Call for participation: Shared Task: ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America (SIMBig 2026, Arequipa, Peru) https://simbig.org/SIMBig2026/en/sharedtask.html Deadline: 21 September 2026 to participate in the shared task (Register: https://forms.gle/112jyHYPq9SVMmvs5) We invite submissions for the SIMBig 2026 Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages of South America, a unique opportunity to contribute to low resource language preservation

SUMMARY Julia Landmann’s “Cognitive Contact Linguistics” arrives as a timely and necessary intervention at the intersection of two fields that have rarely engaged in sustained dialogue. On one side, contact linguistics has produced a rich body of scholarship on borrowing, code‑switching, and language mixing, but has largely remained within structural, sociolinguistic, or historical paradigms. On the other, cognitive linguistics has developed powerful models of usage, entrenchment, and concept

Karamanlidika – Turkish written in Greek script – represents an intersection of Turkish varieties, religion(s), and writing systems. Produced and used by the Orthodox Christian communities of Asia Minor (often referred to as Karamanlides) these texts offer invaluable material for linguistic inquiry of various aspects of Turkish language. While historical and literary studies have long engaged with Karamanlidika, its linguistic dimensions remain under explored. This Call for Papers invites con

Call for Papers: Extended Deadline Invited speaker: Kilu von Prince (U. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) We invite submissions for EmGraCa 2026, a workshop dedicated to the investigation of emerging grammatical categories, with a particular focus on categories that have only relatively recently been identified, theorized, or systematically compared across languages. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on underexplored or newly conceptualized domains of grammar,

The panel "Multimodal Practices and Actions Across Settings and Languages", to be held at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference in Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027, invites submissions for panel contributions. Background: Adopting conversation analytic (CA), interactional linguistics (IL), and multimodal analysis, this panel examines how social actions are accomplished through multimodal practices including grammatical, prosodic, bodily-visual practices and material re

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce Unicode Technology Workshop 2026 (UTW 2026) will take place from October 20-23, 2026 in historical and vibrant Nancy, France. Building on the success of UTW 2023–2025 in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, UTW 2026 brings that same spirit of openness, innovation, and in-person collaboration to the heart of Europe’s design and research ecosystem. UTW 2026 – Unicode in the World – marks the Consortium’s return to Europe. Just 90 minutes from Pa

Short-form video platforms have emerged as significant sites for social interaction, reshaping the ways users communicate, express their identities, and form communities. The unique features of platforms like TikTok and Douyin facilitate innovative forms of interaction that blend video, audio, and textual elements, resulting in multimodal and cross-modal communicative practices (Jiang & Vásquez 2025). For this panel, we invite papers that delve into the pragmatics of these platforms, focusing on

RATE Issues (RATEI), ISSN 1844-6159, is calling for papers on TEFL/TESOL, linguistics and literary criticism for its Winter 2026 issue. We are a biannual open-access completely free academic journal published online since 2008 by the Romanian Association of Teachers of English. We use a double blind peer review system. MLA is our preferred academic style. RATE Issues is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ERIH Plus, Index Copernicus International (ICI Journals Master Li

Description: In der Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft ist im Rahmen des Academic-Tenure-Konzepts die folgende Position zu besetzen: Academic Researcher (m/w/d) im Bereich Anglistische Linguistik Kennziffer: Wiss25185 Start: nächstmöglich Vollzeit Vergütung nach E13 TV-L unbefristet/befristet Die Anglistik/Amerikanistik stellt ein sprach-, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlich orientiertes Studienfach in der Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft dar und

"Two BBC journalists go on a quest to find out whose accent is older – and uncover a dramatic history filled with hidden twists and surprises that have shaped the language we speak today." This presentation makes use of tiny samples of UK English dialect differences to chase their research question of "which UK English dialect is the oldest." The result is a friendly, engaging micro-history of UK English. In a linguistics class, this material could provide a relatable context for exploring th

