Final Call for Papers: Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN) organizes an annual conference on 26-27 November every year. The conference is one of the major activities of Society which provides a platform for those who have been working on different aspects of languages. LSN has been organizing the annual conferences since 1979 unfailingly bringing various linguists and practitioners together from home and abroad concentrating on the studies of Nepalese languages. This society would like to re

This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish contact as well as Judeo-Spanish in linguistic research, shedding light on the enduring global relevance of the study of these languages and their contexts. With contributions employing diverse meth

This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for investigating speech acts, namely, a local grammar approach to annotating speech acts, developing local grammars of speech acts, identifying speech act constructions via the lens of local grammars, and applying lo

This monograph introduces the Evaluative Discourse Metaphor model, which argues that participants in public and semi-public online discourse (re)use evaluative metaphors to construct and maintain communities. We explore how such metaphors trigger others with similar forms, though not necessarily the same evaluative targets, generating discourse spaces unified by a shared evaluative ethos. The model draws on a discourse-based view of metaphor, Hallidayan metafunctions, Du Bois’s stance triangle,

Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly within the formal/informal duality. The chapters explore several languages, including European Portuguese, Spanish varieties, Caribbean Dutch, Swedish, German, Bosnian, Hungarian, and Syrian Arabic. The an

I Congreso Lengua e Identidad Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa (13 y 14 de noviembre 2025) Los días 13 y 14 de noviembre de 2025 se celebrará en la ciudad de Lisboa, Portugal, la primera edición del Congreso anual Lengua e Identidad del Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa, bajo el título Lengua e identidad: variación lingüística, tradición y cultura. Este congreso está concebido como un foro de encuentro de especialistas en ámbitos lingüísticos, culturales, científicos, tecnológicos, políticos, soc

Call for Papers Workshop: Aspiration in Language Part of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language University of Cologne, 3-4 December 2025 We invite abstracts for a two-day workshop on Aspiration in Language, which will take place on 3rd and 4th December 2025 at the University of Cologne within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 Prominence in Language (CRC 1252: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/). This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on aspiration from p

Venue: Madurai Kamaraj University, India We are pleased to announce the 13th International Conference-cum-Workshop on Endangered and Lesser-Known Languages (ELKL-13), to be held at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India, from 17–19 December 2025. Organised by: Department of Linguistics, Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) Centre of Language Planning, Policy, and Sociolinguistics (CLPP-Socio), Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru In association with: Society for Endangered

(At this stage, what should be submitted is an abstract - see below) Issue Coordinators: Iva Novakova (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LIDILEM, F-38000 Grenoble, France) Merete Birkelund (Aarhus University, Danemark) Contrastive linguistics aims to systematically, rigorously, and precisely compare linguistic phenomena from two or more languages in order to identify similarities and differences in their structure and functioning. The contrastive approach offers a necessary analytical distance (Cres

Final Call for Papers: After the successful and inspiring GloSoc 3 conference at Tallinn University, the theme of this fourth edition of the GloSoc series is the sociolinguistics of decolonisation. This theme should be interpreted very broadly. We are hoping for contributions from countries that have experienced (linguistic) colonisation. PhD students and young researchers are welcomed in particular. Some themes for your inspiration: - The effects of colonisation on language use in a speci

2nd Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15 October 2025. The axis “Lexique” at the research unit “Analyse et Traitement Automatique de la Langue Française” (ATILF - CNRS/UL - UMR 7118) is organizing an international conference on the topic of lexicons from December 16 to 18, 2026 at the ATILF laboratory in Nancy (France). The aim of this scientific event is to bring together junior and experienced researchers to d

We are happy to announce that as of 2026 the editorial team of the John Benjamins journal Chinese Language and Discourse will be expanded with Executive Editor Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta), Associate Editor Shuangyun Yao (Central China Normal University), Assistant Editor Xiaoyun Wang (University of Alberta), and Review Editor Wei Wang (University of Houston), replacing Ni Eng Lim. A peer-reviewed journal which seeks to publish original work on Chinese and related languages, with a foc

As of Volume 60 (2025) Julio Jensen (University of Copenhagen) will succeed Steen Bille Jorgensen (University of Aarhus), and join Richard Waltereit (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Revue Romane. Revue Romane publishes studies about Romance languages and literature as well as reviews of linguistic and literary works. Revue Romane is especially interested in articles that focus on methodological and/or theoretical arguments of the treated topic. A multi

We are pleased to announce that Maria González-Davies (Universitat Ramon Llull) and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (University of Hamburg) will succeed Sara Laviosa (University of Bari 'Aldo Moro') as editors of the John Benjamins journal Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, as of volume 12 (2026). We also welcome Lisa Marie Brinkmann (University of Hamburg) as Review Editor and Editorial Assistant. We are greatly indebted to Sara Laviosa who started the journal and under whose exce

2nd Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite submissions for AnatoLinks, a PhD / early career two-day conference dedicated to the study of Ancient Anatolia through the lenses of Linguistics, Philology, History, and Archaeology, to be held at the University of Oxford on 4–5 December 2025. The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and encourage meaningful exchange between different approaches to the ancient Anatolian world. We particularly welcome joint presentations by resea

Meeting Description: Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective 2025 will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears and will take place in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). It aims to gather colleagues to present and discuss new empirical and theoretical insights on null objects from a crosslinguistic and developmental perspective. Invited speakers: Prof. Dr. Maia Duguine (CNRS-IKER) Prof. Dr. Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge) Program: The program of NoCr

2nd Call for Papers: The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice – people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic perfor

Date: 21-22 November, 2025 Venue: Faculty of Letters, 5-7 Edgar Quinet St., Bucharest, Romania (and online) Conference languages: Romanian, English, French Convenors: Cristian Moroianu, Monica Vasileanu, Gabriela Stoica Registration fee: 300 RON/60 euro; for PhD students or online participation, 150 RON/30 euro. 2nd Call for Papers: A neologism is generally understood as a new word, due to tradition and to its remote etymology of the term, whereby the Greek νέος “new” and λόγος “word”

Date: 21-22 November 2025 Location: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest Keynote speaker: Prof. Luis Javier Pentón Herrera (Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna in Warsaw, Poland) 2nd Call for Papers: We invite researchers, educators, PhD students, and specialists in teaching foreign languages or Romanian as a foreign language (RFL) to contribute with papers exploring the impact and interaction between Large Language Models (LLMs) and the teaching and learning process of foreign lan

2nd Call for Papers: Convenors: Andrei Mărășoiu, Sandra Brânzaru (Faculty of Philosophy), Alexandru Nicolae (Faculty of Letters) We invite submissions to a workshop to be held within the 25th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Letters. Questions we aim to explore: - Do LLMs have metalinguistic abilities (do they have the ability to generate analyses of language data/theoretical linguistic abilities of language samples so as to identify whether