This thesis is a sociolinguistic examination of the variation and change in the use of discourse-pragmatic features in Najdi Arabic (NA), spoken in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia. It investigates three discourse-pragmatic variables: (i) MA: 2ADRI: (鈥業 don鈥檛 know鈥�), presenting three variants: ma: 2adri:, ma: dri:, and madri:; (ii) TAYYIB (鈥榳ell, okay鈥�), with two variants: Tayyib and Tab; and (iii) intensifiers, such as marrah, jiddan (鈥榲ery鈥�), wallah (鈥榲ery, indeed鈥�), and Sidg (鈥榬eally鈥�). Quantitative
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Builds on the profound and challenging legacy of sociolinguist Jan Blommaert, one of the most important thinkers in contemporary sociolinguistics, who dismantled the theoretical and ideological orthodoxies of his time.
This volume honours the influential work of Jan Blommaert, furthering his critical and constructive engagement with power dynamics across numerous domains. It takes Blommaert鈥檚 work as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social world, using his frameworks
Engages directly with the delicate intersections between homogenizing state policies and the extraordinary linguistic diversity on the ground.
This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of multilingualism in Israel, spanning Hebrew-only ideologies, immigrant and heritage languages, and grassroots community initiatives. The first section ('Ideologies') examines the persistence of monolingual Hebrew language ideologies and state efforts to regulate Yiddish, Arabic and other lang
This essential guide for parents raising their children multilingually has proved an invaluable source of support and advice in the 20 years since its first publication. An English language teacher, independent researcher and mother of three more-or-less bilingual children, Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert brings her professional and personal experience to this realistic yet inspirational guide to the One-Parent-One-Language approach to childhood bilingualism.
The book also contains the experiences of
This book explores how silence occurs across languages, literatures and cultures, fulfilling a wide range of communicative functions. It examines how silence can be collective or individual, intentional or unintentional, conveying meanings that extend beyond words and shaping interaction, perception and expression.
The volume investigates the multifaceted nature of silence from literary, semiotic and cultural perspectives, weaving together analyses that reveal its complexity across different
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Co-organised by the International Linguistic Society and DELAD (Database Enterprise for Language and Speech Disorders)
Language disorders affect individuals across all ages and languages. While many are congenital and emerge in early childhood, others develop later in life as a result of neurological conditions, illness, or injury. Addressing this global and multilingual reality requires robust, well-documented, and ethically managed language disorder corpora.
This spec
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The deadline for Long Papers has been extended to June 26.
Website: https://semdial2026.github.io/
We invite submissions for SemDial 2026 -- LuffDial, the 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough University, Loughborough UK. This conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy,
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Wir laden herzlich zum Symposium 鈥濼extuelle Identit盲t: Autorschaft und Schreibstil in der aktuellen Forschung鈥� ein, welches am Freitag, den 20. und Samstag, den 21. November 2026 an der Universit盲t Graz stattfindet. Als Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Auftaktveranstaltung im November 2025 an der Ruhr-Universit盲t Bochum wird die Tagung von der Anglistik der Universit盲t Graz in Kooperation mit The Forensic Linguistics Lab ausgerichtet.
Im Zentrum der Autorschaftsanalyse steht
Dialogues that showcase language use in order to promote oral language competence are a constant feature of foreign language teaching materials. The norms underlying these dialogues, the everyday linguistic situations they depict or omit, are subject to historical change. This is particularly evident in the linguistic and discursive construction of verbal politeness conveyed in the dialogues. These dialogues are fictional and didactically oriented, but they nevertheless draw on the communicative
La compr茅hension de l鈥檕ral constitue une des comp茅tences fondamentales dans l鈥檃pprentissage des langues (Gadet et Gu茅rin, 2008, Zoghlami et Hilton, 2021). Malgr茅 sa complexit茅 et son int茅r锚t, elle gagnerait toutefois 脿 faire l鈥檕bjet de davantage de recherches (Vandergrift and Goh, 2012 ; Wolf et al., 2019 ; He et al., 2022), notamment en raison de la diversification des supports et canaux par lesquels transitent les intrants langagiers (contextes officiels ou formels 鈥� i.e. radio, TV, conf茅rence
One Experimental Day
June 18th 2026 | Online
Online Event on Experimental Linguistics
Hosted by Dr. Anastasia Gerasimova and Prof. Ekaterina Lyutikova
The program features three keynote talks and a Showcase Session for early-career researchers.
