SUMMARY For many lay-people, dictionaries often evoke emotions at the extremes: They might serve as a simple, mostly irrelevant testament to an earlier time; as an origin of frustration and boredom rooted in primary or secondary school; or as the definitive source of all worldly knowledge. In the case of “Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book,” however, the reader never encounters boredom on his or her global journey through the history of lexicographic efforts among a number

Focus: - Seminars & Workshops led by experts and activists on topics such as Amazigh language, linguistics, historiography, anthropology, literature, film, and media. - Language Learning Opportunities, including daily Amazigh language classes for beginners. - Site visits and field trips that will allow the participants to gain a better understanding of Amazigh societies and their culture. The entire program is crafted to equip participants with the necessary tools they need to critically e

Focus: The HiSoN 2026 Summer School offers a series of advanced courses in historical sociolinguistics, covering a wide range of languages, periods, and methodological approaches. Courses are taught by internationally leading scholars and combine theoretical discussion with empirical case studies. Teachers and course titles Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Extremadura) Orality and the study of Irish English spoken discourse in historical sources James Clackson (University of Cambrid

SUMMARY Language is Gesture is a sustained exploration of McNeill’s concept of the ‘Growth Point’, a cognitive underpinning for the deep link between speech and gesture. This book starts at Chapter 1 with Beginning, but in many ways this book starts in the middle of a conversation that began in the 1980s when McNeill commenced his focus on the role of gesture in spoken communication (McNeill 1992, 2005, 2012, 2016, inter alia). This work has been fundamental to the conceptualisation of Gestur

Focus: Alternative Pedagogical Approaches in Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Sustainability, Responsible Teaching Description: In response to global challenges and the growing demand for future-oriented education, this spring school brings together researchers and educators to explore the role of language teaching in advancing sustainability. Aligned with Goal 4 of the UN’s 2030 Agenda, the program emphasizes how language education can foster transformative learning and empower le

Focus: The ExQuaCCo summer school aims to bring together formal linguists, experimental linguists, field linguists and computational linguists in order to develop synergies between the four communities and promote the dissemination of their results. The programme offers workshops to discover and learn new methodologies in quantitative analysis, experimental research, corpus annotation, natural language processing and data collection, as well as new approaches to morphology, syntax, semantics and

Vincent van Heuven passed away unexpectedly on Friday 6 February 2026 at the age of 76 at his home in Kûbaard (Friesland), the Netherlands. For more than three decades, Vincent van Heuven was the director of the Phonetics Lab at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden University, where he held the position of Professor Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics (from 2000 to 2013). After his retirement from Leiden, he held a professorship at the University of Pannonia in Hungary (from 2014 to 2019).

Focus: Intensive Persian language instruction (CEFR A1–C2), communicative competence, spoken Persian, grammar, academic Persian, Persian culture and literature, immersion-based learning. Description: The 5th Persian (Farsi) Summer School at the University of Belgrade is an intensive, university-based Persian language program offered within the European higher education framework. Designed for international students, researchers, and professionals from the United States, the United Kingdom,

Diálogo de la Lengua ha abierto el plazo de recepción de solicitudes para el puesto de director. Se busca a un candidato con un fuerte interés en la filología y lingüística españolas, y con conocimientos suficientes en varios de los campos relacionados con estas áreas. Asimismo, el candidato debe poseer excelentes capacidades de gestión y organización para garantizar la rigurosidad del proceso de evaluación de los artículos y para cumplir con los plazos de publicación. Las responsabilidades i

Other Specialties: Artificial intelligence, large language models, data and text analytics, data visualization, and network analysis. Description: Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) in Digital Humanities College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University, Singapore This post offers an emerging expert in the use of digital methods in humanities or social sciences to shape an ambitious, fast-growing centre in Digital Humanities in Asia. Young and resea

Journal of Contemporary Philology is accepting submissions for Vol 9, No 1, 2026 (June issue). Deadline for submission: March 15th, 2026. Submissions received after the deadline will be considered for the future issues of the JCP. Manuscripts may be submitted in English or Macedonian. Vol 8, No 2, 2025 (December issue) is currently available for open access https://journals.ukim.mk/index.php/jcp The Journal of Contemporary Philology (JCP) is an international, peer-reviewed electronic journ

Adopting a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary perspective, the conference aims to foster dialogue between formal, typological, functional, and usage-based frameworks, highlighting both shared principles and cross-linguistic variation in interface phenomena. The conference welcomes submissions from all theoretical traditions and applied perspectives, employing diverse methodologies, and particularly encourages research on spoken, signed, minority, and under-documented languages. It further pr

LEIC Research 2026, to be held on 12–13 November 2026, celebrates a decade of sustained academic dialogue and international collaboration across linguistic, educational, and intercultural research areas. Since its inception, the conference has evolved into a dynamic forum for scholars and educators addressing both theoretical perspectives and practical challenges in language-related disciplines. The conference offers opportunities to present research findings, exchange professional experience

Description: Polysemous expressions have multiple closely related senses, and there is a substantial amount of semantic and computational linguistic research on polysemy found in different categories of expressions, such as adjectives, nouns and verbs. However, the extent to which there is interaction between researchers working on polysemy in different categories of expressions is limited. This workshop will focus on approaches to polysemy across different grammatical categories so as to promo

Call for Papers for Issue 30 Volume 15 No. 1 and Issue 31 Volume 16 No. 1 Language and Language Teaching (LLT) is a peer-reviewed journal published biannually in English in January and July. It focuses on the theory and practice of language learning and teaching in multilingual contexts. The articles submitted to LLT may focus on the learner, teacher, materials, teaching methods, teacher training, learning environment, evaluation, or policy issues. LTT invites articles that have not been subm

We hope to see you in Montréal this October for this year’s Second Language Research Forum. SLRF 2026 will take place from October 2-4 in Montréal, Canada, and is hosted by the University of Montréal in collaboration with MonISLA. The theme of this year’s conference is Language Teachers and Researchers Without Borders. With this theme, we invite students, teachers, and researchers from the many facets of L2 research to come and share their knowledge. This includes, but is not limited to, rese

Call for Papers: Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University) Invited Speakers: - Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. It is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar)

Call for Papers: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Sciences Program & Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 47th Annual International Child Phonology Conference, to be held in-person May 27-29, 2026, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference brings together researchers from across disciplines to discuss theoretical, empirical, and clinical perspectives on children’s phonology. The conference supports

Final Call for Papers: The Information Disorder Workshop Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/ - March 3: Paper submission (extension) - March 17: Notification of acceptance - March 30: Camera-ready submission - May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC! Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviours (van der Linden et al., 2020) has

Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Sprache in der Politik" veranstaltet ihr viertes politolinguistisches Nachwuchskolloquium. Promovierende, deren Forschungsgegenstand Sprache und Kommunikation in der Politik im engeren oder linguistische Gesellschaftsforschung im weiteren Sinne darstellt, sind eingeladen, ihre Dissertationsprojekte vorzustellen. Neben langjährigen Mitgliedern der Arbeitsgemeinschaft wird das Kolloquium von weiteren Expert*innen begleitet, die entsprechend der ausgewählten Projekte eingel