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Confs: 2026 International Conference on Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity The Semiosis Research Center and the Language Research Institute at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies are pleased to announce the international conference “Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity.” 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 across diverse social and c

Confs: 2026 International Conference on Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity

Calls: Crowdsourced Speech and Automatic Alignment: New Frontiers for Laboratory Phonology Workshop @ LabPhon20 Call for Papers: This workshop explores the shift from controlled laboratory recordings to crowdsourced and automatically aligned speech data. Advances in speech technology and annotation tools now enable large-scale phonetic research but raise questions about data reliability, interpretability, and ethics. Alignment errors and variable recording conditions are especially common in spontaneous and heterogeneous data, where they challenge traditional analytical assumptions. Bringing together p

Calls: Crowdsourced Speech and Automatic Alignment: New Frontiers for Laboratory Phonology Workshop @ LabPhon20

Calls: 11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar Final Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: 20 March 2026 Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University) Invited Speakers: - Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. It is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as no

Calls: 11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar

Confs: 20th Workshop in General Linguistics The 20th Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) is here! The Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) is an annual conference put on by the Linguistics Student Organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WiGL is a conference run by students for students and is a forum for all students from UW-Madison and other institutions to present and share their research. WiGL includes presentations and posters from undergraduate, graduate, and recently graduated students on any linguistics-related

Confs: 20th Workshop in General Linguistics

Calls: Traitement Automatique des Langues - "Special Issue in Tribute to Laurence Danlos" (Jrnl) Special issue of the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" in tribute to Laurence Danlos. https://tal-67-3.sciencesconf.org/ Guest editor: Philippe de Groote This special issue of the journal TAL is dedicated to the memory of Laurence Danlos. Through her scientific contributions and community involvement, she played a major role in developing and structuring NLP in France. This special issue is intended to be both a scientific tribute and a space for reflection on the current

Calls: Traitement Automatique des Langues - "Special Issue in Tribute to Laurence Danlos" (Jrnl)

Confs: Linguistic Pragmatics Pilsen / Liberec 2026 We cordially invite you to the third conference in our LPPL series Linguistic Pragmatics Pilsen | Liberec. This year’s event will take place on 12–13 November 2026 in Pilsen. The overarching theme of the conference is Pragmatics and Political Discourses in Europe. The relationship between language and politics has long been a focal point of linguistic pragmatics. However, the dynamic social developments in Europe—captured by keywords such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, renation

Confs: Linguistic Pragmatics Pilsen / Liberec 2026

Calls: L'étrangeté en Partage / Sharing Strangeness Final Call for Papers: [English below.] L'étrangeté en partage Journée d’étude sur les langues imaginaires Besançon, 12 juin 2026 Nous sollicitons des propositions pour une journée d’étude consacrée aux langues imaginaires, ou artlangs (artistic languages), qui se tiendra à Besançon le 12 juin 2026. On entend par langue imaginaire une langue inventée à des fins artistiques et intégrée à une œuvre de fiction (roman, film, série, bande dessinée, œuvre poétique, jeu vidéo etc.). À ce

Calls: L'étrangeté en Partage / Sharing Strangeness

Calls: 20th International Pragmatics Conference Call for Papers: The Call for Papers is now open for panel proposals at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPRA2027), held at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027. Deadline for panel proposals (see below): 5 June 2026 (midnight CEST) Please visit https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027 for all details regarding the submission procedure As usual, the conference will be open to all topics relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatic

Calls: 20th International Pragmatics Conference

Confs: Language in Fantastic Film Worlds: Exploring Fictional Telecinematic Discourse We are pleased to announce that the workshop: Language in Fantastic Film Worlds: Exploring Fictional Telecinematic Discourse will take place at the University of Chemnitz, Germany (+ online) on March 19 and March 20, 2026. You can still register for online participation (free of charge !) until 15 March 2026. Please register using the conference URL. You will receive an online link once you have registered so you can access the conference video streams via Zoom. The workshop responds to the

Confs: Language in Fantastic Film Worlds: Exploring Fictional Telecinematic Discourse

Calls: 6th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics Call for Papers: Deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to March 29, 2026! ISAPh is an international conference series. It has been held in Nagoya, Japan (2016), Aizuwakamatsu, Japan (2018), Tarragona, Spain (2021), Lund, Sweden (2022), and Tartu, Estonia (2024). It will be held in Hiroshima, Japan, in September 2026. We define “Applied Phonetics” as “practical use of phonetics in various aspects of human life and communication”. Building on this definition, the symposium welc

