At SLE 2025 in Bordeaux, a session will be organized on science communication research related to linguistics and outreach. The goal is to present and discuss results from actual research that is relevant to communicating linguistics, and the ways in which linguistics is relevant to wider societal problems. This may range from empirical research or practical experience on factors determining the success (or lack thereof) of a specific linguistics communication project, to consequences or implica
2nd Call for Papers:
The Seventeenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-17)
Asociación Argentina de Lingüística Cognitiva (AALiCo)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Culture, Discourse and Cognition
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance / rejection: March 2025
For more details on what to submit, please visit the official call for papers on the conference website.
We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse.
Submissions received by March 1st, 2025 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue.
About the journal
Dialogue and Discourse (D&D http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org) is the first peer
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Meaning is a crucial concept in many areas of linguistics research as well as outside linguistics. It is a core concept in semantics and pragmatics, but it can also be approached from various angles, such as social interaction, language learning, translation, interpreting and many other language-related phenomena, thus making it multidisciplinary in nature. In interactional research and conversation analysis, meaning is often conceptualized as action, something that the parti
Focus: Intensive language classes on ancient and medieval languages and linguistic classes on the diachrony of languages – Comparing Diachronies
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We are happy to inform you that registration is now open for the 10th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Arizona State University, University of Osnabrück and University of Cambridge collaborate with the CIVIS Course “Diac
The Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with the collaboration of the research group Infolex, is pleased to announce the celebration of the XV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedat Espa?ola de Historiografía Lingüística, with the title: Prescriptivismo y descriptivismo desde las periferias. It will be held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Poblenou campus) on 17, 18, 19 and 20 March 2026.
Following the consolidated trajectory in the holding of on-si
The Centre for Linguistics, SLL&CS, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, is pleased to announce a two-day National Seminar on “India as a Linguistic Area: Exploring Shared Features Across Language Families” on 4th and 5th March 2025 and a workshop on “Writing Grammars” on 6th March 2025 in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru and ALS Indigenous Languages, ALSphere Foundation. This two-day seminar and one-day workshop will be an initiative toward
2024. v, 134 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A speech-act(ion) perspective on commenting
Rita Finkbeiner & Robert Külpmann | pp.?287–293
Articles
Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act?
Marina Sbisà | pp.?294–317
Cause and comment: Two functions of non-finite causal constructions
Martin Konvi?ka | pp.?318–338
Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts: Champion, loser, or both?
Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Zohar Livnat | pp.?339–366
Sisterhood
2024. iii, 97 pp.
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Articles
Measuring the linguistic similarity of discourse from open-world role-playing games to the real world through an additive multidimensional analysis
Daniel H. Dixon | pp.?1–30
Variation-Based Distance and Similarity Modeling: A new way of measuring distances between registers
Xu Zhang & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi | pp.?31–59
Linguistic variation beyond the Indo-European web: Analyzing Turkish web registers in TurCORE
Selcen Erten-Johansson,
2024. iii, 83 pp.
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Investigating the Chinese cultural mind through Chinese-American cross-cultural films: Implications for teaching culture to Chinese language learners
Han Luo & Georgia Salvatore | pp.?1–25
基于体演文化开发中高级汉语视听说课程
柴冬临 | pp.?26–45
Exploring the Chinese AWCF Platform’s value in improving CSL learners’ writing performance in a ChatGPT context
Yicheng Yang & Ye Tian | pp.?46–68
Book reviews
Chunsheng Yang. 2024. Chinese Sociolinguistics
2024. iii, 175 pp.
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Articles
“People should get their booster”: Stance towards Covid vaccination in news and academic blogs
Hang (Joanna) Zou & Ken Hyland | pp.?447–471
Case and agreement variation in contact: A multifactorial investigation of it-clefts across World Englishes
Yi Zhang & Ming Yue | pp.?472–506
Down-sampling from hierarchically structured corpus data
Lukas S?nning | pp.?507–533
Assessing the potential of LLM-assisted annotation for corpus-bas
2025. iii, 197 pp.
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Articles
Non-past and past verb stems in Tangut
Mathieu Beaudouin | pp.?1–21
A typology of alternative questions in Chinese and other East Asian languages
Xinyi Li | pp.?22–77
Pseudo matrix sluicing constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Chi-Ming Louis Liu | pp.?78–122
Foot-shift and disyllabification in the history of Chinese: With a revisit of syllabic structures of Old Chinese
Huibin Zhuang, Pusong Zhao & Shengli Feng | pp.?123–154
Lig
2025. v, 126 pp
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Introduction: Approaches to Machine Translation
Mahdieh Fakhar, Monica Vilhelm & Paz Díez-Arcón | pp.?1–4
Articles
Powerful variables for knowledge representation and bracketing prediction
Juan Rojas-Garcia | pp.?5–30
Machine translation post-editing through emotional narratives: A methodological approach
María del Mar Sánchez Ramos | pp.?31–47
Machine translation of tourism reviews: Quality assessment and localization
Carmen Rosa-Sorlozan
We are excited to announce the release of the first parsed corpus of spoken Dutch dialects, the Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND). This resource offers extensive data for linguistic research and is now accessible online.
Corpus Highlights:
? Speakers: 1,206 individuals, with the eldest born in 1871.
? Geographical Coverage: 639 distinct locations.
? Audio Data: Over 430 hours of recordings across 650 sessions.
? Transcriptions: Over 600 time-aligned, highly de
We are delighted to announce that we are kicking off our new LRC seminar series on Wednesday 5th Feb with a talk by Lars Bokander (J?nk?ping University, Sweden) working on a project with Swansea’s own Vivienne Rogers, Brian Rogers (Digital Humanities) and Paul Meara together with placement students Tesni Galvin and Rhea Ray. The talk discusses the ongoing validation of the LLAMA tests originally developed by Paul Meara in 2005.
When: Wed 5th Feb
Time: 12noon-12.50pm GMT
Zoom link: https
I am looking for a home for my linguistics library of over 1300 books. Funds are available to ship the entire library anywhere in the world. The library has over 300 books on pidgin and creole languages, including the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Other subject areas (with approximate book numbers) are: Pacific languages and linguistics (150), dialects and language variation (150), applied linguistics, language acquisition and bilingualism (150), general linguistics (95), South
Greetings, Linguists!
The February 2025 issue of Speculative Grammarian—the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics—is now available online for your browsing pleasure.
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The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including an historic “announcement” “from” the Editor-
In collaboration with researchers from Leiden University, Cambridge University and Florida State University, I am currently conducting a scoping review of the literature on phonetics, phonology or prosody of code-switching in bilinguals. This scoping review will first be submitted as a Research Master thesis at Leiden University, with the aim of subsequent publication in a journal. While I am doing a systematic search through several databases, I would also like to ask if you have any work regar
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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Syntax with an initial appointment for the 2025-2026 academic year and renewable for up to two additional years. In addition to conducting research, the successful candidate will help organize Penn Syntax Lab meetings and will participate in the intellectual life of the department and the broader community of language researchers at Penn. The University of Pennsylvania
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Lecturer of Hindi Language
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The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies (AAAS) at Stony Brook University, a flagship campus of the SUNY system, seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Hindi. The initial appointment, beginning Fall 2025, is for two years, with the possibility of renewal. The successful applicant will be expected to teach Hindi language courses at all levels, for both heritage and non-heritage students, with the possibility of teaching cours