Call for Papers: Deadline: 15 October 2025 Issue editors: Loulou Kosmala and Denis Vigier We are inviting submissions for the next issue of Discours n. 38, to appear in June 2026. Discours is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed e-journal, which publishes two issues a year in open access. The journal is intended as a forum for exchanging and comparing data, analyses and opinions for all linguists, psycholinguists and computer linguists working in fields involving the

Call for Papers: Rationale: Often referred to as the “Second Cold War” or even the “Third World War,” the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is undoubtedly not only one of the major events of our time, but one that looks set to profoundly influence history for decades to come. Yet, the military and economic conflict is only the flip side of an ideological and informational conflict that has already polarized the entire planet. How to detect the truth beyond the propagandas and identify the rhetorical

Call for Papers: We are very pleased to announce the publication of the third issue of the Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura (RLEE). Our journal is academically endorsed by the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura (ALES) and is published biannually by The WAC Clearinghouse. You can read and download it at this link: https://wac.colostate.edu/rlee/ Moreover, the journal accepts article submissions of up to 8,500 words year-round in English, Spanish, and

The Linguistics Department at the University of Florida is excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM) 2025 is now open. FLYM 2025 will take place on Friday October 10th and Saturday October 11th. This year's theme is Language in Context: Theory and Community. We welcome submissions in sociolinguistics, theoretical, and computational linguistics, and, in the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focused on the intersect

The Linguistics Department at the University of Florida is excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM) 2025 is now open. FLYM 2025 will take place on Friday October 10th and Saturday October 11th. This year's theme is Language in Context: Theory and Community. We welcome submissions in sociolinguistics, theoretical, and computational linguistics, and, in the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focused on the intersect

The typology of non-canonical subjects (ALT 2026, Lyon) Convenors: Pierre-Yves Modicom, Joren Somers & Jóhanna Barðdal Please submit your abstract of one page, excluding references, to pierre-yves.modicom (AT) univ-lyon3.fr before April 26th, 2025. At least since Keenan (1976), prototypical subjects have been defined in terms of coding and behavioral properties, such as case marking, clause-initial position, subject-verb inversion, conjunction reduction, raising, and control. These have

The typology of non-canonical subjects (ALT 2026, Lyon) Convenors: Pierre-Yves Modicom, Joren Somers & Jóhanna Barðdal Please submit your abstract of one page, excluding references, to pierre-yves.modicom (AT) univ-lyon3.fr before April 26th, 2025. At least since Keenan (1976), prototypical subjects have been defined in terms of coding and behavioral properties, such as case marking, clause-initial position, subject-verb inversion, conjunction reduction, raising, and control. These have

Call for Papers: 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: Dr. Eman Al Khalaf (University of Jordan) Dr. Zheng Shen (National University of

Conflict approached through a linguistic lens offers numerous possible levels of analysis, from language- and speaker-internal struggles to polarizing attitudes borne out of contextualized uses of language, and beyond humans, in interactions with other media such as technology, and now even more so, AI. Inquiry into both diachronic and synchronic linguistic displays, patterns, and behaviours within communication represents a challenge in itself, as the digital age increased the availability of r

Conflict approached through a linguistic lens offers numerous possible levels of analysis, from language- and speaker-internal struggles to polarizing attitudes borne out of contextualized uses of language, and beyond humans, in interactions with other media such as technology, and now even more so, AI. Inquiry into both diachronic and synchronic linguistic displays, patterns, and behaviours within communication represents a challenge in itself, as the digital age increased the availability of r

Panel title: Multimodal forward-communication Organisers of the panel: Junfei Hu (UCLouvain), Geert Brône (KU Leuven) & Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain) Background and questions of the panel In face-to-face conversation, interlocutors coordinate both verbal (lexical choices, syntactic structures, prosody) and non-verbal (posture, gestures, eye gaze, facial expressions) resources to perform communicative actions (Holler & Levinson, 2019). Notably, before the emergence of the utterance that verbal

Panel title: Multimodal forward-communication Organisers of the panel: Junfei Hu (UCLouvain), Geert Brône (KU Leuven) & Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain) Background and questions of the panel In face-to-face conversation, interlocutors coordinate both verbal (lexical choices, syntactic structures, prosody) and non-verbal (posture, gestures, eye gaze, facial expressions) resources to perform communicative actions (Holler & Levinson, 2019). Notably, before the emergence of the utterance that verbal

Everyone is welcome to NATESOL's 41st Annual Conference, online and in person on 17th May at Manchester Metropolitan University. Join us for a day of interactive presentations and networking. Online attendance-Free Students/unwaged -£5 Members-£10 Non-members -£15 Free welcome goodie bag from Express Publishing and free buffet lunch and refreshments for in person attendees Please see below for more details and spread the word amongst your contacts. https://www.natesol.org/e

Everyone is welcome to NATESOL's 41st Annual Conference, online and in person on 17th May at Manchester Metropolitan University. Join us for a day of interactive presentations and networking. Online attendance-Free Students/unwaged -£5 Members-£10 Non-members -£15 Free welcome goodie bag from Express Publishing and free buffet lunch and refreshments for in person attendees Please see below for more details and spread the word amongst your contacts. https://www.natesol.org/e

Cf. here for the original version of the job ad: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/verwaltung/abteilung-iii-personal/jobs The Faculty of Language, Literature and Media Studies (English Studies / Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Sabine Arndt-Lappe) invites applications for a doctoral researcher position (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/in, m/w/d), (E 13 TV-L, 65%, fixed term: Sept 1, 2025 - March 31, 2028 (WissZeitVG)) The position is within the project Advancing Analogical Theory in Morpholog

Vox Ars 2.0 analyses 151.9756838905775 audio frames per second and provides a phonetic chord notation for each and every frame, as well as various other measurements. However, unlike Vox Ars 1.0 it also provides an additional layer of phonemic interpretation: - Transient synchords (allophones) are constituted by one or more frames and correspond to dynamic states of articulation or Transitions, such as plosives, flaps, trills, etc. - Constant synchords (allophones) have the highest number of

Description: A position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Researcher (SKO 1352 / SKO 1109) is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. The position is associated with the project Artificial Intelligence in Real Life: Human-LLM Communication, funded by The Research Council of Norway. The research fellow will be responsible for conducting experimental research on the pragmatics of human-LLM interaction. The candidate is expected to pre

Die vierte Veranstaltung der vom Germanopôle lorrain (Maison des Sciences sociales et des Humanités de Lorraine, Nancy) organisierten Vortragsreihe wird am 28. April 2025, 16.30-18.00 stattfinden mit einem Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Gabriele Diewald (Leibniz Universität Hanover) zum Thema: „Sprache und Geschlecht im Deutschen: das Problem geschlechtsneutraler Ausdrücke“. Abstract Beim Bemühen um genderbewussten Sprachgebrauch spielen im Deutschen geschlechtsneutrale Personenbezeichnungen ei

Dear colleagues, Here is the latest version (April 2025): https://archive.org/details/women-translators with 70 women translators - most of them were also writers. All the best

Otto Jespersen's landmark study of negation provides a wide-ranging analysis of how languages express negative meaning. Drawing on an impressive array of historical texts and comparative examples, primarily from Germanic and Romance languages, Jespersen examines the forms, functions, and historical development of negative expressions. The work traces the evolution of negative markers, analyzes how negative prefixes modify word meanings, and reveals coherent patterns in how languages structure ne