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In addition to introducing a denotational meaning, utterances often convey an expressive meaning, that provides information about the speaker or the judger. This volume collects original research papers on the semantics and pragmatics of expressive meaning in interaction with speech acts, and on the way that these two domains are encoded in syntax. By covering a broad variety of well-known and new expressive phenomena 鈥搃ncluding non-lexical datives, tense, modality, expletive negation, minimizer

This volume sheds light on the complex nature of affect expression by investigating its various linguistic, cultural and social manifestations. Divided into two parts, it first explores affective phenomena from cognitive, comparative and cross-linguistic perspective, offering novel insights into the conceptualisations and expression of affect, i.e., emotions, moods, feelings in languages such as Tok Pisin, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polish, or Romanian. In the second part of the book, the authors vent

2025. iii, 141 pp. Articles The modulation effect of (trained) bilingualism on cross-linguistic idiomaticity Giulia Togato, Pedro Macizo & Teresa Bajo pp.鈥�1鈥�37 How personality and motivation affect translators鈥� extra-role behaviors: A study based on Chinese samples Junyi Mao & Binghan Zheng pp.鈥�38鈥�65 Coaching for translation learning: Focusing on learners鈥� translation competence development Shuxin Tan & Young Woo Cho pp.鈥�66鈥�98 Unraveling creativity in translation: A stud

The Duolingo Dissertation Research grant program is currently accepting applications! See information at https://preview.duolingo.com/efficacy/research! This year we will award 5 grants in second language research at $5,000 each! Please help spread the word! Thank you!

I am a PhD candidate in French Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin conducting dissertation research on L2 French pragmatics. I am currently seeking participants for a study examining learners鈥� metapragmatic awareness and interpretation of French discourse markers. French instructors teaching upper-division courses are warmly encouraged to share this information with their students. Eligibility: - native English-speaking learners of French - currently enrolled in 5th鈥�7th semest

Focus: Corpus linguistics Description: The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026. This popular annual event has welcomed over 1,000 participants from around the world in recent years. It will take place from 6 to 9 July 2026 and will return to a fully online format this year. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2026 Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-serv

ICAAL is the principal regular meeting for presenting and discussing research on Austroasiatic languages and linguistics. The Faculty of Foreign Languages at Nguyen Tat Thanh University invites interested scholars to submit abstracts for the 14th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 14). The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both in-person and virtual presentations and participation. We look forward to a lively exchange of ideas in this forum.

We're delighted to put on Discoveries and Insights into Skills Training for Intergenerational Language Sustainability (DISTILS-01)! This FREE Hybrid Conference about the intricacies of training communities to document, preserve, and revitalize their language(s) from a variety of perspectives from across the globe will be the first of it's kind! The hybrid nature of the conference allows for people to register for both in person and online attendance and participation for the Conference Presen

AFRILEX is celebrating its 30th year of existence. To commemorate this special occasion, the AFRILEX Board decided on a theme that engages with the role the association鈥檚 members and affiliates played in Africa鈥檚 lexicographic landscape over the last 30 years. Abstracts dealing with all aspects of lexicography and terminology, or the demonstrable implications or ramifications that research in related disciplines such as linguistics, computer and information science, etc., has for lexicograph

Final Call for Papers: Workshop Description: When we refer to entities and events in our environment, particularly (but not only) when visual information is present, we have choices. Depending on what has been said before, who or what else is in a scene, and the characteristics of what we want to refer to, we might say (among many other options) "the person running", "the runner", "the woman in the red shirt", "the one with the glasses", or "them over there". The extent of this variation i

Final Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for presentations at the 26th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2026) has been extended to April 7 (Tuesday), 23:59 (Japan Standard Time). Those who wish to present are kindly asked to visit the following website for details: https://en.j-sla.org/events/j-sla2026 The conference will be held as follows: Dates: 4鈥�5 July 2026 (Sat鈥揝un) Venue: Mie University https://ww

The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is happy to announce that it is now accepting abstract proposals for its annual Summer Seminar Series, which will return for its sixth consecutive year this summer, taking place weekly throughout July and August 2026. In keeping with DRAOI's inclusive ethos, we welcome proposals addressing discourse research in all its forms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - (Critical) Discourse Analysis/Studies - Discourse Theor

Final Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: April 15, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) Description: Polysemous expressions have multiple closely related senses, and there is a substantial amount of semantic and computational linguistic research on polysemy found in different categories of expressions, such as adjectives, nouns and verbs. However, the extent to which there is interaction between researchers working on polysemy in different categories of expressions is limited. This workshop will foc

Final Call for Papers: For this edition of the Pozna艅 Linguistic Meeting, we invite participants to engage with the leitmotif 鈥淟inguistics in dialogue: looking for parallels beyond language鈥�. We would like to encourage reflection on how linguistic phenomena can be illuminated/informed by other domains. Linguistics has long relied on analogies to describe, explain, and model language: language as a system, as a network, as a biological capacity, as a cultural phenomenon. Such metaphors ofte

Call for Papers: The Institute of Modern Greek Studies [Manolis Triandaphyllidis Foundation] of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, within the framework of the annual international conferences on the study of the Greek language across its historical and geographical range, organizes on November 5-7, 2026, in Thessaloniki, the 11th International Conference entitled: "50 years since the official end of the Greek diglossia: New approaches on the occasion of an anniversary" The Confe

SUMMARY The study conducted in this research is based on a youth language in Aflao, Ghana. The researcher answers two vital questions in this study: 鈥榃hat is involved in the creation of Adzagbe among the youth of Alfao?鈥� and 鈥榃hy do the youth of Aflao create Adzagbe? The researched language, Adzagbe, is an Ewe-based youth language that was created as a code or secret language amongst the youth of Aflao. This study demonstrates what exactly goes into creating this youth language. This research

AUTHOR (STUDENT): ANDRIES VAN NIEKERK Abstract ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa鈥檚 history of segregation was a large contributing factor for lexical variation in South African Sign Language (SASL) to come about. Foreign sign languages certainly had a presence in the history of deaf education; however, the degree of influence foreign sign languages has on SASL today is what this study has aimed to determine. There have been very limited studies on the presence of loan signs in SASL and none have

Focus: Formal linguistics: syntax, semantics, morphology and phonology Description: OVA (Omnes Voces Acceptamus) is a summer school for formal linguistics, providing a range of courses in syntax, semantics, morphology and phonology, offering both introductory and advanced classes. Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and will find courses suited to their background. Teachers: Phonology: Yuriy Kushnir (University of Leipzig) Natalia Kuznetsova (Universit脿 Cattolica

Final Call for Papers: This conference aims to support and promote research that significantly utilizes sources in Turkish or other Turkic languages by graduate students from fields including but not limited to literature, history, linguistics, language education, and related fields at North American academic institutions. It also offers a collaborative platform for the student presenters to share their work and exchange research ideas with their peers and the colleagues in attendance from th

Panelistas: Dra. Annalisa Nesi (Accademia della Crusca) Dr. Francisco Javier P茅rez (Asociaci贸n de Academias de la Lengua Espa帽ola) Moderadores: Dr. Michele Gazzola (Ulster University) Dr. Jorge Antonio Leoni de Le贸n (Universidad de Costa Rica) Informaciones: Fecha: Lunes 27 de abril de 2026 (9:00-10:30 hora de Costa Rica / 15:00-16:30 UTC) Inscripci贸n: https://tinyurl.com/LPLPWS4 Lenguas: Italiano y espa帽ol, con traducci贸n IA disponible Organizan: Revista Language Problems & Lang