Description: In der Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft ist im Rahmen des Academic-Tenure-Konzepts die folgende Position zu besetzen: Academic Researcher (m/w/d) im Bereich Anglistische Linguistik Kennziffer: Wiss25185 Start: nächstmöglich Vollzeit Vergütung nach E13 TV-L unbefristet/befristet Die Anglistik/Amerikanistik stellt ein sprach-, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlich orientiertes Studienfach in der Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft dar und

"Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older – and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises that have shaped the language we speak today." This presentation makes use of tiny samples of UK English dialect differences to chase their research question of "which UK English dialect is the oldest." The result is a friendly, engaging micro-history of UK English. In a linguistics class, this material could provide a relatable context for exploring th

Focus: The program includes: - Language classes structured by proficiency level; - Lectures on Albanian history, geography, and culture; - Socio-cultural activities such as museum visits and trips to various cities across Albania. Description: The Department of Linguistics of University of Tirana (Albania) is pleased to inform all interested parties that the summer school “Albanian Language Course for Foreigners” will be held from September 1–30, 2026. This intensive course is design

Friday, 20 November 2026, 13:30–18:00 (incl. 30-minute coffee break) University of Salzburg, Austria Topic: Idioms have long been treated as exceptions to grammar: fixed expressions that must be memorized rather than systematically explained. This workshop argues that such a view is no longer tenable. Within usage-based Construction Grammar, all linguistic knowledge consists of form-meaning pairings (constructions) organized into interconnected networks shaped by cognitive processes such a

Please write or copy and paste your review of Speaking in Pictures here. SUMMARY Neil Cohn’s book, “Speaking in Pictures: a vision of language”, is an impressive work that took seven years and 1,000 pages of rough drafts to produce. The book comprises a prologue, 11 chapters, and notes. The prologue presents Cohn’s brief self-introduction, in which he talks about his passion for drawing and about his research on pictures and languages ever since his encounter with linguistics. It is imp

Friday, 20 November 2026, 13:30–18:00 (incl. 30-minute coffee break) University of Salzburg, Austria Topic: Idioms have long been treated as exceptions to grammar: fixed expressions that must be memorized rather than systematically explained. This workshop argues that such a view is no longer tenable. Within usage-based Construction Grammar, all linguistic knowledge consists of form-meaning pairings (constructions) organized into interconnected networks shaped by cognitive processes such a

The panel 'Investigating transcultural pragmatics: Theory and methodology' that will take place at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference in Helsinki (Finland) from 27 June to 2 July 2027 invites submissions for contributions. Panel Abstract: The study of pragmatics with or from ‘a cultural perspective’ constitutes a long-standing research tradition. Early approaches, like Blum-Kulka and Olshtain’s Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP), sought to establish “similarit

The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMusArt) will take place on 31 March – 2 April, 2027, as part of the evostar event. EvoMusArt webpage: https://www.evostar.org/2027/evomusart/ Submission deadline: 1 November 2026 Conference: 31 March – 2 April 2027 Papers published in previous editions of EvoMusArt: https://evomusart-index.dei.uc.pt EvoMusArt is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on the a

Call for Papers: We are pleased to extend a final Call for Proposals for the 14th Conference of the International Language and Gender Association (IGALA). Founded in 1999, IGALA is the primary international scholarly organization committed to the promotion and support of research on language, gender, and sexuality. The 2027 IGALA conference (IGALA14) will be held at York St John University in the city of York, UK on 21-23 July 2027. The theme of the conference is ‘Researching Language, Gender

The panel 'Investigating transcultural pragmatics: Theory and methodology' that will take place at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference in Helsinki (Finland) from 27 June to 2 July 2027 invites submissions for contributions. Panel Abstract: The study of pragmatics with or from ‘a cultural perspective’ constitutes a long-standing research tradition. Early approaches, like Blum-Kulka and Olshtain’s Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP), sought to establish “similarit

The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMusArt) will take place on 31 March – 2 April, 2027, as part of the evostar event. EvoMusArt webpage: https://www.evostar.org/2027/evomusart/ Submission deadline: 1 November 2026 Conference: 31 March – 2 April 2027 Papers published in previous editions of EvoMusArt: https://evomusart-index.dei.uc.pt EvoMusArt is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on the a

Description: Northwestern University’s Department of Linguistics seeks to fill a full-time tenure-eligible position at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a start date of September 1, 2027. We are looking for candidates who pursue an integrated approach to the scientific study of language, utilizing experimental, computational, and/or data-intensive approaches to inform linguistic theory and its applications. The candidate will join a vibrant interdisciplinary community including researcher

Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Dialect-Aware Automatic Speech Recognition University of Tübingen (TV-L E13, 75%, 3+1 years) The project "Automatic Swabian Recognition (ASR): Processing and Evaluating Dialect Speech" is a network project funded by the Innovation Fund of the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" at the University of Tübingen. Its core resource is the Arno Ruoff Archive, around 1,600 interviews with speakers of Upper German dialects recorded bet

Focus: The University of Naples «L’Orientale», in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, the University of Tuscia, and Ethnorêma Association, is pleased to host the twelfth edition of Language Documentation, which will take place in Naples from September 21 to 25, 2026. The Language Documentation Summer School 2026 (LDSS 2026) aims to provide participants with an introduction to the methods and tools of linguistic fieldwork. In this edition, special attention will be devoted to

The 10th edition of the international conference Les français d’ici (https://lesfrancaisdici2026.uvic.ca/), co-organized by Catherine Léger and Pierre-Don Giancarli, was held at the University of Victoria from June 15 to June 17 2026. Several knowledge mobilization activities stemming from the conference and aimed at ensuring its long-term sustainability were organized: - An article in Le Devoir, one of French Canada’s leading newspapers, highlights the key issues explored during the conferen

This work was a critical examination of power and ideology in the discourse of members of the Nigerian Air Force (henceforth NAF). The research placed specific focus on how language is used to create, enforce, and promote power relations between soldiers, as well as between soldiers and civilians, within selected NAF settings. Data for the study comprised observations and diary recordings, selected excerpts of press releases on the war against insurgency, as published on the verified Facebook pa

Calling Levantine Arabic-English bilingual speakers! Dear Arabic- English speaking friends, We are excited to invite bilingual speakers of English and Arabic to participate in a unique research study aimed at analyzing conversational strategies in English in different cultural contexts. This study focuses on understanding how Levantine Arabic and English bilingual speakers interact and ask questions in various situations, which is crucial for effective cross-cultural communication.

SUMMARY The edited volume “Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts” provides an innovative approach regarding the impacts of corpus linguistics. After an introductory chapter, the reader is presented with eleven chapters from a variety of authors, each dealing with corpora in areas from law enforcement to education. Each chapter is tied to the theme of the numerous contexts in which corpus linguistics (CL) can be applied, along with the impacts—both direct and in

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