Call for Papers: Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2027: "Sprache und Literatur" Die 63. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim steht unter dem Motto "Sprache und Literatur" und zielt darauf ab, Phänomene literarischer Sprache aus der Perspektive linguistischer Fragestellungen und Methoden zu beleuchten. Wir rufen zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für die Methodenmesse auf, die am Mittwoch, 10. März 2027, im Rahmen der Tagung stattfindet. Der Fokus de

Call for Papers: This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027). Workshop organizers: Esther Rinke (Goethe University Frankfurt) Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) Workshop Description: There is a consensus that children are well equipped for the task of language acquisition, enabling them to master many developmental milestones in their first language(s) by the age of 3 or 4. The quest to exp

The West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO) invites abstracts for papers to be presented at its 35th West African Languages Congress (WALC 2027), to be held at the University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon, from 12 to 15 October 2027. The Congress is organised by WALS/SLAO in partnership with the Department of African Languages and Linguistics of the University of Yaounde I, whose candidature was formally endorsed by the WALS/SLAO Executive Council. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words an

Background: This workshop aims to advance our understanding of evaluation as a fundamental dimension of human interaction, addressing how it is expressed, collaboratively constructed, and contributes to discourse organization. We define evaluation as a modal attitude whereby speakers assess entities and states of affairs in terms of value rather than possibility and necessity (Nuyts 2025). Occasionally discussed as appreciative modality, this domain has received comparatively little attent

The West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO) invites abstracts for papers to be presented at its 35th West African Languages Congress (WALC 2027), to be held at the University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon, from 12 to 15 October 2027. The Congress is organised by WALS/SLAO in partnership with the Department of African Languages and Linguistics of the University of Yaounde I, whose candidature was formally endorsed by the WALS/SLAO Executive Council. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words an

Background: This workshop aims to advance our understanding of evaluation as a fundamental dimension of human interaction, addressing how it is expressed, collaboratively constructed, and contributes to discourse organization. We define evaluation as a modal attitude whereby speakers assess entities and states of affairs in terms of value rather than possibility and necessity (Nuyts 2025). Occasionally discussed as appreciative modality, this domain has received comparatively little attent

We would like to draw your attention to a panel on pragmatic borrowing which will be a part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, June 27- July 2, 2027 in Helsinki. Please, submit a 250-500 words abstract via the IPrA conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/) by October 15th. When you submit your abstract, remember to Select 'Pragmatic borrowing in different language settings'. The term pragmatic borrowing was introduced

We would like to draw your attention to a panel on pragmatic borrowing which will be a part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, June 27- July 2, 2027 in Helsinki. Please, submit a 250-500 words abstract via the IPrA conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/) by October 15th. When you submit your abstract, remember to Select 'Pragmatic borrowing in different language settings'. The term pragmatic borrowing was introduced

This edited volume brings together scholars in applied linguistics who use trauma-informed theories and practices. Organized across three themes – narrative, interpreting and language education – the chapters examine the relationship between language and trauma, with particular attention to multilingual and migrant communities in Western contexts. The chapter authors collate research to date and present new findings on topics such as narrating traumatic experiences, trauma-informed interviewi

This volume offers speech and language practitioners an accessible entry into the complex linguistic landscape of North America in order to improve the identification of speech disorders in children from diverse language communities. Written by practitioners and members of these communities, the chapters explore well-known but understudied linguistic varieties of English, Indigenous languages in North America and emerging language varieties. Each chapter describes the culture and context of t

This edited volume discusses the actions of key agents in educational policy change, focusing on shifts towards greater use of non-dominant languages in multilingual contexts. It uses Kosonen and Benson’s (2021) language-in-education policy change framework to consider actors, actions and agency at three levels: change from above, below and the side. Chapter authors expand on and critique this framework, applying it to a wide-range of low- and middle-income countries in the Global South and c

This book explores how minority language users experience access to justice and the right to a fair trial when they use their language in the criminal justice system. It investigates the lived experiences of Irish speakers and deaf Irish Sign Language users who have directly interacted with the criminal justice system. Treating identity as both internally constructed and externally imposed, it focuses on the issues raised when internally constructed identities are misunderstood, oversimplified a

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the panel we are organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference to be held in Helsinki in June 2027: Voices of crisis: Reporting in crisis discourse (organizers: Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius, Jenni Räikkönen) This panel focuses on the pragmatics of direct and indirect reports in different crisis-related texts. In particular, we are interested in the ways in which various voices are expressed or suppressed in crisis d

The National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion and advancement of education and research around Spanish heritage bilingualism in the United States. The 14th NSSHL will be held from Thursday, February 18, to Saturday, February 20, 2027, at the University of California, Davis. It will take place in person and follow the regular format of keynotes, paper presentations, poster presentations, and workshops to allow attendees to share id

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the panel we are organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference to be held in Helsinki in June 2027: Voices of crisis: Reporting in crisis discourse (organizers: Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius, Jenni Räikkönen) This panel focuses on the pragmatics of direct and indirect reports in different crisis-related texts. In particular, we are interested in the ways in which various voices are expressed or suppressed in crisis d

The National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion and advancement of education and research around Spanish heritage bilingualism in the United States. The 14th NSSHL will be held from Thursday, February 18, to Saturday, February 20, 2027, at the University of California, Davis. It will take place in person and follow the regular format of keynotes, paper presentations, poster presentations, and workshops to allow attendees to share id

Call for Papers: Workshop organizers: - Maik Thalmann (Ruhr University Bochum) - Daniel Gutzmann (Ruhr University Bochum) Invited speakers: - Cornelia Ebert (University of Frankfurt) - David Beaver (University of Graz) Workshop Description: At-issueness as a category of linguistic description reflects the intuition that the meaning of an utterance can be partitioned into foregrounded (at-issue) and backgrounded (non-at-issue) contents. To date, the at-issue/non-at-issue divid

The Frisian Academy (Fryske Akademy) organizes its linguistics meeting in December this year. The fourteenth Conference on Frisian linguistics will be of interest to anyone who actively or passively participates in Frisian linguistics: grammar, phonetics/phonology, onomastics, lexicology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics. Papers may focus on the results of scientific research, but presentations of research plans, of speculations or of linguistic corpora are also welcome. The time

This theme session "Challenges in Figurative Language Annotation" held as part of the conference Grammar and Corpora 2027 in Düsseldorf brings together researchers working on figurative language, corpus annotation, and language acquisition to discuss theoretically informed and methodologically reproducible approaches to the annotation of figurative language. Unlike other grammatical phenomena, figurative meaning emerges from the interaction of lexical forms, discourse context, and speakers’ c

Description: Position Description: The Department of Modern Languages in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at DePaul University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Japanese, beginning in Fall 2027. DePaul’s interdisciplinary Japanese Studies program offers a major and a curriculum that integrates advanced Japanese-language study with area studies courses in Japanese culture, literature, history, religion, art, politics, and related fields. The s