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We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics: * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (i

The FAU seeks to appoint one (50%) doctoral researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d), TV-L E 13), for 1+2 years in English linguistics. After an evaluation there is the possibility to extend the position for 2 more years. This means potentially 5 years max. The researcher will be working at the Department of English and American Studies and will be part of an international team headed by Prof. Dr. Lotte Sommerer starting 1st of April 2025. The doctoral r

We are looking for a passionate teacher and researcher to join the staff of the Department (Research Unit) of Linguistics. This research unit, which comprises 50 senior and 100 junior researchers, has a strong international reputation in synchronic and diachronic linguistic research on a wide range of languages through quantitative and qualitative methods. The research unit is active within the Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute, founded in 2024. The members of the research unit on the

Postdoctoral position in project C03 | CRC 1252 Prominence in Language, University of Cologne, Germany Project C03 鈥淩eference management in bilingual narratives鈥� of the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 鈥淧rominence in Language鈥� (CRC 1252) seeks to fill a postdoctoral position. The position is available from 1 April 2025 on a full-time basis (39.83 hours per week). The position is to be filled for a fixed term until 31 December 2028. If the applicant meets the relevant wage requirements and per

The US National Science Foundation is conducting a parallel search for a rotator (temporary) or permanent Program Director for the 1) Linguistics and 2) Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Programs, housed within the Behavioral and Cognitive Science Division at the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. Program Director duties include administration of the merit review and proposal recommendations, program budget administration, partici

SUMMARY The Algonquian Inverse by Will Oxford (ISBN 9780192871800) is a detailed examination of inversion as it occurs across the Algonquian language family, specifically its morphological forms and its direct effects on syntax and pragmatics in these languages. The book is academic in nature and geared towards linguists interested especially in Algonquian morphology, syntax and pragmatics, but also those who may be interested in the morphology and syntax of the inverse as found in languages mo

Presenting a detailed examination of the origins, evolutions, and state-of-the-art of linguistic landscape research, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes is a comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of linguistic landscapes and the study of meaning and interpretation in public spaces and settings. Providing a thorough synopsis of the theories, methodologies, and objects of study which inflect linguistic landscape research across the world, this book is the ideal companion for bo

Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British and European around the time of Brexit. It reveals a trajectory towards a discourse of national division in Brexit Britain in three datasets: pro-Brexit newspaper articles, UK Government documents, and interviews with individual ci

Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas. In doing so, it maps out research pathways for informed ecological debate that concerns both the planet and the discipline. The book centres on two case studies. The first is a nature reserve near Siracusa in Sicily run by Fabio Cilea, where flamingos have begun to bre

Moving beyond a more traditional view of language as a discrete sociocultural and cognitive entity that distorts our understanding of surrounding ecologies, this book argues that the starting point for ecolinguistics is an appreciation of language as not just about nature, but of nature. Exploring this conceptual change in the field, the book presents a process view in which language is substituted by languaging, emphasising the bioecologies that we cohabit with numerous other species. It puts

Natural human communication is multimodal. We pair speech with gestures, and combine writing with pictures from online messaging to comics to advertising. This richness of human communication remains unaddressed in linguistic and cognitive theories which maintain traditional amodal assumptions about language. What is needed is a new, multimodal paradigm. This book posits a bold reorganization of the structures of language, and heralds a reconsideration of its guiding assumptions. Human expressi

This book offers an up-to-date account of one of the most influential strands of eco-research: cognitive ecostylistics. The onset of the 1970s saw a global shift in scholarly perspective upon the relation between egocentric and ecocentric views of the world. The so-called eco-turn was not only linguistic at its roots, but engaged the bulk of academic thought in social sciences and humanities. Cognitive ecostylistics invites a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the conceptual relations b

The Concise Companion to Language Assessment provides a state-of-the-art overview of the crucial areas of language assessment, teaching, and learning. Edited by one of the foremost scholars in the field, The Concise Companion combines newly commissioned articles on innovations in assessment with a selection of chapters from The Companion to Language Assessment, the landmark four-volume reference work first published in 2013. Presented in eight themes, The Concise Companion addresses a broad ran

Students and researchers of English Linguistics from the Chemnitz University of Technology and the University of Zaragoza have created a collection of example Twitter/X posts and press releases with comments on their language. The texts and the description of their linguistic strategies are meant to help researchers write their own texts. Still, different contexts, audiences, and personal writing styles will likely require different formulations. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution for

This edited volume explores how African languages encode surprise, unexpectedness, and new information through linguistic structures and cultural expressions. Despite their vast diversity and richness, African languages have been underrepresented in global discussions on mirativity鈥攁 vibrant area of linguistic research. With contributions from across major African linguistic families, the book aims to document mirative constructions such as tonal shifts, affixation, and word order changes while

The term 鈥楽ociolinguistics鈥� started being used regularly in the 1960s. Before this time, research involving the social aspects of language had already been done. We would like to publish a selection of these in English -- in some shape or form, like summaries, depending on the available of the publications in question. The volume will provide insight into the early origins of the field. In the nineteenth century in particular, the awareness of the disappearance of dialects triggered an effort t

Enrollment is opening for the Master鈥檚 Degree in "Language and Mind" at the University of Siena, Italy. The Master鈥檚 program in "Language and Mind" is a highly interdisciplinary course designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of language as a fundamental human cognitive capacity. It combines theoretical perspectives from Linguistics and Philosophy. All courses are taught in English, fostering a vibrant international environment within the Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive

Dear colleagues, I am reaching out to request your support for my doctoral research, which aims to explore the career aspirations of Chinese students majoring in French and examine the relationship between their professional goals and the structure and practices of French language programs in Chinese universities. To achieve these objectives, I plan to conduct surveys and interviews with students, faculty, and program administrators in Chinese universities offering French language programs. Yo

As a publication prior to Euskera Ikerketa Aldizkaria, the review Euskera was the official publication of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language-Euskaltzaindia, published from 1920 to 2022. From 2023 onwards there are two publications: Euskera Ikerketa Aldizkaria and Euskaltzaindiaren buletina. The former publishes original research papers, book reviews and other content in the research area of Euskaltzaindia, and is published on paper and in electronic format. The second documents the academi

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 12(2) 鈥� a special issue on computational approaches to morphological typology 鈥� of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see 鈥淐URRENT鈥� or 鈥淎LL ISSUES鈥�). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/32. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, E