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User experience (UX) writers are the professionals who create the verbal content of websites, apps, or other software interfaces, including error messages, help texts, software instructions, or button labels that we all see and engage with every day. This invisible yet highly influential language work has been largely ignored by sociocultural linguists. The book addresses this gap, examining the broader cultural politics of digital media through an exploration of the linguistic production and pu

The work of speechwriters is prominent in political discourse, yet the writers themselves remain in the shadows of the powerful, public figures they work for. This book throws the spotlight on these invisible wordsmiths, illuminating not only what they do, but also why it matters. Based on ethnographic research in the US American speechwriting community, it investigates the ways in which speechwriters talk about their professional practices, and also the material procedures which guide the produ

Linguistic synesthesias combine different senses, as in English smooth melody (touch鈫抯ound). For nearly a century, researchers have gathered data that has been interpreted as supporting the notion of a hierarchical ordering of the senses. According to this proposal, expressions map the presumed-to-be 'lower' senses of touch, taste, and smell onto the presumed-to-be 'higher' senses of sound and sight. Here, this proposal is tested in the first-ever meta-analysis of linguistic synesthesias, combin

Small linguistic tricks can have big footprints. This book examines how India's current Hindu nationalist government uses language as a weapon against its Muslim citizens. Each chapter provides a discursive history of matters that have been a source of conflict between Hindus and Muslims in India, highlighting the potent relationship between language and politics. The book explores four issues, Ramajanmbhoomi temple, Muslim Personal Law as it pertains to Indian Muslim women, Kashmir and revocati

Now in its second edition, this is an invaluable manual for teaching and learning variation analysis, the quantitative study of linguistic variation and change. Written by a leading scholar in the field with over thirty years of experience, it provides an insider's view of the methodology through practical, 'hands-on' advice, including straightforward instructions for conducting analyses using the R programming language, the new gold standard for analysis. It leads readers through each phase of

Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language in the world, and due to recent interest in comparative syntax, the literature on its syntax has increased exponentially, resulting in exciting discoveries of a range of aspects that have hitherto been overlooked. This book provides a theoretically grounded overview of the major syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on the differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese. It shows from a theoretical point of view how different syn

Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-铿乺st century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing, this book foregrounds how language becomes a matte

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it shows how SFL can effectively address two central issues in linguistics 鈥� namely typology and universa

Although multilingual education is still a relatively new field, it has already become a solid and dynamic area of academic investigation growing worldwide. Bringing together a stellar line-up of leading experts, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics crucial for understanding the concept of multilingual education and its implementation. It includes a wide range of overviews and case studies from diverse systems of education from across the globe, to help facilitate effective multilingual i

SUMMARY The book 鈥楿nderstanding Interaction in the Second Language Classroom Context鈥� co-authored by Noriko Iwashita, Phung Dao, and Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen is a hybrid textbook/primer on second language acquisition theory that takes the perspective of classroom interaction as its starting point. The work is based on the authors鈥� experiences as classroom teachers who came to view interaction in the second language classroom as essential to language teaching, regardless of the methodological

Call for Papers: We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 48th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Trier. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics, ranging from models of language across all linguistic areas to corpus lingusitics, multimodal approaches and studies on LLM capability assessment. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. T

Final Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the third edition of the 'Current issues in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics' workshop. Like in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the 脰LT (49th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place December 5-8, 2025 in Klagenfurt, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as at the interfaces. We invit

Call for Abstracts Theory-Informed GenAI-Mediated Language Pedagogies This Digital Studies in Language and Literature Special Issue invites original empirical research that rigorously applies, tests, or validates theoretical frameworks in the study of GenAI-mediated language pedagogies. We seek contributions that foreground the crucial link between theory and practice by explicitly engaging with theoretical frameworks鈥攚hether cognitive, sociocultural, ecological, or critical鈥攖o guide the d

Description: The Department of Communication is looking for a scholar of language and social interaction and/or interpersonal communication who conducts applied empirical research of interaction and/or communication in complex social and relational contexts. Responsibilities of the position include undergraduate and graduate teaching, an active program of research in the candidate鈥檚 area of expertise, and service contributions in accordance with university policy. A Ph.D. or equivalent doctor

Fernanda Ferreira (2025). Psycholinguistics: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192886774. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192886774.001.0001. SUMMARY Ferreira鈥檚 Psycholinguistics: A very short introduction consists of nine chapters, of which the final one is an outlook chapter, followed by a subject index and a list of references and further reading. The book is intended to be an accessible and short, yet insightful and critical, introduction to p

This open-access book casts light on an understudied corpus of Indian Francophone literatures by writers originally from former French territories of India and from other regions of India, who also engage in processes of translation: Ari Gautier (Pondicherry), M. Mukundan (Mah茅), Manohar Rai Sardessai (Goa), Toru Dutt (Calcutta) and Shumona Sinha (Calcutta). By examining the range of ways in which these writers write between languages, Sheela Mahadevan advances theories of translation and lit

Queer Correctives explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual. In Singapore, Christian discourses of sex and sexuality have materialised in the form of testimonials that detail the pain and suffering of homosexuality, and how Christianity has been a salve for the tribulations experienced by the storytellers. This bo

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner's work involves knowing how interaction works: knowing what a pause does, or why a particular intonation contour changes a line from interrogative to accusative, or what goes into inferring something about a character. Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance uses case studies from dramatic performances and data from real-world interaction to present findings from interaction ana

Tagung B03 SFB 1391 Andere 脛sthetik Br眉cken bauen Metaphern und Symbole an der Schnittstelle von Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik T眉bingen, 24. 鈥� 26. September 2025 Metaphern und Symbole stellen seit jeher ein zentrales Gestaltungsmittel in der Alltagssprache und Literatur dar. Immer wieder stehen sie dabei auch im Kontext 盲sthetischer Ansp

Call for Papers: AG7 of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026 Organized by: Jana H盲ussler (Uni Bielefeld), Thomas Weskott (Uni G枚ttingen), Sarah Zobel (Uni Hannover / HU Berlin) Linguistic acceptability is one of the major tools to detect patterns in language: our intuitions about whether a sentence is "good" or "bad" are a source of evidence that is readily accessible a