We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the 'Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics' workshop. As in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the ÖLT (50th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place November 20-21 in Salzburg, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as at the interfaces. We invite submissions for oral present

The core premise of functionalist frameworks is that pragmatic utility dictates structural grammar. Viewing language fundamentally as an instrument for social engagement and conceptual transmission, these models argue that linguistic design is externally motivated. Grammatical configurations are shaped and restricted by cognitive processing thresholds, interactional norms, and iconic principles. In many instances, these pragmatic pressures entirely drive the development, application, and compreh

Call for Papers: FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 100% IN PERSON Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting San Francisco, California, USA 6-9 January 2027 This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisc

We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the 'Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics' workshop. As in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the ÖLT (50th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place November 20-21 in Salzburg, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as at the interfaces. We invite submissions for oral present

O IV Encontro Internacional com a Literatura Portuguesa constitui a quarta edição de um evento científico dedicado à discussão e à divulgação de pesquisas no campo da literatura portuguesa e dos estudos literários em perspectiva interdisciplinar. Nesse ano, o evento traz como tema "O (não) silêncio da história e a escrita de Teolinda Gersão". Promovido pelo Grupo de Pesquisa Teolinda Gersão (CNPq), o evento tem como objetivo fortalecer o intercâmbio acadêmico entre pesquisadores, estudantes e pr

ÖLT 2026 Salzburg Titel des Workshops: Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation Thema: Sprache und Diskurse der Nachhaltigkeit Kurzbeschreibung: Nachhaltigkeit ist zu einem zentralen gesellschaftlichen Leitbild geworden und prägt politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Debatten ebenso wie die Kommunikation von Unternehmen, Organisationen und Institutionen. Begriffe wie Nachhaltigkeit, Klimaschutz, Kreislaufwirtschaft, grün, umweltfreundlich oder verantwortungsvoll sind heute fester Bestandteil öf

ÖLT 2026 Salzburg Titel des Workshops: Marketinglinguistik Thema: Sprache, Marken und Konsum Kurzbeschreibung: Sprache spielt eine zentrale Rolle bei der Gestaltung von Marken, Produkten und Konsumerfahrungen. Ob Markennamen, Slogans, Produktbeschreibungen, Verpackungstexte, Social-Media-Kommunikation oder KI-generierte Inhalte – sprachliche Entscheidungen prägen die Wahrnehmung von Unternehmen, Produkten und Dienstleistungen und beeinflussen Einstellungen, Emotionen sowie Kaufentscheidung

O IV Encontro Internacional com a Literatura Portuguesa constitui a quarta edição de um evento científico dedicado à discussão e à divulgação de pesquisas no campo da literatura portuguesa e dos estudos literários em perspectiva interdisciplinar. Nesse ano, o evento traz como tema "O (não) silêncio da história e a escrita de Teolinda Gersão". Promovido pelo Grupo de Pesquisa Teolinda Gersão (CNPq), o evento tem como objetivo fortalecer o intercâmbio acadêmico entre pesquisadores, estudantes e pr

ÖLT 2026 Salzburg Titel des Workshops: Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation Thema: Sprache und Diskurse der Nachhaltigkeit Kurzbeschreibung: Nachhaltigkeit ist zu einem zentralen gesellschaftlichen Leitbild geworden und prägt politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Debatten ebenso wie die Kommunikation von Unternehmen, Organisationen und Institutionen. Begriffe wie Nachhaltigkeit, Klimaschutz, Kreislaufwirtschaft, grün, umweltfreundlich oder verantwortungsvoll sind heute fester Bestandteil öf

ÖLT 2026 Salzburg Titel des Workshops: Marketinglinguistik Thema: Sprache, Marken und Konsum Kurzbeschreibung: Sprache spielt eine zentrale Rolle bei der Gestaltung von Marken, Produkten und Konsumerfahrungen. Ob Markennamen, Slogans, Produktbeschreibungen, Verpackungstexte, Social-Media-Kommunikation oder KI-generierte Inhalte – sprachliche Entscheidungen prägen die Wahrnehmung von Unternehmen, Produkten und Dienstleistungen und beeinflussen Einstellungen, Emotionen sowie Kaufentscheidung

