Abstract Submission Dates: July 2, 2026 - November 30, 2026
Conference website: https://events.polyu.edu.hk/isgs2027/home
Abstract Submission Link: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/abstract-submission?id=68&eventId=2DC9D9A1-D4F9-4BD9-9B8C-D5E229D92760
We cordially invite abstracts on topics related to Futures for Gestures within the following thematic areas: 鈥淭heory, Practice, Technology, Ecology鈥 and their subthemes.
Theory:
- Mind, embodiment, and cognition
- Perception and social unde
A common distinction in linguistics is between transactional uses of language, which serve the communication of information, and interactional uses, which express attitudes and social relationships (Jakobson 1971; Brown and Yule 1983; Hyland 2005). Within the latter domain, Heine (2023) identifies a range of interactional expressions, including attention signals (Hey!), directives (Look!), evaluatives (Great!), interjections (Oh), response elicitors (What?), response signals (Yes), social formul
Abstract Submission Dates: July 2, 2026 - November 30, 2026
Conference website: https://events.polyu.edu.hk/isgs2027/home
Abstract Submission Link: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/abstract-submission?id=68&eventId=2DC9D9A1-D4F9-4BD9-9B8C-D5E229D92760
We cordially invite abstracts on topics related to Futures for Gestures within the following thematic areas: 鈥淭heory, Practice, Technology, Ecology鈥 and their subthemes.
Theory:
- Mind, embodiment, and cognition
- Perception and social unde
Whether spoken or signed, linguistic behaviour reflects physiological properties of the body. Previous research has shown that the bodily architecture, e.g. vocal tract morphology and strength of muscle activation, as well as interacting physiological processes such as breathing, motion, and posture and their timing, shape the way we produce speech (Blasi et al. 2019, Fuchs and Rochet-Capellan 2021, Pouw et al. 2025). Importantly, the body continues to change nonlinearly across the entire lifesp
Whether spoken or signed, linguistic behaviour reflects physiological properties of the body. Previous research has shown that the bodily architecture, e.g. vocal tract morphology and strength of muscle activation, as well as interacting physiological processes such as breathing, motion, and posture and their timing, shape the way we produce speech (Blasi et al. 2019, Fuchs and Rochet-Capellan 2021, Pouw et al. 2025). Importantly, the body continues to change nonlinearly across the entire lifesp
We are pleased to announce the second international conference of ARDAA (Association for Research in English Language Teaching and Acquisition), TeachLEng 2027, which will take place on 25, 26, and 27 June 2027 at the INSPE de l鈥橝cad茅mie de Paris 鈥 Molitor Campus.
In a rapidly changing educational and socio-professional landscape that is oriented towards improving economic productivity and the internationalisation of individual trajectories, English language teaching and learning is being ca
We are pleased to announce the second international conference of ARDAA (Association for Research in English Language Teaching and Acquisition), TeachLEng 2027, which will take place on 25, 26, and 27 June 2027 at the INSPE de l鈥橝cad茅mie de Paris 鈥 Molitor Campus.
In a rapidly changing educational and socio-professional landscape that is oriented towards improving economic productivity and the internationalisation of individual trajectories, English language teaching and learning is being ca
Description:
VIZJA University, based in Warsaw, is one of Poland鈥檚 leading non-public universities, recognized for the excellence of its research and its significant contributions to contemporary scholarship. The University also hosts VISION 鈥 the European Center for Multilingualism in Teacher Education, an international center that brings together scholars from around the world to advance research and innovation in multilingualism and to promote excellence in teacher education across diverse
The focus of this dissertation is nasality and nasalization in Atchan, a Potou language of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo spoken in and around Abidjan, C么te d鈥橧voire. Unlike most of the world鈥檚 languages, Atchan lacks a phonemic contrast for nasality in consonants. Nasality nonetheless plays an important role in Atchan, at multiple levels of grammar. Drawing on data collected over years of documentation work with Atchan speakers, I propose that surface nasality in the language is attributable to
2026. v, 191 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information鈥搃ntonation interface
Uta Rein枚hl & Naomi Peck | pp.鈥1鈥9
Articles
The 鈥榠dea鈥 in the one-new-idea constraint
Uta Rein枚hl & Naomi Peck | pp.鈥10鈥42
Joint attention, interaction-management, and other factors: The one-new-idea tendency as an emergent phenomenon
Pavel Ozerov | pp.鈥43鈥79
Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint
Naomi Peck | pp.鈥80鈥109
The
2026. v, 108 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Discourse analysis and argumentation theory: A happy marriage for interactional discourse
Corina Andone & Menno H. Reijven | pp.鈥101鈥106
Articles
Conversation analysis and extended pragma-dialectics in dialogue: A case study of Dutch medical consultation
Lotte van Poppel, Keun Young Sliedrecht, Roosmaryn Pilgram & Evi Dalmaijer | pp.鈥107鈥134
Accusation-response sequences in couples therapy from the perspectives of conversation
2026. iii, 159 pp.
