Call for Papers: Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security app

Final Call for Papers: The computational humanities and social sciences (CHSS) constitute a rapidly growing area that works with massive amounts of unstructured textual, linguistic, and sociocultural data. Despite the scale and complexity of these datasets, CHSS researchers overwhelmingly rely on tools that are either slow (e.g., pure Python), fragmented across ecosystems, or difficult to integrate into modern workflows that require both prototyping and high-performance computation. This m

Final Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG–LLM 2026), to be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16th 2026. We invite submissions of original research that leverages both Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in any domain of Natural Language Processing or language resource development. More information at https://kg-llm.github.io/ Workshop Overview: Large Language Mo

Call for Papers: Description: Polysemous expressions have multiple closely related senses, and there is a substantial amount of semantic and computational linguistic research on polysemy found in different categories of expressions, such as adjectives, nouns and verbs. However, the extent to which there is interaction between researchers working on polysemy in different categories of expressions is limited. This workshop will focus on approaches to polysemy across different grammatical categ

Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2026 Athens, to be held from 23rd to 25th April 2026 in Athens, Greece. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2026 Athens conference envisions a vibrant platform for collabora

Description: Position Summary: The Department of English is searching for a temporary lecturer in linguistics for the 2026-27 academic year, with the possibility of appointment in subsequent years. The candidate must be able to teach courses in second language acquisition, English grammar, and general linguistics (e.g., syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics). We are especially interested in candidates committed to supporting the success of first-generation and underrepresented students. Cal

The University for Foreigners of Siena and the CLUSS Centre, in collaboration with the CILS Centre (FAMI PROFT project) and the PhD Program in Historical Linguistics, Educational Linguistics and Italian Studies (Curriculum 1), will organize the 8th International Summer School on “Language Policies and Language Planning – Language, Identity, Vulnerability in Migration Contexts” from July 7 to 10, 2026. The topics of the Summer School will include: - Representations, narratives, and discourses

Call for Papers: Abstracts are invited for 60-minute talks in a one-day conference ‘The role of semantics in syntax’, which is to be held at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 20 June 2026. The aim of the conference is to explore ways in which the syntax of a sentence might be influenced by its semantics, in opposition to the traditional Chomskyan conception of the autonomy of syntax. The conference is inspired by two recent speculative developments: the revival of the architecture of the grammar p

Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent pragmatic research appears to have drifted away from the theoretical investigation of speech acts. This Element explores the reasons why this is so, focusing on the difference of perspective that emerges when the scope of the discipline is viewed through a narrow versus a broad lens. Following an overview of the initial exposition of speech act theory by Austin, it tracks its evolut

This Element examines language, power and intersex variations within clinician accounts in Hong Kong, examining how they communicate about intersex traits to patients and their families. Employing interactional sociolinguistics, the research analyses clinician interviews as dynamic social interactions, focusing on how communicative stances are negotiated and social practices are enacted. The Element probes the influence of biopower on clinicians' stances (encompassing gender, sexual difference,

Doxxing is the deliberate, unauthorized disclosure of personal information, often with malicious intent. Notably, it became a key method of public shaming and vigilantism during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. This Element understands and examines doxxing as a discursive practice. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), it analyzes online forum discussions, survey and interview data from Hong Kong university students. Findings are examined alongside institutional legal texts to show how doxxi

This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together insights from cognitive linguistics, psychology, and literary studies. Through diverse case studies, it underpins the symbolic power of colours in evoking characters' emotional states, moral traits, and cultural perceptions (Section 2). Section 3 explores how colour metaphors such as discomfort is brown influence readers' cognitive and emotional responses, drawing on psychology resea

How does a biologically-programmed language faculty interact with language experience in the acquisition of language across the world? Bringing together linguistic theory, language typology, and cross-linguistic experimental results from parallel studies of development in language acquisition, this book reports new research on the nature of the human competence for language acquisition. It investigates the acquisition of complex sentence formation through relativization -a fundamental component

One of the key challenges in linguistics is to account for the link between linguistic knowledge and our use of language in a way that is both descriptively accurate and cognitively plausible. This pioneering book addresses these challenges by combining insights from Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, two influential approaches which until now have been considered incompatible. After a clear and detailed presentation of both theories, the author demonstrates that their integration is pos

A comprehensive yet concise history of the English language, this accessible textbook helps those studying the subject to understand the formation of English. It tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day, especially the effects of globalisation and the spread of, and subsequent changes to, English. Now in its third edition, it has been substantially revised and updated in light of new research, with an extended chapter on World Englishes, and a completely update

Building on its longstanding engagement with journalism theory and practice, the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) launches its sixth international conference, devoted to the study of categories, generalizations and clichés in journalistic language and journalism practice. The conference is explicitly multidisciplinary and welcomes contributors from, among others, communication and media studies, discourse and conversation analysis, (cognitive) linguistics, corpus linguistics, tra

Building on its longstanding engagement with journalism theory and practice, the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) launches its sixth international conference, devoted to the study of categories, generalizations and clichés in journalistic language and journalism practice. The conference is explicitly multidisciplinary and welcomes contributors from, among others, communication and media studies, discourse and conversation analysis, (cognitive) linguistics, corpus linguistics, tra

This Element presents a computational theory of syntactic variation that brings together (i) models of individual differences across distinct speakers, (ii) models of dialectal differences across distinct populations, and (iii) models of register differences across distinct contexts. This computational theory is based in Construction Grammar (CxG) because its usage-based representations can capture differences in productivity across multiple levels of abstraction. Drawing on corpora representing

Workshop Description: When we refer to entities and events in our environment, particularly (but not only) when visual information is present, we have choices. Depending on what has been said before, who or what else is in a scene, and the characteristics of what we want to refer to, we might say (among many other options) "the person running", "the runner", "the woman in the red shirt", "the one with the glasses", or "them over there". The extent of this variation in referring expression (RE

The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) will host the 27th Annual International Conference. Dates: Sep. 19 (Sat) – 20 (Sun), 2026 Venue: Ochanomizu University (2-1-1, Otsuka Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan) Plenary Lecturer: Dr. Kamil Deen (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) Submission Deadline: March 31 (Tue), 2026, by 23:59 JST For more information, please check the following sites. CFP English Version: https://jslsweb.sakura.ne.jp/wp/?page_id=3501&lang=en JSLS Conference: https://