Is That Really Linguistics? That鈥檚 Too Much Linguistics for Me!
On Metapragmatics and the Valuation of Everyday Practices in Language Studies
A Hybrid Conference of Shared Experiences
February, 03-05 2027 | U Bremen hybrid
Many linguists are familiar with the question of whether what they are currently working on is really linguistics: Is that really linguistics? Whether you acted passively or actively, you were either asked the question or asked it yourself. It is a question that pres
How do we talk about the future, and how do our words shape the worlds we imagine? These are some of the questions that the participants will explore during 鈥淏rave New Words鈥, an event organised by the Erasmus+ CLADES network. This event is an open invitation to understand and be curious about the fundamental role that the future plays in discourse on democracy, equity, and sustainability.
鈥淏rave New Words鈥 will appeal to all interested in the workings of critical language awareness, ecolingu
Fortell invites original research papers, review articles, and case studies for a forthcoming issue on language teaching materials in contemporary educational contexts. In recent decades, the field has shifted significantly from viewing materials as static textbooks to seeing them as dynamic, adaptable, and learner-centered resources that shape the quality of language learning. ELT materials have evolved beyond traditional text books to include multimodal, interactive, corpus-informed, and AI-en
Is That Really Linguistics? That鈥檚 Too Much Linguistics for Me!
On Metapragmatics and the Valuation of Everyday Practices in Language Studies
A Hybrid Conference of Shared Experiences
February, 03-05 2027 | U Bremen hybrid
Many linguists are familiar with the question of whether what they are currently working on is really linguistics: Is that really linguistics? Whether you acted passively or actively, you were either asked the question or asked it yourself. It is a question that pres
How do we talk about the future, and how do our words shape the worlds we imagine? These are some of the questions that the participants will explore during 鈥淏rave New Words鈥, an event organised by the Erasmus+ CLADES network. This event is an open invitation to understand and be curious about the fundamental role that the future plays in discourse on democracy, equity, and sustainability.
鈥淏rave New Words鈥 will appeal to all interested in the workings of critical language awareness, ecolingu
Call for Papers:
Second and final call for papers: "Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope", workshop at the 49th annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), (Lang-AG)
Organizers: Ebrar Be艧inci, Timo Buchholz, Robin Edds, James Griffiths, Paula Men茅ndez Benito (Universit盲t T眉bingen), Ilaria Frana (University of Enna Kore)
Non-canonical questions (NCQs) override the default settings associated with ordinary information-seeking questions (Farkas 202
Call for Papers:
The Semiosis Research Center and the Language Research Institute at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies are pleased to announce the international conference 鈥淪emiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity.鈥
This conference brings together scholars from linguistics, semiotics, discourse studies, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, and related disciplines to explore how identities are semiotically constructed, negotiated, and transformed acros
Call for Papers:
Human communication is inherently multimodal. In the interdisciplinary CRC 1760 鈥淪ilence, Noise and the Signal鈥, we are interested in communicative aspects that are not easily captured by words and their syntactic combinations. By silence we refer to instances of communication in which there is no signifi茅 (signified), but something meaningful is contributed; by noise, we refer to cases in which there is more than one signifier or where the signified itself is ambiguous. Conc
This is a three-day international conference hosted by the Okinawa Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching). It focuses on innovations in language education, bringing together educators, researchers, and professionals for presentations, workshops, and networking.
Key details:
Dates: Friday鈥揝unday, October 9鈥11, 2026 (coinciding perfectly with the Naha Great Tug-of-War Festival, a major cultural event with parades and the world鈥檚 largest tug-of-war on/around October 11).
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This is a three-day international conference hosted by the Okinawa Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching). It focuses on innovations in language education, bringing together educators, researchers, and professionals for presentations, workshops, and networking.
Key details:
Dates: Friday鈥揝unday, October 9鈥11, 2026 (coinciding perfectly with the Naha Great Tug-of-War Festival, a major cultural event with parades and the world鈥檚 largest tug-of-war on/around October 11).
