University of Vigo, Spain (March 31 鈥� April 1, 2027)
University of Tr谩s-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal (April 2鈥�3, 2027)
The Organizing Committee of the 13th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics invites the academic community to submit proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, and posters for the 2027 edition, jointly organized by the Faculty of Philology and Translation of the University of Vigo and the Center for Studies in Letters (CEL), based at the U
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), to be held 5-7 November 2026 online, with East Texas A&M as virtual host. The goal of this conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and to bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.).
Confirmed Keynote Speake
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We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual ELIPro Conference, hosted by SDU University and organized in partnership with the 12th International Conference Building Cultural Bridges (ICBCB). The event will be held in-person from 15-16 October with an online day on 9th October. This joint event explores multilingual education, linguistic diversity, identity formation, and cross-border educational policies. We provide a vibrant platform for dialogue and international
University of Vigo, Spain (March 31 鈥� April 1, 2027)
University of Tr谩s-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal (April 2鈥�3, 2027)
The Organizing Committee of the 13th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics invites the academic community to submit proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, and posters for the 2027 edition, jointly organized by the Faculty of Philology and Translation of the University of Vigo and the Center for Studies in Letters (CEL), based at the U
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the sixth talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Leopold Hess (Jagiellonian University), who will give a talk entitled "Recognizing Slurs: The Case of Polish Murzyn" (see the abstract below). Th
QuidiVidi is a freeware (CC BY 4.0 license) GUI-based tool for analyzing CHAT (.cha) transcripts, intended to complement CLAN for users who prefer a graphical interface over command-line operations. It supports various CLAN-like analytics, such as calculation of MLU, MLT, Brown's morphemes, frequencies, model-replica comparisons, lexical diversity, lengths of words/utterances, and lexical class distributions.
It is available on the Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms.
To download, visi
Two new interviews have been added to the "Talking about languages" series.
Terence Odlin (Ohio State University) Language transfer
Jim Cummins (University of Toronto) Multiligualism and education
https://tv.uvigo.es/series/679a63164e20f40f98159db3
Call for Papers:
Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications.
In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security app
Final Call for Papers:
The computational humanities and social sciences (CHSS) constitute a rapidly growing area that works with massive amounts of unstructured textual, linguistic, and sociocultural data. Despite the scale and complexity of these datasets, CHSS researchers overwhelmingly rely on tools that are either slow (e.g., pure Python), fragmented across ecosystems, or difficult to integrate into modern workflows that require both prototyping and high-performance computation.
This m
Final Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KG鈥揕LM 2026), to be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16th 2026.
We invite submissions of original research that leverages both Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in any domain of Natural Language Processing or language resource development.
More information at https://kg-llm.github.io/
Workshop Overview:
Large Language Mo
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Polysemous expressions have multiple closely related senses, and there is a substantial amount of semantic and computational linguistic research on polysemy found in different categories of expressions, such as adjectives, nouns and verbs. However, the extent to which there is interaction between researchers working on polysemy in different categories of expressions is limited. This workshop will focus on approaches to polysemy across different grammatical categ
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The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2026 Athens, to be held from 23rd to 25th April 2026 in Athens, Greece. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications.
The Linguistics 2026 Athens conference envisions a vibrant platform for collabora
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Position Summary:
The Department of English is searching for a temporary lecturer in linguistics for the 2026-27 academic year, with the possibility of appointment in subsequent years. The candidate must be able to teach courses in second language acquisition, English grammar, and general linguistics (e.g., syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics). We are especially interested in candidates committed to supporting the success of first-generation and underrepresented students. Cal
The University for Foreigners of Siena and the CLUSS Centre, in collaboration with the CILS Centre (FAMI PROFT project) and the PhD Program in Historical Linguistics, Educational Linguistics and Italian Studies (Curriculum 1), will organize the 8th International Summer School on 鈥淟anguage Policies and Language Planning 鈥� Language, Identity, Vulnerability in Migration Contexts鈥� from July 7 to 10, 2026. The topics of the Summer School will include:
- Representations, narratives, and discourses
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Abstracts are invited for 60-minute talks in a one-day conference 鈥楾he role of semantics in syntax鈥�, which is to be held at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 20 June 2026. The aim of the conference is to explore ways in which the syntax of a sentence might be influenced by its semantics, in opposition to the traditional Chomskyan conception of the autonomy of syntax. The conference is inspired by two recent speculative developments: the revival of the architecture of the grammar p
Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent pragmatic research appears to have drifted away from the theoretical investigation of speech acts. This Element explores the reasons why this is so, focusing on the difference of perspective that emerges when the scope of the discipline is viewed through a narrow versus a broad lens. Following an overview of the initial exposition of speech act theory by Austin, it tracks its evolut
This Element examines language, power and intersex variations within clinician accounts in Hong Kong, examining how they communicate about intersex traits to patients and their families. Employing interactional sociolinguistics, the research analyses clinician interviews as dynamic social interactions, focusing on how communicative stances are negotiated and social practices are enacted. The Element probes the influence of biopower on clinicians' stances (encompassing gender, sexual difference,
Doxxing is the deliberate, unauthorized disclosure of personal information, often with malicious intent. Notably, it became a key method of public shaming and vigilantism during the 2019鈥�2020 Hong Kong protests. This Element understands and examines doxxing as a discursive practice. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), it analyzes online forum discussions, survey and interview data from Hong Kong university students. Findings are examined alongside institutional legal texts to show how doxxi
This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together insights from cognitive linguistics, psychology, and literary studies. Through diverse case studies, it underpins the symbolic power of colours in evoking characters' emotional states, moral traits, and cultural perceptions (Section 2). Section 3 explores how colour metaphors such as discomfort is brown influence readers' cognitive and emotional responses, drawing on psychology resea
How does a biologically-programmed language faculty interact with language experience in the acquisition of language across the world? Bringing together linguistic theory, language typology, and cross-linguistic experimental results from parallel studies of development in language acquisition, this book reports new research on the nature of the human competence for language acquisition. It investigates the acquisition of complex sentence formation through relativization -a fundamental component