How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion? In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are addressed by 143 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Across six volumes they illustrate broad trends and nuances in the culture of translation in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesio

How does language attain to rear view reflection and then timeless analysis? How does language garner its conceptualisation in order to do this? This book is an exploration of the process in which everyday narrative language can become reflective and then analytical. Narrative language is viewed as a way of 'becoming' within the flow of time and therefore life. Evans and Herat show that there are levels in language that correspond with conceptual structures existing in the mind and in wide

Introducing readers to all key areas of Japanese linguistics, this book brings the theory to life through a range of real-world examples of texts and materials that students might encounter in contemporary Japan. Throughout, the author introduces readers to linguistic notions, supporting them to further their understanding of the forms and functions of the language as well as increasing familiarity with social and cultural aspects via examples from manga, newspapers, food packaging, light novel

The field of East Slavic historical linguistics has undergone dramatic change over the past 50 years. Progress in dialectology and accentology, along with the steady accretion of new primary materials (Novgorod birchbark texts), has rendered obsolete many of the formulas that have traveled from handbook to handbook. The teacher of the history of East Slavic faces the problem of how to combine the facts established and insights gained by recent scholarship with what remains valuable in traditiona

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and current space limitations, blended learning has become a necessity for many state schools in Andalusia, Spain. They have strived to supply students with the best of both face-to-face and distance learning experiences. This book includes the investigation of learning in different environments by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students of Bachillerato (Post-Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain). Not only an experimental study with 60 participants in a state

The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague in September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. The conference, titled Fo

As of Volume 12 (2026) Kellie Gonçalves (University of Bern, Switzerland) will succeed Elena Shohamy (Tel Aviv University, Israel), and join Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool, UK) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Linguistic Landscape. In this day and age languages surround us everywhere; languages appear in flashy advertisements and commercials, names of buildings, streets and shops, instructions and warning signs, graffiti and cyber space. The dynamic field of Linguistic Lands

The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Tue, 4 November at 13:00 - 14:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Technology-enhanced language learning interventions in children Sari Ylinen, Tampere University News: - Please notice that Finland has transitioned back from daylight saving and is now UCT+2. Check how your time zone relates to Helsinki/Eastern European Time. - The webinar series continues

The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague in September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. The conference, titled Fo

This international workshop convened by DIASCO-TIB aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies. Dates: November 20-21, 2025. Venue: Auditorium Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche, Inalco (2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris), and online No registration required, in-person or online. The conference programme with abstract

Onomastica Canadiana publishes original research articles, review essays, and critical notes, written in English or French, on all aspects of onomastics — the study of names and naming practices or trends in all languages, cultures, periods, and areas. The online journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for exploring the linguistic, cultural, historical, geographical, literary, social, and theoretical aspects of naming. Scope and Areas of Interest: We welcome contributions that advance

Description: The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College invites applications for a full-time position in Premodern Chinese Language, Literature and Culture at the tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor rank, depending on qualifications and experience, to begin in Fall 2026. The successful candidate will have research interests in pre-modern or early modern Chinese literature and culture and the ability to teach undergraduate courses on Chinese language, li

This international workshop convened by DIASCO-TIB aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies. Dates: November 20-21, 2025. Venue: Auditorium Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche, Inalco (2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris), and online No registration required, in-person or online. The conference programme with abstract

The Computational Resources for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) language archive will hold its IX annual meeting Dec 11th and 12th 2025 from 10:00am-6:00pm IST.  Join us via ZOOM. Link provided upon registration.   Register at: https://go.iu.edu/8vPg The goal of the event is to (1) create awareness in India of the CoRSAL digital language archive and (2) to explore avenues of research and (3) academic collaboration between IU and Indian partners.   The event brings together CoRSAL

The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held on June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK. ISBPAC brings together researchers who investigate bi-/multilingualism from various disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, multimodal communication, and language pedagogy, addressing language acquisition and

The Computational Resources for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) language archive will hold its IX annual meeting Dec 11th and 12th 2025 from 10:00am-6:00pm IST.  Join us via ZOOM. Link provided upon registration.   Register at: https://go.iu.edu/8vPg The goal of the event is to (1) create awareness in India of the CoRSAL digital language archive and (2) to explore avenues of research and (3) academic collaboration between IU and Indian partners.   The event brings together CoRSAL

The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held on June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK. ISBPAC brings together researchers who investigate bi-/multilingualism from various disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, multimodal communication, and language pedagogy, addressing language acquisition and

The SynTeach team (Laura Bailey, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light, Kirby Conrod) is getting ready for our next phase of research on how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next phase will be focus group interviews, where we want to get together people with experience teaching and learning syntax. We’re hoping to gather people with a variety of experiences, so whether you loved or hated syntax, we’d really like to hear from you! This link is to an interest form – if you’d like us to contact you w

The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. Since 1994, AFLA has served internationally as the most prominent and influential venue for presentation and discussion of recent research on Austronesian languages. Research disseminated at AFLA spans all subfields of linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, etc). AFLA has a

Call for Papers: The 18th international conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics is calling for abstracts. Place: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Time: July 22-24, 2026 Invited speakers: Mary Walworth, Yusuf Sawaki Local organizers: Cat Butz, Kilu von Prince Abstract submission is now open. Time slots will be 30 minutes: 20 for presentation, 10 for discussion. Any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages is relevant to this conference