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Academic books, journals and news from the Linguistics department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, including its imprint Mouton. Posts by our editors.
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What does English spoken in the Kingdom of Tonga sound like?

Danielle Tod’s monograph is the first book-length #linguistic description of #Tongan #English, documenting the sound, structure, history, and status of this English variety in the South Pacific.

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Book cover of the monograph "Tongan English", written by Danielle Tod.
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🥂 Congratulations to Eleonora Serra on the publication of her monograph on linguistic prestige in 16th-century Italy.

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111242811/html#overview

#Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #Italian
Book cover of the monograph "From Attitudes to Usage: The Dynamics of Linguistic Prestige in Early Modern Italy", written by Eleonora Serra.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Interested in the linguistics of hate speech but don’t speak German? Take a look at Victoria Guillen-Nieto’s 2023 monograph. Also available in #OpenAccess:

🔓 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110672619/html#overview
📚 More from the series: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/fll-b/html
Book cover of "Hate Speech: Linguistic Perspectives", written by Victoria Guillén-Nieto.
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Our colleagues in the Law department have published an interdisciplinary, German-language collection on hate speech, edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß and Mustafa Temmuz Oğlakcıoğlu. Now available in #OpenAccess:

🔓 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111683041/html#contents
Book cover of "Hassrede an der Schnittstelle von Linguistik und Justiz", edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß and Mustafa Temmuz Oğlakcıoğlu.
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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💡 Where generative syntax meets variationist sociolinguistics.

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111426280/html

#Linguistics #Syntax #Sociolinguistics #EnglishLinguistics @laurelmack.bsky.social @inthelemonlight.bsky.social @linguistlaura.bsky.social
Book cover of "English Sociosyntax", edited by Daniel Duncan and Mary Robinson.
November 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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How do the phonologies of varieties of #Portuguese differ?

Amanda Macedo Balduino explains the differences between São Tomé and Príncipe Portuguese and Brazilian and European Portuguese.

📕 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111705798/html

#Phonology #Phonetics #LanguageVariation
Book cover of "Portuguese Phonology in Context" written by Amanda Macedo Balduino.
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Our recommendation for #OAWeek addresses anyone interested in #LanguageAssessment:

@dima403.bsky.social, Matthew Poehner and Ari Huhta collected the latest research on dynamic and diagnostic approaches to language assessment: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783111233918/html#bibliographicData
Book cover of "Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment" edited by Dmitri Leontjev, Matthew Poehner, and Ari Huhta.
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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🔍 What if Latin’s loss of vowel length, a change that shaped all of Romance, came not from stress shifts but from open-syllable lengthening leveling the field?

Loporcaro & Onorato argue just that in their new Open Access paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#Latin#Phonology#OAWeek#Langsky
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🎉 Celebrating a remarkable milestone: 50 years of Communications!

This landmark issue features insights from leading voices and looks ahead to the future of the field (free access): www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

👉 Explore it, share it, shape the debate!

#Communication #MediaStudies
Cover 50th Anniversary Edition Communications
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The award-winning monograph “Modality in Contact” explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes, with a focus on Singapore English.

Access here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111488752/html

#Linguistics #WorldEnglishes #LanguageContact
Image of the cover of the book "Modality in contact: Necessity and obligation in New Englishes" written by Carmelo Alessandro Basile.
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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😊 Happy authors, happy publisher!

🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025
Photo of the author of the award-winning book "Modality in contact" holding a copy of the book in front of a table of De Gruyter Mouton books at the 2025 SLE Annual Meeting.
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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How does English spoken in Namibia differ from English spoken elsewhere?

💡 Find out in Gerald Stell’s new monograph: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110784336/html

#Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #EnglishLinguistics #WorldEnglishes #Multilingualism #Phonetics #Namibia
Book cover of the monograph "Namibian English in its multilingual environment" by Gerald Stell.
August 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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🥂 Congrats to @yecidortega.bsky.social‬ for publishing his monograph „Pluriversal Applied Linguistics“.

🙏 Based on his work in a marginalized community in Colombia, it advocates for more socially just linguistic education.

