10th Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education conference – LSPHE 2025 The Evolving Landscape of Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education The annual conference Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education (LSPHE), started in 2015 as a joint effort between the University of Manchester and Cambridge University to bring together LSP practitioners from around the UK and beyond. LSPHE currently serves as a Special Interest Group for the Association of University Langua

International Conference (September 17-19, 2025) Description and Call for Papers: Developed and promoted by the German-speaking academic community, frequently mobilized by Anglophone and Scandinavian scholars, yet less used in Francophone and Italophone research, the concept of postmigration marks a significant shift in migration discourses. By dissolving the binary opposition between migrants and non-migrants, it allows immigration to be regarded as an intrinsic component of European soci

International Conference (September 17-19, 2025) Description and Call for Papers: Developed and promoted by the German-speaking academic community, frequently mobilized by Anglophone and Scandinavian scholars, yet less used in Francophone and Italophone research, the concept of postmigration marks a significant shift in migration discourses. By dissolving the binary opposition between migrants and non-migrants, it allows immigration to be regarded as an intrinsic component of European soci

Names, whether they refer to people, places, businesses, languages etc., are not mere labels disconnected from a social fabric, they are “a repository of accumulated meanings, practices, and beliefs, a powerful linguistic means of asserting identity (or defining someone else) and inhabiting a social world” (Rymes 1999: 165). Through their referential function and multiple connotations, they “identify, categorize, tell stories and provide social tools for interactions” (Bramwell 2016: 276). The a

Names, whether they refer to people, places, businesses, languages etc., are not mere labels disconnected from a social fabric, they are “a repository of accumulated meanings, practices, and beliefs, a powerful linguistic means of asserting identity (or defining someone else) and inhabiting a social world” (Rymes 1999: 165). Through their referential function and multiple connotations, they “identify, categorize, tell stories and provide social tools for interactions” (Bramwell 2016: 276). The a

2nd Call for Papers: The workshop "Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages" will be held in Paris (Inalco) on June 6 2025. It is organized within the IRN project "Heritage Languages in Europe" (CNRS & University of Paris 8) Invited speaker: Roberta D'Alessandro (University of Utrecht) Organizers: Elena Soare (Univ. Paris 8 & CNRS), Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS) and Larisa Avram (Univ. Bucharest) General description Since Chomsky’s (2005) seminal paper on

Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA) Vol. 10, issue 2 https://journals.openedition.org/lla/13620 All articles are freely accessible in html and pdf format. Articles: • Eva-Marie Bloom Ström & Aron Zahran: Syntactic control and progressive-evidential polyfunctionality: The conjoint/disjoint in Ndengeleko (Bantu P11-12) • Loïc-Michel Perrin: Les expériences émotionnelles basiques et leurs expressions en wolof • Nicolas Quint : Koalib imperatives and semantically related forms Boo

Call for Papers: Hybrid 2025 GenLitCult Symposium on “Gender, Literatures and Cultures: 21st-century Socioemotional and Decolonial Learning”, which will be held on May 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2025, at the Teaching Training Faculty of the Univesitat de València and at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication’s Youtube Channel. This event has been supported by the IULMA Research Institute and stems from the Projects: “DECOLANG: Perspectivas decoloniales en el aprendizaje de lengu

Workshop on Modality, Modal Particles (in German or other languages), and Discourse University of Messina COSPECS Department Organizers: Alessandra Giorgi and Alessandro Capone Contact: acapone@unime.it Modality is usually dealt with in terms of the following categories: epistemic modality, alethic modality, deontic modality. We may reserve a different category of modal expressions for terms dealing with discourse, shared knowledge, and discourse participation. Some modal expressi

Workshop on Modality, Modal Particles (in German or other languages), and Discourse University of Messina COSPECS Department Organizers: Alessandra Giorgi and Alessandro Capone Contact: acapone@unime.it Modality is usually dealt with in terms of the following categories: epistemic modality, alethic modality, deontic modality. We may reserve a different category of modal expressions for terms dealing with discourse, shared knowledge, and discourse participation. Some modal expressi

Submission Deadline Extended! 2nd Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce our call for the 8th International Conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association on the theme of “Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact: Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds”, to be held in person from 11th to 13th December 2025, hosted by the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. The conference theme reflects the growing complexity in the soci

2nd Call for Papers: Meeting Description: 14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 30 and 31 May 2025. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND EMPATHY Empathy, as the ability to understand and share the feelings, emotions, or perspectives of another person, plays a crucial role in hu

The T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference in Linguistics is a place for BA, MA and PhD students to present their research, learn about the research of other students, and to get to know other students and professors. This year's conference theme is Frontiers. We explore how linguistics can push out the boundaries between the known and the unknown, looking further into the past, the future, and all in all deepening our understanding of the place of language in the world. The full schedule of the co

The T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference in Linguistics is a place for BA, MA and PhD students to present their research, learn about the research of other students, and to get to know other students and professors. This year's conference theme is Frontiers. We explore how linguistics can push out the boundaries between the known and the unknown, looking further into the past, the future, and all in all deepening our understanding of the place of language in the world. The full schedule of the co

Meeting Description: The Conference aims at bringing together young scholars who approach research in the fast-growing field of experimental linguistics. The topics discussed at the Conference include experimental studies on grammatical constraints, intralingual variation, speech comprehension and production, as well as methodological issues. _________________________________ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (as for today): Dr. Eman Al Khalaf (University of Jordan) Dr. Zheng Shen (National Univers

Focus: Corpus Linguistics Digital Linguistics German Linguistics Python for Linguistics Description: We invite applications for the ZuKoKo Summer School 2025, hosted by the Zurich research group on Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics (ZuKoKo). This one-week in-person program is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and advanced MA students with an interest in corpus-based approaches to language use. Participants will explore the acquisition, preparation, and analysis of linguist

This conference aims to bring together scholars working on various aspects of verb phrase structure in Slavic languages, with particular attention to the nature of inner aspect and its relation to grammatical/viewpoint aspect. We also seek to explore the syntactic representation of elements contributing to aspectual composition and predicate interpretation. While many studies—both in traditional and formal frameworks—have addressed these issues, we believe several key questions remain open from

This conference aims to bring together scholars working on various aspects of verb phrase structure in Slavic languages, with particular attention to the nature of inner aspect and its relation to grammatical/viewpoint aspect. We also seek to explore the syntactic representation of elements contributing to aspectual composition and predicate interpretation. While many studies—both in traditional and formal frameworks—have addressed these issues, we believe several key questions remain open from

Call for Papers: Graduate Conference for PhD candidates and early-career researchers organised by the Doctoral Programme “Forms of cultural exchange and textuality” of the University of Trento. The conference will explore the concept of otherness in its historical, social, linguistic and literary dimensions. Call for Papers can be found here: https://www.lettere.unitn.it/news/257

Call for Papers: Bringing together researchers and practitioners, this conference is the capstone event of the HEA-funded project Gender Equality in Language Studies (GELS), the first study of its kind in Ireland which investigates the gendering of Language Studies as an academic discipline. This national research project, led by Maynooth University in collaboration with three typologically different partner universities (Munster Technological University, Trinity College Dublin, and the Unive