This book develops a cognitive stylistic exploration of readers' emotional experiences of literature. Adopting Possible Worlds Theory as a framework, the volume constructs a stylistic analysis of some of the ways in which novels elicit readers' emotions. A typology of past, present, and future textual actual and possible worlds is formulated to frame analysis of three novels: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice G

As social media keeps changing, so does the representation of World Englishes across the wide range of platforms available. This edited volume explores the different varieties of English on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube. Social media platforms showcase an ever-increasing diversity in languages and varieties of languages used on them. Divided into three parts, the book focuses in turn on language variation in digital contexts, iden

Language, whether spoken, written, or signed, is a powerful resource that is used to facilitate social justice or undermine it. The first reference resource to use an explicitly global lens to explore the interface between language and social justice, this volume expands our understanding of how language symbolizes, frames, and expresses political, economic, and psychic problems in society, thus contributing to visions for social justice. Investigating specific case studies in which language

GaroVec is a set of static word embeddings trained on curated monolingual corpora in Garo (A’chik), a language spoken across Meghalaya and parts of Northeast India. Developed by MWire Labs, this resource is part of a growing effort to support inclusive, regionally grounded NLP for underrepresented languages. Linguistic Context Garo belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family and is widely spoken in districts like West Garo Hills, East Garo Hills, and South Garo Hills. Despite its vitality, Garo rema

Focus: General details: - 1-3 semesters of study in 1 summer - 6-12 transferable credits - In-state tuition for all participants - Scholarships available - Credit load, costs, dates, times, and other details differ by course. See website Description: Indiana University is accepting applications for its 76th Summer Language Workshop. 2026 highlights include: - On-campus immersion programs: Russian, Chinese - Intensive online programs: Azerbaijani, BCS, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian

This special issue invites submissions from interdisciplinary scholars working in fields as varied as literary analysis, graffiti and linguistic landscapes, everyday conversation, political discourse, computational linguistics/part-of-speech tagging, and more, unifying them around the common theme of corpus analysis. Contributions will explore how writers and speakers use negation (affixal and syntactic) in corpora of naturally occurring language, and for what pragmatic purposes (supportive, opp

The Young Researchers Group of Center of Linguistics NOVA University Lisbon (CLUNL) is pleased to announce that the 20th Forum for Linguistic Sharing will take place on 17–18 April 2026, in a hybrid format (on-site and online). This Forum provides a space for young researchers in Linguistics to present and discuss their work among peers. This year, in addition to oral communications by Master’s and PhD students, undergraduate students are also invited to submit proposals for short oral presen

Call for Papers: The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30, 2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy). ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to an international audience. More information about SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), pr

Call for Papers: The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30, 2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy). ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to an international audience. More information about SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), pr

We are excited to announce that the 2025 International Joint Conference of APLX, ETA34, and TESPA will be held on November 6–8, 2025 at the GIS Taipei Tech Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan, with pre-conference workshops scheduled for November 6, 2025 (details to be announced shortly). This conference is jointly organized by the Department of English at National Taipei University of Technology, the English Teachers’ Association-Republic of China (ETA-ROC), and the Taiwan ESP Association (TESPA).

2nd Call for Papers: Deadline Extended Until September 25, 2025 Description: Diversity has always been a defining characteristic of human societies. Historically, ‘Man’ has been inclined towards ‘difference’, be it racial, ethnic, or religious. This has resulted in a constant enriching cultural move (Harari, 2011; Graeber and Wengrow, 2021). In today’s world, diversity has become endemic in human life. Theoreticians like Derrida, Habermas, Geertz and others have broadened this concern to

We invite you to the 2025 Nigerian Pidgin conference (Naijá na Sẹlẹnsé conference). Mode: Hybrid (in-person and virtual) Conference Language: English & Nigerian Pidgin Venue: PIFA Hall, Distance Learning Centre, Ajibode Extension, University of Ibadan Click on the Google Form link below to register & pick an area of interest: https://forms.gle/ujZJu9Jd1CdjwwJv7 Naijá na Selense! For more information, email: naijanaselenseconference2025@gmail.com or call Dr. Aggy +234 8034446270

Healthcare delivery in most African countries is done in official languages which for the most part are colonial. Cameroon for example has 283 languages (Eberhard, Simons and Fennig, 2023) with an Official bilingual (English and French) policy which government thrusts ferociously with little or no realistic sociolinguistic foundation. Many other African countries have adopted colonial languages as official languages (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc. depending on whom their colonial mas

2nd Call for Papers: We herewith invite abstracts for presentations at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. This is being organized by the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), CNRS, and will be held at the Lumière University of Lyon, France, on 1-3 July 2026. The preceding day (30 June) will be reserved for a series of teach-ins (see below for the provisional programme). Abstract submission site opens: 14 July, 2025 Abstract submission deadline:

Welcome to the 6th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL 2026), which is organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics and will be held on January 21, 22, and 23, 2026, at the Faculty of Philology, Complutense University of Madrid. As a predoctoral conference, we encourage predoctoral students and early-career scholars from various linguistic fields to submit their work. It will be a great opportunity to share both completed research and work in progress.

Convenors: Lívia Körtvelyessy and Thomas Van Hoey Workshop title: When Sounds Speak: Toward a Typology of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity Abstract: The idea of sound symbolism or iconicity as “inmost, natural similarity association[s] between sound and meaning” (Jakobson and Waugh 2002: 182) in onomatopoeia and, more broadly, in ideophones, has a long tradition. As noted by Akita, “the large majority of studies agree that languages involve sound symbolism, and speakers of the languages ca

Organised by Laure Lansari, Florent Moncomble & Océane Foubert New modes of discourse have emerged over the last twenty years, linked to a number of technological innovations. These modes of discourse are sometimes referred to as ‘technodiscourses’, which call into question the traditional dichotomy between written and oral communication. Linguists have gradually taken an interest in these technodiscourses, which raise important methodological and theoretical questions, forcing the field of l

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting stalled in the complex specifics. This textbook pulls all of the relevant ideas from linguistic theory to support the language student to fully understand English grammar. After introducing form and function, the authors cover verbs, nouns, aspect and tense

Now available in paperback! This book examines dilemmas faced by second language (L2) Japanese speakers as a result of persistent challenges to their legitimacy as speakers of Japanese. Based on an ethnographic interview study with L2-Japanese speakers and their L1-Japanese-speaking friends, co-workers and significant others, the book examines ideologies linked to three core speech styles of Japanese – keigo or polite language, gendered language and regional dialects – to show how such ideolo

Now available in paperback! This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working mainly with young and very young learners in Japan. It provides a nuanced and revealing critique of poststructuralist views of identity and proposes recognition theories as an alternative perspective. It explores the role of the community found in language teacher associations in the formation and strengthening of language teacher identi