Focus: Spoken language, multimodality and information management, conversation in multilingual settings, language ecology and documentation, LLMs applied to task-oriented dialogues Description: This School is the second edition of Speech matters, which was successfully held at Villa del Grumello in May 2022, attracting around forty participants from a variety of international backgrounds. Building on the positive experience and feedback of the first edition, this new edition aims to furthe

This research explores the complexity of experiences of learning English beyond the classroom in a challenging Algerian setting. Language learning has two dimensions, inside the classroom and beyond the classroom. Studies on language learning beyond the classroom are relatively scarce, in part because this dimension is to some extent hidden (Benson, 2011a). Furthermore, in the Algerian setting, studies about language learning and aspects such as autonomy are mostly classroom-based and depende

This is the 1st Call for Papers for a new volume titled "Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics" (edited by Pia Sundqvist, Liss Kerstin Sylvén, and Hayo Reinders). We welcome submissions that present empirical data as well as papers targeting theoretical/conceptual perspectives or methodological issues that illuminate innovative learning and teaching practices. Please see the full CfP here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KAOqg1bP7oGga3pdA94WGfuDSS_4Dn41Yb1xyAA

This Element analyses the sociolinguistic navigation of cultural and ideological influence among queer male-identified individuals in Chengdu and Taipei. By analysing how queer and ethnically Chinese-identified individuals navigate ideological influences, it investigates some of the complexities of culture and identity and their dependence on semiotics and situated communication. Thus, the social affordances and constraints relevant to specific individuals in these contexts are described not onl

ERC Synergy Nilomorph PhD Scholarships: Describing West Nilotic Languages The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at University of Edinburgh is inviting applications for three postgraduate studentships that offer four years of funding and extensive associated resources. The topic of these positions is the investigation of the sound systems and grammars of understudied West Nilotic languages, in particular the Burun languages and Thuri. These studentships form part of a vibr

ISSN 1336-7811 VOLUME 18 - 2025 No. 3 Editorial Pius ten Hacken, Renáta Panocová, Laura Giacomini p. 2 Proposing a Tentative Revision Hypothesis for Sacred Texts. The Holy Qur’an’s English Translation and Revision in Focus Mahmoud Afrouz pp. 3-19 Translating LOVE and BELOVED Metaphors: A Cogno-Cultural Analysis of La Sombra del Viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and its Arabic Translation Aseel Zibin, Renad Al-Momani, Areej Allawzi, Dina Salman pp. 20-40 Multimodal Translat

In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for data-driven NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation, or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It i

La XXXIVe édition du Colloque International de la Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE), qui se tiendra les 20, 21 et 22 mai 2026 à la Faculté de Philologie de l'Université de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, entend ouvrir un espace de réflexion collective consacré à la richesse et à la diversité actuelles de la langue française, de ses littératures et de ses cultures. Dans un contexte marqué par des transformations rapides et profondes — technologiques, sociales, politiques,

The 50th International Conference of the Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas will take place in Salamanca (Spain) from 7 to 9 October 2026, fifteen years after the University of Salamanca last hosted the annual AJL conference. The conference is open to undergraduate and MA students, PhD candidates, and scholars who have obtained their PhD within the last two years. Contributions may be written in in any of the languages of Spain or English. Abstract submission will be open until 15 March 2026

Sinn und Bedeutung 31 Nantes Université Main session: September 2-4, 2026 Pre-conference workshop “Plurality and Distributivity across lexical categories”: September 1, 2026 SuB31, organized by the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (Nantes Université/CNRS). will be held at Nantes Université. The main session will take place on September 2-4, with invited speakers Márta Abrusán (CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod), Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam), Aron Hirsch (University of Maryland) and

We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026), to be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16th 2026. We invite submissions of original research that leverages both Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in any domain of Natural Language Processing or language resource development. More information at https://kg-llm.github.io/ Workshop Overview: Large Language Models have become foundatio

The Brazilian Colloquium on Morphology (CBM - Colóquio Brasileiro de Morfologia) is a scientific event that brings together research developed in the field of Morphology. CBM welcomes contributions that encompass a wide range of descriptive, theoretical, and methodological perspectives and fosters debate on different areas of morphology and its interfaces through non-concurrent sessions. For its seventh edition (CBM7), the event returns to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS),

The Centre for Latin American Studies (CLAS), in collaboration with the University of Ghana, is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the VII International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American Studies (ICALLAS 2026) from August 5-7, 2026. The theme of the conference is Transatlantic Pathways: Culture, Politics, and Knowledge Between Africa and Latin America. ICALLAS 2026 foregrounds language contact and multilingualism between Africa and Latin America. The con

Call for Papers: The Linguistic Colloquium Language, Region, Identity aims to foster scientific exchanges within the Alpine region and beyond. It is specifically targeted at early career researchers (PhD students and post-docs). The colloquia, jointly organised by a team from six universities and research centres in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, intend to offer a forum for discussing current and recently concluded projects. The biennial editions are organised around three keywords

Call for Papers: We are delighted to announce that the 2026 APTIS conference will take place in Wales for the first time, being jointly hosted by Cardiff University and Swansea University. The conference will take place from 15-17 April 2026 in Cardiff, with an optional ‘cultural’ day in Swansea on Saturday 18 April. We welcome abstract submissions for traditional papers, book launches, workshops, and students’ flash talks. The landscape of translation and interpreting (T&I) is undergoing

On the initiative of 2022 president Arie Verhagen, the SLE conferences since the 2023 edition in Athens have included an outreach session, in which a number of conference participants reported on some national and local initiatives aiming at dispersing linguistic knowledge more widely among the general public. One first result is the SLE Linguistics in School Manifesto (https://societaslinguistica.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SLE-Linguistics-in-schools-manifesto_September2024-final.draft_.pdf),

We are pleased to announce the publication of the first edition of BibLexSpan – Bibliografía de estudios sobre unidades léxicas del español: https://biblexspan.fr/ BibLexSpan is an open access bibliographic database that brings together references to studies devoted to the lexical units of the Spanish language. “Lexical unit” is understood as any element of Spanish, including morphemes, words, and multiword expressions (locutions, constructions, phraseological units, sayings, and proverbs). I

Aufgrund ihrer Relevanz in allen schulischen und weiterführenden Bildungskontexten werden Bildungs- und Fachsprache inzwischen umfänglich theoretisch und empirisch beforscht. Unterbelichtet bleibt dabei die potenzielle Bedeutung von Kreativität im (bildungs-/fach-)sprachlichen Gebrauch und in den damit in Zusammenhang stehenden Lernprozessen. Fragen der Relevanz und Bedeutsamkeit stellen sich insbesondere dann, wenn man lernzielperspektivisch den Anspruch eines flexiblen und differenzierten Zugr

Focus: Foundations/Methods (for introductory classes), Syntax/Morphology, Semantics/Pragmatics, Linguistic Creativity (the research focus of the Collaborative Research Center 1646) Description: We are delighted to announce that the next DGfS Summer School 2026 will be taking place at Bielefeld University 10th-21st August, 2026. The summer school is directed at early career researchers (advanced MA students, doctoral researchers & postdocs). We are offering 32 1-week courses on a variety o

The Department of Linguistics at Bielefeld University (Germany) is pleased to announce a new international Master’s program, taught entirely in English, starting in April 2026. We welcome applications and inquiries from prospective students in Germany and around the world. The MA in Linguistics at Bielefeld University offers a solid and broad foundation, followed by specialization in the areas that most interest you. We offer seven different profiles: Communication, Computational Linguisti