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

This book presents empirical research from a wide range of South Asian contexts, in order to develop critical understandings of the intricate relationships between translingual practices, language education, social justice and equity. The chapters explore the feasibility, acceptance and prospects of translingual practices as meaningful communication and pedagogic practices in South Asian English language classrooms. The authors identify diverse language uses in sociolinguistically unexplored

The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major parts: Fundamental issues; Conceptualization of temporality across languages and cultures; Metaphor, metonymy, and time conceptualization; and Time and grammar. Following the two chapters that prefigure the

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

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

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

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

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

Description: Post-doc position in English linguistics, 60% Start: 1 August 2026 As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% post-doc position in English linguistics. The position is intended for further academic qualification and is limited in duration (2+4 years). Your tasks: - Further academic qualification (second book or cumulative) - Two hours of teaching per week in

Description: PhD position in English linguistics, 60% Start: 1 August 2026 As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% PhD position in English linguistics. The position is intended for further academic qualification and is limited in duration (1+3 years). Your tasks: - Further academic qualification (PhD thesis and coursework) - Two hours of teaching per week in English

Rewind, Play and Fast Forward: Tracing the evolution of Irish-English from sound archive to web Queen’s University Belfast (School of Arts, English and Languages) in partnership with National Museums NI, invites applications from suitably qualified applicants for a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship, fully funded (fees and living allowance) by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, to conduct research leading to a PhD on the theme: Rewind, Play and Fast Forward: Tracin

El Seminario Interinstitucional de Lingüística Historica (SILIH) y la ​​Facultad de Idiomas de Tijuana de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California convocan al primer coloquio *Proto- , el cual tendrá lugar los días 22 y 23 de octubre de 2026. *Proto- está pensado como un encuentro bienal para las y los investigadores interesados en el cambio lingüístico, desde distintas perspectivas teóricas, niveles de análisis y lenguas de estudio. Este coloquio tiene sus antecedentes en las Jornadas de

Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) will be hosted by the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina. FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on under-researched and/or endangered South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psyc

Far from being a private matter, recent studies on emotion, particularly since the affective turn, have shown its complexity as a subject of study; it is at the intersection of psychology, history, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, etc. Admittedly, emotion is subjective, but it also has a collective, social, and cultural dimension. Emotions are felt by the subject in their psyche and body, but their representation and semiotization use linguistic and semiotic codes specific to a culture, an

EMNLP 2026 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2026 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce (or fail t

The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the 17th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2025 Paris, to be held on 22-24 October 2026 in Paris, France. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2026 Paris conference envisions a vibrant platform for collaboration and

Illustrated by data drawn from many linguacultures, this book provides a strictly language-based and comprehensive cross-cultural pragmatic model for analysing political data. It allows the reader to examine politically relevant data without pre-held convictions, avoiding many pitfalls lurking in the study of political language use.

This book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries in Britain from the early modern to the interwar period. In doing so, it responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality.

Language is a uniquely human trait, but we rarely stop to examine its workings in everyday life. This lively and readable book introduces readers to the study of language in a scientific, objective way. It demonstrates the 'nuts and bolts' of how human language works and why it's so interesting.

Building on the logical tradition of possible world semantics, this book presents an ambitious theory of linguistic modality by exploring the rich and diverse empirical domain of modal phenomena, covering a wide variety of languages. It is essential reading for scholars of semantics, pragmatics, linguistic typology, and discourse analysis.