{"title":"Bringing the backstage frontstage: how police emergency call-handlers integrate written incident logs into spoken interaction","authors":"Sarah Atkins,Joanne Traynor","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag052","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Emergency call-handling requires managing two simultaneously unfolding activity streams: the caller-facing spoken interaction and the backstage work of populating and responding to the written computer-aided dispatch (CAD) log. Using a dual-modal dataset of forty-eight time-aligned call audio and incident logs from UK police emergency calls, this study analyses how written, multi-authored CAD activity becomes interactionally consequential in real time. Two recurrent practices are identified. Interfacing sequences are turns where call-handlers surface their concurrent documentation work, managing the tension between maintaining conversational progressivity and performing urgent institutional tasks. Ventriloquized sequences occur when call-handlers animate prompts authored by supervisors, dispatchers, or the CAD system itself. While these practices can enable smooth coordination between talk and text, they may also falter when backstage demands collide with moments of interactional volatility. The analysis advances research on multi-activity in institutional interaction by demonstrating that written CAD entries function as sequentially consequential actions within the unfolding call. Practically, the findings have implications for call-handler training, particularly in designing interfacing turns in caller-intelligible terms and integrating institutional prompts into the unfolding talk.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"243 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space-time (Dis)continuities In The Linguistic Landscape: Studies In The Symbolic (Re-)appropriation Of Public Space","authors":"Juan Dong,Yingying Wang","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Corpus Linguistics To Illness And Healthcare","authors":"Yaoting Zhang","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI text transformation and linguistic inequality: how computational mechanisms mediate multilingual academic knowledge production","authors":"Nora Pireci Sejdiu,Sejdi Sejdiu","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag089","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract AI-based text transformation systems have become mediators of multilingual academic knowledge production. This study argues that the computational mechanisms underlying these systems, including training data distribution, curation, tokenization, and optimization, do not extend multilingual capability neutrally: they structurally privilege certain languages, genres, and epistemic conventions, reproducing the linguistic hierarchies that applied linguistics has long documented in institutional practice. Through a conceptual-interpretive synthesis of 24 studies, the study develops a three-layer framework of transformation processes, epistemic transfer, and institutional mediation. The central argument is that inequality in AI-mediated multilingual contexts may operate not only through representational gaps but through transformation itself, and the framework identifies three dynamics through which this is proposed to occur: the selective preservation of high-frequency content, the contextual loss of embedded meaning, and the normative realignment of outputs towards dominant epistemic conventions. AI systems are unlikely to dissolve language hierarchies; the analysis suggests they tend to embed them computationally. The study reconceptualises multilingualism in AI not as a property of model coverage but as an outcome of transformation.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model of metadiscourse for multiaudience talk—the case of police interviews","authors":"Nicci MacLeod","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag084","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The study of metadiscourse, or commentary on ongoing talk or text, has its origins in the context of academic writing, and the phenomenon has since been explored in relation to a range of types of institutional talk including classroom interaction, health communication, public hearings, parliamentary debates, and courtroom interaction. This paper turns attention to the discourse event of the police investigative interview, drawing on a small corpus of interactions with individuals reporting rape to an English police force in 2019/2020. I identify a range of instances of metadiscourse functioning interactively and interactionally, with some pointing to other points within the interaction, some flagging the interviewers’ and interviewees’ roles in relation to the unfolding talk, and a final category of features speaking explicitly to the eventual audience of the interview—the broader legal system and the Court at a potential future trial. I propose a bespoke model of metadiscourse to fit this specific multiaudience interaction type.