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• Re-opening the case 2025-10-10
  Abstract How does the variability of the language system affect translational language use? Despite inconclusive results of earlier corpus studies, machine learning approaches reach high accuracies in distinguishing translated from non-translated texts. Translations must therefore involve linguistic patterns easy to spot by computers, but harder to spot by the human analyst. Consequently, the differences have […]
• The realization of Spanish /b d ɡ/ by Czech LX speakers 2025-10-10
  Abstract The pronunciation of the Spanish phonemes /b d ɡ/ is challenging for L2 learners, but most studies have relied on native speakers of English. This study examines the pronunciation of stop and approximant variants of Spanish /b d ɡ/ in two groups of Czech learners, 9 more and 9 less experienced users of Spanish, […]
• Unraveling creativity in translation 2025-10-10
  Abstract Creativity is one of the most valued human qualities, capable of enhancing the quality of final products across diverse fields, including translation. This study integrated translation products and processes through an experiment in which 42 student participants translated six excerpts from science fiction and science-technology texts, with data collected via eye-tracking and keylogging tools. […]
• Dialogue in digital spaces 2025-10-10
• Review of Nguyen & Malabarba (2025): Developing interactional competence at the workplace: Learning English as a foreign language on the shop floor 2025-10-09
  This article reviews Developing interactional competence at the workplace: Learning English as a foreign language on the shop floor 
• Compétence d’interaction en L2 et processus de socialisation 2025-10-09
  Résumé La présente étude vise à contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de la relation entre l’acquisition d’une langue seconde (L2) et l’évolution des rapports sociaux que l’apprenant·e entretient avec autrui. Ancrée dans l’Analyse Conversationnelle, l’investigation porte sur la manière dont Julie, fille au pair et apprenante de français L2, répond aux évaluations produites par Marie, […]
• Devenir membre de mondes sociaux 2025-10-09
• Discussion paper 2025-10-09
  Abstract In this paper, I develop a critical appreciation of how conversation analytic research on second language acquisition (CA-SLA) sheds light on the ways participants’ shared interactional histories shape second language learning behavior. I do this by: (1) examining whether this special issue has achieved its stated editorial goals, and (2) evaluating how this collection […]
• BE-perfects and grammaticalization in Bulgarian and Lithuanian 2025-10-09
  Abstract The goal of this paper is to put the semantic functions of the Lithuanian and Bulgarian perfects into a perspective of the grammaticalization cline specific to BE-perfects, i.e., perfects that exclusively use auxiliaries derived from verbs meaning ‘to be’. The study is based on synchronic data and on the idea that diachronic conceptual shifts, […]
• Occasioning and re-occasioning learnables in a cooking class 2025-10-09
  Abstract This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to explore “re-occasionings” in multilingual interaction recorded at a cooking school in Okinawa, Japan. We first examine the initial occurrence of a phrase that is treated as learnable by the recipients. We then consider how successive (re)orientations to shared interactional history with this phrase shape the trajectory of […]
• Assigning ‘sacred’ meaning to songs 2025-10-09
  Abstract This paper examines how Protestant faithful select songs they deem worthy of being performed during church services. It is premised on the hypothesis that, in addition to its text, pitch, rhythm and dynamics, the sacredness of a song depends on the context of its production. The data were collected in a parish of the […]
• A corpus-based study into new combining forms in American English 2025-10-09
  Abstract This study examines 10 new combining forms (CFs) in American English from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, based on data from the Corpus of Historical American English, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and the News on the Web, as well as seven dictionaries. Through the lens of corpus and dictionary data alongside the […]
• Translation as foreclosure 2025-10-09
  Abstract Negation is an enigmatic function of translation that has rarely been investigated. Instead of delivering the original text to the new language, translation also negates the incompatible in order to assert the validity of a target text by preventing access to the original. This form of negation is scrutinised in this article as an […]
• Preschool teachers’ training processes about coding and robotics 2025-10-09
  Abstract The Action-Research involved 19 Italian preschools within a teachers’ training on coding and educational robotics as innovative tools for enhancing children’s learning processes. The initial program used BeeBot, Cubetto, and Lego Wedo 2.0 technologies, while a subsequent version introduced i-Code, a newly developed tool specifically designed for Programmable Digital Storytelling applications. The research framework […]
• Re-presenting the Arab women in contemporary translation of the 19th century travel literature 2025-10-09
  Abstract This paper examines the re-presentation of Arab women in modern Arabic translations of two 19th-century British travelogues: John Lewis Burckhardt’s Travels in Arabia (1830) and Richard Burton’s Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Mecca (1855). The study analyses how gendered portrayals from colonial-era texts are reinterpreted and re-presented for 21st-century Arabs through […]
• Becoming friends 2025-10-09
  Abstract This conversation analytic study draws on a longitudinal corpus of landline phone calls. The material under examination comprises seven calls in English made between 1987 and 1991 between J (English L2 speaker), a European spare part provider, and T, a representative of a British company. Over the years in the course of these conversations, […]
• Becoming a member in social worlds 2025-10-09
• Review of Baicchi & Broccias (2024): Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics 2025-10-09
• Interactional competence development as task-oriented language socialization 2025-10-09
  Abstract This article explores the connections between the development of L2 interactional competence and language socialization by analyzing interactions between a novice hotel staff member and various international guests in Vietnam. Using longitudinal conversation analysis, we trace changes in the novice’s informings about the hotel’s spa services over the course of ten months. The analysis […]
• Offensive language in reactions to public figures in polarised discourse online 2025-10-07
  Abstract Offensive language affects contemporary societies by hindering communication and increasing polarisation. In this study, we apply computational linguistics to investigate offensive reactions to public figures in the climate debate on Twitter across their roles and popularity. We also use sentiment analysis to inspect the accuracy of lexical criteria in detecting negative attitudes and examine […]