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We're thrilled to announce that the International Conference on Web and Social Media 2027 (ICWSM 2027) will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland! ICWSM 2027 foregrounds the central role of language in digital life, offering a key venue for advancing research in computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and large-scale text mining across social media and web data. Its interdisciplinary scope highlights how linguistic signals shape and reflect social behavior in online environments. By bringi

This book presents a contemporary, primarily synchronic, linguistic analysis of the essential dialectal features characterizing the dialects spoken in the Ukrainian-Belarusian-Russian border area. Utilizing sociolinguistic and unique focus-group data, Salvatore Del Gaudio analyzes specific local dialects at the crossroads of Ukraine, Belarus, and the Russian Federation, both locally and cross-regionally, to best highlight stable characteristics and ongoing tendencies over the span of a decade

'Traditional' language teaching has come to be equated with old, dysfunctional, outdated, or backward pedagogies. But is that really all there is to it? This book breaks through the disinterest in tradition and challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about the realm of the traditional in language education, gradually revealing that the common and dismissal of traditional language teaching is inadequate and flawed 鈥� a fabrication. To disrupt this fabrication of traditional language teaching,

The Discursive Construction of Veganism is a linguistic exploration of the stories we tell about veganism in popular media. Negative representations of veganism dominate, however, if veganism were represented in a more positive way, more people might be inclined to consider it in the interest of health: the health of our bodies, the health of our minds, the health of our communities and the health of our planet. This book examines 'destructive stories' and 'beneficial stories' in podcasts, o

This book provides educators with the necessary tools and strategies to help English learners succeed. Drawing from feedback from dual-language learners and teachers on improving assessments, Maryann Hasso develops and details strategies for the education of English learners (ELs) and covers how educators can help students complete assignments and engage with lessons. The instructional strategies outlined in this book include offering students multiple options for taking tests, ensuring each

This book offers an intimate ethnographic window into the ways Chinese Muslims produce, maintain, and transmit religious, cultural, and historical knowledge through their everyday practices of heritage literacy. Sino-Muslims in China inhabit a unique landscape of religious and spiritual expression, shaped by the intersections of the Islamic faith with Chinese cultural traditions, and where the spoken and written word plays a vital role in sustaining Islamic heritage across generations. Drawi

While Deafness can function as a cultural鈥搇inguistic identity with its own language and community norms, Deaf individuals may belong simultaneously to other social groups while sharing a Deaf identity. Throughout this work, Belenyi and Flora interpret Deafness and ethnicity through the lens of Social Identity Theory (SIT), which posits that individuals derive part of their self-concept from membership in social groups and predicts that group memberships shape self-concept and self-esteem. Whi

Providing a systematic approach to English academic writing for the Humanities and Social Sciences, this book examines the word-formation patterns typical of discourse across distinct academic disciplines. Academic writing for research requires lexical sophistication, as it often addresses abstract concepts needing unique names, and a skilful use of complex derived/affixed words. The author provides data that allows for addressing the issues of expanding the learners' vocabulary, the developmen

This book sheds light on the array of transformative literacies in the Global South, which English language teachers and educators seek to integrate within their pedagogical practices. In English language teaching (ELT), there is an increasing need for a shift away from dominant literacy thinking, knowledge and practices that originate in the Global North. This collection brings together contemporary research and practice on how literacies are theorized, challenged, embedded and enacted in EL

This open access book provides practical and theoretical perspectives for thinking about and promoting activism in language teaching and language teacher education. Featuring work from a range of global contexts, this edited volume showcases the innovative ways language education professionals engage in and embrace activism. Contributions detail practices and pedagogies to foster curricular innovation and activist stances within teacher education, professional development, and language teachi

Call for Applications - Rapid Grants ELDP is excited to introduce Rapid Grants, a new funding opportunity supporting people worldwide to document endangered languages. Rapid Grants support short-term, exploratory fieldwork with the goal to apply for a language documentation grant with ELDP. Applications are invited for focused work on endangered languages in regions where endangered languages are likely spoken or signed They are designed for projects - Assessing the viability of a docu

The Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Ling眉铆stica y Traducci贸n of the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico is pleased to announce the upcoming 2nd Experimental Linguistics Meeting. The meeting will take place on November 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2026 in a hybrid format (virtual and in-person). The purpose of the Experimental Linguistics Meeting is to bring together researchers and students interested in the analysis of linguistic phenomena from experimental approaches, with the aim of fostering acade

We are delighted to invite researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to participate in this interdisciplinary conference exploring how health communication and health behaviour change are being reshaped in rapidly evolving digital environments. With a strong focus on language, discourse, and interaction, the conference examines how AI, algorithmic systems, and digital platforms are transforming health communication, care experiences, access, trust, and decision-making across diverse socially

I am currently conducting a study in Language Education on teachers who are non-native speakers of both the language they teach and the primary language of their institutional context. I am particularly interested in early-career researchers and teachers who identify with this profile, and I would be very grateful if you could take part in this study by completing a short questionnaire. The study explores issues of legitimacy, recognition, and professional positioning in contemporary academia

This conference session will explore the linguistic aspects of international migration. The session will engage with the concept of linguistic integration, understood as the ability to use the language of the host society. The mobility of modern societies requires not only proficiency in English in order to communicate on the international stage and find employment, but also knowledge of other languages, both the so-called 鈥榖ig鈥� languages and local minority languages. While often treated as a ke

Focus: Language, logic and information Description: ESSLLI The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is a yearly recurring event, which has been organized since 1989. An ESSLLI Summer School provides an interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops are offered in logic, linguistics and computer science. Courses (foundational, introductory and advanced) and workshops cover a wide variety of topics within three interdisciplinary areas of interest: lan

Description: The Department of Global Languages and Cultures in the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M University invites applications for two (2) full-time academic professional track (non-tenure) positions in Spanish language with a 9-month academic appointment beginning in fall 2026. Candidates will be considered for the position of lecturer or senior lecturer depending on qualifications. Candidates should demonstrate expertise in one or more of the following areas: - Spanish fo

Call for Papers: OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Lingu铆stica da Universidade de Lisboa, 13-16 October, 2026. The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. Ho

After three successful editions, join us for the next Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language and Trauma with the theme Kaleidoscopes: Stories of women, trauma and survivance and co-organised together with Tiziana De Rogatis and Eva-Maria Th眉ne. The workshop aims to investigate the proposed theme from different interdisciplinary perspectives: linguistics and language studies, narrative and literary science, ethnopsychology and ethnopsychiatry as well as therapy. We are looking forward to cont

How would you communicate the idea of "house", "city", "borders", or "country" without using words? Territory is a concept shared across all human cultures, yet the way we conceive and represent it varies significantly across languages and lived experiences. Take part in our survey and draw your own visual symbols for a set of territory-related concepts! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfs0IKx_sy2kOMRd0txFypl9TgjF-ATT8IGzLTOkaTULQmL1w/viewform?usp=header This work is supported by