Call for participation: Shared Task: ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America (SIMBig 2026, Arequipa, Peru) https://simbig.org/SIMBig2026/en/sharedtask.html Deadline: 21 September 2026 to participate in the shared task (Register: https://forms.gle/112jyHYPq9SVMmvs5) We invite submissions for the SIMBig 2026 Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America, a unique opportunity to contribute to low resource language preservation

Karamanlidika – Turkish written in Greek script – represents an intersection of Turkish varieties, religion(s), and writing systems. Produced and used by the Orthodox Christian communities of Asia Minor (often referred to as Karamanlides) these texts offer invaluable material for linguistic inquiry of various aspects of Turkish language. While historical and literary studies have long engaged with Karamanlidika, its linguistic dimensions remain under explored. This Call for Papers invites con

SUMMARY Julia Landmann’s “Cognitive Contact Linguistics” arrives as a timely and necessary intervention at the intersection of two fields that have rarely engaged in sustained dialogue. On one side, contact linguistics has produced a rich body of scholarship on borrowing, code‑switching, and language mixing, but has largely remained within structural, sociolinguistic, or historical paradigms. On the other, cognitive linguistics has developed powerful models of usage, entrenchment, and concept

Karamanlidika – Turkish written in Greek script – represents an intersection of Turkish varieties, religion(s), and writing systems. Produced and used by the Orthodox Christian communities of Asia Minor (often referred to as Karamanlides) these texts offer invaluable material for linguistic inquiry of various aspects of Turkish language. While historical and literary studies have long engaged with Karamanlidika, its linguistic dimensions remain under explored. This Call for Papers invites con

Call for Papers: Extended Deadline Invited speaker: Kilu von Prince (U. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) We invite submissions for EmGraCa 2026, a workshop dedicated to the investigation of emerging grammatical categories, with a particular focus on categories that have only relatively recently been identified, theorized, or systematically compared across languages. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on underexplored or newly conceptualized domains of grammar,

The panel "Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and Languages", to be held at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference in Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027, invites submissions for panel contributions. Background: Adopting conversation analytic (CA), interactional linguistics (IL), and multimodal analysis, this panel examines how social actions are accomplished through multimodal practices including grammatical, prosodic, bodily-visual practices and material re

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce Unicode Technology Workshop 2026 (UTW 2026) will take place from October 20-23, 2026 in historical and vibrant Nancy, France. Building on the success of UTW 2023–2025 in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, UTW 2026 brings that same spirit of openness, innovation, and in-person collaboration to the heart of Europe’s design and research ecosystem. UTW 2026 – Unicode in the World – marks the Consortium’s return to Europe. Just 90 minutes from Pa

Short-form video platforms have emerged as significant sites for social interaction, reshaping the ways users communicate, express their identities, and form communities. The unique features of platforms like TikTok and Douyin facilitate innovative forms of interaction that blend video, audio, and textual elements, resulting in multimodal and cross-modal communicative practices (Jiang & Vásquez 2025). For this panel, we invite papers that delve into the pragmatics of these platforms, focusing on

The panel "Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and Languages", to be held at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference in Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027, invites submissions for panel contributions. Background: Adopting conversation analytic (CA), interactional linguistics (IL), and multimodal analysis, this panel examines how social actions are accomplished through multimodal practices including grammatical, prosodic, bodily-visual practices and material re

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce Unicode Technology Workshop 2026 (UTW 2026) will take place from October 20-23, 2026 in historical and vibrant Nancy, France. Building on the success of UTW 2023–2025 in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, UTW 2026 brings that same spirit of openness, innovation, and in-person collaboration to the heart of Europe’s design and research ecosystem. UTW 2026 – Unicode in the World – marks the Consortium’s return to Europe. Just 90 minutes from Pa