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This workshop is organized as part of the World Congress of African Linguistics 鈥� WOCAL 12, 2027
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Object marking has long been central to debates about the nature of agreement and clitic doubling. While traditionally treated as distinct phenomena, a growing body of work has shown that the empirical picture is more complex and that the distinction is often difficult to maintain (Jaeggli 1982; Borer 1984; Sportiche 1996; Roberts 2010; Kramer 2012; Zel
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This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2027).
NOTE: the submission deadline has been extended to July 31, 2026.
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Information Structure (IS) is a broad domain of linguistic inquiry, addressing how speakers organize and present information in discourse. Crucially, languages employ a wide range of strategies across (morpho)syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and prosody to package information
More than two decades ago, Michael Erard, a linguist and writer, set out to marry the linguist鈥檚 fascination with language to the journalist鈥檚 fascination with story. Could he go beyond the usual cliches and engage with language where and how it鈥檚 actually used and studied?
In journalism, a "beat" is an area or topic to which a journalist brings their expertise. "The Language Beat: Essays and Reporting on Language and Life" collects 42 of Erard鈥檚 long-form features, reports, essays and review
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The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10鈥�12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing for four deca
We are cordianlly inviting submissions for the panel outlined below. Interested colleagues are kindly asked to contact Daniel Kadar and send him their abstracts before 10/09/2026.
The aim of this panel is to bring together many different perspectives on Chinese politeness and to explore directions for future research on the basis of such perspectives. Since Gu鈥檚 (1990) seminal study, Chinese has been an important language in politeness studies, with hundreds of studies dedicated to its analys
We are cordinally inviting submissions for the panel outlined below. We would like to ask colleagues with interest to contact us (dkadar@fastmail.com and jhouse@fastmail.fm) no later than 10 September.
The aim of the panel is to bring together experts working in the field of ostensible language use. The panel will provide a much needed platform for discussing collaborative research between leading experts. Starting with the classic work of Searle, the concept of ostensibility has been importa
We would like to invite abstract submissions for the panel outlined below. While the official deadline is 15 October 2026, colleagues with interest are kindly asked to contact us (dkadar@fastmail.com and jhouse@fastmail.fm) by 10 September 2026.
Panel Summary:
Organisers:
Juliane House
Daniel Z. Kadar
Discussant:
Zohar Kampf
The aim of this panel is to bring together leading experts working on the pragmatic study of language and politics. In particular, our goal is to approach how
Yapen Island in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia, is home to a small group of closely related Papuan languages: the Yawa-Saweru languages. Up until now, the Yawa-Saweru languages have remained largely undescribed and there is no scholarly consensus on the genetic affiliations of the family. Even though multiple attempts at establishing genetic relationships have been made, such hypotheses cannot be properly evaluated without detailed descriptions of the language family and rigorous bottom-up reconstr
Across Early Modern Europe, far-reaching social, political, and economic changes gave rise to efforts to shape and standardise vernacular languages. In the Low Countries, these efforts took shape in the first Dutch spelling guides, grammars, and dictionaries, which set out tentative norms for a standard written language. At the same time, printed newspapers emerged as a new and widely read medium, reaching audiences across social classes, and potentially serving not only to spread the news, but
We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel 鈥淭he Pragmatics of Humour in Pop(ular) Culture" to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and an abstract (max. 500 words), to Michelle Weckermann (michelle.weckermann@uni-a.de) and Christian Hoffmann (christian.hoffmann@uni-a.de) by 30 September 2026.
Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026.
The Pragmatics of Humour
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The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical.
The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoust
We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel 鈥淭he Pragmatics of Humour in Pop(ular) Culture" to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and an abstract (max. 500 words), to Michelle Weckermann (michelle.weckermann@uni-a.de) and Christian Hoffmann (christian.hoffmann@uni-a.de) by 30 September 2026.
Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026.
The Pragmatics of Humour
As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area.
We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome
We invite submissions to our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥�
Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (鈥淭opics鈥�), please select our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥�
An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be
As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area.
We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome
We invite submissions to our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥�
Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (鈥淭opics鈥�), please select our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥�
An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be
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The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems鈥� knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical.
At the same time, the 鈥渕ore is better鈥� paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content,
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In an ever-changing, increasingly complex and plural world, attitudes often play a central role in public discourse. This also holds true for attitudes towards languages. These attitudes begin to emerge in the family and at school and continue to develop throughout life as we participate in society. In this way, they help to shape our relationship to languages and our identity.
Applied linguistics has long been concerned with language attitudes. The focus has been on soci
The current communication pattern worldwide is marked by two key features: digital connectivity and civic unrest. Communities co-produce meaning through nuanced, often contested communicative acts that range across generational, cultural, and ideological boundaries. This panel proposes that intercommunity interaction is not merely an exchange of information but a dynamic space of pragmatic negotiation, in which utterances are determined by context, implicature, and social intent (Levinson, 2023)
La pragma虂tica diacro虂nica se ha consolidado recientemente como li虂nea de investigacio虂n en los estudios sobre discurso. De un modo concreto, estudia el uso de la lengua en contextos del pasado y analiza co虂mo las formas y funciones lingu虉i虂sticas se configuran y transforman a trave虂s del tiempo (Stein, 1985; Jucker, 1995; Taavitsainen y Fitzmaurice, 2007), atendiendo tanto a aspectos discursivos como sociales. De este modo, su desarrollo ha permitido ampliar el campo de la lingu虉i虂stica histo虂r