Less documented languages is an umbrella term meant to cover a vast variety of languages that are more difficult for scholars to access for a variety of reasons. Some of them concern the lack of written attestations or of an official status in education or administration, the small size of the speech community, the limited transmission from one generation to another – conditions that generally go together with minority or endangered status. However, it is possible to consider under the same head

Die Tagung widmet sich dem spannungsvollen Dialog zwischen Pragmatik und Computerlinguistik, der durch den rapiden Fortschritt von Large Language Models (LLMs) neu entfacht wurde. Im Fokus stehen die Grenzen und Gemeinsamkeiten von menschlicher und maschineller Kommunikation, von der Modellierung pragmatischer Phänomene in KI-Architekturen bis hin zur Analyse neuer Interaktionspraktiken (z.B. Prompting). Keynotes: Tatjana Scheffler (Bochum) und David Schlangen (Potsdam) Gesucht werden theo

La Cátedra global Nebrija del Español como lengua de migrantes y refugiados organiza, el próximo 12 de noviembre de 2025, la XI edición de esta jornada, en la que se proponen diferentes actividades de divulgación científica relacionadas con la enseñanza de español en contextos migratorios. Desde una perspectiva integradora y crítica, la jornada se plantea como un espacio de reflexión y diálogo para docentes, investigadores, estudiantes y profesionales del área. La jornada se integra en las ac

Description: The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is offering two fully-funded PhD Fellowship for four years (2026-2030) with a preferred start-date in September or October, 2026. The IMPRS for Language Sciences invites applications for TWO PhD fellowships that are funded by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. The goal of the scheme is to enable young researchers to pursue interdisciplinary research projects in the language sciences,

Swansea University Language Research Centre Seminar Series Wednesday, 5 November, 13:00-14:00 GMT Zoom link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/91040116100?pwd=xujZrb6aV52IMH2ZxM7xShprfW91Yv.1 Title: What (if anything) happens to grammatical gender in L1 attrition? Professor Monika S. Schmid (University of York) Abstract: Grammatical gender in bilingual development is of particular interest, as it is encoded as part of the lemmatic information in the mental lexicon (and

Over the past years, interactions between humans and artificial interlocutors have increasingly become part of everyday life. AIs such as ChatGPT, Woebot, and Replika are perceived not merely as tools, but as helpers, confidants, or even romantic partners. These encounters compel us to rethink the linguistic, social, and epistemic foundations of concepts such as “(social) interaction,” and furthermore to reconsider the boundaries of subjectivity and identity. This interdisciplinary workshop expl

The workshop Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value will take place at the University of Barcelona & University Pompeu Fabra on November 6-7th, 2025. We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the “acquaintance inference" of aesthetic language. Program: Day 1: Seminari de Filosofia (Room 4100), Facultat de Filosofia, University of Barcelona -10:30-10:45 Welcome -10:45-11:30 Nate Charlow (University of Toronto): Against Indeterminacy-Based Theories of Acquaintance -12:00-12:45 Suchit

The 2026 European Society for the Study of English Conference Seminar 10.- Disinformation in and out: Qualitative Linguistic Analyses of Digital Disinformation Texts With the challenges and crises of recent years, digital disinformation texts (in popular – though not always precise – usage also referred to as ‘fake news’) have become increasingly popular and seem to have gained ground among various groups of internet users. Defined as “false information [that] is knowingly shared to cause ha

2nd Call for Papers: A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English. The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop – the jubilee edition – will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universität Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Un

This book explores linguistic representations and cultural conceptualizations of the relationship between time and space in ancient China, as expressed by the YiChing. The YiChing, an ancient Chinese divination manual based on hexagrams, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classics and a foundational text for the Confucian and Daoist philosophical traditions. Its hexagrams represent the internal logic of the world or universe as a dynamic whole, alternating the processes of events based on th

How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion? In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are addressed by 143 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Across six volumes they illustrate broad trends and nuances in the culture of translation in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesio

How does language attain to rear view reflection and then timeless analysis? How does language garner its conceptualisation in order to do this? This book is an exploration of the process in which everyday narrative language can become reflective and then analytical. Narrative language is viewed as a way of 'becoming' within the flow of time and therefore life. Evans and Herat show that there are levels in language that correspond with conceptual structures existing in the mind and in wide

Introducing readers to all key areas of Japanese linguistics, this book brings the theory to life through a range of real-world examples of texts and materials that students might encounter in contemporary Japan. Throughout, the author introduces readers to linguistic notions, supporting them to further their understanding of the forms and functions of the language as well as increasing familiarity with social and cultural aspects via examples from manga, newspapers, food packaging, light novel

The field of East Slavic historical linguistics has undergone dramatic change over the past 50 years. Progress in dialectology and accentology, along with the steady accretion of new primary materials (Novgorod birchbark texts), has rendered obsolete many of the formulas that have traveled from handbook to handbook. The teacher of the history of East Slavic faces the problem of how to combine the facts established and insights gained by recent scholarship with what remains valuable in traditiona

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and current space limitations, blended learning has become a necessity for many state schools in Andalusia, Spain. They have strived to supply students with the best of both face-to-face and distance learning experiences. This book includes the investigation of learning in different environments by EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students of Bachillerato (Post-Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain). Not only an experimental study with 60 participants in a state

As of Volume 12 (2026) Kellie Gonçalves (University of Bern, Switzerland) will succeed Elena Shohamy (Tel Aviv University, Israel), and join Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool, UK) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Linguistic Landscape. In this day and age languages surround us everywhere; languages appear in flashy advertisements and commercials, names of buildings, streets and shops, instructions and warning signs, graffiti and cyber space. The dynamic field of Linguistic Lands

The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Tue, 4 November at 13:00 - 14:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Technology-enhanced language learning interventions in children Sari Ylinen, Tampere University News: - Please notice that Finland has transitioned back from daylight saving and is now UCT+2. Check how your time zone relates to Helsinki/Eastern European Time. - The webinar series continues

The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague in September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus. The conference, titled Fo

Onomastica Canadiana publishes original research articles, review essays, and critical notes, written in English or French, on all aspects of onomastics — the study of names and naming practices or trends in all languages, cultures, periods, and areas. The online journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for exploring the linguistic, cultural, historical, geographical, literary, social, and theoretical aspects of naming. Scope and Areas of Interest: We welcome contributions that advance

Description: The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College invites applications for a full-time position in Premodern Chinese Language, Literature and Culture at the tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor rank, depending on qualifications and experience, to begin in Fall 2026. The successful candidate will have research interests in pre-modern or early modern Chinese literature and culture and the ability to teach undergraduate courses on Chinese language, li