The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin'. We invite all submissions on corpus-based approaches to English, and especially abstracts addressing the theme of the conference, such as submiss...

This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...

Fiction set in the past is linguistically special, since representing the past in fiction typically requires making stylistic choices to convey a...

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Pour la première fois au pays, une pièce va être jouée en alternance par des comédiens entendants et sourds.

This conference aims to explore how language use is shaped by digital spaces and how digital tools and data have revolutionized the fields of linguistics and language learning. Digital linguistics has developed into a thriving interdisciplinary field at the intersection of pragmatics, media linguistics, and applied language studies. The multifaceted field includes research ranging from multimodality (Bateman & Wildfeuer 2014), contextualization strategies (Androutsopoulos 2023), stance-taking (D

This paper gives a critical discourse-analytical account of presentism as a digital language ideology. It outlines how this ahistorical understanding of sociotechnical change centering the here-and-no...

Since the advent of transdisciplinary death studies in the 1970s, a plethora of research has been conducted in the humanities and social sciences on death-related issues, including end-of-life conditions and bereavement. This research has been undertaken in fields such as anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology (see for example Thomas 1975; Aries 1977; Baudry 1999; Boltanski 2004; Molinié 2006; Clavandier 2009; Despret 2015; Boltanski 2004). In linguistics, research has addr

2nd Call for Papers: The deadline to submit asbtracts for the Parameters of Language Staging (PLS8) conference has been extended from October 3rd, 2025 to October 17th, 2025. The call for papers is available at pls8.sciencesconf.org. This edition addresses the staging of discourse and the forms and functions of staged discourse, with a particular focus on spoken/multimodal data. Our guest speakers are Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Gaëlle Planchenault (Simon Frase

This symposium aims at bringing together researchers working on World Englishes (especially those focusing on varieties of English other than the “inner circle” varieties of the British Isles and North America) in staged and mediatized performances. While it cannot be said that such a perspective has hitherto been ignored in linguistic research (see Lee & Kachru 2006; Moody 2021), it is evident that pop cultural artifacts serving entertainment and recreational purposes, such as films and TV seri

Documenting the adverse effects of AI in academia

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