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Summer Schools: International Modern Greek Seminar for Classicists 2026

Wed, 01/28/2026 - 12:05
Focus: Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Historical linguistics Description: This is a one-week introduction to the Modern Greek language directed at graduate and undergraduate students, as well as interested faculty, who have at least a basic knowledge of the Ancient Greek language. The major objective of the program is to equip classicists with knowledge they can use to leverage their command of Classical Greek to gain a foothold in the modern language, essentially repurposing their Classical

Calls: International Journal of Arabic Linguistics - "Volume 12" (Jrnl)

Wed, 01/28/2026 - 11:05
The International Journal of Arabic Linguistics (IJAL) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarly research on the Arabic language in all its varieties and contexts. IJAL welcomes work on the linguistic structure of Arabic, its history, and its functions in society, including (but not limited to) dialectology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and related areas. Publication model: Continuous publication (articles are published online as soon as they are ready).

Diss: Challenges in Academic Writing: A Mixed-Methods Study of Indonesian GraduateStudents in a Non-native English-Speaking Environment

Wed, 01/28/2026 - 11:05
Writing an academic text can be challenging for English learners, including Indonesian students studying at Hungarian Universities (HUs). These students must learn to write in a second language while mastering grammatical structures and lexical resources, as well as distinguishing between academic English and conversational English in terms of conventional words, phrases,and sentence structures.This study is aimed at examining students’ experiences in English academic writing during their master

Jobs: African Unclassified; Sociolinguistics: Pre-Faculty Fellow in English, Wayne State University

Wed, 01/28/2026 - 11:05
Description: In conjunction with the Linguistics Program at Wayne State University, the Department of English at Wayne State University invites applications for a 12-month pre-faculty fellow position specializing in language(s) of the African diaspora beginning on August 18. 2026. We seek an innovative researcher trained in Sociolinguistics or another subfield of Linguistics that intersects with Black Studies, which may include, but is not limited to structure and/or use of African American E

Jobs: English; Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: Teaching Assistant Professor - Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder

Wed, 01/28/2026 - 10:05
Other Specialties: US Society, Language, Gender & Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race & Language Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position in the field of Sociocultural Linguistics (broadly defined) to start the fall 2026 semester. This is a full-time, non-tenure track position with an initial 3-year contract, which may be renewable ​This position makes significant contributions to the Depa

Confs: Translation & Interpreting, AI, and the Language Industry: Research and Professional Practice

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 08:05
Technological innovation is profoundly reshaping translation and interpreting (T&I). Over the past two decades digital tools—such as translation memories, terminology databases, CAT/CAI systems, Neural Machine Translation, alignment software, and remote interpreting platforms—have transformed professional workflows, enhancing quality, speed, and efficiency. More recent advances in Artificial Intelligence—including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), speech-to-speech (S2S) machine interpreting, a

Calls: Workshops at LREC 2026: Social Context Workshop and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions Workshop

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 07:05
Joint Call for Papers: Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) Co-located with LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) Workshop day: May 12, 2026 Deadline for paper submission: February 16, 2026 Website: https://socon-nlpsi.github.io Contact: socon-nlpsi-workshop-organizers.nlproc@uni-bamberg.de Overview: Natural Language Processing has evolved significantly, enabling the modeling of high-level aspects of human communication. Releva

Confs: Neology and Large Language Models Workshop at LREC 2026

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 07:05
Motivation and Topics of Interest: Understanding how LLMs capture, propagate, or even invent semantic shifts raises fundamental questions for lexicography, language modeling, and semantic resources. Addressing these questions requires close collaboration between computational linguistics, lexicography, and lexical resource development. Such interdisciplinary work can shed light on how large language models both reflect and reshape linguistic creativity, an inquiry that lies at the core of the

Calls: Multimodal Processing in SLA: Bridging Input Modes and Research Methods

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 07:05
Call for Papers: Update: Submission Deadline Extended We are delighted to host the EuroSLA-sponsored workshop ‘Multimodal processing in SLA: bridging input modes and research methods’, at KU Leuven, on May 5 2026. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in multimodal processing in SLA.The aim is to create a space where researchers can exchange ideas, reflect critically on current research practices, and explore new avenues for investigation. We seek to inspire

Calls: Germanistische Werkstatt/Prace Germanistyczne - "Sprachliche, literarische und kulturelle Dynamiken in Mitteleuropa" (Jrnl)

