In a world living under the threat of war, natural disasters, pandemics, and all other kinds of tragedies, humour acts as a beacon of hope and makes almost any hardship easier to bear. Humour appears everywhere, deliberately or incidentally; it is an intrinsic part of human existence. Thus, we considered that the Seventh International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming” (ICONN 7) should focus on the connections one can establish between names and humour. In anthroponymy, humour occurs in

"The Power and Norms of Critique“, Uferstudios Berlin, 11–13 February 2026 International and interdisciplinary conference organized by the Graduiertenkolleg „Normativity, Critique, Change“ in Berlin on February 12th and 13th 2026 with an opening reception on February 11th 2026. Critical impulses play a central role in the development of society while they are tied, in their turn, to the normative frameworks established within social contexts. In this respect, critique is always in tension

Social Media Mining for Health Applications and Health Real-World Data (#SMM4H-HeaRD) 2026 Workshop and Shared Tasks Workshop: The Social Media Mining for Health Applications and Health Real-World Data (#SMM4H-HeaRD) Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for presenting and discussing advances in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and artificial intelligence at the intersection of health and web-based data. Now in its 11th edition, the #SMM4H-HeaRD 2026 Workshop wil

La cinquième édition du Colloque francophone international de l’Université de Zagreb aura lieu du 26 au 28 novembre 2026 à la Faculté de philosophie et lettres. Le Colloque vise à réunir les chercheurs intéressés par les problématiques qui portent sur les liens entre l’humain et la technologie du point de vue théorique et/ou pratique, dans les domaines des sciences du langage, de la didactique du FLE, de l’activité traduisante et des études littéraires. Le Colloque, en conciliant tradition et mo

Bi-SLI 2026 is the 6th international conference dedicated to research on language acquisition in bi/multilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), in comparison with typically developing peers. The conference will be held at the University Campus Borongaj in Zagreb, Croatia, on April 23–24, 2026. The Bi-SLI conferences bring together researchers and clinicians working on the linguistic and cognitive mechanisms that shape language development in bi/multilingual contexts, wit

Papers presented at ISMIL are concerned with the Malay/Indonesian language in any of its varieties. In addition to the standardized versions of Bahasa Melayu/Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia, papers are particularly welcome dealing with non-canonical isolects such as regional dialects of Malay and Indonesian, contact and heritage varieties, as well as other closely related Malayic languages. Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated approaches and div

LESLLA (Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults) engages and supports research initiatives, teaching approaches, and policies that contribute to high-quality and inclusive learning opportunities for adult migrants who face the dual challenge of learning a new language while at the same time learning to read and write for the first time or consolidating their existing literacy skills. LESLLA’s 21st Annual Symposium will be held in Brno (Czech Republic) from 20 to 22 August 202

Please scroll down for English version. 滑下查看標準漢語版本。 敬啟者： 第一屆粵語應用語言學研討會 × 第九屆粵語語言學論壇（CALA-1 × FoCaL-9）聯合會議會由香港粵語應用語言學學會（CALA）同香港語言學學會（LSHK）一齊主辦，香港理工大學專業及持續教育學院語文及傳意學部（LC, CPCE, PolyU）合辦，將於2026年7月4號（星期六）喺香港理工大學西九龍校園舉行。希望大家嚟分享最新研究進展，聽吓同儕意見，促進跨院校嘅交流同合作。 【特邀講者】（按姓氏英文排序） 林珮怡博士 （愛丁堡大學） 劉藴怡博士 （香港理工大學專業及持續進修學院） 梁慧敏教授 （香港理工大學） 【兩大主題】 - 粵語應用語言學 （例如語言獲得、人工智能與語言科技、語文或語言教育（教與學）、跨文化傳意與移民研究、流行文化中的語言、教學語言、語言評估、數碼人文等）；同埋 - 粵語理論語言學（例如語音學、音系學、形態學、句法學、語義學、心理語言學、神經語言學等）。 歡迎教研人員、研究生、本科生報告相關而尚未出版嘅研究，

The biannual conference of the European Association for Chinese Linguistics (EACL) will be held in Paris-Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet, on 2-4 September 2026. This year, besides the general session dedicated to all areas of Chinese linguistics, the EACL conference will also hold a special panel on "The morphosyntax of aspect : diachrony and synchrony" and a Young Scholars Forum. The 13th EACL conference is jointly organized by the EACL executive committee, the Centre de Recherches Lingui

This year, the APLIUT annual conference will examine the current theme of sustainable development in the field of education and language teaching and learning. According to Gro Harlem Brundtland (1987) , sustainable development is defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio, the concept was formalised and supplemented by its three pillars: “economically efficient,

In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for data-driven NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation, or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It i

La XXXIVe édition du Colloque International de la Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE), qui se tiendra les 20, 21 et 22 mai 2026 à la Faculté de Philologie de l'Université de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, entend ouvrir un espace de réflexion collective consacré à la richesse et à la diversité actuelles de la langue française, de ses littératures et de ses cultures. Dans un contexte marqué par des transformations rapides et profondes — technologiques, sociales, politiques,

The 50th International Conference of the Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas will take place in Salamanca (Spain) from 7 to 9 October 2026, fifteen years after the University of Salamanca last hosted the annual AJL conference. The conference is open to undergraduate and MA students, PhD candidates, and scholars who have obtained their PhD within the last two years. Contributions may be written in in any of the languages of Spain or English. Abstract submission will be open until 15 March 2026

Sinn und Bedeutung 31 Nantes Université Main session: September 2-4, 2026 Pre-conference workshop “Plurality and Distributivity across lexical categories”: September 1, 2026 SuB31, organized by the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (Nantes Université/CNRS). will be held at Nantes Université. The main session will take place on September 2-4, with invited speakers Márta Abrusán (CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod), Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam), Aron Hirsch (University of Maryland) and

We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026), to be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16th 2026. We invite submissions of original research that leverages both Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in any domain of Natural Language Processing or language resource development. More information at https://kg-llm.github.io/ Workshop Overview: Large Language Models have become foundatio

The Brazilian Colloquium on Morphology (CBM - Colóquio Brasileiro de Morfologia) is a scientific event that brings together research developed in the field of Morphology. CBM welcomes contributions that encompass a wide range of descriptive, theoretical, and methodological perspectives and fosters debate on different areas of morphology and its interfaces through non-concurrent sessions. For its seventh edition (CBM7), the event returns to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS),

The Centre for Latin American Studies (CLAS), in collaboration with the University of Ghana, is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the VII International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American Studies (ICALLAS 2026) from August 5-7, 2026. The theme of the conference is Transatlantic Pathways: Culture, Politics, and Knowledge Between Africa and Latin America. ICALLAS 2026 foregrounds language contact and multilingualism between Africa and Latin America. The con

On the initiative of 2022 president Arie Verhagen, the SLE conferences since the 2023 edition in Athens have included an outreach session, in which a number of conference participants reported on some national and local initiatives aiming at dispersing linguistic knowledge more widely among the general public. One first result is the SLE Linguistics in School Manifesto (https://societaslinguistica.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SLE-Linguistics-in-schools-manifesto_September2024-final.draft_.pdf),

Social Meaning and Grammar University of Zurich February 10-11, 2026 Organizers: Laura Reimer & Andreas Trotzke https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html February 10, 2026 09:30 - 10:30 Elin McCready: "Self-locating in social space" 10:30 - 11:00 Ruon Wang: "Negative politeness two ways: The convergent pronominals of politeness and contempt" 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:00 Holden Härtl: "Poisoned politeness: The degree of face threat in verbal ir

The French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie) is launching a call for abstracts for its 2026 annual conference, the twenty-third in its history. The 2026 edition will be held from July 1st to 3rd in Paris, France. The conference is sponsored by the research laboratories HTL (UMR 7597, Université Paris Cité / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS), LLF (UMR 7110, Université Paris Cité & CNRS), CRLAO (UMR 8563, EHESS & CNRS) and the project inIdEx EFL “Empirical Foundations of Linguis