Bienvenue à la 8ᵉ édition de TechLING, qui se tiendra en ligne depuis l’Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (Besançon - France), en partenariat avec l’Université du Minho (Braga - Portugal). Cette conférence internationale vise à explorer l’intersection entre les langues, les arts et les technologies innovantes, avec un accent particulier sur l’inclusion et l’accessibilité. L’intelligence artificielle générative jouera un rôle central dans cette édition, mettant en lumière son potentiel pour l’ap

Pragmasophia 5 (2026) Organized by: Alessandro Capone Mitchell Green Igor Douven Pietro Perconti https://alessandro-capone-pragmatics.webnode.it/ Junior Organizers: Roberto Graci Daniele Panizza Messina, 11-14th May 2026 COSPECS, via Concezione, 6, Univ. Messina Abstracts should be sent to acapone@unime.it and to the workshop organizers by January 30th, 2026 (the sooner, the better). Key Speakers (provisional): Anna Cardinaletti – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Louis

Bienvenue à la 8ᵉ édition de TechLING, qui se tiendra en ligne depuis l’Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (Besançon - France), en partenariat avec l’Université du Minho (Braga - Portugal). Cette conférence internationale vise à explorer l’intersection entre les langues, les arts et les technologies innovantes, avec un accent particulier sur l’inclusion et l’accessibilité. L’intelligence artificielle générative jouera un rôle central dans cette édition, mettant en lumière son potentiel pour l’ap

Focus: The goal of the GRAMEN school is to build bridges between university and non-university education, effectively contributing to the transmission of grammar and linguistics content. With this aim, the school aspires to be a forum for discussion and dialogue aimed primarily at secondary and high school teachers, as well as students of any bachelor's or master's degree related, in whole or in part, to the teaching of grammar. Description: This intensive course is structured in two compl

Call for Papers in International Sign (IS): https://s.gwdg.de/ZZsMdS (Note: Link opens MP4 video file.) Background: The world’s different sign languages offer a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and their rigorous scientific study within linguistics since the 60s of the past century has provided a multitude of novel insights. Some of these have significantly and lastingly changed how we conceptualize and investigate our species’ faculty of language: We now understand la

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary conference „Third Space and Ancient World Studies” is now open for submissions. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck from 29th to 31st of October 2025. This conference seeks to develop the research on spatial perception in ancient societies by gathering scholars of any discipline in the Humanities, Social Sc

Celebrating 50 years of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics Call for Papers: The IRAAL 50th anniversary conference aims to bring together all sectors of Applied Linguistics in Ireland to celebrate half a century of our association’s academic activity. We welcome abstracts (max. 250 words) for conceptual and empirical presentations in any area of Applied Linguistics, broadly defined, including, but not confined to the following: • Bilingualism • Multilingualism • Plurilin

Call for Papers in International Sign (IS): https://s.gwdg.de/ZZsMdS (Note: Link opens MP4 video file.) Background: The world’s different sign languages offer a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and their rigorous scientific study within linguistics since the 60s of the past century has provided a multitude of novel insights. Some of these have significantly and lastingly changed how we conceptualize and investigate our species’ faculty of language: We now understand la

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary conference „Third Space and Ancient World Studies” is now open for submissions. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck from 29th to 31st of October 2025. This conference seeks to develop the research on spatial perception in ancient societies by gathering scholars of any discipline in the Humanities, Social Sc

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year’s award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Emma Custer & Sophia FlaimLara Riente Memorial Prize: Terrance Gatchalian Departmental AwardsU2 Academic Achievement Award: Kira Tess PavlidisAward for Academic Leadership: Max BlackburnAward for Department Citizenship: Ina ZengAward for Excellence in Research: Natalia Feu

SUMMARY Singer/songwriter Pete Seeger once wrote a whimsical song entitled, “English is Crazy.” The song played upon a general perception of English as unusual and different from other languages; he makes observations that are now ubiquitous on social media: If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? It's one goose, two geese. Why not one moose, two meese? If it's one index, two indices; why not one Kleenex ,two Kleenices? English is cuh-ray-zee! Linguists h

SUMMARY In their book Motivation, Autonomy and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning: A Multi-Perspective Investigation in Hungary (2025), authors Kata Csizér, Dávid Smid, Anna Zólyomi, and Ágnes Albert examine individual difference (ID) variables that lead to the success or failure of foreign language learners. The research identifies and examines three fundamental sets of ID variables: (1) motivation, identified as a fundamental factor in language learning; (2) autonomy, identified as highl

Premio Ignacio Guzmán Betancourt a las mejores tesis de licenciatura o posgrado en Toponimia defendidas entre el 1° de enero de 2023 y el 31 de diciembre de 2024. Los Premios que otorga el SIO tienen como objetivo estimular, reconocer y fomentar la investigación que se realiza en temas relacionados con las áreas de la Onomástica. Las principales: la Antroponimia (Premio Gutierre Tibón) y la Toponimia (Premio Ignacio Guzmán Betancourt). BASES PARTICIPANTES La convocatoria está dirigida a

In response to the urgent need to set ecological awareness and environment protection as our global priority in all domains, we would like to announce a call for papers that would underscore the role of language and culture in shaping environmental thought and action. Following the premise that Cultural Linguistics as an interdisciplinary field can offer a deeper insight into the interactions between language, culture and the social world (Baranyiné Kóczy & Szelid 2024, Baranyiné Kóczy et al. 20

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Gerhard Van Huyssteen (North-West University) entitled "Taboo Language and Language Change: Current Knowledge". The talk will take place online on JUNE 9, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zoo

We are pleased to announce that as of 2026, John Benjamins will take over the publication of the renowned journal InContext: Studies in Translation and Interculturalism, edited by Ho-Jeong Cheong (HUFS, South Korea). InContext is a unique international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that marries Translation Studies and Interculturalism on a single platform. The journal offers a significant forum for innovative research in language-related subjects, including but not limited to te

During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light on an old hypothesis on the relatedness of Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages, by studying unique lexical correspondences of these branches. It argues that their common Indo-Slavic origin su

The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint a doctoral researcher for project 7: Subject-inversion throughout Early Modern English: changing relations in individual and communal constructicons. The PhD researchers will be employed on a 65% basis on an TV-L13 scale for three years, starting 1 October 2025. More details about the project can be found on https://www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/proje

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. Thanks to its location in the Rhine-Main science region, the university can unfold to its full potential and showcase its innovative power and dynamism. Its status as a comprehensive university allows for multidisciplinary learning and teaching and has great potential for internationally renowned, interdisciplinary research. Almost all of its institutes are located on a single campus close to the Mainz city

The V Summer School of Catalan Linguistics will take place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 2nd to 5th September 2025. In this year’s edition, the invited speaker will be Teresa Cabré Monné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and the courses will be taught by: ·      Laia Mayol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ·      Claus D. Pusch (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) ·      James Hawkey (University of Bristol) ·      Georgina Alvarez-Morera (University of Oxford) In addition, the call f