Calls: 6th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics

Calls: Workshop at BCL 2026 - Word Order: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives Call for Papers: We invite submissions for talks (20+10) or posters to take place within the workshop "Word order: Theoretical and empirical perspectives" (https://sites.google.com/view/bclwordorder/), which in turn is part of the Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2026 (https://sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz/bcl2026en/homepage). We look for quality submissions addressing questions and issues pertaining to word order, whether based on detailed analyses of individual languages or particular phenomen

Calls: Workshop at BCL 2026 - Word Order: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Confs: 2nd International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management NeoTerm 2026 is the second International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management, organized by the ENEOLI COST Action. The first edition (Neoterm 2025) was held in Thessaloniki (Greece) as a co-located event with MDTT 2025. This year, NeoTerm goes north and will be organized by the University of Bergen, Norway, on 3 September 2026. The 2nd NeoTerm workshop will be co-located with the Nordic/European event aimed at initiating joint Nordic–European collaboration on “Språkleg berekraf

Confs: 2nd International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management

Confs: (In)transitivity and its Variation: A Workshop on Morphosyntactic and Semantic Interfaces "(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Poznań (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families. We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics: - Transitivity prominence especially of

Confs: (In)transitivity and its Variation: A Workshop on Morphosyntactic and Semantic Interfaces

Confs: 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics The Department of Phonetics at Trier University is proud to host the 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA2026). The conference will take place at Trier University. Important Dates: - Deadline for Abstract submission: 03 April 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026 - Deadline for submission of work-in-progress posters: 24 May 2026 - Notification of acceptance for work-in-progress posters: 14 June 2026 Submission

Confs: 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics

Confs: 2026 Technology for Second Language Learning Conference The Constructed Agents theme provides a forum for exploring how humans develop their understanding of AI agents from their exposure to representations of agents in literature and film. The conference explores how and to what extent representations of non-human sentient agents such as Frankenstein’s creature in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel and Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey may shape views of today’s language-using AI agents including those for language learning. Abstracts are invited for presentation

Confs: 2026 Technology for Second Language Learning Conference

FYI: Seminar Series From the Perspective of the Addressee – 13/03 F. Cutugno “Intendi?, ¿Entiendes?, Did you get it? - The Acoustic Unpacking of Meaning” We are pleased to invite you to the forthcoming seminar series From the Perspective of the Addressee, which will be held in English and take place entirely online. The next session will take place on Friday, 13 March 2026, at 3:00 p.m. (CET). We will have the pleasure of hearing Francesco Cutugno (University of Naples Federico II), who will give a talk entitled Intendi?, ¿Entiendes?, Did you get it? - The Acoustic Unpacking of Meaning. Programme: - [passed] Friday, 14 November 2025, 15:00

FYI: Seminar Series From the Perspective of the Addressee – 13/03 F. Cutugno “Intendi?, ¿Entiendes?, Did you get it? - The Acoustic Unpacking of Meaning”

Calls: Replication Journal (Jrnl) Conducting independent replication and reproduction studies of past research findings has gained increasing importance in recent years, particularly in light of the interdisciplinary replication crisis affecting many research fields. For this reason, we have recently founded a new interdisciplinary journal, “Replication Research (R2)”, which is now open for submissions. Accepted formats include all types of replications, reproductions, and conceptual contributions on the topic of replication and

Calls: Replication Journal (Jrnl)

Confs: Nordic Network of Intercultural Communication 2026 Conference We are happy to invite you to NIC 2026 conference, which will take place at Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania) on 17–19 August 2023. The topic of this year’s conference is Intercultural Communication for Change. With this theme, we encourage discussion of intercultural communication as a way of engaging with change at multiple levels (individual, organisational, societal, and global), as well as of the implications of intercultural communication research for policy-making, institutional

Confs: Nordic Network of Intercultural Communication 2026 Conference

Books: Translingual Practices in English Language Education in South Asia: Sultana and Sah (eds.) (2026)

Books: Thinking and Speaking About Time: Brdar-Szabó and Brdar (eds.) (2026)

Books: Speaking of Writing Romani: Schippling (2026) As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and editing behaviour in writing texts. Importantly, it allows a direct comparison of spoken and written language use of individuals. Thus, while Romani writing has been studied before, this book adds unique

Books: Speaking of Writing Romani: Schippling (2026)

