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

New competition alert: Lost in Transcription Most speech recognition tools are trained on "clean," monolingual speech - but real conversations are messier and richer than that. This challenge from the Mozilla Data Collective (backed by the Mozilla Foundation) asks participants to build ASR models that can handle real bilingual, code-switched speech in Spanish-English, Spanish-Nahuatl, and Indonesian-Javanese. $20,000 in prizes Closes mid-September 2026 https://competitions.mozilladatac

We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining the emerging role of personalized learning and automated assessment in English language education across the Mediterranean region. The volume seeks to bring together innovative theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions that explore how advances in educational technologies, learning analytics, adaptive learning systems, and AI-driven assessment are transforming English language teaching and learning. The book welcomes

The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles, political polarizations, divergent goal settings and ideological confrontations (from the Russo-Japanese war, 1904–1905, to Russia’s war against Ukraine, 2022-present). Through a broad range of cutting-edge case studies (Finland,

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions. The book combines a corpus-based linguistic analysis of emotion terms with empirical studies using both questionnaire-based data and online sorting tasks. It identifies several distinct clusters in both languages, suc

The book discusses consciousness and several theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon. So far, no one has been able to explain how the brain creates consciousness, mainly because no way has been discovered to measure it. The book’s main innovations are as follows: (1) A coherent treatment of two types of explanatory models relevant to consciousness. The first, a mechanistic model, is used in the natural sciences and has been accepted in psychology. The second, a mentalistic model, is b

Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek, this volume sheds new light on the role of adverbs and particles at the interfaces between morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Contributions fr

In chapters encompassing phonology, reading and writing, the lexicon, morphology, syntax, and semantics, Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art offers a comprehensive overview of research in each area, along with cutting-edge original studies. Designed to document, support, and inspire research in these areas and beyond, the volume also includes dedicated chapters on emerging areas, such as discourse pragmatics and the impact of socio-environmental factors. Chapters on second-language and h

Call for Papers: The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. Date: 24 October, 2026 Venue: Chuo University (Tama Campus, Tokyo) Abstract submission deadline: 7th September 2026, 23:59 (Japan Standard Time) There are two formats for research presentations at J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. (1) Student oral presentations (2) Poster presentations Please refer to the following website for abstract submis

Panel title: Grammar of Authority Rationale: Systematic studies of language and power have continued for several decades, not only in linguistics but also in other humanities and social scientific disciplines (e.g. Foucault 1969, 1971; Fairclough1989). The discussion has retained its relevance for understanding human behaviour from ancient to modern society, considering repetitive patterns of social interaction and geopolitical turmoil around the globe. Hitherto, many approaches from divers

Panel title: Grammar of Authority Rationale: Systematic studies of language and power have continued for several decades, not only in linguistics but also in other humanities and social scientific disciplines (e.g. Foucault 1969, 1971; Fairclough1989). The discussion has retained its relevance for understanding human behaviour from ancient to modern society, considering repetitive patterns of social interaction and geopolitical turmoil around the globe. Hitherto, many approaches from divers

Call for Papers: The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content,

Call for Papers: This workshop is organized by Marianna Lohmann and Barbara Schlücker (Freie Universität Berlin) as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (49. Jahrestagung der DGfS 2027 „Sprache unter dem Mikroskop – Beobachtung, Analyse, Theorie“), which will take place in Jena from 3 to 5 March 2027. Workshop Description: Copular clauses are simple syntactic structures. They consist minimally of a (referential) NP as subject and a (non-verbal) predicate whi

We are thrilled to announce that our panel at the International Pragmatics Conference is now accepting submissions. Researchers have an ethical responsibility to protect and respect research participants, their personal information, and any sensitive information that might be disclosed in the original data. The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU 2016/679), emphasises the need to reflect on how we treat personal information. At the same time there is an increased interest in open dat

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 Second Language Acquisiti

We are pleased to announce the 18th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2027), to be held at the University of Konstanz, Germany, from the 6th to the 8th of September 2027. Keynote Speakers: Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawai’i) Stephanie Durrleman (Université de Fribourg) Tanja Kupisch (University of Lund) The Call for Papers will be published in the autumn of 2026.

We are thrilled to announce that our panel at the International Pragmatics Conference is now accepting submissions. Researchers have an ethical responsibility to protect and respect research participants, their personal information, and any sensitive information that might be disclosed in the original data. The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU 2016/679), emphasises the need to reflect on how we treat personal information. At the same time there is an increased interest in open dat

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 Second Language Acquisiti

We are pleased to announce the 18th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2027), to be held at the University of Konstanz, Germany, from the 6th to the 8th of September 2027. Keynote Speakers: Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawai’i) Stephanie Durrleman (Université de Fribourg) Tanja Kupisch (University of Lund) The Call for Papers will be published in the autumn of 2026.