We are thrilled to announce that the 5th International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA5) will take place from October 7–9, 2026, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). ICLA 5 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to advance our understanding of language attrition and its effects on bilingual development. Continuing the tradition of previous ICLA editions, the conference provides an international forum for in-depth

Focus: Driven by the rapid expansion of large-scale data ecosystems and Large Language Models (LLMs), research across the humanities and social sciences is undergoing a significant transformation. Traditional disciplines, including linguistics, literature, history, and philology, are increasingly adopting computational technologies to develop innovative, data-driven methodologies. Central to this methodological shift is the development of reliable data infrastructure built upon well-annotated

Among our confirmed speakers: - Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Ruben Martins, Carnegie Mellon University - Gordon Pennycook, Cornell University - Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester - Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University - Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh - Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo The program is organized around five key themes in the field: - Psychology of reasoning (May, 27-28) - Linguistics (May, 29) - Logic (June, 2-3)

We are thrilled to announce that the 5th International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA5) will take place from October 7–9, 2026, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). ICLA 5 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to advance our understanding of language attrition and its effects on bilingual development. Continuing the tradition of previous ICLA editions, the conference provides an international forum for in-depth

19th AATT Graduate Student Conference Friday, May 8th, 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM (EST) All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST) Zoom Link for Conference Platform: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82039656599 Meeting ID: 820 3965 6599 Password: AATTGrad26 Conference Program: 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Opening & Welcoming Remarks: İlknur Lider, University of Pittsburgh 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Session I 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Session II 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM

2026. v, 172 pp. Introduction Creole onomastics: Names and naming in and for creole languages Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola & Rachel Selbach pp. 1–26 Articles Names for contact languages: An historical overview of the evolution of terms in the field of pidgin and creole languages Peter Bakker pp. 27–58 Terminologies in crisis: Challenges and insights from multipolar metalinguistics Carsten Levisen pp. 59–80 Naming creole varieties on the Cape Verde Islands and in Upper

2026. iii, 148 pp. Table of Contents Articles The rhetorical structure of conference opening remarks: A corpus-based move analysis Yinyin Wu pp. 1–36 Volunteer conference interpreting: Its possible benefits and place in the training journey towards professional interpreting Fanny Chouc pp. 37–58 Framing the political: Paratextual interventions and the ideological shaping in the English translations of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru Quartet Susi Septaviana Rakhmawati & Riccar

19th AATT Graduate Student Conference Friday, May 8th, 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM (EST) All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST) Zoom Link for Conference Platform: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82039656599 Meeting ID: 820 3965 6599 Password: AATTGrad26 Conference Program: 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Opening & Welcoming Remarks: İlknur Lider, University of Pittsburgh 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Session I 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Session II 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM

Topic page: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/80156/beyond-diagnostic-silos-specific-learning-difficulties-and-developmental-language-disorder-across-dsm-5-tr-and-icd-11 Background: When a child struggles to read, write, or learn mathematics, the role of language is too often overlooked. Specific learning difficulties remain among the most discussed yet inconsistently conceptualised neurodevelopmental conditions in education and clinical practice. In DSM-5-TR, Specific Learning D

Call for Papers: The second International Conference on Globalisation/Deglobalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and

Call for Papers: The research group Pragmatics. Discourse. Cognition (PraDiC), from the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), will organize an in-person international congress on Everyday Discourses on July 9–10, 2026. Everyday life is fundamentally made up of discourses. As beings of language, discourse sustains social experience. It encompasses varied ways of expression—oral, written, imagetic, and multimodal—typically formed through brief interactions that ar

Host: The Language Centre at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences Location: 61 Kase St, Tallinn, Estonia Format: On-site (preferred) & online in English The field of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) is undergoing a profound transformation. Shifting workplace dynamics, technological leaps, and the rise of generative AI are driving this change, bringing us to a pivotal crossroads in the way we teach and learn professional languages. We invite researchers, practitioners, and

Call for Papers: This international workshop explores the dynamic nature of register variation in spontaneous speech, and examines how situational contexts, cognitive processes, and developmental pathways shape our adaptive language use. To advance a comprehensive understanding, we invite contributions from diverse theoretical frameworks and linguistic sub-disciplines. To increase communicative efficiency, speakers adapt their speech to different audiences and circumstances according to so

Host: The Language Centre at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences Location: 61 Kase St, Tallinn, Estonia Format: On-site (preferred) & online in English The field of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) is undergoing a profound transformation. Shifting workplace dynamics, technological leaps, and the rise of generative AI are driving this change, bringing us to a pivotal crossroads in the way we teach and learn professional languages. We invite researchers, practitioners, and

Call for Abstracts: Guest Editor: Robert Poole, University of Alabama Ecolinguistics is an interdisciplinary field engaged in investigations of “the role of language in the life-sustaining interactions of humans, other species, and the physical environment” (International Ecolinguistics Association, n.d.). Researchers in the field seek to 1) challenge and critique language practices which normalize and reproduce ways of speaking and being which contribute to climate crisis and ecological

Journal of Language and Politics Table of Contents Articles Navigating Brexit through fear: An appraisal analysis of 2016–2024 British Prime Ministerial discourse Simona Dianová & Monika Brusenbauch Meislová pp. 295–330 Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey Lyndon C. S. Way, Stephen McLoughlin & Irem Inceoglu pp. 331–357 When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy: an intertextual analysis of online news on COVID-19 Dimitris Trimithi

2026. iv, 155 pp. Table of Contents Articles Experience and/or knowledge? Beyond the dichotomy of positionality in literary translation Mauro Cazzolla pp. 135–147 Examining the impact of footnotes and cultural memory references on empathic evocation through translation: A socio-cognitive exploration of reader reception Yi-Chiao Chen pp. 148–174 Exploring intersemiotic and interlingual translaboration: A case study of Ouyang Jianghe’s Fenghuang and its English translation W

Himalayan Linguistics Volume 25, Issue 1, 2026 Articles Results from the Linguistic Survey of Sikkim Samopriya Basu & Mark Turin https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.50782 The Dual Formative *tsi in Tibeto-Burman Languages Scott DeLancey https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.52908 Himalayan Linguistics is a Diamond Open Access peer-reviewed web journal and archive devoted to the study of the languages of the Himalayas. https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics

We are pleased to unveil below the programme for the international conference Identity Construction and English(es) from the Margins, which will take place on 28/29 May at the Université de Lorraine (Metz campus, Île du Saulcy, UFR ALL Metz, building B, room B110). Registration for the conference is now open. You can register via the conference’s official website: https://engmargins.sciencesconf.org/registration?lang=en A live stream of the conference will be provided so that you can fol

Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL) is a forum for researchers and scholars to present their linguistic work and discuss issues related to the formal description of Slavic languages. It covers a wide range of disciplines, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and also including theoretical, experimental and corpus approaches. The main goal of FDSL is to provide a platform for the exchange of linguistic ideas and research results and to promote the developm