Invited Speakers:
Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh)
Ellen Lau (University of Maryland)
Jana Willer-Gold (University of Oxford)
Schedule (Moscow time, UTC+3):
11:00 - 11:05 : Intro
11:05 - 12:15 : Keynote: Jennifer Culbertso
Pioneering researchers of twentieth-century argots developed by sexual and gender minorities documented covert lexicons employed by trans women and gay men 鈥� often including sex workers 鈥� and, to a lesser extent, lesbian women and trans men (Hayes 1976; Painter 1981; Sonenschein 1969). This research typically explained the emergence of in-group linguistic practices through the lens of Halliday鈥檚 (1976) anti-language framework.
As the field of lavender linguistics developed, however, scholars
La compr茅hension de l鈥檕ral constitue une des comp茅tences fondamentales dans l鈥檃pprentissage des langues (Gadet et Gu茅rin, 2008, Zoghlami et Hilton, 2021). Malgr茅 sa complexit茅 et son int茅r锚t, elle gagnerait toutefois 脿 faire l鈥檕bjet de davantage de recherches (Vandergrift and Goh, 2012 ; Wolf et al., 2019 ; He et al., 2022), notamment en raison de la diversification des supports et canaux par lesquels transitent les intrants langagiers (contextes officiels ou formels 鈥� i.e. radio, TV, conf茅rence
One Experimental Day
June 18th 2026 | Online
Online Event on Experimental Linguistics
Hosted by Dr. Anastasia Gerasimova and Prof. Ekaterina Lyutikova
The program features three keynote talks and a Showcase Session for early-career researchers.
Invited Speakers:
Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh)
Ellen Lau (University of Maryland)
Jana Willer-Gold (University of Oxford)
Schedule (Moscow time, UTC+3):
11:00 - 11:05 : Intro
11:05 - 12:15 : Keynote: Jennifer Culbertso
Wir freuen uns, die鈥�12. internationale鈥痜innische鈥疓ermanistiktagung 2028 ank眉ndigen zu k枚nnen. Die Tagung wird vom鈥�7. bis 9. Juni 2028鈥痑n der Universit盲t Helsinki stattfinden.鈥��
Die Tagung hat den Fokus鈥�濭ermanistik als transformative Kraft鈥� und l盲dt Beitragsvorschl盲ge ein, die sich mit鈥痑ktuellen鈥痝esellschaftlichen Herausforderungen auseinandersetzen und aktiv an der Gestaltung der Zukunft mitwirken.鈥疉ngesichts der Vielzahl鈥痝egenw盲rtiger鈥疜risen, Konflikte und Polarisierungen鈥痵owie der鈥痝lobale
Organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL), the Centre d'脡tudes en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains锘� 锘緼m茅ricains et Asiatiques (CESSMA) and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
The conference aims to create a space for dialogue between researchers, technologists, and, crucially, language communities themselves, concerning the opportunities and challenges presented by innovative technologies in efforts to prevent language loss and pr
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Die Tagung hat den Fokus鈥�濭ermanistik als transformative Kraft鈥� und l盲dt Beitragsvorschl盲ge ein, die sich mit鈥痑ktuellen鈥痝esellschaftlichen Herausforderungen auseinandersetzen und aktiv an der Gestaltung der Zukunft mitwirken.鈥疉ngesichts der Vielzahl鈥痝egenw盲rtiger鈥疜risen, Konflikte und Polarisierungen鈥痵owie der鈥痝lobale
Organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL), the Centre d'脡tudes en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains锘� 锘緼m茅ricains et Asiatiques (CESSMA) and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
The conference aims to create a space for dialogue between researchers, technologists, and, crucially, language communities themselves, concerning the opportunities and challenges presented by innovative technologies in efforts to prevent language loss and pr
Workshop at 6th Conference on Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic Languages (The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg)
Organizers: Aleksandra Belkind, Polina Pleshak
The aim of this workshop is to discuss theoretical ideas regarding the range of morphosyntactic characteristics of (potentially) reduced nominals across Uralic, Altaic and Paleoasiatic languages. Under reduced nominals we understand nominals that disallow overt realization of definiten