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Qs: Looking for English Speaking Participants for our Experiment: "In the Era of Digital Twins, what Should Medical Messages Ideally Sound Like?"

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 14:05
We are doing a linguistics research about how Digital Twins should be talking to us. For this, we are conducting an experiment, based on hypothetical scenarios, that can be reached by clicking the following link: https://farm.pcibex.net/p/CuBYAt/ It takes around 15 minutes and it is best viewed in laptops/PCs, and ideally via Safari or Chrome. Instructions, explanations and consent information are provided before the experiment starts. The study has been approved by the Ethics Commission

FYI: Call for Contributions to an Edited Volume "The Linguistics of Forced Displacement in Africa"

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 13:05
About the Volume We invite contributions to a planned edited volume on language and involuntary displacement in Africa. The volume examines how displacement – particularly the involuntary or constrained uprooting of individuals and communities as a result of conflict, violence, political persecution, environmental crises, or other adverse circumstances beyond their control – shapes language use, multilingual practices, and linguistic outcomes in African contexts. While voluntary migration is an

TOC: Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 46, No. 2 (2026)

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 11:05
Table of Contents Introduction: Perceptions and attitudes in linguistically diverse contexts (free access) James A. Walker, Debbie Loakes & Ksenia Gnevsheva Articles Attitudes in context: Stereotypes in patterns of ethnic identification in Sydney (open access) Heba Bou Orm Self-perceptions of ethnic markers in Toronto English (open access) Michol F. Hoffman & James A. Walker Do Australians hear ethnicity? (open access) James A. Walker, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes, Joh

Calls: 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 06:05
Call for Papers: Deadline extended to 15 August 2026 The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10–12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and

Jobs: African Pidgins and Creoles, Asian Pidgins and Creoles, French based, Portuguese-Based Creoles, Spanish-Based Creoles; French, Portuguese, Spanish; Anthropological Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology: Academic...

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 06:05
Description: This PostDoc position is situated in a research and teaching context that addresses questions of language contact (including Creole languages) and/or sociolinguistics (including migration linguistics) in relation to Romance varieties in the Global South. Particular emphasis – though not exclusively – is placed on three regions: the Caribbean, Central Africa and Southeast Asia (e. g. Romance languages in multilingual repertoires, intra-regional migration processes, French-, Portug

Calls: Focus on ELT Journal - "Vol 8; Issue 2 & Vol 9; Issue 1" (Jrnl)

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 05:05
Focus on ELT Journal is now accepting original articles and book reviews for our regular issue to appear in December 2026 (Vol 8; Issue 2) & June 2027 (Vol 9; Issue 1). We welcome submissions dealing with issues about English Language Teaching and Learning for our next issues. The scope of the journal includes, but not limited to, the following subjects: teaching English as a foreign or second language, English language teacher training and education; theory and practice in English language

Calls: XXVII Congresso Internazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 05:05
Call for Papers: *The deadline for proposal submissions has been extended to August 5th.* Linguistic justice is an increasingly important and relevant theme in public and academic debate, shaped by social and technological transformations, imposing hegemonic cultural visions and affecting speakers’ rights. Several issues emerge in various domains, such as the global dominance of English in research, the spread of English-Medium Instruction in tertiary education, and Artificial Intelligence

Confs: Ibero-Romance Studies in the Contemporary World: Scientific Paradigm and Current Challenges

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 05:05
“Ibero-Romance Studies in the Contemporary World: Scientific Paradigm and Current Challenges” is a conference focusing on issues of Ibero-Romance linguistics, literature, culture, translation, and language teaching methodology. The conference brings together researchers from leading Russian and international academic institutions: Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Science

Calls: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Clitics and Agreement Markers Across Languages: From Balkan to Bantu and Beyond

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 04:05
Call for Papers: This workshop is organized as part of the DGfS 49th Annual Conference 2027 'Language under the Microscope – Observation, Analysis, Theory' Workshop Description: Clitic pronouns and agreement markers are traditionally treated as distinct elements of grammar: clitics as (deficient) pronouns, agreement as a purely morphological reflex of syntactic relations. However, a growing body of work has pointed to systematic similarities between them, raising the question of whether

Confs: Our Great Middle Sea: Formal Explorations of Eastern Mediterranean Varieties

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 04:05
We invite submissions for the Great Middle Sea Conference, to be held at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia from May 6 to May 7 2027. The conference will focus on formal approaches to phenomena characteristic of the languages and dialects spoken in the Eastern Mediterranean, such as varieties of Arabic spoken in the region, Hebrew, the languages spoken in Cyprus, Malta, and non-semitic heritage languages such as Ladino and others. Contributions on understudied minority languages spoken in the r

FYI: Seminar on South Asian Syntax: In memory of Prof. Probal Dasgupta (1953-2026)

