This book is a unique image-based bilingual (English and Spanish) book of textual and visual narratives of gender-based violence (GBV) in the UK and Mexico, framed with a critical commentary that sets these stories in the context of GBV in both countries. Visual and textual stories convey the 'felt' experience of GBV, engaging readers and audiences in the apparently mundane as well as the shocking. Such stories help contest the prominence of crime statistics in evidencing GBV, statistics whic

This book offers principled guidance for practitioners and researchers on developing a feature-based approach to teaching English pronunciation, with a focus on intelligibility within communicative contexts. Using Hong Kong English as a case study, it facilitates teachers and students in critically exploring English intelligibility within their own sociolinguistic and educational contexts and questioning the perceived importance of native speaker pronunciation. The book examines curricula, as

This book investigates the translingual pedagogies of women and queer/non-binary transnational teachers of English in three programs in the US and Spain. By storying their pedagogies, the author demonstrates how they build and cultivate connections within (bodies, minds and spirits), with communities and with the environment around them, transgressing binary thinking and dualistic worlds. Through the experiences of these teachers, the author addresses some of the most pressing questions facin

Old Literary Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammatical Description Based on the "Old Tibetan Annals" is a pioneering work in the field of Tibetan written languages, offering unprecedented insights into the earliest documented Tibetic language and one of the earliest written Trans-Himalayan languages. Opening the gate to the oldest preserved Tibetan literature, the book is of great value not only for Tibetologists, but also for linguists thanks to its immense contributions to Trans-Himalayan linguisti

2026. iii, 102 pp. Table of Contents Editorial The iron triangle in the age of AI? Some (not so) hidden costs of AI slop in the language professions Lynne Bowker pp. 1–7 Articles The use of MT and AI for translation by legal professionals in Canada: A survey-based study Marie-Hélène Girard, Etienne Lehoux-Jobin & Marc Pomerleau pp. 8–28 Transcreation and AI in global marketing: A comparative case study of two telecom websites Emma Aulló-Saura, Juncal Gutiérrez-Artacho &

2026. iii, 163 pp. Table of Contents Articles The sociopragmatic dimension of language use and evaluations of interactional behaviour: A cross-cultural investigation of Italian and British-English speakers’ perceptions Valentina Bartali pp. 1–36 Claims of not-knowing as patients’ responses in psychodynamic psychotherapy Carolina Fenner pp. 37–62 Quotation headlines in the printed British quality press: (Re-)contextualisation meets entextualisation Anita Fetzer pp. 63–88

2025. vi, 216 pp. Table of Contents Articles Bridging the research-practice gap in task‑based language teaching: The role of teacher education Xavier Gutiérrez, Lara Bryfonski & Greg Ogilvie pp. 159–176 What impact can a TBLT teacher education course have? A study of pre-service Spanish teachers Xavier Gutiérrez, William Dunn, Leila Ranta & Greg Ogilvie pp. 177–202 Examining teachers’ evaluations of task characteristics: Lessons from two teacher education contexts Lara Bry

2025. v, 208 pp. Table of Contents Introduction: Solitude speech across languages and cultures Mitsuko Narita Izutsu & Katsunobu Izutsu pp. 1–19 Articles Speaking while thinking: How dialogic is Japanese solitude speech? Mitsuko Narita Izutsu & Katsunobu Izutsu pp. 20–54 Self-addressed solitude speech: A cross-linguistic perspective Takeshi Koguma & Katsunobu Izutsu pp. 55–88 Self-quotations of solitude speech in online Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian Denys Teptiuk

2026. iii, 161 pp. Table of Contents Articles Translation as foreclosure: Siam’s rediscovery of Asia through the West in the early twentieth century Phrae Chittiphalangsri pp. 1–23 Multilingualism in translation: Emily in Paris and its French, Italian, and Spanish dubbed versions Margherita Dore & Vittorio Napoli pp. 24–50 A mixed-methods analysis of the translation of quotations in international news dispatches Léa Huotari & Mairi McLaughlin pp. 51–83 The translator–

