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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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An independent, family-owned academic publishing house, mainly in linguistics, translation studies and literary studies. Amsterdam based. https://www.benjamins.com/
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🎉 We are pleased to announce that David Natvig & Hanna Fischer will be joining Mike Putnam & Laura Catharine Smith as Editors of 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀: welcome on board! 🙌

🔎 More info on the series: www.benjamins.com/catalog/sigl

#germanic #germaniclinguistics #linguistics
January 14, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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✨ Happy to announce that Sarah Turner will succeed @agdorst.bsky.social and join Susan Nacey & Dennis Tay as editor of the journal 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱: welcome on board! We thank Lettie Dorst for all the hard work and support. 🙏
🔎 More info on the journal: www.benjamins.com/catalog/msw
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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🔎 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 🔎

We are pleased to announce that for 2026, in addition to renewals, 𝟮𝟬 more institutions are joining our Open Access arrangement through 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 & 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀.
𝟭𝟱𝟬+ institutions participate from a wide range of countries.
More info: 👉 www.benjamins.com/read-and-pub...
January 14, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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Hot off the press: harvest of December 2025 www.benjamins.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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📢 Meet us at the 7th VIOT taalbeheersingsconferentie hosted by @uantwerpen.be, 28-30 January!

📚 Please feel welcome to browse our books at the exhibit and meet with acquisitions editor Ymke Verploegen!✒️

📕 Check out our promo material and order form: benjamins.com/conferences/...

#viot2026
January 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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📣 We are pleased to announce two new Associate Editors and one new Review Editor for our journal 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆: Diana Roig Sanz, Minhui Xu & Giuseppe Palumbo, welcome on board! 🙌

📘 More on the journal: 👉 benjamins.com/catalog/tris

#translation #translationstudies
January 8, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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📚 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 📚

👓 Enjoy browsing the 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 edition of our New Books Alert! 👓

👇https://www.benjamins.com/downloads/catalogs/nba.2026.january.pdf
January 8, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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Unfortunately, I won't be attending in person. I wish all participants a great conference!
📚 For a 30% discount on selected titles, check out the order form (👉 link in the original post).
We're always happy to hear from you, about a current or possible future Benjamins publication 📕.
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📣 We will be virtually present at the LSA Annual Meeting 2026, 8-11 January!

📚 Check out our promo material and order form here:
👉 benjamins.com/conferences/...

📗 If you wish to talk about publishing projects, get in touch with acquisitions editor Anke de Looper @jbanke.bsky.social. 😎

#lsa2026
January 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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🏆 We congratulate Mingjian Xiang on winning the 2nd Prize of the prestigious 18𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘶 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 2025 with his book 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝙕𝙝𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙯𝙞: 𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆! 🥂

📘 More info: www.benjamins.com/catalog/ftl.18
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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📢 John Benjamins will be present at the Grote Taaldag 2026
hosted by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social on 27 January!

📚 Please feel welcome to browse our small exhibit. Also, check out our promotional material and discount order form here: 👉 benjamins.com/conferences/...

#gtd2026
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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🎄 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑱𝑩 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓! 🎄

🥂 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 22 𝑫𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 - 5 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚 🥂

✨ 𝑺𝑬𝑬 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑨𝑮𝑨𝑰𝑵 𝑰𝑵 2026! ✨
December 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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📣 Call for Papers! The rapid rise of #LLMs is transforming how definitions are created, accessed, understood. The capabilities go hand in hand with significant challenges which 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 will address in a Special Issue.

Interested in submitting a paper?
CfP 👉 benjamins.com/series/term/...
December 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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It's been out for a while, but in case you missed it: Hans Boas and I have edited another "Constructions in Contact" volume in the Constructional Approaces to Language series (@johnbenjamins.bsky.social). benjamins.com/catalog/cal.40 #DCxG #CxG
Constructions in Contact 3
Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. This book presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomen...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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📣 We will be virtually present at the LSA Annual Meeting 2026, 8-11 January!

📚 Check out our promo material and order form here:
👉 benjamins.com/conferences/...

📗 If you wish to talk about publishing projects, get in touch with acquisitions editor Anke de Looper @jbanke.bsky.social. 😎

#lsa2026
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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🤝 Our book series Topics in Address Research welcomes Víctor Fernández-Mallat (Georgetown University) as series editor, joining Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek & María Irene Moyna. Welcome on board! 🙌

👉 www.benjamins.com/catalog/tar
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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📣 We are pleased to announce two new Associate Editors for our journal Target bsky.app/profile/targ...: Rhona Amos & Sara Ramos Pinto. Furthermore, Riku Haapaniemi will become the new Multilingual Website Editor. Welcome on board! 🙌
📘 More on the journal:
👉 www.benjamins.com/catalog/target
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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✨ We are pleased to announce that starting with volume 60 (2025), Johan Pedersen will succeed Richard Waltereit and join Julio Jensen as editor of Revue Romane: welcome on board! 🙌
Richard Waltereit will remain member of the board.

🔎 More info on the journal: 👉 www.benjamins.com/catalog/rro
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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📈 Listen up!
💡 There is a considerable gap in the field of historical linguistics re the diachronic study of tone.
💡 The latest SI of 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 brings together contributions from linguists specializing in different regions & language families who work on 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲:
doi.org/10.1075/dia....
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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💡 In this 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 video, Alper Kumcu introduces the journal 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝘾𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 & 𝘽𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙧 @jbtacuba.bsky.social, which he edits with Elena Davitti!

👓 youtu.be/KWvRI0gOr5k

🎥 Enjoy watching this video and please stay tuned for the next one!

📒 More info on TCB: www.benjamins.com/catalog/tcb
December 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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📣 We will be virtually present at the 12th EAFT Terminology Summit, hosted by Universität Innsbruck, 27-29 November!

📚 Check out our promo material and order form here:
👉 benjamins.com/conferences/...

📚 And don't miss out on the book launch!!!
👉 www.benjamins.com/catalog/hot.4
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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📣 John Benjamins will be virtually present at the 6th Tense, Aspect and Modality in L2 (TAML2), hosted by @ucm.es, 27-28 November!

📚 Check out our promotional material and discount order form here:
👉 benjamins.com/conferences/...

#taml2 #languagelearning #secondlanguage #l2
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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💡 The 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 now contains 🔹46,000🔹 annotated records about scholarly publications in #translation and #interpreting studies.

👉 www.benjamins.com/online/tsb/

➡️ You can propose relevant (and your own!) publications for inclusion in the TSB here: entry.benjamins.com/tsb
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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💡 Our journal Translation and Interpreting Studies announces a Call for Papers for a special issue on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆:
👉 www.benjamins.com/series/tis/c...

#translationstudies #translation
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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💡 Did you know that we offer various options to institutions for purchasing or accessing e-books?
💠 evidence-based acquisition
💠 front list collections
💠 backlist collections for purchase or for one-year subscription access
👉 benjamins.com/content/libr...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM