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Thu, 05/08/2025 - 11:05
Call for submissions: Currently, we are in the process of editing a forthcoming publication entitled "The Downfall of Language Education: The Decline and (possible) Revival of European Language Programs in North American Universities". This volume will be published by "Cambridge Scholars", edited by Marco Lettieri and Sven-Ole Andersen. In recent years, many North American universities have witnessed a troubling decline in enrollment across a range of language programs, with particula

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:05
SUMMARY The book “Ten Lectures on Grammaticalization” is authored by Christian Lehmann, Professor Emeritus of General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Erfurt, Germany. It is based on a series of online lectures delivered in 2023 as part of the China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. Designed as an accessible introduction to the topic, the lectures do not presuppose any specialized background, making the book suitable for a broad academic audience, including student

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:05
Focus: The summer school offers a variety of both theoretical and hands-on workshops that pertain to the research foci investigated in Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1646: “Linguistic creativity in communication”). The summer school programme is organised as (morning) workshops, (afternoon) working groups, and (evening) social events. These sessions are designed to foster both academic exchange and networking in a relaxed, collaborative environment. Description: We are delighted to announ

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 16:05
Free virtual panel discussion: LGBTIAQ+ Lexicography in the Oxford English Dictionary Book your place: http://tiny.cc/OED-LGBTIAQ-lex-LL When? Thursday, June 26, 2025 05:00 PM BST | 04:00 PM GMT 12:00 PM EDT | 09:00 AM PDT Join OED editors guest speakers for a virtual discussion where they will delve into the world of queer vocabulary and its representation in dictionaries. This event will explore the evolution, documentation, the impact of queer language on mainstream vernacular

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 15:05
DiscoMatiX returns for 2025! We are excited to host a talk from Diana Mazzarella (University of Neuchâtel) on "Understanding irony (mis)understanding" on Tues 13th May, 16:00 CEST. The talk will be hosted on Zoom; as usual, please email discomatix.group@gmail.com in advance to get the meeting link. We hope to see many of you there! Further information about DiscoMatiX can be found on our website: https://discomatix.github.io/ Abstract: Verbal irony typically involves making a statement that

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 15:05
The INCLUSIVE project at the University of Salamanca is launching a call for posters for an exhibition dedicated to the dissemination, transfer, and outreach of work related to trans* identities in university settings, with particular attention to issues of communication, language, and inclusion. This call is open to students, university staff, researchers, and LGTBIQ+ collectives from any university or organisation. Submissions do not need to be unpublished. Proposals can be submitted betwee

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 15:05
I recently had to retire a very ancient Mac computer running Mac OS 10.13 on which I was able to type in IPA using SIL keyboard drivers and SIL fonts or any Unicode font. Now on the new machine, I'm running Mac OS 15 and the SIL keyboard drivers don't work. I have also installed the Keyman utility along with two IPA keyboards, and those also don't work. If I can't type in IPA, I'm really in trouble. SIL have provided no advice that worked, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix the pr

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:05
Description: The Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate. Responsibilities include managing community partnerships with Michigan middle schools, developing lesson plans for grades 5-10, manuscript preparation, and project maintenance. This is a fixed-term, annual year position beginning August 15, 2025 and is renewable contingent on performance and funding. The successful applicant will join the

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:05
The ERC Consolidator project “Rise and Demise of Industrial Modernity” (RiDe) at the University of Tartu (Estonia) is looking to fill a fully funded PhD position, broadly in environmental studies/social science, particularly in sustainability transitions studies. The project is based on the Deep Transitions framework from the sustainability transitions field. It seeks to develop a new theory about the acceleration, crisis and possible transformation of industrial modernity: a set of ideas, i

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 23:05
Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality. _____________ Invited speakers: Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College) Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New York Univers

