Studies in the Cognitive Science of Language at McMaster University The vibrant graduate program in the Cognitive Science of Language is welcoming applications from excellent students with degrees in Linguistics, Psychology, Computer Science, Cognitive Science or related areas. Based in the department of Linguistics and Languages, the program is interdisciplinary and includes faculty from Humanities, Science, and Health Sciences. The program has a strong research orientation with expertise in

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) at the University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for a PhD position in a project that probes the neural correlates for sentence planning cross-linguistically. The project is embedded in the NCCR Evolving Language (www.evolvinglanguage.ch), a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language and draws on expertise from t

We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between 19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event. As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made available to the general public, ‘AI’ seems to be every­where. Strong in connotation, weak in deno­tation, and deeply entangled in contradictory dis­courses of desire and anxiety, profit and preju­dice, power and injusti

Focus: Trans-Himilayan Historical Linguistics Description: The Summer School for Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages (SSATH), hosted by the Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, is a two-week long summer school that features courses in ancient languages and historical linguistics within the scope of the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family, and weekend workshops on two more languages. This year, the courses will include: Old Tibetan, Reconstructing Proto-(Western)-Kho-Bwa, Tan

Focus: Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) Arabic Bengali Burmese Dari Filipino Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hmong Indonesian Javanese Kazakh Khmer Lao Marathi Nepali Pashto Persian Portuguese Punjabi Sanskrit Sinhala Tajik Tamil Thai Tibetan Turkish Urdu Uyghur Uzbek Vietnamese Yoruba Description: Applications for WISLI 2026 Now Open! | Program Dates: June 15 - August 7, 2026 - Proficiency-Driven Courses for 30+ Languages. Build real-world communication s

A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect the existence of “paradoxical realities”. Adopting a novel method for the study of conflict, framed in the cognitive linguistic tradition within Critical Discourse Studies, the book explains how conflict may be discursively created by relying on the study of four main construal operations. Grounded in examples specific to Northern Irela

This book offers ethnographic accounts of Aymara language media activism in Bolivia during the presidency of Evo Morales (2006–2019). It draws on research conducted among Aymara language radio broadcasters, hip hop artists, and community members during a period of radical social change and Indigenous political resurgence (pachakuti) in South America's most Indigenous republic. The Plurinational Republic of Bolivia counts Aymara among its official languages, but Aymara's social status and tr

Focus: The workshop focuses on enhancing lexicography knowledge and skills through corpus linguistics and corpus-based approaches. It also explores large language models (e.g. ChatGPT), highlighting their pros and cons concerning dictionary building. Practical tasks and training include working with text corpora (querying and building), term extraction, writing definitions, crowdsourcing, and more. Description: Lexicom is an intensive 5-day workshop in lexicography and lexical computing. I

I am pleased to invite you to our upcoming St Andrews Professorial Masterclass on AI in Language Learning and Teaching, led by Professor Hayo Reinders, a leading scholar in technology-enhanced language education. This online masterclass offers: - 5 hours of exclusive content on AI tools, practices, and classroom integration - Practical, research-informed guidance for using AI with learners - A live “fireside chat” with Professor Reinders - 1:1 / small group coaching - A St Andrews certif

Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book offers a detailed and systematic overview of the role that language plays in clinician-patient communication in Asian contexts. Putting forward a communication model specific to this particular sociocultural and medical setting, it provides clear and research-driven recommendations for healthcare professionals. Building on cutting-edge empirical research on the health communication landscape in Asia, this book addresses topics of int

Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the key research concerns and methodologies within the field of applied linguistics. Uniting the most pressing concerns in contemporary research with methodologies across core subdisciplines within the field, this five-volume reference work comprises: Volume I: Multilingualism Volume II: Language Policy and Planning Volume III: Second Language Acquisition Volume IV: Language Teaching and Pedagogy Volume V: Language Asse

This volume addresses the fields of naming and branding, in particular company and brand names, names in slogans, and advertising language in general, and all other proper names that are of economic interest in times of crisis. The contributions analyze both advertising on social media as well as printed material concerning commercial names, slogans for climate advertising, pandemic situations, new branding, and communication strategies in critical times, such as war and energetic deciency. The

Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge des XXXVII. Romanistischen Kolloquiums zu Sprachen und Varietäten der Kolonialromania in den transkontinentalen Verflechtungen zwischen den beiden Amerikas, Afrika, Asien und Europa. Neben den Kolonialsprachen Spanisch, Französisch, Portugiesisch und Italienisch stehen autochthone Sprachen am Beispiel von Guaraní, Quechua, Mixtekisch, Fang, Bubi und Ndowè sowie in kolonialen Kontexten entstandene Kreolsprachen am Beispiel des Angolar im Fokus. Die theoret

Diese Monographie bietet einen einzigartigen Einblick in ein für das Deutsche bisher kaum erforschtes Phänomen: die Entwicklung der Dativalternation seit 1650. Dabei wird zwischen der Dativobjektkonstruktion (z. B. Er verkauft dem Kloster sein Haus) und der Präpositionalobjektkonstruktion (z. B. Er verkauft sein Haus an das Kloster) unterschieden. Ausführliche quantitative und qualitative Analysen historischer Korpusbelege legen für eine Auswahl von 28 Verben die relativen Verhältnisse zwischen

2025. iii, 144 pp. Table of Contents Articles Translation-spotting: Scientific translation bibliographies and the construction of a translation knowledge infrastructure after World War II Garda Elsherif & Tomasz Rozmysłowicz pp. 127–152 An ethnographic account of Spanish-language publishing and reading in the United States: The role of and attitudes towards translation Mattea Cussel pp. 153–173 ‘Only’ a translator? A microhistorical account of the working life of Lily Vallq

The 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies (CAANS) will take place at the University of Windsor (Windsor, Ontario). The University of Windsor is situated in southwestern Ontario, a region which was a centre of Flemish and Dutch immigration from the early 20th century until the end of the 1960s. We invite proposals for research presentations or roundtable discussions for CAANS 2026. We invite scholars to reflect on the place of the Nether

The Study Group on Minoritized and Endangered Languages (GELAM) is pleased to present the event Student Perspectives on Minoritized and Endangered Languages (SPonMEL), which will take place on December 15th and 16th, through Zoom (online). This workshop aims to provide a space for students from different academic backgrounds to share their work on the preservation and revitalization of languages and the description of endangered and/or minority languages, with a special focus on the link betw

Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026) Universal Dependencies(UD, https://universaldependencies.org) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 180 languages. The framework aims to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clit

This Digital Studies in Language and Literature Special Issue invites original contributions on the linguistic definition, and computational identification and discovery of multi-word expressions in all types of verse with a specific focus on low-resource languages, including corpus languages, minority languages, or endangered languages, without any constraint on the typology of the language (i.e. we explicitly encourage those working on non-Indo-European languages to submit). Verse is said to r

The 6th workshop on: "Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments" in collaboration with the MENTAL.ai-consortium Workshop: co-located with LREC 2026 | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | May 12th, 2026 RaPID-6@MENTAL.ai serves as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights, methods, and experiences related to collecting and processing data from individuals