Calls: Texas Linguistics Society - 25th Annual Meeting

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 09:05
Call for Papers: The Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society will take place February 21st to 22nd, 2026. The conference will be hosted in person at the University of Texas at Austin Glickman Conference Center. The organizers invite papers from all sub-fields of linguistics. The keynote theme of this year’s conference is Language and Development. The keynote speakers: TBA Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, with an additional 10 minutes for questions/discussion

Calls: 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 09:05
Call for Papers: The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the Osnabrück University are pleased to announce the “59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026)”, to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2026. SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics. The upcoming edition of the SLE meeting will also host a round table of experts to discuss topics of special linguistic interest. A call for general session t

Confs: Sommergarten 2026: Inaugural International Symposium

Conferences - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:05
Early-bird registration for Sommergarten 2026 is open! Join us online or in person in Cincinnati, Ohio (U.S.A.) and stay tuned for previews in the coming weeks of some of the symposium's speakers and their presentation topics. (These will be posted on our social media platforms.) This inaugural event is a great opportunity for language teachers, students, and researchers, as well as anyone with an interest in languages and cultures. We hope to see you there!! Inaugural theme: Culture in L

Confs: Session lors du XVe Congrès de l’Association allemande des francoromanistes: Les langues de France comme ressources: perspectives sur leur acquisition et promotion

Conferences - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:05
Les langues de France comme ressources : perspectives sur leur acquisition et promotion Section 8 organisée par Fiona Gehring, Daniela Marzo et Marinus Wiedner dans le cadre du XVe Congrès de l’Association allemande des francoromanistes qui se tiendra du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2026 à Kassel. Nous cherchons des propositions de contribution en français, les résumés n’excédant pas 500 mots (bibliographie exclue). La soumission des résumés se fait à l’aide du formulaire que vous trouvez ici:

Confs: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4

Conferences - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:05
We are excited to announce the fourth Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference to be hosted by the University of Pennsylvania on June 10-12, 2026. The conference is dedicated to the experimental study of linguistic meaning broadly construed, with a focus on theoretical issues in semantics and pragmatics, their interplay with other components of the grammar, their relation to language processing and acquisition, as well as their connections to human cognition and computation. We aim to

Confs: Sommergarten 2026: Inaugural International Symposium

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:05
Early-bird registration for Sommergarten 2026 is open! Join us online or in person in Cincinnati, Ohio (U.S.A.) and stay tuned for previews in the coming weeks of some of the symposium's speakers and their presentation topics. (These will be posted on our social media platforms.) This inaugural event is a great opportunity for language teachers, students, and researchers, as well as anyone with an interest in languages and cultures. We hope to see you there!! Inaugural theme: Culture in L

Confs: Session lors du XVe Congrès de l’Association allemande des francoromanistes: Les langues de France comme ressources: perspectives sur leur acquisition et promotion

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:05
Les langues de France comme ressources : perspectives sur leur acquisition et promotion Section 8 organisée par Fiona Gehring, Daniela Marzo et Marinus Wiedner dans le cadre du XVe Congrès de l’Association allemande des francoromanistes qui se tiendra du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2026 à Kassel. Nous cherchons des propositions de contribution en français, les résumés n’excédant pas 500 mots (bibliographie exclue). La soumission des résumés se fait à l’aide du formulaire que vous trouvez ici:

Confs: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:05
We are excited to announce the fourth Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference to be hosted by the University of Pennsylvania on June 10-12, 2026. The conference is dedicated to the experimental study of linguistic meaning broadly construed, with a focus on theoretical issues in semantics and pragmatics, their interplay with other components of the grammar, their relation to language processing and acquisition, as well as their connections to human cognition and computation. We aim to

Books: Being Understood: Snoddon (2025)

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 12:05
Experiences of not understanding and not being understood during interactions are a pervasive aspect of life for many deaf people, so ensuring understanding becomes a moral imperative in deaf worlds and part of deaf ontologies. Through a series of linked applied linguistics studies regarding the primacy of text, signing songs, the mediation practices of deaf interpreters and Caribbean deaf epistemologies of language and understanding, this book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches

Books: Fictional Linguistic Landscapes: Solmaz (2025)

