2nd Call for Papers: The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 13), co-organized by the University of Bern and the University of Lausanne, will take place at the University of Lausanne from 29 June – 2 July 2026. We are delighted to announce the following invited plenary speakers: - Andrea Ender (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) - Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) - Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh) - Sadie Rya

A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University Göttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session. Invited Speakers:

2nd Call for Papers: When linguists investigate musical culture, its discursive character is usually mostly explicated through the analysis of journalistic texts (see e.g. Bär 2024; Stöckl 2011; Thim-Mabrey 2001). This focus on finished musical works and their mediated representations, however, often obscures the creative practices and discursive dynamics ‘in the making’ beyond symbolic references – that is, language use embedded in and shaped by embodied, material interactions (cf. Peirce 19

This book is both a deep dive into and a critique of foundational decolonial concepts and epistemologies, engaging both historical, theoretical analyses of social issues and conditions, and standpoints from activism. The chapters are situated within multiple, plural and shifting force fields within the academy, and present a pathway to critically engage political or academic practices within and outside the university. The authors specifically engage contestations and harmonies in approaches of

Other Specialties: Multilingualism, Multilectalism, Second Language Acquisition, Third Language Acquisition, Simultaneous Acquisition, Closely Related Varieties Description: Position: A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available at the Department of Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The position is affiliated with the Center for Language, Brain & Learning (C-LaBL), more specifically the Learning domai

The Faculty of Humanities of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, the Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia, and the State Language Department will hold an international interdisciplinary academic conference in honor of Academician Mzekala Shanidze – “Mzekala Shanidze – 100” on January 16-17, 2026. Those wishing to participate in the conference must submit their abstracts by December 5, 2025, to the email address: confe

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: Mixer 7 English Speech AIDA Scenario 1 Evaluation Topic Source Data, Annotation and Assessment LORELEI Hindi Representative Language Pack ________________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, includ

2nd Call for Papers: The Center for the Study of Language Development and Linguistic Communication, University of Bucharest, has the pleasure to organize the 9th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition on November 14 – 15 2025, in hybrid format (on-site and online). BUCLA’s central theme revolves around experimental research on language acquisition and learning. The colloquium creates an opportunity for researchers and doctoral candidates to present their work on various topics that enc

ICAL provides a space to the researchers and scholars to present their practical research to address the social issues. With the expansion of interdisciplinary research in English language teaching, linguistics, and literature, this platform continues its tradition to allow the scholars and researchers to present their research perspectives. The conference aims to motivate the researchers from these disciplines to share their applicable findings on how language can be a solution to the prevalent

Call for Papers: Workshop Description: Expressivity is a category in natural languages that concerns the direct expression of emotions and attitudes (in contrast to their description). Expressive meaning can be conveyed at all linguistic level: by lexical expressions, special syntactic constructions, intonation or on the pragmatic level by expressive speech acts. While expressivity has been approached from many different angles and has been studied in almost all disciplines of linguistics

2nd Call for Papers: Description: Diversity has always been a defining characteristic of human societies. Historically, ‘Man’ has been inclined towards ‘difference’, be it racial, ethnic, or religious. This has resulted in a constant enriching cultural move (Harari, 2011; Graeber and Wengrow, 2021). In today’s world, diversity has become endemic in human life. Theoreticians like Derrida, Habermas, Geertz and others have broadened this concern to include political, economic, and social dimens

Description: The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina invites applicants for an assistant/associate/full, tenure track, full time (9-month) faculty position in neuroscience. The faculty member will be responsible for developing and maintaining an independent, extramurally funded program of research within their area of expertise and to maintain a teaching load of one course in the first year, and two cours

L’Associació de Joves Investigadors en Llengua i Literatura Catalanes (AJILLC) té per finalitat donar a conèixer les recerques de joves investigadors i incentivar la formació en llengua i literatura catalanes. Amb aquesta premissa, l’AJILLC organitza anualment un congrés internacional i el 2026 complirà amb la novena edició. Nascut el 2017 a la Universitat de València i després de recórrer Lleida (UdL, 2018), Palma (UIB, 2019), Barcelona (UB, 2020), Perpinyà (UPVD, 2022), Marsella (AMU, 2023)

Ninth International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG2026), to be held in Córdoba, Spain, from 8-10 July 2026. This conference will be preceded by an International Preconference Course on FDG on 6 and 7 July 2026 Objectives: The aim of FDG2026 is to further elaborate the model of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) as proposed by Kees Hengeveld and J. Lachlan Mackenzie, and to evaluate it within the broader field of functional linguistics and grammatical theory. Full treatme

Call for Papers: Das NLK bietet seit 1989 insbesondere Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen aller linguistischer Teilbereiche die Möglichkeit zum inhaltlichen und methodischen Austausch und zur Vernetzung. Der Fokus liegt auf der Diskussion laufender Projekte und Forschungsvorhaben, die im Rahmen der kommenden Tagung als Vortrag oder Poster vorgestellt werden können. Das 26. NLK findet am 26.03. und 27.03.2026 an der Universität Hildesheim statt. Das Rahmenthema der Tagung lautet: Sprachvermitt

Call for Papers: Coexistence of borrowed and native word formation morphology is a widespread if not universal characteristic of languages (Matras & Sakel 2007; Gardani, Arkadiev & Amiridze 2015). In many cases, foreign derived morphemes occupy specific lexical strata or registers, reflecting a compartmentalisation into native and borrowed subsystems (Matras 2009). For example, English word formation features both native Germanic and borrowed Latinate suffixes (e.g., -ness vs. -ity, respectiv

2025. v, 213 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions Agnese Sampietro & Carmen Pérez-Sabater | pp. 141–151 Articles “Emojis are grown-up stuff”: Analysing graphical elements in digital relational contexts Carmen Pérez-Sabater | pp. 152–185 Face-work on Chinese social media: Functional interactions between the Doge emoji and verbal text Yanmin Wu & Yiqiong Zhang | pp. 186–213 Kisses and peaches: A pragmatic pers

2025. iv, 216 pp. Table of Contents Articles Deriving Ewe (Tongugbe) nyá-constructions Selikem Gotah | pp. 201–224 Emergence of differential object marking in Asia Minor Greek: A computational approach to language change Ümit Atlamaz & Metin Bagriacik | pp. 225–268 Cross-linguistic dataset of force-flavor combinations in modal elements Wataru Uegaki, Anne Mucha, Ella Hannon, James Engels & Fred Whibley | pp. 269–305 The emergence of vowel harmony in Armenian dialects: Turki

This book introduces dialogist interpretation as an innovative approach within interpreting studies, offering a critical examination of interpreter-mediated asylum encounters. Based on a case study of a legal consultation in the Netherlands, the book reveals how internal dialogues, linguistic assumptions, institutional constraints and systemic biases influence credibility assessments and shape asylum narratives. Drawing on the author’s experience as a researcher, interpreter and former asylum se

This book focuses on the experiences of 1.5 generation Filipinos in Japan, charting their life histories and educational experiences in both the Philippines and Japan. Against a background of transnational migrations between both countries, and varying levels of Japanese as a Second Language and educational support for immigrant/non-Japanese speaking children in Japanese schools, the author uses a narrative, life history approach to consider how the participants use their educational histories a