30th PAAL International Conference (Paal 2026) Theme for 2026 “Applied Linguistics across the Pan-Pacific: Celebrating 30 Years of Practice and Progress” August 19 (Wed)–20 (Thur), 2026 College of Liberal Arts Building, Anam Campus, Korea University, Seoul, Korea About the Conference: The PAAL International Conference is the annual meeting of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. The conference invites researchers, educators, and practitioners working in all areas of

Keynote speakers: Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh) on the biological basis of cognition Isabelle Dautriche (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université) on conceptual operations before and outside language Ira Noveck (CNRS, Université de Paris) on logical terms and figurative uses Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University) on mindshaping Each keynote talk will be followed by a related interdisciplinary symposium. General Aim: The aim of the European Society for Philosophy & Psy

The Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Department at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, warmly invites both members and non-members of the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC) to participate in the 9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics. The conference will be hosted onsite in Rome from June 17th to June 18th, 2026. Similar to past editions held in Venezia (2014), Milano (2015), Roma (2016), Napoli (2017), Milano (2018), Forlì (2021), Bergamo (2022), and Verona

Address forms are the set of expressions used by speakers to address their interlocutor(s). These forms signal the social, cultural, and relational norms that shape human interactions. They convey respect, intimacy, or distance between interlocutors, and vary across languages and cultures. The study of these forms allows for the identification of social and linguistic dynamics, as well as of pragmatic and linguistic variation in multilingual and intercultural contexts. This conference aims to pr

Kaunas University of Technology is organising a research conference dedicated to discussing the rapid development of the language industry and the growing possibilities of applying artificial intelligence in ways that are reshaping research practices. We cordially invite professionals and researchers in Philology, Educational Sciences, language and technologies to share their experience and insights and take part in resourceful discussions about the use of artificial intelligence in language

DHandNLP Website: https://sites.google.com/view/4thdhandnlp/home Workshop Description: Digital humanities (DH) stand at the intersection of computing and the humanities, involving collaborative transdisciplinary research. While current DH practice already shows an impressive array of new digital tools and methods for the study of the humanities, we believe that natural language processing techniques and experience can significantly enhance the field, while DH can also bring new testbeds and

The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy invites you to participate in The 10th International Symposium of Linguistics (Bucharest, May 21-23, 2026) which also hosts, in this edition, the International Colloquium “Romanian Academic Lexicography. The Challenges of Computerization” – AcadLexi. The symposium continues the tradition of scientific meetings organised by the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics. The conference is o

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving in multilinguality, multimodality, reasoning, and agentic capabilities. While these advances have transformed language and data processing, their alignment with the research needs and epistemic values of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) remains limited. This full-day workshop will bring together experts in Language Technologies, and SSH to explore how multilingual, multimodal and reasoning LLMs can assist the needs of SSH researchers a

Please register by February 25, 2026 at: https://toki482.wixsite.com/phex2026 phex 18 (the 18th workshop on phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure) Date: Monday, March 2nd, 2026 Venue: Chukyo University (Nagoya, Japan) + online (zoom) Contact Person: Hisao Tokizaki Meeting Email: toki@sapporo-u.ac.jp Web Site: https://toki482.wixsite.com/phex2026 Program (Japan Standard Time (JST) = UTC/GMT +9 hours) 10:00-10:15 Welcome 10:15-10:20 Opening 10:20-12:00 [Round

The 7th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is the central annual research event organized by graduate students in Linguistics, offering a key forum for scholarly exchange across language related fields. This year’s theme, Between Languages, Between Worlds: Language, Culture, and Global Communication, foregrounds the role of language in shaping cultural connection, social positioning, and senses of belonging in an increasingly interconnected

The MTA–ELTE NYTK Lendület “Momentum” Neurophonetics Research Group and the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics invite you to participate in the Intraspeaker and interspeaker variability Workshop. The workshop is organised within the frames of ISCA workshops. The keynote speakers of the workshop are: Anne Hermes and Stefano Coretta. The aim of this workshop is to bring scholars together who study the phonetic, phonological, or other linguistic aspects of spoken language to better understa

CULC is a conference run by undergraduate students highlighting undergraduate research. Undergraduates in Linguistics (Underlings) at Cornell University is now accepting abstracts for the 20th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. We are looking for undergraduate presenters from any university to submit their abstracts for a 20 minute oral presentation or poster presentation. Abstract Submission Guidelines: The abstract should be no more than 500 words (excluding citations)

The term “heteroglossia” was used by Bakhtine (see Emerson and Holquist, 1981) to designate the semiotic function of linguistic variation in the novel (languages, dialects, or registers). Recently, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology have recontextualized it to designate the use of linguistic repertoires in which elements appear that, in theory, could be attributed to different varieties. The heteroglossic approach involves an epistemological approach that moves away from the conception

The 1st Workshop of the Hokkaido Language Science Society will take place at Otaru University of Commerce at 28 February 2026 (Sat). Partipants: Anyone can participate, Hokkaido resident or not, regardless of nationality. Invited speaker: Thomas Van Hoey (UCLouvain) "Accommodating path and manner in the lexical aspect of iconic words" Languages used in the workshop: English and Japanese. Abstract: Max. 500 words in English or 1,000 characters in Japanese. Free format. Any subfield of

The 9th International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS26) will be held in Dijon, France from June 18 to 19, 2026 and co-hosted by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) and the Laboratoire Texte, Image, Langage (TIL) at the Université Bourgogne Europe. The workshop will focus around the theme “Emancipating Legal Linguistics: Hopes and Challenges for the Independence of an Interdiscipline.” Legal Linguistics has emerged in the Canadian tradition under the label jurilingu

The PILL Conference Series brings together scholars and researchers to explore one of the most compelling questions in linguistics and discourse studies: How is identity constructed, performed, and negotiated through language? This year’s edition of PILL invites scholars to critically engage with the concept of identity in (post)modernity, with particular attention to the challenges and dilemmas that arise in both the discursive construction of identity and the methods used to investigate ide

Workshop Overview: The International Workshop on Grammaticalization and Syntactic Representations (IWGSR), organized by the Center for Sustainable Development of Linguistic Diversity, will be held October 16 (Friday) – 17 (Saturday), 2026, at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. We welcome submission of presentations that explore the dynamic field of grammaticalization and syntactic theory. The workshop will feature two distinguished keynote speakers, namely, Anna Roussou (University

Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection Date and Time: Thursday, June 25, 2026 1:00–4:30 pm Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada Satellite Workshop of LabPhon 20 Pitch is central to both language and music, yet the relationship between linguistic and musical pitch remains under-theorized within laboratory phonology. While LabPhon has long advanced the experimental study of tone and intonation, explicit cross-domain research on the language–mus

The Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) is pleased to announce the 12th conference “Language issues: a young scholars’ perspective”, which will be held in person on 2–3 April 2026. Exceptions can be made for valid reasons — please contact us at smu@iling-ran.ru to discuss online attendance. Abstracts on the following topics are welcome: theoretical linguistics, comparative studies, descriptive linguistics, typology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, multimodal communica

Students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad are pleased to announce that the 10th Student Linguistics Conference will take place from 15 to 17 May 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Serbia. Stulikon is an international academic conference for students of all levels of study. Its aim is to provide a platform for presenting original research from all areas of linguistics, as well as to foster cooperation and the exchange of knowledge among linguistics students from the region.