The Call for Papers for Volume 4 (2028) of Oral Archives Journal is now open. Oral Archives Journal (OAr) is an international peer-reviewed journal jointly published by USiena Press and Firenze University Press. The journal adopts a Diamond Open Access model, with no costs for authors or readers, and promotes the academic recognition of research articles and data papers based on oral archival materials. OAr invites submissions on oral archives as cultural, scientific, documentary, and tech

Call for Papers: There is a heightened and growing interest in integrating (formal) linguistics into the language classroom (Trotzke & Kupisch, 2020), as evidenced by the recent launch of the journal Pedagogical Linguistics in 2020 (Hudson, 2020; Trotzke, 2023; Widdowson, 2020) and large-scale pedagogical projects like Sheehan and colleagues’ Modern Foreign Languages in the UK (Sheehan et al., 2021, 2024). The claim is that appropriate adaptation of theoretical linguistic concepts and knowled

The 5th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem5) will be held in Daejeon, South Korea on 1–3 April 2027. IcoSem5 invites abstracts that pertain to linguistic iconicity, the resemblance between linguistic form and meaning. We call for papers for 30-minute presentations (20min presentation + 10min Q&A) dealing with any aspect of linguistic iconicity, such as: - Sound symbolism - Onomatopoeia and ideophones - Sign language iconicity - Syntactic iconicity - Iconicity and language change - Icon

ADS will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Wednesday, January 6 through Saturday, January 9, 2027, in San Francisco, CA. The meeting will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Friday, July 31, 2026, is the deadline for 20-minute paper and poster proposals, as well as innovative panel proposals. We invite presentations on any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacifi

The 5th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem5) will be held in Daejeon, South Korea on 1–3 April 2027. IcoSem5 invites abstracts that pertain to linguistic iconicity, the resemblance between linguistic form and meaning. We call for papers for 30-minute presentations (20min presentation + 10min Q&A) dealing with any aspect of linguistic iconicity, such as: - Sound symbolism - Onomatopoeia and ideophones - Sign language iconicity - Syntactic iconicity - Iconicity and language change - Icon

ADS will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Wednesday, January 6 through Saturday, January 9, 2027, in San Francisco, CA. The meeting will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Friday, July 31, 2026, is the deadline for 20-minute paper and poster proposals, as well as innovative panel proposals. We invite presentations on any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacifi

The International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL) series was initiated by renowned linguist Professor William S.-Y. Wang, focusing on interdisciplinary research on language origins and evolution. Continuing and further advancing the academic tradition of the CIEL series, this conference aims to provide a high-level international platform for scholars from linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and related fields. The conference will foc

The 3rd Adamawa Conference provides a forum for presenting and discussing recent studies on approximately 80–90 languages spoken primarily in eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and southern Chad. These languages, spoken by more than 600,000 people, belong to the Adamawa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The conference welcomes researchers, students, linguists, sociolinguists, language advocates, language developers, and community leaders interested in t

We announce that the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2027) will take place in Macau, China, May 9-14 2027. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing. More details soon. Conference website: https://2027.coling-iccl.org/ Paper Submission Information: This year, COLING will adopt the ARR system for reviewi

The International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL) series was initiated by renowned linguist Professor William S.-Y. Wang, focusing on interdisciplinary research on language origins and evolution. Continuing and further advancing the academic tradition of the CIEL series, this conference aims to provide a high-level international platform for scholars from linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and related fields. The conference will foc

The 3rd Adamawa Conference provides a forum for presenting and discussing recent studies on approximately 80–90 languages spoken primarily in eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and southern Chad. These languages, spoken by more than 600,000 people, belong to the Adamawa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The conference welcomes researchers, students, linguists, sociolinguists, language advocates, language developers, and community leaders interested in t

We announce that the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2027) will take place in Macau, China, May 9-14 2027. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing. More details soon. Conference website: https://2027.coling-iccl.org/ Paper Submission Information: This year, COLING will adopt the ARR system for reviewi

One of the central goals of syntactic typology is to reduce complex linguistic phenomena—and the often fine-grained variation they exhibit across languages—to a set of simpler underlying mechanisms. This enterprise involves deriving a wide range of syntactic constructions from constrained sets of features or other syntactic primitives that can combine in different constellations across languages. In this workshop, to be held at DGfS 2027 in Jena, we zoom in on these primitives and ask two interr

One of the central goals of syntactic typology is to reduce complex linguistic phenomena—and the often fine-grained variation they exhibit across languages—to a set of simpler underlying mechanisms. This enterprise involves deriving a wide range of syntactic constructions from constrained sets of features or other syntactic primitives that can combine in different constellations across languages. In this workshop, to be held at DGfS 2027 in Jena, we zoom in on these primitives and ask two interr

Table of Contents Articles “You’ve got the wrong Shorty!”: Further insights into the legal misconceptions that cause transcript injustice in forensic contexts (Open access) Helen Fraser Yarn as a verb meaning ‘talk’ in Australian English varieties (Open access) Jane Helen Simpson Approaches to Greek language and identities in Melbourne (Open access) James A. Walker, Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou & Stavroula Nikoloudis Serial verbs in Australian Indigenous languages Phoebe Legge

Entertaining usage of language is all around us and can explain more about how language works than we realise. This lively and engaging book explains key linguistic concepts, illustrated throughout with humorous and entertaining examples. Providing an accessible yet comprehensive survey of the field, it is especially helpful for students who might struggle with an overly technical text. Now in its second edition, it has been extensively updated and expanded to be more comprehensive and include c

Automated translations can break down language barriers and increase access to information, but they can also be highly inaccurate. This timely book explores the social challenges and ethical considerations of using artificial intelligence (AI) translations in high-stakes professional environments. Based on contributions from over two thousand professionals from critical sectors including healthcare, social work, emergency services and the police, the analysis explores the motivations and conseq

This book, “Speech Act Theory: Between Narrow and Broad Pragmatics” by Stavros Assimakopoulos, is a recent and substantial contribution to the studies of pragmatics and speech acts. Rather than offering another textbook overview of speech acts, the author focuses on the relationships between speech act theory and the Anglo-American and Continental European pragmatic traditions. He argues that the current position has significantly drifted away from Austin’s original vision and represents a narro

Call for Papers: Many children worldwide grow up learning and using two or more languages. The experiences of multilingual children vary greatly. Therefore, it is impossible to treat multilingual children as a homogeneous group, and an increasing body of research examines how multilinguals differ from one another and how these differences influence their development. We aim to bring together psychology and interdisciplinary researchers who have adopted this perspective and are working toward

The Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) focuses on building cumulative knowledge in linguistics through reproducible, robust, and replicable research findings. Building on the success of WoReLa 1 in Frankfurt, this second workshop aims to further our understanding of the factors that contribute to (a lack of) replicability in the language sciences, and to identify effective strategies to improve how linguistic research is conducted. For WoReLa 2, we particularly en