Focus: Columbia School linguistics
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This introductory course focuses on the theoretical and methodological framework of Columbia School linguistics.
It will be held in seven online sessions, on Mondays 9.30-11:30 am (New York time), from October 6 to November 17. This years instructors are Daan van Soeren and Ludmila Novotny.
To register, please email ludmila@cslclass.org (w/ copy to ludmilanovotny@gmail.com) with your full name, affiliation (institution name and countr
2025. v, 228 pp.
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Introduction
Linguistic and other vocal resources of instructing bodies
Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter & Jan Lindstr繹m | pp.121
Articles
Marking action accomplishment with nonlexical vocalizations
Oliver Ehmer | pp.2268
Vocal resource of effort and force in interaction: Japanese yoisho/iyoisho in dance instructions
Eiko Yasui | pp.6998
Ole hyv瓣 (please) + imperative: A multimodal analysis of Finnish police directive turns
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2025. iii, 147 pp.
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Articles
Flirting with categories: Pursuing intimacy by invoking and negotiating gendered sexual scripts
Elisabeth Muth Andersen | pp.149177
The afterlives of Margaret Rany: Tracing the trial of an intersex person in early modern Scotland
Stephen Turton | pp.178199
Making maricones into bitches : Multimodal, multi-lingual representation of reclaimed slurs in Drag Race Espa簽a
Brittney ONeill & Katie Slemp | pp.200227
Analyzing acou
2025. v, 126 pp.
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Introductory article
Travelling concepts in translation studies and beyond: An introduction and manifesto on putting concepts centre-stage
Cornelia Zwischenberger | pp.120
Articles
Reconsidering case study research in translation studies
Jan Buts | pp.2139
What translation means to conceptual historians
G繹zde Serteser Batu | pp.4057
Drawing on translation studies to advance cross-language research in organisation studies: Enri
2024. iii, 114 pp.
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Articles
And tonight, shocking revelations about TV news broadcasts: A hybrid spoken/written register, or a unique register?
Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen & Stacey Wizner | pp.99127
Podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication
Katharina Ehret, Laurens Bosman, Aminat Babayode, Nicole Chan, Ivan Fong, Noelle Harris, Alissa Hewton, Danica Reid, Rebekah Wong & Maite Taboada | pp.128174
Im on retreat and will respond to
2025. iii, 225 pp.
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Articles
You look like my 14-year-old daughter: A corpus-based study of sexist language in everyday sexism Twitter stories
Wanwen Wang & Jonathan Ngai | pp.155181
Is this War? Naming the Russia-Ukraine dispute in three international news providers
Ruth Breeze & Mar穩a Fernanda Novoa-Jaso | pp.182209
The virtue and shades of aggressive humour in press advertising
Anna Stwora | pp.210239
Polarisation in Venezuelan presidential tweet
"Developing new languages in migration contexts will take place from September 30 to October 1, 2025, at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), under the framework of OP JAK LangInLife (https://www.muni.cz/en/research/projects/73477).
The conference is intended to contribute to filling a gap in Second Language Acquisition, where research on adult immigrants developing additional languages is currently underrepresented (see Mocciaro & Young-Scholten 2025). After a fundamental research seaso
"Developing new languages in migration contexts will take place from September 30 to October 1, 2025, at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), under the framework of OP JAK LangInLife (https://www.muni.cz/en/research/projects/73477).
The conference is intended to contribute to filling a gap in Second Language Acquisition, where research on adult immigrants developing additional languages is currently underrepresented (see Mocciaro & Young-Scholten 2025). After a fundamental research seaso
The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities.
Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and meet interesting like-minde
The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities.
Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and meet interesting like-minde
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The Department of Linguistics at Rice University (Houston, Texas) invites applications for a faculty position at any rankAssistant Professor (tenure-track), Associate Professor (tenured), or Full Professor (tenured) beginning July 1, 2026. The selected candidate must hold a Ph.D. in linguistics or a closely related discipline by June 30, 2026, and job duties entail conducting a productive research program with potential to secure external funding, the ability to teach undergrad
Queer linguistics has emerged as an essential field for understanding how language, across its various analytical dimensions, relates to LGBTIQ+ identities and experiences. This linguistic branch goes beyond merely documenting specific varieties or sociolects within queer communities. Instead, it examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms through which dominant culture constructs, maintains, and sometimes challenges established norms around gender and sexuality.
Drawing from gender st
Description:
The successful candidate will be entrusted with the following tasks:
- active and independent research in one or more subfields of general linguistics
- research specializations should include one or more of the following subfields: typology, research on one or more languages spoken outside of Europe, language documentation, research on spoken language
- study program coordination
- active efforts to secure third-party funding
- supporting role in department management
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A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English.
The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop the jubilee edition will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universit瓣t Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Univer
Queer linguistics has emerged as an essential field for understanding how language, across its various analytical dimensions, relates to LGBTIQ+ identities and experiences. This linguistic branch goes beyond merely documenting specific varieties or sociolects within queer communities. Instead, it examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms through which dominant culture constructs, maintains, and sometimes challenges established norms around gender and sexuality.
Drawing from gender st
Im pleased to share three new interviews of the series Talking About Languages, which features conversations with leading linguists in the fields of second language acquisition, bilingualism, and multilingualism. These interviews can be used as teaching material in the classroom.
New interviews are added regularly, and I hope you find the series useful. Please find the link enclosed.
John Lucy (University of Chicago) Linguistic relativity
Annick de Houwer (University of Erfurt) Childho
This is to announce that the next Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS2026) will be hosted by the University of Milano-Bicocca from 28 to 30 April 2026!
Submission deadline is on the 12th of October 2025.
This year, BMS will feature a special in-person session on Bimodal Bilingualism. Interpretation will be provided in EnglishInternational Sign (IS) and Italian Sign Language (LIS).
BMS26 welcomes contributions on bilingualism from a broad range of perspectives, including but not limited
This is to announce that the next Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS2026) will be hosted by the University of Milano-Bicocca from 28 to 30 April 2026!
Submission deadline is on the 12th of October 2025.
This year, BMS will feature a special in-person session on Bimodal Bilingualism. Interpretation will be provided in EnglishInternational Sign (IS) and Italian Sign Language (LIS).
BMS26 welcomes contributions on bilingualism from a broad range of perspectives, including but not limited
We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. The keynote speakers are:
Sam Alxatib (The City University of New York)
Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University)
Sharon Rose (UC San Diego)
Jim Wood (Yale University)
The full conference schedule is now up here: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/schedule/
The poster session inform
Zones of conflict are often at the center of multilingual creativity, since writers themselves are frequently in the midst of wars and migration chaos. Writing can serve as a crucial means of processing these experiences. Finding a suitable language for this endeavor might be challenging, given that many ethnic or military conflicts have a linguistic dimension: the language of the colonizer can become a target of attack during a struggle for national independence, aggressor states can question t