31. Linguistiktage der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen (GeSuS) Budapest, 4.-6. Juni 2025 Arbeitskreis / Section: Marketinglinguistik / Marketing linguistics Dr. László Kovács, Eötvös-Loránd-Universität, Ungarn (kovacs.laszlo@sek.elte.hu) At first glance, there are few connections between marketing and linguistics: the former is a field of economics, the latter a humanities discipline. While marketing aims to motivate consumers to buy and sell products and services, linguistics aims

31. Linguistiktage der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen (GeSuS) Budapest, 4.-6. Juni 2025 Arbeitskreis / Section: Marketinglinguistik / Marketing linguistics Dr. László Kovács, Eötvös-Loránd-Universität, Ungarn (kovacs.laszlo@sek.elte.hu) At first glance, there are few connections between marketing and linguistics: the former is a field of economics, the latter a humanities discipline. While marketing aims to motivate consumers to buy and sell products and services, linguistics aims

We encourage submissions that propose alternative, reflexive creative methodological approaches and critical epistemologies to address topics such as: - Intercultural encounters and intercultural dialogue - Practices of exclusion, surveillance, and persecution at the border - AI, platform affordances, and infrastructures in relation to migration and intercultural communication - Digital counter publics and diasporic activism - Digital communication on intercultural perceptions and int

We encourage submissions that propose alternative, reflexive creative methodological approaches and critical epistemologies to address topics such as: - Intercultural encounters and intercultural dialogue - Practices of exclusion, surveillance, and persecution at the border - AI, platform affordances, and infrastructures in relation to migration and intercultural communication - Digital counter publics and diasporic activism - Digital communication on intercultural perceptions and int

We invite proposals for chapters in a new edited collection: Illustrating African Phonologies. About the volume: This collection aims to highlight work that applies phonetic, experimental, quantitative, or laboratory methods to the phonology of African languages. While it has historically been difficult to apply these methodologies to under-resourced and under-studied African languages, more recent work has increasingly leveraged new technologies to tackle questions at this intersection

We invite submissions for our workshop "Alpine Texts as Language Data. Corpus- and Discourse-Linguistic Explorations," which will take place as part of the International Mountain Conference (IMC) in Innsbruck from September 14 to 18, 2025. The IMC is the largest conference dedicated to mountain-relateamdhar@ucsd.edud research, bringing together around 1,000 participants from various disciplines. gerhInitially focused on the natural sciences, the conference has evolved into an interdisciplinar

We invite submissions for our workshop "Alpine Texts as Language Data. Corpus- and Discourse-Linguistic Explorations," which will take place as part of the International Mountain Conference (IMC) in Innsbruck from September 14 to 18, 2025. The IMC is the largest conference dedicated to mountain-relateamdhar@ucsd.edud research, bringing together around 1,000 participants from various disciplines. gerhInitially focused on the natural sciences, the conference has evolved into an interdisciplinar

Call for Papers: We warmly welcome the submission of papers for KONVENS 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany (September 10-13). See https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/ for more information! KONVENS (Conference on Natural Language Processing) is an annual scientific conference on all topics in the fields of computational linguistics and language technology, organised by four scientific organisations in the German-speaking countries and regions (GSCL, DGfS-CL, ASAI, and SwissNLP). For information

Call for Papers: We invite individual papers and panels, from a broad interdisciplinary range of research on discourse, language and interaction. Abstract deadline - 28th March 2025 (same deadline for both individual and panels presentations). See updates on our website: https://www.ntnu.edu/nordisco2025/home

Narratives in ESP: Past, Present and Future In 1969, Gérard Genette defined narratives as “the representation of an event or series of events, real or fictitious, by means of language, and more particularly written language” (1969, 49). Whether in stories, novels, films or TV series, narratives are a recurrent object of research in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This is no doubt because many specialized phenomena (e.g., corporate life, medical treatments, trials, scientific protocols) h

Narratives in ESP: Past, Present and Future In 1969, Gérard Genette defined narratives as “the representation of an event or series of events, real or fictitious, by means of language, and more particularly written language” (1969, 49). Whether in stories, novels, films or TV series, narratives are a recurrent object of research in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This is no doubt because many specialized phenomena (e.g., corporate life, medical treatments, trials, scientific protocols) h

Call for Papers: TAL : Varia Volume 67 number 1 https://tal-67-1.sciencesconf.org/ Editors: Maxime Amblard, Marie Candito, Benoit Favre et Aurélie Névéol Since 2023 Non-thematic issues of the Automatic Language Processing journal become "on the fly". Thus, each article in issue 67-1 will be evaluated as soon as it is submitted and will be published, subject to its acceptance, within an indicative period of six months after its submission. The call for volume 67-1 is thus open until D

This upcoming meeting of P* Group on February 11 will be cancelled. Our next meeting will be on February 18. Stay tuned for presentation details.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS (Post)classical and medieval Greek multi-word expressions: Data, methodology, and analysis Phrases such as pay attention, in spite of, and United Kingdom are multi-word expressions. The signifier is complex but the signified is not, i.e. pay attention is a verb phrase, in spite of a preposition, and United Kingdom a noun phrase. The Ancient Greek working group annotates these in classical literary Attic oratory, historiography, and philosophical prose using the PARSEME 1.3

The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on Morphosyntax in Child-Directed Language. It will be held on Tuesday 11th February (Americas) and Wednesday 12th February (elsewhere) at two times: Time 1: Los Angeles = 2 pm Tuesday Feb. 11 New York = 5 pm Tuesday Feb. 11 Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday Feb. 12 https://anu.zoom.us/j/83179617725?pwd=Jvr7ApFxs4o63SQb3CBvbymbi1gFze.1 Meeting ID: 831 7961 7725 Password: 760236 Time 2: Berlin time = 9 am Wednesday Feb. 12

Hello everyone! I'm a PhD student in TESOL conducting an experiment on the impact of pauses in English public speaking. I'm now seeking 5 native English speakers as participants. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. I hope you should be: • Native English speaker • Age 30-50 • Have rich experience in English public speaking (either teaching or learning these skills) • No speech disorders What will you need to do? Rate 90 English speeches (online) and fill in the assessment

Starting with volume 12, Lynne Bowker (Université Laval) will succeed Minako O'Hagan (University of Auckland) and Julie McDonough Dolmaya (York University) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Digital Translation. Minako O'Hagan and Julie McDonough Dolmaya will remain members of the board. Digital Translation is the continuation of: The Journal of Internationalization and Localization (vol.1/2009 – vol.9/2022). In recognition of the pervasive impact of digital technologies on all forms

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Thomas Wier (Free University of Tbilisi) entitled "Expressivity in Georgian and other Caucasian Languages". The talk will take place online on FEBRUARY 10, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zo

As of volume 14 (2025) John Benjamins welcomes Nanon Labrie (VU Amsterdam) and Menno H. Reijven (University of Amsterdam) as new editors of the journal Journal of Argumentation in Context. They will succeed Frans van Eemeren (University of Amsterdam) and Bart Garssen (University of Amsterdam), who will remain members of the board as founding editors. We thank Frans and Bart for their long-time involvement with and work on behalf of the journal. The Journal of Argumentation in Context aims to

Call for Papers: -Title: Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research - Co-editors: Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University), Bettina Migge (University College Dublin) and Britta Schneider (European University Viadrina) Language technologies using machine learning have become ubiquitous in all aspects of life, and research is no exception. Due to a largely commercially driven agenda by a handful of big tech companies from Silicon Valley, machine-learning