Silence has crossed disciplines, historical periods, and forms of expression, taking on different meanings and functions. It may appear as emptiness, pause, interruption, or absence; yet at the same time, it can constitute a form of latent presence — a trace of what has been removed, censored, or rendered invisible. Silence may also represent a site of resistance and possibility: from being an instrument of control to becoming an effect of individual or collective trauma that resists verbalis

The Collaborative Research Center 1629 “Negation in Language and Beyond” (NegLaB) at the Universities of Frankfurt, Tübingen and Göttingen invites linguists and psychologists to submit papers to the 3rd NegLaB Workshop (NegLaB III) to be held at the University of Frankfurt on the 1st and 2nd of December 2026. The NegLaB III Workshop aims to advance our understanding of how the expression of negation is cross-linguistically associated with grammatical and non-linguistic cognitive operations an

Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite you to participate in the interdisciplinary conference Health Communication and Behaviour Change in the Evolving Digital Landscape: Language, Discourse and Interaction (https://warwick.ac.uk/research/spotlights/health/news-events/healthcomm/), which will take place at the University of Warwick during 9am-5:30pm on Thursday 16 July 2026 (BST). The event is funded by Warwick's Interdisciplinary Research Spotlight (Health). With a strong focus on la

Esperanto – 140 years: this is no longer a project 9–11 June 2027, Campus Condorcet, Paris Organised by Sébastien Moret (UNIL-SHESL) and Pascal Dubourg Glatigny (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS-EHESS-MNHN) https://shesl.org/en/2027-esperanto-2/ In 1887, Lazare Louis Zamenhof launched from Warsaw his project for an international language through a series of brochures—published in Russian, Polish, French, and German—that outlined the linguistic and intellectual principles of a future “internati

Identity is not something we have, it is something we do. It emerges in discourse, takes shape through interaction and becomes legible through the semiotic resources we bring into play across contexts. From everyday conversation to institutional communication, from digital platforms to embodied practices, identity is continuously performed, negotiated and contested. In contemporary societies marked by mobility, digital mediation and ecological crisis, identity is increasingly fluid, relationa

The conference “Shape – in Language and Cognition” brings together international researchers to examine the role of shape in visual perception, conceptual development, and linguistic structure. This event marks the launch of the ERC-funded SHAPE project (ERC SynergyGrant – ID 101167183). June 8–9, 2026 Auditorium Georges Dumézil, INALCO, Paris Free access | Online participation available: https://zoom.us/j/98346033268 | Passcode: 024336 Shape is a prominent feature of the visual worl

Esperanto – 140 years: this is no longer a project 9–11 June 2027, Campus Condorcet, Paris Organised by Sébastien Moret (UNIL-SHESL) and Pascal Dubourg Glatigny (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS-EHESS-MNHN) https://shesl.org/en/2027-esperanto-2/ In 1887, Lazare Louis Zamenhof launched from Warsaw his project for an international language through a series of brochures—published in Russian, Polish, French, and German—that outlined the linguistic and intellectual principles of a future “internati

Identity is not something we have, it is something we do. It emerges in discourse, takes shape through interaction and becomes legible through the semiotic resources we bring into play across contexts. From everyday conversation to institutional communication, from digital platforms to embodied practices, identity is continuously performed, negotiated and contested. In contemporary societies marked by mobility, digital mediation and ecological crisis, identity is increasingly fluid, relationa

The conference “Shape – in Language and Cognition” brings together international researchers to examine the role of shape in visual perception, conceptual development, and linguistic structure. This event marks the launch of the ERC-funded SHAPE project (ERC SynergyGrant – ID 101167183). June 8–9, 2026 Auditorium Georges Dumézil, INALCO, Paris Free access | Online participation available: https://zoom.us/j/98346033268 | Passcode: 024336 Shape is a prominent feature of the visual worl

Focus: The program is organized around five key themes in the field: - Psychology of reasoning (May, 27-28) - Linguistics (May, 29) - Logic (June, 2-3) - Cognitive architectures (June, 4) - Computer science and artificial intelligence (June, 8, 9 and 10) Description: 9 school days spread over 3 weeks: May,27 to June,10 2026 Our summer school aims to present research in several major areas of contemporary research on knowledge, reasoning, and decision-making, adopting a resolutely int

