Abstracts Archive

This contribution will analyze the synchronic motivation of idioms (such as se fendre la poire, ´to laugh uproariously`) by showing that, contrary to what the traditional approach implies, the processes of motivation in phraseology do not differ from those operating in the lexicon in general.A...

In the German-language discourse on gender fair language (called „gendering/Gendern" in the German speaking world), a decided pro and con prevails to a large extent, and both sides substantiate their stances also scientifically (Kotthoff 2020). The lecture will address the question of whe...

This paper presents a chronological study of the changing status of Malayalam in Singapore across three different periods over the last century, identified on the basis of significant migration trends: (1)1900 - 1960s, a period predominantly oriented toward language maintenance; (2) 1970 - 1990s, a ...

The current sociopolitical situation around the world is forcing scholars and language educators to rethink our pedagogies, methodologies, and approaches. How are academics, researchers, and language educators, engaging with the social and political reality? Or are they? How do we educate and raise ...

This paper is about building solidarity in language-policy activism. If racialized hierarchies of languages-and of the people who speak them-are so stable, then under what conditions is it possible to unite across difference and combat racial and linguistic stratification?The project behind the pape...

This study examines the neural machine translation (NMT) into French of specialised texts written in Spanish. The data corresponds to a parallel corpus composed of (i) technical texts explaining the use of cryptocurrencies and (ii) the NMT of these texts by DeepL and Systran. The analysis will focus...

This paper presents text corpora analyses of political and public discourses on foreign language (FL) education alongside statistical data on actual uptake. It does so by comparing both declared (official) FL policy, debated policies and actual uptake of FL learning in a number of different European...

This paper looks at four Kabyle immigrant families' language practices in three social sites: The Kabyle/Amazigh cultural organisation in London, online platforms and the participants' domestic environment. The Kabyles are a sub-ethnic group indigenous to Algeria. The participants involved in this s...

The issue of language education of adult refugees plays a very important role in the integration of refugee and migrant populations and the recognition of linguistic repertoires and multilingual needs may form the planning dynamics of relevant programs and tailor-made courses. Linguistic integration...

Societal polarization can take a heavy toll on equitable relations of power, eroding people's capacity to see "the other" as anything but a threat, resulting in distrust, discrimination or violent social conflict. Sociolinguistics has illuminated these dynamics, constructing critically-conscious the...

This study looks at two young bilingual Japanese children who return to their home country after a prolonged stay in another linguistic milieu. Firstly, both linguistic and neuro-linguistic data are examined to see if similar changes occur. Then, language retention and attrition are scrutinized in t...

This paper will present a follow-up of a large-scale survey study (n=271) of language learning strategies of multilingual learners reported in Dmitrenko (2016, 2017). The literature review included three research fields: strategy research within Second Language Acquisition, research on multilinguali...

Since 1999, The Frye literary Festival is a bilingual celebration of the literary landscape with writers from all over Canada and beyond participating in literary events in Moncton, New Brunswick. This presentation examines a digital data corpus that focuses on the queer language practices observed ...

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