The conference aims to bring together voices from around the world to share knowledge, experiences and transformative projects related to linguistic diversity, social cohesion, culture and innovation working on the present and future of Basque and other minoritized and minority languages around the world. It will be an opportunity to reflect collectively on how languages can help build stronger, more open and more connected communities.

(English below) Am 10. und 11. September 2026 findet der Workshop „Sprache und Kolonialismus / Language and Colonialism“ am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim statt. Die Ziele des Workshops sind, die bereits erfolgte Forschung zu kolonialer und postkolonialer Linguistik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf deutsch(sprachig)em Kolonialismus zu würdigen, bestehende Forschungslücken identifizieren und die Möglichkeit für neue Impulse eröffnen. Der Workshop soll auch Raum bieten, um üb

Newer results on modal particles (MPs) show that they have a large variety of functions that go beyond their Common Ground-managing function in an utterance (Repp, 2013). MPs have been shown to interact with gestural information (Schoonjans, 2018), Perspectivization (Klages, 2020; Hüge, 2025), and coherence relations (Döring & Repp, 2019; Seemann, 2025). Their contribution of not-at-issue meaning has been argued to impose additional use-conditions and processing costs (Hinterwimmer & Ebert, 2018

The Young Africanists Research Network (YARN) invites submissions for the workshop Interfaces and Multimodality, to be held as part of WOCAL (12th edition), taking place in Vienna from Wednesday, July 7 to Saturday, July 10, 2027. This workshop intends to provide a venue for discussion of how African languages can contribute to the understanding of the interaction and overlap of varying linguistic domains. Multimodality (seen as the interface between speech and gesture) in particular serves t

(English below) Am 10. und 11. September 2026 findet der Workshop „Sprache und Kolonialismus / Language and Colonialism“ am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim statt. Die Ziele des Workshops sind, die bereits erfolgte Forschung zu kolonialer und postkolonialer Linguistik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf deutsch(sprachig)em Kolonialismus zu würdigen, bestehende Forschungslücken identifizieren und die Möglichkeit für neue Impulse eröffnen. Der Workshop soll auch Raum bieten, um üb

Newer results on modal particles (MPs) show that they have a large variety of functions that go beyond their Common Ground-managing function in an utterance (Repp, 2013). MPs have been shown to interact with gestural information (Schoonjans, 2018), Perspectivization (Klages, 2020; Hüge, 2025), and coherence relations (Döring & Repp, 2019; Seemann, 2025). Their contribution of not-at-issue meaning has been argued to impose additional use-conditions and processing costs (Hinterwimmer & Ebert, 2018

The Young Africanists Research Network (YARN) invites submissions for the workshop Interfaces and Multimodality, to be held as part of WOCAL (12th edition), taking place in Vienna from Wednesday, July 7 to Saturday, July 10, 2027. This workshop intends to provide a venue for discussion of how African languages can contribute to the understanding of the interaction and overlap of varying linguistic domains. Multimodality (seen as the interface between speech and gesture) in particular serves t

SUMMARY In recent years, the study of affect has moved from the margins to the Centre of linguistic inquiry, reflecting growing recognition that emotions are integral to how people use, interpret, and experience language. “Affect Expression in Language, Culture, and Social Context” enters this expanding field with an ambitious interdisciplinary agenda. The volume brings together thirteen chapters that explore affective phenomena across diverse linguistic, cultural, educational, and translatio

ELDP Call for Applications The 2027 grant round is now open Apply here: https://grants.eldp.net/en/ The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants for the documentation of endangered languages globally. ELDP especially welcomes applications from documenters from language communities, local scholars and students from the country where the language is spoken/signed, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. There are no restrictions on national

Description: Research Annotator AddressHate · Part-time · US-based (Eastern Time preferred; NYC-based ideal) About AddressHate: Hate speech online is growing faster than any organization can track by hand. AddressHate is building the tools to change that. We are a public interest technology company at the intersection of research, AI, and policy. We build detection infrastructure and intelligence tools that help platforms, policymakers, educators, civil society organizations, and real p

