A 3-year fully funded PhD research fellow position in psycholinguistics, multilectalism, and language processing is available at the Department of Language and Literature, Volda University College. The position is affiliated with the research project Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading (MInDReading): Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development. The project investigates both reading and auditory language processing using a diverse range of behaviora
Focus: State Language Department, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics are pleased to invite applications for a week-long Third International Summer School in Sociolinguistics, running from Monday 27 July to Sunday 2 August 2026. Conducted in person in the First Campus of Tbilisi State University.
The Third International Summer School in Sociolinguistics focuses on the theory and practice of sociolinguistics, language contact
Artificial intelligence is currently transforming not only the production of texts, images, and knowledge, but also the communicative and cultural practices of identity and relationship management. The 鈥渋nterface鈥� (cf. Hookway 2014) between humans and machines generates interactive practices shaped by both human and non-human systems of order, leading either to an imitation of human interaction practices or to emergent 鈥渋nterface practices鈥� (cf. Hector 2025). This also has implications for cultu
Shortlisted for the M. A. K. Halliday Prize 2025
Beginning with a review of the theory and pedagogic practices that have been influential in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, this book examines the practice of joint construction in a genre-based approach to literacy pedagogy. It investigates how teachers guide students to co-construct a text, drawing attention to the contested rationale for teachers taking a leading role when writing collaboratively with their students.
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Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play. It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic meaning potentials, exemplifying how they are used in different contexts, such as home and preschool, and how these uses are regulated by parental, pedagogic and marketing discourses.
Building on the work of semioticians such as Barthes, Baudrillard and Krampen, as well as on the social semiotics of Halliday, Hodge, Kr
This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world. This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes, theorizes, re-positions and re-conceptualizes myriad structural, systemic, ideological, political and pedagogical issues
This introductory textbook on the structure of English gives a comprehensive, descriptive grammar of contemporary standardized and non-standardized American English dialects. It helps students understand, analyze, and appreciate grammatical patterns from a variety of American dialects, including African American English, Appalachian English, Chicano English, and Southern American English-deepening students' comprehension of grammar and their analytical skills.
Grammatical structures and featu
In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate. With the rise of new environmentalist movements and their subsequent backlash, we are now exposed to a plethora of different and often opposing discourses on the environmental crisis and our relationship with nature. This book argues for the need to develop classroom practices which aid students in critically reviewing and evaluating different perspectives on discourses of envi
In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), paradigmatic relations are formalised in system networks. This book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing system networks for language description, one of the key aspects of SFL theory and analysis.
Including examples from English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish, and exercises with answer keys for each of the main chapters, this book offers a broad coverage and guides learners through the process of designing system networks for the purpo
Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP. Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship, interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile. Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards, and policy actors who are committed to building durable language resource ecosystems. We a
We are pleased to announce that registration (free but required) for the conference "Parameters of Language Staging: Forms, Functions, and Multimodal Dynamics of Staged Discourse" (PLS8), to be held on Thursday, May 21, and Friday, May 22, 2026, at the University of Paris Nanterre, is open until April 20.
The conference program and registration form are available on the conference website: https://pls8.sciencesconf.org/
Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP. Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship, interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile. Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards, and policy actors who are committed to building durable language resource ecosystems. We a
We are pleased to announce that registration (free but required) for the conference "Parameters of Language Staging: Forms, Functions, and Multimodal Dynamics of Staged Discourse" (PLS8), to be held on Thursday, May 21, and Friday, May 22, 2026, at the University of Paris Nanterre, is open until April 20.
The conference program and registration form are available on the conference website: https://pls8.sciencesconf.org/
Kilmer is a free, browser-based tool for creating syntactic tree diagrams in the generative framework. It requires no installation or account, running entirely in the browser as a single-file web application.
You can access Kilmer here: https://carlosgonzalezvergara.github.io/kilmer/
Its central design principle is direct visual editing. Unlike most tree-drawing tools, which require users to write bracket notation or code and then render the result, Kilmer works as a WYSIWYG editor. Nodes
Call for Papers:
Extended abstract deadline: 3rd April 2026
Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic 鈥榥orth鈥� of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre.
We are adopting a fairly loose definition of what constitutes 'northern Englishes
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Implicit arguments 鈥� participants in an event or relation that are not overtly realized but are nonetheless interpreted and syntactically active 鈥� 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 deverbal no
Summary
The course book, entitled 鈥楳orphosyntaxe du fran莽ais- Approche g茅n茅rative鈥�, co-authored by Omar Gamboa Gonzalez and Juvenal Ndayiragije, consists of a foreword, an introduction and ten chapters. Each chapter begins with a summary of its objectives and ends with a section of concluding remarks and a section of exercises. The ten chapters are followed by an appendix, a bilingual glossary, the exercise solutions, the references and an index.
The target audience of the book is said to
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This volume investigates discourse about (nonhuman) animals, in particular anthropocentric representations and behaviour. Studying discourse on animals matters because language both reflects and shapes beliefs, which in turn serve to justify 鈥渉uman exceptionalism鈥� 鈥� the idea that humans stand apart from other species 鈥� and a view of animals鈥� worth primarily in terms of their value in our economy (p.2). The book is meant to be of interest both to linguists and non linguists, and it is
Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Mar 23rd, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Natalia and Massimo聽will each be practicing their talks for聽MOThQ. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.