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallels between gender performativity and linguistic identity: linguistic bias and othering of non-native identities","authors":"Serap Keles","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag083","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article offers a critical conceptual synthesis of linguistic bias, native-speaker authority, and the othering of non-native speakers (NNSs) through the lens of Judith Butler’s theory of performativity. Rather than treating NNS identity as a fixed linguistic deficit, the article argues that it is repeatedly produced through interactional, ideological, and institutional processes: speaker self-presentation, listener uptake, evaluative judgement, and the ratification of dominant language norms in such as workplaces, classrooms, and public discourse. Drawing on scholarship in performativity, language ideology, native-speakerism, raciolinguistics, and accent discrimination, the article develops a conceptual model of performative linguistic othering. It also clarifies the limits of the analogy between gender performativity and linguistic identity, arguing that native-speakerness is not organized in exactly the same way as gender but often functions as a unipolar standard of legitimacy, intelligibility, and professional authority. The article contributes to applied linguistics by reframing accent bias as an interactional and institutional process rather than merely an individual prejudice and by identifying implications for language education, assessment, recruitment, and inclusive communication practice.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"408 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language attitudes and identity in second dialect acquisition: the case of North Korean refugees","authors":"Jungah Lee,Kaori Idemaru,Charlotte Vaughn,Vsevolod Kapatsinski","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag076","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates to what extent various factors affect the stop production of North Korean refugee speakers living in Seoul, South Korea, from the perspective of second dialect acquisition (SDA). The VOT and F0 values of 6,495 stops were measured from twenty-two North Korean speakers (F: 16, M: 6). The factors examined were age of arrival, length of residence (LoR), and three different aspects of social adaptation (identification, assimilation, and language attitudes). Our findings showed that the North Korean speakers with stronger South Korean identity and longer LoR produced more Seoul standard South Korean-like VOT patterns. Moreover, the speakers with positive language attitudes toward South Korea and longer LoR produced more South Korean-like F0 patterns. The results suggest that understanding various dimensions of adaptation is important to explain North Korean refugees’ SDA.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Individual differences in children's response to explicit instruction: effects of age and memory ability","authors":"Wensi Zhang,Padraic Monaghan,Patrick Rebuschat","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag082","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigated how declarative memory (DM), procedural memory (PM), and working memory (WM) capacities support additional language (L2) learning under explicit instruction from middle childhood to early adolescence, a period marked by substantial cognitive development yet underrepresented in L2 research. 50 learners aged eight to thirteen were trained on an artificial language composed of transitive sentences with animated scenes in a cross-situational learning paradigm. Vocabulary and grammar learning required tracking co-occurrences between features of sentences and scenes, and integrating an explicitly instructed grammar rule (i.e. sentence word order), presented prior to exposure. We found that, in this explicitly instructed learning context, DM predicted grammar learning, while PM related positively to grammar learning only for older children. Furthermore, phonological short-term memory predicted grammar rule learning, while complex WM predicted verb learning. The results suggest that learning in an explicitly instructed context may vary as a function of learners’ age and cognitive profiles.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding second language learners’ study abroad experience","authors":"Yukiko Oki,Masatoshi Sato","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag074","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examined how Japanese international students experience their sojourn from the perspective of activity theory (AT). Specifically, we explored how the six elements in Engeström’s (Engeström, Y. (1999) ‘Activity Theory and Individual and Social Transformation’, in Y. Engeström, R. Miettinen, and R. Punamäki (eds) Perspectives on Activity Theory, pp. 19–38. Cambridge University Press) activity model are interconnected to understand students’ study abroad (SA) experiences. First, we developed an Activity System Questionnaire for SA (ASQSA). Second, the ASQSA, consisting of the activity model’s six elements (i.e. subject, object, mediating artifacts, rules, community, and division of labor) was distributed to 101 Japanese SA students, most of whom studied in the USA in ESL programs, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-three students. Results showed that the items loaded onto the six factors relatively independently, supporting the theoretical construct of AT for SA experience. Among the six factors, community, particularly at the host institution, emerged as the most prominent role in this sample. Participants viewed instructors and fellow international students, including those sharing their L1, as crucial for their experience; the positive relationships appeared to foster a sense of responsibility that shaped their interpretation of object.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonizing language teacher education: voices from the Global North and Global South","authors":"Dan Li,Yawen Han,Juan Dong","doi":"10.1093/applin/amag085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}