We are inviting researchers in all career stages to send us abstracts for book chapters to be included in an edited volume, which will be published at Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. The tentative title will be Video-Mediated Interaction: Multimodal and Intercultural Perspectives Editors: Ulrike Schröder, Annal Ladilova & Galina Gostrer Overview As digital communication becomes increasingly integral to both everyday and institutional life, this volume aims to explore how meaning is co-con

Der Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) prägt die Sprachvermittlung und Übersetzungswissen-schaft/-didaktik zunehmend und verändert sie grundlegend. KI-gestütztes Lehren und Lernen, automatisierte Übersetzungsdienste und adaptive Formate eröffnen neue Potenziale für die Hoch-schullehre – werfen zugleich aber ethische, technische und didaktische Fragen auf. Die geplante eintägige Konferenz richtet sich an Lehrende, Forschende, Studierende sowie Bil-dungsexpert:innen und bietet eine Plattform,

Focus: Latest developments in forensic linguistics, disputed meanings and their role in legal cases, theories of idiolect and approaches to authorship analysis, stylistic and manual methods, computationally-assisted authorship analysis, and case analysis presentations in which participants apply methods to real-world material Description: The 7th Forensic Linguistics Short Course will take place in person at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Düsseldorf, the capital of North Rh

Workshop Description: Expressivity is a category in natural languages that concerns the direct expression of emotions and attitudes (in contrast to their description). Expressive meaning can be conveyed at all linguistic level: by lexical expressions, special syntactic constructions, intonation or on the pragmatic level by expressive speech acts. While expressivity has been approached from many different angles and has been studied in almost all disciplines of linguistics (see the Oxford Han

We are pleased to invite contributions to a Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) dedicated to language data reuse. The special collection is titled “Language datasets reuse: opportunities, challenges, and best practices”. This Special Collection will highlight how existing deposited mono- and multilingual language datasets (in any modality) have been reused in research across the humanities. Contributions may also describe cases where dataset reuse led to the creat

KhasiBERT is the first open-source AI language model trained exclusively on Khasi-language corpora. Developed by MWire Labs, it supports civic NLP tasks such as translation, summarization, and search, and is designed for linguistic preservation and inclusive digital access. Khasi belongs to the Khasic branch of the Austroasiatic language family and is spoken by over 1.4 million people in Northeast India. Despite its active use, Khasi remains underrepresented in digital infrastructure and lingui

2025. iii, 119 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Language, culture and society pp. 1–4 Articles Epistemic authority, authenticity, and the Filipino conyo Eduardo Salinas Lactaoen | pp. 5–27 Ambulant vendors’ living labour on Copacabana beach Rosina Márquez Reiter & Douglas Sanque | pp. 28–67 Masculinity and violence in Kathmandu’s Raw Barz rap battles on YouTube Bal Krishna Sharma & Gita Neupane | pp. 68–97 The “tough guy” and the “human”: Evolving officer identity in

2025. iv, 131 pp. Table of Contents Editorial A welcome and farewell message Howard Giles, Herbert Pierson & Marinus van den Berg | pp. 1–3 Articles A study on the impact of Xiaohongshu on university students’ consumption behavior Geng Wei & Hasan Tinmaz | pp. 4–28 Barthes meets vlogging: A semiotic analysis of a top Filipino influencer’s videos Paul John C. Jose, John Errol Velasco, Leslie Anne L. Liwanag & Lois Mauri Anne L. Liwanag | pp. 29–57 The (in)visibility of In

2025. iv, 125 pp. Table of Contents Articles Examining the interplay between translation students’ grit, self-efficacy and academic achievement Saeed Ameri & Pouria Sadrnia | pp. 599–621 Veed.AI Arabic subtitling of English taboo expressions in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street Maram Al-Darabee & Mohammed Farghal | pp. 622–640 The Sinophone in the mirror: Identity and translingualism in poetry self‑translation Simona Gallo | pp. 641–657 The socialness of translation and the

2025. iii, 128 pp. Table of Contents Introduction From medicine to technology: On the disciplinary breadth in applied linguistics María Iglesias Vázquez, Karolina Waldon & Christopher J. Jenks | pp. 1–4 Articles Language challenges in medical education: Exploring predictors and variations among EMI students in Saudi Arabia Zainab Mohammad Gaffas | pp. 5–44 On the need for cross-contextual EMI research: Reports from a tri-context workshop at AILA 2024 Joseph Siegel, Masako K

