In “The Object Called ‘Language’ and the Subject of Linguistics,” Asif Agha reminds us that language is not merely an object among others, but an institutionally organized medium through which social life is conducted, organized, and made meaningful. This perspective carries an important consequence: the study of any domain of human life can be illuminated through the study of language, provided that we develop analytical models that function as “bridging constructs.” Such constructs link observ

Priming and analogy are central mechanisms in human language. Priming supports the activation of linguistic structures and meanings, while analogy enables speakers to extend patterns and recognise relational similarities. Although both mechanisms are well studied, they have largely been investigated in isolation. Recent research, however, suggests that they may be deeply interconnected, even as the directionality of this relationship remains a matter of debate. The workshop aims to contribute to

OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, 13-16 October, 2026. The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. How do these building

Das germanische Verb. Historisch und typologisch Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft English below Die Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft, die seit 2014 mehrfach in Zürich, einmal 2025 in Uppsala stattgefunden hat, wird diesmal als Kooperation des Fachbereichs für Vergleichende germanische Sprachwissenschaft Zürich und der Professur für Vergleichende Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Erlangen

The Language Pedagogy and English Applied Linguistics PhD Programme at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary, invites proposals for the international conference “Creating New Knowledge: Three Decades of Doctoral Education in Language Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics,” organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the programme. The conference is organized to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Language Pedagogy and English Applied Linguistics PhD Programme at Eötv

The Semiosis Research Center and the Language Research Institute at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies are pleased to announce the international conference “Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity.” This conference brings together scholars from linguistics, semiotics, discourse studies, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, and related disciplines to explore how identities are semiotically constructed, negotiated, and transformed across diverse social and c

The 20th Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) is here! The Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) is an annual conference put on by the Linguistics Student Organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WiGL is a conference run by students for students and is a forum for all students from UW-Madison and other institutions to present and share their research. WiGL includes presentations and posters from undergraduate, graduate, and recently graduated students on any linguistics-related

We cordially invite you to the third conference in our LPPL series Linguistic Pragmatics Pilsen | Liberec. This year’s event will take place on 12–13 November 2026 in Pilsen. The overarching theme of the conference is Pragmatics and Political Discourses in Europe. The relationship between language and politics has long been a focal point of linguistic pragmatics. However, the dynamic social developments in Europe—captured by keywords such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, renation

We are pleased to announce that the workshop: Language in Fantastic Film Worlds: Exploring Fictional Telecinematic Discourse will take place at the University of Chemnitz, Germany (+ online) on March 19 and March 20, 2026. You can still register for online participation (free of charge !) until 15 March 2026. Please register using the conference URL. You will receive an online link once you have registered so you can access the conference video streams via Zoom. The workshop responds to the

NeoTerm 2026 is the second International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management, organized by the ENEOLI COST Action. The first edition (Neoterm 2025) was held in Thessaloniki (Greece) as a co-located event with MDTT 2025. This year, NeoTerm goes north and will be organized by the University of Bergen, Norway, on 3 September 2026. The 2nd NeoTerm workshop will be co-located with the Nordic/European event aimed at initiating joint Nordic–European collaboration on “Språkleg berekraf

"(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Poznań (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families. We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics: - Transitivity prominence especially of

The Department of Phonetics at Trier University is proud to host the 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA2026). The conference will take place at Trier University. Important Dates: - Deadline for Abstract submission: 03 April 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026 - Deadline for submission of work-in-progress posters: 24 May 2026 - Notification of acceptance for work-in-progress posters: 14 June 2026 Submission

The Constructed Agents theme provides a forum for exploring how humans develop their understanding of AI agents from their exposure to representations of agents in literature and film. The conference explores how and to what extent representations of non-human sentient agents such as Frankenstein’s creature in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel and Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey may shape views of today’s language-using AI agents including those for language learning. Abstracts are invited for presentation

We are happy to invite you to NIC 2026 conference, which will take place at Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania) on 17–19 August 2023. The topic of this year’s conference is Intercultural Communication for Change. With this theme, we encourage discussion of intercultural communication as a way of engaging with change at multiple levels (individual, organisational, societal, and global), as well as of the implications of intercultural communication research for policy-making, institutional

We are pleased to announce the 1st Call for Participation in our MediaEval 2026 shared task: Missing Pieces and Misinformation: Identifying Social Media Posts with Implicit Messages. Task Description: Given a tweet, determine whether it contains an implicit premise, an implicit conclusion, or neither. This is a three-class classification task. Input: The raw text of a tweet. Output: One label: implicit_premise, implicit_conclusion, or none. An implicit premise is a supportin

El Seminario Interinstitucional de Lingüística Historica (SILIH) y la ​​Facultad de Idiomas de Tijuana de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California convocan al primer coloquio *Proto- , el cual tendrá lugar los días 22 y 23 de octubre de 2026. *Proto- está pensado como un encuentro bienal para las y los investigadores interesados en el cambio lingüístico, desde distintas perspectivas teóricas, niveles de análisis y lenguas de estudio. Este coloquio tiene sus antecedentes en las Jornadas de

Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) will be hosted by the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina. FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on under-researched and/or endangered South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psyc

Far from being a private matter, recent studies on emotion, particularly since the affective turn, have shown its complexity as a subject of study; it is at the intersection of psychology, history, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, etc. Admittedly, emotion is subjective, but it also has a collective, social, and cultural dimension. Emotions are felt by the subject in their psyche and body, but their representation and semiotization use linguistic and semiotic codes specific to a culture, an

EMNLP 2026 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2026 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce (or fail t

The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the 17th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2025 Paris, to be held on 22-24 October 2026 in Paris, France. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2026 Paris conference envisions a vibrant platform for collaboration and