Tue, 07/28/2026 - 04:05
Research on South Asian Syntax is extensive, and yet many theoretical questions remain unanswered, and many languages under/unexplored. This one-day online seminar presents lectures on diverse topics from category formation, causatives, nominalization, complementizers, relative clauses to discourse. The topics represent the intricate syntax of South Asian languages. They are also topics that Prof. Probal Dasgupta had researched on during his lifetime, among many other grammatical aspects. We or

Confs: Panel at IPC20 - Support and Assistance: Linguistic and Communicative Practices Surrounding Aging and Assistance

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 18:05
Call for Panel Contributions IPrA 2027 Panel: Support and Assistance: Linguistic and Communicative Practices Surrounding Aging and Assistance Organizers: Haruka Sakai (Hiroshima University), Mao Chida (Chiba University/Hiroshima University) This panel discusses the linguistic and communicative practices surrounding aging and assistance, or care, as processes of social interaction. Social support and physical assistance are provided in ways that orient to the autonomy and cognitive and physi

Calls: 7th Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 18:05
Call for Papers: About the Forum: The Buckeye East Asian Linguistics (BEAL) Forum provides a supportive platform for students and emerging scholars to present and exchange research findings in East Asian linguistics. This one-day event is designed to foster a collegial and constructive environment through a combination of keynote speeches and breakout sessions. After the Forum, presenters are invited to publish their work in the open-access Buckeye East Asian Linguistics series via The Ohi

Calls: NARNiHS 2027 – North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics – 9th Annual Meeting

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 17:05
Call for Papers: 100% IN PERSON Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting San Francisco, California, USA 6-9 January 2027 This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting

Confs: 7th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 17:05
We are pleased to announce that the 7th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE 2027) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 14 to June 17, 2027. PaPE is an interdisciplinary forum for research on all areas of phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the relationship between the two. It promotes discussion of phonetics and/or phonology and their related areas, from multiple perspectives such as experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, formal phonology, neurolinguisti

Confs: Sommergarten 2027 2nd International Symposium

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 17:05
Culture is an essential component of language learning and our languages are a vitally important part of who we are. The setting of our second international symposium brings to mind the interconnections between freedom, language, and culture throughout history and today. As you consider some of the suggested stands, or create your own, we invite you to think about how these themes (culture, longevity, liberation) relate to freedom movements throughout the development of societies and to the ways

Confs: Panel at IPC20 - Explaining the Emergence of Pragmatic Markers: Cooptation, Pragmaticalization, Constructionalization?

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 16:05
Title: Explaining the emergence of pragmatic markers: Cooptation, pragmaticalization, constructionalization? Panel organizers: Wiltrud Mihatsch (Tübingen), Inga Hennecke (Tübingen), Gunther Kaltenböck (Graz), Stefan Schneider (Graz) Pragmatic markers, a heterogeneous class of extra-clausal expressions including discourse markers, stance adverbials, interjections, and formulae of social exchange, occupy a peculiar position in linguistic analysis. While their functional properties are relative

Confs: Panel at IPC20: Analysing Word Searches in Social Interaction Across Turns, Sequences, and Activities

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 16:05
This panel focuses on the study of word searches as interactional phenomena that affect the progressivity of turns, sequences, and activities. In contrast to cognitive approaches, which treat troubles in turn production, such as speech perturbations or hesitations, primarily as rooted in individual, cognitive processes (e.g. Levelt 1983; Goodglass et al. 1989), conversation-analytic research has investigated word searches as a particular type of repair (e.g. Schegloff et al. 1977) and emphasised

Calls: Forma y análisis en lingüística Maya 8 / Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 8

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 16:05
Call for Papers: Fecha límite extendida: 31 de julio 2026 Los invitamos a enviarnos sus resúmenes para presentaciones (20 min + 10 para preguntas) o carteles para la octava edición de FAMLi, que se celebrará en el Centro Estatal de Lenguas, Arte y Literatura Indígenas (CELALI) en San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas del 9 al 11 de diciembre de 2026. El objetivo de FAMLi es reunir a lingüistas para compartir investigaciones sobre los idiomas Mayas contemporáneos y abordar temas nuevos y

Software: IPAbet: A Fast and Memorable Keyboard for Typing the International Phonetic Alphabet

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 12:05
IPAbet is a fast and memorable keyboard for typing the International Phonetic Alphabet, directly in any application. It is a normal US keyboard: unshifted keys type plain US characters, while IPA symbols take at most two keystrokes, using familiar spellings and romanization conventions — s⇧H → ʃ (as in "sh"), t⇧H → θ, n⇧G → ŋ, 2⇧H → ʔ (from the Arabic chat alphabet). Diacritics are dead keys on the Option layer, like the standard accent keys. Every symbol on the IPA chart is covered — pulmonic a

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