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The LINGUIST List - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 08:05
Meeting Description: The Workshop on Ideophones in Use (WIU-2026) will take place on December 5-6, 2026 (Japan Standard Time [JST]). It is an online meeting co-hosted by Nagoya University, Japan, and York University, Canada. WIU-2026 aims to deepen understanding of the role played by ideophones in language use by bringing together researchers from around the globe. The workshop focuses on identifying the characteristics of ideophones used in communication, writing, and verbal art. We welc

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 06:05
Call for Papers: As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded project Verb valency in Germanic: diachronic analysis and reconstruction of protolinguistic scenario (VALGER, project no. 101150253) the research group Linguistics in Pavia, sponsored by the journal North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE, John Benjamins), is organizing a two-day symposium dedicated to the study of Germanic syntax. The symposium will take place at the University of Pavia on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 Ap

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Studii de lingvistică, Issue 16 (December 2026) Neological Competition in Multimodal Contexts: Toward an Ecosystemic and Phraseological Theory of Neology Guest Editors: Chris Smith (Université de Caen Normandie) Albin Wagener (Université Catholique de Lille) Overview: This thematic issue investigates how multimodal and discursive environments shape lexical and phraseological innovation. It invites contributions that reconceptualize neological competition – between words, affixes, expre

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PhD scholarship in the research project "Polite speaking through conduct books, published in Catalonia (1800-1936) (CoBooCat)" Location: Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Disciplines: Translation studies, Linguistics Languages: Romance languages, English Deadline: 30 November 2025 We are seeking applicants for a PhD scholarship in the framework of the research project ‘Polite speaking through conduct books, published in Catalonia (1800-1936)’ funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science,

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 17:05
SUMMARY The second edition of “Key questions in second language acquisition: An Introduction” is an introductory textbook that guides readers through the fundamentals of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). It is designed for novice learners with little or no prior background in SLA or related fields. However, the book is accessible to anyone interested in understanding the basics of SLA, including readers outside the field. Unlike other books in this field, this one is organized around ques

Conferences - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 11:05
In occasion of the 59th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Prof. Evelina Leivada (Autonomous University of Barcelona & ICREA) and Dr. Vittoria Dentella (University of Pavia) invite submissions to the workshop "A cross-linguistic approach to Artificial Intelligence agents and the syntax-semantics interface", whose details can be found here: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/10/Workshop-Proposal-SLE-2026_Artificial-Intelligence-agents-and-

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The journal English Language and Linguistics (ELL) publishes up to two special issues each year, and we would now like to invite proposals for special issues to be published in 2028 and 2029. Special issues should be focused on a specific topic which is of key interest to specialists in the various sub-disciplines of English linguistics. The topics and contents of past special issues can be consulted by viewing back issues on the ELL website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 11:05
In occasion of the 59th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Prof. Evelina Leivada (Autonomous University of Barcelona & ICREA) and Dr. Vittoria Dentella (University of Pavia) invite submissions to the workshop "A cross-linguistic approach to Artificial Intelligence agents and the syntax-semantics interface", whose details can be found here: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/10/Workshop-Proposal-SLE-2026_Artificial-Intelligence-agents-and-

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Call for Papers: Die Tagung widmet sich dem spannungsvollen Dialog zwischen Pragmatik und Computerlinguistik, der durch den rapiden Fortschritt von Large Language Models (LLMs) neu entfacht wurde. Im Fokus stehen die Grenzen und Gemeinsamkeiten von menschlicher und maschineller Kommunikation, von der Modellierung pragmatischer Phänomene in KI-Architekturen bis hin zur Analyse neuer Interaktionspraktiken (z.B. Prompting). Keynotes: Tatjana Scheffler (Bochum) und David Schlangen (Potsdam)

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Call for Papers: Convenors: Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier) Barbara Schlücker (FU Berlin) Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context, and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored different facets of the role of context. By ‘context’ we mean the linguistic context, both immediate (e.g. preceding and following words) and with a larger scope (e.g. text types), and the extralinguistic context such as the speaker and the listener or the situation of speak

