Friday 19 September 2025 10:00 – 11:00 Invited Talk: Elena Castroviejo (University of the Basque Country) Exclamatives in Semantics and Pragmatics: Core Questions and Current Debates 11:00- 11:30 Carlo Geraci (IJN and CNRS) and Charlotte Hauser (SFL, Paris 8 University and CNRS) OHLALA! Exclamatives in LSF: Methods and Preliminary Results Coffee Break 12:00 – 12:30 Giorgio Zani (University of Turin) Emotions vs. Grammar: Disentangling the contribution of non-manuals in LI

Final Call for Papers (Lightning Talks & New Voices Panels) We’re excited to launch a Late-Breaking Research Opportunity for LERC2025 — a chance to get involved in one of Europe’s most dynamic language education conferences! Now Open: - Short-Format Presentations - We are inviting proposals for the following fast-track formats: - Lightning Talks – 10-minute presentations on innovative research, classroom practices, or work-in-progress - New Voices Panels – especially for early-career

The 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics will be held at the University at Buffalo from Thursday, May 21, 2026 to Saturday, May 23, 2026. It is being co-organized by the University at Buffalo, the University of Rochester, and Syracuse University. There will be two abstract deadlines for paper or poster presentations, one in September and one in January (with the precise dates to be determined). The September deadline will be made available, in particular, for presenters who will requ

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax Required Language(s): German (deu) Description: Position: Support for PhD student (30 H/ Week, 2 Years) Deadline: 7 August 2025 Further information and job portal: https://jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/aa2c4fec-23fb-b340-1847-67e70b8e82b7 Your responsibilities - Independent and cooperative research in connection with the SFB project “Language between Redundancy and Deficiency” (https://sfb-redundancy-deficie

Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) are delighted to offer two PhD scholarships for UK Home fees paying students wanting to complete their PhD in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Discourse Studies, or English Language Teaching (and Applied Linguistics). Awards will be made on the basis of programme applications according to these criteria: 1. Excellent research proposal with clear relevance to staff expertise (see https://warwick.ac.u

The Editorial Board of the Journal of the Faculty of Languages, University of Tripoli, a semi-annual blind peer-reviewed journal (July-December) with ISSN-4016-2790 specialized in Translation Studies, Literature, Arabic, French, English, Italian, and Spanish Languages, welcomes the launch of a call to accept manuscript submissions in Issue 32. The Journal accepts original high-quality manuscripts. It opens the door for all researchers, including master's and doctoral students. Manuscripts sh

Please write or copy and paste your review of English evidential -ly adverbs from a functional perspective here. SUMMARY Kemp’s ‘English Evidential -ly Adverbs from a Functional Perspective’, based on her doctoral dissertation, consists of six chapters. It aims to analyze the distribution and meaning of eleven English -ly evidential adverbs. The study is based on De Haan’s (2005) definition of evidentiality (p. 5), extending it to include both external and internal sources of evidence, the

SUMMARY This book describes Natural Language Processing (NLP) as of around 2023; namely, "deep learning" (where "deep" refers to the number of layers in the computer implementation of a neural network, not to any abstract notion of deep knowledge). There are other approaches to NLP, but as the authors say, deep learning is the favorite, and likely to remain so for the near future. The preface lays out the aim of the book: "to bridge the theoretical and practical aspects of deep learning f

Das Buch widmet sich den sprachlichen Zweifelsfällen. Darunter fallen bspw. die schwankende Kasusrektion bei Präpositionen wie wegen oder dank oder auch Flexionsformen von Substantiven wie bei dem Helden und dem Held. Im Buch werden korpus-, sozio- und psycholinguistische Betrachtungsdimensionen diskutiert, mit denen sich Zweifelsfälle bezüglich ihrer Grammatikalität und Angemessenheit, ihres Gebrauchs, ihrer sozialen Bedeutsamkeit und ihrer Verarbeitung adäquat beschreiben und vom sprachlichen

