While love and desire are often treated as personal and private matters, they are also sites of conflict, negotiation, and power. Historically, controlling expressions of desire has been used to enforce social hierarchies, gender norms, and colonial power. Even today, conflicts over consent, domestic violence, LGBTQ+ rights, and cross-cultural misunderstandings reveal the urgent need to better understand how love and desire are communicated. Addressing these questions is not only of academic int

SUMMARY Researchers Bodo Winter and Francesca Strik-Lievers have added another volume to the Cambridge UP series, Elements in Cognitive Linguistics. This Element is a comprehensive, accurate and updated inquiry into the study of linguistic synesthesia. The phenomenon of linguistic synesthesia consists of the combination of expressions associated with different senses, which creates a conflict between modalities whose uneven distribution in the data is well worth studying. To do so, Winter & S

The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is meeting Thursday, October 30 at 4PM in DS-1950* on the UQAM campus, followed by a social happy hour. Talks include: The event is open to all linguists across Montreal! If you’d like to join the mailing list, please email willie.myers@mail.mcgill.ca.

Anthropogenic ecosystem changes are affecting many societies, which are experiencing biodiversity loss as well as the arrival and proliferation of unfamiliar life forms. The adaptation of human activities to these changes is a rich field of study for both the humanities and the life sciences. Organised to mark the LACITO laboratory's fiftieth anniversary, this conference seeks to explore ecological upheavals from the perspective of language. Keynote Speakers: - Aung Si, linguist (University

Anthropogenic ecosystem changes are affecting many societies, which are experiencing biodiversity loss as well as the arrival and proliferation of unfamiliar life forms. The adaptation of human activities to these changes is a rich field of study for both the humanities and the life sciences. Organised to mark the LACITO laboratory's fiftieth anniversary, this conference seeks to explore ecological upheavals from the perspective of language. Keynote Speakers: - Aung Si, linguist (University

At the Daedalus Lab, University of Murcia (Spain) we are offering a four-year position to complete a PhD within the MULTIFLOW project (funded by Spain's Ministry of Science), modeling statistical patterns in the multimodality of language with AI. The position is also associated to opportunities in our new Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in multimodal data science (MULTICOM), among other projects. The application deadline is November 13, 2025. Fully funded PhD (FPI) — Multimodal Language Model

The Talyshi language is one of the Northwestern Iranian languages, alongside Gilaki, Mazandarani, Gorani, Zazaki, and others. It is spoken in the southwestern Caspian region on both sides of the Iran-Azerbaijan border. Researchers distinguish three main dialects: Nothern (primarily spoken in the Republic of Azerbaijan and adjacent areas of Iran's Gilan and Ardabil provinces), Central and Southern (both spoken in the aforementioned provinces). This publication includes manuscripts collected by B

The study attempts to classify all the sounds found in Kangri language by its phonetics and phonology and to discuss morphological and syntactic properties of the language. The study also explores the changes that occur in the structure of the language while showing the properties of verb-agreement and ergativity. The study was conducted in the Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh where ‘Kangri’ is used as a lingua franca. This language can be classified as a lesser known language since not muc

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the multilingual linguistic landscape in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, focusing on the impact of new immigrants and the diverse range of languages they speak, across urban and peripheral areas. It examines the city's transition from a predominantly monolingual or bilingual Chinese–English signage environment to a vibrant multilingual one shaped by Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian languages. Employing ethnographic methods and geosemiot

This book responds to the expansion of dual language immersion (DLI) programs into secondary contexts, examining the effectiveness of these programs and highlighting areas for improvement in the curriculum. Focusing on Mandarin Chinese DLI in Utah secondary schools, it presents the views of teachers, parents and students on the newly implemented program, explores patterns of classroom interactions, and assesses learners’ oral narrative development as well as their learning strategy use in buildi

This book examines how a colonial matrix of power is established through temporality in English writing education. It offers discourse analyses of higher educational policies that operate in China and Saudi Arabia and then triangulates this data with conversations with writing teachers from representative Chinese and Saudi universities. Drawing on all this data to understand both the structured power relations shaping educational policies and the attendant effects on the writing teachers that in

Convocatoria de artículos para la edición XXII del LL Journal: Entre imaginarios fallidos: crisis y esperanza en la construcción de la(s) memoria(s) en América Latina y el Caribe Invitamos a participar a la comunidad con propuestas investigativas que exploren y reflexionen sobre aquellas prácticas, discursos, movimientos, procesos, expresiones y usos de la lengua que intervienen en la producción y (re)construcción de memorias que dialogan, disputan o interrumpen los espacios hegemónicos f

This book brings together research on second language pragmatics in the underexplored context of EFL primary classrooms. Presenting studies from Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands, the book offers a rich exploration of different topics, such as learners' pragmatic performance, awareness and development, learners’ and teachers' views on pragmatic instruction, and investigations concerning material use and lesson planning. The studies feature a range of data sources includ

This book examines diverse aspects of advocacy for translanguaging as a legitimate educational practice. It advances a practical theory of the translanguaging of education that is informed by deliberative advocacy and based in evidence. Combinations of quantitative and qualitative research from preschool to higher and adult education in different parts of the world give insight into current translanguaging strategies and pedagogies. From translanguaging and transsemiotising in subject lessons

PHEX 18 is the fifth (online) workshop of our research project “The Mapping from Syntax to Phonology: Theory, Typology and History,’’ which is a continuation of our project “Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables'' (2015-2020). Following the success of the previous workshops in Sapporo, Niigata, Tokyo and Lexington, KY, we are glad to invite abstracts for presentation about the morphosyntax-phonology interface. Possible topics include: Topic 1: T

Valentina Apresjan (Dartmouth College), Mikhail Kopotev (University of Helsinki), Piotr Sobotka (Polish Academy of Sciences), Mladen Uhlik (University of Ljubljana) This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple WH-words across languages. Such constructions involve two or more WH-elements that typically distribute over different arguments or functions, rather than forming collective units (cf. Moravcsik 1978;

PHEX 18 is the fifth (online) workshop of our research project “The Mapping from Syntax to Phonology: Theory, Typology and History,’’ which is a continuation of our project “Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables'' (2015-2020). Following the success of the previous workshops in Sapporo, Niigata, Tokyo and Lexington, KY, we are glad to invite abstracts for presentation about the morphosyntax-phonology interface. Possible topics include: Topic 1: T

This is the first workshop on Logical Phonology (LP), a inimalist, substance-free theory of phonology which makes limited ontological commitments. It uses set-theoretic representations and a rule interpretation procedure based on subsumption. LP provides a precise definition of possible phonological rules, and thus of possible (i.e., computable) phonological grammars. LP derives locality and long-distance phonological effects using a unified search procedure. LP rejects the stipulation that segm

Valentina Apresjan (Dartmouth College), Mikhail Kopotev (University of Helsinki), Piotr Sobotka (Polish Academy of Sciences), Mladen Uhlik (University of Ljubljana) This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple WH-words across languages. Such constructions involve two or more WH-elements that typically distribute over different arguments or functions, rather than forming collective units (cf. Moravcsik 1978;

Final Call for Papers: The term “micromorphology” was coined by Stump 2017b for the hypothesis that an affix can itself be morphologically complex. Variations of this hypothesis and its uses have been investigated by Bochner 1993, Soukka 2000, Luís and Spencer 2005, and Stump 2017a, b, 2023, among others. The relevant phenomenon is illustrated for derivational suffixes in (1), see Stump 2017b for the demonstration that (1) involves a complex suffix rather than iterative addition. (1) a. whi