This book is a collection of 15 narratives in Hewramî. It offers a unique window into the life of Hewramî speakers, including their oral and social history, social relations, recollections of past life, and storytelling traditions. The stories were told by five narrators. All the stories have been transcribed, translated, annotated, and analysed. The volume contains an introduction that provides an overview of the language and speech community. The texts are presented in two formats: as paral

The Jarawaras are a small Amerindian community in lowland Amazonia, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Their language is one of half a dozen languages of the Arawan family. Yowao and Siko, both now deceased, were elderly Jarawara storytellers. Their stories are valuable from several points of view. First is their literary value -- some of the stories are quite humorous, for example. Secondly, they are a window into the life of the Jarawaras -- their social relations, history, and traditional reli

Three new interviews have been added to the series “Talking about languages”: - Marta Antón (Editor-in-Chief of The Modern Language Journal), Scott Jarvis (Editor-in-Chief of Language Learning), Luke Plonsky (Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Second Language Acquisition). Publishing in SLA - Dan Slobin (University of Berkeley). Thinking for Speaking - Panos Athanasopoulos (University of Lund). Bilingualism and Cognition You can watch them in this link: https://tv.uvigo.es/series/679a63164e20f40f

Sektion 9, Frankoromanistiktag Kassel Eine grundlegende Funktion von Kommunikation besteht darin, die Emotionen und Haltungen der eigenen Person dem Gesprächspartner mitzuteilen. Diese emotive oder expressive Funktion der Sprache gilt als anthropologische Konstante, die allerdings historisch-kulturell unterschiedlich ausgeformt wird (Bühler 1999 (1934), Jakobson 2007 (1960), Pustka 2015). Im Zentrum der Sektion steht die Frage, in welcher Weise neue digitale Formate die sprachliche und mul

The Conference on British and American Studies is a forum where senior and junior researchers from different universities present their work and exchange ideas, keeping current with the latest developments in the vast areas of macro- and microlinguistics, whilst also contributing to the growth and continued updating of these fields. Over the years, we have been able to welcome participants from many universities around Romania. We have equally enjoyed the opportunity to meet with fellow acade

Call for Papers: Extended Deadline for Submissions: 20 November 2025 Appel à communications – Colloque SIHFLES 2026 (Société pour l'Histoire du Français Langue Etrangère et Seconde) Prague, 28-29 May 2026 L’Université Charles de Prague et la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Bohême du Sud (České Budějovice) ont le plaisir d’annoncer le prochain colloque international de la SIHFLES, qui se tiendra à Prague les 28 et 29 mai 2026, sur le thème : Nationalismes et enseignement des l

Sektion 9, Frankoromanistiktag Kassel Eine grundlegende Funktion von Kommunikation besteht darin, die Emotionen und Haltungen der eigenen Person dem Gesprächspartner mitzuteilen. Diese emotive oder expressive Funktion der Sprache gilt als anthropologische Konstante, die allerdings historisch-kulturell unterschiedlich ausgeformt wird (Bühler 1999 (1934), Jakobson 2007 (1960), Pustka 2015). Im Zentrum der Sektion steht die Frage, in welcher Weise neue digitale Formate die sprachliche und mul

The Conference on British and American Studies is a forum where senior and junior researchers from different universities present their work and exchange ideas, keeping current with the latest developments in the vast areas of macro- and microlinguistics, whilst also contributing to the growth and continued updating of these fields. Over the years, we have been able to welcome participants from many universities around Romania. We have equally enjoyed the opportunity to meet with fellow acade

Lexicography and lexicology are inherently tied to how language is used, perceived, and conventionalised. The 16th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL 16) invites scholars to explore how, across time, these disciplines have described, explained, and theorised the processes through which linguistic forms become established, conventional, and meaningful. The conference theme focuses on the historical dynamics of usage, understood not as conformity to norms

Oriental Meetings in Sosnowiec (Sosnowieckie Spotkania Orientalistyczne) is an interdisciplinary academic conference promoting intercultural dialogue, addressed to young scholars, including postgraduate and graduate students, whose research interests focus on the languages, literatures and cultures of Oriental countries, especially Arabic-speaking countries, Central Asian countries, China, Japan and India organized by the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)

Background: The study of how the human brain manages and uses multiple languages has been a central topic in cognition, psychology, and psycholinguistics for decades. Different aspects of how bilinguals activate and control their different languages, which cognitive skills are enhanced during this mental juggling, and what are the limits to the processes of language switching and mixing are a few of the topics that have been at the forefront of such research (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen 2017

Lexicography and lexicology are inherently tied to how language is used, perceived, and conventionalised. The 16th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL 16) invites scholars to explore how, across time, these disciplines have described, explained, and theorised the processes through which linguistic forms become established, conventional, and meaningful. The conference theme focuses on the historical dynamics of usage, understood not as conformity to norms

Oriental Meetings in Sosnowiec (Sosnowieckie Spotkania Orientalistyczne) is an interdisciplinary academic conference promoting intercultural dialogue, addressed to young scholars, including postgraduate and graduate students, whose research interests focus on the languages, literatures and cultures of Oriental countries, especially Arabic-speaking countries, Central Asian countries, China, Japan and India organized by the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)

Background: The study of how the human brain manages and uses multiple languages has been a central topic in cognition, psychology, and psycholinguistics for decades. Different aspects of how bilinguals activate and control their different languages, which cognitive skills are enhanced during this mental juggling, and what are the limits to the processes of language switching and mixing are a few of the topics that have been at the forefront of such research (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen 2017

From voice assistants and generative AI to the evolving relationships between humans and their animal companions, language-based communication with non-humans is becoming an increasingly common feature of the everyday. In response, we are seeing a surge in research from linguistics to philosophy to the social sciences, investigating the meanings, quandaries, and realities of this new communicative terrain. This conference aims to build a bridge between the predominantly distinct fields of human–

The proposed workshop aims to explore and understand what’s special about body part noun incorporation compared to other types of incorporation found across the world’s languages. Which particular body part terms tend to be incorporated, and what might this reveal about universal patterns in linguistic structure and meaning? By bringing together researchers working on diverse languages, this workshop seeks to uncover the distinctive characteristics, functions, and typological tendencies of body

Final Call for Papers: Abstract Submission Deadline Extended until November 15, 2025 The Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS) and Indiana University’s department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies are pleased to announce the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL39) to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from March 27th – 29th, 2026. The event will also honor the legacy of the late professor Salman

From voice assistants and generative AI to the evolving relationships between humans and their animal companions, language-based communication with non-humans is becoming an increasingly common feature of the everyday. In response, we are seeing a surge in research from linguistics to philosophy to the social sciences, investigating the meanings, quandaries, and realities of this new communicative terrain. This conference aims to build a bridge between the predominantly distinct fields of human–

The proposed workshop aims to explore and understand what’s special about body part noun incorporation compared to other types of incorporation found across the world’s languages. Which particular body part terms tend to be incorporated, and what might this reveal about universal patterns in linguistic structure and meaning? By bringing together researchers working on diverse languages, this workshop seeks to uncover the distinctive characteristics, functions, and typological tendencies of body

We are inviting native English speakers to take part in a brief online study about how people perceive and evaluate English sentences. We are currently conducting an experiment comparing how native and non-native speakers judge English sentences. Data from native speakers will serve as baseline data for comparison with second-language learners’ responses, helping us better understand how people use their linguistic knowledge when evaluating sentences. In this task, you’ll be asked to read