Presenters: Dr Patrick Sibanda and Dr Chrismi Loth (University of the Free State, South Africa)
26 November
14:00-15:30
R1 000 (or R1 200 for both workshops)
Protea Hotel, Clarens (South Africa)
Face-to-face event
More information: https://www.ufs.ac.za/conferences/conference/2025-ispn-home
Programme Outline:
The presenters will share and discuss insights developed from a project on signed toponymy. The session is envisioned as an interactive session, with the presenters leading the di
Presenter: Prof Fr茅d茅ric Giraut (Geneva University, Switzerland), UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Toponymy 鈥淣aming the World鈥�
26 November
10:30-12:30
Protea Hotel, Clarens (South Africa)
Face-to-face event
R1 000 (or R1 200 for both workshops)
More information: https://www.ufs.ac.za/conferences/conference/2025-ispn-home
Programme Outline:
The presenter will share and discuss elements of a resolution at the UN Forum on Minorities Issues. In a nutshell, the proposal is to take advantage of co
2025. iii, 201 pp.
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Obituary: Jeffrey Alan Siegel 3 November 1945鈥�8 March 2025
Felicity Meakins & Cindy Schneider
pp.鈥�1鈥�6
Articles
Adjective phrase fronting in the Malacca Creole Portuguese noun phrase: A vestige of South Asian substrate?
Alan N Baxter
pp.鈥�7鈥�34
A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children: Insights from comprehension and production
Isabelle Barri猫re, Blandine Joseph, Katsi
2025. v, 145 pp.
Introduction
Historical linguistics at school: Theory, practices and challenges
Theodore Markopoulos & Brian D. Joseph
pp.鈥�109鈥�112
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Linguistics is for everyone: Cross-curricular approaches to historical linguistics in secondary education
Jessica DeLisi
pp.鈥�113鈥�133
On opportunities to study historical linguistics in schools in the United Kingdom
Benjamin Goddard, Francesca Iezzi, Pavel Iosad, Will Reynolds & Graeme Trousdale
pp.鈥�134鈥�154
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2025. iii, 103 pp.
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The case of Sydney universities: Embracing multilingualism or preserving English-only practices in the Australian context?
Rodrigo Arellano & Luis Torres-V谩squez
pp.鈥�513鈥�545
Representation of the Spanish language in the virtual linguistic landscape of university websites in Australia
Luis Torres-V谩squez & Rodrigo Arellano
pp.鈥�546鈥�581
Who says men can never change? A corpus-based study of recent changes in the use of the Chinese plural suffix
2025. iii, 159 pp.
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Articles
A contrastive analysis of English deverbal -er synthetic compounds and their Italian equivalents
Elisa Mattiello
pp.鈥�157鈥�184
A contrastive analysis of (-)ish in English and Swedish blogs
Karin Aijmer
pp.鈥�185鈥�208
Academic voice in the rhetorical construction of author identity: An intercultural rhetorical perspective
Congjun Mu
pp.鈥�209鈥�236
Reflexivity patterns in West-Slavic languages: Between introversion, extroversion, and m
2025. vi, 326 pp.
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Special issue articles
Introduction: Aspects of metaphor
Maria Theodoropoulou
pp.鈥�1鈥�9
Metaphor clusters in political discourse
Angeliki Athanasiadou
pp.鈥�10鈥�34
A look at, inside, and outside metaphors: The multitudinal interactions of metaphorical meaning
Herbert L. Colston
pp.鈥�35鈥�58
An inclusive case study of multimodal metaphor: Embodied, cultural and ideological contexts of a labyrinth in the contemporary art discourse on refugee mig
2025. iii, 113 pp.
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Articles
Voices in the Linguistic Landscape: Anthropomorphization of artifacts and the pronominal construction of speakerhood
Theresa Heyd & Jana Pithan
pp.鈥�211鈥�232
芦 Nana sacs plastiques 禄: Discourses of minority language vitality in Tahiti, French Polynesia
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pp.鈥�233鈥�264
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pp.鈥�265鈥�288
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We welcome proposals that will engage Language Learning鈥檚 international readership and advance scholarly understanding of language learning. We are especially interested in special issue themes that highlight work in areas of inquiry, theoretical approaches, and methodological tools in language learning that are underrepresented and/or represent cutting-edge developments in the wider interdiscipli
The GReLA research group and the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i German铆stica at Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain is pleased to announce the 2nd ELLRA (Early Language Learning Research Association) Conference to be held at the UAB from 3 to 5 June 2026 https://webs.uab.cat/ellra-conference-2026/
The theme of the conference is Exploring Multilingualism and Diversity in Formal Early Language Learning Contexts, and we invite proposals for oral presentations, posters and organize
AG7 of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026
Organized by: Jana H盲ussler (Uni Bielefeld), Thomas Weskott (Uni G枚ttingen), Sarah Zobel (Uni Hannover / HU Berlin)
Linguistic acceptability is one of the major tools to detect patterns in language: our intuitions about whether a sentence is "good" or "bad" are a source of evidence that is readily accessible and easy to communica
We are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics will take place online from October 17 to 19, 2025. This year鈥檚 theme, 鈥淒iscourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI,鈥� responds to the urgent need to understand how digital technologies and algorithmic mediation are reshaping the conditions of human communication in profound ways.
