Join us for the free New Frontiers in Corpus Linguistics Symposium, organised by the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, from 16 to 17 September 2026. Zoom participation is available. Please register here: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/register?id=D70672EF-AEEA-4657-9419-41AC3B3DF122 Format: Hybrid Symposium (16–17 September) In-person Workshop: 16 September (afternoon) Venue: PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 16 Sept

Language Disorders 2026 Online International Thematic Conference on Language Disorders Research and Applications Special session: Language Disorder Corpora Organizing committee Nicola Bessell, University College Cork, Ireland Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, the Netherlands Alice Lee, University College Cork, Ireland Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland Satu Saalasti, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Keynote speaker Iris Nowenstein Progra

Call for Papers: Experimental SLA: Connecting Research, Theory, and Language Teaching (ExpSLA) is an in-person conference designed to foster exchange among theorists, SLA researchers, language educators, and early-career scholars. Its aim is to strengthen methodological literacy, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and promote the integration of experimental findings into both theoretical models and language teaching practice. Over the last three decades, empirical research in Secon

Call for Papers: 'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and tools for acc

Call for Papers: Introduction The conference aims to explore, from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, the grammars of sexuality, understood both as norm and as a paradigmatic potential in shaping old and new forms of saying, narrating, and performing sexual identities, roles, and practices situated within different discursive, cultural, and social universes. By grammars we mean, on the one hand, what can be said, narrated, or performed within a given cultural and social context

The Institute of Foreign Languages and International Tourism of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Pyatigorsk State University" invites researchers, university lecturers, teachers of foreign languages, postgraduate students, master's students, and young scholars to submit original research articles for publication in the 2026 issue of the scientific journal Language and Culture in the Era of Scientific Knowledge and Professional Education Integration. The

Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) invites scholars and researchers to submit original and unpublished manuscripts for its forthcoming issue. The journal welcomes contributions in theoretical and applied linguistics, language education and pedagogy, second and foreign language acquisition, discourse analysis, translation and interpreting studies, sociolinguistics, language and technology, artificial intelligence in linguistics and language education, as well as interdiscipli

We are looking for a PhD Candidate (65%, m/f/x) in Digital Forensic Linguistics The position is located in the group headed by Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Digital Forensic Linguistics) in the Institute for German Studies. The research focus of the group is the theoretical and computational analysis of human language in digital media, in particular computational approaches to forensic linguistics. Research topics of the group include disinformation, hate speech, and automatic approaches to di

Advance notice of a predoctoral research training (FPI) contract The Research Group on Sociolinguistics in the Balearic Islands (GRESIB) at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) announces an upcoming four-year predoctoral research training (FPI) contract to undertake a PhD within the framework of the research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2025-173005NB-I00), Variability and optionality in stable and developing grammars (Principal Inv

2026. iii, 137 pp. Table of Contents Articles Speaking of workplaces in the time of Covid-19: Naming and digital placemaking in the Nordics Alexandra Petrulevich, Emilia Aldrin, Väinö Syrjälä & Line Sandst | pp. 411–432 Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum: A comparative genre-pragmatic analysis Le Cheng & Xiaobin Zhu | pp. 433–454 “And the right wants to hang and relax”: Some features of impairment talk Emilie Munch Nicolaisen & Gitte Rasmussen | pp. 455–478

This volume offers a discourse-oriented account of proper names, highlighting their socially and culturally significant semantic functions. It challenges the traditional view of names as meaningless linguistic signs. The authors argue that while proper names fulfil the basic functions of naming and distinguishing individuals, they can also carry meaning and perform important discursive functions. Drawing on examples from Polish political, religious, cultural, and social discourse, the volume sho

New competition alert: Lost in Transcription Most speech recognition tools are trained on "clean," monolingual speech - but real conversations are messier and richer than that. This challenge from the Mozilla Data Collective (backed by the Mozilla Foundation) asks participants to build ASR models that can handle real bilingual, code-switched speech in Spanish-English, Spanish-Nahuatl, and Indonesian-Javanese. $20,000 in prizes Closes mid-September 2026 https://competitions.mozilladatac

We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining the emerging role of personalized learning and automated assessment in English language education across the Mediterranean region. The volume seeks to bring together innovative theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions that explore how advances in educational technologies, learning analytics, adaptive learning systems, and AI-driven assessment are transforming English language teaching and learning. The book welcomes

The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles, political polarizations, divergent goal settings and ideological confrontations (from the Russo-Japanese war, 1904–1905, to Russia’s war against Ukraine, 2022-present). Through a broad range of cutting-edge case studies (Finland,

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions. The book combines a corpus-based linguistic analysis of emotion terms with empirical studies using both questionnaire-based data and online sorting tasks. It identifies several distinct clusters in both languages, suc

The book discusses consciousness and several theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon. So far, no one has been able to explain how the brain creates consciousness, mainly because no way has been discovered to measure it. The book’s main innovations are as follows: (1) A coherent treatment of two types of explanatory models relevant to consciousness. The first, a mechanistic model, is used in the natural sciences and has been accepted in psychology. The second, a mentalistic model, is b

Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek, this volume sheds new light on the role of adverbs and particles at the interfaces between morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Contributions fr

In chapters encompassing phonology, reading and writing, the lexicon, morphology, syntax, and semantics, Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art offers a comprehensive overview of research in each area, along with cutting-edge original studies. Designed to document, support, and inspire research in these areas and beyond, the volume also includes dedicated chapters on emerging areas, such as discourse pragmatics and the impact of socio-environmental factors. Chapters on second-language and h

Call for Papers: The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. Date: 24 October, 2026 Venue: Chuo University (Tama Campus, Tokyo) Abstract submission deadline: 7th September 2026, 23:59 (Japan Standard Time) There are two formats for research presentations at J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. (1) Student oral presentations (2) Poster presentations Please refer to the following website for abstract submis

Panel title: Grammar of Authority Rationale: Systematic studies of language and power have continued for several decades, not only in linguistics but also in other humanities and social scientific disciplines (e.g. Foucault 1969, 1971; Fairclough1989). The discussion has retained its relevance for understanding human behaviour from ancient to modern society, considering repetitive patterns of social interaction and geopolitical turmoil around the globe. Hitherto, many approaches from divers