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111242880/html#overview
Book cover of the monograph "Pluriversal Applied Linguistics" by Yecid Ortega.
August 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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📢 Call for Special Issue Editors – AI-Supported Global Communication

Online Media and Global Communication (OMGC) seeks Special Issue Editors.
🔗 More info: omgc.shisu.edu.cn/0a/3b/c12420... 🔗 More info on OMGC: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

#langsky #OpenAccess
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Cover image Online Media and Global Communication
August 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🌊 On ‘sail’ now! This book is set to make a splash.

👉 First book to unite #Linguistics, #MaritimeLaw and the #LawOfTheSea, written by legal scholars and linguists.

🚢 Shipping now & available via the usual channels: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111332543/html

All puns intended.
Book cover of "Legal Language and the Sea", edited by Mary C. Lavissière, Audrey Cartron and Laurent Gautier.
August 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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While efforts are being made to address these imbalances, the question remains: What more can be done?
@evecng.bsky.social (Ohio University) and Melissa A. Click (Gonzaga University) chart a way forward.

Listen now! 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/3Muf...
July 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Some of the presenters’ research will soon be published in #OpenAccess, so watch this space: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783111347998/html
Book cover of the collection entitled 'Tense and aspect in multilingual Romance language education" by Bardel et al.
July 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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A stroll around the Eiffel Tower after listening to our authors and editors present at the ongoing RéAL2 conference in Paris – what's not to like? 😏
Photo of Senior Acquisitions Editor Natalie Fecher in front of the Eiffel Tower. Photo of the poster for the RéAL2 conference in Paris. Photo of Camilla Bardel and Anna Gudmundson presenting their research at the RéAL2 conference in Paris. Photo of Ulrike Jessner giving a keynote at the RéAL2 conference in Paris.
July 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🤔 What do Greek food and roof tiles have to do with #linguistics?

😏 Find out in this captivating collection of articles showcasing the intimate connection between language and place: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111707501/html#overview
Book cover of the collection entitled 'Language in strange and familiar places' by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Anne Storch and Viveka Velupillai.
July 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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👉 In this new collection by Magda Szczyrbak, explore how courtroom actors use words to craft their narratives and how gestural, visual, and material resources impact the discursive shaping of the judicial process.
🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111431789/html#overview
#linguistics
Book cover of the edited volume entitled 'More than (just) words' by Magdalena Szezyrbak.
July 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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📘 The new Mouton publications catalog is out!

💚 Thank you to all our authors and editors for their wonderful work and collaboration!

🔗 issuu.com/degruyter/do...
#linguistics #semiotics
Cover image of the 2025 De Gruyter Mouton publications catalog
June 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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In his new monograph “The Anatomy of Avoidance”, Robert M. W. Dixon explores the differences between the speaking styles in Dyirbal, revealing the underlying semantic system of the language.

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111464473/html
#linguistics #anthropology #semantics
Book cover of "The Anatomy of Avoidance" by Robert M. W. Dixon
June 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Spotted at LaGuardia en route to @cla-acl.bsky.social!

#multilingualism #Indigenouslanguages
Wall mosaic reading “We are glad because you people came to Lenapehoking. Live well while you are here. - Lenape Center” in Unami Lenape, Munsee Lenape, and English
June 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Today's highlights in Davos?

Inspiring keynotes by the brilliant Ofelia García, co-editor of Mouton's book series "Contributions to the Sociology of Language", and Alexandre Duchêne, general editor of Mouton's journal "International Journal of the Sociology of Language".
Photo of Ofelia Garcia giving a keynote in Davos. Photo of Alexandre Duchene giving a keynote in Davos.
May 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#Multilingualism at its best! 🫶

Our senior acquisitions editor Natalie Fecher is in Davos to attend the conference "Multilingualism and #MinorityLanguages in a global context".

Get in touch to chat about all things publishing in #Linguistics (👉 natalie.fecher@degruyterbrill.com).
Photo of Acquisitions Editor Natalie standing in front of a poster about Davos. Photo of a slide from the conference emphasizing that the conference is held in multiple languages.
May 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM