FYI: RRLing (journal) is looking for (academic) Associate Editors
The new journal Registered Reports in Linguistics is looking for academics to join the editorial team as Associate Editors. The journal website can be found here: https://journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index.
Registered Reports in Linguistics is a new journal that publishes Registered Reports of qualitative and quantitative exploratory and corroboratory research within the field of linguistics. By corroboratory (aka confirmatory) research we mean research that sets out to empirically assess specifi
Calls: The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works
Call for Papers:
Symposium webpage with preliminary program: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025/.
About the Symposium:
Foreign language teaching and reference works play a crucial role in institutionalised foreign language teaching and are known to constitute an important source of learners’ foreign language (e.g., Huang 2019). However, multiple studies suggest that the language of these textbooks often differs considerably from the kind of language typically used in commu
Calls: Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians 2026
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to share the second invitation for submissions to the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, 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 invite
Calls: The Interpreter's Newsletter (Jrnl)
Issue 31 of The Interpreters’ Newsletter welcomes submissions that contribute to describing professional and training challenges in interpreting: the future ahead, by using either traditional or innovative analytical methodologies.
Issue editors: Elena Errico & Ana Isabel Foulquié Rubio
Topics of interest for issue 31/2026 include but are not limited to the following areas:
- Conference and dialogue interpreting practice
- Conference and dialogue interpreting education and training
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Confs: 6th European conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics
We invite to submit proposals for individual papers and poster presentations on topics related to forensic linguistics and language and the law, including but not limited to:
- Law on language: Language & Human Rights; Language policy and linguistic rights; Language crimes, Legal responses to hate speech or the spread of disinformation
- Legal language: Legal genres; Critical approaches to legal languages; Language education for law professionals; Multilingualism & the law; The comprehe
Confs: Workshop at the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation: The Language of Food in Asia
We are happy to announce a new workshop dedicated to the interplay between language and food in Asia. This workshop invites any research exploring the role of language in shaping our culinary and cultural experiences and how the food culture permeates linguistic practices.
The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- Food and sensory lexicon
- Food wanderwort,
- Food and Metaphor
- Food and Neologism
- Emotion analysis of food narratives
- Menu Language
- Recipe Languag
Calls: 18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Call for Papers:
We are excited to announce that the 18th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-18) will take place at the University Cambridge on 16-18th of April 2026.
GASLA is a biennial conference where linguists present theoretically informed research on second language acquisition.
Presentation Format:
All submissions will be considered for both oral presentations (30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion) and poster presentations. The subm
Media: video clips on Fragments in English
The research project 'Fragments: Constructionalising Non-Canonical Expressions in English' at the University of Vigo (https://lvtc.uvigo.es/fragments), funded by the Spanish Research Agency (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; grant PID2020-117541GB-I00, PI: Javier Pérez-Guerra), is pleased to announce the release of six outreach video clips, now publicly available at https://www.youtube.com/@LVTC_uvigo/playlists
Confs: Workshop at the International Morphology Meeting 22: The Evolution of Non-Concatenative Morphology
Invited speaker: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh)
Morphological alternations can be realized through the concatenation of affixes, or through non-concatenative processes that do not involve the addition of segmental material, such as modifications of suprasegmental features (e.g. length or tone), or the featural constituents of segments (e.g. vowel height, consonantal manner of articulation). The two nouns below, from Nuer (a West Nilotic language of South Sudan and Ethiopia), illustrate
Confs: Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026
Linguistics at school in a European perspective (LiDi 2026)
University of Zurich
April 13-14, 2026
Confirmed speakers:
Ann-Marie Moser (University of Zurich)
Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona)
Tom Rankin (Masaryk University Brno)
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
Jimmy van Rijt (Utrecht University)
Organizers:
Angelika Golegos & Andreas Trotzke
Europe’s linguistic landscape is increasingly diverse. It encompasses standardized national languages (taught to both L1 and
Confs: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference / Conférence Approches Multidisciplinaires en Planification et Politiques Linguistiques
The rapid expansion of language policy and planning over the course of the last decades has led to a breadth of concepts, phenomena, and processes vying for attention in the field. Attempts at integrating and balancing all of these priorities have led some researchers to ask, “what isn’t language policy?” (Johnson, 2012, p. 9). While the work of early scholars was “technical, oriented toward problem-solving, and pragmatic in its goals” (Ricento, 2000, p. 198), this was critiqued by later scholar
Calls: Social Meaning and Grammar
2nd Call for Papers:
The question of how humans process social information is one of the biggest topics in cognitive science. This workshop addresses the topic from the perspective of linguistics and aims at breaking new ground by bringing together the two very different perspectives of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology on the one hand and formal syntax and semantics on the other hand.
