Rethinking Politeness Formulae: Bridging Traditional and Advanced Approaches in Pragmatics Since the seminal work of Brown and Levinson (1978/1987), politeness strategies have occupied a central place in pragmatic theory. In line with the three epistemological ‘waves’ politeness was first conceptualized as the mitigation of face-threatening acts, then as participants’ context-dependent interpretations, and, more recently, as a jointly negotiated interactional achievement. From this perspective,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for IWCLUL 2026, the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The workshop will be held as a self-standing event on December 9-11, 2026, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. IWCLUL brings together researchers working on computational approaches to Uralic languages (Samoyedic, Ugric, Permic, Balto-Finnic, the Sami languages, Mordvin, and Ma

2026 KASELL-KASEE Winter Joint Conference Language, Mind, and AI: New Perspectives on Human Language The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL) and The Korea Association of Secondary English Education (KASEE) are pleased to announce their 2026 Winter Joint Conference. We invite scholars and researchers to submit proposals for presentations and warmly welcome your participation. Conference Overview: - Hosted by: KASELL and KASEE - Organized by: Depa

Rethinking Politeness Formulae: Bridging Traditional and Advanced Approaches in Pragmatics Since the seminal work of Brown and Levinson (1978/1987), politeness strategies have occupied a central place in pragmatic theory. In line with the three epistemological ‘waves’ politeness was first conceptualized as the mitigation of face-threatening acts, then as participants’ context-dependent interpretations, and, more recently, as a jointly negotiated interactional achievement. From this perspective,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for IWCLUL 2026, the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The workshop will be held as a self-standing event on December 9-11, 2026, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. IWCLUL brings together researchers working on computational approaches to Uralic languages (Samoyedic, Ugric, Permic, Balto-Finnic, the Sami languages, Mordvin, and Ma

If you are interested in attending the conference online, please email eric.melac@umpv.fr Visit our website: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en Our programme: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Programme_Conference_grammaticalization_and_DCxG_Montpellier.pdf Keynote Speakers: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig) Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuchâtel) Sophie Prévost (CNRS – Lattice) Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh)

Call for Papers: The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center TRR 318 Constructing Explainability explores the ways in which explanations are created, negotiated, and made meaningful across contexts. Previous editions of the conference have addressed different dimensions of explanation, including understanding and contextualising. The 4th TRR 318 Conference turns to a perspective that has recently gained increasing attention in explainability research: Social XAI (sXAI), which conce

If you are interested in attending the conference online, please email eric.melac@umpv.fr Visit our website: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en Our programme: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Programme_Conference_grammaticalization_and_DCxG_Montpellier.pdf Keynote Speakers: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig) Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuchâtel) Sophie Prévost (CNRS – Lattice) Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh)

Call for Papers: The organizing committee invites submissions for the 58th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 58), in conjunction with the 2027 Georgetown University Round Table (GURT), which will be held from March 5 through March 7, 2027 on the Georgetown University Main Campus in Washington, D.C. Submissions may address topics related to any area of African linguistics, and will be accepted for both talks (20 min + 10 min questions) and posters. In addition to general sessio

Across generations, communities have developed languages that carry histories, worldviews, ecological knowledge, social practices, and ways of relating to the natural world. Yet processes of language shift, cultural change, environmental transformation, and the weakening of intergenerational transmission increasingly challenge the continuity of this knowledge. In this context, language revitalization and the renewal of cultural and ecological knowledge are not only matters of linguistic or cultu

The first talk in our McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM), next Friday, October 2nd, at 3:30pm in Arts Building, room 150. The details of the talk are given below.  Building verbal reflexives in Turkish and beyond Many languages derive reflexive interpretations from ostensibly intransitive verbal forms (e.g. English ‘John bathed’; compare ‘John bathed himself’). […]

The seminar series “Identifying units of organization in spoken discourse: theory and methods” aims at fostering theoretical and methodological exchanges between scholars interested in the challenges of defining, identifying, and analyzing the fundamental units that structure naturally occurring spoken interaction. Different types of units can be identified at different levels: conversational moves at the level of interaction (cf. Jefferson 2004), syntactic units if we consider language struc

This book is a pioneering work, which meticulously presents the instantiation of various pragmatic universals within the Romanian languaculture and complements existing research on Romanian language structure. The authors explore topics such as the pragmatics-grammar interface, speech acts, im/politeness, discourse genres, humor, emotions, and cyber discourse, arriving at insightful generalizations that compile a cluster of pragmatic features of Romanian in use. The volume integrates and supplem

Focus: Each class will focus on one or more songs and will combine listening comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, analysis of lyrics, cultural context, and discussion. Participants will work with authentic Russian and encounter idiomatic expressions, colloquial language, grammatical constructions, and vocabulary as they appear in real cultural contexts. Description: Learn Russian through Songs 3-Week Intensive Online Russian Language Course October 12–30, 2026 | 36 Hours of Live Online In

Description: Associate or Full Professor of Indian Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism and Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies Location: Stony Brook University Deadline: Nov 06, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description: The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenured faculty position at the rank of Full or Associate Professor, beginning Fall 2027. We are looking for an outstanding scholar with a solid

Description: The College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship (appointment title: Postdoctoral Associate) focused on artificial intelligence in the humanities and social sciences. Our aim is to appoint up to 5 new fellows in the first year. Desirable areas of research include the social and cultural impacts of AI, computational methods and theories for humanistic and social scientific inquiry, and the ethical, political, or histo

PAC 2027 - Spoken English varieties: Continua, boundaries, and meaning International conference Thursday, June 17th & Friday, June 18th Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France Organised by LLSETI (Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales) Université Savoie Mont Blanc Guest Speakers: Betsy Evans, University of Washington, USA Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield, UK The aims of the PAC programme (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporai

Description: The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure to begin Fall of academic year 2027-2028. We seek candidates with a primary teaching and research specialization in the area of semantics and pragmatics. We are particularly interested in candidates who can interface with any of our other major areas of research in syntax, sounds, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, co

Description: Position Overview: We are seeking a Vietnamese Linguistic Specialist to support NLP and speech-technology projects involving grammar development, language localization, phonetics, pronunciation resources, tokenization, text normalization, and Vietnamese language variation. This is a technical linguistics position, not a translation-only or general annotation role. We welcome candidates from different backgrounds, including: Linguists or language specialists with an inter

PAC 2027 - Spoken English varieties: Continua, boundaries, and meaning International conference Thursday, June 17th & Friday, June 18th Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France Organised by LLSETI (Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales) Université Savoie Mont Blanc Guest Speakers: Betsy Evans, University of Washington, USA Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield, UK The aims of the PAC programme (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporai