Other Specialties: Multilingualism
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Starting from October 1, 2025, the section of English Linguistics in English and American Studies at TU Braunschweig is looking for a
Postdoc in English Linguistics (m/f/d)
(part-time 50%-75% - German pay scale TV-L EG 13)
The Postdoc position is for a period of 3 years initially, subject to a successful evaluation of progress at the end of the first year. The successful applicant will pursue further academic qualifications, e.g., a
Description:
Position Start Date: August 1, 2026
Required Degree: PhD or its foreign equivalent
The required degree must be completed by the start date.
Experience:
Experience teaching Spanish at the university level and performing scholarly research. Fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English is also required.
Duties/Expectations:
The successful candidate will be expected to:
1. Teach six courses per year. These include service courses that are required for a va
The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice 鈥� people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic performances, interweaving foo
ACCENT VARIATION AND CHANGE
'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and to
The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice 鈥� people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic performances, interweaving foo
ACCENT VARIATION AND CHANGE
'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and to
This hybrid event will bring together cutting-edge research, innovative practices, and theoretical perspectives on the ethical and responsible integration of AI in the learning and teaching of languages and cultures and applied linguistics. The conference theme draws inspiration from the鈥疭hifting Power project鈥痺hich itself was inspired by the thinking of Pratyusha Kalluri of the鈥疪adical AI Network. Asking whether AI is good or fair is not the right question, she holds.鈥疘nstead, we should鈥痵eek鈥痶o
Genitives and Possession in Contact
Online workshop - 13th June 2025
Much has been written on the topic of possession in general (Heine, 1997; Nichols, 1988, among others), in the last 15 years there have also been several publications that have discussed the influence of language contact on possession-related phenomena, such as on split possession in European languages (Stolz, et al. 2008), predicative possession in Slavic (McAnallen, 2011) or attributive possession in Tunisian Arabic (Saya
This hybrid event will bring together cutting-edge research, innovative practices, and theoretical perspectives on the ethical and responsible integration of AI in the learning and teaching of languages and cultures and applied linguistics. The conference theme draws inspiration from the鈥疭hifting Power project鈥痺hich itself was inspired by the thinking of Pratyusha Kalluri of the鈥疪adical AI Network. Asking whether AI is good or fair is not the right question, she holds.鈥疘nstead, we should鈥痵eek鈥痶o
Genitives and Possession in Contact
Online workshop - 13th June 2025
Much has been written on the topic of possession in general (Heine, 1997; Nichols, 1988, among others), in the last 15 years there have also been several publications that have discussed the influence of language contact on possession-related phenomena, such as on split possession in European languages (Stolz, et al. 2008), predicative possession in Slavic (McAnallen, 2011) or attributive possession in Tunisian Arabic (Saya
Call for Papers
Workshop B03
SFB 1391
Andere 脛sthetik
Br眉cken bauen
Metaphern und Symbole an der Schnittstelle von Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
T眉bingen, 24. 鈥� 26. September 2025
Metaph
Call for Papers
Workshop B03
SFB 1391
Andere 脛sthetik
Br眉cken bauen
Metaphern und Symbole an der Schnittstelle von Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
T眉bingen, 24. 鈥� 26. September 2025
Metaph
A doctoral research fellowships in Swedish linguistics (with a focus on semantics and historical linguistics) is available at Ghent University. The research will be conducted under supervision of prof. dr. Andreas Widoff.
The doctoral student will be part of the Scandinavian section of the Department of linguistics. We offer a full-time position as a doctoral fellow, consisting of an initial period of 12 months, which after a positive evaluation, will be extended to a total maximum of 48 mont
Starting from October 1, 2025, the section of English Linguistics in English and American Studies at TU Braunschweig is looking for a
PhD candidate in English Linguistics (m/f/d)
(part-time 50- German pay scale TV-L EG 13)
The position is for a period of 3 years initially, subject to a successful evaluation of progress at the end of the first year. Salary ranges from 27k to 32k Euros per year depending on the applicant鈥檚 experience. The successful applicant will pursue a Ph.D. degree.
Hello,
I am currently working on my Bachelor's Thesis, in which I am researching compliment responses in English. Part of the thesis is a survey, where I am trying to analyse possible differences in responses from German and British English participants.
If you are either an L1 German or L1 British English speaker, I would appreciate your participation in my survey.
Please make sure to answer everything in English.
You can find my survey here: https://ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/FtEch4YM
How do brains of multilingual speakers process native and non-native languages in speaking? This thesis has attempted to characterize the multilingual experience in late language learners, focusing on the processing of two distinct but similar lexico-syntactic features: classifiers in Chinese and grammatical gender in Dutch, across different populations. The thesis investigated whether and how lexico-syntactic features are processed during non-native language (L2) speech production and compared
There is space in our open-access grammar book series Grammars of World and Minority Languages (UCL Press) for one high-quality grammar book manuscript next academic year.
Previous publications in the series include A Grammar of Elfdalian by Yair Sapir and Olof Lundgren, A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani by Bruno Estigarribia, and A Grammar of Akajeru by Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie.
Please get in touch with the series editors Lily Kahn l.kahn@ucl.ac.uk or Riitta Valijarvi r.valijarvi@
Focus: The focus of the summer school wil be current Methods and Developments in Learner Corpus Research. In addition to plenary talks and presentations by participants, the summer school will include workshops and networking events (see our website linked above for more information).
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We are excited to announce the 2025 Summer School of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bamberg, with the theme Methods and Developments in Learner Corpus Research. This summer school is geared
It鈥檚 with profound grief that we announce that (PhD) Dr. Anjum Pervez Saleemi, esteemed scholar and professor of theoretical linguistics and cognitive sciences, passed away in Lahore, Pakistan, on April 19th, 2025. Born October 24, 1953 in Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan to Chaudhary Taj Muhammad and Begum Saeeda, he is survived by his only remaining son, Usman Saleemi.
Dr. Anjum lived a storied and distinguished academic life, from earning a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK un
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