At Knesset conference on 'Gaza Riviera,' whose name and focus play off Trump announcement, far-right finance minister touts 'tremendous opportunity' to reestablish settlements in Strip

The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

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Editor’s note: The Trump administration has recently declared English the official language of the USA while simultaneously cutting the provision of English language education services. This politi…

Given that rural hospital closures in the USA have increasingly occurred in rural communities with higher-than-median shares of Latinx residents, this study examines disparities in travel times to acc...

Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference on ‘Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusi...

“Your language is worthless,” they were told repeatedly. “To be a Mexican citizen, you must speak the national language, Spanish. Stop speaking your language.”

Judge Dana Sabraw this week ordered officials at Otay Mesa Detention Center to provide him with a Mongolian Sign Language interpreter.

Forced displacement and refugee protection are among the most pressing moral and political challenges of our time. This workshop aims to explore how normative and empirical approaches can meaningfully...

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This paper considers the meaning and use of the English particle man. It is shown that the particle does quite different things when it appears in sentence-initial and sentence-final position; the fir...

Sign languages are languages like any other. A new platform called Sign-Hub documents their diversity around the world and shows the importance of learning them at an early age, as with any oral language.

Dans un secteur dominé par les géants américains et chinois, la France et l’Europe ambitionnent d’emprunter « une troisième voie » en matière

Abstract. This paper examines the role of Jon Henner’s Twitter presence (@jmhenner) as a form of crip activism, exploring how he used the platform to chall

2nd Call for Papers: The conference will take place from September 30 to October 1, 2025, at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), under the framework of OP JAK “LangInLife” (https://www.muni.cz/en/research/projects/73477). The conference is intended to contribute to filling a gap in Second Language Acquisition, where research on adult immigrants developing additional languages is currently underrepresented (see Mocciaro & Young-Scholten 2025). After a fundamental research season in the 1

Background: Migration into and within Africa has been increasingly motivated by social, political, educational and economic purposes. Movements of peoples in contemporary times, en-masse or in smaller groups have an impact on language practices in multilingual Africa. These movements raise a number of interesting questions such as; What changes are there in contexts where different languages come into contact as a result of different people mobility? How mobile are languages and how stable are

During my Master of Research (MRes) studies, whenever I met someone new, they would often enquire about what I was doing for my thesis. When I told them, I was doing research with hearing children …