A new way of viewing language, as a dynamic mode of meaning-making of which gesture is a fundamental part. When David McNeill began his work on gesture more than forty years ago, language and the action of speaking were regarded as separate realms. But language, says McNeill in Language Is Gesture, is dynamic and gesture is fundamental to speaking. Central to his conception of language, and distinct from linguistic analysis, is what McNeill calls the “growth point,” the starting point of maki

2025. v, 175 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Applying advanced quantitative methods in bi-/multilingualism Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas & Ian Cunnings | pp. 425–428 Articles A tutorial on generalised additive mixed effects models for bilingualism research Stefano Coretta & Joseph V. Casillas | pp. 429–452 A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics, with applications to bilingualism research João Veríssimo | pp. 453–486 Optimising participant grouping methods in

2025. iii, 135 pp. Table of Contents Articles Content and language integrated learning in Kazakhstan: A scoping review Malik Satayev, Sotiria Varis, Yerkebulan Ashirbayev, Zaure Koshanova & Nuri Balta | pp. 193–215 A review of a decade of scaffolding practices for learning in CLIL science classrooms Nashwa Nashaat-Sobhy, Eva M. Mestre-Mestre & Penny MacDonald | pp. 216–247 The effects of instruction on students’ argumentative scientific writing in a Basque medium of instruction

Virtual panel discussion: Tracking the history of English with the Oxford English Dictionary Thu, 23 October, 05:00 – 06:30 PM BST (UTC +1) Book your place: http://tiny.cc/History-of-English-LL Join OED editors and guest speakers for a discussion where they will uncover a thousand years of the English language. This session will cover: - Overview of University College London's 'From Old English to World Englishes' project - How the work of OED's historical lexicographers complem

Registration is now open for the Workshop on Individual Differences in Reading (IndiREAD), to take place at Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany, 26-27 November 2025. All presenters and participants must register by October 25: https://forms.gle/539mJUdNSvYNCqLC7 We have a small number of travel grants available for participants of the workshop. If you would like to apply, please use the same form, but register no later than September 28 (end of day, MESZ). We are excited to ann

Die 23. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende findet am 13.-14. März 2026 an der Universität Osnabrück statt. Die STaPs ist eine Tagung von Promotionsstudierenden für Promotionsstudierende. Im Gegensatz zu fachwissenschaftlichen Konferenzen liegt der Fokus der STaPs nicht primär auf inhaltlichen Themen und (Teil-)Ergebnissen der Dissertation, sondern auf dem Davor und Dazwischen der methodischen Problemfelder. Call for Papers: Wir laden zur Einreichung von Abstracts

Description of the Topic and Research Questions: Previous research in (Germanic) heritage and minority languages has mainly focused on various aspects of language change and the simplification, convergence, or loss of grammatical features, often identifying language attrition and the incomplete acquisition of grammar as the driving forces behind these developments (see Benmamoun et al. 2013, Montrul 2008 and, for instance, the case studies by Kolmer 2010, Larsson/Johannessen 2015, Lohndal/Wes

The School of Teacher Education at the Florida State University invites applications to the Second Language Education Ph.D. program. Our program offers a strong foundation in theoretical and instructional approaches to second language learning. Graduates are equipped to investigate how additional languages are learned, used, and taught across diverse contexts. Within a top-10 public college of education, students benefit from a vibrant scholarly community, individualized research pathways, a

The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at Penn State University is looking for highly motivated candidates for admission to the PhD program (https://sip.la.psu.edu/graduate-spanish/graduate-program-in-inguistics-and-language-science/). Professors Matthew Carlson, Manuel Pulido, Karen Miller, Rena Torres Cacoullos, and Paola (Giuli) Dussias are accepting graduate student applications for admission in Fall 2026. We employ a number of techniques including electrophysiology (EEG), corpus

Call for Papers: As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project ‘Gradience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia’ (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium. The Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS) will take place on site at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia on November 22–23, 2025. SEAMS will be a hybrid event, allowing participation and attendance from colleagues worldwide. It is designed as a forum fo