Review: General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics: Danic (2025)
SUMMARY
Chapter 1
The first chapter serves as the book’s introduction and begins by expounding upon the evolution of the use of emojis in our everyday lives and the importance they have now in our communication. The author also discusses the varying meanings any single emoji might have depending on the age, culture, or technological savviness of its user. She also posits the question of whether the instant gratification and increase in response time expected in the modern era, in part du
Review: Applied Linguistics: Martinez-Leon (2025)
SUMMARY
Subjects
Language & Literature, Library Science, Education
Editorial and Thematic Cohesion
The book is praised for its well-organized structure and thematic cohesion. The editors maintain continuity across chapters by linking research findings to broader pedagogical and policy themes. Each chapter is grounded in practical teaching implications and concludes with suggestions for future research.
Target Audience and Contributions
Researchers: Offers inspiration and prac
Confs: Symposium on Communicating Research for Academic and Public Engagement: Innovations, Insights, and Impact
While communicating with our own research communities remains essential, the ability to effectively engage across different disciplinary fields and with the general public has become equally important. Developing skills to communicate expertise, research and practices to non-experts is crucial in today's interconnected world. Join us for two days of strategies for improving the reach and range of scientific communication!
The Digital language and communication training for EU scientists (DILA
Confs: Symposium on Communicating Research for Academic and Public Engagement: Innovations, Insights, and Impact
While communicating with our own research communities remains essential, the ability to effectively engage across different disciplinary fields and with the general public has become equally important. Developing skills to communicate expertise, research and practices to non-experts is crucial in today's interconnected world. Join us for two days of strategies for improving the reach and range of scientific communication!
The Digital language and communication training for EU scientists (DILA
Confs: SyntaxFest 2025
We invite you to attend SyntaxFest 2025, a biennial international event focused on empirical syntactic analysis, taking place from August 26 to 29 2025 in the heart of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
This year’s program includes:
- Five co-located workshops: IWPT, TLT, DepLing, UDW, and Quasy
- Over 70 peer-reviewed papers on diverse syntactic topics
- Keynote talks by leading researchers in linguistics and NLP
- Two pre-conference workshops by the UniDive COST Action “Universality, Diversity an
Confs: SyntaxFest 2025
We invite you to attend SyntaxFest 2025, a biennial international event focused on empirical syntactic analysis, taking place from August 26 to 29 2025 in the heart of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
This year’s program includes:
- Five co-located workshops: IWPT, TLT, DepLing, UDW, and Quasy
- Over 70 peer-reviewed papers on diverse syntactic topics
- Keynote talks by leading researchers in linguistics and NLP
- Two pre-conference workshops by the UniDive COST Action “Universality, Diversity an
Confs: 8th J-CLIL Annual International Bilingual Conference
We invite researchers and educators with an interest in CLIL (CBLT) to submit an abstract for a 20-minute
oral presentation to be delivered in person at Tohoku University or online through a video presentation.
Submissions are welcome on any topic related to CLIL, including but not limited to:
- CLIL theory and practice
- CLIL methodology
- CLIL materials development
- CLIL pedagogy
- Assessment in CLIL.
- AI and CLIL
- The role of translanguaging in CLIL
- Integrating digital
Confs: 22nd International Morphology Meeting
As the next event in the (by now) long series of Morphology Meetings in Central Europe, the 22nd International Morphology Meeting will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from May 28th through 31st, 2026, organized by the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (formerly known as the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). The meeting will consist of a main session, a poster session, and two to four workshops, in keeping with the traditions.
We invite p
Confs: International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Process Studies
We are pleased to announce the TrIPS 2026 conference to be held at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Mons (Belgium), on 7 and 8 May 2026. The conference theme is “Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application”.
The following plenary speakers have kindly accepted to present their research:
- Rhona Amos (University of Geneva);
- Esther de Boe (University of Antwerp);
- Raphael Sannholm (Stockholm University).