„Doing Fach.Didaktik“ beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik, wie es in der Ringvorlesung an der Universität Innsbruck initiiert wurde. Der Sammelband bietet spannende Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung und Praxis, von inter- und transkulturellem Lernen über innovative Medien wie Instapoetry bis hin zur Aufgabenorientierung im Sprachunterricht. Die Autor:innen vereinen wissenschaftliche Tiefe mit praxisnahen Ansätzen und stellen so wertvolle Impulse für Lehrkräfte, Studi

Die W-Überschrift ist ein besonderer Satztyp mit Verbletztstellung, der nur in Überschriften vorkommt. Diese Arbeit untersucht mit korpuslinguistischen Methoden, welche Wirkung dieser Satztyp auf die Leser:innen hat, welche Bedeutung er besitzt und wie sich diese sprachwissenschaftlich beschreiben lassen. Grundlage der Analyse ist ein eigens erstelltes Korpus mit Überschriften aus deutschen Online-Pressetexten. Die Arbeit verbindet verschiedene sprachwissenschaftliche Ansätze und zeigt, wie die

To help you stay connected to other people doing Linguistics Communication (lingcomm), we’ve started a new mailing list especially for lingcomm. LingComm social media continues to exist, but the social landscape is increasingly fragmented so this is a way to have a semi-public professional contact point for everyone doing lingcomm. This group is a space to share information about lingcomm practice. This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, events, journal special issues and other inf

This collective volume investigates linguistic dynamics in language contact, focusing on heritage speakers. The chapters provide new insights into the role of speaker repertoires and the distinction between contact-induced change and language-internal variation by reporting on corpus-linguistic studies across different communicative situations in heritage and majority languages. Conducted in the context of the DFG Research Unit “Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations” (FOR 2537), the s

This book explores the development of prosodic and interactional competence in second language acquisition, drawing on data from peer interactions by Italian learners of German in both German and their native language, Italian, as well as from German native speakers. Three key aspects of spoken interaction are examined across proficiency levels: prosodic marking of information status, turn-taking, and backchannels. The analysis of prosodic marking of information status reveals that learners mark

The volume Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic deals with questions of information structuring at discourse level, focusing on narrative discourses. More precisely, it is about the contribution of grammatical devices to the organization of texts as well as their diagnostic potential for the narrative text type. Although it is well-known that information packaging had a much greater impact on the distribution of grammatical patterns in historical stages of a languag

This book constitutes a holistic study of sociolinguistic development among adult second language (L2) learners in a naturalistic setting. Combining results from a cross-sectional and longitudinal micro-development study, it examines the acquisition of both the productive and interpretive skills necessary to engage with the contextually sensitive use of vernacularity in Austria. The studies focus on issues of inter- and intra-individual variation and aim to shed much-needed light on why L2 learn

This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education with the goal of Indigenous language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education (e.g. schooling) and instead considers the efforts of teachers (defined broadly), community activists and scholars who are developing initiatives to support Indigenous language practices in, around and beyond schooling, thereby emphasizi

This book presents case studies of ideologies of communication in Japan which respond to recent epistemological and methodological developments in the field and reflect the subject-wide shift from ideologies of language to ideologies of communication. Chapters explore a wide range of language contexts, from formal language learning settings to video games, smartphones and language use in couples and by immigrants. The authors use an array of innovative methodological approaches and theoretical p

This book addresses a topic that until recently had been underexplored: women who voluntarily forgo having and raising children. Grounded in a discourse approach, it examines reproductive decision-making in the context of pronatalist discourses, such as 'maternal instinct', 'biological clock' and 'having it all', that encourage procreation in some while discouraging it in others. To contextualize pronatalism sociohistorically, the book also examines the relationship between pro- and anti-natalis

Other Specialties: Spanish as a foreign/second language, Spanish Linguistics or in Spanish studies Description: School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world’s top universities. The School of Humanities (SoH) at NTU Singapore is committed to promoting high quality research and teaching.  Students are given ample opportunities to develop strong critical t