We invite submissions for the Great Middle Sea Conference, to be held at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia from May 6 to May 7 2027. The conference will focus on formal approaches to phenomena characteristic of the languages and dialects spoken in the Eastern Mediterranean, such as varieties of Arabic spoken in the region, Hebrew, the languages spoken in Cyprus, Malta, and non-semitic heritage languages such as Ladino and others. Contributions on understudied minority languages spoken in the r

Call for Panel Contributions IPrA 2027 Panel: Support and Assistance: Linguistic and Communicative Practices Surrounding Aging and Assistance Organizers: Haruka Sakai (Hiroshima University), Mao Chida (Chiba University/Hiroshima University) This panel discusses the linguistic and communicative practices surrounding aging and assistance, or care, as processes of social interaction. Social support and physical assistance are provided in ways that orient to the autonomy and cognitive and physi

We are pleased to announce that the 7th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE 2027) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 14 to June 17, 2027. PaPE is an interdisciplinary forum for research on all areas of phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the relationship between the two. It promotes discussion of phonetics and/or phonology and their related areas, from multiple perspectives such as experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, formal phonology, neurolinguisti

Culture is an essential component of language learning and our languages are a vitally important part of who we are. The setting of our second international symposium brings to mind the interconnections between freedom, language, and culture throughout history and today. As you consider some of the suggested stands, or create your own, we invite you to think about how these themes (culture, longevity, liberation) relate to freedom movements throughout the development of societies and to the ways

Title: Explaining the emergence of pragmatic markers: Cooptation, pragmaticalization, constructionalization? Panel organizers: Wiltrud Mihatsch (Tübingen), Inga Hennecke (Tübingen), Gunther Kaltenböck (Graz), Stefan Schneider (Graz) Pragmatic markers, a heterogeneous class of extra-clausal expressions including discourse markers, stance adverbials, interjections, and formulae of social exchange, occupy a peculiar position in linguistic analysis. While their functional properties are relative

This panel focuses on the study of word searches as interactional phenomena that affect the progressivity of turns, sequences, and activities. In contrast to cognitive approaches, which treat troubles in turn production, such as speech perturbations or hesitations, primarily as rooted in individual, cognitive processes (e.g. Levelt 1983; Goodglass et al. 1989), conversation-analytic research has investigated word searches as a particular type of repair (e.g. Schegloff et al. 1977) and emphasised

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)

We are pleased to invite submissions for the panel outlined below. Pragmatics is defined by the International Pragmatics Association—now celebrating its 20th conference—as the “the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive, social, and cultural) perspective on language and communication” (IPrA webpage, our italics). This reflects the scholarly consensus that pragmatics is a study of communication because “communication is what language is a

Topics: AI, Robotics, Technology; Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnography; Conversation Analysis/EMCA; Interactional Pragmatics Abstract: Assistants based on large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable uptake as a new medium advertised as conversational partners. They may be marketed as companions (Malfacini, 2025) for therapy (Scholich et al., 2025), used for programming, research, and writing (Haase et al., 2026), and a variety of other purposes. On the surface, such assistant

The Research Workshop on Gender, Youth, and Media in Asia is organized by the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (GSRC) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. The event will take place from 20 to 22 February 2027 and will include a two-day conference followed by a one-day workshop. The workshop brings together researchers working on gender and sexuality across disciplines such as geography, linguistics, anthropology, communications, and media stu

Lo desen Obrador de Lingüistica Occitana (OLO10) se tendrà a l’Institut für Romanistik de l’Universitat de Viena, Àustria, los 19 e 20 de mai de 2027. L’Obrador de Lingüistica Occitana es lo fòrum que recampa los lingüistas que trabalhan sus l’occitan, dins un esperit d’escambi e de collaboracion. Las proposicions de comunicacion son a mandar abans lo 31 de genièr de 2027 sus EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/OLO10/) o sus ignasi.planas.villalba@univie.ac.at, en PDF anonimi

We are delighted to invite submissions to the 8th General Conference of the International Language and Law Association (ILLA), to be held at the University of Naples Federico II from 30 June to 2 July 2027. The General Conference will be preceded, on 29 June, by the 6th ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence. The relationship between language and law is complex, multifaceted, and constantly evolving. It unfolds across a wide range of dimensions, such as legal inte

IPrA 2027 Panel: Handling Different Voices in Science Communication: From linguistic polyphony to artificial agents Kerstin Fischer, Annette Lessmöllmann & Francois Nemo Current societal challenges require complex solutions, and accordingly, science communication has to resist giving easy answers. Instead, the complexity and polyphony of societal discourse needs to be accounted for and represented while avoiding overwhelming the recipients. This panel integrates two lines of research: On t

We invite contributions to the panel "Narrating inherited trauma: Pragmatic, narrative, and cross-cultural perspectives," to be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 27 June – 2 July 2027. Scholars who are considering a contribution are welcome to contact us with a provisional title and a brief description of the proposed paper by September 15, at: Bracha Nir, bnir@univ.haifa.ac.il; Tomoko I. Sakita, tsakita@mail.doshisha.ac.jp. The panel focus

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) The Pragmatics of ‘doing Family’ in Everyday Life Co-organisers: Zhiyi Liu, Valeria Sinkeviciute, Andrea Rodriguez The University of Queensland Family discourse, including interaction between parents and children, siblings and adult (extended) family members, is a complex social phenomenon where social meanings are jointly constructed and negotiated. For several decades now, various aspects of family talk have

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) The Pragmatics of Doing ‘being Siblings’ in Talk-in-interaction Valeria Sinkeviciute The University of Queensland In interactional studies, it has been observed that, in and through family conversations, children are socialised into and show their understanding of the social order through their enactment of pragmatic and normative behaviours as members of society (e.g. Minks, 2010; see also overviews in Cekaite,

The Pragmatics of Organized Crime and Conflict: Identity, Ritual, and Transnational Mediations Convenors: Takako Kawabata (SOAS University of London) Daniela Cesiri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Panel Description: Organized crime groups such as the Italian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, and the Hong Kong Triads are not merely criminal enterprises; they are communicative communities sustained through highly ritualized linguistic and semiotic practices. Existing research has shown tha

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