Aspects offer a fast and contemporary alternative to publish cutting-edge research in a wide variety of areas in Linguistics and related fields. They present original, insightful subjects with a focus on emerging topics. More compact than a monograph, less limited than a regular journal article, Aspects offer authors a new way of publishing their work. Aspects are peer-reviewed under the aegis of existing book series with John Benjamins. The books are between 65 and 80 typeset pages long and are
Whether you're supporting literacy in a school, a community center, or at home, this book is for you. Designed for children and adults alike, it can be used anywhere from bustling cities to remote villages. Inside are participatory, low-tech games built from simple materials you can make or gather locally. Each one includes clear, step-by-step instructions, creative variations, and tips for adapting to different group sizes, languages, and scripts. These games are more than just fun. They are po
We are pleased to announce that the 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12) will be organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and will be held on 21鈥�23 October 2027.
The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research involving two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the successful editions in Mannheim and Prague
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 3rd Tunisian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (TSFLC 3). This edition focuses on the role of SFL in understanding and shaping social change, particularly through perspectives emerging from the margins and peripheries in diverse semiotic and social practices.
Systemic Functional Linguistics sees language as a social semiotic act that not only maintains and supports the existing eco-social order, but also 鈥渘udg[es] it in the directions in w
We are pleased to announce that the 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12) will be organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and will be held on 21鈥�23 October 2027.
The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research involving two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the successful editions in Mannheim and Prague
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 3rd Tunisian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (TSFLC 3). This edition focuses on the role of SFL in understanding and shaping social change, particularly through perspectives emerging from the margins and peripheries in diverse semiotic and social practices.
Systemic Functional Linguistics sees language as a social semiotic act that not only maintains and supports the existing eco-social order, but also 鈥渘udg[es] it in the directions in w
A common distinction in linguistics is between transactional uses of language, which serve the communication of information, and interactional uses, which express attitudes and social relationships (Jakobson 1971; Brown and Yule 1983; Hyland 2005). Within the latter domain, Heine (2023) identifies a range of interactional expressions, including attention signals (Hey!), directives (Look!), evaluatives (Great!), interjections (Oh), response elicitors (What?), response signals (Yes), social formul
Abstract Submission Dates: July 2, 2026 - November 30, 2026
Conference website: https://events.polyu.edu.hk/isgs2027/home
Abstract Submission Link: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/abstract-submission?id=68&eventId=2DC9D9A1-D4F9-4BD9-9B8C-D5E229D92760
We cordially invite abstracts on topics related to Futures for Gestures within the following thematic areas: 鈥淭heory, Practice, Technology, Ecology鈥� and their subthemes.
Theory:
- Mind, embodiment, and cognition
- Perception and social unde
A common distinction in linguistics is between transactional uses of language, which serve the communication of information, and interactional uses, which express attitudes and social relationships (Jakobson 1971; Brown and Yule 1983; Hyland 2005). Within the latter domain, Heine (2023) identifies a range of interactional expressions, including attention signals (Hey!), directives (Look!), evaluatives (Great!), interjections (Oh), response elicitors (What?), response signals (Yes), social formul
Abstract Submission Dates: July 2, 2026 - November 30, 2026
Conference website: https://events.polyu.edu.hk/isgs2027/home
Abstract Submission Link: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/abstract-submission?id=68&eventId=2DC9D9A1-D4F9-4BD9-9B8C-D5E229D92760
We cordially invite abstracts on topics related to Futures for Gestures within the following thematic areas: 鈥淭heory, Practice, Technology, Ecology鈥� and their subthemes.
