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.’

This newly-expanded book of ABCs for our youngest linguists introduces an alphabet of phonetic and phonological concepts through rhyming couplets. How did we expand a book of ABCs? By adding four new characters from the IPA, of course! Linguists young and old will be charmed by this educational and slightly irreverent take on linguistics. We guarantee zero footnotes or citations. Note: "An ABC for Baby Linguists" is not tear-proof, and should not be ingested. Please supervise your baby linguists

This dissertation aims to extend our understanding of the production and processing of coarticulation from the segmental to the suprasegmental domain by focusing on tonal coarticulation in Standard Chinese (SC) bisyllabic nonce words. Through a detailed acoustic study, it presents evidence that a less-studied second language (L2) learner group in L2 tone research, namely Indonesian learners of SC, can acquire SC bitonal coarticulation patterns to some extent. Their patterns also exhibit a develo

Uttarakāṇḍa, an Old Javanese prose literary work from the 10th century, was composed during the reign of Dharmawangśa. At least two text traditions have been identified: the Balinese tradition and the Javanese tradition, more precisely the one found in the Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu area of Central Java. Three editions have been published, yet none have included manuscripts from the Javanese tradition, even though it may be assumed that each tradition possesses its distinct characteristics.

This dissertation presents a comprehensive analysis of the complex case-marking patterns as found in the Ecuadorian variety of Siona language, a Tukanoan language belonging to the western branch. This endangered language is spoken today by roughly 350 individuals in the Upper Napo-Aguarico watershed in northwestern Amazonia. The aim of this work is to investigate the mechanisms of differential case-marking (DCM), the phenomenon whereby not all subject, object, or certain spatial arguments be

SUMMARY Linguistics is a vast multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, and research methods used to obtain new knowledge have always been and will be of interest to scholars, students, and investigators who study linguistic data. The most important specific feature of this book is that it does not concentrate on a separate subfield of linguistics offering the descriptions of some techniques that can be applied in different subfields of study. The book comprises an Introduction and 13

We would like to draw your attention to the panel that we are organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20), which will take place at the University of Helsinki in June 2027: Official parliamentary transcripts and video recordings as research data in pragmatics   During the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in the research on parliamentary debates from pragmatic and discourse perspectives. Most past studies on the pragmatics of parliamentary d

The European Journal of Education and Language Review (EJELR) invites submissions on a rolling basis. EJELR is a diamond open-access journal which publishes critical scholarship at the intersection of language, education, identity and power. We are interested in work that asks not only how languages are taught and learned, but whose languages count, in whose interests educational language policies operate, and what is made possible (or lost) when those arrangements are contested. We are a you

Intercultural Pragmatics in the new Millennium. Messina May 15th-19th, COSPECS, via Concezione 6. Workshop organized by Alessandro Capone and Chusni Hadiati. acapone@unime.it This is part of Pragmasophia 2028, 15th-19th May, COSPECS, University of Messina. This workshop will also include cultural pragmatics. We are especially interested in African languages, Asiatic languages, the languages of South America and of American Indians. We are also interested in all remaining languages

We invite all students of linguistics and related disciplines to participate in the 80th StuTS in Cologne! StuTS stands for Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, Student Conference on Linguistics (https://fs-lup.uni-koeln.de/en/stuts-80). The conference takes place once per semester and is organized independently by students. We will be hosting this semester's 80th StuTS during the 2026–27 winter semester (18–22 November) at the University of Cologne. All participants are warmly invited to

Call for Papers: - Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before you present it at a conference? - Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others’ research? Check out the new American Dialect Society Research Incubator (ADSRI1)! Online September 18–19, 2026, a half-day on Friday, Sept. 18, and most of Saturday, Sept. 19. Registration is free and open to all. https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/pMrcMEtwTTSOemm5RAFlrw We are