Call for Papers:
Deadline Extension: 21 December 2025
LVMH brings together researchers exploring the rich landscape of minority languages, heritage languages, and other non-standard varieties. This free-for-all, open-access-friendly, three-day in-person event aims to advance our theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge of linguistic diversity beyond standard language norms.
We invite submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes in heritage grammars, mi
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Organis茅 pour la premi猫re fois en 2006, le colloque Les fran莽ais d鈥檌ci en est 脿 sa dixi猫me 茅dition et f锚tera donc 脿 cette occasion en 2026 son vingti猫me anniversaire.
Ce colloque bisannuel offre aux chercheuses et chercheurs, professeures et professeurs qui s鈥檌nt茅ressent aux vari茅t茅s de fran莽ais et 脿 la francophonie nord-am茅ricaine une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs r茅flexions en la mati猫re, quelles que soient les approches th茅oriques et m茅thodologiques mobil
Description:
The Hale research group in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University seeks an outstanding postdoctoral fellow to begin July 1, 2026 for a one-year initial, contract-renewable appointment. The primary responsibility of the appointee will be to analyze naturalistic MEG data, with an aim of shedding light on the cross-linguistic Mechanisms underlying Human Sentence Processing.
Required Qualifications:
- PhD in an area of cognitive science or a closely neig
We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between 19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event.
As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made available to the general public, 鈥楢I鈥� seems to be every颅where. Strong in connotation, weak in deno颅tation, and deeply entangled in contradictory dis颅courses of desire and anxiety, profit and preju颅dice, power and injusti
Studies in the Cognitive Science of Language at McMaster University
The vibrant graduate program in the Cognitive Science of Language is welcoming applications from excellent students with degrees in Linguistics, Psychology, Computer Science, Cognitive Science or related areas. Based in the department of Linguistics and Languages, the program is interdisciplinary and includes faculty from Humanities, Science, and Health Sciences. The program has a strong research orientation with expertise in
The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) at the University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for a PhD position in a project that probes the neural correlates for sentence planning cross-linguistically. The project is embedded in the NCCR Evolving Language (www.evolvinglanguage.ch), a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language and draws on expertise from t
We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between 19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event.
As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made available to the general public, 鈥楢I鈥� seems to be every颅where. Strong in connotation, weak in deno颅tation, and deeply entangled in contradictory dis颅courses of desire and anxiety, profit and preju颅dice, power and injusti
Focus: Trans-Himilayan Historical Linguistics
Description:
The Summer School for Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages (SSATH), hosted by the Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, is a two-week long summer school that features courses in ancient languages and historical linguistics within the scope of the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family, and weekend workshops on two more languages. This year, the courses will include: Old Tibetan, Reconstructing Proto-(Western)-Kho-Bwa, Tan
Focus: Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
Arabic
Bengali
Burmese
Dari
Filipino
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Indonesian
Javanese
Kazakh
Khmer
Lao
Marathi
Nepali
Pashto
Persian
Portuguese
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Sinhala
Tajik
Tamil
Thai
Tibetan
Turkish
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Yoruba
Description:
Applications for WISLI 2026 Now Open! | Program Dates: June 15 - August 7, 2026
- Proficiency-Driven Courses for 30+ Languages. Build real-world communication s
A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect the existence of 鈥減aradoxical realities鈥�.
Adopting a novel method for the study of conflict, framed in the cognitive linguistic tradition within Critical Discourse Studies, the book explains how conflict may be discursively created by relying on the study of four main construal operations. Grounded in examples specific to Northern Irela
This book offers ethnographic accounts of Aymara language media activism in Bolivia during the presidency of Evo Morales (2006鈥�2019). It draws on research conducted among Aymara language radio broadcasters, hip hop artists, and community members during a period of radical social change and Indigenous political resurgence (pachakuti) in South America's most Indigenous republic.
