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This book expands and deepens the investigation of the language associated with or produced by groups that are socially, culturally, racially and economically outliers and whose marginalisation results in a different engagement with and participation in mainstream society's activities. It features case studies from across the globe, including Ghana, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Zambia, addressing the construction (and self-construction) of marginalisation and diversity in di

An essential reference to the intersection of language and death and dying, this book presents an overview of the methodologies, current debates, history and future of research in language-related death studies. Adopting a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book explores a wide variety of phenomena and contexts of death and dying, examining language and discourse from linguistic, psychological, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives, among others. Divided into three parts, it con

This interdisciplinary edited volume combines linguistic and memory approaches to study how people attribute meaning to the past. It includes contributions by linguists who consider memory studies and its theories, and by memory studies scholars without linguistic background who look at sociolinguistic methods and concepts. The book is divided into three parts and includes case studies from countries including Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, India, Italy, Poland and Sri Lanka. The first part conside

This book offers an introduction to the commonly observed, but generally ignored or misrepresented, practice of using language when referential (semantic) meaning is problematic, partial or even absent. The concept and term 'ultralingualism' accounts for language performance or use where meaning in the conventional sense lies elsewhere to, or beyond (ultra-), the performer and/or the listener/audience. This book argues for the adoption of the term 'ultralingualism' as an important and previou

Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is defined, discussed, and negotiated in public discourses. It analyses different meaning components of the cultural keyword of surveillance 鈥� inherently linked to power relations 鈥� in ongoing debates of public discourses. The author looks at the representation of surveillance in different discourse domains through three different studies 鈥� th

Providing an in-depth analysis of the diverse discourse types present in the fight for women's bodily autonomy in Ireland over four decades, this book explores discourse from the imposition of the Eighth Amendment in 1983 to its repeal in 2018 and beyond, adopting a mixed-methods critical linguistic approach. By applying models of analysis from across the spectrum of critical linguistics, the book maximises the potential of the analytical models prominent in critical linguistics and Critical

We are inviting submissions to our special issue, "Hispanic Studies as Intervention: Scholarship, Culture, and Social Change". Entrehojas is a peer-reviewed journal of the Hispanic Studies Graduate Program in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Western University (London, Ontario, Canada). The journal aims to foster academic debate in cultural, linguistic, and literary studies, increase the accessibility of graduate student research, and promote both academic and creative collaboratio

The European Campus of City Universities (EC2U) Conference Virtual Institute of Quality Education (VIQE) https://ec2u.eu Sept. 1-3, 2026, University of Pavia Dealing with Biases in Language and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives In an era where information is easily accessible and shared, the ability to critically assess information with respect to potential biases and misinformation is essential, particularly in a higher education setting. The conference aims to bring together res

Today the border between the 鈥渘atural鈥� and the 鈥渁rtificial鈥� is in the spotlight and it is going through a process of epistemological redefinition that affects every field of the Humanities. The title of this conference, In/Un-Natural, plays with the triple significance of the prefix: on the one hand it underlines what lies within the concept of nature, and on the other hand it implies the analysis of what goes against nature and what simulates nature by means of the artifice. This doctoral co

Call for submissions for the June 2027 issue of Textes et Contextes (22-1) 鈥淯sing English-language Picturebooks to Teach and Learn English from Primary to Secondary School鈥� Children's literature picturebooks are visual literary works, the narration of which relies on iconography that is essential to the unfolding of the story, its context, or its characters. They are objects to be handled 鈥� in fact, the materiality of picturebooks is one of their particularly prominent characteristics (O

Description: Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Global China, Chinese Programme School of Humanities, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world鈥檚 top universities. Agile, bold, and inventive, NTU Singapore shapes the future by combining technology and human creativity to tackle the toughest challenges facing society today. Th

Call for Papers: Please submit your abstract as a PDF (max. 500 words excl. references) until 6 April 2026 to: dgkl2026@uni-bremen.de A selection of the contributions are intended to be published in an anthology. 鈥濺eligion and Spirituality are among the most language dependent of human activities鈥� (Bouma / Aarons 2004: 351). Following this premise, both German-language research in the Linguistics of Religion (Fritzsche et al., eds. 2023, Lasch/Liebert 2025) and the English-language di

Focus: Forensic Linguistics Description: Grundlagen der forensischen Linguistik ist ein Einf眉hrungskurs f眉r Forschende, Studierende und Praktiker*innen, der linguistische Analyse, Recht und digitale Methoden systematisch miteinander verbindet. Nachdem der englischsprachige Forensic Linguistics Short Course (FLsc) 眉ber Jahre hinweg gro脽e Resonanz erfahren hat, wird am 28. und 29. September 2026 erstmals ein Einf眉hrungskurs in deutscher Sprache angeboten. Forensische Linguistik fungiert a

A 3-year fully funded PhD research fellow position in psycholinguistics, multilectalism, and language processing is available at the Department of Language and Literature, Volda University College. The position is affiliated with the research project Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading (MInDReading): Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development. The project investigates both reading and auditory language processing using a diverse range of behaviora

Focus: State Language Department, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics are pleased to invite applications for a week-long Third International Summer School in Sociolinguistics, running from Monday 27 July to Sunday 2 August 2026. Conducted in person in the First Campus of Tbilisi State University. The Third International Summer School in Sociolinguistics focuses on the theory and practice of sociolinguistics, language contact

Artificial intelligence is currently transforming not only the production of texts, images, and knowledge, but also the communicative and cultural practices of identity and relationship management. The 鈥渋nterface鈥� (cf. Hookway 2014) between humans and machines generates interactive practices shaped by both human and non-human systems of order, leading either to an imitation of human interaction practices or to emergent 鈥渋nterface practices鈥� (cf. Hector 2025). This also has implications for cultu

Shortlisted for the M. A. K. Halliday Prize 2025 Beginning with a review of the theory and pedagogic practices that have been influential in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, this book examines the practice of joint construction in a genre-based approach to literacy pedagogy. It investigates how teachers guide students to co-construct a text, drawing attention to the contested rationale for teachers taking a leading role when writing collaboratively with their students. Infor

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play. It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic meaning potentials, exemplifying how they are used in different contexts, such as home and preschool, and how these uses are regulated by parental, pedagogic and marketing discourses. Building on the work of semioticians such as Barthes, Baudrillard and Krampen, as well as on the social semiotics of Halliday, Hodge, Kr

This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world. This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes, theorizes, re-positions and re-conceptualizes myriad structural, systemic, ideological, political and pedagogical issues

This introductory textbook on the structure of English gives a comprehensive, descriptive grammar of contemporary standardized and non-standardized American English dialects. It helps students understand, analyze, and appreciate grammatical patterns from a variety of American dialects, including African American English, Appalachian English, Chicano English, and Southern American English-deepening students' comprehension of grammar and their analytical skills. Grammatical structures and featu