Confirmed Speakers:
Elin McCready (ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Emma Moore (Univ
Confs: Asymmetric Communication in Ancient Societies
This conference, hosted by CRC 1412 “Register” (https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/projects/b03), explores the role of asymmetric communication in ancient societies, focusing on how power imbalances, status differences, and socio-cultural hierarchies shaped modes of interaction.
Attendance is in person only. Please register by October 10, 2025, via asymcom-conference@hu-berlin.de.
https://www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/de/aknoa/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/asymmetric-communication-in-ancient-societi
Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Documentation, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Assistant Professor, Second Language Studies Corpus Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Other Specialties: Second Language Acquisition
Description:
The Department of Second Language Studies in the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track, full-time assistant professor, with specialization in second language corpus linguistics to begin Fall 2026. The Department of Second Language Studies offers a BA, an MA and a PhD in Second Language Studies as well as an Advanced Graduate Certificate. The Uni
Jobs: Applied Linguistics: Postdoctoral Associate in Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Description:
The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral associate in Applied Linguistics to begin on January 1, 2026.
We seek an applied linguist with expertise in second language learning, teaching, assessment, or technology-based instruction, along with the use of quantitative or mixed methodological approaches. The successful candidate should have strong evidence or promise of research and publication and a record of successfu
Confs: Workshop at SLE 2026: The Interfaces of the Afroasiatic Verb
Organisers: Iris Kamil, Letizia Cerqueglini
Call deadline: 1 November 2025
It is by now well-established that the domains of human language rarely exist on their own: syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and pragmatics regularly interact with one another on what is known as the interfaces of grammar. The study of the various interfaces is vast, and several frameworks of theoretical linguistic research seek to formalize them, for instance Distributed Morphology, Halle & Marantz 199; Para
FYI: New webinar series: Conversations on Language Policy in Africa
Check out a new series of webinars on Language Policy in Africa, hosted by the University of Bern (Switzerland): https://initiativeafrique.unibe.ch/news_and_events/events/upcoming_events/index_eng.html
The first of these webinars will be on 3 October, from 4 to 5 pm CEST (Berlin, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lusaka, Madrid). Speaker will be Caroline Story from Texas State University, who will discuss her article “Postcolonial Language Imperialism in Africa – The Latter-day Saints Missionary Progra
Calls: Workshop at IEEE BigData 2025 Conference: LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality for All
We are pleased to announce the First Call for Papers for the upcoming workshop:
LLMs4All: LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality for All - First Call for Papers
- To be held at IEEE BigData 2025, Macau, China, December 8–11, 2025
- Our page for more details: https://vinnlp.com/llms4all
Workshop Scope:
LLMs4All workshop addresses the intersection of LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality, with a focus on equitable access and global inclusivity. It explores how large-scale data pipelines and adv
FYI: A Book Collecting International Best Practices in Deaf / Deaf Education
We are excited to announce a call for contributions for an upcoming volume on effective methodologies in deaf/Deaf education in use from around the world. The aim of this book is to share good practices and evidence-based approaches that have proven successful in teaching deaf/Deaf students in different contexts.
We are looking for contributions that describe methodologies in areas such as:
- Literacy teaching in the early years of primary school
- Grammar teaching
- Developing the
Books: Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects: Kolaiti (2025)
What makes literature and art the distinct kinds of entities they are? Previous attempts to prove that artworks and literary texts are formally and structurally distinguishable from other objects have been misinterpreted to mean that any distinction between art and non-art must be largely sociological. This book takes a radically new approach to this long-standing question. Shifting the focus from the artwork itself to art as a case of human agency, it sets out a groundbreaking theory of literat