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

We are thrilled to announce that our panel at the International Pragmatics Conference is now accepting submissions. Researchers have an ethical responsibility to protect and respect research participants, their personal information, and any sensitive information that might be disclosed in the original data. The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU 2016/679), emphasises the need to reflect on how we treat personal information. At the same time there is an increased interest in open dat

Experimental SLA: Connecting Research, Theory, and Language Teaching (ExpSLA) is an in-person conference designed to foster exchange among theorists, SLA researchers, language educators, and early-career scholars. Its aim is to strengthen methodological literacy, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and promote the integration of experimental findings into both theoretical models and language teaching practice. Over the last three decades, empirical research in Second Language Acquisiti

We are pleased to announce the 18th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2027), to be held at the University of Konstanz, Germany, from the 6th to the 8th of September 2027. Keynote Speakers: Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawai’i) Stephanie Durrleman (Université de Fribourg) Tanja Kupisch (University of Lund) The Call for Papers will be published in the autumn of 2026.

Standard grammatical concepts such as agreement, case, subject, direct object, phrases, clauses, and sentences are predominantly derived from the study of dominant Indo-European languages, including Latin, Greek, German, and English. It raises a crucial question: how can we ensure that these concepts are suitable for analyzing languages from different language families? A brief examination of representative non-Indo-European languages reveals significant differences compared to languages like En

Linguistic Association of Great Britain – Special Interest Panel LAGB 2026 Annual Meeting, Edinburgh Futures Institute, the University of Edinburgh, UK Movement I: rhythmic structure and textsetting Movement II: pitch organisation and tonal structure Movement III: cognitive and perceptual mechanisms Finale: round table Register here: https://tickts.co.uk/events/lagb-2026-annual-meeting 10 September 2026 08:30–16:00 Panel organiser: Davide Di Prete (UCL) (d.diprete@ucl.ac.uk)

Abstract submission by 15 September 2026 to: artificialothers@proton.me Panel organisers: Emma Lupano, Bettina Mottura, Natalia Riva Bridges are not built only between people. They are also imagined through the figures, technologies, and social actors that societies create to negotiate difference. Among these figures, humanoid robots and biomimetic agents occupy a revealing position: they are simultaneously technological artefacts, cultural objects, and discursive constructions. In a pe

Positioned within contemporary struggles over public meaning, social affiliation and political legitimacy, digital religion is articulated through mediated practices in which claims about faith, community, authority and truth become resources for negotiating belonging, morality, identity and power. Digital Religion V invites papers that examine these practices at the interfaces of discourse, society and politics, with a focus on digital religious discourse both as product and as practice: as a