I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. I am currently looking for native German speakers from Berlin and surrounding areas to participate in my study on L3 acquisition and its impact on previously known languages. Participation is fully online and involves three short tasks, taking a total of about 30 minutes to complete. Each participant will receive €20 Wunschgutschein voucher for their time

Language as Political Action and as Social Practice October 8-10, 2026 Towson University Towson, Maryland The Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) invites abstract submission for papers and group panels for its 55th Annual Meeting. LASSO is a U.S.-based organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of language. Although many of our members focus on the languages spoken in the southwestern United States, LASSO maintains a global perspective. We welcome members and rese

Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Phonetics and AI in Language Education, Phonetics 2026 Hong Kong, to be held from 3rd to 5th June 2026 in Hong Kong. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary developments in phonetics and the rapidly evolving applications of AI in language education. The Phonetics 2026 Hong Kong conference envisions a vibrant platform for collab

The Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG), a research unit of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Porto, invites you to the sixth talk of the new MLAG Seminar Series featuring presentations by international researchers on topics of interest to the group. The talk, given by David Spurrett (University of KwaZulu-Natal / UKZN) and entitled "Engines of Hostility: The Tower of Sabotage and Hack", will take place on March 26, 13:00-14:30 Western European Time (WET). The meeting is online

Call for Papers: We invite submissions on the conference topics. Abstracts must be sent to acapone@unime.it by March 31, 2026. Submissions should be no more than two pages (a maximum of 1,000 words) and include the author’s name and title. The editor will anonymize all abstracts to ensure a blind review process. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 10, 2026. Themes and Topics: This conference explores the connection between theoretical aspects of pragmatics and philosophy. W

Description: The Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park invites applications for a full-time Lecturer with an anticipated starting date of August 9, 2026. The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal. Applicants will be expected to teach courses in introductory linguistics, as well as undergraduate courses in their area of specialization. The expected teaching load is five courses per year (2-3), in addition to some administrativ

This book expands and deepens the investigation of the language associated with or produced by groups that are socially, culturally, racially and economically outliers and whose marginalisation results in a different engagement with and participation in mainstream society's activities. It features case studies from across the globe, including Ghana, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Zambia, addressing the construction (and self-construction) of marginalisation and diversity in di

An essential reference to the intersection of language and death and dying, this book presents an overview of the methodologies, current debates, history and future of research in language-related death studies. Adopting a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book explores a wide variety of phenomena and contexts of death and dying, examining language and discourse from linguistic, psychological, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives, among others. Divided into three parts, it con

This interdisciplinary edited volume combines linguistic and memory approaches to study how people attribute meaning to the past. It includes contributions by linguists who consider memory studies and its theories, and by memory studies scholars without linguistic background who look at sociolinguistic methods and concepts. The book is divided into three parts and includes case studies from countries including Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, India, Italy, Poland and Sri Lanka. The first part conside

This book offers an introduction to the commonly observed, but generally ignored or misrepresented, practice of using language when referential (semantic) meaning is problematic, partial or even absent. The concept and term 'ultralingualism' accounts for language performance or use where meaning in the conventional sense lies elsewhere to, or beyond (ultra-), the performer and/or the listener/audience. This book argues for the adoption of the term 'ultralingualism' as an important and previou

Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is defined, discussed, and negotiated in public discourses. It analyses different meaning components of the cultural keyword of surveillance – inherently linked to power relations – in ongoing debates of public discourses. The author looks at the representation of surveillance in different discourse domains through three different studies – th

Providing an in-depth analysis of the diverse discourse types present in the fight for women's bodily autonomy in Ireland over four decades, this book explores discourse from the imposition of the Eighth Amendment in 1983 to its repeal in 2018 and beyond, adopting a mixed-methods critical linguistic approach. By applying models of analysis from across the spectrum of critical linguistics, the book maximises the potential of the analytical models prominent in critical linguistics and Critical

The European Campus of City Universities (EC2U) Conference Virtual Institute of Quality Education (VIQE) https://ec2u.eu Sept. 1-3, 2026, University of Pavia Dealing with Biases in Language and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives In an era where information is easily accessible and shared, the ability to critically assess information with respect to potential biases and misinformation is essential, particularly in a higher education setting. The conference aims to bring together res

Today the border between the “natural” and the “artificial” is in the spotlight and it is going through a process of epistemological redefinition that affects every field of the Humanities. The title of this conference, In/Un-Natural, plays with the triple significance of the prefix: on the one hand it underlines what lies within the concept of nature, and on the other hand it implies the analysis of what goes against nature and what simulates nature by means of the artifice. This doctoral co

We are inviting submissions to our special issue, "Hispanic Studies as Intervention: Scholarship, Culture, and Social Change". Entrehojas is a peer-reviewed journal of the Hispanic Studies Graduate Program in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Western University (London, Ontario, Canada). The journal aims to foster academic debate in cultural, linguistic, and literary studies, increase the accessibility of graduate student research, and promote both academic and creative collaboratio

The European Campus of City Universities (EC2U) Conference Virtual Institute of Quality Education (VIQE) https://ec2u.eu Sept. 1-3, 2026, University of Pavia Dealing with Biases in Language and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives In an era where information is easily accessible and shared, the ability to critically assess information with respect to potential biases and misinformation is essential, particularly in a higher education setting. The conference aims to bring together res

Today the border between the “natural” and the “artificial” is in the spotlight and it is going through a process of epistemological redefinition that affects every field of the Humanities. The title of this conference, In/Un-Natural, plays with the triple significance of the prefix: on the one hand it underlines what lies within the concept of nature, and on the other hand it implies the analysis of what goes against nature and what simulates nature by means of the artifice. This doctoral co

Call for submissions for the June 2027 issue of Textes et Contextes (22-1) “Using English-language Picturebooks to Teach and Learn English from Primary to Secondary School” Children's literature picturebooks are visual literary works, the narration of which relies on iconography that is essential to the unfolding of the story, its context, or its characters. They are objects to be handled – in fact, the materiality of picturebooks is one of their particularly prominent characteristics (O

Description: Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Global China, Chinese Programme School of Humanities, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world’s top universities. Agile, bold, and inventive, NTU Singapore shapes the future by combining technology and human creativity to tackle the toughest challenges facing society today. Th

Call for Papers: Please submit your abstract as a PDF (max. 500 words excl. references) until 6 April 2026 to: dgkl2026@uni-bremen.de A selection of the contributions are intended to be published in an anthology. „Religion and Spirituality are among the most language dependent of human activities“ (Bouma / Aarons 2004: 351). Following this premise, both German-language research in the Linguistics of Religion (Fritzsche et al., eds. 2023, Lasch/Liebert 2025) and the English-language di