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The 28th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL28) will take place at the University of Iceland, Reykjav铆k, July 26th 鈥 30th, 2027. The ICHL brings together historical linguists and specialists in related fields to explore advances in areas including methods and practices of linguistic reconstruction; formal and functional approaches to language change; historical sociolinguistics; computational approaches to historical linguistics; contact and areal linguistics; interfaces bet
Scheitern als Chance: Romanistische Perspektiven auf 脺berwindung und Neubeginn
Gilt das Scheitern im Allgemeinen als Ausdruck von Misserfolg und als m枚glicher Ausl枚ser von gravierenden St枚rungen oder gar Krisen, richtet das XLII. Forum Junge Romanistik den Blick auf das produktive Potenzial solcher Misserfolge. Gegenw盲rtig zeigt sich die Relevanz des Themas besonders deutlich im Kontext globaler Polykrisen: Kriege, Naturkatastrophen sowie wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Herausforderunge
Linguistic justice is an increasingly important and relevant theme in public and academic debate, shaped by social and technological transformations, imposing hegemonic cultural visions and affecting speakers鈥 rights. Several issues emerge in various domains, such as the global dominance of English in research, the spread of English-Medium Instruction in tertiary education, and Artificial Intelligence algorithms, which tend to reproduce Western values and perspectives, thereby reducing and at ti
The 28th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL28) will take place at the University of Iceland, Reykjav铆k, July 26th 鈥 30th, 2027. The ICHL brings together historical linguists and specialists in related fields to explore advances in areas including methods and practices of linguistic reconstruction; formal and functional approaches to language change; historical sociolinguistics; computational approaches to historical linguistics; contact and areal linguistics; interfaces bet
Scheitern als Chance: Romanistische Perspektiven auf 脺berwindung und Neubeginn
Gilt das Scheitern im Allgemeinen als Ausdruck von Misserfolg und als m枚glicher Ausl枚ser von gravierenden St枚rungen oder gar Krisen, richtet das XLII. Forum Junge Romanistik den Blick auf das produktive Potenzial solcher Misserfolge. Gegenw盲rtig zeigt sich die Relevanz des Themas besonders deutlich im Kontext globaler Polykrisen: Kriege, Naturkatastrophen sowie wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Herausforderunge
Linguistic justice is an increasingly important and relevant theme in public and academic debate, shaped by social and technological transformations, imposing hegemonic cultural visions and affecting speakers鈥 rights. Several issues emerge in various domains, such as the global dominance of English in research, the spread of English-Medium Instruction in tertiary education, and Artificial Intelligence algorithms, which tend to reproduce Western values and perspectives, thereby reducing and at ti
The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List.
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Inscriptions are often regarded as the ultimate textual 鈥榦riginals鈥 鈥 authentic, authoritative, and unique. This volume challenges that longstanding assumption by showing that formal inscriptions were commonly produced with the help of manuscripts and are, in many cases, copies of preexisting models. Bringing together studies from China, India, Laos, and Siam, the book explores the complex processes of drafting, copying, and transferring texts across a wide range of materials and media. The cont
Two new interviews of the "Talking about languages series" have been uploaded:
https://tv.uvigo.es/series/679a63164e20f40f98159db3
Paul Nation (Victoria University of Wellington). Vocabulary learning
Matthew Poehner (Pennsylvania State University). Dynamic Assessment.
NLP++ AND VISUALTEXT
OVERVIEW
NLP++ is a rule-based, knowledge-driven programming language designed specifically for natural language processing. It was created in 1998 by Amnon Meyers and David de Hilster, based on a cognitive model of how humans read and understand natural language, and is now in active development under the NLP Foundation. NLP++ takes a fundamentally different approach from the statistical and neural methods that dominate contemporary NLP. Rather than learning patterns