Theory:
- Mind, embodiment, and cognition
- Perception and social unde
Whether spoken or signed, linguistic behaviour reflects physiological properties of the body. Previous research has shown that the bodily architecture, e.g. vocal tract morphology and strength of muscle activation, as well as interacting physiological processes such as breathing, motion, and posture and their timing, shape the way we produce speech (Blasi et al. 2019, Fuchs and Rochet-Capellan 2021, Pouw et al. 2025). Importantly, the body continues to change nonlinearly across the entire lifesp
Whether spoken or signed, linguistic behaviour reflects physiological properties of the body. Previous research has shown that the bodily architecture, e.g. vocal tract morphology and strength of muscle activation, as well as interacting physiological processes such as breathing, motion, and posture and their timing, shape the way we produce speech (Blasi et al. 2019, Fuchs and Rochet-Capellan 2021, Pouw et al. 2025). Importantly, the body continues to change nonlinearly across the entire lifesp
We are pleased to announce the second international conference of ARDAA (Association for Research in English Language Teaching and Acquisition), TeachLEng 2027, which will take place on 25, 26, and 27 June 2027 at the INSPE de l鈥橝cad茅mie de Paris 鈥� Molitor Campus.
In a rapidly changing educational and socio-professional landscape that is oriented towards improving economic productivity and the internationalisation of individual trajectories, English language teaching and learning is being ca
We are pleased to announce the second international conference of ARDAA (Association for Research in English Language Teaching and Acquisition), TeachLEng 2027, which will take place on 25, 26, and 27 June 2027 at the INSPE de l鈥橝cad茅mie de Paris 鈥� Molitor Campus.
In a rapidly changing educational and socio-professional landscape that is oriented towards improving economic productivity and the internationalisation of individual trajectories, English language teaching and learning is being ca
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VIZJA University, based in Warsaw, is one of Poland鈥檚 leading non-public universities, recognized for the excellence of its research and its significant contributions to contemporary scholarship. The University also hosts VISION 鈥� the European Center for Multilingualism in Teacher Education, an international center that brings together scholars from around the world to advance research and innovation in multilingualism and to promote excellence in teacher education across diverse
The focus of this dissertation is nasality and nasalization in Atchan, a Potou language of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo spoken in and around Abidjan, C么te d鈥橧voire. Unlike most of the world鈥檚 languages, Atchan lacks a phonemic contrast for nasality in consonants. Nasality nonetheless plays an important role in Atchan, at multiple levels of grammar. Drawing on data collected over years of documentation work with Atchan speakers, I propose that surface nasality in the language is attributable to
2026. v, 191 pp.
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Introduction
How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information鈥搃ntonation interface
Uta Rein枚hl & Naomi Peck | pp.鈥�1鈥�9
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The 鈥榠dea鈥� in the one-new-idea constraint
Uta Rein枚hl & Naomi Peck | pp.鈥�10鈥�42
Joint attention, interaction-management, and other factors: The one-new-idea tendency as an emergent phenomenon
Pavel Ozerov | pp.鈥�43鈥�79
Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint
Naomi Peck | pp.鈥�80鈥�109
The
2026. v, 108 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Discourse analysis and argumentation theory: A happy marriage for interactional discourse
Corina Andone & Menno H. Reijven | pp.鈥�101鈥�106
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Conversation analysis and extended pragma-dialectics in dialogue: A case study of Dutch medical consultation
Lotte van Poppel, Keun Young Sliedrecht, Roosmaryn Pilgram & Evi Dalmaijer | pp.鈥�107鈥�134
Accusation-response sequences in couples therapy from the perspectives of conversation
2026. iii, 159 pp.
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A corpus-based analysis of Malay prefix ber-
Siaw-Fong Chung | pp.鈥�1鈥�30
On the putative classifier languages in Europe: A case study of Russian
Chi-Pin Hsu, Vladimir Kurdyumov & One-Soon Her | pp.鈥�31鈥�51
On preverbal lai in Mandarin Chinese
Pei-Jung Kuo | pp.鈥�52鈥�78
Wh-conditionals are more interrogative than not: An insight from Khorchin Mongolian
Haoze Li & Chigchi Bai | pp.鈥�79鈥�118
Boosting LLM performance with generative ques
I am conducting my PhD research on how non鈥慴inary individuals who are native speakers of Russian navigate and construct their gender identities through everyday language use. Russian is a highly gendered language, and existing grammatical norms often presume a binary division between 鈥渕ale鈥� and 鈥渇emale鈥� speakers. This creates unique linguistic and social challenges for non鈥慴inary people whose identities do not fit into this binary framework.
To understand these challenges and the strategies,