At the end of 2021, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savic, Anders Myrset and I had our first conversations about editing a book on L2 pragmatics & young language learners. In our blog entry we explain why we felt that this book was needed: channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/y...

I am delighted that our edited volume "Second Language #Pragmatics and Young Language Learners - #EFL #Primary #School Contexts in #Europe" is now available www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/.... We are very gratetful to our contributors who accompanied us on this journey!

Ein herzliches Willkommen (zurück) an all unsere Studierenden und Kolleg:innen! Wir wünschen allen ein gutes und interessantes Semester! A very warm welcome (back) to all our students and colleagues! We wish everyone a good and interesting semester!

Prof. Gila Schauer gave a presentation with the title "Children's #literature and young #L2 learners: investigating the potential of graphic novels for L2 #pragmatic instruction" at the Annual ITAP conference on 26th June. www.ub.edu/itap-associa...

We are deeply worried about recent developments on some social media platforms that no longer prohibit insults based on a person's appearance, ethnic or national background, gender, health, religion, or sexual orientation. We are committed to a respectful communication style.

Ein herzliches Willkommen (zurück) an all unsere Studierenden und Kolleg:innen! Wir wünschen allen ein gutes und interessantes Semester! A very warm welcome (back) to all our students and colleagues! We wish everyone a good and interesting semester!

Open access books on various aspects of linguistics published by John Benjamins can be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/coll...

Just came across Bloomsbury's open access ebook collection which at the time of writing includes 695 books from a variety of subjects (e.g., education, history, linguistics, etc.). The link below goes to the linguistics section. www.bloomsburycollections.com/search-resul...

UNESCO's "Languages matter: global guidance on multilingual education" (2025) is now available. It also contains a helpful overview of key acronyms and terms on pages 12-14. unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

Herzlich willkommen, liebe Petra!

Circumstances in many places all over the world have been challenging in 2024. I wish all of us a peaceful, happy and healthy 2025, and hope that we will experience a renewed appreciation for democratic processes, kindness, and living in harmony with each other & nature in the new year.

Interesting research project focusing on openings & closures of "academic degree programs (BA, MA, minors, majors, PhD) in languages or linguistics, literatures and cultural studies, translation or interpreting studies, and language teaching offered in university language centers" in Europe.

Ein sehr spannender Vortrag, der gerade auch für Forscher:innen im Bereich der Pragmatik sehr interessant war. Das #openaccess Buch "Berufsbezogene #Deutschförderung - #Lernziele" von O. Bärenfänger, N. Nietsche & S. Plassmann findet sich hier: www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/A...

Wir bedanken uns herzlich bei Herrn Professor Olaf Bärenfänger (Universität Leipzig) für seinen Vortrag im EPPP Nachwuchskolleg mit dem Titel: "Sprachliche Kompetenzen für den Beruf modellieren: Skalen erstellen und anwenden". #Sprachwissenschaft , #Deutsch , #DaZ , #DaF

Nach dem Post mit dem Link zur finanziellen Situation der britischen #Universitäten, hier nun ein lesenswerter Blogbeitrag zu der Situation der deutschen #Hochschulen von @jmwiarda.bsky.social , www.jmwiarda.de/2024/11/25/k...

Just seen the list of UK universities closing departments, restructuring and making staff redundant qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... via @iancushing.bsky.social & @gsoh31.bsky.social . This is horrendous. My thoughts are with colleagues working at these institutions and their students.

An interesting (and at times rather funny) form of protest

If you are interested in second language (L2) pragmatics & young language learners (YLL), I highly recommend "Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners: Beneath the Linguistic Surface" by M. Savic, A. Mryset, M. Economidou-Kogetsidis, www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

Over the years, I have frequently referred to "Let's talk and talk about it" by Willis Edmondson & Juliane House (1981), which had been out of print for some time. I was delighted to come across "Expressions, Speech Acts & Discourse" by Edmondson, House & Kadar published in 2023 by CUP.

University of Erfurt - November 2024

My open access book "Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics" came out this year. It examines how modern foreign language teachers in higher education conceptualize intercultural competence in relation to pragmatics. Link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

It's great to see so many accounts from people that I knew from that other place. 😊 My last post there was in December 2022. I am looking forward to getting (re)acquainted with people here.