The 17th annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will be held at Penn State University, October 1-3 2026.
We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Research on (im)migrant and heritage languages in the Americas covers a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including
- formal
We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 4th International Congress on Translation and Interpreting (CITEI 2026), organized by the Colegio de Traductores del Per煤, which will take place in Lima, Peru, on 13鈥�14 November 2026.
Under the theme "The Transformation of Specialized Translators and Interpreters in the Face of 21st-Century Challenges", CITEI 2026 will bring together researchers, educators, trainers and professionals to discuss current and future challenges in specialized tr
One Experimental Day
June 18th 2026 | Online
Online Event on Experimental Linguistics
Hosted by Dr. Anastasia Gerasimova and Prof. Ekaterina Lyutikova
The program features three keynote talks and a Showcase Session for early-career researchers.
Invited Speakers:
Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh)
Ellen Lau (University of Maryland)
Jana Willer-Gold (University of Oxford)
Call for Showcase Presentations:
In addition to the keynote lectures, the program will feature
Current and former 成人VR视频ians were well represented at the 18th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference which took place at the University of Cambridge, April 16-18 2026. Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) & Lydia White presented a paper on Relativized Minimality and Featural Mismatches in L2: Is There an Age Advantage? Yanran Mou (BA 2024) & Heather […]
Xuanda Chen’s (PhD 2025) paper, co-authored with Heather Goad, David Shanks (MA 2023) & Donghyun Kim (PhD 2015), “The role of L1 feature specification in naive L2 vowel perception: Evidence from feature fission and fusion” has been accepted for publication in聽Second Language Research.聽Congratulations!
Jessica Coon has been awarded a prestigious James 成人VR视频 Professorship.聽Congratulations聽to Jessica for this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional work and outstanding achievements!
SUMMARY
The book Ecolinguistics, Social Justice, and Sustainability: Voices from the Global South is part of the Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics series and consists of an introduction and 10 chapters, with references at the end of each chapter, and an index.
Chapter 1, Advances, challenges, and opportunities for ecolinguistics in Latin America, by Mariana Roccia, presents a critical overview of the ecolinguistics growth within the Latin American context. The chapter notes that, altho
SUMMARY
The introductory chapter to the volume 鈥淭he Sociopragmatics of Emotion鈥� is lengthy (pp. 3-37) and theoretical, because its authors, the editors of the volume, Laura Alba-Juez and Michael Haugh, have set ambitious goals. They would like the book to 鈥渋llustrate what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly understanding of emotion and its role in social life鈥� and to 鈥渓ay the foundations for a sociopragmatic theorization of emotion鈥� (p. 7). In the chapter, Alba-Juez a
Focus: Cognitive and Functional Linguistics
Description:
The Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University organizes Braga Summer School in Linguistics, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics. The event will offer advanced training in several areas of linguistic studies, especially from the perspective of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics in their most recent developments and in a
We are pleased to announce the release of AfBo 2.0 (https://afbo.info/), a significantly expanded and updated version of the Affix Borrowing (AfBo) database, originally published in 2013. AfBo 2.0 provides detailed descriptions of 132 cases of affix borrowing, i.e., cases where one language borrowed at least one affix from another language, involving a total of 754 borrowed affixes. It also includes an online interface with descriptions of borrowed affixes, examples of combinations of borrowed a
The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List.
If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below:
Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request
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Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select.
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Persian allows the use of the noun bande 'slave' as a full-fledged 1sg pronoun, so that when used as subject it has the verb appear in 1sg. So this is one or more steps beyond the much more common usages such as English your humble servant, which remains third person. I am even more interested in self-aggrandizing usages of which I also know just one clear example, the Hittite kings referring to themselves as 'My sun', again often with the verb in 1sg., so again different from the (once-common
Focus: We aim to introduce participants to the theoretical and practical aspects of four major themes in forensic linguistics: Authorship Analysis, Spoken Interactions, Online Harmful Discourse, and Disputed Meanings. The afternoon sessions are going to be particularly focused on providing attendees an opportunity to try the methods they learn about for themselves on actual data. We aim to provide a thorough grounding in the field so that attendees can build on it from there in future studies or
Call for Papers:
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Uso de recursos digitales:
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This DSLL Special Issue invites submissions that examine how the concept of genhumanism can be used to understand the transformative dynamics of human鈥揂I collaboration in translation and interpreting studies. Distinct from posthumanist narratives that anticipate the decentring or obsolescence of the human, and from transhumanist visions of technological enhancement, genhumanism conceptualises the ongoing, generative co-evolution of human and artificial intelligence as a process in which both ope
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the II International Conference on Academic Literacies in Multilingual Contexts (19-20 November, 2026 in Bilbao), which will bring together researchers interested in the development of academic and disciplinary literacies in multilingual educational settings.
The conference focuses on how learners develop the language and literacy practices required for academic success across subjects, with particular attention to primary and secondary educa
Call for Papers:
It is a great pleasure to announce the 1st International Conference 鈥淟anguage, Literature & Education鈥� which will be organized and hosted by the Department of Preschool Education of the University of Crete, Faculty of Education, University of Crete.
In the context of this first conference emphasis will be put on aspects stemming from the interrelation between language and literature. Despite the fact that literature is intrinsically connected with language, since words re
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the II International Conference on Academic Literacies in Multilingual Contexts (19-20 November, 2026 in Bilbao), which will bring together researchers interested in the development of academic and disciplinary literacies in multilingual educational settings.
The conference focuses on how learners develop the language and literacy practices required for academic success across subjects, with particular attention to primary and secondary educa
Call for Papers:
From 18 to 20 November 2026, the second Biennial of Czech Linguistics will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno.
The aim of the Biennial is to cover Czech linguistics in its full methodological and thematic breadth. We welcome contributions and participants from all linguistic disciplines and philologies, representing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference is structured around thematic workshops and will also i
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 linguistics鈥� will take place at Europa-Universit盲t Flensburg (EUF). Proposals for presentations