2nd Call for Papers: Submission deadline for the Syntax of the World's Languages conference extended until March 6, 2025. Meeting Description: The tenth Syntax of the World's Languages conference will take place in Potsdam, Germany, between September 8-12th, 2025, at the University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais. In the same spirit as previous conferences in this series (SWL I, Leipzig 2004; SWL II, Lancaster 2006; SWL III, Berlin 2008; SWL IV, Lyon 2010; SWL V, Dubrovnik 2012; SWL

CReaTING is an International Conference organized in the framework of the "CC-TRANS, Creativity and Critical Thinking in Translation" research project (GRE22-03A) by researchers of the University of Alicante, Spain. This call for papers is open to lecturers and researchers, as well as early-career researchers and working professionals. Proposals can be written either in Spanish or English and must be sent until 15 February 2025 (deadline extended until March 2, 2025) using the form available

The Department of Modern Languages within the Faculty of International Economic Relations of ASEM has the great honour of inviting you to the 5th edition of the National Scientific Conference titled "Multilingualism and Interculturality in the Context of Globalisation." The scientific event will take place on 04 and 05 April 2025. Day 1 04 April, 10:00 am Venue of the Event: • Offline: Room 203, Building F, 2nd Floor, 59 Banulescu-Bodoni Street, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova; • Online: Z

This conference brings together scholars from around the world to explore the phenomenon of script-switching in literary texts. Thirty contributions have been selected for presentation, representing diverse geographical regions and historical periods, with scheduling that accommodates participants from Japan to California. The conference's scope encompasses a range of topics, including the stylistic functions of script-switching in Japanese literature and its connection to multilingualism and tr

Call for Papers: Quotations, understood broadly as any linguistic or multimodal way of reproducing content generated in a previous communication situation, are a key element of news reports (Schröder 2003: 116). It could be argued that news reports revolve entirely around quotations: “Searching for quote-worthy statements orients news production from the very beginning and, similarly, quotes-to-be are the starting points for the actual writing around which the journalist-narrator’s own runnin

The Duolingo Dissertation Grant program is underway for the 6th year in a row and this year, we're handing out 5 grants in Second Language Learning! Applications are due May 31, 2025. For more information, check out https://www.duolingo.com/efficacy/research.

The Permanent International Committee of Linguists/Comité International Permament des Linguistes (CIPL) announces 5 travel grants of € 500 each (approx. US$ 525) for participation at a linguistics conference. Advanced students in linguistics without a Ph. D. are eligible to receive a one-time grant to help fund their participation at a linguistics conference. Read the procedure https://ciplnet.com/news/application-round-travel-grants-is-open-now-6/ and fill in the application form. Contac

Multimodal analysis of caregiver/patient interaction in the intensive care unit Through a real-life observational study, the project aims to explain the conditions for handling pragmatic disorders in the context of intensive care unit. In order to ultimately improve interactional conditions in this emergency situation (i.e., where the life prognosis is at stake), the goal will be to project the requirements for efficient communication and to clarify the operational conditions for implementing

The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning reveals the nuances and complexities of teaching and learning languages while providing a timely account of the most recent developments and research in the field. The first reference work to examine plurilingual and intercultural language teaching and learning trends across five continents, this innovative volume examines the various ways learners acquire language. Divided into four sections, this Handbook explains the conceptu

A Practical Guide to Language Assessment helps educators at every level redefine their approach to language assessment. Grounded in extensive research and aligned with the latest advances in language education, this comprehensive guide introduces foundational concepts and explores key principles in test development and item writing. Authored by a team of experienced language teacher educators, this book addresses the potential impacts of poorly designed tools and prepares teachers to make inform

Title: Tone Sandhi I am interested in tone sandhi outside of Sinitic (Chinese dialects). Please send me any papers, presentations, etc. about tone sandhi that you have found interesting. These can come from any language family. If my findings are written up into a paper, please let me know how you would like to be acknowledged. I work at Academia Sinica Institute of Linguistics as a Research Fellow. Thank you! Jonathan Evans

Just a naive query but does anyone know whether languages that are written right to left also invert measuring scales, so that least value is rightmost snd value is increasing leftward on the scale? Idem but for mirror image writing like da Vinci’s, did he mirror scales too? Thanks for responding!😘

Other Specialties: Psychology Description: The chair of "Research on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Didactics of English" (Prof. Angelovska) in collaboration with the chairs of "Developmental Psychology" (Prof. Ebersbach), "English Linguistics" (Prof. Härtl), and "Research on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Didactics of French and Spanish" (Prof. Schlaak) at the University of Kassel invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position within the inter

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Call for Papers: Linguística – Revista de Estudos Linguísticos da Universidade do Porto Volume 20, 2025 ISSN 1646-6195 ; E-ISSN: 2182-9713 https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/EL DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15/06/2025 ALL SUBMISSIONS HAVE TO BE UPLOADED TO THE JOURNAL OJS INTERFACE (https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/EL) Publisher and ownership: University of Porto, Faculty of Arts and Humanities/Centre for Linguistics of the University of Porto Linguística welcomes original

Call for Papers: Announcement: The abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 12. Conference website: https://aplx.org/2025/ We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the 2025 International Joint Conference of APLX (2025 Taipei Tech International Conference on Applied Linguistics), ETA (The 34th International Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning) and TESPA (International Conference on ESP) scheduled for November 7-8, 2025 at National Taipei Universi

Call for Papers: Submissions will open on 3rd February 2025, and the submission deadline is 31st March 2025. Language research, from discourse analysis to articulatory details, is usually based on typical speakers. A typical speaker is commonly defined as a native speaker who uses broadly acceptable variants of the language and has no speech or language disorders. However, finding a typical speaker can sometimes be challenging. Due to today's social interactions and changes, native speaker

2nd Call for Papers: The NEW DEADLINE for the CALL FOR PAPERS is March 14, 2025. https://www.studiumanistici.unifg.it/en/tutte-le-iniziative/spoken-communication-foggia-2025 Meeting Description: The next GSCP (Gruppo di Studio sulla Comunicazione Parlata) International Conference, "La Comunicazione Parlata / Spoken Communication, Foggia 2025", will be held in Foggia from 19 to 21 June 2025 and it will be hosted by the University of Foggia. For this conference, acceptable themes r

Call for Papers: Editors: Anna Bartra-Kaufmann, Cristina Real-Puigdollers, Xavier Villalba Nicolàs The concept partitive usually describes nominal constructions that semantically express the relation between an individual or set of individuals and a part of it (e.g three of the students). Partitives have been of interest for both syntacticians and semanticists for many years in linguistic research since the seminal works by Jackendoff (1977) and Selkirk (1977). In recent years, partitives

Call for Papers: We are delighted to announce that the 7th edition of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will take place on site at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, on September 8-9, 2025. Conference website: https://uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/nds/ecbae2025 Invited speakers Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) Masaya Yoshida (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Workshop description The workshop brings together researchers using empir