I would like to share Style Scalpel, a free forensic stylometric AI-text analysis system developed from my research in computational and forensic linguistics. Style Scalpel is designed for exploratory comparison of human-written and AI-generated texts using interpretable stylometric features. The system focuses on transparent linguistic evidence rather than black-box detector output. The project currently includes: - a live web interface - a Windows desktop release - GitHub documentat

The Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL, https://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en) is calling for expressions of interest from researchers working in any of CLUL's areas of research (http://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en/research) who fulfil the conditions to apply to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) 2026 call. As host institution, CLUL welcomes applications for both European Fellowships and Global Fellowships. More information on these fellowships is found at http

2025. v, 107 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Towards an integrated approach to heritage languages in multilingual education policies: The case of Geneva Claire de Goumoëns, Laurent Gajo & Myriam Radhouane pp. 229–241 Articles – Artículos – Aufsätze – Artikoloj Aperçu statistique et démographique des élèves allophones à Genève Aurélie Pont & Marion Dutrévis pp. 242–269 Estruturas de acolhimento, ensino regular e ensino de língua de herança: Rumo a uma política articula

2025. iii, 104 pp. Table of Contents Articles Experienced saudade in times of COVID-19 pandemic Félix Neto, Joana Neto & Etienne Mullet pp. 209–227 Russian culture (rather than grammatical gender) influences artistic personifications Ahmed Abdel-Raheem, Tatiana Permyakova & Ekaterina Pozdeeva pp. 228–250 A clash of ‘Prides’ in Chinese-English bilinguals Fung Yee Chun & Bee Chin Ng pp. 251–289 On the pragmatics of praising: How gender movements in Africa celebrate wome

2026. iii, 132 pp. Table of Contents Articles Chinese Russian language teachers’ agency in response to the New Liberal Arts policy: An ecological perspective Yuan Tao & Lei Cai pp. 1–25 ASR-based system for promoting pronunciation: Promoting collaborative approach for higher education ELF learners Sariani Sariani, Mutia El Khairat, Welsi Haslina & Baety Baetty pp. 26–44 Implementing translanguaging strategies in the English writing classroom in higher education: A systemati

2026. iii, 167 pp. Table of Contents Articles The syntactic and semantic features of the “X zhōng de [中的] X” construction in modern Chinese and its motivations Xu Wen, Zichang Dong & Shuyan Yang pp. 1–37 Mandarin donkey conditionals: In defense of the null hypothesis Hang Kuang & Haihua Pan pp. 38–68 Predicting semantic transparency of Chinese QIEs using distributional semantics and lexical frequency Lin Ruo & Stephen Skalicky pp. 69–99 Exceptive construction: Pragma-

2026. iii, 145 pp. Table of Contents Articles Group level and individual differences in second language sentence processing Ian Cunnings pp. 251–277 Age of onset does not matter for bilingual children’s understanding of late-acquired phenomena: The case of temporal connectives Christos Makrodimitris & Petra Schulz pp. 278–306 The acquisition of L3 Scandinavian impacts word order in advanced L2 English: Regressive cross-linguistic influence in verb-particle constructions An

We are pleased to announe that our Doctoral Network Project Joint Doctorates (2025) « Multilingual Language Awareness in the European Digital Society » (MultiLAwa) has been selected and will be funded by the European Union. Start of the project: September 1st, 2026 Start of the PhD theses: November 1st, 2026 Start of the application campaign: May 20th, 2026 Website : www.multilawa.eu Online Info-Session for all applicants: Tuesday 16 June 2026, at 2:00 pm (CEST) MultiLAwa is an int

Doctoral position in project A08 (f/m/x) | Collaborative Research Centre 1252 "Prominence in Language", University of Cologne, Germany Project A08 “The Role of Pauses in Prominence Marking” of the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 “Prominence in Language“ (CRC 1252) seeks to fill a doctoral position. The position is available from 1 August 2026 on a part-time basis (25,89 hours per week). The position is to be filled for a fixed term until 31 July 2029. If the applicant meets the relevant wa

The goal of the Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education (SOLPHE) is to serve as a professional development forum tailored to the needs of post-secondary language educators, which will not only help to enhance the quality of language programs but also provide opportunities for inter-institutional collaboration. During the symposium, we will host talks and sessions about different aspects of language teaching and program administration in higher education settings. Both practice-oriente