The collective work entitled Multilingual Education in Cameroon : Planning and Ways for the Teaching of National Languages looks at the unique linguistic diversity of Cameroon, a country with around 250 national languages in addition to French and English, its official languages. The contributors to this book endeavour to strengthen the conceptualisation of didactic and pedagogical practices relating to national languages, by highlighting their fundamental role in the development of learners鈥� s
Der vorliegende Band enth盲lt Paul Trosts unpublizierte Dissertation von 1934 zum indogermanischen Worttabu. Bereits diese fr眉he Arbeit zeichnet sich durch diejenigen Z眉ge aus, die typisch f眉r Trosts Werk waren: thematische Breite, gedankliche Tiefe, gedr盲ngte Darbietung. Zur Dissertation gesellen sich mehrere kleinere fr眉her bereits publizierte Texte, in denen einige Aspekte des Themas n盲her ausgef眉hrt werden.
Inhalt: Indogermanisches Worttabu (A. Der Sinn der Frage. B. Das Worttabu. C. Das Tabu
DiscoMatiX is rounding off its Autumn series with Irene Mognon and Petra Hendriks in conversation, on the topic "Reconciling Scalar Implicature Theories with Processing Data" (abstract below). The meeting takes place online via Zoom, on Tuesday 10th December, 16:00-16:50 CET. All are welcome to join!
To join the session, please send an email to discomatix.group@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.
Like other disciplines, linguistics relies on theory development as a vital component of its empir
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) and Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus) entitled "The Invocational Impact of Slurs". The talk will take place online on DECEMBER 9, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate, please write to staln
Dear LAN Members,
The Language Attrition Network invites you to our next session on the 18th of December at 4pm CET (3pm UK time) on Microsoft Teams.
If you are not yet on the mailing list, please send us an e-mail to attrition.network@gmail.com
Parastoo Kouhestani (University of Troms酶, Norway) will be discussing her study (see abstract below) entitled 鈥淭he Role of Linguistic Distance in First Language Attrition鈥�
Abstract: This project examines a group of Persian-English bilinguals residing
La prochaine s茅ance du cycle de conf茅rences organis茅 par le Germanop么le lorrain, Axe scientifique 1 de la MSH Lorraine (鈥楻echerches linguistiques sur le genre : perspectives crois茅es Allemagne 鈥� France 鈥� Luxembourg鈥�), se tiendra le lundi 16 d茅cembre 2024 de 16h30 脿 18h30 脿 la MSH Lorraine 脿 Nancy (23-25 rue Baron Louis - France) et pourra 锚tre suivie 脿 distance sur Teams (inscription ci-dessous).
Die n盲chste Sitzung der vom Germanop么le lorrain organisierten Vortragsreihe findet statt am Montag,
The American Philosophical Society's Library & Museum in Philadelphia invites applications for short-term residential research fellowships. These funding opportunities provide 1- to 3- months of support for researchers in residence and are open to scholars in all fields who show a demonstrated need to use the Library & Museum鈥檚 collections for their project. Approximately 25-30 short-term fellowships are awarded each year.
Deadline: March 3, 2025. Notifications will be sent in May 2025.
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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, established in 1969, offers MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested in learning and conducting research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities.
*The application deadline is January 15, 2025*.
The Department has a long-standing focus on community-engaged work with Indigenous languages and their sustainability and revitalization.
Final Call for Papers:
DEADLINE EXTENSION
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 11th conference on Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties has been extended to 15 December 2024.
For more information, including confirmed invited speakers, visit our website at https://www.uc.pt/celga-iltec/pcl2025/.
We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon!
2nd Call for Papers:
We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 18th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English.
Forum Dates: Saturday May 17 鈥� Sunday May 18, 2025
Location: Seijo University, Tokyo
6-1-20 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo-to, 157-8511, Japan
Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
We invite abstracts for (A) oral presentations (each a 20-minute talk plu
Seminario internazionale di Studi linguistici di genere. Spagna e Italia
Seminario internazionale di Studi linguistici di genere. Spagna e Italia
Call for Papers:
**Call for abstracts**
We welcome abstract submissions for talks or posters on topics related to natural language semantics, pragmatics, the syntax-semantics interface, philosophy of language, and psycho-/neurolinguistic studies related to meaning. We especially encourage contributions that incorporate experimental evidence, although all submissions should aim to advance a formal model of natural language semantics and pragmatics. We welcome abstract submissions for talks or p
Call for Papers:
The panel focuses on the usage of obscene language (伪峒跋兿囅佄课晃课澄�/obscenitas) in the ancient world. Of the many types of words that could be seen as obscene, most pertained to sexual and scatological vocabulary, but other types of taboos also existed (see e.g. De Martino & Sommerstein, "Studi sull鈥橢ufemismo," Bari 1999). Until the 1960s, work on this kind of vocabulary was prevented by the prudery that inhibited the scholarly community (think of the avoidance of explicit definiti
SUMMARY
Elements in Translation and Interpreting presents innovative studies on the theory, practice and pedagogy of translation and interpreting. In Translation as Creative-Critical Practice, Delphine Grass challenges the separation between practice and theory in translation studies by analyzing creative-critical translation experiments.
Traditionally, translation studies as a discipline has been organized around a clear separation between theory and practice. According to the author, creativ
Call for Papers:
Proposals of thematic/workshop sessions and papers are invited for both oral and poster presentations related to the leitmotif, as well as to other topics within modern linguistics.
Each paper in the general oral sessions will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Poster sessions will form an integral part of the conference programme. The number of submissions is limited to one single-authored plus one co-authored abstract per author (or two co-authored one
Call for Papers:
We welcome contributions for 30 minute talks, each followed by a 10 minute discussion session. As this workshop seeks to foster dialogue and collaboration between researchers working in Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, we especially welcome submissions that engage with one or more of the following topics:
- Curious cases of syncretism
- Suppletion and contextual allomorphy
- *ABA-patterns
- The relevance of zero in DM and Nanosyntax
- Structural gaps (e.g. (pro)nouns, TAM
Plenary Speakers:
Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country)
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London)
Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck)
Christina Lindqvist (University of Gothenburg)
Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton)
Plenary Speakers:
Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country)
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London)
Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck)
Christina Lindqvist (University of Gothenburg)
Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton)
Call for Papers:
Presentation Formats
- Oral presentations: 20-minute talks organized into thematic sessions
- Poster presentations: dedicated poster sessions
Submission Guidelines for Oral or Poster Presentations
- Proposals for oral or poster presentations must be written in French or English and should
not exceed 500 words (references not included).
Submission Process
Proposals should be submitted before January 31st via the Sciencesconf platform:
https://real2-paris2025.sciencesconf.or