The First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models (ORIGen) will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 10, 2025! With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as “collaborators”

(Im)politeness plays a crucial role in the analysis of dramatic dialogue, revealing complex aspects of characterization, plot development, and the underlying structure of social harmony or discord. The ways in which characters deploy impoliteness strategies on stage provide insights into power dynamics, relationships, and the negotiation of social boundaries. Beyond its narrative function, impoliteness also serves as an important theatrical tool: it can enhance entertainment, generate humour, an

The British Association of Academic Phoneticians invites submissions for its 38th Colloquium, to be hosted at University of Warwick, 8th-10th April 2026. Submissions are welcome in any area of phonetics. We look forward to bringing together excellent, inspiring, and thought-provoking work on phonetic theory, application, and practice, as well as collaborations between phonetics and other disciplines and fields. Abstracts are invited for oral/manual and poster presentations. Abstracts must

Call for Papers: Call for Papers in International Sign (IS): https://s.gwdg.de/ZZsMdS (Note: Link opens MP4 video file.) Background: The world’s different sign languages offer a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and their rigorous scientific study within linguistics since the 60s of the past century has provided a multitude of novel insights. Some of these have significantly and lastingly changed how we conceptualize and investigate our species’ faculty of language:

Call for Papers: We welcome submissions covering diverse aspects of signing, speech and language research methodology as described in the scope of MaTiPS. Please note that the scope includes not only measurements and analysis but also among other topics outreach, community work and teaching methods. See website for more details. The conference will be held in Edmonton, at University of Alberta, Canada, 17-19 October 2025. MaTiPS schedule will be coordinated with Acoustics Week Canada 2025

Description: The Institute of Romance Philology at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities of the Free University of Berlin is currently seeking to fill a Doctoral Researcher Position (m/f/d) in the ERC-funded research project "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes" (EXREAN), starting as soon as possible. This is a fixed-term position until March 31, 2029. Salary is determined following the salary scale E 13 according to German TVL (75%). EXREAN investigates reana

Lexicography, in its many forms, is a very old, practical discipline solving practical problems concerning word usage. The term “word” seems more appropriate than “language” in this context, as lexicography addresses more questions relating to what we now call lexicology. As with all areas of human endeavour, what developed gradually through trial and error has eventually been subjected to a theoretical framework. The role of historical lexicography is to look back on the development of these hi

Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonology. Tonal changes permeate numerous aspects of the morphosyntax of Yongning Na. They are not the product of a small set of phonological rules, but of a host of rules that are restricted to specific morphosyntactic contexts. Rich morphotonological systems have been reported in this area of Sino-

This book collects a curated selection of papers from the 2023 Colloque de Syntax et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2023), held on December 7-8, 2023, at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The result aims to be a snapshot of contemporary linguistic research in the areas of syntax and semantics. CSSP has always been committed to fostering research uniting empirical rigor with formal precision, while remaining open to newly emerging methodologies, and multiple theoretical approaches. This volume emb

Language learning strategies are known to enhance language learning. However, research has rarely included language learners with limited or no formal education, resulting in a lack of understanding of their use of language learning strategies. In Europe, this group—comprising an estimated 20–25% of people from refugee backgrounds—is required to learn the local language under civic integration policies. At the same time, many migrants recognize the necessity of language learning to achieve perso

Other Specialties: Teaching English as a Second Language Description: The Department of Linguistics in the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at The University of Iowa seeks a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics for the 2025-2026 academic year. The successful candidate will teach Introduction to Linguistics (lecture and discussion sections), Language and Formal Reasoning, Structure of English, and Topics in Linguistics (in the area of their research

We're inviting studies applying a Corpus Pragmatics approach to investigative and forensic text/discourse analysis, within Forensic Linguistics, including investigations into the detection of discursive deception and manipulation. The special issue is dedicated to showing the use of a mixed methods approach, combining the quantitative element of corpus-assisted investigation and a context-rich analysis and interpretation, in forensic and legal contexts. We look forward to receiving your manusc

The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (HUN-REN) invites submissions to the 1st International Workshop on Language and Language Models. This workshop is designed as a dedicated forum for scholars and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) to discuss and evaluate large language models from an SSH perspective, and to share best practices that can advance research and applications within these fields. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Final Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for papers for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society held at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University from 2-5 December 2025. The conference will be held in person. We welcome papers on all aspects of linguistics. Confirmed Keynotes: Professor Chris Davis, Western Sydney University Professor Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland Professor Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara

This edited collection illuminates the mechanisms involved in courtroom reality construction and the ways in which trial narratives are created and legal facts established. It covers a wide range of jurisdictions and legal procedures spanning five continents. In addition to explaining how courtroom actors utilise words to craft their narratives within institutional constraints, it draws attention to the effect the gestural, visual and material resources have on the discursive shaping of the judi

The Language Attrition Network invites you to the last session of this academic year on the 26th of June at 2 pm CET (1 pm UK time) on Microsoft Teams. If you are not yet on the mailing list, please send us an email to attrition.network@gmail.com. Dr Celia Shiyu He (University of Bristol) will give a talk entitled "Cross-linguistic influences and L1 attrition, focusing on the impact of prolonged L2 (English) exposure on L1 (Chinese) reading behaviors". We are looking forward to seeing y

We are currently looking for two Ph.D. students (65% positions, 4 years) to join the Research Unit »Weak Elements in Phonology: Development, Processing and Modality«. The Research Unit investigates weak elements such as reduced syllables in language processing and development. The research project being coordinated in Marburg includes colleagues from the Universities of Mannheim, Frankfurt, Mainz and Erfurt and the Leibniz Institutes in Bonn and Mannheim. The project of the current call is conce

Il seminario sarà tenuto dalla dottoressa Cristina Calò, linguista computazionale con ampia esperienza internazionale (Francia, Spagna, Svizzera, Stati Uniti). L'incontro laboratoriale è costruito in modalità blended e veicolato in lingua italiana, con sottotitoli in spagnolo, inglese e francese. Contenuti del seminario: 1. Fondamenti di IA per la linguistica teorica 2. Hands-on - Prompt engineering 3. LLM come informante virtuale - Sintassi & Semantica 4. Pragmatica, stance & sentiment

OASIS 5 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 5) will take place at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, December 3-5, 2025. The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: - What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? - How do these building blocks get comb

Description: Register refers to linguistic patterns associated with particular situational contexts (Seoane & Biber, 2021, p. 2) where the linguistic patterns are clusters of features having a greater-than random likelihood to co-occur. In register studies, the focus has traditionally been on the aggregative analysis of lexico-grammatical features in entire texts, thus neglecting the dynamic unfolding of situations – linked by the above definition to register – over time. However, the situation