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 06:05
Call for submissions to the 2026 volume of Germanistische Werkstatt/Prace Germanistyczne Einladung zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für den Band 2026 der Germanistischen Werkstatt/Prace Germanistyczne „Germanistische Werkstatt/Prace Germanistyczne“ ist eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, die seit 1999 vom Institut für Germanistik der Universität Opole herausgegeben wird. In der „Germanistischen Werkstatt“ werden wissenschaftliche Artikel, Rezensionen und Berichte veröffentlicht. Die Zeitschrift

Confs: Minderheitensprachenpolitik – Minderheitensprachen im deutschsprachigen Raum

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 06:05
We are happy to announce the 2nd conference on language policy in a German-speaking context. After the first conference in 2024, and the successful launch of the German network on language policy (https://www.sprachenpolitik.de) as well as the new journal Sprachpolitik & Sprachenpolitik (the first issue will officially be presented at the annual IDS conference in March 2026), the second conference will take place on September 2-4, 2026. Venue is again the Leibniz Institute for the German Languag

Calls: Heritage Language Journal - "Special Issue: Shifting Politeness: Evolution of Address Forms Across Migrant, Colonial, and Indigenous Languages" (Jrnl)

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 06:05
Forms of address — such as titles, honorifics, and pronominal choices—are among the most sensitive linguistic indicators of social relations, politeness norms, and identity. As societies undergo social, political, economic, and ideological transformations, corresponding shifts in politeness and address practices emerge. Migrant, colonial, and Indigenous heritage languages, which interact intensively with dominant societal languages, offer a particularly rich terrain for examining these dynamics.

Confs: Research-informed Pedagogical Innovation in Language Education across ESP, EAP, EFL, EMI, CLIL, and Multilingual Contexts

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 05:05
Research-informed pedagogical innovation in language education across ESP, EAP, EFL, EMI, CLIL, and multilingual contexts, with emphasis on: - pedagogical innovation - multiliteracies & multimodality - digital and AI literacies - assessment and curriculum design Conference Themes include (but are not limited to): - Action Research in Language Education - AI Literacy - Assessment Practices and Feedback - Blended, Hybrid, and Augmented Learning - ChatGPT and Generative AI in

Confs: Transalpine Typology Meeting 2026

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 05:05
Meeting Info: The Transalpine Typology Meeting is an annual meeting at different locations around the Alpes to create an open network of typologists and share insights and feedback on our research projects in a welcoming and informal context. In this regard, we warmly invite submissions for presentations on topics related to linguistic typology and comparative linguistics in general from early-career researchers (PhD students, postdoc fellows) as well as experienced scholars worldwide. Abs

Calls: 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science at LREC 2026

Tue, 01/27/2026 - 05:05
Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 11-16. Website: https://casworkshop.github.io/ Contact: cas-workshop@googlegroups.com We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computat

Review: Stefanie Frisch; Karen Glaser (eds.) (2025)

Mon, 01/26/2026 - 13:05
The previously published version of this review contained several erroneous authorship attributions. The following is the author's corrected text. We apologize for the oversight and the inconvenience caused for the contributors and editors of the volume. This is the previous one: https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3950/ SUMMARY The edited volume “Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts” offers a comprehensive, empirically grounded exploration of early additional-language lear

Qs: Call for Participants: Linguistic Survey on Transport-Related Concepts

Mon, 01/26/2026 - 13:05
I am conducting a short anonymous linguistic survey (approximately 5 minutes) as part of a research article on transport-related concepts and their representation in everyday language use. I am particularly interested in responses from English speakers, especially participants based in the United States, but all adult native or proficient speakers of English are welcome. The survey is strictly academic in nature, non-commercial, non-political, and does not collect any personal identifying

FYI: Reading with NARNiHS: Reading Group of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics

Mon, 01/26/2026 - 12:05
Reading with NARNiHS Reading Group Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The inaugural session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 10:00 am US Central time / 5:00 pm CET and features Don Tuten with his very recent work on early representations of Romance vernacular in legal documents. Reading with NARNiHS is an exciting new venue for engagement with cutting-edge work i

Calls: 20th NooJ International Conference

Mon, 01/26/2026 - 12:05
2nd Call for Papers: University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars an

Confs: 14th Doctoral Symposium on Linguistics, Semiotics, Cinema, and Contemporary Arts

Mon, 01/26/2026 - 12:05
Overview: The Linguistics, Semiotics, and Discourse Analysis Laboratory is organizing the 14th Doctoral Symposium, to be held on April 23 and 24, 2026, at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ben M’Sick, Casablanca. ​This symposium invites doctoral candidates in Linguistics, Semiotics, Cinema, and Contemporary Arts from Moroccan and international universities. It serves as a platform for presenting research in theoretical and applied linguistics, semiotics, cinema, and visual culture. ​ Sym

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