This dissertation investigates the ubiquitous phenomenon of mockery as a case study of complex stancetaking. The starting point is the observation that stancetaking, the expression of our attitudes toward the world around us, is inherently multimodal. What is missing, however, is a multimodal and interactional analysis of more complex forms of stancetaking. Mockery presents an intriguing case to explore this, as it involves a layered constellation in which a stance on a serious layer is heighten
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Much of the research on minority and understudied languages focuses on language policy and politics (maintenance, endangerment, and revitalization). In this Specil Issue, a spotlight has been placed on the special theoretical import of these languages, and the role they play in shaping our understanding of the language faculty and the linguistic landscape.
In recent decades, and especially recently, researchers are appreciating just how many understudied languages exist, this includes many en
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IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, is seeking an experienced, passionate educator to join our team as a Language Arts Curriculum Designer and help shape our exceptional K鈥�12 language arts content.
As a language arts curriculum designer at IXL, you will design engaging and interactive online problems and collaborate with software engineers, visual designers, and our team of writers and editors to bring your designs to
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The Indigenous Languages of the Americas by Lyle Campbell is a comprehensive handbook on the history of American Indigenous languages. It contains a survey of the languages and language families of the Americas, a critical discussion of some hypothesized distant language relationships, and an account of various language contact phenomena involving American Indigenous languages. According to the introduction, the book aims both 鈥渢o survey what is known鈥� about this topic and to discuss
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The thesis Instrumentos Musicais nas L铆nguas Bantu e Heran莽a no Portugu锚s do Brasil, authored by Alzenir Mendes Martins de Menezes and published by LOT (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics) in 2024, explores the vocabulary of musical instruments in Bantu languages and its linguistic legacy in Brazilian Portuguese. The study describes, compares, and analyzes reflexes of 5,700 lexical items identified through an extensive literature review. Data collection was primarily conducted
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Stephen Huebscher seeks to shed new light on a central problem in the linguistic description of Biblical Hebrew through statistical examination of verb usage in one Old Testament book.
The main contrast in the Hebrew inflection system is between two ways of conjugating verbs for person and number: the Suffix and the Prefix conjugations. The contrast clearly relates in some way to TAM (tense, aspect, and modality) issues; it is complicated by the fact that when a verb is preceded by
The Circle of Neurocognitive Linguistics (CELINE) of the University of Bucharest organises the 1 Year Anniversary as a Q&A Session with Prof. Sydney M. Lamb, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University, Houston, Texas and the creator of the Relational Network Theory (RNT) a.k.a. Neurocognitive Linguistics.
The meeting will be held on March 31, at 6 PM (EET), online: https://meet.google.com/qfe-zioe-oje
For more information: clcc@lls.unibu
Friday, April 4th, 11.30am ET (3.30pm UTC)
Presentation in Zoom, accessible via the C-STAR website:
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/
Syntactic priming and language recovery in aphasia
Jiyeon Lee, PhD, CCC-SLP
Purdue University
One of the most important and impressive things that humans can do is produce sentences effortlessly and with very few errors. Impaired sentence production is pervasive in patients with aphasia. Yet, its treatments remain scarce. In this talk, I demons
Focus: * Acquire the theoretical knowledge and practical skills described in the syllabus* (see below);
* Collect new data (parameter settings and evidence) on languages represented among the participants;
* Produce an archival record of the data and findings co-authored by all contributors.
*Syllabus:
Week 1: Introduction to Historical Linguistics. The Comparative Method. The Parametric Comparison Method (PCM). Case Study: The Indo-European Language Family. Language trees and language c
Focus: Amazigh Studies
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Over the past two decades, Amazigh Studies has gained momentum, fostering new academic and cultural initiatives in both North Africa and the Anglophone world. This Critical Amazigh Studies Summer Institute (CASSI) aims to remedy the shortcomings of the current situation of Amazigh Studies in Anglophone academia by offering seminars, lectures, workshops, and language learning opportunities, equipping participants with the crucial tools they need to engage cri
CONVOCATORIA PERMANENTE 2026
PUBLICACI脫N SEMESTRAL de acceso abierto que se propone impulsar y presentar trabajos derivados de investigaciones cient铆ficas en los diferentes campos de la ling眉铆stica y de la filolog铆a hisp谩nicas.
Para el VOL. XIV N脷MERO 1 hasta el 31 de agosto de 2025.
Para el VOL. XIV N脷MERO 2 hasta el 31 de enero de 2026.
Consulta los lineamentos para autores en la p谩gina de la revista.
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Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition (JALT), an electronic refereed journal (ISSN: 1542-3921), welcomes scholarly articles that contribute to the study and research in the field of Arabic linguistics tradition, encompassing the whole range of phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, lexicographic, and other related analyses and specific contributions of linguists since the tradition鈥檚 earliest inception (around the 8th Century) until the end of the 15th Century. The journal accepts a
Special Issue of Migration and Language Education
Theme: The Cultural and Educational Challenges of Migration and Language Acquisition
Migration and Language Education is an innovative open access journal devoted to the research intersecting two different dimensions, namely migration and language education. When a person migrates, it is particularly difficult to adapt to a host country unless s/he already has acquired its language(s). At the same time, the migrants鈥� linguistic assets have
Spanglish: America's bilingual challenge. When language meets identity
We are launching a call for papers for a collective volume on Spanglish, a linguistic phenomenon resulting from interactions between Spanish and English in Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. We invite scholars to submit abstracts on this topic. Accepted articles will be published in a special issue of the journal Cycnos.
Overview
In the last U.S. census, 54 million people reported as Hispanic or Latino,
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Challenges in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)
The journal Metodi膷ki vidici (Methodical Perspectives) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue focused on Challenges in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). This special issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research and innovative perspectives on the most pressing challenges faced by educators, students and institutions in implementing and sustaining EMI across diverse conte
***Third CfP, Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025***
*Sinn und Bedeutung 30* (SuB30) will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. We are beyond happy that there will be a special session on September 23, 2025, titled *Beyond Descriptive Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrations and Depictions* (LingDem).
Invited speaker: Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam)
Website: https://vicom.info/sub30-lingdem/
**Description**
In all modalities o
2025 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) - Final Call for Proposals
Please join us in Flagstaff, Arizona, for SLRF 2025, which will take place on September 25-28, 2025, and be hosted by the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona University.
SLRF 2025 invites submissions for poster and paper presentations related to second language knowledge, broadly construed, including (but not limited to) second language acquisition, L2 pedagogy, bilingualism and multilingualism, language attr
In an increasingly interconnected world, English-medium instruction (EMI) and Other Languages as a Medium of Instruction (OLMI) have emerged as key strategies for facilitating international communication and collaboration. However, their implementation often raises questions about linguistic diversity and inclusiveness, presenting both challenges and opportunities for educators, policymakers, and society at large.
The 8th ICLHE Conference will focus on the complexities of EMI/OLMI, welcoming
The Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology (CRISSP) of KU Leuven invites abstracts for the 2nd edition of the NanoDays, to be held on 16鈥�17 October 2025. The conference has no specific theme, but it is open to any submissions that work either within the framework of Nanosyntax, or that engage with that framework in any way.
Invited speakers
- Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Universit茅 Paris Cit茅)
- Fenna Bergsma (Fryske Akademy)