Call for Papers: Following the success of the annual autumn online workshops, TCLR Group is organizing an online workshop on the seminal role of Prepositions in Thought and Language. This online workshop aims to explore and extend the discussion regarding the pervasive role of prepositions in thought and language. More specifically, prepositions will be treated within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, in terms of subjectivity and subjectification, reference and vantage point, figurat

Dates: 13–14 November 2026 Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. Keynote speaker: Adam Ledgeway, Professore Ordinario di Linguistica italiana, Università di Bergamo. Convenors: Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae This workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest. It is devoted to Romanian as seen from a typological and Romance-comparative perspective, with particular attention to the grammatical features that defi

We invite you to participate in the workshop “L1 – Curriculum Models and Current Practices”, organized within the framework of the 26th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics. - Date: November 13–14, 2026 - Venue: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, 5–7 Edgar Quinet Street, Bucharest, Romania - Language of presentation: Romanian and English - Invited speaker: Simona Grigoraș, teacher at European School Brussels IV - Organizers: Florentina Sâmihăian, And

CIDL26 aims to cover a very broad range of topics, spanning various fields and directions of research into the Romanian language and, more generally, into linguistics. The focus of the current edition is bridging empirical data and theoretical models. Abstracts no longer than 500 words should be submitted by 15 September 2026 to the address colocviu.lingvistica.2026@gmail.com. Please, use the participation form uploaded to the conference website. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 Octo

Dates: 13–14 November 2026 Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. Keynote speaker: Adam Ledgeway, Professore Ordinario di Linguistica italiana, Università di Bergamo. Convenors: Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae This workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest. It is devoted to Romanian as seen from a typological and Romance-comparative perspective, with particular attention to the grammatical features that defi

We invite you to participate in the workshop “L1 – Curriculum Models and Current Practices”, organized within the framework of the 26th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics. - Date: November 13–14, 2026 - Venue: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, 5–7 Edgar Quinet Street, Bucharest, Romania - Language of presentation: Romanian and English - Invited speaker: Simona Grigoraș, teacher at European School Brussels IV - Organizers: Florentina Sâmihăian, And

CIDL26 aims to cover a very broad range of topics, spanning various fields and directions of research into the Romanian language and, more generally, into linguistics. The focus of the current edition is bridging empirical data and theoretical models. Abstracts no longer than 500 words should be submitted by 15 September 2026 to the address colocviu.lingvistica.2026@gmail.com. Please, use the participation form uploaded to the conference website. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 Octo

The upcoming meeting of Making Waves will take place next Wednesday, May 13, at 16:00! (CET, please, note that this is an hour later than usual). Serpil Karabuklu will give a talk titled “How to Capture Differences in Nonmanuals: Behavioral and Computational Analyses”. We are excited to share that this meeting will have a guest discussant, Nick Palfreyman (University of Lancashire) and will be BSL/English interpreted. We would like to thank Adam Schembri and his SignMorph project for their su

For my PhD study, I am looking for participants who are German or British English native speakers and who would be willing to spend 30 minutes filling out my questionnaire on the connection between language use and attitudes. All ages and genders are welcome! If you are able, I would also really appreciate you sharing the study with friends, family, colleagues, or students! Here is the link to the study: https://www.soscisurvey.de/lingstudie/ (Please select the appropriate flag - repres

Focus: Foundations/Methods (for introductory classes), Syntax/Morphology, Semantics/Pragmatics, Linguistic Creativity (the research focus of the Collaborative Research Center 1646) Description: We are delighted to announce that the next DGfS Summer School 2026 will be taking place at Bielefeld University 10th-21st August, 2026. The summer school is directed at early career researchers (advanced MA students, doctoral researchers & postdocs). We are offering 32 1-week courses on a variet

Spring season’s final Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Tue, May 12th at 14:00 - 15:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). You are warmly welcome to join the event via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Phonetic learning of non-native speech features: Evidence from behavioral and brain activity experiments Piia Astikainen, University of Jyväskylä News: Zoom had wider problems on the day of our previous webinar. We were able to hear Míša Hejná’s pres

