Fragestellungen und Methoden zu beleuchten. Wir rufen zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für die Methodenmesse auf, die am Mittwoch, 10. März 2027, im Rahmen der Tagung stattfindet. Der Fokus de

Call for Papers: This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027). Workshop organizers: Esther Rinke (Goethe University Frankfurt) Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) Workshop Description: There is a consensus that children are well equipped for the task of language acquisition, enabling them to master many developmental milestones in their first language(s) by the age of 3 or 4. The quest to exp

The West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO) invites abstracts for papers to be presented at its 35th West African Languages Congress (WALC 2027), to be held at the University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon, from 12 to 15 October 2027. The Congress is organised by WALS/SLAO in partnership with the Department of African Languages and Linguistics of the University of Yaounde I, whose candidature was formally endorsed by the WALS/SLAO Executive Council. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words an

Background: This workshop aims to advance our understanding of evaluation as a fundamental dimension of human interaction, addressing how it is expressed, collaboratively constructed, and contributes to discourse organization. We define evaluation as a modal attitude whereby speakers assess entities and states of affairs in terms of value rather than possibility and necessity (Nuyts 2025). Occasionally discussed as appreciative modality, this domain has received comparatively little attent

We would like to draw your attention to a panel on pragmatic borrowing which will be a part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, June 27- July 2, 2027 in Helsinki. Please, submit a 250-500 words abstract via the IPrA conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/) by October 15th. When you submit your abstract, remember to Select 'Pragmatic borrowing in different language settings'. The term pragmatic borrowing was introduced

This edited volume brings together scholars in applied linguistics who use trauma-informed theories and practices. Organized across three themes – narrative, interpreting and language education – the chapters examine the relationship between language and trauma, with particular attention to multilingual and migrant communities in Western contexts. The chapter authors collate research to date and present new findings on topics such as narrating traumatic experiences, trauma-informed interviewi

This volume offers speech and language practitioners an accessible entry into the complex linguistic landscape of North America in order to improve the identification of speech disorders in children from diverse language communities. Written by practitioners and members of these communities, the chapters explore well-known but understudied linguistic varieties of English, Indigenous languages in North America and emerging language varieties. Each chapter describes the culture and context of t

This edited volume discusses the actions of key agents in educational policy change, focusing on shifts towards greater use of non-dominant languages in multilingual contexts. It uses Kosonen and Benson’s (2021) language-in-education policy change framework to consider actors, actions and agency at three levels: change from above, below and the side. Chapter authors expand on and critique this framework, applying it to a wide-range of low- and middle-income countries in the Global South and c

This book explores how minority language users experience access to justice and the right to a fair trial when they use their language in the criminal justice system. It investigates the lived experiences of Irish speakers and deaf Irish Sign Language users who have directly interacted with the criminal justice system. Treating identity as both internally constructed and externally imposed, it focuses on the issues raised when internally constructed identities are misunderstood, oversimplified a

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the panel we are organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference to be held in Helsinki in June 2027: Voices of crisis: Reporting in crisis discourse (organizers: Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius, Jenni Räikkönen) This panel focuses on the pragmatics of direct and indirect reports in different crisis-related texts. In particular, we are interested in the ways in which various voices are expressed or suppressed in crisis d

The National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion and advancement of education and research around Spanish heritage bilingualism in the United States. The 14th NSSHL will be held from Thursday, February 18, to Saturday, February 20, 2027, at the University of California, Davis. It will take place in person and follow the regular format of keynotes, paper presentations, poster presentations, and workshops to allow attendees to share id

Call for Papers: Workshop organizers: - Maik Thalmann (Ruhr University Bochum) - Daniel Gutzmann (Ruhr University Bochum) Invited speakers: - Cornelia Ebert (University of Frankfurt) - David Beaver (University of Graz) Workshop Description: At-issueness as a category of linguistic description reflects the intuition that the meaning of an utterance can be partitioned into foregrounded (at-issue) and backgrounded (non-at-issue) contents. To date, the at-issue/non-at-issue divid

Description: Position Description: The Department of Modern Languages in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at DePaul University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Japanese, beginning in Fall 2027. DePaul’s interdisciplinary Japanese Studies program offers a major and a curriculum that integrates advanced Japanese-language study with area studies courses in Japanese culture, literature, history, religion, art, politics, and related fields. The s

The Frisian Academy (Fryske Akademy) organizes its linguistics meeting in December this year. The fourteenth Conference on Frisian linguistics will be of interest to anyone who actively or passively participates in Frisian linguistics: grammar, phonetics/phonology, onomastics, lexicology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics. Papers may focus on the results of scientific research, but presentations of research plans, of speculations or of linguistic corpora are also welcome. The time

This theme session "Challenges in Figurative Language Annotation" held as part of the conference Grammar and Corpora 2027 in Düsseldorf brings together researchers working on figurative language, corpus annotation, and language acquisition to discuss theoretically informed and methodologically reproducible approaches to the annotation of figurative language. Unlike other grammatical phenomena, figurative meaning emerges from the interaction of lexical forms, discourse context, and speakers’ c

Focus: The course offers an overview of the theoretical and methodological framework of Columbia School linguistics, a radically functional approach to the study of language in which both grammatical and phonological structure are understood to be profoundly shaped by the exigencies of communication. According to this view, lexicon and grammar alike are meaning-based. Analyses conducted within this framework focus on determining the unique semantic structure of individual languages. The goal is

Language is a vital tool for communal interaction and social mobility. The levels of its application in any given society usually provide an insight into the social structure of the group. Consequently, modern linguistic studies have focused their attention on the relationship between a linguistic code and the society in which it is being employed. It is in this perspective that this research, ‘Language and Social Class: An Analysis of Language Variation in the Nigerian Air Force Base, Kaduna.’