Language is integral to human doing, being, becoming and belonging, and its acquisition is naturally distributed in and across activity spaces over time. Different learning experiences form 'a dialectical unity', where one brings the others into existence, and the capacities fostered in one inform and transform those in the others. Thus, connected learning across time and space is fundamental to the coherence, relevance, and meaningfulness of language learning, yet is not given sufficient attent

This Element explores the innovative integration of microlearning and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in second-language education. Designed for language teachers, teacher trainers, and future educators, it offers research-informed insights and actionable strategies for designing learner-centred, technology-enhanced instruction. The Element introduces the evolution and applications of GenAI in language learning, examines its synergy with microlearning, and presents pedagogical framewo

What is language, really? Where did it come from, and how did we figure it out? How do babies go from babbling to full sentences? Why can some people juggle multiple languages, while others wrestle with one? How does language work, and what happens when it doesn't? With sharp insight and a sense of humor, Stollznow dives into the strange and endlessly fascinating world of language and the mind. From animal communication to AI, wild children to word slips, and first words to last, this book takes

Now in its second edition, this Handbook is a current overview of Second Language (L2) research, providing state-of-the-art synopses of recent developments in each sub-area of the field, and bringing together contributions by emerging scholars and experts in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Since the first edition, broad socio-political movements, alternative views of bilingualism, emergence of global markets, vast expansion of electronic resources, the development of social media, and the ava

Grounded in descriptive linguistics, this textbook introduces the basics of the major subfields of linguistics, as well as the Chinese writing system, for students with no prior linguistic training. It presents the Chinese language from the perspective of both modern linguistics and its longstanding philological legacy, as well as providing historical and sociolinguistic context. Chapters cover phonology and phonetics, morphology, lexicon, lexical semantics, syntax, sign language and braille. Au

François Grosjean is one of the world's best-known scholars in the study of bilingualism. Over a career spanning two continents, his holistic approach has made groundbreaking contributions to many areas of the field. This book surveys this lifetime of work, from the start of his career, to where it stands today. The first chapter sets the stage with his personal experience as a bilingual, and the chapters that follow then deal with his holistic view of bilingualism, the bilingual's language mode

This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part one dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part two looking at varieties in Asia, and Australia and the Pacific. There are introductory chapters dealing with the colonial transportation of English overseas, and the generic types of English which resulted, often labelled World Englishes, and examinations of English-lex

2026. iii, 109 pp. Table of contents Articles “Can you teach us (Catalan) in Spanish?”: Students’ and teachers’ multilingual tensions and monolingual stances in relation to pedagogical translanguaging to learn Catalan during study abroad Lídia Gallego-Balsà | pp. 115–138 Using translated Chinese literature to develop multidimensional intercultural competence: A practical case in Barcelona schools Maialen Marin-Lacarta, Manuel Pavón-Belizón, Belén Cuadra-Mora & Teresa I. Tejeda Mar

2026. v, 220 pp. Table of Contents Introduction The affective dynamics of online discourse Anna Piata | pp. 1–11 Articles Schematization, frame evocation and affect in multimodal ads and campaigns Barbara Dancygier & Lieven Vandelanotte | pp. 12–39 “Your account has been compromised”: Exploring emotional triggers in scam emails Mostafa Morady Moghaddam & Erhan Aslan | pp. 40–66 Affective stance as creative force in the era of internet memes Vassiliki Geka & Anna Piata |

2025. iii, 107 pp. Table of Contents Articles Co-speech gesture provides a window onto intraindividual conflict during embodied sensemaking Estelle E. Archibold & Fey Parrill | pp. 107–139 Pinkie first: Digital list constructions in Brazilian Portuguese André Nogueira Xavier & Sherman Wilcox | pp. 140–181 On some functions of points during word searches for existing places in Mandarin conversations Jessie Chen | pp. 182–213