Call for Papers: This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming 14th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (NSSHL). The deadline has been extended to October 11, 2026. The 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 per

Description: The San Diego State University Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor with expertise in computational linguistics. We particularly welcome candidates whose research engages with one or more of the following areas: multilingual language technology; computational approaches to speech, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics; language variation, processing, or learning; and language technology for under-reso

Description: Job Description: The Department of World Languages at the University of South Florida invites applications for a nine-month, full-time, tenure-track position in Spanish Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 7, 2027. Salary is negotiable. Responsibilities: - Conduct, present, and publish research and engage in other professional activities. - Teach courses primarily in Spanish for the Spanish program at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Description: Assistant Professor of English: Linguistics - Tenure Track Working Title: Assistant Professor of English: Linguistics - Tenure Track State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status: Exempt: Not Eligible for Overtime College/Division: College of Arts and Letters Department: 100020 - English Department Pay Band: N/A Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience Specify Range or Amount: Is this a

Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12), to be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, on 21–23 October 2027. Since its inception in 1998, the ICLC conference series has provided an international forum for research comparing two or more languages from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ICLC-12 welcomes contributions that adv

Description: Position in Arabic Studies The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at American University of Sharjah (AUS) invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2027, subject to budgetary approval. A Ph.D. in Arabic Studies, Arabic Literature, Arabic Heritage, or allied areas is required. The willingness and ability to teach entry level Arabic heritage courses is essential. The ability to offer courses on the history, culture

Description: Position in Translation Studies The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at American University of Sharjah (AUS) invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Translation Studies, to begin in Fall 2027, subject to budgetary approval. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in Translation Studies, Interpreting Studies, Translation Technology, Computational Linguistics, or a closely related field. Strong preference will be given to candidates w

Workshop registration is now open: https://www.uia.no/english/about-uia/faculty/humanities-and-education/events/course-conference-seminar/lalc.html There is a heightened and growing interest in integrating (formal) linguistics into the language classroom (Trotzke & Kupisch, 2020), as evidenced by the recent launch of the journal Pedagogical Linguistics in 2020 (Hudson, 2020; Trotzke, 2023; Widdowson, 2020) and large-scale pedagogical projects like Sheehan and colleagues’ Modern Foreign Langu

General: LiDi 2027, to be held at the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University on 22-23 April 2027, is the 9th edition of the conference and the first outside the German-speaking world (Zurich, 2026; Salzburg, 2025; TU Dortmund 2024; Zurich 2023; Kassel 2022; PH Vorarlberg 2021; Bochum 2019; Konstanz 2018). The LiDi conference series aims at discussing the scope of recent findings in the field of linguistics as they potentially connect to the development of instructional methods in langu

We are pleased to announce Statistical Learning: From Form to Meaning, a two-day conference at Lancaster University, UK, on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 June 2027. We invite abstract submissions for talks and posters. Statistical learning research has made substantial progress in explaining how learners detect regularities and acquire structure from experience. A central remaining question is how these learned patterns become connected to meaning, and how meaning, in turn, shapes learning and pro

We invite you to the eighth International Conference on Rhetoric “Days of Ivo Škarić” and would be honored if you contributed to its success by sharing your research findings in the fields of rhetoric, argumentation theory, stylistics, informal logic, communication studies, and neighboring disciplines. The conference in honor of the late Professor Emeritus Ivo Škarić, the most prominent and influential Croatian expert in rhetoric, has become a biennial meeting point for experts in the interdisci

The organizing team is happy to announce the call for papers for the upcoming 7th International Conference of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Association of North East India. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, from 7th to 9th of April, 2027. We invite contributions on any of the following areas, but not limited to, in Tibeto-Burman linguistics. 1. Phonetics and Phonology 2. Morphology 3. Syntax 4. Semantics 5. Discourse pragmat

We are pleased to announce the second international conference of ARDAA (Association for Research in English Language Teaching and Acquisition), TeachLEng 2027, which will take place on 23, 24, and 25 June 2027 at the INSPE de l’Académie de Paris – Molitor Campus. This conference will focus on the following theme: Teaching and Learning English: Challenges and Perspectives. Here is a link to the dedicated website: https://ardaa2027.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en With Alex Boulton, Wander Lowie, a

Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 3 is a linguistic conference that brings together scholars working on the English language and its use. For this year's edition, we invite papers addressing a wide range of topics related to contemporary research on English, including: - current research interests and emerging areas in English-language studies; - methods and approaches used in contemporary research on English; - methodological, theoretical, and empirical challenges faced by r

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

Other Specialties: Ultrasound imaging, laboratory phonology Description: The New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the team of researchers working on a project funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, entitled “What is a phoneme, and how many does New Zealand English have?” The research team comprises Professor Jen Hay, Associate Professor Lynn Clark (University of Canterbury) and Emeritus Professor Jim Scobbie (Quee

Other Specialties: Terminology Description: The Department is seeking candidates with a focus on the application of Artificial Intelligence to terminological data, the structuring and representation of specialized knowledge, and the circulation of knowledge and terms across various spheres of society and within minoritized languages. Through your undergraduate and graduate-level teaching, and your research activities, you will contribute to the faculty’s pursuit of excellence. Furthermo

Call for Papers: ICPhS 2027: Paper submission deadline extended to 9 October 2026 The organizing committee is pleased to announce that the deadline for paper submissions to ICPhS 2027 has been extended to 9 October 2026, giving everyone a little more time to finalize their submissions. Full details are available on the Call for Papers page: https://icphs2027.ca/call-for-papers/ If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at icphs-2027@globalplanning.ca. While we welcome

2026. iii, 159 pp. Table of Contents Articles Beyond the interpreter hypothesis: Multifunctional frontier agents in Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom Christian Olalla-Soler | pp. 163–190 Audience feedback on platform-mediated simultaneous interpreting in a livestream chat Damien Chiaming Fan | pp. 191–215 Language assistance in the Criminal Court: How fair is it to substitute written translation with oral interpreting? Sara Delva, Katrijn Maryns & Sarah Van Hoof | pp. 216–247 All

2026. iii, 179 pp. Table of Contents Articles “My maternal home, like my mother’s place”: Spatial meaning-making and narrative contestation in the asylum process Zoe Nikolaidou | pp. 233–257 Secrets in motion: The role of gestures in a multimodal coming out narrative Tomasz Dyrmo | pp. 258–280 “I am a baby-friendly doctor, but…”: Narrative positioning in health advice stories on X/Twitter, Naija Onwu Inya | pp. 281–306 A comparative study of discourse interaction strategies

2026. iv, 190 pp. Table of Contents Articles Pandemic metaphors in expert discourse: Norwegian public health officials’ use of metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022 Anne Bredahl | pp. 175–198 Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materials Alice Deignan, Duygu Candarli & Elena Semino | pp. 199–222 Like a coin spinning in the air: The effect of (non-)metaphorical explanations on comprehension and attitudes towards quantum technology

2026. v, 199 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Rethinking multilingualism in education: Inclusion, policy and practice for newcomers in Europe Steven Delarue & Wendelien Vantieghem | pp. 1–5 Articles Systemic influences on teacher beliefs and practices: A comparative survey analysis of linguistic diversity management in European schools Adrianna Angielska & Marie Steffens | pp. 6–35 The use of multilingual strategies in Dutch reception classes Laura Peters & Sergio Baauw |

This book is a part of a two-volume reference grammar of Tundra Yukaghir, a critically endangered language spoken in the north-eastern part of Siberia. The grammar is the first substantial English-language description of the language, which aims to address the linguistic phenomena presently regarded as crucial in any grammatical account as comprehensively as possible. It introduces a large variety of data and will be inherently valuable as a piece of language documentation. Although illustrative

Cover Story Article: Agent-First Bias in Children’s Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from Mandarin Jiawei Shi, Lihui Zhang, Yurong Li, Jing Li and Peng Zhou Languages 2026, 11(9), 184; DOI: 10.3390/languages11090184 General Review: Babble and First Word Learning: The Articulatory Filter Revisited Marilyn M. Vihman and Christopher M. M. Cox Languages 2026, 11(9), 187; DOI: 10.3390/languages11090187 Article: Perceiving Grammar Through Ideology: Exploring Deaf Perspectives on ASL Word O

A new season of the webinar series "Conversations on Language Policy in Africa" ​​is about to begin! The first webinar, scheduled for October 2 at 4:00 PM (CEST), will take the form of a roundtable discussion on the topic: "Language Policy and Planning in Africa: What Role for Terminology?" Please note that this webinar will be conducted in French. The next session will take place on November 6 at 4:00 PM (CET) and will be led by Gladys Nyarko Ansah and Nana Ama Agyeman; it will focus on lang

The Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1287 “Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational, and Grammatical Aspects” in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications for short-term fellowships available in 2027 (available only to PhD candidates from non-German universities) The linguistic system exhibits a high degree of variability at all levels of linguistic description. This variability in language can be characterised as a range of different possible linguistic behaviours that are a

2026 KASELL-KASEE Winter Joint Conference Language, Mind, and AI: New Perspectives on Human Language The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL) and The Korea Association of Secondary English Education (KASEE) are pleased to announce their 2026 Winter Joint Conference. We invite scholars and researchers to submit proposals for presentations and warmly welcome your participation. Conference Overview: - Hosted by: KASELL and KASEE - Organized by: Depa

Rethinking Politeness Formulae: Bridging Traditional and Advanced Approaches in Pragmatics Since the seminal work of Brown and Levinson (1978/1987), politeness strategies have occupied a central place in pragmatic theory. In line with the three epistemological ‘waves’ politeness was first conceptualized as the mitigation of face-threatening acts, then as participants’ context-dependent interpretations, and, more recently, as a jointly negotiated interactional achievement. From this perspective,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for IWCLUL 2026, the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. The workshop will be held as a self-standing event on December 9-11, 2026, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. IWCLUL brings together researchers working on computational approaches to Uralic languages (Samoyedic, Ugric, Permic, Balto-Finnic, the Sami languages, Mordvin, and Ma

Call for Papers: The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center TRR 318 Constructing Explainability explores the ways in which explanations are created, negotiated, and made meaningful across contexts. Previous editions of the conference have addressed different dimensions of explanation, including understanding and contextualising. The 4th TRR 318 Conference turns to a perspective that has recently gained increasing attention in explainability research: Social XAI (sXAI), which conce

If you are interested in attending the conference online, please email eric.melac@umpv.fr Visit our website: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en Our programme: https://grmzion-dc-xg26.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Programme_Conference_grammaticalization_and_DCxG_Montpellier.pdf Keynote Speakers: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig) Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuchâtel) Sophie Prévost (CNRS – Lattice) Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh)

The Neurolinguistics & Language Processing Lab and the KU Phonetics & Psycholinguistics Lab at the University of Kansas seek applications from prospective PhD students who are interested in studying the psychological representation and processing of language, especially (but not limited to) the perception and mental organization of sounds. Dr. Stephen Politzer-Ahles (Department of Linguistics) is accepting applications for a Graduate Research Assistant position working in neurolinguistics and

Suvremena lingvistika, one of Croatia’s leading linguistic journals, invites submissions of original scholarly articles and reviews in all areas of linguistics. We particularly welcome articles based on a clearly defined theoretical framework and a rigorous methodology for the analysis of linguistic data or the discussion of specific linguistic topics. Languages: English, Croatian Abstract: up to 10 lines in the language of the article followed by up to 5 keywords Submission format: Micr

Across generations, communities have developed languages that carry histories, worldviews, ecological knowledge, social practices, and ways of relating to the natural world. Yet processes of language shift, cultural change, environmental transformation, and the weakening of intergenerational transmission increasingly challenge the continuity of this knowledge. In this context, language revitalization and the renewal of cultural and ecological knowledge are not only matters of linguistic or cultu

The seminar series “Identifying units of organization in spoken discourse: theory and methods” aims at fostering theoretical and methodological exchanges between scholars interested in the challenges of defining, identifying, and analyzing the fundamental units that structure naturally occurring spoken interaction. Different types of units can be identified at different levels: conversational moves at the level of interaction (cf. Jefferson 2004), syntactic units if we consider language struc

This book is a pioneering work, which meticulously presents the instantiation of various pragmatic universals within the Romanian languaculture and complements existing research on Romanian language structure. The authors explore topics such as the pragmatics-grammar interface, speech acts, im/politeness, discourse genres, humor, emotions, and cyber discourse, arriving at insightful generalizations that compile a cluster of pragmatic features of Romanian in use. The volume integrates and supplem

