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Confs: InterGedi2026 International Conference

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 06:05
Focus of the Conference: This conference invites contributions that explore the communicative practices through which specialized knowledge is disseminated by experts in and across digitally-mediated contexts. Particular attention is given to proposals which examine the processes of recontextualization involved in adapting specialized knowledge so that it is accessible, understandable and acceptable to multiple audiences. Contributions may approach recontextualization and digital dissemination

Review: Nicola Nasi (2024)

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 17:05
Please write or copy and paste your review of Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue here. SUMMARY In Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue, Nicola Nasi explores children’s peer interaction and its role in language acquisition in the second language (L2) classroom. This exploration considers the various semiotic devices (linguistic and otherwise) that children use, which stimulate learning and development. The book is enhanced by analysis of in-class conversations by students and by photograp

FYI: Heinrich Heine University Summer Reading List 2025

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 13:05
Dear community interested in Languages and/or Linguistics, The members from the Linguistics Institute at the Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf, Germany) have curated again a list of interesting books and other resources for adding some (leisure) linguistics to your summer! The list is intended for any linguistics enthusiast, and no previous knowledge about any branch of Linguistics is needed. Here you can see the list from this year and the one from the previous year: https://www.li

FYI: All-New SpecGram (July 2025) Online

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 13:05
Greetings, Linguists! The July 2025 issue of Speculative Grammarian—the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics—is now available online for your browsing pleasure.      http://specgram.com/CXCIV.4/ The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that the Antepenultimate Issue issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including the slick bars of a fresh track

FYI: Dyirbal Aboriginal Poetry available online

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 13:05
The Dyirbal Song Poetry: the oral literature of an Australian rainforest people record, is now live in aCQUIRe. Here is the link: https://hdl.handle.net/10779/cqu.28587005.v1 The description of the resource is below. DYIRBAL SONG POETRY: Traditional songs of an Australian Rainforest people collected, edited and analysed by R.M.W. Dixon and Grace Koch This book contains full transcriptions of 174 Dyirbal songs, the original words in Dyirbal, morpheme-by-morpheme gloss, translation of e

Summer Schools: Braga Summer School in Linguistics 2025

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:05
Focus: Cognitive and Functional Linguistics Description: The Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University organizes Braga Summer School in Linguistics, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics. The event will offer advanced training in several areas of linguistic studies, especially from the perspective of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics in their most recent developments and in a

Summer Schools: UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics (SCEP) 2025

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:05
Focus: Our course covers all the main aspects of English phonetics: phonemic system (vowels and consonants) segmental analysis (allophonic processes) connected speech processes sentence stress (tonicity, accentuation) intonation (nuclear tones and prenuclear patterns) The main reference accent is Standard Southern British, but other varieties are discussed. The course emphasizes practical speaking and listening skills. You get plenty of practice in pronunciation perfo

FYI: LECTURE (7/25 @ 3 p.m. CT): “Humans Who Language: Restoring Humanity to Language Education in Dehumanizing Times”

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:05
LCTL Career Fair Keynote Address – Friday, July 25, 3:00 p.m. (CDT) on Zoom KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Humans Who Language: Restoring Humanity to Language Education in Dehumanizing Times” SPEAKER: Dr. L. J. Randolph Jr., Assistant Professor of World Language Education; Affiliate Faculty in Second Language Acquisition, University of Wisconsin-Madison ABOUT: The Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) helps connect speakers of less commonly taught languages with professional develo

Confs: 2nd Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender Conference

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 10:05
The full conference programme for Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (LILG 2025) is now available online. It includes information on all talks, posters, and presenters, along with abstracts and further scheduling details. Find the programme at: https://lilg.div-ling.org/programme/ Please note that registration for online participation is still open until 10 August. Register at: https://lilg.div-ling.org/registration/

Calls: Approaches to NPIs and Their Licensing Conditions – Anything New? (DGfS 2026 Workshop)

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 06:05
Final Call for Papers: Organizers: Carolin Reinert and Farbod Khouzani (Goethe University) This short workshop is organized as part of the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS2026). Workshop Description: Negative polarity items (NPIs) and their licensing conditions have long been the subject of extensive research. The fact that NPIs display certain distributional similarities and differences at the same time is a discernible pattern across languages. There have

Confs: Exclamatives in Sign Languages

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 05:05
Friday 19 September 2025 10:00 – 11:00 Invited Talk: Elena Castroviejo (University of the Basque Country) Exclamatives in Semantics and Pragmatics: Core Questions and Current Debates 11:00- 11:30 Carlo Geraci (IJN and CNRS) and Charlotte Hauser (SFL, Paris 8 University and CNRS) OHLALA! Exclamatives in LSF: Methods and Preliminary Results Coffee Break 12:00 – 12:30 Giorgio Zani (University of Turin) Emotions vs. Grammar: Disentangling the contribution of non-manuals in LI

