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

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

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

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

The West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO) invites abstracts for papers to be presented at its 35th West African Languages Congress (WALC 2027), to be held at the University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon, from 12 to 15 October 2027. The Congress is organised by WALS/SLAO in partnership with the Department of African Languages and Linguistics of the University of Yaounde I, whose candidature was formally endorsed by the WALS/SLAO Executive Council. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words an

Background: This workshop aims to advance our understanding of evaluation as a fundamental dimension of human interaction, addressing how it is expressed, collaboratively constructed, and contributes to discourse organization. We define evaluation as a modal attitude whereby speakers assess entities and states of affairs in terms of value rather than possibility and necessity (Nuyts 2025). Occasionally discussed as appreciative modality, this domain has received comparatively little attent

We would like to draw your attention to a panel on pragmatic borrowing which will be a part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference. The conference will take place in Helsinki, Finland, June 27- July 2, 2027 in Helsinki. Please, submit a 250-500 words abstract via the IPrA conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/) by October 15th. When you submit your abstract, remember to Select 'Pragmatic borrowing in different language settings'. The term pragmatic borrowing was introduced

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the panel we are organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference to be held in Helsinki in June 2027: Voices of crisis: Reporting in crisis discourse (organizers: Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius, Jenni Räikkönen) This panel focuses on the pragmatics of direct and indirect reports in different crisis-related texts. In particular, we are interested in the ways in which various voices are expressed or suppressed in crisis d

The National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion and advancement of education and research around Spanish heritage bilingualism in the United States. The 14th NSSHL will be held from Thursday, February 18, to Saturday, February 20, 2027, at the University of California, Davis. It will take place in person and follow the regular format of keynotes, paper presentations, poster presentations, and workshops to allow attendees to share id

The Frisian Academy (Fryske Akademy) organizes its linguistics meeting in December this year. The fourteenth Conference on Frisian linguistics will be of interest to anyone who actively or passively participates in Frisian linguistics: grammar, phonetics/phonology, onomastics, lexicology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics. Papers may focus on the results of scientific research, but presentations of research plans, of speculations or of linguistic corpora are also welcome. The time

This theme session "Challenges in Figurative Language Annotation" held as part of the conference Grammar and Corpora 2027 in Düsseldorf brings together researchers working on figurative language, corpus annotation, and language acquisition to discuss theoretically informed and methodologically reproducible approaches to the annotation of figurative language. Unlike other grammatical phenomena, figurative meaning emerges from the interaction of lexical forms, discourse context, and speakers’ c

We would like to draw your attention to the panel that we are organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20), which will take place at the University of Helsinki in June 2027: Official parliamentary transcripts and video recordings as research data in pragmatics   During the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in the research on parliamentary debates from pragmatic and discourse perspectives. Most past studies on the pragmatics of parliamentary d

Intercultural Pragmatics in the new Millennium. Messina May 15th-19th, COSPECS, via Concezione 6. Workshop organized by Alessandro Capone and Chusni Hadiati. acapone@unime.it This is part of Pragmasophia 2028, 15th-19th May, COSPECS, University of Messina. This workshop will also include cultural pragmatics. We are especially interested in African languages, Asiatic languages, the languages of South America and of American Indians. We are also interested in all remaining languages

We invite all students of linguistics and related disciplines to participate in the 80th StuTS in Cologne! StuTS stands for Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, Student Conference on Linguistics (https://fs-lup.uni-koeln.de/en/stuts-80). The conference takes place once per semester and is organized independently by students. We will be hosting this semester's 80th StuTS during the 2026–27 winter semester (18–22 November) at the University of Cologne. All participants are warmly invited to

Join us for the free New Frontiers in Corpus Linguistics Symposium, organised by the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, from 16 to 17 September 2026. Zoom participation is available. Please register here: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/register?id=D70672EF-AEEA-4657-9419-41AC3B3DF122 Format: Hybrid Symposium (16–17 September) In-person Workshop: 16 September (afternoon) Venue: PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 16 Sept

Language Disorders 2026 Online International Thematic Conference on Language Disorders Research and Applications Special session: Language Disorder Corpora Organizing committee Nicola Bessell, University College Cork, Ireland Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, the Netherlands Alice Lee, University College Cork, Ireland Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland Satu Saalasti, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Keynote speaker Iris Nowenstein Progra

Panel title: Grammar of Authority Rationale: Systematic studies of language and power have continued for several decades, not only in linguistics but also in other humanities and social scientific disciplines (e.g. Foucault 1969, 1971; Fairclough1989). The discussion has retained its relevance for understanding human behaviour from ancient to modern society, considering repetitive patterns of social interaction and geopolitical turmoil around the globe. Hitherto, many approaches from divers