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 12:05
This book explores how fan practices, such as fan art and fan fiction, and linguistic landscapes – the language surrounding us in everyday contexts – can be integrated into foreign language teaching through the innovative Fictional Linguistic Landscapes pedagogy. It offers practical models for educators to use multimodal fan activities to enhance second language learning, including designing semiotic landscapes, soundscapes, skinscapes and social mediascapes. Drawing on popular fictional univers

Books: Radical Inclusivity: Park, Charles, Tanghe, and Webb (eds.) (2025)

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 12:05
This book contains a collection of chapters that blend theory and practice to share the hows and whys of implementing radical inclusivity in the language and writing classroom. It highlights the experiences and practices of global K-20 teachers and teacher educators and the many ways they promote these radically inclusive practices in their classrooms. The chapter authors outline what radical inclusivity is and how it can be embedded in classroom practice and pedagogy across teacher education, u

FYI: Share Your Feedback and Help Shape the Future of CLARIN.SI

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 10:05
We invite you to participate in a survey that will help us evaluate and plan the development of services, activities, resources, and tools of CLARIN.SI, the Slovenian infrastructure for language resources and technologies. Your responses will play a key role in shaping our future strategy and ensuring our infrastructure meets the needs of the research community. Take the anonymous survey here: https://1ka.arnes.si/clarin?language=2 The survey takes up to 15 minutes and is open until the end of

FYI: Polysemy in the Evaluative Sphere seminar: Marina Ortega-Andrés, ​"When This Chef Says Pot: The Importance of the Speaker's Identity in Understanding Ambiguous Words"

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 10:05
Polysemy in the Evalutive Sphere is a seminar pertaining to the project Slurs and the Lexicon: A Rich-Lexicon Approach to Slurs and Other Evaluative Expressions - LEXISLUR (https://danzeman.weebly.com/lexislur.html) featuring monthly talks by specialists in polysemy. We cordially invite you to the second talk of the seminar series, to be given by Marina Ortega-Andrés (University of the Basque Country) and entitled ​"When this chef says pot: The importance of the speaker's identity in understandi

Calls: 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 07:05
Call for Papers: The 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic, invites linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and researchers from related fields to submit papers for presentation on February 20–23, 2026. This year’s special theme is Event Cognition. Confirmed invited speakers include: David Beaver (The University of Texas at Austin) Oliver Bott (Bielefeld Univ

Calls: Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity XIX

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 07:05
Final Call for Papers: Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity is a traditionally triennial conference that originated in Canada as a forum for discussing methodological issues in dialect research. Methods conferences have progressively extended their topical range and now include the whole spectrum of regional, historical, and social language variation, as reflected in the now expanded conference name. The Methods series welcomes contributions investigating any of the world’s langu

Confs: EARLI SIG Writing Conference 2026

Conferences - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 06:05
The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, invite proposals to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from June 2nd to 4, 2026. Prior to the conference, from May 29 to June 1st, 2026, the Research School will be held. This year’s SIG Writing conference invites scholars to explore the dynamic relationship between research and practice in writing. Under the theme "Writ

Calls: Symposium on American Indian Languages

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 06:05
Call for Papers: We are now accepting abstracts for the Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL) 2026, taking place April 2 & 3, 2026, at the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona. The submission deadline for abstracts is January 14th, 2026. For more information about how to contribute, check out our site below. https://sites.google.com/view/sail-uofa/call-for-abstracts Our special session for 2026 will be Innovative Pedagogies. Education lies at the core of language revita

Calls: Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 06:05
Background: The study of how the human brain manages and uses multiple languages has been a central topic in cognition, psychology, and psycholinguistics for decades. Different aspects of how bilinguals activate and control their different languages, which cognitive skills are enhanced during this mental juggling, and what are the limits to the processes of language switching and mixing are a few of the topics that have been at the forefront of such research (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen 2017

Confs: EARLI SIG Writing Conference 2026

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 06:05
The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, invite proposals to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from June 2nd to 4, 2026. Prior to the conference, from May 29 to June 1st, 2026, the Research School will be held. This year’s SIG Writing conference invites scholars to explore the dynamic relationship between research and practice in writing. Under the theme "Writ

Calls: Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and Epistemic Modality

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 05:05
Call for Papers: This workshop aims to bring together linguists working on exclamatives which cooccur with a complementizer, as well as scholars who work on epistemic modal adverbs in exclamations. The workshop is programmed within the research project The syntactic and interpretative properties of certain modality expressions in Basque: discourse particles, modality adverbs, exclamative force and its relation with complementizers, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Spe

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