The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language, as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has received increased attention

Call for Papers: The PILL Conference Series brings together scholars and researchers to explore one of the most compelling questions in linguistics and discourse studies: How is identity constructed, performed, and negotiated through language? This year’s edition of PILL invites scholars to critically engage with the concept of identity in (post)modernity, with particular attention to the challenges and dilemmas that arise in both the discursive construction of identity and the methods use

We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in

The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language, as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has received increased attention

McGill linguistics was well represented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44), which took place May 6–8 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Presentations by current affiliates included: The full program is available here: https://wccfl44.github.io/WCCFL44/program.html

11 June 2026 17:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 GMT+2 Microsoft Teams Speaker: Sonam Tshering (Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan) Moderator: Fatemeh Akbari (Kamusi Project International/University of Vienna, Austria) Title: Bhutanese Personal Names and Identity Abstract: Bhutan, a small Himalayan kingdom between India and China, promotes Gross National Happiness (GNH). Bhutan has preserved its unique culture, strong Buddhist values, and lively social and cultural legacy despite its 400-yea

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the eight talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Yim Binh Felix Sze (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), who will give a talk entitled "Taboos and Euphemisms in Sex-Related Signs in Asian Sign

Designing and Scoping Your Next Interdisciplinary Research Project: A Panel Discussion Thursday, June 4, 2026 4:30 PM BST | 03:30 PM GMT | 11:30 AM EDT | 04:30 PM WAT | 09:00 PM IST Book your place: http://tiny.cc/InterdisciplinaryResearch Interdisciplinary research promises richer insight into complex questions, but designing and scoping such projects brings distinct intellectual, methodological, and practical challenges. In this moderated panel discussion, Oxford Intersections ed

The I-LanD Research Centre (https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/) is pleased to announce the fourth seminar in the I-LanD Seminar Series - 4th Edition (2nd semester). Innovative in format and interdisciplinary in scope, the I-LanD Seminar Series brings together scholars to discuss key issues in their fields of expertise, with particular attention to theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, research challenges, and emerging directions of inquiry. Each seminar opens with a brief introd

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Berber Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Abdellah Elouatiq. It will be held on Wednesday May 13 as follows: Los Angeles = 8 am Mexico City = 9 am New York = 11 am Berlin = 5 pm Tbilisi = 7 pm Delhi = 8:30 pm Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/68724552887?pwd=lxCUOxU9mV4j84IRCa1vGs4xGaaTfH.1 Meeting ID = 687 2455 2887 Passcode = 7$d72Hp& Check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for the

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit dem in der theoretischen linguistischen Literatur stark diskutierten Phänomen der lexikalischen Adjektiv-Intensivierung. Dabei wird ein graduierbares Adjektiv – z. B. schön – durch eine Intensitätspartikel modifiziert. Der Strand ist ∅ schön. Positiv Der Strand ist sehr schön. Deskriptiv Der Strand ist mega schön. Expressiv Durch die Modifikation erfährt das Adjektiv eine Bedeutungsverstärkung, die sich in einer gesteiger

This book investigates the realization of subject focus in French and Spanish from a comparative, variationist perspective. Building on spontaneous dialogical data, it examines the range of syntactic, prosodic, and elliptical strategies speakers use to encode narrowly focused subjects. The study draws on two highly comparable sub-corpora of spontaneous speech elicited through the same task, allowing for fine-grained cross-linguistic comparison. Adopting a Question Under Discussion (QUD) framewor

Le colloque « Les constructions et la constructionnalisation en langue française, espagnole et italienne » à réfléchir à la notion de construction, aussi bien d’un point de vue synchronique que diachronique, en adoptant différentes perspectives théoriques. On pourra présenter des analyses plutôt théoriques ou la description du fonctionnement d’une construction en particulier. Les propositions peuvent être ancrées dans les différentes composantes de la linguistique : morphologie, syntaxe, sémanti

Le colloque « Les constructions et la constructionnalisation en langue française, espagnole et italienne » à réfléchir à la notion de construction, aussi bien d’un point de vue synchronique que diachronique, en adoptant différentes perspectives théoriques. On pourra présenter des analyses plutôt théoriques ou la description du fonctionnement d’une construction en particulier. Les propositions peuvent être ancrées dans les différentes composantes de la linguistique : morphologie, syntaxe, sémanti

We invite submissions for a special issue of Visible Language titled ‘Typographic Landscapes: Migrating types – typographic meaning-making across boundaries’ connecting scholarship in typography, graphic communication, and sociolinguistics to investigate typographic activities as social practices in public spaces. We welcome contributions that bring these disciplinary perspectives into fruitful dialogue and focus on typographic meaning-making across cultural, geographical, and temporal bounda

Conference Dates: 11–13 June 2027 Location: Hong Kong SAR Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/ Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027 Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2026 The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held in Hong Kong SAR from 11–13 June 2027. Since its founding in 2011 a

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at the University of Edinburgh. The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics" Background: How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including am

Easy Language and Easy Read Practices in the Nordic Languages: Exploring Informational Complexity Between Universal Models and Discourse-Specific Variations Special issue of ELAD-SILDA (ISSN 2609-6609) Spring 2027 Deadline for draft submissions: Sept. 30th, 2026 Languages of submission : French, English or German contact: sarah.harchaoui@sorbonne-universite.fr Full call : https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-elad-silda-15-falc-et-easy-languages-en-langues-nordiques This special issue seeks t

Conference Dates: 11–13 June 2027 Location: Hong Kong SAR Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/ Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027 Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2026 The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held in Hong Kong SAR from 11–13 June 2027. Since its founding in 2011 a

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at the University of Edinburgh. The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics" Background: How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including am