This dissertation works towards an integrative theory of language aptitude, exploring how multiple learner characteristics jointly influence second language learning. Drawing on Snow鈥檚 theory of aptitude complexes, this research conceptualizes language aptitude as a system of interacting components from across cognitive, affective, and conative domains. The first part of this dissertation examines network analysis as a methodological tool. Chapter 2 shows that network analysis can reveal complex
This book examines the rhetorical and linguistic practices in three speeches by Christian orators against the Gentiles, with particular emphasis on how corpus linguistics and computational methods can enhance the analysis of Byzantine rhetorical discourse. While traditional scholarship has largely relied on Aristotelian rhetorical theory and close textual analysis, this work adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates classical rhetoric with digital humanities and corpus-based methodolo
This book introduces the tense-aspect-mood (TAM) markers of Kiswahili and reveals how some TAM markers appear in both auxiliary and main verbs of the same auxiliary-main verb phrase or serial predicate construction (SPC), thus contradicting some of the assumptions and restrictions found in traditional and modern studies. Next, the book reveals a peculiarity of negative inflection in relativized auxiliary-main verb phrases or SPCs that contain in-verb relative markers. Firstly, a relativized verb
Focus: The summer school provides intensive practical training centered around corpus tools, corpus analysis, and corpus building. Throughout the course, participants will learn to understand the core principles of corpus linguistics, utilize major corpus analysis tools, design and construct specialized corpora, apply corpus methods to linguistic and interdisciplinary research, and critically interpret quantitative results.
The program follows a comprehensive five-day schedule:
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We zijn op zoek naar deelnemers die een korte (ca. 5 minuten) onderzoek in het Nederlands willen invullen. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om te onderzoeken hoe mensen uitspraken over anderen beoordelen. Dit onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd door Angela Queisser, MA en dr. Monika Pleyer aan de Universiteit van Heidelberg.
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As a result of a joint organization between universities and the public sector, the Primera Escuela de Glotopol铆tica in Mexico: Voces en tr谩nsito is presented, conceived as a summer school and open to the general public. The program brings together a diverse range of thinkers who reflect on the intersection between language and politics from translation, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, activism, among other fields.
The venue, Ciudad Ju谩rez, is no coincidence: the School highlights it as a
The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is an international conference on any aspect of theoretical or descriptive linguistics. Invited speakers this year are
Aaron Broadwell - University of Florida
Hannah Sande - University of California, Berkeley
WECOL 2026 will be held VIRTUALLY on Zoom, November 14-15, based at California State University, Fresno. Presentations are published in the WECOL Proceedings online: https://wecol.weebly.com/
Submission Instructions:
All submissions
11th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics:
鈥淗ybrid Semantics: Media, Modes, and Meaning鈥�
University of Warsaw, 17th 鈥� 19th June 2027
(social and cultural events possible on 16th & 20th June, to be confirmed)
Proposal deadline: 15 January 2027
The 2027 edition of the IALS conference invites contributions that explore hybrid semantics 鈥� the ways meaning is produced, transformed, and negotiated when literary texts intersect with multiple media, languages, tec
The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is an international conference on any aspect of theoretical or descriptive linguistics. Invited speakers this year are
Aaron Broadwell - University of Florida
Hannah Sande - University of California, Berkeley
WECOL 2026 will be held VIRTUALLY on Zoom, November 14-15, based at California State University, Fresno. Presentations are published in the WECOL Proceedings online: https://wecol.weebly.com/
Submission Instructions:
All submissions
11th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics:
鈥淗ybrid Semantics: Media, Modes, and Meaning鈥�
University of Warsaw, 17th 鈥� 19th June 2027
(social and cultural events possible on 16th & 20th June, to be confirmed)
Proposal deadline: 15 January 2027
The 2027 edition of the IALS conference invites contributions that explore hybrid semantics 鈥� the ways meaning is produced, transformed, and negotiated when literary texts intersect with multiple media, languages, tec
Call for Papers:
The panel 鈥淐litics: Variation and Linguistic Change鈥� is part of the 25th Congreso de la Asociaci贸n Alemana de Hispanistas, with the main topic "Hispan铆stica transatl谩ntica: relaciones 鈥搈undos 鈥� v铆as", to be held at the University of Augsburg from March 9 to 13, 2027.
This panel is dedicated to clitics and to grammatical and pragmatic aspects of related phenomena such as:
- le铆smo (la铆smo, lo铆smo) (Fern谩ndez Ord贸帽ez 1999; Flores Cervantes 2006) also in relation with other
The forthcoming issue of Studies and Research in Onomastics and Lexicology (SCOL) will be dedicated to the memory of Iulia M膬rg膬rit, a distinguished scholar of Romanian linguistics whose fundamental contributions advanced research into dialectal vocabulary, onomastics and etymology.
The special issue In Memoriam Iulia M膬rg膬rit aims to bring together original studies focusing primarily on onomastics, toponymy and dialectal lexicology from synchronic, diachronic, dialectological and interdiscip
DDHUM26 鈥� 4th International Conference Data & Digital Humanities
Data, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
26鈥�27 November 2026 - University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
The 4th edition of the International Conference Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM26) is framed by the theme 鈥淒ata, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives鈥�, exploring contemporary intersections between data practices, scientific knowledge production, and digital communicati
DDHUM26 鈥� 4th International Conference Data & Digital Humanities
Data, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
26鈥�27 November 2026 - University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
The 4th edition of the International Conference Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM26) is framed by the theme 鈥淒ata, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives鈥�, exploring contemporary intersections between data practices, scientific knowledge production, and digital communicati
We are doing a linguistics research about how Digital Twins should be talking to us. For this, we are conducting an experiment, based on hypothetical scenarios, that can be reached by clicking the following link: https://farm.pcibex.net/p/CuBYAt/
It takes around 15 minutes and it is best viewed in laptops/PCs, and ideally via Safari or Chrome.
Instructions, explanations and consent information are provided before the experiment starts.
The study has been approved by the Ethics Commission
About the Volume
We invite contributions to a planned edited volume on language and involuntary displacement in Africa. The volume examines how displacement 鈥� particularly the involuntary or constrained uprooting of individuals and communities as a result of conflict, violence, political persecution, environmental crises, or other adverse circumstances beyond their control 鈥� shapes language use, multilingual practices, and linguistic outcomes in African contexts. While voluntary migration is an
Table of Contents
Introduction: Perceptions and attitudes in linguistically diverse contexts (free access)
James A. Walker, Debbie Loakes & Ksenia Gnevsheva
Articles
Attitudes in context: Stereotypes in patterns of ethnic identification in Sydney (open access)
Heba Bou Orm
Self-perceptions of ethnic markers in Toronto English (open access)
Michol F. Hoffman & James A. Walker
Do Australians hear ethnicity? (open access)
James A. Walker, Chlo茅 Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes, Joh
Call for Papers:
Deadline extended to 15 August 2026
The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10鈥�12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and
Description:
This PostDoc position is situated in a research and teaching context that addresses questions of language contact (including Creole languages) and/or sociolinguistics (including migration linguistics) in relation to Romance varieties in the Global South. Particular emphasis 鈥� though not exclusively 鈥� is placed on three regions: the Caribbean, Central Africa and Southeast Asia (e. g. Romance languages in multilingual repertoires, intra-regional migration processes, French-, Portug
鈥淚bero-Romance Studies in the Contemporary World: Scientific Paradigm and Current Challenges鈥� is a conference focusing on issues of Ibero-Romance linguistics, literature, culture, translation, and language teaching methodology.
The conference brings together researchers from leading Russian and international academic institutions: Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Science