Call for a theme session in ICLC 18 Title: “Figurativity, Rhetoric and the Study of Constructions” Theme session organizers: Angeliki Athanasiadou: angath@enl.auth.gr Mingjian Xiang: wesleyxmj@vip.163.com Submission Deadline: 08-Oct-2026 We are preparing a proposal for a theme session at the 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2027) in Germany Figurative mechanisms can be examined in different constructions, in discourse, and they reveal different sta

Other Specialties: sociolinguistics, language documentation, contact linguistics Description: We are looking for someone who will be responsible for the subject area of General Linguistics in research and teaching. The successful candidate will contribute to the coordination and further development of the BA programme in Empirical Linguistics and the MA programme in Language and Variation, strengthen typological research, with a particular focus on smaller languages, and engage in interdis

Call for a theme session in ICLC 18 Title: “Figurativity, Rhetoric and the Study of Constructions” Theme session organizers: Angeliki Athanasiadou: angath@enl.auth.gr Mingjian Xiang: wesleyxmj@vip.163.com Submission Deadline: 08-Oct-2026 We are preparing a proposal for a theme session at the 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2027) in Germany Figurative mechanisms can be examined in different constructions, in discourse, and they reveal different sta

The 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC18) will take place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 20-24 August 2027 with pre-conference workshops from the 18th to the 20th and post-conference excursions on the 25th. The ICLC is the leading biennial meeting in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), bringing together researchers from around the world to present new research on the relationship between language and cognition, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging th

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the sixth international conference “Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems” aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termi

Registration is now open for Ars Inquirendi 2026: Querying Pre-Print Cultures with LLMs St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and online, 20–22 November 2026 We are convening over thirty scholars from around the world to answer two questions: in the era of large language models, what can we now discover about the pre-print past that we could not before, and what would justify believing it? Keynotes: Marieke Meelen (Cambridge); Peter Turchin (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, and Oxford) Registrati

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the sixth international conference “Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems” aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termi

Registration is now open for Ars Inquirendi 2026: Querying Pre-Print Cultures with LLMs St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and online, 20–22 November 2026 We are convening over thirty scholars from around the world to answer two questions: in the era of large language models, what can we now discover about the pre-print past that we could not before, and what would justify believing it? Keynotes: Marieke Meelen (Cambridge); Peter Turchin (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, and Oxford) Registrati

This issue explores the expression of a metaphorical meaning in binominal noun phrases following a DET N1 PREP (DET) N2 pattern across languages, N1 and N2 being nominal elements (common nouns, proper nouns/names) linked by a preposition. Examples are: an army of robots, the Harvard of nursery schools, an ocean of time, the height of his playing career, the king of pop, a wow of a show, a gem of a construction (Eng.); ce chien de Roger, une forêt de mâts, le sommet de la gloire, le Tom Cr

Historical contact linguistics have a long tradition in the comparative linguistic science. As past human landscapes become increasingly illuminated through new methods and data from ancient genetics and archaeology, it is time to integrate the wealth of information from historical linguistics in a consistent manner. The book introduces the science of historical contact linguistics through the works of a new generation of scholars with rich perspectives from across the world. Through the explora

Dear all, I am looking for native speakers of English (English L1) who are currently university students to participate in an online study conducted as part of my PhD research at the University of Pavia (Italy). The study investigates how English-speaking university students perceive English in a number of communicative contexts. Participation involves completing: 1. a perception task in English, in which you will be asked to rate a series of stimuli on a scale from 1 to 6 (approximately

This book introduces lexical functions, a formal tool which ensures a systematic homogeneous description of two complementary families of relations between lexical units: derivations – paradigmatic lexical functions; collocations, which are constrained lexical combinations – syntagmatic lexical functions. Each lexical function is associated with a specific meaning and once it is applied to a given lexical unit, which is seen as its argument, the function returns, as its value, the

Sango emerged from colonization but was created by Africans. William Samarin traces how Sango, developing alongside Kituba and Lingala, went from a trade lingua franca along the Ubangi River to become a creole vernacular with more than 2 million speakers. Based on four decades of fieldwork in what is now the Central African Republic, the book examines Sango's linguistic features, its relationship to other pidgins and creoles, its geographically diverse sources, and the historical conditions that

Time: 15.30 CEST Location: University of Bologna and online Languages: The event will be held in Italian and English The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bologna invites you to a hybrid event on teaching Italian as a second language, plurilingualism and interculturality, taking place on Thursday, 22 October 2026, from 15:00 CEST. The programme will feature presentations by: - Peter Auer (University of Freiburg) - Michael Byram (Durham Univer

Description: We are looking for a motivated faculty member with a Ph.D. in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics who can contribute to our international research profile and provide cutting-edge teaching in a cross-disciplinary environment. The position offered is equivalent to a tenure-track appointment. Salaries are based on official salary scales and will be commensurate to rank and experience. The appointee will have access to Taiwan’s comprehensive health insurance system and civil servan

Call for Papers: The study of "inclusive language" in Spanish has been predominantly approached from disciplines such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, and it has been understood as a social practice or as a space for identity construction. However, the description of these phenomena from the internal perspective of linguistics and formal grammar remains notably scarce. The main objective of this monographic panel is to bring together researchers from th

Call for Papers: Deadline Extended - Until September 30th We are pleased to announce that the 31st Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 16th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages will be held on February 25–27, 2027, at the Casa de Palmas Hotel in McAllen, Texas. It is hosted by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Our conference theme, Vivir en Nepantla: Identity, Language, and the In-Between, draws on the Nahuatl concept of nepantla, often understoo

La pragmática diacrónica se ha consolidado como línea de investigación en los estudios sobre discurso. Estudia el uso de la lengua en contextos del pasado y analiza cómo las formas y funciones lingüísticas se configuran y transforman a través del tiempo (Stein,1985; Jucker,1995; Taavitsainen y Fitzmaurice,2007), atendiendo tanto a aspectos discursivos como sociales. Su desarrollo permite ampliar el campo de la lingüística histórica al análisis de los significados en uso, describiendo la relación

We invite submissions addressing any aspect of heritage language research. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Linguistic properties of heritage languages in child and adult multilinguals - Heritage language acquisition and development across the lifespan - The role of input, exposure, and language use in heritage language development - Cross-linguistic influence in heritage language speakers - Heritage language maintenance, attrition, and revitalization - Variation and change in h

La pragmática diacrónica se ha consolidado como línea de investigación en los estudios sobre discurso. Estudia el uso de la lengua en contextos del pasado y analiza cómo las formas y funciones lingüísticas se configuran y transforman a través del tiempo (Stein,1985; Jucker,1995; Taavitsainen y Fitzmaurice,2007), atendiendo tanto a aspectos discursivos como sociales. Su desarrollo permite ampliar el campo de la lingüística histórica al análisis de los significados en uso, describiendo la relación