We invite colleagues examining the interactional accomplishment of intimate relationships at a distance to join us for the panel “The Pragmatics of (intimate) relationships at a distance” (panel description below). If you have a relevant contribution, please send a provisional title and an abstract (max. 350 words) to Andrea Rodriguez by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be expected to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The

ComputEL-10 will be co-located with the 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 10) in Honolulu, Hawaii. ComputEL-10 and ICDLC 10 do not have joint registration. If you wish to attend ICDLC 10, visit their website: https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/. ComputEL-10 explores the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. We encourage submis

The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased to announce the third edition of the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. The conference invites participation from both PhD candidates and early-career researchers. This edition focuses on margins and marginality across the fields of Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures. Contributions may explore t

Commercial names are far more than marketing tools: they are condensed narratives that communicate identity, values, memory, aspiration, and cultural positioning in a highly compressed linguistic format . In line with the congress theme “Names as condensed narratives,” this session explores how brand names, product names, company names, and other forms of commercial naming function as carriers of economic, social, and cultural meaning across languages and societies. The session welcomes prese

Palabra y silencio se implican mutuamente. Se enlazan en la respiración, y así también conviven en cada parte del lenguaje. Hay silencios propios de los fonemas, de los morfemas, de las palabras y de las oraciones, y el silencio aparece en refranes, en la conversación y en el discurso público. De hecho, a la par del desarrollo del lenguaje artificial, en los últimos años creció también el interés académico por distintas formas de “silencio verbal” (Ephratt 2008, 2016, 2022). En abril de 2025

We are pleased to announce that the 7th ESP Conference will take place at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The conference will include paper presentations and invited plenary talks. The 7th International ESP Conference welcomes ESP professionals and scholars from across the world to meet in Ankara on November 6-7, 2026, for a premier conference experience. Scholars and educators will engage in professional development and explore a wide range of topics relevant to teaching

We are cordianlly inviting submissions for the panel outlined below. Interested colleagues are kindly asked to contact Daniel Kadar and send him their abstracts before 10/09/2026. The aim of this panel is to bring together many different perspectives on Chinese politeness and to explore directions for future research on the basis of such perspectives. Since Gu’s (1990) seminal study, Chinese has been an important language in politeness studies, with hundreds of studies dedicated to its analys

We are cordinally inviting submissions for the panel outlined below. We would like to ask colleagues with interest to contact us (dkadar@fastmail.com and jhouse@fastmail.fm) no later than 10 September. The aim of the panel is to bring together experts working in the field of ostensible language use. The panel will provide a much needed platform for discussing collaborative research between leading experts. Starting with the classic work of Searle, the concept of ostensibility has been importa

We would like to invite abstract submissions for the panel outlined below. While the official deadline is 15 October 2026, colleagues with interest are kindly asked to contact us (dkadar@fastmail.com and jhouse@fastmail.fm) by 10 September 2026. Panel Summary: Organisers: Juliane House Daniel Z. Kadar Discussant: Zohar Kampf The aim of this panel is to bring together leading experts working on the pragmatic study of language and politics. In particular, our goal is to approach how

We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel “The Pragmatics of Humour in Pop(ular) Culture" to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and an abstract (max. 500 words), to Michelle Weckermann (michelle.weckermann@uni-a.de) and Christian Hoffmann (christian.hoffmann@uni-a.de) by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The Pragmatics of Humour

As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area. We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome

We invite submissions to our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (“Topics”), please select our panel, “Language, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.” An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be

The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)

La pragmática diacrónica se ha consolidado recientemente como línea de investigación en los estudios sobre discurso. De un modo concreto, estudia el uso de la lengua en contextos del pasado y analiza cómo las formas y funciones lingüísticas se configuran y transforman a través del tiempo (Stein, 1985; Jucker, 1995; Taavitsainen y Fitzmaurice, 2007), atendiendo tanto a aspectos discursivos como sociales. De este modo, su desarrollo ha permitido ampliar el campo de la lingüística histór

Digital platforms are increasingly organised around practices of reacting. Across platforms, reactions are shaped by affordances and emic labels, from low-threshold uptake such as likes, comments, quotes, reposts, or stitches to elaborate audiovisual formats such as live responses and reaction videos. At this end of the spectrum, reception becomes a "vernacular form of visual production" (Kim 2016: 333): prior content is watched, paused, felt, discussed, and repackaged before an audience. Positi

After more than 20 years in Košice, the Word-Formation Theories & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation twin conferences set out on a world tour. Their first stop will be at Vilnius University, Lithuania, on 15–17 June 2027. We cordially invite everyone to explore new territories in word-formation research and continue the tradition of the Košice meetings. The conference will host three workshops and a general session with a preferred focus on word-formation theory, typology, and universa

Call for Panel Contributions 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20) University of Helsinki, 27 June - 02 July 2027 Pragmatic Acts of Neo-Imperialism. Reference, Presupposition, Indexicality Panel Organisers: Rita Vallentin (European University Viadrina), Miriam Lind (European University Viadrina), Britta Schneider (University of Vienna) The nexus of language and imperialism has been explored previously from a variety of angles, starting with the rich research on linguistic imp

Against a backdrop of global educational change, rapid advances in digital technologies, and ongoing transformations in knowledge production, language and literacy education is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Issues such as artificial intelligence, digital literacy, multimodal learning, changes in scholarly communication, and educational equity are reshaping research paradigms, theoretical development, and classroom practice in the field. In response to emerging social nee

Gegenstand der Tagung: Die Kommunikation zwischen Interessengruppen, Mitgliedern der Parlamente, Regierungen und Mini-sterien, Lobbyismus-Dienstleistern, zivilgesellschaftlichen Initiativen und der Öffentlichkeit ist integraler Bestandteil politischer Kommunikation. Sie beeinflusst den politischen Prozess, die Gesetzgebung und die öffentliche Meinungsbildung. Die politik- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschung hat den Lob-byismus in Deutschland in seiner demokratietheoretischen, soziologi

Scalar focus particles (ScalFocPs) like ‘even’ and ‘only’ have played a central role in alternative semantics and related fields ever since their development (Jacobs 1983, Rooth 1985, 1992). Their syntax and semantics have been at the center of much recent work on languages other than commonly studied varieties of English (cf. Hole 2013, Sun 2020 on Vietnamese; Quek & Hirsch 2017 on Singaporean English; Hole 2017, 2023, Wimmer 2020, 2022, Yuan 2024 on Chinese; Yip 2024, 2026 on Cantonese, Vietna