Call for Papers: Conference Dates: 11–13 June 2027 Location: Hong Kong SAR Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/ Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027 Abstract Deadline: 1 November 2026 The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) is happy to issue a second call for abstract submissions for the conference to be held in Hong Kong SAR from

2026. iii, 159 pp. Table of Contents Articles Beyond the interpreter hypothesis: Multifunctional frontier agents in Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom Christian Olalla-Soler | pp. 163–190 Audience feedback on platform-mediated simultaneous interpreting in a livestream chat Damien Chiaming Fan | pp. 191–215 Language assistance in the Criminal Court: How fair is it to substitute written translation with oral interpreting? Sara Delva, Katrijn Maryns & Sarah Van Hoof | pp. 216–247 All

2026. iii, 179 pp. Table of Contents Articles “My maternal home, like my mother’s place”: Spatial meaning-making and narrative contestation in the asylum process Zoe Nikolaidou | pp. 233–257 Secrets in motion: The role of gestures in a multimodal coming out narrative Tomasz Dyrmo | pp. 258–280 “I am a baby-friendly doctor, but…”: Narrative positioning in health advice stories on X/Twitter, Naija Onwu Inya | pp. 281–306 A comparative study of discourse interaction strategies

2026. iii, 177 pp. Table of Contents Articles “Arrested flight” of Phoenix : Translaboration in art production as (co‑)translation Wenhao Chen | pp. 331–353 Towards a more comprehensive theoretical framework for translator style Rui Sun | pp. 354–390 Translating manner-of-motion in comics: A multilingual and multimodal corpus-based study Juan Sun | pp. 391–421 Workflow matters: Comparing human translators and multi-agent LLMs in literary translation Lulu Wang, Sanjun Sun,

2026. iv, 190 pp. Table of Contents Articles Pandemic metaphors in expert discourse: Norwegian public health officials’ use of metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022 Anne Bredahl | pp. 175–198 Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materials Alice Deignan, Duygu Candarli & Elena Semino | pp. 199–222 Like a coin spinning in the air: The effect of (non-)metaphorical explanations on comprehension and attitudes towards quantum technology

2026. v, 199 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Rethinking multilingualism in education: Inclusion, policy and practice for newcomers in Europe Steven Delarue & Wendelien Vantieghem | pp. 1–5 Articles Systemic influences on teacher beliefs and practices: A comparative survey analysis of linguistic diversity management in European schools Adrianna Angielska & Marie Steffens | pp. 6–35 The use of multilingual strategies in Dutch reception classes Laura Peters & Sergio Baauw |

This book is a part of a two-volume reference grammar of Tundra Yukaghir, a critically endangered language spoken in the north-eastern part of Siberia. The grammar is the first substantial English-language description of the language, which aims to address the linguistic phenomena presently regarded as crucial in any grammatical account as comprehensively as possible. It introduces a large variety of data and will be inherently valuable as a piece of language documentation. Although illustrative

Cover Story Article: Agent-First Bias in Children’s Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from Mandarin Jiawei Shi, Lihui Zhang, Yurong Li, Jing Li and Peng Zhou Languages 2026, 11(9), 184; DOI: 10.3390/languages11090184 General Review: Babble and First Word Learning: The Articulatory Filter Revisited Marilyn M. Vihman and Christopher M. M. Cox Languages 2026, 11(9), 187; DOI: 10.3390/languages11090187 Article: Perceiving Grammar Through Ideology: Exploring Deaf Perspectives on ASL Word O

I am currently working on a corpus-pragmatic study of Japanese oshi and Chinese tui-family expressions in online fan discourse. The dataset contains 646 manually coded public-web instances. The study examines whether an observed cross-context difference in pragmatic function is partly shaped by the internal composition of the two expression families. One high-frequency Chinese person-suffix subtype substantially amplifies the aggregate functional contrast, although the contrast remains after

A new season of the webinar series "Conversations on Language Policy in Africa" ​​is about to begin! The first webinar, scheduled for October 2 at 4:00 PM (CEST), will take the form of a roundtable discussion on the topic: "Language Policy and Planning in Africa: What Role for Terminology?" Please note that this webinar will be conducted in French. The next session will take place on November 6 at 4:00 PM (CET) and will be led by Gladys Nyarko Ansah and Nana Ama Agyeman; it will focus on lang

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, September28th, at 1-2pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department, 1085 Dr. Penfield. Online participants can join with this zoom link.  Yosef Grodzinsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ELSC) will be presenting “How Deeply Human is Language? Chomsky, the Brain and the AI Fantasy.” Here is the abstract: The appearance of Deep […]

The Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1287 “Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational, and Grammatical Aspects” in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications for short-term fellowships available in 2027 (available only to PhD candidates from non-German universities) The linguistic system exhibits a high degree of variability at all levels of linguistic description. This variability in language can be characterised as a range of different possible linguistic behaviours that are a

2026 KASELL-KASEE Winter Joint Conference Language, Mind, and AI: New Perspectives on Human Language The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL) and The Korea Association of Secondary English Education (KASEE) are pleased to announce their 2026 Winter Joint Conference. We invite scholars and researchers to submit proposals for presentations and warmly welcome your participation. Conference Overview: - Hosted by: KASELL and KASEE - Organized by: Depa

Rethinking Politeness Formulae: Bridging Traditional and Advanced Approaches in Pragmatics Since the seminal work of Brown and Levinson (1978/1987), politeness strategies have occupied a central place in pragmatic theory. In line with the three epistemological ‘waves’ politeness was first conceptualized as the mitigation of face-threatening acts, then as participants’ context-dependent interpretations, and, more recently, as a jointly negotiated interactional achievement. From this perspective,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for IWCLUL 2026, the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The workshop will be held as a self-standing event on December 9-11, 2026, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. IWCLUL brings together researchers working on computational approaches to Uralic languages (Samoyedic, Ugric, Permic, Balto-Finnic, the Sami languages, Mordvin, and Ma

2026 KASELL-KASEE Winter Joint Conference Language, Mind, and AI: New Perspectives on Human Language The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL) and The Korea Association of Secondary English Education (KASEE) are pleased to announce their 2026 Winter Joint Conference. We invite scholars and researchers to submit proposals for presentations and warmly welcome your participation. Conference Overview: - Hosted by: KASELL and KASEE - Organized by: Depa

Rethinking Politeness Formulae: Bridging Traditional and Advanced Approaches in Pragmatics Since the seminal work of Brown and Levinson (1978/1987), politeness strategies have occupied a central place in pragmatic theory. In line with the three epistemological ‘waves’ politeness was first conceptualized as the mitigation of face-threatening acts, then as participants’ context-dependent interpretations, and, more recently, as a jointly negotiated interactional achievement. From this perspective,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for IWCLUL 2026, the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The workshop will be held as a self-standing event on December 9-11, 2026, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. IWCLUL brings together researchers working on computational approaches to Uralic languages (Samoyedic, Ugric, Permic, Balto-Finnic, the Sami languages, Mordvin, and Ma

If you are interested in attending the conference online, please email eric.melac@umpv.fr Visit our website: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en Our programme: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Programme_Conference_grammaticalization_and_DCxG_Montpellier.pdf Keynote Speakers: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig) Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuchâtel) Sophie Prévost (CNRS – Lattice) Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh)

Call for Papers: The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center TRR 318 Constructing Explainability explores the ways in which explanations are created, negotiated, and made meaningful across contexts. Previous editions of the conference have addressed different dimensions of explanation, including understanding and contextualising. The 4th TRR 318 Conference turns to a perspective that has recently gained increasing attention in explainability research: Social XAI (sXAI), which conce