Journal of Language and Politics Table of Contents Articles Navigating Brexit through fear: An appraisal analysis of 2016–2024 British Prime Ministerial discourse Simona Dianová & Monika Brusenbauch Meislová pp. 295–330 Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey Lyndon C. S. Way, Stephen McLoughlin & Irem Inceoglu pp. 331–357 When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy: an intertextual analysis of online news on COVID-19 Dimitris Trimithi

2026. iv, 155 pp. Table of Contents Articles Experience and/or knowledge? Beyond the dichotomy of positionality in literary translation Mauro Cazzolla pp. 135–147 Examining the impact of footnotes and cultural memory references on empathic evocation through translation: A socio-cognitive exploration of reader reception Yi-Chiao Chen pp. 148–174 Exploring intersemiotic and interlingual translaboration: A case study of Ouyang Jianghe’s Fenghuang and its English translation W

Himalayan Linguistics Volume 25, Issue 1, 2026 Articles Results from the Linguistic Survey of Sikkim Samopriya Basu & Mark Turin https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.50782 The Dual Formative *tsi in Tibeto-Burman Languages Scott DeLancey https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.52908 Himalayan Linguistics is a Diamond Open Access peer-reviewed web journal and archive devoted to the study of the languages of the Himalayas. https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics

We are pleased to unveil below the programme for the international conference Identity Construction and English(es) from the Margins, which will take place on 28/29 May at the Université de Lorraine (Metz campus, Île du Saulcy, UFR ALL Metz, building B, room B110). Registration for the conference is now open. You can register via the conference’s official website: https://engmargins.sciencesconf.org/registration?lang=en A live stream of the conference will be provided so that you can fol

Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL) is a forum for researchers and scholars to present their linguistic work and discuss issues related to the formal description of Slavic languages. It covers a wide range of disciplines, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and also including theoretical, experimental and corpus approaches. The main goal of FDSL is to provide a platform for the exchange of linguistic ideas and research results and to promote the developm

Registration for CoLang 2026 is open now through May 15, 2026! The University of Nevada, Reno is excited to host the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang). CoLang is an international institute that provides a cutting-edge training program for students, teachers, linguists, community language activists and other language workers engaged in language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation. A two-week workshop session will be held June 22-Jul 2, 2026 featuring workshops o

The 17th annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will be held at Penn State University, October 1-3 2026. We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Research on (im)migrant and heritage languages in the Americas covers a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including - formal

We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 4th International Congress on Translation and Interpreting (CITEI 2026), organized by the Colegio de Traductores del Perú, which will take place in Lima, Peru, on 13–14 November 2026. Under the theme "The Transformation of Specialized Translators and Interpreters in the Face of 21st-Century Challenges", CITEI 2026 will bring together researchers, educators, trainers and professionals to discuss current and future challenges in specialized tr

One Experimental Day June 18th 2026 | Online Online Event on Experimental Linguistics Hosted by Dr. Anastasia Gerasimova and Prof. Ekaterina Lyutikova The program features three keynote talks and a Showcase Session for early-career researchers. Invited Speakers: Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) Ellen Lau (University of Maryland) Jana Willer-Gold (University of Oxford) Call for Showcase Presentations: In addition to the keynote lectures, the program will feature

Current and former McGillians were well represented at the 18th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference which took place at the University of Cambridge, April 16-18 2026. Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) & Lydia White presented a paper on Relativized Minimality and Featural Mismatches in L2: Is There an Age Advantage? Yanran Mou (BA 2024) & Heather […]

Xuanda Chen’s (PhD 2025) paper, co-authored with Heather Goad, David Shanks (MA 2023) & Donghyun Kim (PhD 2015), “The role of L1 feature specification in naive L2 vowel perception: Evidence from feature fission and fusion” has been accepted for publication in Second Language Research. Congratulations!

Jessica Coon has been awarded a prestigious James McGill Professorship. Congratulations to Jessica for this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional work and outstanding achievements!

SUMMARY The book Ecolinguistics, Social Justice, and Sustainability: Voices from the Global South is part of the Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics series and consists of an introduction and 10 chapters, with references at the end of each chapter, and an index. Chapter 1, Advances, challenges, and opportunities for ecolinguistics in Latin America, by Mariana Roccia, presents a critical overview of the ecolinguistics growth within the Latin American context. The chapter notes that, altho

SUMMARY The introductory chapter to the volume “The Sociopragmatics of Emotion” is lengthy (pp. 3-37) and theoretical, because its authors, the editors of the volume, Laura Alba-Juez and Michael Haugh, have set ambitious goals. They would like the book to “illustrate what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly understanding of emotion and its role in social life” and to “lay the foundations for a sociopragmatic theorization of emotion” (p. 7). In the chapter, Alba-Juez a

Focus: Cognitive and Functional Linguistics Description: The Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University organizes Braga Summer School in Linguistics, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics. The event will offer advanced training in several areas of linguistic studies, especially from the perspective of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics in their most recent developments and in a

We are pleased to announce the release of AfBo 2.0 (https://afbo.info/), a significantly expanded and updated version of the Affix Borrowing (AfBo) database, originally published in 2013. AfBo 2.0 provides detailed descriptions of 132 cases of affix borrowing, i.e., cases where one language borrowed at least one affix from another language, involving a total of 754 borrowed affixes. It also includes an online interface with descriptions of borrowed affixes, examples of combinations of borrowed a

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Persian allows the use of the noun bande 'slave' as a full-fledged 1sg pronoun, so that when used as subject it has the verb appear in 1sg. So this is one or more steps beyond the much more common usages such as English your humble servant, which remains third person. I am even more interested in self-aggrandizing usages of which I also know just one clear example, the Hittite kings referring to themselves as 'My sun', again often with the verb in 1sg., so again different from the (once-common

Focus: We aim to introduce participants to the theoretical and practical aspects of four major themes in forensic linguistics: Authorship Analysis, Spoken Interactions, Online Harmful Discourse, and Disputed Meanings. The afternoon sessions are going to be particularly focused on providing attendees an opportunity to try the methods they learn about for themselves on actual data. We aim to provide a thorough grounding in the field so that attendees can build on it from there in future studies or

Call for Papers: Se invita a la presentación de comunicaciones orales sobre cualquier aspecto de la variación dialectal del español en los ámbitos de la morfología y sintaxis formales y teniendo en cuenta los enfoques tanto diacrónicos como sincrónicos. Uso de recursos digitales: Se valorarán especialmente las propuestas que hagan uso de recursos on-line y corpus digitales para el estudio de la variación dialectal, tales como (lista no exhaustiva): - ASinEs - ALPI - PRESEEA - CO