Drawing on the author's experience as a sociolinguist and a mountain climber, this open access book shows how the expertise and affect-laden experience of Japanese rock climbers can be illuminated through linguistic methods and theories. Through a detailed investigation of multimodal interaction among climbers, the book explores a number of significant sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological themes, including spatial frames of reference, intersubjectivity, chronotopic configurations, and
This book explores the work of interpreters and translators at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 22 former SS Auschwitz personnel in the mid-1960s, when the voices of dozens of witnesses, speaking 10 different languages, had a profound impact on public understanding of the Holocaust in Germany and beyond.
The book asks vital questions about how victims of genocide can make their voices heard in legal systems, and the processes by which the testimony of Holocaust survivors has entered the p
We are pleased to announce the 14th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, which will take place on 2 - 5 September 2026. The conference is organised jointly by the Faculty of English and the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna艅, Poland.
We warmly invite you to submit your original research contributions on any facet of multilingualism, focusing on the acquisition or use of three or more languages. We encourage
The conference is intended as a platform for scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, particularly in relation to various research areas connected with language, including cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, cultural linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition and learning, lexicology and lexicography, pragmatics, terminology and terminography, and translation studies. Proposals in other relevant research areas are
Institutions across higher education, legislative bodies, the judiciary, public broadcasting, and public health agencies exert significant influence through their communication practices, yet they often reproduce biases embedded in traditional linguistic conventions. Recent global events have also emphasized the imperative for these institutions to guarantee both the broad dissemination of information and the protection of public well-being via accessible, unbiased, representative, and inclusive
The conference is intended as a platform for scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, particularly in relation to various research areas connected with language, including cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, cultural linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition and learning, lexicology and lexicography, pragmatics, terminology and terminography, and translation studies. Proposals in other relevant research areas are
Institutions across higher education, legislative bodies, the judiciary, public broadcasting, and public health agencies exert significant influence through their communication practices, yet they often reproduce biases embedded in traditional linguistic conventions. Recent global events have also emphasized the imperative for these institutions to guarantee both the broad dissemination of information and the protection of public well-being via accessible, unbiased, representative, and inclusive
The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading. In this insightful and moving book, Kevin Harvey affirms the importance that language and literature can play in our lives, reminding us of reading's enduring, and sometimes surprising, ability to help us through times of illness, grief, and uncertainty.
Interweaving fragments from his own experience of reading, Harvey takes us on a fascinating tour of reading for therapeutic effect, exploring the rise of s
We are pleased to invite submissions for ISLA2026: Isolated Languages Workshop, to be held at Ghent University on March 19-20, 2026. This conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to explore the linguistic, sociocultural, and genetic aspects of speakers of languages that cannot be (straightforwardly) incorporated into larger genealogical units. Isolate languages and (small) language families with no connection to higher-order branches of known phyla offer limited possib
Environmental Awareness and Governance: Ecolinguistic and Discourse Perspectives is a comprehensive exploration that delves into the intricate relationship between language, discourse, and environmental issues. This book begins by examining the role of environmental governance in Moroccan political parties' electoral programs, followed by an analysis of how Moroccan online media communicates water stress as a risk issue. It also provides an ecolinguistic analysis of a computer-animated Netflix f
Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains the fundamental concepts underlying the study of lexical semantics and defines them succinctly.
Divided into three parts, the book introduces lexical semantics then explores earlier approaches to lexical meaning. Finally, the author considers cognitive processes and conceptual mappings. Each chapter
We are pleased to invite submissions for ISLA2026: Isolated Languages Workshop, to be held at Ghent University on March 19-20, 2026. This conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to explore the linguistic, sociocultural, and genetic aspects of speakers of languages that cannot be (straightforwardly) incorporated into larger genealogical units. Isolate languages and (small) language families with no connection to higher-order branches of known phyla offer limited possib
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Wanneer?
Op vrijdag 31 oktober 2025 organiseert de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen weer de jaarlijkse Dag van de Fonetiek.
Call for papers
We willen u van harte uitnodigen een bijdrage in te dienen voor een presentatie. Deze kan gaan over lopend of recent-afgerond fonetisch onderzoek binnen de empirisch-wetenschappelijke traditie, en/of demonstraties van nieuwe applicaties of methodes op het gebied van spraakonderzoek. Ingediende abstract
*** English version below***
Wanneer?
Op vrijdag 31 oktober 2025 organiseert de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen weer de jaarlijkse Dag van de Fonetiek.
Call for papers
We willen u van harte uitnodigen een bijdrage in te dienen voor een presentatie. Deze kan gaan over lopend of recent-afgerond fonetisch onderzoek binnen de empirisch-wetenschappelijke traditie, en/of demonstraties van nieuwe applicaties of methodes op het gebied van spraakonderzoek. Ingediende abstract
The DFG-funded project in the newly established Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1718) 鈥淐ommon ground鈥�, hosted by the University of T眉bingen, is inviting applications for a PhD position in Computational Linguistics (75%, TV-L 13 scale, approximately 鈧�3.400 per month before taxes and obligatory insurances). The position is associated with project C2 鈥淪ignaling and Interpreting Defectivity in Common Ground: Face-to-Face, Voice-Only, and Text-Only Communication鈥� The position begins on 01 October
We are looking to publish a special issue of Languages on the topic of case from a variety of theoretical perspectives (Minimalism, Distributed Morphology, Nanosyntax, Dependent Case Theory, etc.). We will consider submissions on any aspect of case phenomena in any language or languages. The aim is to publish the special issue in the summer of 2026 and so ideally we would like to receive submissions by early spring 2026. Anyone who is interested in submitting a paper should contact Mark Newson w
Special Issue of the Journal of Connected Speech: Prosody in Languages of the Middle East
Special Issue Guest Editors:
鈥� Dr Niamh Kelly (Newcastle University, UK)
鈥� Dr Cong Zhang (Newcastle University, UK)
鈥� Dr Vahid Sadeghi (Imam Khomeini International University, Iran)
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About the Special Issue
Prosody, including word-level prosody and sentence-level prosody or even paralinguistic prosody, plays an essential role in speech communications. It ma
"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?鈥� are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living in the south Siberian Steppes, and with a people related to the Oxus Civilization (BMAC). This Iranian people spoke a specific language, called here 鈥淥ld Steppe Iranian鈥�. They gave Tocharians many words, such as ma帽iye 鈥榮e
Support-verb constructions, like 'to make a suggestion' or 'to take heart', are verbal multi-word expressions. They are lexically, morphosyntactically, semantically, and pragmatically versatile and thus form an integral, enriching, and natural part of the classical Greek lexicon grammar. Taking heart does not involve barbarism and taking a picture does not involve theft, yet how does one know that for a corpus language like classical literary Attic Greek? This book embraces the diversity of this
The International Congress of Linguists, ICL, takes place every five years. It is the meeting where the world's leading linguists present their research and discuss the progress of their work and the state of their profession.
21st ICL Pozna艅 2024 is a highlight in this series. In twelve plenary lectures, eighteen extensive sections and twelve focus streams, two special panels and numerous workshops, all theories and schools, new developments and emerging sub-disciplines of linguistics are d