Aktuelle Forschung zu Sprache in Politik und Gesellschaft: „4. Politolinguistisches Nachwuchskolloquium“ Am 29. und 30. September findet zum vierten Mal das Politolinguistische Nachwuchskolloquium der AG Sprache in der Politik in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsstelle für linguistische Gesellschaftsforschung statt. Während des zweitägigen Programms werden insgesamt 16 Promovierende im Rahmen eines Vortrags oder einer offenen Poster-Session ihr Dissertationsprojekt aus dem Bereich Sprache in

Meeting Description: The Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences organizes the 'r-atics 9 workshop in Vienna, Austria, on June 2-4 2027. 'r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds. It is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic and diachronic aspects of rhotics. We invite contributions on any theme c

Since the first DIA colloquium, held in 2010 at Ghent University, Romance variationist linguistics has experienced a significant epistemological renewal. This renewal has encompassed reflections on the role of variation within the linguistic system, the interdependence between variation and linguistic change, the empirical and theoretical objectives of diasystemic description, and the preferred methodologies for accessing variation (cf. Krefeld & Pustka 2010; Boutier, Hadermann & Van Acker 2013;

The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10–12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing for four decades. Since 1987, PAC

Meeting Description: The Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences organizes the 'r-atics 9 workshop in Vienna, Austria, on June 2-4 2027. 'r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds. It is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic and diachronic aspects of rhotics. We invite contributions on any theme c

Since the first DIA colloquium, held in 2010 at Ghent University, Romance variationist linguistics has experienced a significant epistemological renewal. This renewal has encompassed reflections on the role of variation within the linguistic system, the interdependence between variation and linguistic change, the empirical and theoretical objectives of diasystemic description, and the preferred methodologies for accessing variation (cf. Krefeld & Pustka 2010; Boutier, Hadermann & Van Acker 2013;

The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10–12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing for four decades. Since 1987, PAC

SUMMARY Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner’s Creative Construction Grammar is a timely and engaging book in the Elements in Cognitive Linguistics series. It is 88 pages long, including an extensive references section, and is published by Cambridge University Press. The book is situated in cognitive linguistics and addresses the relationship between Construction Grammar (CxG), cognition, and creativity. The central concern of the book is how constructions are created, extended, combined, and unde

The objective of this survey is to learn about the potential availability of reduced independent clauses in the languages of the world. (More information on our project can be found here: https://nytud.hu/en/tender/grammaticality-grammar-and-the-minimal-clause-new-cross-linguistic-evidence-from-colloquial-registers). Reduced independent clauses are structurally deficient (they lack features and structure that independent clauses are normally supposed to have) and yet, they are interpreted as ind

This thesis is a sociolinguistic examination of the variation and change in the use of discourse-pragmatic features in Najdi Arabic (NA), spoken in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia. It investigates three discourse-pragmatic variables: (i) MA: 2ADRI: (‘I don’t know’), presenting three variants: ma: 2adri:, ma: dri:, and madri:; (ii) TAYYIB (‘well, okay’), with two variants: Tayyib and Tab; and (iii) intensifiers, such as marrah, jiddan (‘very’), wallah (‘very, indeed’), and Sidg (‘really’). Quantitative

Focus: Este curso práctico proporciona una introducción al lenguaje de programación Python para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), junto con los fundamentos del PLN, el Aprendizaje Automático y la Inteligencia Artificial. Está diseñado para proporcionar a los participantes habilidades prácticas para trabajar con datos textuales y tecnologías del lenguaje. Como parte del curso, aprenderás a trabajar con el SDK de Wowool y el lenguaje Wowool. Este curso está especialmente dirigido a est

Builds on the profound and challenging legacy of sociolinguist Jan Blommaert, one of the most important thinkers in contemporary sociolinguistics, who dismantled the theoretical and ideological orthodoxies of his time. This volume honours the influential work of Jan Blommaert, furthering his critical and constructive engagement with power dynamics across numerous domains. It takes Blommaert’s work as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social world, using his frameworks

Engages directly with the delicate intersections between homogenizing state policies and the extraordinary linguistic diversity on the ground. This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of multilingualism in Israel, spanning Hebrew-only ideologies, immigrant and heritage languages, and grassroots community initiatives. The first section ('Ideologies') examines the persistence of monolingual Hebrew language ideologies and state efforts to regulate Yiddish, Arabic and other lang

This essential guide for parents raising their children multilingually has proved an invaluable source of support and advice in the 20 years since its first publication. An English language teacher, independent researcher and mother of three more-or-less bilingual children, Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert brings her professional and personal experience to this realistic yet inspirational guide to the One-Parent-One-Language approach to childhood bilingualism. The book also contains the experiences of

This book explores how silence occurs across languages, literatures and cultures, fulfilling a wide range of communicative functions. It examines how silence can be collective or individual, intentional or unintentional, conveying meanings that extend beyond words and shaping interaction, perception and expression. The volume investigates the multifaceted nature of silence from literary, semiotic and cultural perspectives, weaving together analyses that reveal its complexity across different

Call for Papers: Co-organised by the International Linguistic Society and DELAD (Database Enterprise for Language and Speech Disorders) Language disorders affect individuals across all ages and languages. While many are congenital and emerge in early childhood, others develop later in life as a result of neurological conditions, illness, or injury. Addressing this global and multilingual reality requires robust, well-documented, and ethically managed language disorder corpora. This spec

Call for Papers: The deadline for Long Papers has been extended to June 26. Website: https://semdial2026.github.io/ We invite submissions for SemDial 2026 -- LuffDial, the 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough University, Loughborough UK. This conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy,

Call for Papers: Wir laden herzlich zum Symposium „Textuelle Identität: Autorschaft und Schreibstil in der aktuellen Forschung” ein, welches am Freitag, den 20. und Samstag, den 21. November 2026 an der Universität Graz stattfindet. Als Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Auftaktveranstaltung im November 2025 an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum wird die Tagung von der Anglistik der Universität Graz in Kooperation mit The Forensic Linguistics Lab ausgerichtet. Im Zentrum der Autorschaftsanalyse steht

Dialogues that showcase language use in order to promote oral language competence are a constant feature of foreign language teaching materials. The norms underlying these dialogues, the everyday linguistic situations they depict or omit, are subject to historical change. This is particularly evident in the linguistic and discursive construction of verbal politeness conveyed in the dialogues. These dialogues are fictional and didactically oriented, but they nevertheless draw on the communicative

La compréhension de l’oral constitue une des compétences fondamentales dans l’apprentissage des langues (Gadet et Guérin, 2008, Zoghlami et Hilton, 2021). Malgré sa complexité et son intérêt, elle gagnerait toutefois à faire l’objet de davantage de recherches (Vandergrift and Goh, 2012 ; Wolf et al., 2019 ; He et al., 2022), notamment en raison de la diversification des supports et canaux par lesquels transitent les intrants langagiers (contextes officiels ou formels – i.e. radio, TV, conférence