As digital platforms, social media, and AI-driven interfaces become central to everyday interaction, question
The GReLA research group and the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i German铆stica at Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain is pleased to announce the 2nd ELLRA (Early Language Learning Research Association) Conference to be held at the UAB from 3 to 5 June 2026 https://webs.uab.cat/ellra-conference-2026/
The theme of the conference is Exploring Multilingualism and Diversity in Formal Early Language Learning Contexts, and we invite proposals for oral presentations, posters and organize
AG7 of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026
Organized by: Jana H盲ussler (Uni Bielefeld), Thomas Weskott (Uni G枚ttingen), Sarah Zobel (Uni Hannover / HU Berlin)
Linguistic acceptability is one of the major tools to detect patterns in language: our intuitions about whether a sentence is "good" or "bad" are a source of evidence that is readily accessible and easy to communica
We are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics will take place online from October 17 to 19, 2025. This year鈥檚 theme, 鈥淒iscourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI,鈥� responds to the urgent need to understand how digital technologies and algorithmic mediation are reshaping the conditions of human communication in profound ways.
As digital platforms, social media, and AI-driven interfaces become central to everyday interaction, question
2025. iii, 116 pp.
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Articles
Redefining faculty preparedness in English-medium instruction: Impact from an innovative professional development initiative in Taiwan
Meredith Doran, Jacob Rieker & Yunhua Yang
pp.鈥�145鈥�165
Importance marking in EMI and L1 lectures: A case of similarities and idiolect
Katrien L.鈥疊. Deroey & Jane Helen Johnson
pp.鈥�166鈥�188
Ideological tensions in identity construction of Chinese medical teachers and students in EMI
Paiwei Qin, Mai
2025. iii, 169 pp.
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Articles
International players鈥� perceptions of localization in their gameplay experiences: An explorative study with Steam user game reviews
Hao Hsu & Minako O鈥橦agan
pp.鈥�1鈥�24
Narratives in film title translation: A study of films by Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke
Qi Zhang & Caitr铆ona Osborne
pp.鈥�25鈥�49
Agile working and job satisfaction for localization language agents
Madiha Kassawat
pp.鈥�50鈥�73
Exploring the ethical perspectives of transl
2025. iii, 258 pp.
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Articles
Anticausativization in Gyalrongic languages
Jesse P. Gates
pp.鈥�243鈥�288
Between VO and OV in Arabic and Aramaic: A corpus-based typology with implications for word-order shifts
Paul M. Noorlander, Dorota Molin & Geoffrey Haig
pp.鈥�289鈥�336
The historical development of asymmetries: The case of directional demonstratives in Germanic
Ekkehard Koenig
pp.鈥�337鈥�375
Placeholders and interjective hesitators: A crosslinguistic and functi
2025. iii, 102 pp.
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Articles
From stay-abroad research to SLA theory: A focus on variable structures and phraseological units
Amanda Edmonds & Aarnes Gudmestad
pp.鈥�155鈥�179
Adolescents abroad and bullying: When the rapid social integration of a Swiss high school student in England becomes a double鈥慹dged sword
Murielle Ferry-Meystre
pp.鈥�180鈥�202
Second language learners鈥� experiences communicating in Arabic with native speakers during a study abroad program: Chal
2024. iii, 185 pp.
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Articles
Changes in the topical structure of explanations are related to explainees鈥� multimodal behaviour
Stefan Lazarov, Kai Biermeier & Angela Grimminger
pp.鈥�257鈥�280
Designing and assessing a vocalization-based behavior coding protocol to analyze human-robot interaction in the wild
Xela Indurkhya & Gentiane Venture
pp.鈥�281鈥�312
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Melanie Jouaiti,