Confs: 8th J-CLIL Annual International Bilingual Conference
We invite researchers and educators with an interest in CLIL (CBLT) to submit an abstract for a 20-minute
oral presentation to be delivered in person at Tohoku University or online through a video presentation.
Submissions are welcome on any topic related to CLIL, including but not limited to:
- CLIL theory and practice
- CLIL methodology
- CLIL materials development
- CLIL pedagogy
- Assessment in CLIL.
- AI and CLIL
- The role of translanguaging in CLIL
- Integrating digital
Confs: 22nd International Morphology Meeting
As the next event in the (by now) long series of Morphology Meetings in Central Europe, the 22nd International Morphology Meeting will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from May 28th through 31st, 2026, organized by the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (formerly known as the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). The meeting will consist of a main session, a poster session, and two to four workshops, in keeping with the traditions.
We invite p
Confs: International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Process Studies
We are pleased to announce the TrIPS 2026 conference to be held at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Mons (Belgium), on 7 and 8 May 2026. The conference theme is “Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application”.
The following plenary speakers have kindly accepted to present their research:
- Rhona Amos (University of Geneva);
- Esther de Boe (University of Antwerp);
- Raphael Sannholm (Stockholm University).
Confs: Linguistics for Justice: Advancing Reforms in the Criminal Legal System
The conference Linguistics for Justice: Advancing Reforms in the Criminal Legal System will be held on the weekend of July 19-20, 2025, as part of the Linguistic Society of America’s Summer Institute in Eugene, Oregon. This conference brings together linguists, legal professionals, and social scientists to explore how linguists, and the field of linguistics, can play a larger role in advancing criminal legal reforms.
The conference is free to attend and open to anyone interested in the inters
Confs: 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of language resources involving both traditional and recently developed approaches.
The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations, and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the
Confs: Patterns in Linguistic Avoidance (DGfS 2026 Workshop)
Workshop at the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)
Organisers (all TU Dortmund):
Natalie Verelst
Christian Zimmer
Jones Anam
Lena Jubelius
Call for Papers:
Linguistic avoidance arises in contexts where language users either choose not to, cannot, or are not permitted to use certain forms directly – due to individual preferences, institutional constraints, or social norms. Avoidance may require a certain degree of metalinguistic awareness on the part o
Confs: Linguistics for Justice: Advancing Reforms in the Criminal Legal System
The conference Linguistics for Justice: Advancing Reforms in the Criminal Legal System will be held on the weekend of July 19-20, 2025, as part of the Linguistic Society of America’s Summer Institute in Eugene, Oregon. This conference brings together linguists, legal professionals, and social scientists to explore how linguists, and the field of linguistics, can play a larger role in advancing criminal legal reforms.
The conference is free to attend and open to anyone interested in the inters
Confs: 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of language resources involving both traditional and recently developed approaches.
The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations, and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the
Confs: Patterns in Linguistic Avoidance (DGfS 2026 Workshop)
Workshop at the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)
Organisers (all TU Dortmund):
Natalie Verelst
Christian Zimmer
Jones Anam
Lena Jubelius
Call for Papers:
Linguistic avoidance arises in contexts where language users either choose not to, cannot, or are not permitted to use certain forms directly – due to individual preferences, institutional constraints, or social norms. Avoidance may require a certain degree of metalinguistic awareness on the part o
Support: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Tübingen
The following position is available in the newly established Collaborative Research Center 1718 "Common Ground: Cognition – Grammar – Communication" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG).
PhD Researcher in Linguistics (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
The position begins on 01 October 2025 and ends on 30 June 2029.
The position is associated with project B5 "Clarifying the Common Ground: A Crosslinguistic Investigation of the Form and Pragmatic Function of Reprise Questions and Reprise
Jobs: English; General Linguistics: Tenure Track Position in English Linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor), Tampere University
Description:
We are seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.
Research environment
The professorship of English linguistics is located in the Languages Unit in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences. The ITC Faculty offers a unique multidisciplinary environment for research and teaching in this position. In addition to the strong representation of research in humanities and especially languages, a broa