Launched by Stanford’s GSE Black Academic Development Lab, the journal connects traditionally siloed research areas to highlight the link between language practices and Black cultural identity.

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Sign languages have been shown to favor two-handed forms to express plural meanings, and in this paper we investigate whether this pattern is similarly found in silent gestures improvised by hearing n...

Plenary Speakers: Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden) Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool, UK) Catherina Nyström Höög (Stockholm University, Sweden) Brian Walker (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Call for Papers: Although it has its roots in classical rhetoric, modern stylistics arose from the Russian formalist literary critical movement of the early twentieth century, from which emerged the notion of defamiliarization that is central to the stylistic concept of foregrounding.

This paper challenges the hypothesis that ideophonic sequences are syntactic structures built from lexical roots by the recursive operation Merge through the mediation of a functional head, taken to b...

The La Trobe University Working Papers in Linguistics journal is an archive for papers, honours theses and similar works. The journal was published from 1988-2001.  Cultural Sensitivity Some material...

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