Books: The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: Zhan (2026) This book explores the development of the Chinese cleft construction through the lens of Diachronic Construction Grammar. Focusing on shi as an invariant copula, it examines the VP de cleft, the V de O cleft, and the bare shi cleft, showing how each signals contrastive and specificational meaning. Tracing their origins from the copular construction in Middle Chinese, the study reveals distinct developmental paths and semantic-pragmatic uses for each cleft type. Offering the first diachronic cons

Books: The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: Zhan (2026)

Books: Crises We Live By: Leonardis (ed.) (2026) After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By (1980) and speaks to the unprecedented awareness of the theme of crisis and its conceptualization that has emerged in contemporary media and discourse. The book makes an innovative contribution to crisis

Books: Crises We Live By: Leonardis (ed.) (2026)

Books: At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics: Rogos-Hebda and Tissari (eds.) (2026) This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics, demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language, particularly metaphor and metonymy, it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and evolution of meaning across time, with chapters addressing, among other topics, diachronic changes in the semantics of nouns (e.g. for emotions) and speech act verbs. Beyond lexical and grammatical cha

Books: At the Crossroads of Historical and Cognitive Linguistics: Rogos-Hebda and Tissari (eds.) (2026)

FYI: Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar 5 The fifth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 23rd March 2026 at 5pm GMT. Kitty Liu (University of Cambridge) will be presenting on "Investigating Classical Tibetan clause-chaining in a part-of-speech tagged corpus”. Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 20th March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsjUF5jGRiT_LZsk24Qf2_pzTbsfixCYN7wMeYiDnpTXLUUg/viewform Parti

FYI: Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar 5

Calls: Congress of The International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics Call for Papers: Almost 30 years later, the International Congress of the International Society for Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) returns to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto in Porto, Portugal, continuing the exceptional and visionary work of the founders of this international scholarly association. The 13th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL 2026) will take place from 11 to 13 June 2026, bringing togeth

Calls: Congress of The International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics

Confs: MediaEval 2026 Shared Task: Missing Pieces and Misinformation: Identifying Social Media Posts with Implicit Messages We are pleased to announce the 1st Call for Participation in our MediaEval 2026 shared task: Missing Pieces and Misinformation: Identifying Social Media Posts with Implicit Messages. Task Description: Given a tweet, determine whether it contains an implicit premise, an implicit conclusion, or neither. This is a three-class classification task. Input: The raw text of a tweet. Output: One label: implicit_premise, implicit_conclusion, or none. An implicit premise is a supportin

Confs: MediaEval 2026 Shared Task: Missing Pieces and Misinformation: Identifying Social Media Posts with Implicit Messages

FYI: Critical Media Studies Lecture Series - Dominika Baran 19/3 4PM CET The University of Luxembourg and Marie Speyer Gender Excellence Grant is happy to support a new lecture series in critical media studies, with many focusing on digital/media/and linguistic anthropology, language and gender, or critical discourse analysis Our first talk by the fantastic Prof. Dr. Dominika Baran (Duke, USA) exemplifies these with a critical discourse analysis of reactionary media and anti-gender ideology. The talk is March 19, at 4pm CET, 10am EST Please see the invitation

FYI: Critical Media Studies Lecture Series - Dominika Baran 19/3 4PM CET

FYI: Next Acquisition Sketch Meeting - Wednesday March 11 The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Totoli Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Maria Bardaji. It will be held on Wednesday March 11 as follows: Los Angeles = 9 am Mexico City = 10 am New York = 12 pm Berlin = 5 pm Tbilisi = 8 pm Delhi = 9:30 pm Zoom link = https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/j/98377387344?pwd=b5sdre2JHB8cmBUTX5eGts2KG5s11w.1 Meeting ID = 983 7738 7344 Password = 488543 Check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for the corr

FYI: Next Acquisition Sketch Meeting - Wednesday March 11

FYI: 2026 DELAMAN Award goes to Wesley dos Santos On behalf of the DELAMAN Award Committee, I am pleased to announce that Wesley dos Santos is the recipient of the 2026 DELAMAN Award for his archived collection of language documentation materials entitled "Kawahiva: documentation of vocabulary, grammar, texts, and verbal arts / Kawahiva: documentação do vocabulário, gramática, textos, e artes verbais." This collection in the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) covers three of the eight varieties of Kawahíva—Juma (ISO 639-3 jua), Parintintin (pa

FYI: 2026 DELAMAN Award goes to Wesley dos Santos