This volume sheds light on the complex nature of affect expression by investigating its various linguistic, cultural and social manifestations. Divided into two parts, it first explores affective phenomena from cognitive, comparative and cross-linguistic perspective, offering novel insights into the conceptualisations and expression of affect, i.e., emotions, moods, feelings in languages such as Tok Pisin, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polish, or Romanian. In the second part of the book, the authors vent

2025. iii, 141 pp. Articles The modulation effect of (trained) bilingualism on cross-linguistic idiomaticity Giulia Togato, Pedro Macizo & Teresa Bajo pp. 1–37 How personality and motivation affect translators’ extra-role behaviors: A study based on Chinese samples Junyi Mao & Binghan Zheng pp. 38–65 Coaching for translation learning: Focusing on learners’ translation competence development Shuxin Tan & Young Woo Cho pp. 66–98 Unraveling creativity in translation: A stud

The Duolingo Dissertation Research grant program is currently accepting applications! See information at https://preview.duolingo.com/efficacy/research! This year we will award 5 grants in second language research at $5,000 each! Please help spread the word! Thank you!

I am a PhD candidate in French Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin conducting dissertation research on L2 French pragmatics. I am currently seeking participants for a study examining learners’ metapragmatic awareness and interpretation of French discourse markers. French instructors teaching upper-division courses are warmly encouraged to share this information with their students. Eligibility: - native English-speaking learners of French - currently enrolled in 5th–7th semest

Focus: Corpus linguistics Description: The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026. This popular annual event has welcomed over 1,000 participants from around the world in recent years. It will take place from 6 to 9 July 2026 and will return to a fully online format this year. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2026 Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-serv

ICAAL is the principal regular meeting for presenting and discussing research on Austroasiatic languages and linguistics. The Faculty of Foreign Languages at Nguyen Tat Thanh University invites interested scholars to submit abstracts for the 14th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 14). The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both in-person and virtual presentations and participation. We look forward to a lively exchange of ideas in this forum.

We're delighted to put on Discoveries and Insights into Skills Training for Intergenerational Language Sustainability (DISTILS-01)! This FREE Hybrid Conference about the intricacies of training communities to document, preserve, and revitalize their language(s) from a variety of perspectives from across the globe will be the first of it's kind! The hybrid nature of the conference allows for people to register for both in person and online attendance and participation for the Conference Presen

ICAAL is the principal regular meeting for presenting and discussing research on Austroasiatic languages and linguistics. The Faculty of Foreign Languages at Nguyen Tat Thanh University invites interested scholars to submit abstracts for the 14th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 14). The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both in-person and virtual presentations and participation. We look forward to a lively exchange of ideas in this forum.

We're delighted to put on Discoveries and Insights into Skills Training for Intergenerational Language Sustainability (DISTILS-01)! This FREE Hybrid Conference about the intricacies of training communities to document, preserve, and revitalize their language(s) from a variety of perspectives from across the globe will be the first of it's kind! The hybrid nature of the conference allows for people to register for both in person and online attendance and participation for the Conference Presen

AFRILEX is celebrating its 30th year of existence. To commemorate this special occasion, the AFRILEX Board decided on a theme that engages with the role the association’s members and affiliates played in Africa’s lexicographic landscape over the last 30 years. Abstracts dealing with all aspects of lexicography and terminology, or the demonstrable implications or ramifications that research in related disciplines such as linguistics, computer and information science, etc., has for lexicograph

AFRILEX is celebrating its 30th year of existence. To commemorate this special occasion, the AFRILEX Board decided on a theme that engages with the role the association’s members and affiliates played in Africa’s lexicographic landscape over the last 30 years. Abstracts dealing with all aspects of lexicography and terminology, or the demonstrable implications or ramifications that research in related disciplines such as linguistics, computer and information science, etc., has for lexicograph

The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is happy to announce that it is now accepting abstract proposals for its annual Summer Seminar Series, which will return for its sixth consecutive year this summer, taking place weekly throughout July and August 2026. In keeping with DRAOI's inclusive ethos, we welcome proposals addressing discourse research in all its forms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - (Critical) Discourse Analysis/Studies - Discourse Theor

Final Call for Papers: Workshop Description: When we refer to entities and events in our environment, particularly (but not only) when visual information is present, we have choices. Depending on what has been said before, who or what else is in a scene, and the characteristics of what we want to refer to, we might say (among many other options) "the person running", "the runner", "the woman in the red shirt", "the one with the glasses", or "them over there". The extent of this variation i

Final Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for presentations at the 26th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2026) has been extended to April 7 (Tuesday), 23:59 (Japan Standard Time). Those who wish to present are kindly asked to visit the following website for details: https://en.j-sla.org/events/j-sla2026 The conference will be held as follows: Dates: 4–5 July 2026 (Sat–Sun) Venue: Mie University https://ww

The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is happy to announce that it is now accepting abstract proposals for its annual Summer Seminar Series, which will return for its sixth consecutive year this summer, taking place weekly throughout July and August 2026. In keeping with DRAOI's inclusive ethos, we welcome proposals addressing discourse research in all its forms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - (Critical) Discourse Analysis/Studies - Discourse Theor

Final Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: April 15, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) Description: Polysemous expressions have multiple closely related senses, and there is a substantial amount of semantic and computational linguistic research on polysemy found in different categories of expressions, such as adjectives, nouns and verbs. However, the extent to which there is interaction between researchers working on polysemy in different categories of expressions is limited. This workshop will foc

Final Call for Papers: For this edition of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting, we invite participants to engage with the leitmotif “Linguistics in dialogue: looking for parallels beyond language”. We would like to encourage reflection on how linguistic phenomena can be illuminated/informed by other domains. Linguistics has long relied on analogies to describe, explain, and model language: language as a system, as a network, as a biological capacity, as a cultural phenomenon. Such metaphors ofte

Call for Papers: The Institute of Modern Greek Studies [Manolis Triandaphyllidis Foundation] of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, within the framework of the annual international conferences on the study of the Greek language across its historical and geographical range, organizes on November 5-7, 2026, in Thessaloniki, the 11th International Conference entitled: "50 years since the official end of the Greek diglossia: New approaches on the occasion of an anniversary" The Confe

CLaSIC 2026 celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Centre for Language Studies at NUS. To mark this milestone, we invite educators, researchers, and practitioners to explore how language education is evolving in an age of rapid technological change. While AI and digital tools increasingly shape teaching and learning, a central question remains: How does the human teacher continue to guide, transform, and enrich language learning today? Our central theme focuses on the role of the teacher in A

The call for proposals is now open for the VII International Congress of RECoD. This edition brings together academics and researchers to explore current debates on digital discourse in and about the Spanish language, focusing on research advances and theoretical-methodological reflections. Call for Proposals: We invite submissions that analyse digital discourse in Spanish through various theoretical and applied perspectives. Possible thematic areas include: - Discourse and image analysi