A Call for Book Chapter Proposals on Names, Crime, and the Law One of the most fascinating areas of interdisciplinary research involving onomastics, criminology, and the law is forensic onomastics. The current call for book chapter proposals is for an upcoming publication in the Bloomsbury book series, “Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities”. Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: 1.) Names of crimes, criminals, victims, and/or law enf

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Bangla Acquisition Sketch” presented by Asifa Sultana and team It will be held on Wednesday August 12 as follows: Berlin = 9 am Tbilisi = 11 am Delhi = 12:30 pm Tokyo = 4 pm Melbourne = 5 pm Los Angeles = midnight (end of Tuesday August 11) Zoom link = https://anu.zoom.us/j/82749880138?pwd=zYltVQGj4XQVZV5LaTWbDRbuJmPpJw.1 Meeting ID = 827 4988 0138 Password = 417807 Check https://www.worldtime

Interpreting in Armed Conflict: Lessons from the field offers a comprehensive analysis of interpreting across diverse conflict settings, including humanitarian missions, military operations, war journalism, human rights missions, and international fact-finding missions. Adopting a cross-contextual perspective, the book examines key dimensions such as communicative constraints, interpreters’ positionality and agency, trust and distrust, intercultural communication, training, ethical challenges, a

This book brings together cutting-edge research on grammatical variation and change in English, showcasing the state of the art in contemporary corpus linguistics. The studies apply corpus-based and variationist methods to a wide range of grammatical categories (nominal, adjectival, verbal, adverbial, prepositional) across synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Its central aim is to demonstrate how empirical corpus evidence can enhance grammatical theory, especially within usage-based, cognitiv

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies. Based upon a self-compiled corpus of 34 television series (4,214 episodes; 19.4 million words), it adopts a corpus-assisted, exploratory, mixed-method approach to analyze 13 types of humorous formulae across 146 samples. A conversation-analytical lens reveals how these formulaic patterns are systematically

Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation, authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe, which take a philosopher's or even a logician's point of view. For this collection, Krabbe selected twenty of what, in his opinion, were his best philosophical essays about argumentation. Four of them were written with Jan Albert van Laar. All of these essays are, in one way or another, concerned with argumentative dialogue. Their focus is sometimes on particular kinds of fallacious reasoni

The documentarist turn, i.e., the growing impact of documentary concepts and practices within general linguistics, has increased awareness of the empirical foundations of our discipline, accompanied by an appreciation of the value of observable linguistic behaviour. Today, there exist well-annotated, audiovisual data collections for many—if still far from enough—endangered or un(der)described languages across the world, each striving to present a “lasting, multipurpose record of a language” (Him

Join us for the free New Frontiers in Corpus Linguistics Symposium, organised by the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, from 16 to 17 September 2026. Zoom participation is available. Please register here: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/register?id=D70672EF-AEEA-4657-9419-41AC3B3DF122 Format: Hybrid Symposium (16–17 September) In-person Workshop: 16 September (afternoon) Venue: PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 16 Sept

Join us for the free New Frontiers in Corpus Linguistics Symposium, organised by the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, from 16 to 17 September 2026. Zoom participation is available. Please register here: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/register?id=D70672EF-AEEA-4657-9419-41AC3B3DF122 Format: Hybrid Symposium (16–17 September) In-person Workshop: 16 September (afternoon) Venue: PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 16 Sept

Language Disorders 2026 Online International Thematic Conference on Language Disorders Research and Applications Special session: Language Disorder Corpora Organizing committee Nicola Bessell, University College Cork, Ireland Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, the Netherlands Alice Lee, University College Cork, Ireland Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland Satu Saalasti, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Keynote speaker Iris Nowenstein Progra

Language Disorders 2026 Online International Thematic Conference on Language Disorders Research and Applications Special session: Language Disorder Corpora Organizing committee Nicola Bessell, University College Cork, Ireland Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, the Netherlands Alice Lee, University College Cork, Ireland Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland Satu Saalasti, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Keynote speaker Iris Nowenstein Progra

Call for Papers: Experimental SLA: Connecting Research, Theory, and Language Teaching (ExpSLA) is an in-person conference designed to foster exchange among theorists, SLA researchers, language educators, and early-career scholars. Its aim is to strengthen methodological literacy, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and promote the integration of experimental findings into both theoretical models and language teaching practice. Over the last three decades, empirical research in Secon

Call for Papers: 'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and tools for acc

Call for Papers: Introduction The conference aims to explore, from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, the grammars of sexuality, understood both as norm and as a paradigmatic potential in shaping old and new forms of saying, narrating, and performing sexual identities, roles, and practices situated within different discursive, cultural, and social universes. By grammars we mean, on the one hand, what can be said, narrated, or performed within a given cultural and social context

The Institute of Foreign Languages and International Tourism of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Pyatigorsk State University" invites researchers, university lecturers, teachers of foreign languages, postgraduate students, master's students, and young scholars to submit original research articles for publication in the 2026 issue of the scientific journal Language and Culture in the Era of Scientific Knowledge and Professional Education Integration. The

Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) invites scholars and researchers to submit original and unpublished manuscripts for its forthcoming issue. The journal welcomes contributions in theoretical and applied linguistics, language education and pedagogy, second and foreign language acquisition, discourse analysis, translation and interpreting studies, sociolinguistics, language and technology, artificial intelligence in linguistics and language education, as well as interdiscipli

We are looking for a PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics The position is located in the group headed by Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Digital Forensic Linguistics) in the Institute for German Studies. The research focus of the group is the theoretical and computational analysis of human language in digital media, in particular computational approaches to forensic linguistics. Research topics of the group include disinformation, hate speech, and automatic approaches to di

Advance notice of a predoctoral research training (FPI) contract The Research Group on Sociolinguistics in the Balearic Islands (GRESIB) at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) announces an upcoming four-year predoctoral research training (FPI) contract to undertake a PhD within the framework of the research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2025-173005NB-I00), Variability and optionality in stable and developing grammars (Principal Inv

2026. iii, 137 pp. Table of Contents Articles Speaking of workplaces in the time of Covid-19: Naming and digital placemaking in the Nordics Alexandra Petrulevich, Emilia Aldrin, Väinö Syrjälä & Line Sandst | pp. 411–432 Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum: A comparative genre-pragmatic analysis Le Cheng & Xiaobin Zhu | pp. 433–454 “And the right wants to hang and relax”: Some features of impairment talk Emilie Munch Nicolaisen & Gitte Rasmussen | pp. 455–478

This volume offers a discourse-oriented account of proper names, highlighting their socially and culturally significant semantic functions. It challenges the traditional view of names as meaningless linguistic signs. The authors argue that while proper names fulfil the basic functions of naming and distinguishing individuals, they can also carry meaning and perform important discursive functions. Drawing on examples from Polish political, religious, cultural, and social discourse, the volume sho