SUMMARY Chao Li’s “A Linguistic Comparison of Chinese and English” examines two clearly defined standard varieties: Standard Mandarin, based on the Beijing dialect, and Standard/General American English as used by major US broadcasters. Drawing on approximately fifteen years of teaching experience, the volume is intended to serve both as a reference work and as a teaching resource for readers interested in language comparison and linguistic typology. Beyond identifying similarities and differ

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions within the NWO project ‘Usku and Banda: Automated Documentation of Endangered Languages of Eastern Indonesia’. Starting date: Between February-July 2027; exact date to be determined by mutual agreement. Vacancy number: 16880

Organised in five parts, this volume traces ideology across changing media and genres. Part I examines literary discourse: rhetoric, memory, and collective trauma. Part II analyses the colonial and national press of the nineteenth century. Part III investigates language as ideological infrastructure – through university mission statements, lexical analysis, and colour semiotics. Part IV explores emotion in persuasive media, with case studies on social advertising in post-Soviet Georgia and disgu

The 2027 Annual Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association - USA (CLTA-USA) will be held in conjunction with the 39th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-39) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from May 21 to May 23. The joint conference aims to provide a platform for Chinese language teachers, scholars, linguists, practitioners, and graduate students to share cutting-edge research findings in Chinese language teaching/learning and Chinese linguistics (i.e., ph

Overview: Despite longstanding calls for closer collaboration between second language (L2) researchers and practitioners, a gap between research and practice continues to be recognized across language education contexts. Researchers and teachers often operate within different professional environments, priorities, and expectations, which can limit opportunities for meaningful dialogue and collaboration. At the same time, there is growing recognition that stronger partnerships can benefit both g

The 2027 Annual Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association - USA (CLTA-USA) will be held in conjunction with the 39th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-39) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from May 21 to May 23. The joint conference aims to provide a platform for Chinese language teachers, scholars, linguists, practitioners, and graduate students to share cutting-edge research findings in Chinese language teaching/learning and Chinese linguistics (i.e., ph

The Virtual Fourth Floor International Socio/Phonetics Lab Group (VFF) is a casual lab discussion group for faculty or students working in socio and/or phonetics who need a little more top-level nerding in their lives. We do practice conference talks, informal discussion of new project ideas, help with methods, guest speakers, and the occasional journal club article reading, as members want. We meet every other week, this fall on Mondays at 2:30 Central. Email Valerie Freeman (Assoc. Prof. at OK

Call for Papers: Abstract Submission Is Now Open! We are pleased to invite submissions for the 3rd Tunisian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (TSFLC 3). This edition focuses on the role of SFL in understanding and shaping social change, particularly through perspectives emerging from the margins and peripheries in diverse semiotic and social practices. Systemic Functional Linguistics sees language as a social semiotic act that not only maintains and supports the existing eco-so

Description: Assistant Professor – Modern German Literature, broadly framed, or Applied Language Studies – Department of German Position Overview: Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $84,100–$132,900 (9-month academic year salary); however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions. Anticipated start: July 1, 2027 Application Window Open date: Sept

Call for Papers: The deadline for abstract submissions to the J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026 has been extended to September 14, 2026, at 23:59 (Japan Standard Time). However, please refrain from resubmitting abstracts already submitted. Conference Date: 24 October, 2026 Venue: Chuo University (Tama Campus, Tokyo) Abstract submission deadline: 14th September 2026, 23:59 (Japan Standard Time) There are two formats for research presentations at J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. (1) Student o

We are please to announce that the final programme of the Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale (GILS) is now available on the GILS website: https://www.unive.it/web/it/17646/home. The GILS will be held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the 5th and 6th November 2026, in Aula Magna Silvio Trentin (Ca’ Dolfin). The event will focus on experimental research in Italy in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and artificial inte

Call for Papers: The Organizing Committee of this Symposium is pleased to invite you to the 1st International Symposium on evaluative language in social media, which will take place on 19 and 20 November 2026 at the Applied Linguistics Department of the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. The symposium will focus on evaluative language in social media. Within this broader framework, four thematic panels will guide the discussion: Gender: This panel explores how evaluative language

Call for Papers: In research on evidentiality, the initial focus on languages that grammatically encode information source (Aikhenvald 2004, 2018, 2021) has subsequently widened. Studies analysing how evidential meaning is conveyed through the interaction of pragmatics, semantics and grammar have become increasingly abundant (Squartini 2001, 2008, 2018; Cornillie 2007; Albelda 2015; Cabedo and Figueras 2018), among which Romance languages, especially French (Dendale 2022 and references therei

We are please to announce that the final programme of the Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale (GILS) is now available on the GILS website: https://www.unive.it/web/it/17646/home. The GILS will be held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the 5th and 6th November 2026, in Aula Magna Silvio Trentin (Ca’ Dolfin). The event will focus on experimental research in Italy in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and artificial inte

ACLing 2026 marks the 8th edition of the Computational Linguistics conference series (ACLing). The conference seeks to bring together renowned academicians, scientists, researchers, and practitioners from around the world to exchange new ideas and discoveries in Computational Linguistics from an AI perspective. As more linguistic information becomes accessible via the web, social media, and intranet services, this field has grown in importance. The conference covers AI theory and practice in Com

Location: Trier University, Universitätsring 15, 54296 Trier, Germany Abstract submission deadline: 10 October 2026 Notification of outcome: 20 October 2026 Organisers: Eleonora Selvi (Trier), Afnen Habibi (Trier) Scientific committee: Prof. Patrick Reinard, Dr. Eleonora Selvi, Dr. Afnen Habibi Contacts: sailingwords.trier@gmail.com. The workshop examines the formation and usage of naval terminology and technical language connected to maritime activities across time and between

ACLing 2026 marks the 8th edition of the Computational Linguistics conference series (ACLing). The conference seeks to bring together renowned academicians, scientists, researchers, and practitioners from around the world to exchange new ideas and discoveries in Computational Linguistics from an AI perspective. As more linguistic information becomes accessible via the web, social media, and intranet services, this field has grown in importance. The conference covers AI theory and practice in Com

Call for Papers: We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 20th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English. Forum Dates: Saturday May 22 – Sunday May 23, 2027 Location: Kobe University (Rokkodai 2nd Campus), Kobe, 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan Invited Speakers: Daiki Hashimoto (Joetsu University of Education), Masako Maeda (Kyushu Un

Location: Trier University, Universitätsring 15, 54296 Trier, Germany Abstract submission deadline: 10 October 2026 Notification of outcome: 20 October 2026 Organisers: Eleonora Selvi (Trier), Afnen Habibi (Trier) Scientific committee: Prof. Patrick Reinard, Dr. Eleonora Selvi, Dr. Afnen Habibi Contacts: sailingwords.trier@gmail.com. The workshop examines the formation and usage of naval terminology and technical language connected to maritime activities across time and between

SUMMARY “Current insights into code-switching” edited by Draško Kašćelan, María del Carmen Parafita Couto, Peredur Webb-Davies, Rocío Pérez-Tattam and Hans Stadthagen-González and published by Language Science Press brings together eight chapters that approach code-switching (CS) from four interdependent axes, understanding this crucial phenomenon in the way that bilinguals and multilinguals speak as a grammatical variation (chapters 2, 4, 5); as an agent in development and caregiving context