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 23:05
Call for Papers: Background Over the past three decades, the official stance on the Amazigh language (Tamazight) and culture in North Africa has undergone significant transformations. Political upheavals, coupled with the rise of linguistic human rights, have contributed to a shift in attitudes towards Tamazight in the region. In Morocco, the ascension of King Mohamed VI in 1999 marked a pivotal moment in state policies towards the Amazigh language and culture. In 2001, the language was reco

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 23:05
Date: 8-9 May, 2025, fully digital Location: fully digital, hotested at CEHUM/ELACH, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Coordinator: Dr. Eva-Maria Roessler (LTE, CEHUM, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal) Contact: evamariaroessler@elach.uminho.pt Workshop Language: English Student Support: Gloria Reis de Oliveira (University of Porto), Montserrat Esther Ruiz Bonet (University of Minho), Vitor Pellissari Zardo (University of Porto) Technical Support: Pedro Rafael Bernardo Medeiros (ELAC

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 22:05
New Insights on Demonstratives A workshop accompanying ICSH17 13 June 2025, Debrecen, Hungary 9:20 Opening Session 1 9:30 – 10:10 Nicholas Bunderson-Toler: Understanding paths of grammaticalization in NSKY demonstratives through frames of reference: From exophoric roots to cohesion particles 10:10 – 10:50 Maria Reile, Renate Pajusalu, Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa: The Estonian demonstrative "too" in between a personal and a demonstrative pronoun 10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break Session 2

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 22:05
17th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian: ICSH17* 11-12 June 2025, Debrecen, Hungary 11 June 2025 9:30 registration 10:00-10:10 opening 10:10-10:50 Bálint József Ugrin, Ágnes Lukács Exploring Grammatical Sensitivity in Hungarian: Insights from an Individual Differences Perspective 10:50-11:30 Aliz Huszics, Balázs Surányi Noncanonical syntax paired with noncanonical interpretation: A preliminary judgment study of Hungarian subpart of additive focus fronting 11:30-12:10

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 22:05
Preserving the original idea, the fifth edition of CIFRE is also organized by doctoral and postdoctoral students of the Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Our objective is to provide a safe and inspiring space for the students of Master’s and Doctor’s degree of Romance Philologies where they can gain experience with presenting and defending their research topics in an international environment. It is also an opportunity to make contact w

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 21:05
The Department of Languages and Literature (School of Humanities and Social Sciences) of the University of Nicosia is pleased to announce the Advances in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition: Heritage Language Acquisition and Learning international conference, the fourth edition of the ASeFoLA series. ASeFoLA 2025 will take place online on 24 May 2025. Keynote speakers: -Johanne Paradis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Alberta -Charles B. Chang, Professor of Linguistics, City Uni

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 21:05
Call for Papers: The call for abstracts for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) Workshop on 1 – 2 September 2025 is still open: https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2025/call-for-abstracts.html Deadline: 31 May 2025 This workshop brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistics and the neuroscience of language. The research of this community is driven by the recog

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 21:05
Program is now online! https://lingcologne.uni-koeln.de/program In both signed and spoken conversations, recipients continuously provide multimodal feedback to the signer or speaker. This feedback may take the form of manual signs, such as yes, spoken forms like mm or yeah, hand gestures, or non-manual visual cues such as head nods, eyebrow movements, or smiles. These feedback signals serve several important conversational functions: they can demonstrate the recipient’s active engagement, com

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 09:05
Other Specialties: Phonology, Morphology, French Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Description: The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford is looking to fill 3 fixed-term lecturer positions to start on October 1st 2025. The lecturers will provide teaching and research in Semantics/Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, and Linguistics with French, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. An ability to provide teaching and supervision in multiple areas of ling

Sat, 05/03/2025 - 02:05
Everyone is welcome to NATESOL's 41st Annual Conference, online and in person on 17th May at Manchester Metropolitan University. Join us for a day of interactive presentations and networking. Online attendance-Free Students/unwaged -£5 Members-£10 Non-members -£15 Free welcome goodie bag from Express Publishing and free buffet lunch and refreshments for in person attendees Please see below for more details and spread the word amongst your contacts. https://www.natesol.org/e

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