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It is with great sadness that we announce that Professor Svetlana Kurte拧 passed away on 13 March 2026. Svetlana was a UK-based scholar whose work in linguistic and intercultural education spanned almost three decades. She held academic positions at universities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East and was most recently affiliated with the University of Madeira. Her international academic experience was reflected in her research, which brought together communication, culture and society, with p

2026. vi, 352 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Editors鈥� notepad p.鈥�1 Introduction Cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics Olga Capirci & Sabina Fontana | pp.鈥�2鈥�8 Articles Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic approach Chiara Bonsignori, Elena Tomasuolo, Pasquale Rinaldi & Virginia Volterra | pp.鈥�9鈥�32 Italian Sign Language: Searching for common ground between the sociosemiotic perspective and computational annotation

2026. iii, 101 pp. Table of Contents Articles Machine and AI translation for English-to-Korean game translation: A comparative analysis of Papago, Google Translate, DeepL, and ChatGPT Jung Yon Kim, Eun Joo Kwak & Dong-mie Kim | pp.鈥�103鈥�124 Machine translation for language access in government settings: A comparative study of LLM-based, NMT-based, and human translations of vital documents Stephanie A. Rodr铆guez & Miguel A. Jim茅nez-Crespo | pp.鈥�125鈥�153 Industry watch The role of

2025. v, 219 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Situations of language use Marianna Gracheva & Larissa Goulart | pp.鈥�161鈥�172 Articles A situational analysis of graduate student coursework writing in two applied sciences disciplines Kimberly Pace Becker | pp.鈥�173鈥�208 Situational analysis as a tool for interpreting within-discipline linguistic variations in disciplinary writing Ndeye Bineta Mbodj & Viviana Cortes | pp.鈥�209鈥�244 鈥淗ow could you be wrong about something so gen

I am conducting a survey as part of a research study on the role of linguistic and computational expertise in the development of language technologies, specifically machine translation and generative AI. The research explores whether a stronger interdisciplinary profile, based on specialists trained in both theoretical linguistic knowledge and advanced programming skills, could contribute directly to the design and development of more linguistically aware systems with stronger semantic and pragm

Cover Story Article: Documenting Environmental Knowledge in the Bahnar Language of Vietnam K. David Harrison, Ho脿i Tr岷�n, C么ng Minh Khang Ho脿ng, Ngh末a 膼. Nguy峄卬, H岷�i L芒m Cao, X啤m A, Lisa Lim, Myles L. Lynch and Thuy Bui Languages 2026, 11(7), 141; DOI: 10.3390/languages11070141 Featured Papers Article: From Symptoms to Functions: A Contextual Behavioral Framework for Understanding Pragmatic Communication Disorders S茅fora Ene-Gimeno, Joel Juarros-Basterretxea, Samara S谩ez-Mart铆nez, Jes煤s G

SUMMARY L铆via K枚rtv茅lyessy鈥檚 monograph Onomatopoeia: The Colorful World of Sounds, builds on previous works of the author, such as K枚rtv茅lyessy (2020) and K枚rtv茅lyessy & 艩tekauer (2024). While the volume edited in 2024 puts together separate descriptive studies of onomatopoeia in 88 languages, the current monograph takes an integrated cross-linguistic approach, contrasting data from 124 languages. The book is primarily aimed at language researchers, especially typologists, semioticians, phone

The translation of sacred texts has long been recognized as one of the most complex and intellectually demanding areas of translation studies. Unlike other forms of translation, translating sacred scriptures involves much more than finding linguistic equivalents. It requires preserving the meaning, style, and spiritual essence of the source text while making it accessible to readers from diverse linguistic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Every translational decision has implications for

Call for Papers: ICPhS is the world鈥檚 flagship phonetic sciences conference, held once every four years. ICPhS 2027 will be held in Victoria, British Columbia, under the general theme of Shifting Currents. While we encourage contributions from across the spectrum of phonetic sciences, we plan to spotlight (via plenary addresses) research related to speech technology (with many companies located in the Pacific Northwest), clinical phonetics, and community-engaged phonetic documentation. Fo

Frames and Framing: Constructing Meaning in Literature, Linguistics, and Translation Every act of communication, interpretation, and representation is an act of framing. In literary analysis, a 鈥渇rame鈥� might define genre, direct narrative perspective, or position a text within a historical moment. In linguistics, frames organize semantic understanding, govern pragmatic interaction, and underpin metaphor. In translation and interpreting, frames are negotiated, shifted, and sometimes shattered

Call for Papers: Newer results on modal particles (MPs) show that they have a large variety of functions that go beyond their Common Ground-managing function in an utterance (Repp, 2013). MPs have been shown to interact with gestural information (Schoonjans, 2018), Perspectivization (Klages, 2020; H眉ge, 2025), and coherence relations (D枚ring & Repp, 2019; Seemann, 2025). Their contribution of not-at-issue meaning has been argued to impose additional use-conditions and processing costs (Hinter

Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite submissions for the panel outlined below. Pragmatics is defined by the International Pragmatics Association鈥攏ow celebrating its 20th conference鈥攁s the 鈥渢he science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication鈥� (IPrA webpage, our italics). This reflects the scholarly consensus that pragmatics is a study of communication because 鈥渃ommunication i

Forms of address are among the most sensitive linguistic indicators of social relations, politeness norms, and identity. As societies undergo social, political, economic and ideological transformations, corresponding shifts in address practices emerge. Migrant, colonial, and Indigenous languages offer a particularly fruitful ground for examining these dynamics: In multilingual contexts, speakers of minoritized languages often adopt formal address forms from the dominant language, particularly in

1. Theme and Aim In today鈥檚 digital communication, emojis are no longer peripheral or merely decorative elements of written text. Rather, they have transitioned into sophisticated paralinguistic tools that encode, modify, and realize illocutionary forces at the intersection of cross-cultural conventions and digital platform affordances (Yus, 2025). Increasingly, emojis function as use-conditional expressives (Grosz, 2022) that directly alter the pragmatic weight of an utterance. They also bring

We are pleased to announce that the 31st Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 16th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages will be held on February 25鈥�27, 2027, at the Casa de Palmas Hotel in McAllen, Texas. It is hosted by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. https://sites.google.com/view/sius2027/home Our conference theme, Vivir en Nepantla: Identity, Language, and the In-Between, draws on the Nahuatl concept of nepantla, often understood as a state of

We would like to cordially invite you to participate in a symposium on diversity in early multilingualism: https://t.uzh.ch/1Xl. We are now accepting applications to participate in the event. Participation is free of charge. When? 06-07 October 2026 Where? University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Many children worldwide grow up learning and using two or more languages. The experiences of multilingual children vary greatly. Therefore, it is impossible to treat multilingual children as a

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Other Specialties: Demonstrated experience using ELAN Experience annotating spoken language recordings Experience in language documentation, corpus development or linguistic research Description: We are an Indigenous-owned technology company working with Indigenous communities globally to support significant Indigenous language revitalisation initiatives. This project involves preparing, annotating and publishing a major archive of interviews with first-language speakers from one No

Call for Papers: Website: https://2027.coling-iccl.org/ The 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2027) will take place in Macau, China, May 9-14 2027. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Benchmarking and Evaluation - Computat

Call for Papers: [Deadline extended to 16 August] Sign languages and the diverse paths to their acquisition offer a unique opportunity to gain insight into linguistic theory and human cognition. Structurally, the visual-gestural modality has different affordances and demands than the oral-aural modality and these have implications for linguistic theory (Perniss 2018). Socially, signer demographics are extremely varied due to factors such as (familial) hearing status, language ideology, and