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Tue, 11/18/2025 - 02:05
We are pleased to announce that the 26th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2026) will be held as follows: Dates: 4–5 July 2026 (Sat–Sun) Venue: Mie University https://www.mie-u.ac.jp/en/ Invited Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) Deadline for Abstract Submission: Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 23:59 (JST). There are four formats for research presentations at J-SLA 2026: (1) Oral Presentation (2) Poster Presentation (3) Studen

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 01:05
Call for Papers: The Graduate Association of Germanic Language Students (GAGLS) at UT Austin is pleased to announce the Graduate Conference in Germanic Studies (2026). The conference will take place in Austin, Texas on April 19th, 2026. This year's conference theme, Connections — Between Languages, Spaces, and Cultures, invites participants to explore intersections of languages and cultures within the context of Germanic Studies. Organized by the GAGLS, the GCGS provides an inclusive platf

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 01:05
L’Institut International de Recherches Amazighes et Multidisciplinaires (TIRA) organise une journée d’étude consacrée à la recherche scientifique sur le fait amazigh dans toute sa richesse, sa diversité et sa profondeur historique. 
L’objectif de cette rencontre est de réunir des chercheurs confirmés comme des jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs dont les travaux portent sur les langues, cultures, histoires, patrimoines et sociétés amazighes, dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire et comparée. 


Tue, 11/18/2025 - 01:05
This conference invites proposals focusing on practices of mental health communication as they are developed within minority languages. It aims to host contributions that analyse the cultural, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and ethical dynamics involved in conveying sensitive information, providing psychological support and ensuring community mediation in diverse humanitarian contexts. The objective is to highlight forms of discourse, communicational arrangements and local strategies that mak

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 00:05
The annual conference of the International Association of Predictive Linguistics (IAPL) invites submissions that explore how anticipatory mechanisms shape language, both in human cognition and in artificial systems. The event brings together researchers, practitioners and professionals who examine how linguistic behaviour emerges from patterns that guide expectations, internal simulations and real time adjustments during interaction. The conference focuses on the links between theoretical ins

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 00:05
The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) invites scholars to submit abstracts for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 35), to be held at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from 3 - 5 June 2026. The conference will be in the form of a hybrid event, although we strongly encourage in-person participation. SEALS 35 welcomes contributions addressing linguistic issues related to languages spoken in Southeast Asia, particularly those from

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 00:05
LFG26 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, inclu

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 23:05
REAL (Research group “Economics, policy analysis, and language”), in cooperation with Universität Potsdam, Ulster University, Andrássy-Universität Budapest, and IPSA RC50-The politics of languages, organises an interdisciplinary symposium on language economics and policy on 4–5 June 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The REAL symposia aim to discuss all aspects of language economics and language policy; and corresponding contributions are welcome. The symposium is interdisciplinary,

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 23:05
Guest Editors: Peng Zhou (Zhejiang University), Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca) We are organising a Special Issue in the Journal Language Acquisition to celebrate Stephen Crain’s remarkable contributions to child language research on his 80th birthday. His pioneering and innovative approaches (including the Truth Value Judgment Task) to studying child language have opened new frontiers in linguistics, addressing complex methodological challenges and laying the foundatio

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 23:05
Our conference brings together translators, interpreters, language professionals, researchers, and educators in the field of translation studies. The conference programme includes plenary sessions, section meetings, and workshops on interpreting and literary translation. We invite contributions from the following fields: 1) Military Translation and Interpreting; 2) Legal Translation; 3) EU Translation; 4) Medical Translation; 5) Literary Translation; 6) Audiovisual Translation; 7) Trans

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 22:05
The final program of the conference is available here: https://possession.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/LA_POSSESSION_Programme_4.pdf The website of the conference: https://possession.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en Languages spoken at the conference: French and English Organising committee: Angelina Aleksandrova (Université Paris-Cité) Véronique Lagae (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) Vassil Mostrov (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 22:05
Focus: This Special Issue explores multilingual policies in early childhood education (ECE), an under-researched area in language policy studies. Rationale: While multilingualism has received growing attention, ECE remains a blind spot despite its critical role in shaping children’s early attitudes, identities, and competencies. Scope: We seek research from across the Global North and Global South to examine how language policies are developed, implemented, and experienced in early learn

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 22:05
We are pleased to invite you to a two-day conference of different academic and activist perspectives that will tug at the ideological threads woven into intercomprehension and unfasten it from its purely linguistic interpretation to achieve a transdisciplinary understanding. In the Global North, linguistic intercomprehension is understood as the process of an interlocutor understanding unknown languages within the same linguistic family as their primarily used languages (Melo-Pfeifer: 2015).

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 10:05
How can popular media and fictional worlds be integrated into classroom activities to enhance language learning? Join Multilingual Matters on 26 November (10am UK time) for a discussion with Osman Solmaz about his newly-published book "Fictional Linguistic Landscapes: Merging Fan Practices and Linguistic Landscapes for Language Classrooms". Get your questions ready for the audience Q&A! Sign up free here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7417628619896/WN_aarwrvlGQOaS56Cqjt2jrw

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 10:05
Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume titled Culinary Linguistics: Taste, Language, and Identity in Transcultural Contexts. This volume aims to foreground linguistic, semiotic, and discursive perspectives on culinary contexts. The focus is on how language constructs, mediates, and negotiates meaning in food-related settings, rather than on food as a cultural object in itself. Contributions are expected to address the role of language in shaping identity, multilingual practices, ling

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 10:05
Focus: Theme: 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space' Description: The ISLE Summer School 2026 will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden, from 7th to 13th June 2026. The Summer School theme is 'English in transition: Socio-cultural encounters across time and space'. The academic programme includes courses, plenaries, roundtable disucssions, poster sessions, expert consultancy, and a day trip to see selected runic inscriptions in the area. Our six co

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 09:05
Description: The DFG Research Unit ‘Cyclic Optimization’, starting its second phase on March 1 2026 with 13 new research positions, explores the interaction of cyclicity and optimization in all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The position announced here is part of the subproject ‘Optimal Cycles’ (PI: Greg Kobele). This subproject investigates the degree to which syntactic structure is needed at the interfaces, with a particular emphasis on the syntax-semantics

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 08:05
The Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference (SCLC) promotes the study and teaching of languages in the Siouan and Caddoan language families. SCLC will be hosted in a hybrid format at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas from Wednesday, May 27 to Friday, May 26, 2026. Lawrence, Kansas was ceded by the Kaw (Kanza) Nation (Kaáⁿze) in the Treaty of 1825, but eastern Kansas has also been historically traversed by other tribes such as the Osage (𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟) and Pawnee (pâri pakûru’). Many more

Fri, 11/14/2025 - 11:05
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINAR SERIES Wednesday, 19 November, 13:00-14:00 GMT Zoom link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/92422611229?pwd=D4mDR54JUuTXIDUMo0aE4MUDL6V6re.1 This talk will unpack some of the myths around the asylum system, highlight ways in which the English language is being used both as a gatekeeping tool of migration policy and demonstrate how politicians are using language to scapegoat and “other” migrants. It will then examine

Fri, 11/14/2025 - 10:05
Description: University of Nottingham Ningbo China is seeking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics in School of Education and English. About the Role: The School of Education and English is now looking for an ambitious, talented, and experienced academic with a passion for teaching and a well-developed research profile to join its team of scholars in the field of Applied Linguistics. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching, curriculum develo

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