The English Language and Literature Study Program is pleased to announce its annual conference for young researchers, which will take place on 23 April 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In line with the 2010 initiative of the UN Department of Global Communications, which established 23 April as International English Language Day, the conference is dedicated to the celebration and promotion of the English language, literature, and culture. It pres
An increasing number of historical linguists now believe that the traditional reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop system (*T, *D, *Dh) is likely flawed. Yet, despite various proposed alternatives鈥攔anging from systems featuring glottalised or non-plosive consonants to those based on length contrasts鈥攏o single theory has achieved broad consensus. This volume, comprising twenty chapters, brings together leading specialists who examine all relevant data, as well as comparative and typolog
If there is one speculation about English and German that has pervaded scholarly work within contrastive linguistics as well as language teaching and translation handbooks for decades, it is probably the assumption of a more 鈥渧erbal style鈥� in English compared to German. Settling this question once and for all, the present book provides a comprehensive comparison of verbal style in English and German that pays due attention to language-internal variation by mode and register at the same time.
How diverse can a single language family鈥檚 prosody be? "Word-Prosodic Systems of Japonic Languages" answers this by offering the first-ever comparative overview in English of the highly diverse word-prosodic systems of the Japonic languages. Through accessible descriptions couched in a unified framework, this volume dismantles long-standing barriers in a field whose publications are almost exclusively in Japanese and whose descriptive tradition is shaped by idiosyncratic terminology and theory.
Das interdisziplin盲re Werk positioniert sich an einer Schnittstelle, an der gesundheitsbezogene und fachdidaktische Perspektiven miteinander in Dialog treten. Die interdisziplin盲re Herangehensweise ist dabei kein Selbstzweck, sondern reflektiert die Komplexit盲t der Gesundheitsthematik im Bildungsbereich und er枚ffnet fundierte Perspektiven f眉r ein gesundes Lehren und Lernen von Fremdsprachen. Denn ein gesunder Fremdsprachenunterricht beginnt mit der Gesundheit der Lehrkr盲fte 鈥� nur wer psychisch u
The causes of polarization existing in Polish society are multifaceted, and cannot be easily elucidated using ordinary demographic variables alone. The collaborative research initiative of linguists and media scholars is therefore not accidental: language is the primary vehicle of communication, and communication constitutes the modus operandi of social existence. Without language, which functions as a cohesive force (a 鈥済lue鈥�) of society, any society would be unable to organize itself or sustai
The theme of this volume revolves around three distinct yet interconnected analytical categories: identity, conflict, and interaction. The contributions collected here foreground the challenges, tensions and limitations inherent in identity construction, conflictual online discourse as well as verbal interaction, whether investigated independently or as an interplay across these domains. Theoretically, the contributions are ingrained in various scholarly traditions which comprise educational stu
This collection sits at the intersection of transnationalism, queer studies, and feminist theories, bringing refreshing perspectives on transnational language teaching and teacher education by amplifying voices from the Global South. Spanning the transnational ELT field, its pedagogical, theoretical, and empirical inquiries cover K-16+ settings across Australasia, Africa, and the Americas.
Creating a critical and dialogic space to re-think the challenges and agency, struggles and growth of la
On Sunday, some linguists enjoyed x-country skiing on Mont Royal!
The workshop takes place as part of the Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2026: https://sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz/bcl2026en/homepage
Invited Speaker: Marieke Schouwstra (University of Amsterdam)
Workkshop Description:
Word order is a phenomenon that penetrates most linguistic subdisciplines (from phonology via syntax to pragmatics) and has been studied from a variety of perspectives (linguistic theory and typology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, acquisition, etc.). Recent advances
Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Mar 9th, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Kuilin will be presenting聽Schertz, J. (2025). Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks. Journal of Phonetics, 108, 101376聽(attached). All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.