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After migration, over three decades ago from their ancestral lands, the diaspora Maka (Matacoan) community of Itapua in Paraguay is striving for and resisting to maintain their indigenous language alive.Through collaborative and active participatory linguistic research, there is an attempt to regist...

This paper presents a newly published edited book titled Multilingual Israel: Language Ideologies, Survival, Integration, and Hybridization (Multilingual Matters), examining dimensions of Israel's multilingualism, taking Joshua Fishman's notions of language loyalty and shift as a star...

We will share a pedagogic initiative for English learning, carried out in a multi-grade rural school in Patagonia, Argentina. The experience is part of an ongoing four-year-long participatory action-research project and involves primary schoolers between 9 and 14 years old, the rural school communit...

This research is based on a corpus of multimodal texts (billboards, signage elements, posts on social networks, etc.) collected in the city of Montreal with a view to enriching the teaching of French to adult migrants in Quebec. First, a semiotic analysis inspired by the work of van Leeuwen (2008) w...

The argument is written in English and therefore a summary is not applicable here.

Since the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, conference interpreting, like all other spheres of human activity, has had to undergo a rapid adaptation to the new conditions of life. Thus, the technological means available in today's world have led to the consolidation and rapid develop...

Phase shift is a key concept in development in CDST, for which change points can be a favorable sign. However, phase shifts remain elusive in L2 writing research due to a lack of sufficiently dense data to detect them and a lack of recognition when they occur. Moreover, even...

While research into the internationalisation and Englishisation of higher education is flourishing, it has so far paid little attention to the discipline of music and the performing arts. This contribution aims to address this research gap and presents an exploratory study into multilingualism at a ...

The expression "How are you?" is probably one of the most studied in interactional studies, both in its phatic, ritual or structuring dimensions.  In medical interactions, research has shown that this question is interpreted according to its sequential location, and that it can also be ambiguou...

As an introduction to the symposium on the globalization of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice's commitments in universities and in the teaching of French L2, this presentation will first discuss the impact of anti-racist and anti-sexist social movements on the creation of academic unit...

Miscommunication in healthcare is common. When communicating about risk and certainty, practitioners often use epistemic adverbs (e.g., possibly etc.) to explain the likelihood of outcomes or conditions. Previous work revealed subtle differences between monolingual English speakers in Cana...

In Hungary a word, an un-word, a poetic word and a youth word of the year have been announced every year since 2010. All these words are chosen by linguists affiliated with the Magyar Nyelv Szolgáltató Iroda which corresponds to the Plain English Campaign, only the choice of the youth word is made...

Our paper intends to show how a practitioner and citizen research firmly rooted in interactional and applied linguistics contributes to(1) better understand how some actors in our society take social co-responsibility to fight against the risks of financial breakdown that could lead individuals and ...