Call for Papers: Newer results on modal particles (MPs) show that they have a large variety of functions that go beyond their Common Ground-managing function in an utterance (Repp, 2013). MPs have been shown to interact with gestural information (Schoonjans, 2018), Perspectivization (Klages, 2020; Hüge, 2025), and coherence relations (Döring & Repp, 2019; Seemann, 2025). Their contribution of not-at-issue meaning has been argued to impose additional use-conditions and processing costs (Hinter

Call for Papers: 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 i

Forms of address are among the most sensitive linguistic indicators of social relations, politeness norms, and identity. As societies undergo social, political, economic and ideological transformations, corresponding shifts in address practices emerge. Migrant, colonial, and Indigenous languages offer a particularly fruitful ground for examining these dynamics: In multilingual contexts, speakers of minoritized languages often adopt formal address forms from the dominant language, particularly in

1. Theme and Aim In today’s digital communication, emojis are no longer peripheral or merely decorative elements of written text. Rather, they have transitioned into sophisticated paralinguistic tools that encode, modify, and realize illocutionary forces at the intersection of cross-cultural conventions and digital platform affordances (Yus, 2025). Increasingly, emojis function as use-conditional expressives (Grosz, 2022) that directly alter the pragmatic weight of an utterance. They also bring

We are pleased to announce that the 31st Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 16th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages will be held on February 25–27, 2027, at the Casa de Palmas Hotel in McAllen, Texas. It is hosted by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. https://sites.google.com/view/sius2027/home Our conference theme, Vivir en Nepantla: Identity, Language, and the In-Between, draws on the Nahuatl concept of nepantla, often understood as a state of

We would like to cordially invite you to participate in a symposium on diversity in early multilingualism: https://t.uzh.ch/1Xl. We are now accepting applications to participate in the event. Participation is free of charge. When? 06-07 October 2026 Where? University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Many children worldwide grow up learning and using two or more languages. The experiences of multilingual children vary greatly. Therefore, it is impossible to treat multilingual children as a

1. Theme and Aim In today’s digital communication, emojis are no longer peripheral or merely decorative elements of written text. Rather, they have transitioned into sophisticated paralinguistic tools that encode, modify, and realize illocutionary forces at the intersection of cross-cultural conventions and digital platform affordances (Yus, 2025). Increasingly, emojis function as use-conditional expressives (Grosz, 2022) that directly alter the pragmatic weight of an utterance. They also bring

We are pleased to announce that the 31st Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 16th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages will be held on February 25–27, 2027, at the Casa de Palmas Hotel in McAllen, Texas. It is hosted by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. https://sites.google.com/view/sius2027/home Our conference theme, Vivir en Nepantla: Identity, Language, and the In-Between, draws on the Nahuatl concept of nepantla, often understood as a state of

We would like to cordially invite you to participate in a symposium on diversity in early multilingualism: https://t.uzh.ch/1Xl. We are now accepting applications to participate in the event. Participation is free of charge. When? 06-07 October 2026 Where? University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Many children worldwide grow up learning and using two or more languages. The experiences of multilingual children vary greatly. Therefore, it is impossible to treat multilingual children as a

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Other Specialties: Demonstrated experience using ELAN Experience annotating spoken language recordings Experience in language documentation, corpus development or linguistic research Description: We are an Indigenous-owned technology company working with Indigenous communities globally to support significant Indigenous language revitalisation initiatives. This project involves preparing, annotating and publishing a major archive of interviews with first-language speakers from one No

Call for Papers: Website: https://2027.coling-iccl.org/ The 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2027) will take place in Macau, China, May 9-14 2027. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Benchmarking and Evaluation - Computat

Call for Papers: [Deadline extended to 16 August] Sign languages and the diverse paths to their acquisition offer a unique opportunity to gain insight into linguistic theory and human cognition. Structurally, the visual-gestural modality has different affordances and demands than the oral-aural modality and these have implications for linguistic theory (Perniss 2018). Socially, signer demographics are extremely varied due to factors such as (familial) hearing status, language ideology, and

Call for Papers: Title: Transforming EAL Education through Translanguaging: Teachers’ Perspectives on Inclusive Multilingual Practices and AI-Mediated Language Support Abstract Background: With migration continuously shaping English-speaking countries, secondary classrooms are gradually becoming linguistically and culturally diverse. Consequently, helping newcomers learn EAL is a growing concern for language educators attempting to create inclusive and equitable learning opportunities. Au

This is a panel that will be part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, It is organized by Jef Verschueren (Univ of Antwerp), Michael Meeuwis (Univ of Ghent), Jan-Ola Östman (Univ of Helsinki), Rui Zhang (Dalian Univ of Technology) Abstract: As a realm of publicly accessible discourse and as an arena for struggles over meaning, the public sphere (cf. Habermas 1989) has been undergoing drastic technologically driven changes during the past couple of decades. These changes include

Call for Papers: We are excited to announce that the 13th AZCALL Conference will be held in person at Arizona State University on November 14, 2026! Theme: Technology and the Evolution of Language Research The 13th AZCALL Conference is proudly organized by the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Club at Arizona State University, a student-led organization dedicated to advancing the exploration and integration of technology in language learning and teaching. In celebration of its th

This is a panel that will be part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, It is organized by Jef Verschueren (Univ of Antwerp), Michael Meeuwis (Univ of Ghent), Jan-Ola Östman (Univ of Helsinki), Rui Zhang (Dalian Univ of Technology) Abstract: As a realm of publicly accessible discourse and as an arena for struggles over meaning, the public sphere (cf. Habermas 1989) has been undergoing drastic technologically driven changes during the past couple of decades. These changes include

The University of Parma's doctoral conference "Grammars of Sexuality: Forms of Saying, Narrating, Performing" (10-11 December 2026) explores sexuality as a culturally constructed "grammar", a system of rules that can be imposed, broken, or reinvented across discourse, literature, and performance. It's organised into three sections: Linguistics, focusing on how language, discourse, and embodied communication construct sexual meaning; Literature, examining how sexuality functions narratively acros

The University of Parma's doctoral conference "Grammars of Sexuality: Forms of Saying, Narrating, Performing" (10-11 December 2026) explores sexuality as a culturally constructed "grammar", a system of rules that can be imposed, broken, or reinvented across discourse, literature, and performance. It's organised into three sections: Linguistics, focusing on how language, discourse, and embodied communication construct sexual meaning; Literature, examining how sexuality functions narratively acros

Journal: Dialogue and Discourse [ https://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org ] Issue: Volume 17, Issue 2 Call Deadline: October 1st, 2026 We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse. Submissions received by October 1st, 2026 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slat