Multimedia and Multimodal Representations of Food: Pragmatic Perspectives on Identity and Space Daniela Cesiri “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice (Italy) daniela.cesiri@unive.it Takako Kawabata tk70@soas.ac.uk Food is rarely just sustenance in media discourse; it operates as a complex semiotic and linguistic system used to negotiate identity, alterity, and cultural prestige (Mapes, 2021). Simultaneously, enogastronomic promotion has emerged as a strategic, pragmatic tool to manage the pres

Microaggressions in Interaction (Co-organised by Bernadette Vine and Janet Holmes) The concept of microaggression (Pierce 1970) proves useful in exploring linguistic behavior that causes people to feel uncomfortable, unwelcome, or unappreciated. Microaggressions can be defined as any means by which a person is othered or sent signals that they do not fit or belong. This may be unintentional, and Stollznow (2020, p. 207) notes that these everyday, subtle “expressions of prejudice … are so per

Website: https://2027.eacl.org/ Contact: eacl2027-industry-track@googlegroups.com Full CfP: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/industry/ Important Dates: Submission deadline ― 11 September 2026 Reviews released ― 21 October 2026 Rebuttal ends ― 4 November 2026 Meta reviews released ― 30 November 2026 Notification of acceptance ― 18 December 2026 Camera-ready due ― 6 January 2027 Conference (including Industry Track) ― 9-14 March 2027 All deadlines are 11.59pm UTC -12h Submissio

We are pleased to announce that the 17th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics will take place at Meisei University, Tokyo, on August 1-5, 2027 (on-site only). Scholars are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) on any aspect of language or linguistics specifically related to Austronesian languages. Call for Individual Papers: Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author. Abstracts should be single-spaced, 12-point font,

People who create short videos for social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram communicate with their bodies. TikTok’s predecessor musical.ly started as an app for lip-sync and dance videos that confine creators’ expressive means to their bodily behaviour, and these genres are still popular on the platform today (Meier-Vieracker 2025). But even in original sound videos – often recorded as selfie videos – creators use their bodies in a variety of ways for their multimodal meaning-making. The

On Friday, 6 November 2026, the Dutch Association for Phonetic Sciences organizes its annual Phonetics Day, this time in Amsterdam. We invite submissions on current and recently finished phonetic research within the empirical tradition, and/or demonstrations of new applications or methods in the field of speech science. Due to the increasing number of suitable entries, the NVFW is applying a new method for abstract submission and selection this year: all abstracts will first be checked for

The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA; https://slavic.fas.harvard.edu/scla) will hold its 21st conference on June 16 – 18, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia and will be held in an on-site format. We acknowledge the support of the conference co-organizers: the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka; the inPrincipio project (principal researcher: Mihaela Matešić) and

The key role that pragmatic markers (PMs) such as English actually, well, you know, and I mean play in social interaction, collaborative meaning-making, and successful communication is well known in a range of different languages (Fischer 2006, Degand et al. 2022, inter alia). PMs are essential to achieving communicative goals such as managing interaction or expressing attitudes. What is far less well understood is how language learners acquire and use PMs in an L2 or additional language. The ap

This panel is organised by Chilmeg Elden and Michael Haugh (The University of Queensland, Australia) and will be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Call for Papers: A growing body of research has examined interpersonal relationships from an interactional perspective, treating relationships as interactional achievements between two or more parties, which are accomplished over various different spans of time

We are pleased to announce the 13th edition of the DiSS workshop (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech), which will take place in Bolzano-Bozen (Italy), on February 4th-5th. Established in 1999, the DiSS workshop series provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers interested in disfluency and spontaneous speech. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and welcomes studies on disfluency in spontaneous speech. Submissions are encouraged from all fields that deal w

The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03 - August 04, 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27th - 31st of July). Conference fee: free of charge, both for in-person and online attendees Registration is open: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/registration/ Programme: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/program/ Inv

Since Horwitz's seminal definition of language anxiety as a complex of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to classroom language learning, it has been regarded as a very special and multidimensional psychological phenomenon during the process of language teaching, learning, and using. From the confounded to the current contextual phase, research on language anxiety has been conducted worldwide, concerning its interfaces with speaking, reading, listening comprehension, and writing in additi

Social media platforms have been increasingly marked by rising antagonism and divisive language practices; nevertheless, pragmatics offers unique insights into both the mechanisms driving polarization and potential pathways toward more constructive dialogue. This panel directly addresses the conference theme "Building Bridges" by examining how pragmatic principles operate in multimodal digital contexts—where text, images, emojis, formatting, and platform affordances converge to shape meaning-mak

We are proud to announce that the International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP) 2027 will take place from 6–8 January 2027 at City University of Hong Kong. This marks the first time IWoLP will be hosted in the Asia-Pacific region, and we hope to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language processing, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related interdisciplinary fields. Our newly launched conference website is now live: https://lt.cityu.edu

By the term non-standard languages we mean linguistic varieties defying a proper standard because they serve as minority language within a state or region, and/or they are used as alternative expressive means forming part of the repertoire of the community in which a standard language is spoken, and/or finally they deviate from the standard insofar as they function as regiolects, slang, or informal sociolects (Nic Craith 2006, Hogan-Brun & O’Rourke 2019). While often stigmatized or deemed “infor

In mediated political talk, participants continuously position themselves and others in relation to each other as well as to broader political discourses that shape and constrain their interaction. Through such positioning practices, situated interaction becomes interwoven with and related to wider (trans-situational) discursive formations. This panel invites contributions that explore this intersection between interaction and discourse by focusing on positioning and stancetaking (cf. Du Bois 20

Sign languages and the diverse paths to their acquisition offer a unique opportunity to gain insight into linguistic theory and human cognition. Structurally, the visual-gestural modality has different affordances and demands than the oral-aural modality and these have implications for linguistic theory (Perniss 2018). Socially, signer demographics are extremely varied due to factors such as (familial) hearing status, language ideology, and access to a sign language community (De Meulder 2019).

We are pleased to announce the 38th annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), which will take place at Bar-Ilan University on October 18 and 19, 2026 (or a week later). We aim to hold the conference during the Israeli Science and Academia Week. The conference will consist of a general session and a special session on Computational Models for Linguistic Processing. Talks will be 30-minute long with 10 additional minutes for discussion. The conference will als

We are pleased to announce that the second conference on Formal Models in Linguistics (FML 2026) will take place on November 11-12, 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University. The conference focuses on the study of natural language within both generative and non-generative formal approaches, using any methodological tools (experimental, corpus-based, etc.). We invite submissions of original work focusing on formal analysis of natural language data. Submitted abstracts will un

We are pleased to announce that the 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12) will be organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and will be held on 21–23 October 2027. The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research involving two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the successful editions in Mannheim and Prague