The Plurinational Republic of Bolivia counts Aymara among its official languages, but Aymara's social status and tr
Focus: The workshop focuses on enhancing lexicography knowledge and skills through corpus linguistics and corpus-based approaches. It also explores large language models (e.g. ChatGPT), highlighting their pros and cons concerning dictionary building. Practical tasks and training include working with text corpora (querying and building), term extraction, writing definitions, crowdsourcing, and more.
Description:
Lexicom is an intensive 5-day workshop in lexicography and lexical computing. I
I am pleased to invite you to our upcoming聽St Andrews Professorial Masterclass on AI in Language Learning and Teaching, led by Professor Hayo Reinders, a leading scholar in technology-enhanced language education.
This online masterclass offers:
- 5 hours of exclusive content on AI tools, practices, and classroom integration
- Practical, research-informed guidance for using AI with learners
- A live 鈥渇ireside chat鈥� with Professor Reinders
- 1:1 / small group coaching
- A St Andrews certif
Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book offers a detailed and systematic overview of the role that language plays in clinician-patient communication in Asian contexts. Putting forward a communication model specific to this particular sociocultural and medical setting, it provides clear and research-driven recommendations for healthcare professionals. Building on cutting-edge empirical research on the health communication landscape in Asia, this book addresses topics of int
Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the key research concerns and methodologies within the field of applied linguistics.
Uniting the most pressing concerns in contemporary research with methodologies across core subdisciplines within the field, this five-volume reference work comprises:
Volume I: Multilingualism
Volume II: Language Policy and Planning
Volume III: Second Language Acquisition
Volume IV: Language Teaching and Pedagogy
Volume V: Language Asse
This volume addresses the fields of naming and branding, in particular company and brand names, names in slogans, and advertising language in general, and all other proper names that are of economic interest in times of crisis. The contributions analyze both advertising on social media as well as printed material concerning commercial names, slogans for climate advertising, pandemic situations, new branding, and communication strategies in critical times, such as war and energetic deciency. The
Der Band versammelt ausgew盲hlte Beitr盲ge des XXXVII. Romanistischen Kolloquiums zu Sprachen und Variet盲ten der Kolonialromania in den transkontinentalen Verflechtungen zwischen den beiden Amerikas, Afrika, Asien und Europa. Neben den Kolonialsprachen Spanisch, Franz枚sisch, Portugiesisch und Italienisch stehen autochthone Sprachen am Beispiel von Guaran铆, Quechua, Mixtekisch, Fang, Bubi und Ndow猫 sowie in kolonialen Kontexten entstandene Kreolsprachen am Beispiel des Angolar im Fokus. Die theoret
Diese Monographie bietet einen einzigartigen Einblick in ein f眉r das Deutsche bisher kaum erforschtes Ph盲nomen: die Entwicklung der Dativalternation seit 1650. Dabei wird zwischen der Dativobjektkonstruktion (z. B. Er verkauft dem Kloster sein Haus) und der Pr盲positionalobjektkonstruktion (z. B. Er verkauft sein Haus an das Kloster) unterschieden. Ausf眉hrliche quantitative und qualitative Analysen historischer Korpusbelege legen f眉r eine Auswahl von 28 Verben die relativen Verh盲ltnisse zwischen
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Table of Contents
Articles
Translation-spotting: Scientific translation bibliographies and the construction of a translation knowledge infrastructure after World War II
Garda Elsherif & Tomasz Rozmys艂owicz
pp.鈥�127鈥�152
An ethnographic account of Spanish-language publishing and reading in the United States: The role of and attitudes towards translation
Mattea Cussel
pp.鈥�153鈥�173
鈥極nly鈥� a translator? A microhistorical account of the working life of Lily Vallq
The 2026 annual conference of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies (CAANS) will take place at the University of Windsor (Windsor, Ontario). The University of Windsor is situated in southwestern Ontario, a region which was a centre of Flemish and Dutch immigration from the early 20th century until the end of the 1960s.
We invite proposals for research presentations or roundtable discussions for CAANS 2026. We invite scholars to reflect on the place of the Nether