We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the International Symposium on Language Science and Human Well-being (ISLSHW 2026), jointly hosted by Tongji University, City University of Hong Kong, and the China Association for Medical Language and Translation Studies, to be held at City University of Hong Kong on 14 November 2026. Centered on the theme 鈥淟anguage Resources for Better Well-being Across the Human Lifespan鈥�, the symposium seeks to create an international platform for cutting-ed
In an ever-changing, increasingly complex and plural world, attitudes often play a central role in public discourse. This also holds true for attitudes towards languages. These attitudes begin to emerge in the family and at school and continue to develop throughout life as we participate in society. In this way, they help to shape our relationship to languages and our identity.
Applied linguistics has long been concerned with language attitudes. The focus has been on social situations and co
The Graduate Conference at University of Naples L'Orientale aims to foster an interdisciplinary debate on current and relevant topics. The 2026 edition is titled "Hiddentity Concealment and Invisibility: Interdisciplinary Investigations Into the Hidden" and investigates the hidden and its manifestations from multiple perspectives.
The hidden constitutes a fundamental dimension of human experience and of its cultural, linguistic, and social representations. The 鈥渉idden鈥� emerges as a multidisc
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Professor and Director of the School of Communication, Language, and Culture, College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA)
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Professor and Director of the School of Communication Language and Culture
The University of Texas at San Antonio School of Communication, Language, and Culture invites applications for a tenured Professor to serve as the inaugura
This dissertation investigates the following central question: What is the internal structure of pronouns? I propose and investigate the hypothesis that contextual allomorphy is a key tool for (a) accessing the inventory of morphemes that make up a pronoun across languages and (b) tracking the patterns of their interactions. Namely, allomorphic alternations involve an interaction of two morphemes, the trigger and the target of allomorphy. Identifying the trigger and the target in pronominal form
The I-LanD Research Centre (https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/) is pleased to announce the third seminar in the I-LanD Seminar Series - 4th Edition (2nd semester).
Innovative in format and interdisciplinary in scope, the I-LanD Seminar Series brings together scholars to discuss key issues in their fields of expertise, with particular attention to theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, research challenges, and emerging directions of inquiry. Each seminar opens with a brief introdu
The upcoming edition of Making Waves takes place next Wednesday, April 22, at 15:00 (CET). Amanda Brown and Masaaki Kamiya will give a talk titled 鈥淚nvestigating Ambiguity in English at the Sentence Level in Prosody and Gesture鈥�.
We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively discussion.
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Ambiguous sentences exist in natural language. In language production, speakers may communicate intended interpretations through prosody (e.g. Hirschberg and Avesani 1997; 20
Focus: The workshop includes:
- Intensive practical training in all the phases of documentation. Conception, elicitation, recording, signal analysis (ELAN, Praat, Audacity), annotation, archiving and dissemination.
- Introductory training in the Basque language. Grammar, Sociolinguistics and Social and Cultural History of the language, and Basque-Romance language contact.
- Personalized supervision of each of the projects accepted as well as of the fieldwork carried out during the workshop pe
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The Center for Language Science (CLS) in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State seeks a Human Research Technologist to assist in the design and execution of the research of the labs within CLS.
The CLS is an interdisciplinary group of linguists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, speech-language pathologists, speech scientists, and cognitive neuroscientists who share an interest in linguistics, language acquisition, and bilingualism.
CLS researchers employ a variety
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) provides the reader with an in-depth overview of an educational approach that merges subject matter understanding and language development. Intended to promote multilingual education, this book explores CLIL鈥檚 origins, its evolution, and its global impacts across diverse contexts. Ruiz de Zarobe thoroughly examines CLIL鈥檚 theoretical principles, explores its practical applications, and highlights how this interdisciplinary framework enha
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the sixth talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Robin Jeshion (University of Southern California), who will give a talk entitled "What Is Wrong with Slurs?" (see the abstract below). The event w
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New publications:
DEFT Chinese and English Light and Rich ERE Parallel Annotation
MATERIAL Tagalog-English Language Pack
LORELEI Somali Representative Language Pack
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New publications:
DEFT Chinese and English Light and Rich ERE Parallel Annotation was developed by LDC and consists of 179 Chinese discussion forum documents and their English translations annotated for entities, relations, and events (ERE). Light ERE annotation l
Focus: The courses on offer cover a wide range of subfields and methods in linguistics and communication -- please refer to the webpage for more information.
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The two-week LOT Summer School offers a wide variety of eighteen one-week courses on relevant topics in linguistics, taught by a mix of researchers from The Netherlands and abroad. The levels of the course range from intermediate (targeting PhD candidates who have general linguistic knowledge) and advanced (targeting PhD
Researchers at UIC鈥檚 Lab for Language, Cognition, and Computation are looking for Spanish-English Heritage bilingual adults (18 years or older) to participate in a paid research study. Completion of the study is done online, must be done on a computer, and takes 30-45 minutes. Participants will receive a $10 Amazon gift card for their participation.
Please direct potential participants to the following link: https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/8C7BCF46-EC1D-4A7B-898E-398F472828BC.
Guest-edited issue of the new Journal of Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (JoNPIT) by Ahmad Ayyad (Binghamton University, USA) and Rachele Antonini (University of Bologna, Italy)
We welcome submissions examining the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of non-professional translation and interpreting in conflict and war.
Abstracts should be submitted as a Word attachment to Ahmad Ayyad (aayyad@binghamton.edu) and Rachel Antonini (rachele.antonini@unibo.it) by June 15,
The seventh talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 27th April 2026 at 5pm BST. Thi Huyen Trang Phan (University of Venice, Italy) will be presenting on "Tracing Contextual Pathways: A Corpus-based Study of the Grammaticalization of the Vietnamese general classifier鈥�.
Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 24th April and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW3qoNPOM8StP3xEm
The contributors argue that multilingual repertoires are shaped by various forms of mobility 鈥� physical, symbolic, and digital. Across diverse contexts, mobility generates new linguistic resources, reshapes identities, and prompts individuals to negotiate belonging and power. They show that multilingualism is flexible, emotionally charged, and deeply tied to social hierarchies, conflict, and shifting ideologies. While mobility can foster hybridity and creativity, it can also reinforce exclusion
This book explores the construction of 鈥榣anguaged鈥� and professional subjectivities in the context of refugee support work in Austria. It presents ethnographic insights into how language and linguistic practice come to matter both as part of a migration infrastructure in transformation, and in the efforts within a particular institution to reinvent itself as it struggles for survival in the context of shrinking public and state support for refugee provision.
The author focuses on how transform
This book analyzes the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, a city with a Chinese diasporic population of around 500,000. It describes the contact between different Chineses in a diasporic setting, illustrating how non-Putonghua features are made use of to form distinct identities and speech communities. It demonstrates that localized conceptions of 'Chineseness' hold greater sociolinguistic significance than the transnational narratives of a unified glo
Community/heritage language schools exist across the world, and yet little is known of the languages they teach, how they are organised and what students learn. Teachers in mainstream schools are generally unaware of the language and cultural knowledge their students are gaining from these schools. This book provides an overview of this educational sector and crucially how it interacts with mainstream education.
Students of all ages describe what they think of the schools, how language learni