In collaboration with the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS) and the Réseau National des Centres de Langues de l'Enseignement Supérieur de France (Ranacles), the UNamur Language Center is organizing the upcoming CercleS Teacher Training Week. The event will take place on 19-22 May 2026 and will bring together around 30 participants from across Europe for four days of exchange, reflection, and hands-on collaboration. This Teacher Training Week will prov

According to Iedema (2003), resemiotization provides the analytical means for tracing how semiotics are translated from one into the other as social processes unfold, as well as for asking why these semiotics (rather than others) are mobilized to do certain things at certain times. In fact, as Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996: 37) points out, transcoding between a range of semiotic modes represents a more adequate understanding of representation and communication. For this reason, over the past de

REDIS: Revista de Estudos do Discurso (Journal of Discourse Studies) announces how its 2026 issues - namely issue no. 18 (July 2026) and issue no. 19 (December 2026) - will be organized. Issue no. 18 (July 2026) will be a non-thematic issue. Submitted manuscripts must fall within REDIS’s scope of publication, namely Linguistic Studies of Discourse. The call for papers closes on February 28, 2026. Expected publication: July 2026. Issue no. 19 (December 2026) will be a thematic issue and

Call for Papers: The fourth Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference (SMLC 2026) will take place on 5–6 June 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, in a hybrid format. This conference series aims to bring together researchers, educators, and professionals working in the field of healthcare communication and medical linguistics. The thematic scope includes, among others, patient-centred communication, medical translation and interpreting, terminology, pragmatics, artificial intelligence, metaphors, speec

2nd Call for Papers: Meeting description: Tense and Aspect are fundamental categories in the architecture of grammar. Both situate eventualities in time, but they do so in different ways: tense anchors the time of the event deictically to the time of the utterance, yielding present, past, or future distinctions, either directly or through the mediation of a reference time (Comrie 1985, Bybee 1992). Aspect, on the other hand, refers to the internal temporal constituency of the event, encodi

We are pleased to invite submissions to the First Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL, https://comp-dev-ling.github.io/), co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, CA, USA. The workshop will take place between July 3rd and July 7th (exact date to be confirmed). The workshop aims to bridge the conversation between modern machine learning and developmental linguistics. We hope to draw inspiration from both fields, identifying similarities and differences in the (im)plausibilit

Call for Papers: From voice assistants and generative AI to the evolving relationships between humans and their animal companions, language-based communication with non-humans is becoming an increasingly common feature of the everyday. In response, we are seeing a surge in research from linguistics to philosophy to the social sciences, investigating the meanings, quandaries, and realities of this new communicative terrain. This conference aims to build a bridge between the predominantly disti

L’italiano possibile: sguardo verso i limiti della variazione diatopica Convegno per i 35 anni dell’Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana Bellinzona, 19-21 novembre 2026 Fondato nel 1991, l’Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana (OLSI) da 35 anni si occupa di sociolinguistica dell’italiano in Svizzera. In occasione di questo anniversario, sulla scia dei precedenti convegni (le diverse edizioni di Linguisti in contatto), vogliamo rinnovare questa opportunità di incontro

BriGap-3 is a venue for formal linguists, computational linguists, and NLP scientists to meet: what fruitful interactions can we have? How do we build upon each other’s work? Description: Due to the groundbreaking achievements in the LLM era, the ongoing discourse in NLP has shifted more to what can be achieved through language than studying language for its own sake, and traditional conferences are increasingly dominated by engineering-oriented work. It could thus appear that computational

Call for Papers: The Child Language Symposium 2026, hosted by the Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy: Research and Practice (CLLNRP) at University College London, invites submissions from researchers working on any aspect of child language development. As a long-established, peer-reviewed international conference hosted annually by a UK institution and attended by researchers worldwide. The symposium provides a forum for presenting new empirical findings, theoretical advances, and met

Final Call for Papers: Updated information on accommodation and conference proceedings can be found on the conference website: https://lsrl56.hcommons.org/ Michigan State University is pleased to host the 56th Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages in East Lansing, MI, May 14-16th 2026. Invited Speakers: - Andrés Saab (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet) - Karen Miller (Penn State University) - Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona) - Patrícia Amaral (Indiana University)

2nd Call for Papers: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world’s linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or margin

Linguistics at school in a European perspective (LiDi 2026) University of Zurich April 13-14, 2026 Organizers: Angelika Golegos & Andreas Trotzke https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/lidi2026.html April 13, 2026: Southern and Central Europe Keynote 09:30 - 10:15 Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona/Spain) Bringing linguistics into the pre-university classroom: Insights and experiences from Catalan and Spanish language teaching Case Studies I 10:15 - 10:45 Cristina Pierantozzi,

Second Call for Papers: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026) We invite submissions to the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026), to be

Buorisboahtem / Buerie båeteme/ Welcome to the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium at Nord University, Bodø, Norway! On 4–5 November 2026, the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS 7) will be held at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. The symposium is the continuation of a series of international symposia previously held in Tromsø 2006 and 2009, in Freiburg 2017, in Uppsala 2019, in Tartu 2022, and in Helsinki 2024. The purpose of the symposium is to give scholars an opportunity to present curr

Other Specialties: Dialectology, Language Variation and Change Description: Prof David Britain is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher/Teacher to work in the Modern English Linguistics section of the Department of English at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The job role involves BA and MA teaching and thesis supervision (30%), administration for the section and the Department (10%) and research (60%). The position is for up to 4 years (non-renewable) and begins on 1st August 2026. The r

This dissertation explores the syntax of subsententials in Hindi/Urdu (H/U), with an empirical focus on sluicing and fragment answers. Such phenomena represent instances where all clausal material is unpronounced, except for a (wh-)phrase (e.g., A: Who did John see? B: Mary.). With evidence from various connectivity effects, I argue that a non-structuralist analysis of such configurations, which does not assume the presence of tacit material, is untenable. Rather, subsententials in this language

We are seeking FIVE highly motivated PhD researchers to join the team of CURLEW (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales). CURLEW is a four-year project (from August 2026) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the International Co-Investigator Scheme with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). It is a collaboration between David Britain (Bern, PI), Paul Foulkes (York), Adrian Leemann (Bern) and Da

Other Specialties: Natural Language Processing, Description: As an AI Language Engineer you contribute your expertise in language and computational linguistics to develop and fine-tune natural language processing (NLP) systems to ensure they accurately understand and generate human language. You work with other teams to optimize language models that power various AI applications. Key Responsibilities: - Develop natural language processing code specific to French (Canadian) language -

I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal Call for Papers for Special Issue (1/2026) The Politics of Emotions: Discourse, Media, Digital Spaces Guest editors: Alexandra Palau (Université Bourgogne Europe), Denis Jamet-Coupé (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) and Alma-Pierre Bonnet (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) Call for Papers: This special issue of the I-LanD Journal aims to reflect on the use of emotions in political discourse, be it in a