2026. iii, 100 pp. Table of Contents Articles For your own good: A replication of hidden fallaciousness research Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen & Yun Xie pp. 1–22 Deceptiveness as a tactic in political English: A case study from 1789 Juhani Rudanko & Paul Rickman pp. 23–42 Do emotional appeals make arguments seem stronger? The role of personal involvement, mood, and pathos in perceived strength of argumentation Barbara Konat, Monika Obrębska, Ewelina Gajewska & Nadia D

Call for Materials Proposals: Peer Review and Communicative L2 Writing Practices www.cultivatingconfidencebook.com Deadline: May 31, 2025 The editors are inviting proposals (100-200 words) along with a sample material for a forthcoming collection of innovative peer-review and communicative practices in L2 writing classrooms. Sharing second-language writing classroom practices that integrate communication helps address challenges like the isolating nature of writing tasks. This collection w

Description: Am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Innsbruck ist derzeit eine Stelle als Universitätsassistent:in (Postdoc) mit dem Schwerpunkt Historische Soziolinguistik ausgeschrieben. Beginn/Dauer: - ab 01. Oktober 2026 - auf 4 Jahre Organisationseinheit: Germanistik, Standort Innsbruck Beschäftigungsausmaß: 40 Stunden/Woche Ihre Aufgaben: - Eigenständige Forschung im Bereich Germanistische Linguistik mit einem Schwerpunkt in der Historischen Soziolinguistik - Lehr

Call for Papers: Organizers: Natalia Gagarina & Kateryna Iefremenko (ZAS), Pia Knoeferle, Mingya Liu, Katja Maquate, Valentina Nicole Pescuma & Stephanie Rotter (HU) Date: September 7-8, 2026 Venue: Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Conference Room, Ground floor, Meierottostraße 8, 10719 Berlin, Germany Website: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/event/workshop-register-effects-in-sentence-and-discourse-processing/ The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Leibniz-Centre General Ling

Se invitan contribuciones al Coloquio Silencio y sentido, de la gramática al discurso 3 y 4 de diciembre de 2026 FLL, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (presencial y en línea) Palabra y silencio se implican mutuamente. Se enlazan en la respiración, y así también conviven en cada parte del lenguaje. Hay silencios propios de los fonemas, de los morfemas, de las palabras y de las oraciones, y el silencio aparece en refranes, en la conversación y en el discurso público. De hecho, a la par

Se invitan contribuciones al Coloquio Silencio y sentido, de la gramática al discurso 3 y 4 de diciembre de 2026 FLL, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (presencial y en línea) Palabra y silencio se implican mutuamente. Se enlazan en la respiración, y así también conviven en cada parte del lenguaje. Hay silencios propios de los fonemas, de los morfemas, de las palabras y de las oraciones, y el silencio aparece en refranes, en la conversación y en el discurso público. De hecho, a la par

In a context marked by intensified and renewed relationships between science and society, numerous national and institutional initiatives currently emphasise the need for shared and co‑constructed forms of knowledge production. The French National Research Agency’s Science with and for Society (SAPS) programme illustrates this dynamic by supporting more than a hundred participatory research projects bringing together researchers, citizens, and territorial stakeholders around major social issues.

The 4th edition of LingCor: Workshop on Spoken Corpus Linguistics will take place at the Institut für Romanistik of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from the 5th till the 7th October 2026. It builds on three previous editions held at the Universitat de València (2018), the Universitat d’Alacant (2019), and the University of Vienna (2024), continuing an established international forum dedicated to spoken corpus research. LingCor aims to bring together researchers working with spoken corpus data

This conference is the fourth in the Exploring Language Education (ELE) conference series, with previous editions in Stockholm, Oslo and Vasa. The ELE conferences are held every three years in changing locations. The ELE conferences employ a broad definition of language education, aiming to bring together scholars working in different areas of the field. The conferences are intended to reflect a variety of perspectives on language education (in terms of first and additional languages) with learn