Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the SELCS Annual Conference 2026 at the University of Warwick, taking place from 2-4 July 2026 in hybrid format (in person and online). This year’s conference theme is: ‘Transformations and Innovations in Language, Education, and Lifelong Learning’ The conference welcomes graduate students, postgraduate researchers, and early-career researchers from Warwick and beyond to share empirical, conceptual, and theoretical w

International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes (IJMLSP) Guest Editor Proposal Invitation The IJMLSP invites experienced scholars to submit proposals for guest-edited special issues addressing cutting-edge developments in Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), ESP, and multilingual professional communication. We particularly encourage proposals that integrate digital transformation, AI-driven language practices, and discipline-specific discourse across multi

Call for Papers: The 9th International H-INET Conference marks a decade of H-INET activities, celebrating ten years of collaboration, research, and innovation in language education. Organized in collaboration with the Israeli Forum of Academic Writing (IFAW), this special anniversary conference brings together language educators, researchers, and practitioners to explore new perspectives on language teaching and learning in rapidly changing educational, technological, and social contexts. Day

Description: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching Methodology and Literacy Development (Secondary Level) English Language and Literature Department Overview: The National Institute of Education (NIE) is among the world’s top education institutes, recognised for its excellence in teacher education and educational research. NIE has played a key and pivotal role in shaping and developing Singapore’s teaching profession and landscape through evidence-informed, practice-

Call for Papers: LEIC Research 2026, to be held on 12–13 November 2026, celebrates a decade of sustained academic dialogue and international collaboration across linguistic, educational, and intercultural research areas. Since its inception, the conference has evolved into a dynamic forum for scholars and educators addressing both theoretical perspectives and practical challenges in language-related disciplines. The conference offers opportunities to present research findings, exchange pro

Call for Papers: The Graduate Conference at University of Naples L'Orientale aims to foster an interdisciplinary debate on current and relevant topics. The 2026 edition is titled "Hiddentity Concealment and Invisibility: Interdisciplinary Investigations Into the Hidden" and investigates the hidden and its manifestations from multiple perspectives. The hidden constitutes a fundamental dimension of human experience and of its cultural, linguistic, and social representations. The “hidden” em

The Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, is pleased to announce the 18th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 18), which will take place from 21 to 24 September 2027. The Organising Committee invites the submission of abstracts in accordance with the guidelines provided in the Call for Papers available on the conference website. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/confe

Wir laden herzlich zum Symposium „Textuelle Identität: Autorschaft und Schreibstil in der aktuellen Forschung” ein, welches am Freitag, den 20. und Samstag, den 21. November 2026 an der Universität Graz stattfindet. Als Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Auftaktveranstaltung im November 2025 an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum wird die Tagung von der Anglistik der Universität Graz in Kooperation mit The Forensic Linguistics Lab ausgerichtet. Im Zentrum der Autorschaftsanalyse steht die Frage nach der I

The Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, is pleased to announce the 18th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 18), which will take place from 21 to 24 September 2027. The Organising Committee invites the submission of abstracts in accordance with the guidelines provided in the Call for Papers available on the conference website. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/confe

Wir laden herzlich zum Symposium „Textuelle Identität: Autorschaft und Schreibstil in der aktuellen Forschung” ein, welches am Freitag, den 20. und Samstag, den 21. November 2026 an der Universität Graz stattfindet. Als Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Auftaktveranstaltung im November 2025 an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum wird die Tagung von der Anglistik der Universität Graz in Kooperation mit The Forensic Linguistics Lab ausgerichtet. Im Zentrum der Autorschaftsanalyse steht die Frage nach der I

In a world marked by overlapping crises—wars, epidemics, climate catastrophe, democratic erosion, technological acceleration, and the growing entanglement of artificial intelligence with everyday communication — vulnerability has emerged as an increasingly recognised condition. English, as a global language of culture, education, governance, and digital mediation, is deeply implicated in these processes: it both exposes subjects to new forms of precarity and offers resources for articulation, re

We are pleased to share the programme of Sinologists in Bydgoszcz: The 3rd International Conference on Chinese Languages, Literature, and Culture (SinB-2026), which will take place online via Zoom on 22–23 May 2026. This year’s conference is devoted to Chinese Language Teaching and Learning and features 25 presentations organized into thematic blocks, as well as 2 keynote lectures by distinguished specialists in the field: - Prof. Ching-lan Chang (National Taipei University of Education, Ta

We invite abstracts for papers to be presented at the annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society held in person at the University of Western Australia from 1-4 December 2026. We welcome papers on all aspects of linguistics. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, in collaboration with Ian Mongunu Gumbula Professor Norma C. Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles Professor Peggy Mok, Chinese University of Hong Kong Please s

In a world marked by overlapping crises—wars, epidemics, climate catastrophe, democratic erosion, technological acceleration, and the growing entanglement of artificial intelligence with everyday communication — vulnerability has emerged as an increasingly recognised condition. English, as a global language of culture, education, governance, and digital mediation, is deeply implicated in these processes: it both exposes subjects to new forms of precarity and offers resources for articulation, re

We are pleased to share the programme of Sinologists in Bydgoszcz: The 3rd International Conference on Chinese Languages, Literature, and Culture (SinB-2026), which will take place online via Zoom on 22–23 May 2026. This year’s conference is devoted to Chinese Language Teaching and Learning and features 25 presentations organized into thematic blocks, as well as 2 keynote lectures by distinguished specialists in the field: - Prof. Ching-lan Chang (National Taipei University of Education, Ta

We invite abstracts for papers to be presented at the annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society held in person at the University of Western Australia from 1-4 December 2026. We welcome papers on all aspects of linguistics. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, in collaboration with Ian Mongunu Gumbula Professor Norma C. Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles Professor Peggy Mok, Chinese University of Hong Kong Please s

Jeanne Brown gave an invited talk at the 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), held May 11–15 in Philadelphia. Her talk was titled, “Rethinking ‘young women’s creak’: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence.” The talk received media coverage in the ASA 190th press release, Ars Technica and New Scientist! Abstract: Since […]

In this newsletter: New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set CALLHOME German Second Edition CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition ________________________________________ New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set contains the evaluation data created by LDC for Phases 1-3 of the DARPA MADCAT program and the NIST OpenHaRT 2010 and 2013 evaluations. It consists of handwritten Arabic documents scanned at high resolution and annotated for the physical c

The first word is generally agreed to be of unknown origin and the second as either that or a compound that seems to me be folk-etymological. But I keep finding HINTS that one or the other had at some point been said by someone to be Iranian, this etymology being then dismissed as too silly to discuss--and there is never a reference to who actually said it and what exactly they said or where. If anyone could help me find any such proposals, no matter how old, I would be grateful.

Focus: Courses on offer this summer are: - Neurolinguistics (Vânia de Aguiar & Adrià Rofes) - Linking cognition to typology: Theory, methods and inference (Carmen Saldaña) - Computational Cognitive Science of Communication (Marieke Woensdregt) - Discourse Coherence (Jet Hoek) - Cognitive Modeling meets Computational Linguistics (Yevgen Matusevych) - Sign Languages (Adam Schembri) - The psycholinguistics of discourse interpretation (Vinicius Macuch Silva) - Semantics (Emar Maier) - The