The Graduate Students of Language at Temple would like to invite graduate and undergraduate students to submit abstracts for our annual Language, Linguistics, and Life Conference. The conference will be held in person and online (hybrid) on Friday, April 18, 2025, on Temple University's campus. This year's theme, Language in Society, explores language use across various social and educational contexts, and we will consider submissions from any language-related fields. We are excited to welcom

The Graduate Students of Language at Temple would like to invite graduate and undergraduate students to submit abstracts for our annual Language, Linguistics, and Life Conference. The conference will be held in person and online (hybrid) on Friday, April 18, 2025, on Temple University's campus. This year's theme, Language in Society, explores language use across various social and educational contexts, and we will consider submissions from any language-related fields. We are excited to welcom

[apologies for cross-posting] LFG'25: The 30th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 22 July - 24 July 2025 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2025/Conference (Please make sure to create an account early on) Conference website: https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/detail/lfg25-the-30th-international-lexical-fu

Call for Papers: The eighth International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS25) will be held in Rijeka, Croatia, from 17 July to 18 July 2025 and co-hosted by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL), the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Democracy, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development at the University of Rijeka. The focus of the workshop is on: “Law and Language in the Past, Present, and Future: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives” It will primarily addres

Call for Papers: The eighth International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS25) will be held in Rijeka, Croatia, from 17 July to 18 July 2025 and co-hosted by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL), the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Democracy, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development at the University of Rijeka. The focus of the workshop is on: “Law and Language in the Past, Present, and Future: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives” It will primarily addres

2nd Call for Papers: Hiermit möchten wir auf die Fristverlängerung für Anmeldungen zur GAL Research School „Erwerb und Entwicklung (schrift-)sprachlicher Fähigkeiten quantitativ erforschen: Sekundäranalyse als Forschungsstrategie” aufmerksam machen. Neuer Anmeldeschluss ist der 30. Januar 2025. Alle weiteren Informationen können hier abgerufen werden: https://mercator-institut.uni-koeln.de/institut/unser-team/sprache-und-lernen/leonie-twente/galresearchschool2025

We are delighted to announce that the 7th edition of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will take place on site at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, on September 8-9, 2025. Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/nds/ecbae2025.html Invited speakers Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) Masaya Yoshida (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Workshop description The workshop brings together researchers using empirical methods

We are delighted to announce that the 7th edition of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will take place on site at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, on September 8-9, 2025. Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/nds/ecbae2025.html Invited speakers Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) Masaya Yoshida (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Workshop description The workshop brings together researchers using empirical methods

Call for Papers: Language contact is omnipresent, extensive, constant; it has far-reaching social, political and linguistic effects. Language contact is a norm, not an exception (Sarah Thomason 2001). Language contact, its outcomes and the diffusion of the cultures of the speech communities in contact have received much scholarly attention since the late 19th century (e.g. Whitney 1881). Traditionally, the focus has been on a quantitative and lexicographic documentation of contact-induce

The Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin is pleased to announce a workshop to be held June 19th-20th, 2025, generously supported in part by the van Riemsdijk Foundation (VRF), with the title Clausal Complementation Across Categories. Invited Speakers: Nikos Angelopoulos (CNRS) Johanna Benz (UPenn) Kajsa Djärv (Edinburgh) Kalle Müller (CNRS) This workshop focuses on the relationship between clause-embedding attitude predicates and the clauses with which they combine, w

The Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin is pleased to announce a workshop to be held June 19th-20th, 2025, generously supported in part by the van Riemsdijk Foundation (VRF), with the title Clausal Complementation Across Categories. Invited Speakers: Nikos Angelopoulos (CNRS) Johanna Benz (UPenn) Kajsa Djärv (Edinburgh) Kalle Müller (CNRS) This workshop focuses on the relationship between clause-embedding attitude predicates and the clauses with which they combine, w

2nd Call for Papers: The deadline for submitting abstracts for the F-Word International Conference (Université d'Artois, Arras, France - 24-26 September 2025) has been extended to 30 January 2025. Call for papers and submission platform: https://wtf.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en We are looking forward to reading your abstracts! On behalf of the organising committee, Florent Moncomble Senior Lecturer in English linguistics Université d'Artois Arras, France

Call for papers – New Ways of Analysing Variation Asia Pacific 8 (Singapore, 4-7 Aug 2025) The theme of NWAV-AP8 is “Asia Pacific: Always Variable, Always Changing”. This is a celebration of the linguistic diversity and constant evolution of the languages of the multilingual-multicultural Asia Pacific contexts. In this 8th meeting, we would like to bring the focus to issues of diversity and inclusivity in the larger context of interactionism, wherein lies the intricate symbiotic relationship

2nd Call for Papers: We are excited to remind you that the abstract submission deadline for the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (ISP) is fast approaching: January 20, 2025! You can submit your abstract using the following link: https://ub.symposium.events/119911/section/53064/xvii-international-symposium-of-psycholinguistics.html Thanks to the generous support of Cambridge University Press and the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, two monetary prizes will b

Call for Papers extended till January 20, 2025: Please, submit your abstracts to the workshop Multilingual Processing in Psycholinguistics and Technology (MPPT): https://www.ntnu.edu/isl/mppt Call for papers closes – January 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance – February 20, 2025 Workshop – May 22-23, 2025 Submission instructions: We invite submissions of abstracts addressing the psycholinguistics and/or technical aspects of multilingual processing for paper and / or poster presenta

This book is the first volume devoted to mindset theory and practice in language education, offering interdisciplinary investigations into the motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing of language learners and teachers. Presenting studies from a vast array of language learning environments, the chapters explore topics such as students' attitudes and motivation surrounding language learning, the effects of mindset on vocabulary acquisition, the mindsets of early career teachers and experie

Advocating for best practices within aviation English language research, this volume offers deeper insights into the practical, policy-based, and societal contexts in which International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) language standards are embedded. English is the official language for international pilot-air traffic controller (ATC) communications, mandated by the ICAO. It is also the de facto universal common language for all other forms of communication, including the language of main

Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse the meaning-making mechanisms and dynamics that occurred during, and revolved around, the pandemic. Demonstrating the utility of semiotic theory, concepts and analytical methods to make sense of discursive phenomena like those triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores in detail: · the blame-attribution discourses that emerged at the be

Providing a series of crucial debates on language, power, difference and social inequality, this volume traces developments and dissonances in critical sociolinguistics. Eminent and emerging academic figures from around the world collaboratively engage with the work of Monica Heller, offering insights into the politics and power formations that surround knowledge of language and society. Challenging disciplinary power dynamics in critical sociolinguistics, this book is an experiment testing n

An introduction to linguistics, this book acquaints students to the key areas of linguistics using real-world illustrations. This fully revised and updated text draws upon students' daily experiences with linguistic concepts, allowing them to integrate terminology and build analytical skills as they develop a deeper understanding of how language facilitates our lives and, collectively, our society. Features of the third edition include: - A new chapter exploring language, the brain and the m