Books: Translanguaging in Classroom Discourse: Tai (2026) This Element aims to provide evidence-based, research-informed applications of translanguaging pedagogies across various multilingual classroom contexts. By offering both theoretical implications and specific examples of translanguaging in action, the Element aims to help educators to implement translanguaging pedagogy that challenges monolingual norms in educational institutions. The Element also explores new theoretical notions derived from translanguaging, such as translanguaging sub-spaces,

Books: Translanguaging in Classroom Discourse: Tai (2026)

Books: Constrained Multilingualism: Santello (2026) This Element highlights the role of constraints in shaping multilingualism. It discusses their conceptualisation, starting from Michel de Certeau's view of action in everyday life, and operationalisation for the study of migrants. The results of the research conducted among Gambian migrants in Italy show not only constraints but also the tactics to inhabit them, as well as non-language related aspects, for example suffering, which are grouped into five clusters. These are (1) lack of support; (2

Books: Constrained Multilingualism: Santello (2026)

FYI: CommuniKite Open-Access Platform KITE is a multilingual virtual platform designed as a linguistic and cultural first-aid kit for people in humanitarian emergencies. It therefore serves as an initial language immersion experience for migrants and refugees with no prior knowledge of the host country’s language, facilitating their first interactions within the community and promoting their linguistic adaptation and genuine integration. This platform contains six basic tools: - KITE 1. Arriving in a host country: essential info

FYI: CommuniKite Open-Access Platform

Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics: Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational and Experimental Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Description: Project Description: The position is part of the DFG-funded project Learning Linguistic Inferences and Their Alternatives (PIs: Jacopo Romoli and Yulia Zinova, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf). The project investigates how language models learn linguistic inferences — including implicatures, presuppositions, implicated presuppositions, free choice, and distributive inferences — and whether training on one inference type facilitates learning of others. Combining theoretic

Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics: Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational and Experimental Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Calls: Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology - "Special Issue: Youth Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English" (Jrnl) For its 20th anniversary, Lexis – Journal in English Lexicology – will publish its 30th issue in 2028. It will be edited by Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa, Italy) and José A. Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante, Spain) and will deal with the topic “Youth Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English”. Youth Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English Over the past two decades, the rapid expansion of social media platforms has profoundly transformed linguistic practices, particularly

Calls: Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology - "Special Issue: Youth Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English" (Jrnl)

Summer Schools: International Training School. Interdisciplinary Methods for Textual Analysis. From Ancient to Medieval Texts. Focus: Alongside the theoretical seminars, the Training School includes practical workshops designed to foster the direct acquisition of operational skills. Participants will take part in practical sessions held at different venues: workshops on fragmentology and image processing as well as on digital survey methods applied to inscribed supports at the Seminario Vescovile and the Museo Maffeiano, then a final session on imaging techniques and 2D/3D applications to the Biblioteca Capitolare her

Summer Schools: International Training School. Interdisciplinary Methods for Textual Analysis. From Ancient to Medieval Texts.

Confs: (Im)politeness on the Page The conference continues the tradition of previous events on linguistic (im)politeness hosted by the Argo Research Centre. Following the respective conferences on cinema, TV series and theatre, this year’s edition aims to investigate (im)politeness in fictional and scientific texts that use the page as their medium from a philological, linguistic and literary point of view. Since the idea of textuality has gradually encompassed a wide spectrum of written forms, the term “page” is understood a

Confs: (Im)politeness on the Page

Confs: 6th Annual Language Works Conference at Hunter College Title: Reinstating Authorship and Human Agency in Translation Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Venue: Hunter College's Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor (695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) / Zoom RSVP: https://forms.gle/UvgmfZuryC6DQefL8 In the face of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and automated language production, the question of authorship returns with urgency. Reinstating human agency in translation means renewing attention to the social, pragmatic,

Confs: 6th Annual Language Works Conference at Hunter College

Confs: Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle 9 RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France’s premier annual conference for formal linguistics, coorganised by Universités Paris 8 and Paris Cité will take place at Paris Cité on June 3–5 2026. Registration information will soon be available via the conference website, https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order, venue specifics, and the like will be found there too. Our invited speakers are: - Colin Phillips (University o

Confs: Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle 9

Software: PaydaDosh: New Online Ingush-Russian Dictionary We are pleased to announce PaydaDosh (https://paydadosh.ru), the largest online Ingush-Russian and Russian-Ingush dictionary currently available. The resource includes: - 66,000+ lexical entries with source references (Uzhakhov 1927, Kurkiev 2005, Nichols 2004, and others) - Parallel text corpus: literary works in Ingush with Russian translation - 2,000+ proverbs with translation and thematic index - 171 folk stories (притчи) with translation - Phrasebook with ready-made conversational

