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Covid-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures is an edited volume in the John Benjamins Publishing Company series Metaphor in Language, Cognition and Communication. It was edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zolt谩n K枚vecses and contains 13 chapters. These 13 chapters discuss Covid discourse across all continents except Antarctica, although European discourse is the most frequently discussed.
The book is split into five sections: Metaphor in mainstream newsp
This Element aims to provide evidence-based, research-informed applications of translanguaging pedagogies across various multilingual classroom contexts. By offering both theoretical implications and specific examples of translanguaging in action, the Element aims to help educators to implement translanguaging pedagogy that challenges monolingual norms in educational institutions. The Element also explores new theoretical notions derived from translanguaging, such as translanguaging sub-spaces,
This Element highlights the role of constraints in shaping multilingualism. It discusses their conceptualisation, starting from Michel de Certeau's view of action in everyday life, and operationalisation for the study of migrants. The results of the research conducted among Gambian migrants in Italy show not only constraints but also the tactics to inhabit them, as well as non-language related aspects, for example suffering, which are grouped into five clusters. These are (1) lack of support; (2
KITE is a multilingual virtual platform designed as a linguistic and cultural first-aid kit for people in humanitarian emergencies. It therefore serves as an initial language immersion experience for migrants and refugees with no prior knowledge of the host country鈥檚 language, facilitating their first interactions within the community and promoting their linguistic adaptation and genuine integration. This platform contains six basic tools:
- KITE 1. Arriving in a host country: essential info
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The position is part of the DFG-funded project Learning Linguistic Inferences and Their Alternatives (PIs: Jacopo Romoli and Yulia Zinova, Heinrich-Heine-Universit盲t D眉sseldorf). The project investigates how language models learn linguistic inferences 鈥� including implicatures, presuppositions, implicated presuppositions, free choice, and distributive inferences 鈥� and whether training on one inference type facilitates learning of others. Combining theoretic
The conference continues the tradition of previous events on linguistic (im)politeness hosted by the Argo Research Centre. Following the respective conferences on cinema, TV series and theatre, this year鈥檚 edition aims to investigate (im)politeness in fictional and scientific texts that use the page as their medium from a philological, linguistic and literary point of view.
Since the idea of textuality has gradually encompassed a wide spectrum of written forms, the term 鈥減age鈥� is understood a
For its 20th anniversary, Lexis 鈥� Journal in English Lexicology 鈥� will publish its 30th issue in 2028. It will be edited by Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa, Italy) and Jos茅 A. S谩nchez Fajardo (University of Alicante, Spain) and will deal with the topic 鈥淵outh Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English鈥�.
Youth Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English
Over the past two decades, the rapid expansion of social media platforms has profoundly transformed linguistic practices, particularly
Focus: Alongside the theoretical seminars, the Training School includes practical workshops designed to foster the direct acquisition of operational skills.
Participants will take part in practical sessions held at different venues: workshops on fragmentology and image processing as well as on digital survey methods applied to inscribed supports at the Seminario Vescovile and the Museo Maffeiano, then a final session on imaging techniques and 2D/3D applications to the Biblioteca Capitolare her
The conference continues the tradition of previous events on linguistic (im)politeness hosted by the Argo Research Centre. Following the respective conferences on cinema, TV series and theatre, this year鈥檚 edition aims to investigate (im)politeness in fictional and scientific texts that use the page as their medium from a philological, linguistic and literary point of view.
Since the idea of textuality has gradually encompassed a wide spectrum of written forms, the term 鈥減age鈥� is understood a
Title: Reinstating Authorship and Human Agency in Translation
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College's Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor (695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) / Zoom
RSVP: https://forms.gle/UvgmfZuryC6DQefL8
In the face of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and automated language production, the question of authorship returns with urgency. Reinstating human agency in translation means renewing attention to the social, pragmatic,
RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France鈥檚 premier annual conference for formal linguistics, coorganised by Universit茅s Paris 8 and Paris Cit茅 will take place at Paris Cit茅 on June 3鈥�5 2026. Registration information will soon be available via the conference website, https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order, venue specifics, and the like will be found there too.
Our invited speakers are:
- Colin Phillips (University o
Title: Reinstating Authorship and Human Agency in Translation
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College's Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor (695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) / Zoom
RSVP: https://forms.gle/UvgmfZuryC6DQefL8
In the face of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and automated language production, the question of authorship returns with urgency. Reinstating human agency in translation means renewing attention to the social, pragmatic,
RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France鈥檚 premier annual conference for formal linguistics, coorganised by Universit茅s Paris 8 and Paris Cit茅 will take place at Paris Cit茅 on June 3鈥�5 2026. Registration information will soon be available via the conference website, https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order, venue specifics, and the like will be found there too.
Our invited speakers are:
- Colin Phillips (University o
We are pleased to announce PaydaDosh (https://paydadosh.ru), the largest online Ingush-Russian and Russian-Ingush dictionary currently available.
The resource includes:
- 66,000+ lexical entries with source references (Uzhakhov 1927, Kurkiev 2005, Nichols 2004, and others)
- Parallel text corpus: literary works in Ingush with Russian translation
- 2,000+ proverbs with translation and thematic index
- 171 folk stories (锌褉懈褌褔懈) with translation
- Phrasebook with ready-made conversational
To celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, an international conference is being held at INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales). Focusing on the relationships between language, norm and society, the conference will build on the Prague theoretical tradition while engaging with contemporary research in sociolinguistics, glottopolitics, language teaching, language contact, variation and typology. The aim is to examine how these notions have evolved since
To celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, an international conference is being held at INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales). Focusing on the relationships between language, norm and society, the conference will build on the Prague theoretical tradition while engaging with contemporary research in sociolinguistics, glottopolitics, language teaching, language contact, variation and typology. The aim is to examine how these notions have evolved since
Call for Papers:
Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany.
Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of T眉bingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-evidence/#c1511619). It serves as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary forum for researchers from all linguistic and neighboring disciplines w
PhD position at ZAS (project LIBILLE)
The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) invites applications for a PhD research position inthe project LIBILLE within the DFG priority program LaSTing for a period of 3 years and apercentage of 66% (25.74 h/week) starting between July 1st and October 1st 2026.
Please consult the full advertisement here: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Karriere/LastingJob.pdf
Some of the details:
Job Description:
The project LIBILLE examin
Registration for the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition Conference, taking place 9-11 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University, is now open!
Please see our website for the registration link and more useful information [1]. Early-bird registration ends on June 30. Under 鈥楢ccommodation鈥� [2], you can find a selection of different hotel rooms in Aachen that have been reserved for conference participants.
The conference makes room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in t
Registration for the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition Conference, taking place 9-11 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University, is now open!
Please see our website for the registration link and more useful information [1]. Early-bird registration ends on June 30. Under 鈥楢ccommodation鈥� [2], you can find a selection of different hotel rooms in Aachen that have been reserved for conference participants.
The conference makes room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in t