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Abstract In this interdisciplinary interview, multilingual poet Dinara Rasuleva reflects on her ongoing projects that investigate the partial loss and creative resurgence of her native Tatar. She discusses the role of poetic form, sound, sensory memory, and cross-linguistic experimentation in rebuilding a language affected by migration and historical suppression. Drawing on perspectives from linguistics and literary studies, the interview highlights the intersections between first language attrition, mixed-language poetics, and contemporary political conditions surrounding minoritized languages.
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This study examined whether maintaining the first language (L1) or experiencing dominant language shift affects second-language (L2) speaking proficiency. Twenty-four Russian-English bilinguals were divided into a bilingual maintenance group and a dominant language shift group based on self-reported L1 proficiency. To avoid monolingual bias, all comparisons were made between bilingual speakers. Participants produced spontaneous narrative speech using picture books, and their L2 output was analyzed for fluency, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity. Across all measures, no statistically significant differences emerged between the groups. Individuals who maintained their L1 performed similarly to those who had lost their L1, indicating that continued engagement with the L1 does not impede L2 oral development. Maintaining the L1 did not yield any measurable benefits, as these participants did not perform better than those in the dominant language shift group. These findings contribute to a more nuanced, domain- and usage-specific understanding of the linguistic interdependence hypothesis and the common underlying proficiency model, indicating that although L1 maintenance does not impede L2 performance, L1 loss may not compromise the development of everyday L2 speech.
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This article examines the linguistic landscape of Paris’s 2024 Marche des fiertés LGBTQ+ through an analysis of 122 participant-produced signs. Drawing on linguistic landscape theory, it explores how language choice shapes political, social, and cultural expression in this highly visible public event. The findings show that language use is structured rather than random. French predominates in signs expressing political critique, satire, and wordplay, positioning it as the primary medium for engaging domestic audiences, particularly in the context of the 2024 legislative elections. English, by contrast, is frequently used for messages of solidarity, identity affirmation, and pop-cultural reference, aligning with transnational activist discourse. Multilingual signs often bridge these functions. The article argues that this distribution reflects the strategic deployment of language to address distinct yet overlapping publics, demonstrating how Pride participants use written language to negotiate identity, politics, and belonging in contemporary France.This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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In response to a call for PBLL to address language learners’ 21st-century needs, the present chapter showcases two examples of technology-assisted PBLL (TAPBLL) carried out in 100- and 300-level Spanish courses at a regional public university in the eastern United States. The TAPBLL using Generative AI chatbots in the lower-division Spanish course exemplified how content could be foregrounded in foreign language (FL) courses that might otherwise tend to overemphasize grammar. The TAPBLL using collaborative online international learning as a virtual exchange project in an (or the) upper-division course exemplifies how content can be prioritized early and often through projects that address learners’ 21st-century needs. When woven throughout the FL curriculum, TAPBLL can successfully build learners’ bilingualism, digital literacies, and cultural competence while at the same time working to counteract decreasing FL enrollments and imprudent narratives concerning the inapplicability of FL instruction to learners’ future academic and career goals.
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La Colonia Digital Archive: New Haven's Italian American Community, 1890–1930 is an open-access digital humanities project documenting the professional and civic life of New Haven's Italian American community between 1890 and 1930. The archive is based on Antonio Cannelli's La Colonia Italiana di New Haven (1921), a 373-page Italian-language volume combining a community Who's Who with a survival guide for new immigrants. Cannelli documented 248 individuals and more than 90 businesses, including physicians, attorneys, pharmacists, musicians, grocers, and bankers. Cannelli published his volume in 1921, the same year that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti went on trial for murder in Massachusetts; they were convicted on July 14, 1921, and sentenced to death in a case that became an international cause célèbre and a defining watershed of anti-immigrant sentiment directed specifically at Italians. The trial unfolded against a broader landscape of systematic exclusion: the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 had passed just months earlier, sharply restricting Southern and Eastern European immigration, and Italians faced sustained targeting, marginalization, and persistent characterization as unskilled, unassimilable, and threatening. Cannelli's documentation was deliberate advocacy in precisely this climate: a counter-narrative assembled to demonstrate the professional achievement, civic engagement, and cultural diversity and richness of a community that dominant American discourse refused to acknowledge. La Colonia Digital Archive makes that narrative searchable and accessible to researchers, descendants, and the general public, plotting archival documents and photographs onto contemporary maps of New Haven and the surrounding area. The archive is currently in active pre-launch development. Public release is planned for 2026, with ArcGIS StoryMap components to be added through 2026–2027.
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