Across Early Modern Europe, far-reaching social, political, and economic changes gave rise to efforts to shape and standardise vernacular languages. In the Low Countries, these efforts took shape in the first Dutch spelling guides, grammars, and dictionaries, which set out tentative norms for a standard written language. At the same time, printed newspapers emerged as a new and widely read medium, reaching audiences across social classes, and potentially serving not only to spread the news, but

We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel “The Pragmatics of Humour in Pop(ular) Culture" to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and an abstract (max. 500 words), to Michelle Weckermann (michelle.weckermann@uni-a.de) and Christian Hoffmann (christian.hoffmann@uni-a.de) by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The Pragmatics of Humour

Call for Papers: The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoust

We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel “The Pragmatics of Humour in Pop(ular) Culture" to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and an abstract (max. 500 words), to Michelle Weckermann (michelle.weckermann@uni-a.de) and Christian Hoffmann (christian.hoffmann@uni-a.de) by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The Pragmatics of Humour

As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area. We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome

We invite submissions to our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (“Topics”), please select our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be

As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area. We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome

We invite submissions to our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (“Topics”), please select our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be

Call for Papers: The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content,

Call for Papers: In an ever-changing, increasingly complex and plural world, attitudes often play a central role in public discourse. This also holds true for attitudes towards languages. These attitudes begin to emerge in the family and at school and continue to develop throughout life as we participate in society. In this way, they help to shape our relationship to languages and our identity. Applied linguistics has long been concerned with language attitudes. The focus has been on soci

The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)

La pragmática diacrónica se ha consolidado recientemente como línea de investigación en los estudios sobre discurso. De un modo concreto, estudia el uso de la lengua en contextos del pasado y analiza cómo las formas y funciones lingüísticas se configuran y transforman a través del tiempo (Stein, 1985; Jucker, 1995; Taavitsainen y Fitzmaurice, 2007), atendiendo tanto a aspectos discursivos como sociales. De este modo, su desarrollo ha permitido ampliar el campo de la lingüística histór

The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)

La pragmática diacrónica se ha consolidado recientemente como línea de investigación en los estudios sobre discurso. De un modo concreto, estudia el uso de la lengua en contextos del pasado y analiza cómo las formas y funciones lingüísticas se configuran y transforman a través del tiempo (Stein, 1985; Jucker, 1995; Taavitsainen y Fitzmaurice, 2007), atendiendo tanto a aspectos discursivos como sociales. De este modo, su desarrollo ha permitido ampliar el campo de la lingüística histór

Description: The Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra is seeking to hire a lecturer (in Catalan, “Lector”; in Spanish “Ayudante doctor”) with a PhD in (Applied) Linguistics, French Linguistics, or allied field. This position is formally for a period of six years, though it can be expected to lead to the creation of a permanent position with the same or a related profile if the chosen candidate performs successfully at the half-way and final evaluations i

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is looking for participants aged 18–50 who have a medium–high level of English, Spanish, and French (dominance order SP-FR-EN or FR-SP-EN). The study is conducted online, lasts approximately 1 hour, and participants will receive 15 euros as compensation. During the study, you will read short texts in the three languages while your voice is recorded. For more information, or if you are interested in taking part, please contact: a.dragota

Onomastics Online 13 August 2026 17:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 GMT+2 Microsoft Teams Nom du conferencier: Marc-Alexandre Beaulieu (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Le modérateur: Yolanda G. López Franco (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexique) Titre de la conférence: Le rôle des anthroponymes incas dans la toponymie du Pérou Résumé : À la suite d’une brève introduction sur une façon inédite de classer les noms propres et les noms communs, le conférencier abordera le rôle des ant

I am looking for native English speakers who can cooperate with an informant survey using the Google Form. In this survey, I would like to ask the grammaticality of "nominal IF" (as in "I wonder IF you are available"). I ask participants or subjects to select one choice out of Very Natural, Natural, A Little Unnatural, and Unnatural, according to their intuition or introspection. No personal information will be collected except your mother tongue. If you can participate in this survey, pl

Description: Duties and Responsibilities The successful candidate will be expected to: - Teach up to 24 ECTS (240 hours per academic year) - Design, coordinate, teach and assess English language modules (aimed at levels B2/C1 of the CEFR), drawing on the latest developments in Foreign Language Pedagogy as well as taking into account course requirements and student learning outcomes. - Supervise undergraduate dissertations. - Serve as academic advisor to students. - Maintain a minimum of

Digital platforms are increasingly organised around practices of reacting. Across platforms, reactions are shaped by affordances and emic labels, from low-threshold uptake such as likes, comments, quotes, reposts, or stitches to elaborate audiovisual formats such as live responses and reaction videos. At this end of the spectrum, reception becomes a "vernacular form of visual production" (Kim 2016: 333): prior content is watched, paused, felt, discussed, and repackaged before an audience. Positi