Focus: The program includes: - Language classes structured by proficiency level; - Lectures on Albanian history, geography, and culture; - Socio-cultural activities such as museum visits and trips to various cities across Albania. Description: The Department of Linguistics of University of Tirana (Albania) is pleased to inform all interested parties that the summer school “Albanian Language Course for Foreigners” will be held from September 1–30, 2026. This intensive course is design

Please write or copy and paste your review of Speaking in Pictures here. SUMMARY Neil Cohn’s book, “Speaking in Pictures: a vision of language”, is an impressive work that took seven years and 1,000 pages of rough drafts to produce. The book comprises a prologue, 11 chapters, and notes. The prologue presents Cohn’s brief self-introduction, in which he talks about his passion for drawing and about his research on pictures and languages ever since his encounter with linguistics. It is imp

Friday, 20 November 2026, 13:30–18:00 (incl. 30-minute coffee break) University of Salzburg, Austria Topic: Idioms have long been treated as exceptions to grammar: fixed expressions that must be memorized rather than systematically explained. This workshop argues that such a view is no longer tenable. Within usage-based Construction Grammar, all linguistic knowledge consists of form-meaning pairings (constructions) organized into interconnected networks shaped by cognitive processes such a

Call for Papers: We are pleased to extend a final Call for Proposals for the 14th Conference of the International Language and Gender Association (IGALA). Founded in 1999, IGALA is the primary international scholarly organization committed to the promotion and support of research on language, gender, and sexuality. The 2027 IGALA conference (IGALA14) will be held at York St John University in the city of York, UK on 21-23 July 2027. The theme of the conference is ‘Researching Language, Gender

The panel 'Investigating transcultural pragmatics: Theory and methodology' that will take place at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference in Helsinki (Finland) from 27 June to 2 July 2027 invites submissions for contributions. Panel Abstract: The study of pragmatics with or from ‘a cultural perspective’ constitutes a long-standing research tradition. Early approaches, like Blum-Kulka and Olshtain’s Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP), sought to establish “similarit

The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMusArt) will take place on 31 March – 2 April, 2027, as part of the evostar event. EvoMusArt webpage: https://www.evostar.org/2027/evomusart/ Submission deadline: 1 November 2026 Conference: 31 March – 2 April 2027 Papers published in previous editions of EvoMusArt: https://evomusart-index.dei.uc.pt EvoMusArt is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on the a

Description: Northwestern University’s Department of Linguistics seeks to fill a full-time tenure-eligible position at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a start date of September 1, 2027. We are looking for candidates who pursue an integrated approach to the scientific study of language, utilizing experimental, computational, and/or data-intensive approaches to inform linguistic theory and its applications. The candidate will join a vibrant interdisciplinary community including researcher

Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Dialect-Aware Automatic Speech Recognition University of Tübingen (TV-L E13, 75%, 3+1 years) The project "Automatic Swabian Recognition (ASR): Processing and Evaluating Dialect Speech" is a network project funded by the Innovation Fund of the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" at the University of Tübingen. Its core resource is the Arno Ruoff Archive, around 1,600 interviews with speakers of Upper German dialects recorded bet

Focus: The University of Naples «L’Orientale», in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, the University of Tuscia, and Ethnorêma Association, is pleased to host the twelfth edition of Language Documentation, which will take place in Naples from September 21 to 25, 2026. The Language Documentation Summer School 2026 (LDSS 2026) aims to provide participants with an introduction to the methods and tools of linguistic fieldwork. In this edition, special attention will be devoted to

The 10th edition of the international conference Les français d’ici (https://lesfrancaisdici2026.uvic.ca/), co-organized by Catherine Léger and Pierre-Don Giancarli, was held at the University of Victoria from June 15 to June 17 2026. Several knowledge mobilization activities stemming from the conference and aimed at ensuring its long-term sustainability were organized: - An article in Le Devoir, one of French Canada’s leading newspapers, highlights the key issues explored during the conferen