We are pleased to announce that the materials of the Corpus Oral de Madrid (CORMA) have been released and are now available for online consultation via the official website: https://www.corma.ugent.be. CORMA is a reference resource for the study of spontaneous conversational Spanish in present-day Madrid. Its aim is to document through explicit methodological criteria the pragmatic, discursive, and sociolinguistic variation of colloquial speech across different interactional settings, providing

2026. iii, 124 pp. Table of Contents Articles Accountability and type-fittedness as indicators of conditional relevance in interaction: Evidence from German proposals for joint action Alexandra Groß & Malte Rosemeyer pp. 1–33 Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter Richard Ogden, Marina N. Cantarutti & Jürgen Trouvain pp. 34–65 Marking pedagogical saliency with honh in Taiwan Mandarin interaction Ann Tai Choe & Shu-Yu Huang pp. 66–94 Initiating a

This volume offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards’ use of Instagram and official websites. Drawing on Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, the book examines how linguistic and visual resources are strategically deployed to construct idealized representations of destinations and evoke positive emotional responses. Through a multimodal analysis, the v

Publisher: Bern Open Publishing https://bop.unibe.ch/ Journal Title: Language Policy in Africa (LPIA) eISSN: 3042-4046 Volume Number: 2 Issue Number: 1 Subtitle: Special Issue: Terminologies in African Languages (Part 1) Issue Date: 31.01.2026 Link: https://bop.unibe.ch/LPIA/issue/view/1547 Main Text: 2026. 324 pp. Table of Contents Articles La terminologie culturelle: Une introduction à la théorie et à la méthode Marcel Diki-kidiri DOI : 10.36950/lpia-02-01-2026-1 Te

Call for Chapters Tittle: Teaching Heritage Speakers in the Age of AI: Language, Culture, and Identity Editor: Álvaro González Alba (Regis University) Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics (TAL) – De Gruyter Brill Overview Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming language learning, reshaping how linguistic knowledge, cultural meaning, and identity are constructed in educational spaces. While AI-mediated instruction has been widely discussed in second language learning, its impl

I’m a German studies student currently working on my Master’s thesis focused on Austrian German. My research explores sociolinguistic and contact linguistics aspects, specifically comparing generational differences in language use (influences from neighboring languages vs. modern anglicisms). I am looking for suitable corpora to conduct my practical analysis. I am specifically interested in: Media & Digital Communication: Databases or archives of Austrian newspapers, blogs, or social media

Oxford University Press invites you to help shape the future of Al evaluations in second language (L2) education by participating in an exciting research project. We are asking language educators and assessors to: Complete four short online tasks (~ one hour total). Rate Al evaluations for authenticity and adequacy. Compare Al vs. "gold-standard" responses. This will contribute to the development of benchmarks for evaluating AI system capabilities in second language education.

Final Call for Papers: CFP Deadline Extended to February 28 After the success of our initial two workshops focused on meaning and form, we are excited to launch a third POQAL meeting, this time without subject limitations. We hope to welcome your research on polar(-like) questions, especially in lesser studied languages and dimensions of form and meaning. As before, the aim is to discuss the phenomenon across subdisciplines and we will do everything we can to curate a program to facilitate

The Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE) colloquia provides a forum for presenting research in the interface between linguistic semantics and various areas of philosophy (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/cognition, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics). This year's colloquium Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE13) wants to foster in particular the dialogue between applied ontology, as a semantic technology in computer science, and linguistics and philosophy. Confirmed

This conference seeks to refine our understanding of the relationship between form and meaning in exclamative structures. It aims to provide as comprehensive an account as possible of form-meaning correspondences in exclamative structures by bringing together scholarly contributions on a broad range of languages and corpora. A key challenge lies in the terminological ambiguity of the term exclamation as it applies to different levels of language and to a variety of meanings. This issue, which

The Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE) colloquia provides a forum for presenting research in the interface between linguistic semantics and various areas of philosophy (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/cognition, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics). This year's colloquium Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE13) wants to foster in particular the dialogue between applied ontology, as a semantic technology in computer science, and linguistics and philosophy. Confirmed

This conference seeks to refine our understanding of the relationship between form and meaning in exclamative structures. It aims to provide as comprehensive an account as possible of form-meaning correspondences in exclamative structures by bringing together scholarly contributions on a broad range of languages and corpora. A key challenge lies in the terminological ambiguity of the term exclamation as it applies to different levels of language and to a variety of meanings. This issue, which

The research group Pragmatics. Discourse. Cognition (PraDiC), from the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), will organize an in-person international congress on Everyday Discourses on July 9–10, 2026. Everyday life is fundamentally made up of discourses. As beings of language, discourse sustains social experience. It encompasses varied ways of expression—oral, written, imagetic, and multimodal—typically formed through brief interactions that are spontaneous and in

Building on the success of the first Convergence conference in 2023, which explored the responsible and intelligent integration of human and machine capabilities in translation and interpreting, the Centre for Translation Studies is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of

The YAR (ANR) and Cais (B-Monde/Agile Cymru) projects are co-organizing a workshop on tools for minority languages with a focus on teaching contexts. The workshop will take place on 5 May 2026 in Brittany (France), at Technopôle Brest-Iroise in Plouzane, on the premises of the Institut National Polytechnique de Bretagne. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the digital practices of teachers, learners, and speakers of minoritized languages and “non-standard” variants. How can we integrate

We are looking for phonetically trained individuals to do a phonetic transcription task as part of a larger study. The task requires each individual to phonetically transcribe 180 non-words. Payment will be in the form of a £50 Amazon voucher. Eligibility criteria: 1. Expertise in IPA 2. Being native English speakers or reliably distinguishing between all British English phonemes If interested, please contact shiri[.]lev-ari AT rhul[.]ac[.]uk

The MapLE project has created a glossary of terms used in epistemicity: https://epistemicity.net/glossary/ We (Giosuè Balocco, Jenneke van der Wal, Seppo Kittilä) wanted to create some clarity in the terminology of evidentiality, egophoricity, mirativity, information structure and epistemic modality, including hyperlinks to compare the various terms. So if you’ve always wanted to know the 8 alternative names for ’non-egophoric’ or look up what ‘privileged access’ means, we hope this glossary

Focus: Theoretical linguistics and analytic philosophy (broadly construed) Description: The Yerevan Academy for Linguistics and Philosophy (YALP) is an annual intensive summer program in linguistics and philosophy. YALP started out in 2017 and brings each year over 50 undergraduate and graduate students together. It hosts students from Armenia and other countries in the region (broadly construed). The purpose of the academy is to provide an opportunity for students to develop their k

Offres de stages gratifiés – Projet FPL (Français parlé en Limousin) Université de Poitiers | Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine Le projet FPL (laboratoire FoReLLIS) étudie la variation du français parlé en Limousin et son impact dans la pratique orthophonique (description linguistique, représentations sociales et applications dans les prises en soin). Missions proposées: Collecte et enregistrement de données orales (Haute-Vienne, Corrèze, Creuse, Charente) Transcription phonétique (Praat) Transc

2nd Call for Papers: We now welcome abstract submissions for the 6th international conference Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning (TDL6) taking place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, on 14–16 October 2026! URL for submission of abstracts: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/TDL6/ After the successful 5th edition in Kolding in 2024, TDL6 again brings together researchers exploring second language learning through usage-b