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Articles “I Treat Them All the Same”: Reflecting on Classroom Communicative and Interactional Competence Thomas S.C. Farrell | pp. 1-6 A Snippet of an Ongoing Narrative: A Non-linear, Fragmented, and Unorthodox Autoethnographic Conversation Bedrettin Yazan & Ufuk Keleş | pp. 7-15 The Pedagogical Integration of Web 2.0 in K–12 English Teaching: A Systematic Review Xundan Wang | pp. 16-33 EFL Teachers’ Burnout during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Can Teaching Context Make a Difference? H

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2nd Call for Papers: Die 23. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende findet am 13.-14. März 2026 an der Universität Osnabrück statt. Die STaPs ist eine Tagung von Promotionsstudierenden für Promotionsstudierende. Im Gegensatz zu fachwissenschaftlichen Konferenzen liegt der Fokus der STaPs nicht primär auf inhaltlichen Themen und (Teil-)Ergebnissen der Dissertation, sondern auf dem Davor und Dazwischen der methodischen Problemfelder. Wir laden zur Einreichung von Abstra

Conferences - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 09:05
The XXII EURALEX International Congress will be held between 29 September and 3 October 2026 in Vienna, Austria. The congress will be organised by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and will take place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) has begun to transform the ways in which lexicographic data are compiled, analysed, and presented. Large language models, advanced corpus tools, and other m

Conferences - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 09:05
Los días 16 y 17 de abril tendrán lugar el I Congreso de Ejemplificación Lingüística en el campus de Aranjuez de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. El objetivo de esta reunión científica es crear un espacio interdisciplinar que profundice en el estudio de la ejemplificación lingüística desde una perspectiva integradora. Así, el congreso acogerá investigaciones sobre la ejemplificación y los ejemplos desde aproximaciones muy diversas: teóricas o prácticas, generales o particulares y actuales, histór

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 09:05
The XXII EURALEX International Congress will be held between 29 September and 3 October 2026 in Vienna, Austria. The congress will be organised by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and will take place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) has begun to transform the ways in which lexicographic data are compiled, analysed, and presented. Large language models, advanced corpus tools, and other m

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Los días 16 y 17 de abril tendrán lugar el I Congreso de Ejemplificación Lingüística en el campus de Aranjuez de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. El objetivo de esta reunión científica es crear un espacio interdisciplinar que profundice en el estudio de la ejemplificación lingüística desde una perspectiva integradora. Así, el congreso acogerá investigaciones sobre la ejemplificación y los ejemplos desde aproximaciones muy diversas: teóricas o prácticas, generales o particulares y actuales, histór

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Call for Papers: The Research Group on Multilingual Acquisition (GRAM) at UIC Barcelona is proud to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the Annual Spring Research Conference. The purpose of the conference is to gather specialists in bi/multilingualism research from different methodological perspectives. The 11th Annual Spring Research Conference will be held in person and online on Friday, 24 April 2026, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the UIC Barcelona Campus (Terré, 11-19, 08017 Barcelona). Gu

Conferences - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 08:05
18th European Society for the Study of English Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela Seminar #7: The English Verb: Driving Syntax, Shaping Meaning and Framing Thought Verbs are traditionally seen as the backbone of sentence structure, with their semantic requirements establishing syntactic relations between arguments. However, this fundamental role extends beyond clause-level relations, reaching into discourse, giving rise to various implicatures and shaping idiomatic use. The

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 08:05
18th European Society for the Study of English Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela Seminar #7: The English Verb: Driving Syntax, Shaping Meaning and Framing Thought Verbs are traditionally seen as the backbone of sentence structure, with their semantic requirements establishing syntactic relations between arguments. However, this fundamental role extends beyond clause-level relations, reaching into discourse, giving rise to various implicatures and shaping idiomatic use. The

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 10/29/2025 - 15:05
The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) is pleased to invite submissions for the Richard M. Hogg Prize, awarded annually since 2008 in honour of Professor Richard M. Hogg. The prize recognizes outstanding research in the field of English language and linguistics by early-career scholars, defined as PhD students or post-doctoral researchers who have completed their doctorate within the past two years at the time of submission. Candidates must also be members of ISLE.

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