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The final meeting of the first season of Making Waves, an online discussion group launched in October 2025 and dedicated to the acquisition of prosody and gesture, will take place on Wednesday, July 1, at 15:00 (CET). Patrick L. Rohrer will give a talk titled 鈥淔rom Speech to Gesture: Theoretical Tensions in the Notion of Prominence鈥�. We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively discussion. Abstract: The notion of prominence plays a central role in research on speech p

El Instituto De Literatura Y Ling眉铆stica 鈥淛os茅 Antonio Portuondo Valdor" Convoca a: XIV Conferencia Internacional Ling眉铆stica 2026 en Homenaje Al Centenario De La Academia Cubana De La Lengua II Encuentro Internacional Del Grupo De Estudios De Fraseolog铆a De Cuba Eventos h铆bridos (presencial y virtual) La Habana, 25-27 de noviembre de 2026 Tem谩ticas: Lexicograf铆a; Fraseolog铆a y fraseograf铆a; Morfosintaxis; Lexicolog铆a y sem谩ntica; Terminograf铆a; Fon茅tica y fonolog铆a; Teor铆as ling眉铆

We are pleased to announce that ICAME48 will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on 18鈥�22 May 2027. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin鈥�, honouring the University of Helsinki English Unit鈥檚 longstanding tradition of studying language change with corpus-based m

This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027). Workshop Organizers: Andr谩s B谩r谩ny (University of Edinburgh) Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne) Jozina Vander Klok (Simon Fraser University) Workshop Description: The interaction between the (morpho)syntactic realization of event participants and their discourse status is a central topic in linguistic research. Currently, we have a good understanding of how alter

Research group 鈥淭ranslation and Language Studies鈥� (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society 鈥淚ntermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse鈥� held in Kaunas, Lithuania. You are invited to present your projects and experiences in the formats of oral or poster presentatio

Other Specialties: Artificial Intelligence Description: The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We seek a faculty member who specializes in at least one of the following areas: the use of AI and language-generating technologies in first- and second- language learning, teaching, or assessment; linguistics-ba

This innovative volume presents a comparative and diachronic analysis of the major works of outstanding European poets representing different historical periods, languages, cultures, and religious traditions. By examining the most frequently occurring nouns (key concepts) in the original-language texts of Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Pushkin, and Goethe, the author uncovers previously unrecognized linguistic patterns and conceptual structures underlying their poetic language. The study is

The panel 鈥淐litics: Variation and Linguistic Change鈥� is part of the 25th Congreso de la Asociaci贸n Alemana de Hispanistas, with the main topic "Hispan铆stica transatl谩ntica: relaciones 鈥搈undos 鈥� v铆as", to be held at the University of Augsburg from March 9 to 13, 2027. This panel is dedicated to clitics and to grammatical and pragmatic aspects of related phenomena such as: - le铆smo (la铆smo, lo铆smo) (Fern谩ndez Ord贸帽ez 1999; Flores Cervantes 2006) also in relation with other morphosyntactic phe

Call for Papers: The organizing committee of "Recontextualisation et M茅diation des Discours Sp茅cialis茅s / Recontextualisation and Mediation of Specialised Discourses" invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held at the Universit茅 Grenoble-Alpes from January 20 to 22, 2027. This conference aims to explore the mediation of specialized discourse as interdiscursive recontextualization. By recontextualization, we mean the reformulation and recreation of meaning across and between

Linguistic enclaves and/or islands are communities whose spoken variety differs from that of the surrounding majority, often preserved through geographical, social, or political separation. Whether they are long-established diaspora varieties, historical settler languages, or indigenous communities encircled by an official standard language, enclave languages offer rich insights in a variety of linguistic issues. Having long coexisted in regions of intense multilingualism, migration, and shif

Call for Papers: The 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be organised at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in June 2027. The phenomenon of multimodality 鈥� or how communication and interaction build on coordinated combinations of multiple forms of expression 鈥� is now actively researched within diverse fields of study. Given the multifaceted nature and complexity of the phenomenon, pursuing a constructive dialogue between different approaches to multimodality is e

GloSoc6 is the sixth edition of the conference series focusing on mainstreaming lesser-known sociolinguistic research. It will take place at the University of Verona, Italy, from 23 to 25 June 2027.This edition鈥檚 theme is 'nonverbal communication in everyday interaction', focusing on the body as a silent communicator. While spoken language is commonly analysed linguistically, such analyses capture only part of how people create and convey meaning. Indeed, spoken communication relies heavily o

Call for Papers: - Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before you present it at a conference? - Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others鈥� research? Check out the new American Dialect Society Research Incubator (ADSRI1)! Online September 18鈥�19, 2026, a half-day on Friday, Sept. 18, and most of Saturday, Sept. 19. Registration is free and open to all. https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/pMrcMEtwTTSOemm5RAFlrw We are

Workshop organizers: - Maik Thalmann (Ruhr University Bochum) - Daniel Gutzmann (Ruhr University Bochum) Invited speakers: - Cornelia Ebert (University of Frankfurt) - David Beaver (University of Graz) Workshop Description: At-issueness as a category of linguistic description reflects the intuition that the meaning of an utterance can be partitioned into foregrounded (at-issue) and backgrounded (non-at-issue) contents. To date, the at-issue/non-at-issue divide has been fruitfull

The Departments of African Studies and Linguistics at the University of Vienna are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 12th edition of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 12). We warmly invite researchers, academics, and students, particularly those working in African Studies, African languages, and African literatures, to participate in this global scholarly gathering. Apart from the general sessions, there will be two thematic workshops: Workshop 1: Object mark

Call for Papers: The deadline to submit an abstract for the CogLing Days is extended to 10 July 2026. See the original call below. We are happy to announce that CogLing Days 2026 will take place in Leuven on 10 and 11 December 2026. CogLing Days is the biannual conference of the Cognitive Linguistics Association of Belgium and the Netherlands (BeNeCLA). The conference is first and foremost intended to spark local collaborations, foster the exchange of new ideas, and provide a place to pre

Invited speaker: Kilu von Prince (U. Heinrich-Heine-Universit盲t D眉sseldorf) We invite submissions for EmGraCa 2026, a workshop dedicated to the investigation of emerging grammatical categories, with a particular focus on categories that have only relatively recently been identified, theorized, or systematically compared across languages. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on underexplored or newly conceptualized domains of grammar, especially those grounded in semantic di

SUMMARY Feiyang Tian鈥檚 Chineses in the Diaspora examines the multilingual practices of Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles (LA). They propose and examine an 鈥淟A Mandarin鈥� justified by historical language contact between the Chineses practiced by this particular expatriate community (p. 2); following the classification system of Chineses proposed by Leung & Wu (2011, 2012). More specifically, the terminological choice of 鈥淐hineses鈥� respects the internal language boundaries where certain constitu

Metaperspectives in Contemporary Literary Fiction offers a literary-linguistic investigation of hypothesis and the metaperspective within contemporary Booker Prize-winning novels. This highly innovative book introduces a new concept in the field of stylistics , but it also explores it through analyses of highly relevant concepts and areas of stylistic study. Adam applies the concept of the metaperspective, centring on the thoughts of characters about other characters' views of them, to conte

Language comprehension relies on memory. In many cases, we need information scattered throughout an utterance to arrive at its meaning. Consider the sentence: "Mary, who was really, really tired, passes the bag to Suzy." To understand who is doing the passing, we need to retrieve the word "Mary" when reading "passes the bag". To date, extensive research has investigated memory operations involved in processing syntactic dependencies within a sentence. This dissertation extends that research by