Focus: Each class will focus on one or more songs and will combine listening comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, analysis of lyrics, cultural context, and discussion. Participants will work with authentic Russian and encounter idiomatic expressions, colloquial language, grammatical constructions, and vocabulary as they appear in real cultural contexts. Description: Learn Russian through Songs 3-Week Intensive Online Russian Language Course October 12–30, 2026 | 36 Hours of Live Online In

Description: Associate or Full Professor of Indian Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism and Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies Location: Stony Brook University Deadline: Nov 06, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description: The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenured faculty position at the rank of Full or Associate Professor, beginning Fall 2027. We are looking for an outstanding scholar with a solid

Description: The College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship (appointment title: Postdoctoral Associate) focused on artificial intelligence in the humanities and social sciences. Our aim is to appoint up to 5 new fellows in the first year. Desirable areas of research include the social and cultural impacts of AI, computational methods and theories for humanistic and social scientific inquiry, and the ethical, political, or histo

Description: The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure to begin Fall of academic year 2027-2028. We seek candidates with a primary teaching and research specialization in the area of semantics and pragmatics. We are particularly interested in candidates who can interface with any of our other major areas of research in syntax, sounds, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, co

Description: Position Overview: We are seeking a Vietnamese Linguistic Specialist to support NLP and speech-technology projects involving grammar development, language localization, phonetics, pronunciation resources, tokenization, text normalization, and Vietnamese language variation. This is a technical linguistics position, not a translation-only or general annotation role. We welcome candidates from different backgrounds, including: Linguists or language specialists with an inter

PAC 2027 - Spoken English varieties: Continua, boundaries, and meaning International conference Thursday, June 17th & Friday, June 18th Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France Organised by LLSETI (Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales) Université Savoie Mont Blanc Guest Speakers: Betsy Evans, University of Washington, USA Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield, UK The aims of the PAC programme (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporai

Other Specialties: sociolinguistics, language documentation, contact linguistics Description: We are looking for someone who will be responsible for the subject area of General Linguistics in research and teaching. The successful candidate will contribute to the coordination and further development of the BA programme in Empirical Linguistics and the MA programme in Language and Variation, strengthen typological research, with a particular focus on smaller languages, and engage in interdis

Call for a theme session in ICLC 18 Title: “Figurativity, Rhetoric and the Study of Constructions” Theme session organizers: Angeliki Athanasiadou: angath@enl.auth.gr Mingjian Xiang: wesleyxmj@vip.163.com Submission Deadline: 08-Oct-2026 We are preparing a proposal for a theme session at the 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2027) in Germany Figurative mechanisms can be examined in different constructions, in discourse, and they reveal different sta

The 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC18) will take place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 20-24 August 2027 with pre-conference workshops from the 18th to the 20th and post-conference excursions on the 25th. The ICLC is the leading biennial meeting in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), bringing together researchers from around the world to present new research on the relationship between language and cognition, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging th

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the sixth international conference “Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems” aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termi

Registration is now open for Ars Inquirendi 2026: Querying Pre-Print Cultures with LLMs St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and online, 20–22 November 2026 We are convening over thirty scholars from around the world to answer two questions: in the era of large language models, what can we now discover about the pre-print past that we could not before, and what would justify believing it? Keynotes: Marieke Meelen (Cambridge); Peter Turchin (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, and Oxford) Registrati

This issue explores the expression of a metaphorical meaning in binominal noun phrases following a DET N1 PREP (DET) N2 pattern across languages, N1 and N2 being nominal elements (common nouns, proper nouns/names) linked by a preposition. Examples are: an army of robots, the Harvard of nursery schools, an ocean of time, the height of his playing career, the king of pop, a wow of a show, a gem of a construction (Eng.); ce chien de Roger, une forêt de mâts, le sommet de la gloire, le Tom Cr

Historical contact linguistics have a long tradition in the comparative linguistic science. As past human landscapes become increasingly illuminated through new methods and data from ancient genetics and archaeology, it is time to integrate the wealth of information from historical linguistics in a consistent manner. The book introduces the science of historical contact linguistics through the works of a new generation of scholars with rich perspectives from across the world. Through the explora

Dear all, I am looking for native speakers of English (English L1) who are currently university students to participate in an online study conducted as part of my PhD research at the University of Pavia (Italy). The study investigates how English-speaking university students perceive English in a number of communicative contexts. Participation involves completing: 1. a perception task in English, in which you will be asked to rate a series of stimuli on a scale from 1 to 6 (approximately