NEXT MEETING The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on Data Processing 2 - transcription, translation, deciphering and interpreting child utterances, and annotation. It will be held on Wednesday the 17th of April at two times: Time 1: 9 am Berlin time / 5 pm Melbourne time https://anu.zoom.us/j/89753505399?pwd=UklBKzJHaEc1K25EMUZHeHlGMWhuQT09 Meeting ID: 897 5350 5399 Password: 390325 Time 2: 4 pm Los Angeles time / 7 pm New York time / 9 am Melbourne time (April 18) h

Call for Papers: E-JournALL is now accepting submissions for the Special Issue to be published in 2025. Special Issue Title: Multimodality and the digital turn in teaching business discourse Guest Editors: Judith Ainsworth, McGill University (Canada) Virginia Pulcini, University of Torino (Italy) A growing number of university students, both native and non-native speakers of English, expect to acquire high-level digital communication skills and competences to successfully handle business c

Participants will: 1. Demonstrate an awareness of sociocultural aspects of language learning and teaching. 2. Develop or refine the ability to identify intercultural similarities and differences in pragmatic language use in at least two languages/cultures. 3. Enhance their ability to identify learners’ needs in intercultural communication. 4. Become familiar with current approaches to the teaching of L2 pragmatics. 5. Develop a pragmatics-focused lesson plan which incorporates research-based inf

As in previous years, we invite students (Bachelor’s and Master’s) as well as graduate students and postdocs from Linguistics (and its sub-disciplines), Phonetics and Phonology, Law/Legal Studies, and related fields to apply for this international interdisciplinary program. All sessions will be conducted in English. The FLsc is taught by Dr Isabel Picornell and Dr Krzysztof Kredens and will take place on 3 – 6 September 2024. For the first time, the FLsc will span four instead of three days, as

The linguistic analysis of the relation between language and politics is a well-established field of research. One focus is on how words and other lexical constructions are used strategically in the context of rhetorical practices. In their book "The Politics of Language" (2023) the linguist David Beaver and the philosopher Jason Stanley develop a radically new approach for this field, starting from a formal-semantic background, which they adapt to the specific topic. In doing so, they reconcep

This summer program is a joint effort of CNRS (France) and Ilia State University (Georgia) as part of the CAUcasian LAnguages in GEorgia network (aka CauLaGe). It has two sides: courses in the mornings, research in the afternoons. Its goals are to: introduce students to formal methods of language description and documentation give students hands-on onsite training in linguistic fieldwork on an understudied language foster linguistic work on (Tsova) Tush (East Caucasian) this year foster end

To get the program, visit the conference webpage: www.bit/ly/povt2024

To get the program, visit the conference webpage: www.bit/ly/povt2024

The conference program (including the abstracts) can be found on the conference website: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024/05/leiden-bielefeld-workshop-on-comparative-syntax-leibiecos To attend the conference, please register using this form https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/LeiBieCos2024 The registration is open until Friday 10 May.

The conference program (including the abstracts) can be found on the conference website: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024/05/leiden-bielefeld-workshop-on-comparative-syntax-leibiecos To attend the conference, please register using this form https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/LeiBieCos2024 The registration is open until Friday 10 May.

Call for Papers: The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism - The Different Faces of Bilingualism - featuring The Bilingual Brain Day We are currently inviting proposals for symposia. Symposia are 120-minute blocks that allow for extended, interactive discussion on a specific topic, focusing on a cluster of independent yet related papers. Each symposium consists of four slots, and should consist either of four presentations, or of three presentations and a discussion. Proposals cannot

During our annual Fund Drive, we like to feature undergraduate and early-career graduate students who have gone above and beyond the classroom to participate in the wider field of linguistics. Selected nominees exemplify a commitment to not only academic performance, but also to the field of linguistics and principles of scientific inquiry. Since this year’s Fund Drive theme is Mirrors and Reflections, we are especially excited to recognize those Rising Stars whose bright light is sure to refle

The Department of English is searching for a temporary lecturer in linguistics for the 2024-25 academic year, with the possibility of appointment in subsequent years. The candidate must be able to teach courses in second language acquisition, English grammar, and general linguistics (e.g., syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics). We are especially interested in candidates committed to supporting the success of first-generation and underrepresented students. California State University, Chico seeks

Applications are invited for a PhD position in phonetics/phonology and neuro-linguistics at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. The position is part of a collaborative project funded by the CNRS and the University of Chicago, awarded to Sharon Peperkamp (Paris) and Alan Yu (Chicago). The project focuses on individual differences in neural encoding of the speech signal at both the subcortical and cortical levels in non-native speech perception. Specifically, it aims at examining to what extent th

The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS, https://www.leibniz-zas.de) is a non-university research institute in the state of Berlin, which is jointly funded by the federal and state governments; The sponsor is the Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ). At the ZAS, the human capacity for language and its expression through individual languages is explored with the aim to gain a better understanding of the biological, cognitive, and social factors surrounding this central human abi

Subject Language: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Greek, Finnish, Filipino, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Latvian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Serbian, Catalan, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Linguistic Specialty: General Linguistics, Phonology We are currently seeking native-speaking consultants with a BA or MA in Linguistics in any of the following languages: bg-BG (Bulgarian-Bulgaria) cmn-CN (Chinese-China) cs-CZ (Czech-Czech Republic) el-GR (Greek-Greece)

SUMMARY The Elements in Forensic Linguistics series from Cambridge University Press provides high-quality accessible writing across four main topic areas: investigative and forensic text analysis, the study of spoken linguistic practices in legal contexts, the linguistic analysis of written legal texts and explorations of the origins, the development and scope of forensic linguistics in various countries. Forensic Linguistics in Australia: Origins, Progress and Prospects is the second Element i

Dear Linguist List readers, A truly remarkable event unfolded above the Linguist List office today. At precisely 3:05 pm EST, a chill swept through the air as the moon slid in front of the sun, casting a shadow over all in the path of totality. Yet, amidst this celestial dance, the sun's brilliance pierced through, illuminating the edges of the moon in a breathtaking display of light and shadow. During the period of totality in a total solar eclipse, our vision shifts from bright, detailed pho

Il programma si concentra su workshop interattivi in cui un team internazionale di esperti lavorerà insieme ai partecipanti su temi legati al plurilinguismo, alla linguistica delle migrazioni, all'acquisizione linguistica, alla ricerca sulle heritage languages e alla linguistica del contatto. Si presterà particolare attenzione a casi di studio concreti, legati in maniera particolare alle minoranze linguistiche così come a scenari di contatto linguistico intraromanzo scarsamente indagati. Tra le

Call for Papers: IMPORTANT DATES - 15/07/2024: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 23/09/2024: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 21/10/2024: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 4-6/12/2024: CLiC-it 2024 Conference, Pisa