Adult migrants with limited and/or interrupted formal educational backgrounds, known as LESLLA learners, are at the heart of this study, which focuses on adult late literacy education in Finland. LESLLA learners are faced with the enormous challenge to simultaneously learn oral language skills and first-time literacy skills in a second language. Due to universal digitalization, LESLLA learners also need digital skills to navigate daily life and learning contexts. This study explored the role of

This book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relationship between language and the state. Florian Coulmas draws on specific examples from around the world to explore how countries make decisions about which language - and which variety or form of that language - should be used for key functions such as primary education, government administration, and the law. The book provides historical background

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Gestures are those actions made with the human body that accompany spoken or signed language; they are found in every human community that has language, but are far more heavily context dependent than the linguistic elements of communication. In this book, Lauren Gawne explores the different categories of gesture, showing that their use varies across cultures and languages, and even across specific int

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers in Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages. Almost all languages use some type of noun categorization device in their grammar, with the most widespread being linguistic gender, whereby nouns are classified based on core semantic properties such as sex, animacy, humanness, or shape and size. Nume

The concept of linguistic relativity (or Whorfianism) has its roots in the linguistic anthropology of Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf in the early twentieth century. However, questions over the relationship between natural language and human cognition go much further and deeper. Unfortunately, linguistic relativity has about as many misinterpretations as it does labels (linguistic relativity, linguistic relativism, linguistic determinism, Whorfianism, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - weak an

Hello everyone, I am a PhD candidate at KU Leuven (University of Leuven) Belgium working on English linguistics, particularly on modality. I am currently conducting a survey to understand how native speakers of English rate the degrees of likelihood expressed by phrases like I am sure, there is a good chance, I guess, etc. It would be much appreciated if you could take 2-3 minutes to complete the questionnaire here: https://forms.office.com/e/4sx2JNmv7r. Your invaluable input will greatly

This dissertation attempts to provide a brief overview of the phonological characteristics of the Sonowal Kachari language, an endangered language once spoken by the Sonowal Kachari tribe. It is considered endangered due to the lack of generational transmission among members of the Sonowal Kachari community. This issue of language vitality is also discussed in this paper to assess the current status of the language. The main aim of this work is to present the phonemic inventory of the languag

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used to investigate expressivity, a term used to describe linguistic phenomena that serve an expressive function and deliver sensory information about an event, entity, or other culturally-determined category through a set of grammatical resources. The study of expressivity has gradually grown in stature over the last decade in particular; while there are much earlier accounts of expressivity, particularly within descriptive traditions of Afric

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approaches. Heritage languages have been the focus of extensive research in the last three decades; by virtue of their inherent diversity ste

The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking book offers a unique perspective on how language facilitates the work of combat infantry-the state's killable killers. Through vivid ethnographic research, Janet McIntosh meticulously traces the nuances of military “kill talk” as it permeates the vast nervous system of the military, from the first exposur

Other Specialties: Mandarin Chinese, English, Teaching and Curriculum Development, Administrative Duties, Education Technology in language teaching Description: School of Humanities Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lecturer in Chinese Young and research intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world’s top universities. The School of Humanities at NTU Singapore pursues disciplinary excellence and promotes interdisciplinary

Studies in Chinese Linguistics (SCL) is an international Open Access journal edited by T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre (CLRC) of the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. We are dedicated to the comparative study of Chinese language and linguistics and are indexed in over 30 services, including CSSCI, DOAJ, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS, MLA International Bibliography, and SCOPUS. To explore our journal articles, please visit: https://sciendo.com/journal/SCL

2nd Call for Papers: The 23rd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP23) will take place at Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge (United Kingdom) from 14 January to 16 January 2026. We invite submissions reflecting various perspectives on phonology, including but not limited to formal, typological, and laboratory approaches. Abstracts based on first-hand empirical data, especially field data on lesser-resourced languages, are particularly encouraged. Invited Speakers: Dr Patrycja Strychar

Title: AI in Language Education Editors: Alexandra Fiotaki Athanasios Karasimos Nikos Mathioudakis Objective: The objective of this special issue is to examine how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies intersect with linguistics and education, specifically focusing on applied linguistic perspectives. This issue aims to explore the potential applications of AI in language learning, teaching, assessment, and linguistic research, as well as the challenges and ethical considerations th

The International Conference on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese emphasizes the semantic analysis of the Chinese languages, as well as other languages in reference to Chinese, within the framework of formal semantics using logical tools such as first-order logic, Boolean algebra, lattice theory, etc. This conference series, with the first held in 2019, provides a platform for scholars to share their latest research findings on formal semantics of the Chinese languages. The conference a

SUMMARY The technological boom and the proliferation of large multilingual corpora have greatly expanded the breadth and depth of current linguistic inquiry. These developments have, in turn, made it possible to investigate language use across typologically and culturally diverse languages. Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse capitalises on this methodological momentum by bringing together cutting-edge work that spans lexicogrammatical, pragmatic, and disco

The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on the Community Report. It will be held on Tuesday 10th June (Americas) and Wednesday 11th June (elsewhere) at two times: Time 1: Los Angeles = 4 pm Tuesday June 10 New York = 7 pm Tuesday June 10 Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday June 11 https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/89998651857?pwd=vd1NozDvL4lsnqMlngjo8NIX82EYir.1&from=addon Meeting ID: 899 9865 1857 Password: 650227 Time 2: Berlin = 9 am Wednesday June 11 Delhi = 12:30

Call for Book Reviews: We are pleased to announce that Applied Linguistics Compass is now accepting book reviews for publication. To contribute meaningfully to the advancement of scholarship in applied linguistics, the journal is launching a new sectional and thematic book review initiative. Each issue of Applied Linguistics Compass will spotlight a specific and evolving area of research within Applied Linguistics, with the aim of promoting academic rigor and fostering critical discussion.

All Germanic languages exhibit patterns in which two components of a constituent interpreted as a semantic complex surface in a discontinuous syntactic configuration. Such constructions include, e.g., so-called what-for-phrases (1), locative adverbs featuring indexical particles (2), prepositional adverbs (3) and aggressively non-D-linked expressions (4): (1) Norwegian [Hva](i) har du lest [t(i) for slags bok]? what have you read for sorts book ‘What kind of book did you read?’ (Leu

Call for Papers: Description: The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but also the encoding of situated meaning. When communications become multimodal, each modality in oper