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
Several doctoral positions in Linguistics (f/m/x) | Collaborative Research Centre 1252 "Prominence in Language", University of Cologne, Germany
The Collaborative Research Centre "Prominence in Language鈥� (CRC 1252) is a dynamic research environment with 20 research projects in linguistics and related fields. Our vision is to investigate prominence relations in larger discourse segments and dialogue. More information can be found here: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/
The CRC 1252 seeks to fill
The Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA invites applications for a tenure-track position in linguistics at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor without Tenure level, starting July 1, 2025, or as soon thereafter as possible. The appointment will be made in the area of either Language Acquisition or Experimental/Computational Linguistics. The department seeks candidates whose research connects productively with curren
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland seeks to hire a postdoctoral associate beginning in August 2025. The initial appointment will be for two years. We anticipate a subsequent tenure-track position in syntax and it is possible that the postdoctoral associate would be eligible for conversion to a tenure-track position, depending on both success in the position and budgetary constraints in the university.
We are seeking a scholar with an active research program in theoretic
Program will be available in May 2025 on the conference website.
Program will be available in May 2025 on the conference website.
Call for Papers:
Send your abstract in German, French, Italian or English by 6 January 2025 to the following address:
vals-asla-studientag.linguistik@zhaw.ch
Please adhere to the maximum limit of 500 words (excluding bibliographical references) and indicate the desired form
of presentation (poster or oral communication).
Call for Papers:
The eighth edition of the UCCTS conference (www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025) will be held on the 8-10th of September 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany.
UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine transl
Call for Papers:
At this stage, we invite workshop proposals on all sub-fields of linguistics, languages, approaches (descriptive, theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, etc.), in order to promote diversity across disciplines and methodologies. Each workshop will be organized in 30-minute slots for talks (20 min. presentation, 5 min. discussion, 5 min. room change) and must consist of at least 7 presentations. The languages of the conference will be English and French. Please note that thi
Call for Papers:
JSLS2025 invite (oral and poster) presentations as follows:
How to Apply:
Apply through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jsls2025)
Qualifications for Presenters:
All first authors and all presenters on site (not all co-authors) should be members of JSLS by May 31 (Sat), 2025.
Languages of Presentation:
English or Japanese.
Forms of Presentation:
Oral or Poster (Applicants choose one or the other at the time of application, but may be accepted in a differen