Software: PaydaDosh: New Online Ingush-Russian Dictionary

Confs: Language, Norm, and Society: The Prague Linguistic Circle (1926-2026) in the Face of Contemporary Challenges To celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, an international conference is being held at INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales). Focusing on the relationships between language, norm and society, the conference will build on the Prague theoretical tradition while engaging with contemporary research in sociolinguistics, glottopolitics, language teaching, language contact, variation and typology. The aim is to examine how these notions have evolved since

Confs: Language, Norm, and Society: The Prague Linguistic Circle (1926-2026) in the Face of Contemporary Challenges

Calls: Linguistic Evidence 2026 Call for Papers: Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany. Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of Tübingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-evidence/#c1511619). It serves as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary forum for researchers from all linguistic and neighboring disciplines w

Calls: Linguistic Evidence 2026

Support: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Morphology: PhD, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics PhD position at ZAS (project LIBILLE) The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) invites applications for a PhD research position inthe project LIBILLE within the DFG priority program LaSTing for a period of 3 years and apercentage of 66% (25.74 h/week) starting between July 1st and October 1st 2026. Please consult the full advertisement here: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Karriere/LastingJob.pdf Some of the details: Job Description: The project LIBILLE examin

Support: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Morphology: PhD, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics

Confs: Translation in Transition Conference 8 Registration for the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition Conference, taking place 9-11 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University, is now open! Please see our website for the registration link and more useful information [1]. Early-bird registration ends on June 30. Under ‘Accommodation’ [2], you can find a selection of different hotel rooms in Aachen that have been reserved for conference participants. The conference makes room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in t

Confs: Translation in Transition Conference 8

Calls: Workshop: Rightward Movement Final Call for Papers: Organisers: Klaus Abels, Ad Neeleman, Sakshi Bhatia, Sana Kidwai Workshop webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2026/jul/workshop-rightward-movement Rightward Movement is a two-day inaugural workshop of the AHRC funded project 'The Structure and Processing of Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu.’ The workshop will bring together researchers working on the syntax of (apparent) rightward movement in any language. It aims to advance our understanding of

Calls: Workshop: Rightward Movement

Calls: 2026 Annual Meeting on Phonology Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation for AMP and its special session on phonological malleability (details below). Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter/A4), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at lea

Calls: 2026 Annual Meeting on Phonology

Calls: Syntax and Semantics of Implicit Arguments Final Call for Papers: Implicit arguments – participants in an event or relation that are not overtly realized but are nonetheless interpreted and syntactically active – pose persistent challenges for theories of argument structure, linking, and the syntax-semantics interface. Canonical examples include, among others, the unexpressed external argument of passives (The ship was sunk), null internal arguments of certain transitive verbs (Tom already ate), and unsaturated thematic roles in dever

Calls: Syntax and Semantics of Implicit Arguments

Support: English; Applied Linguistics: MA / MSc, American University of Sharjah The Department of English at the American University of Sharjah invites applications for a full-time Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) position associated with a Faculty Research Grant (FRG26-S43) project titled: The Role of HVPT and GenAI in Technology-Supported L2 Pronunciation Development. Adopting a mixed-methods experimental design, the project investigates how High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and Generative AI-mediated interaction support the perceptual and productive development

Support: English; Applied Linguistics: MA / MSc, American University of Sharjah

Calls: Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics 3: Mapping Pronouns Across the Lusophone World Final Call for Papers: Deadline extension: Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023). The 2026 edition o

Calls: Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics 3: Mapping Pronouns Across the Lusophone World

Books: Beyond Grammar and the Lexicon: Liddell (2026) Indicating and depicting are widely understood to be fundamental, meaningful components of everyday spoken language discourse: a speaker's arms and hands are free to indicate and depict because they do not articulate words. In contrast, a signer's arms and hands do articulate signs. For this reason, linguists studying sign languages have overwhelmingly concluded that signers do not indicate and depict as a part of signed articulations. This book demonstrates that signers do, however, indicate -

Books: Beyond Grammar and the Lexicon: Liddell (2026)

Books: Writing and Reading Poetry: Giovanelli and Pager-McClymont (2026) This Element explores the relationship between creativity, poetry, and cognition through the lenses of cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics. Section 1 situates poetic creativity within the frameworks of conceptual metaphor theory, cognitive grammar, and text world theory, reconsidering traditional views of creativity by showing how linguistic structures underpin both writing and reading poetry. Section 2 adopts an autoethnographic approach, documenting the writing of poems, demonstrating

Books: Writing and Reading Poetry: Giovanelli and Pager-McClymont (2026)

Books: Optimizing Decision Trees for the Analysis of World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Data: Buschfeld and Weihs (2026) This Element introduces PrInDT (Prediction and Interpretation in Decision Trees), a statistical approach for modeling relationships between extra- and intralinguistic variables in World Englishes. It is based on decision trees and controls their size in a way that they are easy and straightforward to interpret. Furthermore, PrInDT optimizes their accuracy so that they best fit the data and can be reliably used for prediction. Moreover, it can handle unbalanced classes that occur, for example, wh

