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Summary "Language as an Ecological Phenomenon: Language and Biological Ecology in Human-Environment Relations" is a book in the field of ecological linguistics published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the series Bloomsbury Advances in Ecological Linguistics. The book was published in the United Kingdom in 2024. The content of this book is collected from 14 contributors and edited by Sune Vorke Stefansson, Martin Doring and Stephen J. Cowley. The book is divided into three parts: first the i

Our conference is dedicated to exploring current research, emerging perspectives and innovative approaches in the study of literature. This conference will bring together scholars, researchers and educators from around the world to exchange ideas, share insights, and engage in meaningful academic dialogue across a wide range of literary topics. The conference programme includes plenary sessions, section meetings, and workshops on literary studies and creative writing. We invite contributions

Call for Papers: Extension of the deadline for submitting abstracts to 15 September 2026 International Conference: Europa-Universit盲t Flensburg, 16鈥�19 June 2027 鈥淟anguage abuse and language criticism in the history of linguistics / Sprachmissbrauch und Sprachkritik in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft / Abus des mots et critique du langage dans l'histoire de la linguistique鈥� From 16鈥�19 June 2027, the international conference 鈥淟anguage abuse and language criticism in the history of

Description: RWTH Aachen University is one of Germany鈥檚 pre-eminent Universities of Excellence and is renowned for its high-quality teaching and world-class research. Assuming profound responsibility towards society, RWTH ad-dresses bold scientific questions and translates its knowledge into meaning-ful applications. RWTH strives for the convergence of knowledge, methods, and findings and integrates in-depth disciplinary knowledge within the interdisciplinary research consortia established in

Other Specialties: TESOL Description: Job Description: The Department of English at the University of Memphis seeks candidates for a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. The position is non-renewable and contingent upon funding. It begins Fall 2026 and ends with the conclusion of the Spring 2027 semester. We welcome applications from applied linguists who can contribute to our current foci in language teaching and learning, English language teacher ed

Our conference brings together translators, interpreters, language professionals, researchers, and educators in the field of translation studies to promote international scientific cooperation. The conference programme includes plenary sessions, section meetings, and workshops. We invite contributions from the following fields: 1) Legal Translation; 2) Medical Translation; 3) Literary Translation; 4) Audiovisual Translation; 5) Translation and Technologies; 6) Translation as Intercultu

About: Brazil is a continental country, the largest and most populous in South America. The Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) 2027 will bring up the issue of linguistic diversity to highlight two of several Brazilian accents. In line with this theme, the Blizzard Challenge 2027 will focus on synthesising speech for two accents of Brazilian Portuguese and for one other main variant, European Portuguese from Portugal. Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese differ in pronunciation, voca

The Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) is the main meeting place for research and innovation in speech synthesis, i.e. predicting speech signals from text input. Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology is a key component of numerous applications: speech-to-speech translation, digital assistants, conversational agents, social robots. While early research focused on basic intelligibility, contemporary systems now achieve remarkable naturalness. Current research frontiers include emotional expression, speakin

Focus: Empowering the New Generation of Language Teachers: From Policy to Practice in Ethical AI Description: - Do you want to engage critically and confidently with AI in language education? - If you are a pre-service or in-service language teacher, join us for an immersive three-day learning journey (12 contact hours) designed to connect technical understanding with ethical reflection as you practically integrate AI into real-life teaching practices. - You will not only learn the

The study explores how Spanish speakers perceive and rate different words, including taboo and neutral lexical units, with the aim of contributing to research on linguistic attitudes toward taboo in Peninsular Spanish. The survey takes approximately 5 to 10 minutes and requires a device (phone, tablet, or computer) capable of playing audio, as some stimuli are presented orally. We are looking for participants who meet the following criteria: - Native speakers of Spanish - Resident in S

Confirmed Speakers: Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania) Devyani Sharma (University of Oxford) Sandrine Zufferey (University of Bern) After the successful workshop Social Meaning and Grammar, which took place in Z眉rich in March 2025 (https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html), we are now moving on to the second round. The term 鈥榮ocial鈥� plays a central role in the acquisition and learning literature in general (e.g., in broad topics such as social cognition

Overview: "Rule-Based NLP with NLP++" is the first textbook devoted to NLP++, the only general-purpose programming language created specifically for natural language processing. Written by the co-creators of the language, David de Hilster and Amnon Meyers, the book teaches rule-based, knowledge-driven text analysis from the ground up using the VisualText development environment and its NLP Engine. It presents NLP++ as a transparent, "glass-box" alternative to statistical, neural, and machine-

Call for Papers: Dates: 30-31 October 2026 (Friday-Saturday) Hybrid Event "The posthuman predicament confronts us with a fundamental tension: "we" may well be confronting the threats and challenges of the third millennium, together, but "we" are not One, or the Same鈥攚e are differently positioned in terms of power, entitlement, and access of the very conditions that define us. "We" are not a homogeneous notion but a complex and diverse one, which reflects the multiple differences that compo

Description The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 and 2026 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Korea, Austria, Germany, the United States of America and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL. Ellipsis is the anapho

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