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• From theory to data 2025-10-31
  Abstract This paper presents a corpus-based study that evaluates variables identified introspectively by Berthonneau (2002) in relation to the alternation between two French synonymous: prochain (‘next’ or ‘upcoming’) and suivant (‘following’ or ‘next’). Employing a multifactorial and behavioural profiles approach, we explore the asymmetry in their temporal and spatial applications. Our findings highlight distinct uses […]
• Refugee languages and the right to interpretation 2025-10-31
  Abstract This article examines the tensions between the language needs of asylum seekers and how these are addressed in institutional language policy and practice, focusing on the everyday practice of asylum lawyers communicating with their clients, which is characterized by immense linguistic diversity and a high demand for language support in languages of lesser diffusion […]
• The production of German vowels by Arabic-speaking L2 learners 2025-10-30
  Abstract This study investigates the production of German front rounded and tense–lax back vowels (/uː/, /ʊ/, /ʏ/, /yː/) by Arabic-speaking L2 learners, addressing the underexplored area of how L1 Arabic phonological systems — where vowel length is phonemic — influence the acquisition of German vowel contrasts in L2 speech production. These vowels were selected based […]
• Framing in Interaction 2025-10-30
  This volume invites its readers to rethink the linguistic basis for framing analysis by problematizing the existing foundation and presenting eight new pragmatically based framing analyses.The book challenges the assumption that there is a unilateral, one-to-one relationship between words and frames, such that framing occurs when a language user is exposed to a word that […]
• Anaphoric polar answers in Gallo‑Romance and West Germanic 2025-10-30
  Abstract In several medieval and modern varieties of Gallo-Romance and West Germanic, answers to polar questions may consist of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ followed by a personal or demonstrative pronoun with anaphoric reference. This type of answers is typologically rare, which begs the question of its origin and its possible spread via language contact. The present […]
• Old French exploitation toponyms in the northern Low Countries and their significance for medieval Dutch settlement history 2025-10-30
  Abstract This article explores the influence of Old French terminology on medieval settlement history in the Low Countries, revealing lexical exchanges that disseminated from the bilingual zone in Belgium to the southern Netherlands. It argues that the southern Dutch toponyms saert, triest, and mortel reflect the high medieval dissemination of southern technological and organizational expertise […]
• Lateinische Überlieferungsgeschichte und die peripheren Entlehnungen aus dem Germanischen 2025-10-30
  Abstract This article presents and discusses four Latin words for which a Germanic etymology is — more or less — accepted. The study begins with the famous ‘elk word’ alcis, ἄλκη, which serves as a template for the analysis of the other three words: socerio, melca and reno. In the case of all four words, […]
• Germanisch-romanische Sprachkontakte 2025-10-30
  Abstract Etymological research informs not only our knowledge of particular languages but also the communities of speakers involved and their history more broadly. While it is generally recognized that historical, cultural and societal events can influence the development of languages, how these factors influence linguistic research and how we think about or perceive particular languages […]
• Zu althochdeutsch tegal und tegil 2025-10-30
  Abstract The Old High German words tegal m. ‘tableware (of clay)’ and tegil m. ‘(melting) pot’ are generally seen as Romance loanwords. In the following it is shown that there is no need for this assumption because on the one hand Old High German tegal has a correspondence in Norn digel (in digel[s]mur ‘hard clayish […]
• Burgundische Personennamen im Kontakt mit Fränkisch und Galloromanisch als Elemente der Rekonstruktion einer ostgermanischen Trümmersprache 2025-10-30
  Abstract A Burgundian regnum existed in southeast France from 436 until 534, the year in which it was integrated into the Merovingian empire of the Franks, where it had an important afterlife as a so called ‘Teilreich’ equipped with its own kings. On the basis of new sources, mostly contemporary personal names, and by means […]
• Acknowledgements 2025-10-30
• Volunteer conference interpreting 2025-10-30
  Abstract Universities are  keen to enhance employability skills in graduates to address a perceived skills gap and volunteering may provide a solution (Barton et al. 2019, Ellis Paine et al. 2013), explored here as part of the conference interpreting training journey. The case-study, using a sample of thirty practising conference interpreters who all engaged in Volunteering Conference Interpreting […]
• What does water mean to us 2025-10-28
  Abstract This study employs a corpus-based approach to examine the metaphorical and metonymic uses of water in Chinese and English idioms. The findings indicate that both languages share similar target domains of water metaphors, such as power, thought and emotions, based on shared bodily experiences and the universal attributes of water. However, the conceptual correspondences […]
• Charting the development of pointing 2025-10-28
  Abstract Relational developmental systems (RDS) approaches to communicative development trace the origins of (social) pointing back to early instances of non-social index finger use. So far, no empirical longitudinal examination of this proposal exists. This paper reports on a longitudinal analysis of non-social index finger use and pointing from 6 to 16 months (n = 114) based […]
• In pursuit of the cinematic experience 2025-10-28
  Abstract Silent film translation was a dynamic and multifaceted phenomenon. Films were not only inherently translatable and widely adapted, but the film text itself was ultimately shaped by the specific context in which it was exhibited (Vasey 1997). Adapting a foreign film demanded a high level of expertise, encompassing complex operations such as translation, film […]
• Forces behind the scene 2025-10-28
  Abstract This paper offers a semantic account of mood choice in non-subordinate subjunctive clauses, excluding those where the subjunctive is licensed by overt markers (e.g., Quizás ‘Perhaps’, Ojalá ‘I hope’/‘If only’). The analysis is based on the model proposed in García Yanes (2022; 2025b), which has emerged as a compelling alternative to epistemic, truth-conditional, and […]
• The use of machine translation as a multilingual communication strategy 2025-10-28
  Abstract This exploratory study investigates the use of online translation tools by Ukrainian war refugees in Czechia as a key multilingual communication strategy during their initial months of displacement, particularly in the absence of interpreters. The study aims to identify conceptual lenses that can guide further research on this strategy within translation studies. We explore […]
• “Brides as unaffordable commodities” 2025-10-28
  Abstract In this paper, we investigate the cartoons of high bride price in China. Through an integrated approach of multimodal metaphor analysis, metaphor scenario analysis, and feminist critical discourse analysis, we focus on how metaphors are discursively employed to convey and resist the practices of high bride price, which reflects the intricate power relations and […]
• Review of Gerfer (2025): Jamaican Creole in global reggae and dancehall performances: Language use, perceptions, attitudes 2025-10-28
• Conceptualisation of mental activities through the body part ləbb ‘heart’ in Amharic 2025-10-28
  Abstract This study applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory to examine how the term ləbb ‘heart’ in Amharic is metaphorically extended to mental activities. By examining the figurative uses of ‘heart’ in fixed expressions from Amharic monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, and utilising the lexical method, this study finds that ləbb ‘heart’ is a central organ in the […]