Books: Optimizing Decision Trees for the Analysis of World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Data: Buschfeld and Weihs (2026)

Review: Russell H. Kaschula; Monwabisi K. Ralarala; Eliseu Mabasso; Zakeera Docrat; Wellman Kondowe; Paul Svongoro (2025) SUMMARY Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa: Origins, Progress and Prospects by Russell H. Kaschula, Monwabisi K. Ralarala, Eliseu Mabasso, Zakeera Docrat, Wellman Kondowe, and Paul Svongoro is an open-access Study in Cambridge’s Studies in Forensic Linguistics series. It surveys the emergence and consolidation of forensic linguistics across southern Africa and, more selectively, other African regions, with an explicit concern for access to justice and the United Nations’ Sustainable Deve

Review: Russell H. Kaschula; Monwabisi K. Ralarala; Eliseu Mabasso; Zakeera Docrat; Wellman Kondowe; Paul Svongoro (2025)

Review: Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics: Jack Pun & Audrey Chan (2025) Summary Written by Jack Pun and Audrey Chan, Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia begins with an introduction chapter. The content is divided into two sections: (i) Insights from interviews with clinicians and (ii) Skills for effective clinical communication. Section one consists of nine chapters where interviews covered a broad range of specialised fields, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to oncology, neurology and veterinary science. Section Two consists of four chapters where

Review: Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics: Jack Pun & Audrey Chan (2025)

Review: Kara Warburton; John Humbley (eds.) (2025) This edited volume has the aim of “trac[ing] the evolution of the practice and the discipline of what is now known as ‘terminology’.” [1] It consists of 31 chapters and an introduction, together accounting for 661 pages. The bibliography is distributed among the chapters, so that each chapter is autonomous in this respect. The publisher gives a detailed table of contents at https://benjamins.com/catalog/tlrp.24. In this review, references to pages in the volume will be given in [square brackets]

Review: Kara Warburton; John Humbley (eds.) (2025)

FYI: Public Lecture by Professor John Baugh You are all cordially invited by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics to a public lecture by Professor John Baugh (Rice University) on Tuesday 12th May 2:00 - 3:30 at Aston University (Room MB419) If interested, please register on Eventbrite at this link as spaces are limited: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-city-monkey-business-tickets-1985711387213?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true Abstract: This presentation examines linguistic analyses conducted in two legal cases involving Af

FYI: Public Lecture by Professor John Baugh

Summer Schools: The 4th Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics (EEL) Focus: - Statistical methods used in psycholinguistics, - R programming for data analysis, - Experiment design and paradigms, - Bayesian modeling Description: The Experimental & Empirical Methods in Linguistics (EEL) workshop was initiated in 2017 to introduce students and researchers to methods used in experimental and computational psycholinguistics. The previous editions were hosted by IIT Delhi (2017), IIT-BHU (2018), and IIT Kanpur (2025). The salient features of the workshop are

Summer Schools: The 4th Workshop on Experimental and Empirical Methods in Linguistics (EEL)

Summer Schools: STEM X - Summer Training in Experimental Methods Focus: The main focus of the Summer School is on applied knowledge about experimental methodologies to study voice, speech, language and behaviour, following a hands-on approach. Description: This is the tenth edition of STEM (Summer Training in Experimental Methods), a week long training program in current methods in experimental linguistics, phonetics and psycholinguistics, organized by the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory and Lisbon Baby Lab (Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbo

Summer Schools: STEM X - Summer Training in Experimental Methods

Qs: GUM 13 Corpus Survey The GUM Corpus - Public Survey Georgetown University Multilayer Corpus The Corpling Lab at Georgetown University would like your participation in this survey (https://forms.gle/SQkfN8MTHNXo32Z3A) to help us better understand GUM usage and preferences regarding current and potential new genres in the GUM corpus, which would be of great help for our future selection of genres and availability of formats and annotation layers. Survey Link: https://forms.gle/SQkfN8MTHNXo32Z3A GUM is an o

Qs: GUM 13 Corpus Survey

Diss: Item Discrimination of IELTS Reading Comprehension Section: Evidence from Event Related Potentials The development of international proficiency tests such as IELTS, which entail important decision making about people’s academic lives, requires complex processes to ensure item discrimination. Previous research has indicated that IELTS has been ineffective in omitting distractor components, which may offer limitations in differentiating among the candidates. Among all the sections, particular attention has been paid to the reading comprehension component and it is considered as a criterion for

Diss: Item Discrimination of IELTS Reading Comprehension Section: Evidence from Event Related Potentials