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Articles
A corpus-based analysis of Malay prefix ber-
Siaw-Fong Chung | pp.鈥1鈥30
On the putative classifier languages in Europe: A case study of Russian
Chi-Pin Hsu, Vladimir Kurdyumov & One-Soon Her | pp.鈥31鈥51
On preverbal lai in Mandarin Chinese
Pei-Jung Kuo | pp.鈥52鈥78
Wh-conditionals are more interrogative than not: An insight from Khorchin Mongolian
Haoze Li & Chigchi Bai | pp.鈥79鈥118
Boosting LLM performance with generative ques
I am conducting my PhD research on how non鈥慴inary individuals who are native speakers of Russian navigate and construct their gender identities through everyday language use. Russian is a highly gendered language, and existing grammatical norms often presume a binary division between 鈥渕ale鈥 and 鈥渇emale鈥 speakers. This creates unique linguistic and social challenges for non鈥慴inary people whose identities do not fit into this binary framework.
To understand these challenges and the strategies,
Call for Papers:
For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as 鈥渢he norm鈥, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency鈥揹isfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning.
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Other Specialties: any subfield of linguistics, including but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and first or second language acuiqistion
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The Department of Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics, Division of Humanities, Graduate School of Humanities, The University of Osaka, conducts education and research in a broad range of linguistics.
The Department is seeking an academic staff member who c
This 1,5-hour session explores how artificial intelligence can enhance language teaching and learning. Participants will discover practical AI tools for creating engaging lessons, providing personalized feedback, designing assessments, and supporting student practice while promoting responsible and ethical use of AI. Through hands-on activities and real classroom examples, attendees will leave with practical strategies they can immediately apply to improve language instruction and learner engage
The University of Jyv盲skyl盲, in cooperation with REAL (Research group 鈥淓conomics, policy analysis, and language鈥), Ulster University, Andr谩ssy-Universit盲t Budapest, and the journal Language Problems and Language Planning organises the Seventh REAL Symposium on Language Economics and Policy on 20鈥21 May 2027.
The REAL symposia aim to discuss all aspects of language economics and language policy; and corresponding contributions are welcome. Especially welcome are papers that address the role of
Language learning in the primary classroom can be enhanced by using simple performance skills such as improvisation, expressive movement and voice control. Drama activities help our students contextualize language and to speak and respond appropriately. They encourage interaction, reflection and meaningful communication.
In this 50-minute online workshop session we will look at a variety of drama activities for any size of class and ability. Each activity will have a specific language outcome
The University of Jyv盲skyl盲, in cooperation with REAL (Research group 鈥淓conomics, policy analysis, and language鈥), Ulster University, Andr谩ssy-Universit盲t Budapest, and the journal Language Problems and Language Planning organises the Seventh REAL Symposium on Language Economics and Policy on 20鈥21 May 2027.
The REAL symposia aim to discuss all aspects of language economics and language policy; and corresponding contributions are welcome. Especially welcome are papers that address the role of
Strongly shaped by its interdisciplinarity and by profound contemporary societal transformations鈥攚hether related to methodological considerations, gender issues, or technological upheavals鈥擳ranslation Studies is nowadays confronted with major reconfigurations of both its objects of study and its practices. The recent rise of artificial intelligence has notably revived and further complexified questions surrounding the notion of creativity, from ethical, economic, and artistic perspectives alike.