2026. iii, 129 pp. Table of Contents Articles English as a lingua franca in Greek language courses: Views and attitudes from study abroad participants in the Erasmus+ program Aretousa Giannakou & Ellie Zampiaki pp. 1–39 Voices from the periphery: A qualitative study of international students’ experiences in multicultural classrooms in higher education in the United Kingdom Ismael Louber, Mayez Almayez, Karmand Hamad & Amira Benabdelkader pp. 40–67 The manifestation of globa

2026. v, 136 pp. Table of Contents Articles Labeling theory in language and sexuality studies Heiko Motschenbacher pp. 1–22 In their own words: Exploring the linguistic strategies of queer women in Lebanon Dana El Sammak pp. 23–49 Labeling gender across and beyond the binary: Introduction of the gender-neutral pronoun hen in Norwegian standard language Edit Bugge, Trude Bukve & Hege Myklebust pp. 50–72 Sex/gender labels in EU directives in English: A queer linguistics

SUMMARY Lost in Automatic Translation is for anyone interested in language, language learning, automatic translators, chatbots and other language-based AIs. For non-experts, it is an easy-to-understand introduction to the issues surrounding translation; and for experts, it is a very readable take with fresh examples and a deviation from the staid formality of conventional academic texts. The focus here is on English, but the issues raised are relevant for any other language. Author Vered S

2nd Call for Papers: Deadline Extended: The French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie) is launching a call for abstracts for its 2026 annual conference, the twenty-third in its history. The 2026 edition will be held from July 1st to 3rd in Paris, France. The conference is sponsored by the research laboratories HTL (UMR 7597, Université Paris Cité / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS), LLF (UMR 7110, Université Paris Cité & CNRS), CRLAO (UMR 8563, EHESS & CNRS) and the projec

Episode 4 of HELLO Lab Presents has just been released — How Does My Baby Learn Words? (https://youtu.be/jJCP69FkNWM) — which is the second of two episodes related to word learning. More information about HELLO Lab Presents below. ​________________________ I’m excited to announce a fun project that students in my lab and I have been developing this year — A YouTube channel called HELLO Lab Presents. Our goal is to provide parents with evidence-based ‘edutainment’ on language development

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 12th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Jessica Coon and Michael Wagner (McGill) will be presenting “Reconsidering animacy hierarchy effects in Mayan:Experimental evidence from Ch’ol” (joint work with Stefan Keine (UCLA) and Juan Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM)) Here […]

We’re delighted to announce that Tal Linzen will be giving a colloquium this Thurs (Feb 12th) at 11:45 over zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86483387308?pwd=2NXkhS1itsS4uYvJIS3tAy3pd9ZE0d.1 All linguistics faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend. Cognitive science for, and using, large language models For decades, the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science have aimed to create systems that learn […]

Die Sommerschule „Mehrsprachigkeit, früher oder später“ widmet sich der Rolle der Mehrsprachigkeit in der Spracherwerbsforschung – ein hochrelevantes Thema in gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften. Aktuelle Studien leisten einen zentralen Beitrag dazu, Erwerbsmuster, Entwicklungsverläufe und zugrunde liegende Prozesse differenziert zu beschreiben. Sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus anwendungsbezogener Perspektive rückt dabei die Frage in den Vordergrund, welche Faktoren die Mehrsprachigkeit im Individ

2nd Call for Papers: Description: The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wan

2nd Call for Papers: Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language Conference 2026: Newcastle University This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2026 ICOP‑L2 Conference is coming up very soon. Submission deadline is now 27th February (note the slightly extended deadline) If you’re planning to submit, we’d be very glad to receive your abstract. Please use the submission portal: https://forms.gle/rz7KruELWrzjVrFY6 The ICOP‑L2 C

Die Sommerschule „Mehrsprachigkeit, früher oder später“ widmet sich der Rolle der Mehrsprachigkeit in der Spracherwerbsforschung – ein hochrelevantes Thema in gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften. Aktuelle Studien leisten einen zentralen Beitrag dazu, Erwerbsmuster, Entwicklungsverläufe und zugrunde liegende Prozesse differenziert zu beschreiben. Sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus anwendungsbezogener Perspektive rückt dabei die Frage in den Vordergrund, welche Faktoren die Mehrsprachigkeit im Individ