Onomastics is a discipline that deals with the study of names of people and places. Though, various scholars estimate that Onomastics began between 5-6 thousand years ago in the ancient Egypt and later traced back as a linguistic discipline in the ancient Greece, it has been given very little attention by the linguistic intelligentsia especially its interdisciplinary nature. For instance, limited direct studies dealing with its two major domains have been carried out specifically on anthroponomastics (study of human names) and toponomastics (study of place names). There are also numerous studies on types of anthroponomastics with regards to various languages and communities. However, these studies have tended to be purely dealing with the semantic aspects of names. Despite the fact that names have semantic meanings, their structures tend to have prefixes and suffixes that may denote gender of the bearer of the name, and also some free morphs may be included in a name to indicate son of or daughter of someone among other denotations. For instance, son of John may be named as Johnson and son of Ivan in Russia may be referred to as Ivanovich. This tendency clearly shows an interdisciplinary nature of Onomastics and is exhibited amongst various world languages in Africa, Asia and Europe among others. Thus, there is need to study existing interplay between its branches especially anthroponomastics and those of pure linguistics like morphology, and also other social science disciplines. Thus, the special issue of this journal welcomes well researched articles from various scholars to unearth its interdisciplinary nature with respect to various languages in the world.

Although the speakers of one language often shift to another one throughout the human history, but language endangerment has attracted growing interest of the scientists over the past century. There are many reasons why a certain language becomes endangered: natural, political, economic, social, educational, such as: natural cataclysms, genocide, military interventions, annexation, lack of adequate preservation policies or education resources, inequality in social status and many others.

The purpose of the proposed special issue is to gather the newest original researches related to the endangered languages and their problems, to remind once again the scientists and readers of uniqueness of language phenomenon and its dangers in today’s globalized world.

The term ‘propaganda’ and its use is not new. Used especially by nations both in war and in peace times, propaganda is taking on a new significance especially with developments in the internet and social media. Today, non-state actors, especially terror groups are exploiting the immense potentials of propaganda. This edition shall publish original researches in propaganda’s changing use, medium, content, language, audience and effects. Articles from a broad range of approaches- linguistic (including but limited to Pragmatics, Discourse, Sociolinguistics etc.), sociological, communication and media will be welcome.

Motivation plays a crucial role in EFL teaching and learning process. Not only learners’ but also teachers’ motivation is key to success in EFL learning. Therefore, it is essential to investigate and gain insight into this issue.

The goal is analyze the different marketing communications from the standpoint of semiotics.

Developing awareness of foreign language teaching methodology

English language teaching methodology, teacher training, second and foreign language learning and teaching, computer assisted language learning CALL