In un mondo globalizzato, caratterizzato da confini sociali, economici e culturali diventati sempre più labili, l’incontro di lingue e culture ha mutato volto, evolvendosi con complessità e dinamicità crescenti, superando frontiere di diversa natura e portata (Matras, 2009; Horner & Weber, 2018). L’innovazione tecnologica (non solo telematica), lo sviluppo di nuovi mezzi e scambi commerciali, l’intensificazione dei rapporti politici e degli investimenti internazionali su scala mondiale, hann

The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations To be held in beautiful Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! The registration form is available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfj2dZE9L_R1vSBlBfPXfs_6ZYUC-QIEiox9UFr06uYwL9IEg/viewform Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including the social dinner on August 4. DMR intends to bring together researchers w

This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural understanding by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in study abroad contexts. Using data from role-play interactions, intercultural episodes and student reflections, including both US learners of Spanish and multilingual learners of other languages, the book examines how a focus on pragmatics and metapragmatic awareness aids the development of intercultur

This book seeks to understand how language teachers regulate and use their emotions to best serve themselves and their students. It furthers research in the field by providing an in-depth theoretical discussion of emotion regulation alongside a comprehensive exploration in Japan. The study at the heart of the book focuses on three important features: the strategies language teachers employ to regulate their emotions, the motives that they regulate in aid of, and the various contextual factors sh

This book honors the impactful work of Terrence G. Wiley on advancing social justice in the areas of language diversity and language policy. It brings together a group of experienced scholars to provide an overview of research and progress in three areas: heritage and community language education, ideologies of language and literacies, and language policy. The chapters cover a wide range of formal and informal learning spaces and address language policies and practices from the national to the l

Back cover text for The Atoms of Imperatives: Case Studies from Afrikaans (Engela de Villiers): This dissertation probes the formal features—the imperative atoms of the title—that define imperative clauses in Afrikaans, a significantly understudied language. Its two core objectives are: (i) to provide a detailed empirical description of selected imperative and imperative-like structures in Afrikaans, and (ii) to identify the formal features that characterise Afrikaans imperatives and present

In order for decolonization to avoid becoming yet another orthodoxy, this book argues that it is necessary to recognize the neoliberal ideologies and imperatives that drive so much work in universities in both the Global Norths and Global Souths, and to understand the enmeshment (both historical and ongoing) of universities in colonial practices. The chapters interrogate both these issues and the terms in which they are usually critiqued in order to identify the cracks and fissures within instit

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of young children’s language learning in pre-primary and primary education. It collates research to date on language development and pedagogy among children learning a language in addition to their home language(s) in instructional settings, providing readers with a thorough understanding of the topic and directions for further study. The book promotes a learner-centered approach to research and teaching and encourages critical reflection on ho

The term present perfective paradox refers to the following phenomenon: in a given language, there is a tense marker which is used to report on the ongoing present when it combines with stative verbs. With dynamic verbs, in turn, this tense marker refers to something else than the ongoing present - to the future, to the past, or to a habit. English and its simple present tense represent a well-known example. The simple present refers to the ongoing present with stative verbs: I have my laptop wi

The department of German Studies and Arts, Institute for German Linguistics & Research Center »Deutscher Sprachatlas«, is currently accepting applications for a Doctoral Researcher/PhD The position is offered for a period of 4 years, if no former times of qualification must be considered. The starting date is 1st October 2025. The position is part-time (65 % of regular working hours) with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13

This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward skills, but research in psycholinguistics has shown that complex computations take place behind the scenes when you communicate with others. Recent debates concerning how AI tools such as ChatGPT work highlight some of these core questions about the language faculty and how it is that humans compre

The Comité International Permanent des Linguists (CIPL) has awarded six travel grants to young linguists to present their work at an international conference. These six young linguists are, in order of award: Najmeh Mottaghipisheh, University of Konstanz (Germany), for a paper to be presented at NACIL4, Fourth North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics, organized by the University of Toronto Mississauga (Canada) José María Oliver, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), for a pape

Adult migrants with limited and/or interrupted formal educational backgrounds, known as LESLLA learners, are at the heart of this study, which focuses on adult late literacy education in Finland. LESLLA learners are faced with the enormous challenge to simultaneously learn oral language skills and first-time literacy skills in a second language. Due to universal digitalization, LESLLA learners also need digital skills to navigate daily life and learning contexts. This study explored the role of

This book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relationship between language and the state. Florian Coulmas draws on specific examples from around the world to explore how countries make decisions about which language - and which variety or form of that language - should be used for key functions such as primary education, government administration, and the law. The book provides historical background

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Gestures are those actions made with the human body that accompany spoken or signed language; they are found in every human community that has language, but are far more heavily context dependent than the linguistic elements of communication. In this book, Lauren Gawne explores the different categories of gesture, showing that their use varies across cultures and languages, and even across specific int

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers in Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages. Almost all languages use some type of noun categorization device in their grammar, with the most widespread being linguistic gender, whereby nouns are classified based on core semantic properties such as sex, animacy, humanness, or shape and size. Nume

The concept of linguistic relativity (or Whorfianism) has its roots in the linguistic anthropology of Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf in the early twentieth century. However, questions over the relationship between natural language and human cognition go much further and deeper. Unfortunately, linguistic relativity has about as many misinterpretations as it does labels (linguistic relativity, linguistic relativism, linguistic determinism, Whorfianism, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - weak an

Hello everyone, I am a PhD candidate at KU Leuven (University of Leuven) Belgium working on English linguistics, particularly on modality. I am currently conducting a survey to understand how native speakers of English rate the degrees of likelihood expressed by phrases like I am sure, there is a good chance, I guess, etc. It would be much appreciated if you could take 2-3 minutes to complete the questionnaire here: https://forms.office.com/e/4sx2JNmv7r. Your invaluable input will greatly

This dissertation attempts to provide a brief overview of the phonological characteristics of the Sonowal Kachari language, an endangered language once spoken by the Sonowal Kachari tribe. It is considered endangered due to the lack of generational transmission among members of the Sonowal Kachari community. This issue of language vitality is also discussed in this paper to assess the current status of the language. The main aim of this work is to present the phonemic inventory of the languag

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used to investigate expressivity, a term used to describe linguistic phenomena that serve an expressive function and deliver sensory information about an event, entity, or other culturally-determined category through a set of grammatical resources. The study of expressivity has gradually grown in stature over the last decade in particular; while there are much earlier accounts of expressivity, particularly within descriptive traditions of Afric