Reading with NARNiHS reading group of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3288 Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The sixth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Thursday, 12 November 2026, at 11:00 am US Eastern time / 5:00 pm European Central time and features **David Britain** discussing colonial (as well as pre- and post-co

In honour of the 10th anniversary of Lingthusiasm, we’re launching the Linguistics Zine Challenge: make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end of November 2026, and you could win prizes! There are two ways to enter: 1. Share an existing linguistics-y zine Share one or more existing linguistics zines (we have several printable pdfs here by both us and other people) and share it however you want! 2. Make your own linguistics-y zine Make your own zine about something

SUMMARY “Words that Wound: Exploring Online Offensive Language” by Tahmineh Tayebi and Vahid Parvaresh investigates two fundamental questions in digital discourse studies: what is the nature of online offence and how is it linguistically constructed in computer-mediated interaction? Situated primarily within pragmatics and (im)politeness theory, the volume addresses an underexplored “middle ground” of digital communication: language that harms, insults or marginalises individuals while fallin

Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the 17th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2025 Paris, to be held on 28-30 October 2026 in Paris, France. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2026 Paris conference envisions a vibrant platform f

Call for Papers: Updated Submission Information: Please note that we have revised our submission instructions to reflect the restrictions of the IPC20 submission portal. The panel seeks to advance our understanding of the nature of information that is ‘taken for granted’ in an utterance. Linguistic phenomena related to such information, most prominently presuppositions and conventional implicatures, received different analyses, e.g. as projective or not-at-issue content. Current debates c

Description: Essential Functions of the job: The successful candidate will be expected to: - Conduct and publish original research and scholarship in Indigenous literature, media, language, or related fields. - Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in areas of departmental need, including in-person and online instruction. - Mentor and advise undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students in research and professional development. - Provide service to the department, college, univ

Description: Assistant Professor-Theoretical Phonology, Linguistics Location: Stony Brook, New York, United States Open Date: Oct 06, 2026 Deadline: Nov 21, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description: The Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in phonology beginning Fall 2027. The successful candidate will have a PhD (or foreign equivalent) in Linguistics (or related field) in hand by the start of the appointment, a

General: LiDi 2027, to be held at the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University on 22-23 April 2027, is the 9th edition of the conference and the first outside the German-speaking world (Zurich, 2026; Salzburg, 2025; TU Dortmund 2024; Zurich 2023; Kassel 2022; PH Vorarlberg 2021; Bochum 2019; Konstanz 2018). The LiDi conference series aims at discussing the scope of recent findings in the field of linguistics as they potentially connect to the development of instructional methods in langu

Website: https://descrypt-project.github.io/PhilAI Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=philai2027 Contact: philai2027@easychair.org We are pleased to announce the second workshop “Philology Meets AI: Analysis of Rare Scripts”, which will bring together researchers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer vision, philology and historical linguistics. The workshop explores how recent advances in machine learning, image processing, and language modeling

Appel à soumissions Pour un numéro thématique de SCOLIA à paraître en 2028 https://pus.unistra.fr/collection-revue/scolia/ https://journals.openedition.org/scolia/ AERES / HCERES – ERIH PLUS – Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals – ANVUR (classe A: Area 10, settore 10/G1: Glottologia e linguistica; classe A: Area 10, settore 10/H1 Lingua, letteratura e cultura francese) – MIAR – Journalbase – Mir@bel – Sign@l – Ovid Link Solver – ProQuest Summon – Cultures, Langues, Textes (CNRS).

We are pleased to announce that the tentative program for J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026 is available now. Please take a look at the following website: https://en.j-sla.org/events/jsla-autumn-2026 Please note that the full program is scheduled to be released in a few days. Thank you for your patience. J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026 will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2026 in the following formats depending on the session type: 1. Student Oral Presentations (On-site only) 2. Poster Pre

2027 Asia Pacific Association of Language, Culture, and Education (APALCE), Korea Association of Secondary English Education (KASEE), and Korea TESOL Joint Winter Seminar Language, Culture, and Education in the Age of AI The Asia Pacific Association of Language, Culture, and Education (APALCE), Korea Association of Secondary English Education (KASEE), and Korea TESOL will jointly host their 2027 Winter Seminar as detailed below. We invite presentation proposals and look forward to your par

Modality: Hybrid. The session will be held in person, but papers may also be presented remotely. This panel explores innovative uses of translation as a pedagogical practice across disciplines. It invites theoretical, critical, and practice-based work on teaching strategies that use translation to foster interpretation, rhetorical awareness, and creative engagement with texts across languages, genres, media, and cultural contexts. Papers may address comparative work with multiple translatio

After twenty years, the International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) returns to Mexico City at the UNAM (Mexico). The Conference will take place as an in-person meeting from September 9 to 10, 2027. The meeting will be hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM-IIFL), and the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM-Iztapalapa). The committee invites proposals on original research relating to any aspect of linguistics that uses Role and Reference Grammar (Van

The Center for Language Acquisition will host the following free webinar in November: OPI-DA: A Dynamic Assessment Approach to Diagnosing Learner Oral Proficiency Dr. Jie Zhang and Dr. Tianyu Qin Wednesday, November 4th, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am (EST) Registration is required https://tinyurl.com/t6anse9j This webinar introduces OPI-DA, an approach that applies Dynamic Assessment principles to the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Drawing on an ongoing project with U.S. university

SUMMARY In “Second Language Identity: Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment in Higher Education,” Malovrh and Moreno develop theoretically and empirically supported hypotheses regarding the concept of ‘L2 language advancedness.’ The book focuses on learners of L2 (i.e., a second and/or foreign language) Spanish in tertiary education in the US, with a primary emphasis on oral language use. The volume comprises an introductory chapter, three main parts each corresponding to an original empirical

Description: Position Description: The Department of European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies to begin Fall 2027. We seek an interdiscplinary scholar working at the intersection of language and culture from transnational perspectives (specialization open). Duties include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, developing courses for the department, servi

Description: The School of Psychology and Cognitive Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, beginning in August 2027. Candidates are expected to have an earned doctoral degree (in hand by August 2027) in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. The position additionally offers an affiliation with the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures in the School

Other Specialties: Second Language Sociolinguistics; Language for Specific Purposes; Forensic Linguistics; Courtroom Interpretation; Language Policy; Language in Tourism; Language in Healthcare Description: The Department of Second Language Studies seeks to hire a scholar who conducts research on multilingualism in professional/vocational/employment contexts. The person filling this vital role will contribute to the scholarly mission of the department through research, teaching, and servic

Most research on AI and language tests what the model produces. This workshop asks what multilingual speakers do with it. Generative AI answers in dozens of languages, yet it organises them like a drop-down menu: one language at a time, each treated as uniform. Multilingual speakers move across languages, varieties and registers. What happens when the two meet? The workshop brings together empirical work from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies and related fields on w