Polysemy in the Evalutive Sphere is a seminar pertaining to the project Slurs and the Lexicon: A Rich-Lexicon Approach to Slurs and Other Evaluative Expressions - LEXISLUR (https://danzeman.weebly.com/lexislur.html) featuring monthly talks by specialists in polysemy. We cordially invite you to a talk by Tamara Dobler (Free University of Amsterdam) entitled "Derogation by Co-composition: Nominal Structure and Evaluative Meaning" (see the abstract below). The event takes place online on Friday, MA

The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham cordially invites you to this year’s Sinclair Lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University). The lecture will take place on Monday, 6 July, at 6.00 pm (British Summer Time) and is titled “Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation”. The lecture will be held in Alan Walters G03 on the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus and will also be livestreamed. As in previous ye

Focus: The program combines grammatical theory with applied teaching proposals: linguistic variation, reflective grammar, multilingualism, Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE), corpora, visual syntax, and new ways of working with grammar in the classroom. Description: Grammar teaching needs spaces for dialogue between research and the classroom. It is precisely with this aim that the GramEn School was created, whose second edition will take place from June 29 to July 3, 2026, in Barcelona.

HackaCon is an interdisciplinary challenge exploring one of the hardest problems in AI and interaction research: can AI generate a “recording” of a convincingly natural-sounding conversation? Moreover, can it make that conversation sound like it has happened between two specific speakers – in our case, Agent Luke and Chris Nemesis – people who have never interacted? And can it make them chat about specific topics? In different words, unlike conventional AI hackathons and generation tasks, Hac

As custodians of global public discourse today, transnational tech platforms govern who may speak, to whom, and how. While they have helped document and revitalize minoritized languages and connect diasporic communities, they also make language-related decisions that can disproportionately disadvantage speakers of those languages. On platforms like Facebook, non-English users navigate a linguistic environment where content moderation is often severely under-resourced compared to that available t

This Element has three main aims. First, the authors wish to synthesize research on language teacher psychology to provide state-of-the-art insights into the topic and identify possible avenues of scholarship. They do so by adopting a trilogy of mind perspective, which helps organize aspects of teacher psychology into three domains: cognition, affect, and motivation. Second, the overview of the literature outlines key issues, identifies gaps in current understandings and scholarship, and it also

This Element explores the relationship between creativity, poetry, and cognition through the lenses of cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics. Section 1 situates poetic creativity within the frameworks of conceptual metaphor theory, cognitive grammar, and text world theory, reconsidering traditional views of creativity by showing how linguistic structures underpin both writing and reading poetry. Section 2 adopts an autoethnographic approach, documenting the writing of poems, demonstrating

This Element examines the origins, development, and prospects of forensic linguistics in Indonesia, drawing on a survey of 53 participants and a systematic review of studies from 2011 to 2023. Emerging from early language-related cases in the Old Order era and initially driven by scholars trained abroad, the field has grown through research, collaboration, and academic integration. Key topics include justice sector needs, linguistic diversity, standardization, and institutional strengthening. De

This Element introduces PrInDT (Prediction and Interpretation in Decision Trees), a statistical approach for modeling relationships between extra- and intralinguistic variables in World Englishes. It is based on decision trees and controls their size in a way that they are easy and straightforward to interpret. Furthermore, PrInDT optimizes their accuracy so that they best fit the data and can be reliably used for prediction. Moreover, it can handle unbalanced classes that occur, for example, wh

This book showcases the current state of the art of research on rhythm in speech and language. Decades of study have revealed that bodily rhythms are crucial for producing and understanding speech and language, and for understanding their evolution and variability across populations-not only adults, but also developmental and clinical populations. It is also clear that there is perplexing dimensionality and variability of rhythm within and across languages. This book offers the scientific founda

This book tells the fascinating story of American English, tracing its emergence in the colonial period through to the present day. Written by a leading scholar, and drawing on data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, it explores how and why American English differs from British English, how it has been standardized, and how the USA's global political power has influenced its prominent status around the world. Illustrated with copious examples of language in use, it also surveys the various diale

Call for Papers: Second Call for Papers for the 7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), to be held 5-7 November 2026 online, with East Texas A&M as virtual host. The goal of this conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and to bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages—which account for at least 85% of the world’s linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities- have

In an era of growing social polarization and the digital transformation of communication, we wish to subject to schoalarly reflection the tension between the traditional ethos of sport and the phenomena that negate it. We welcome submissions from: - humanities scholars, - sociologists, - political scientists, - representatives of physical education and health sciences. We also welcome contributions from linguists and discourse scholars addressing the role of language in shap

Call for Papers: The Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is pleased to announce the upcoming 2nd Experimental Linguistics Meeting. The meeting will take place on November 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2026 in a hybrid format (virtual and in-person). The purpose of the Experimental Linguistics Meeting is to bring together researchers and students interested in the analysis of linguistic phenomena from experimental approaches, with the ai

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages—which account for at least 85% of the world’s linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marginalised communities- have

In an era of growing social polarization and the digital transformation of communication, we wish to subject to schoalarly reflection the tension between the traditional ethos of sport and the phenomena that negate it. We welcome submissions from: - humanities scholars, - sociologists, - political scientists, - representatives of physical education and health sciences. We also welcome contributions from linguists and discourse scholars addressing the role of language in shap

The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Croatian Language Technologies Society invite submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models. As the submission deadline approaches, we encourage researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities to contribute extended abstracts and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from our distinguished keynote speakers. Keynote Speak

The papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference on Marketing Linguistics will focus on the intersections between marketing and linguistics. The conference aims to find common ground between the two disciplines, outlining current trends and laying the foundations for the interdisciplinary research field of Marketing Linguistics in Hungary. The intersection of the two disciplines is inevitable: We gather information about products, brands, and services primarily through language. Conse

The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Croatian Language Technologies Society invite submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models. As the submission deadline approaches, we encourage researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities to contribute extended abstracts and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from our distinguished keynote speakers. Keynote Speak