Actions and language co-occurring and boosting one another
Michał Daszkiewicz
University of Gdańsk, Poland; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2463-393X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36534/erlj.2025.02.00
Bibliographic citation: (ISSN 2657-9774) Educational Role of Language Journal. Volume 2025-2(14). THE ACTIVE DIMENSION OF LANGUAGE AND OF LINGUISTIC EDUCATION, pp. 4-5.
With its yearly focus on actions and how they relate to language, ERL Journal is addressing in 2025 the pragmatic dimension of language and of linguistic education. Although the interplay of language and actions gives rise to common expressions and reflections on, say, our doings speaking louder than our words (which expresses a disapproval of empty declarations), or the latter being put into the former (which conveys the idea of converting slogans into genuine deeds), the degree in which they continuously co-occur remains understudied and undervalued both in science and in our everyday life. At the same time, actions tend to derive from our affect and beliefs, which underlies the fact that the 2025 focus follows ERL Journal’s (and ERL Association’s) two earlier foci, in line with the ERL trajectory, on emotional and axiological facets of language and of linguistic education.
Hence, the link between language and actions continues ….
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