Calls: 6th International Conference on Language Education and Research

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 05:05
Final Call for Papers (Lightning Talks & New Voices Panels) We’re excited to launch a Late-Breaking Research Opportunity for LERC2025 — a chance to get involved in one of Europe’s most dynamic language education conferences! Now Open: - Short-Format Presentations - We are inviting proposals for the following fast-track formats: - Lightning Talks – 10-minute presentations on innovative research, classroom practices, or work-in-progress - New Voices Panels – especially for early-career

Confs: 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 05:05
The 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics will be held at the University at Buffalo from Thursday, May 21, 2026 to Saturday, May 23, 2026. It is being co-organized by the University at Buffalo, the University of Rochester, and Syracuse University. There will be two abstract deadlines for paper or poster presentations, one in September and one in January (with the precise dates to be determined). The September deadline will be made available, in particular, for presenters who will requ

Support: Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics: PhD, University of Graz (Austria)

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:05
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax Required Language(s): German (deu) Description: Position: Support for PhD student (30 H/ Week, 2 Years) Deadline: 7 August 2025 Further information and job portal: https://jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/aa2c4fec-23fb-b340-1847-67e70b8e82b7 Your responsibilities - Independent and cooperative research in connection with the SFB project “Language between Redundancy and Deficiency” (https://sfb-redundancy-deficie

Support: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: PhD, University of Warwick

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:05
Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK) are delighted to offer two PhD scholarships for UK Home fees paying students wanting to complete their PhD in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Discourse Studies, or English Language Teaching (and Applied Linguistics). Awards will be made on the basis of programme applications according to these criteria: 1. Excellent research proposal with clear relevance to staff expertise (see https://warwick.ac.u

Calls: Faculty of Languages Journal - "Issue 32" (Jrnl)

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:05
The Editorial Board of the Journal of the Faculty of Languages, University of Tripoli, a semi-annual blind peer-reviewed journal (July-December) with ISSN-4016-2790 specialized in Translation Studies, Literature, Arabic, French, English, Italian, and Spanish Languages, welcomes the launch of a call to accept manuscript submissions in Issue 32. The Journal accepts original high-quality manuscripts. It opens the door for all researchers, including master's and doctoral students. Manuscripts sh

Review: General Linguistics: Loïs Kemp (2024)

Sun, 07/20/2025 - 19:05
Please write or copy and paste your review of English evidential -ly adverbs from a functional perspective here. SUMMARY Kemp’s ‘English Evidential -ly Adverbs from a Functional Perspective’, based on her doctoral dissertation, consists of six chapters. It aims to analyze the distribution and meaning of eleven English -ly evidential adverbs. The study is based on De Haan’s (2005) definition of evidentiality (p. 5), extending it to include both external and internal sources of evidence, the

Review: Mihai Surdeanu, Marco Antonio Valenzuela-Escárcega (2024)

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 16:05
SUMMARY This book describes Natural Language Processing (NLP) as of around 2023; namely, "deep learning" (where "deep" refers to the number of layers in the computer implementation of a neural network, not to any abstract notion of deep knowledge). There are other approaches to NLP, but as the authors say, deep learning is the favorite, and likely to remain so for the near future. The preface lays out the aim of the book: "to bridge the theoretical and practical aspects of deep learning f

Books: Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle: Szczepaniak (2025)

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:05
Das Buch widmet sich den sprachlichen Zweifelsfällen. Darunter fallen bspw. die schwankende Kasusrektion bei Präpositionen wie wegen oder dank oder auch Flexionsformen von Substantiven wie bei dem Helden und dem Held. Im Buch werden korpus-, sozio- und psycholinguistische Betrachtungsdimensionen diskutiert, mit denen sich Zweifelsfälle bezüglich ihrer Grammatikalität und Angemessenheit, ihres Gebrauchs, ihrer sozialen Bedeutsamkeit und ihrer Verarbeitung adäquat beschreiben und vom sprachlichen

Books: Doing Fach.Didaktik: Mertz-Baumgartner, Stadler (eds.) (2025)

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:05
„Doing Fach.Didaktik“ beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik, wie es in der Ringvorlesung an der Universität Innsbruck initiiert wurde. Der Sammelband bietet spannende Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung und Praxis, von inter- und transkulturellem Lernen über innovative Medien wie Instapoetry bis hin zur Aufgabenorientierung im Sprachunterricht. Die Autor:innen vereinen wissenschaftliche Tiefe mit praxisnahen Ansätzen und stellen so wertvolle Impulse für Lehrkräfte, Studi

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