We鈥檙e delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the BAAL Vocabulary Studies SIG 2026, themed: 鈥淰ocabulary and Bilingualism: Cognitive, Pedagogical, and Social Perspectives.鈥�
The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in vocabulary research across bilingual and multilingual contexts, with a strong focus on empirical, innovative, and interdisciplinary work.
Plenary speakers:
Dr. Ana Pellicer-S谩nchez (UCL)
Prof. Thora
The conference Construal in Language and Discourse invites contributions that examine construal as a central concept for understanding meaning construction across language, different forms of discourse, cognition, narrative, and multimodal communication.
In Cognitive Linguistics, construal refers to how speakers and writers conceptualise experience by selecting, structuring, profiling, foregrounding, backgrounding, and simulating aspects of a scene. This conference adopts and extends this vie
2nd Call for Papers:
Workshop Overview:
The International Workshop on Grammaticalization and Syntactic Representations (IWGSR), organized by the Center for Sustainable Development of Linguistic Diversity, will be held October 16 (Friday) 鈥� 17 (Saturday), 2026, at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. We welcome submission of presentations that explore the dynamic field of grammaticalization and syntactic theory. The workshop will feature two distinguished keynote speakers, namely
We鈥檙e delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the BAAL Vocabulary Studies SIG 2026, themed: 鈥淰ocabulary and Bilingualism: Cognitive, Pedagogical, and Social Perspectives.鈥�
The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in vocabulary research across bilingual and multilingual contexts, with a strong focus on empirical, innovative, and interdisciplinary work.
Plenary speakers:
Dr. Ana Pellicer-S谩nchez (UCL)
Prof. Thora
The conference Construal in Language and Discourse invites contributions that examine construal as a central concept for understanding meaning construction across language, different forms of discourse, cognition, narrative, and multimodal communication.
In Cognitive Linguistics, construal refers to how speakers and writers conceptualise experience by selecting, structuring, profiling, foregrounding, backgrounding, and simulating aspects of a scene. This conference adopts and extends this vie
While weather has always been part of everyday discourse, contemporary concerns鈥攅nvironmental uncertainty, climate change, and technological challenges鈥攈ave intensified scholarly attention across the humanities and sciences. From early views of weather as an unpredictable force embedded in cosmic or divine order, through the eighteenth-century shift toward systematic observation and measurement, meteorology has evolved alongside cultural, scientific, and epistemological frameworks. Today, extrem
The Indebtedness in Linguistics Conference explores the notion of indebtedness in linguistic exchanges, focusing on the ways speakers express, acknowledge, or negotiate a relational imbalance, particularly through gratitude, apologies, or expectations of reciprocity. The aim is to compare linguistic practices across European and Asian languages. We encourage comparative contributions or studies on lesser-studied languages.
The conference, funded by the CEL laboratory (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Unive
The Philological Society invites abstracts for consideration for the Early Career event, to take place on Friday 16 October 2026 at University College London (UCL).
The Philological Society (PhilSoc) was established in 1830 and is the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages. As well as encouraging all aspects of the study of language, PhilSoc has a particular interest in historical and comparative linguistics, and in the structure, dev
While weather has always been part of everyday discourse, contemporary concerns鈥攅nvironmental uncertainty, climate change, and technological challenges鈥攈ave intensified scholarly attention across the humanities and sciences. From early views of weather as an unpredictable force embedded in cosmic or divine order, through the eighteenth-century shift toward systematic observation and measurement, meteorology has evolved alongside cultural, scientific, and epistemological frameworks. Today, extrem
The Indebtedness in Linguistics Conference explores the notion of indebtedness in linguistic exchanges, focusing on the ways speakers express, acknowledge, or negotiate a relational imbalance, particularly through gratitude, apologies, or expectations of reciprocity. The aim is to compare linguistic practices across European and Asian languages. We encourage comparative contributions or studies on lesser-studied languages.
The conference, funded by the CEL laboratory (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Unive
The Philological Society invites abstracts for consideration for the Early Career event, to take place on Friday 16 October 2026 at University College London (UCL).
The Philological Society (PhilSoc) was established in 1830 and is the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages. As well as encouraging all aspects of the study of language, PhilSoc has a particular interest in historical and comparative linguistics, and in the structure, dev
Description:
Two Assistant Professor posts (Ref: 2600085) are vacant in the Department of English Language Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. The Department has around 20 academic and teaching staff who provide teaching and supervision to the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in the Faculty of Humanities and the University. The successful candidates will participate in research, teaching, knowledge transfer, and community service. They are expected to do resear
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Visiting Lecturer in Linguistic Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
New York University Arts and Science
The Department of Anthropology at New York University invites applications for a one-year position as a Visiting Lecturer in Linguistic Anthropology. The appointment will begin September 1, 2026, subject to potential renewal for a maximum of three years, pending administrative and budgetary approval.
The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate c
Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Feb 9, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Myriam and Alessio will be presenting their work. Title: Disentangling prominence strengthening: Evidence for independent stress and length effects in Pan茫ra vowel acoustics Abstract: This study examines how two dimensions of phonological prominence鈥攑honemic length and lexical stress鈥攁ffect the acoustic formant space of vowels in Pan茫ra, a […]
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A most needed and well formulated textbook, Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research, is published in the series Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (RMAL), by John Benjamins. The book provides an underserved readership, i.e., novice researchers and graduate students majoring in applied linguistics, SLA, and language pedagogy, with foundational knowledge and introduction to the compilation of a valid corpus, step by step illustration of various techniques of corpus analys
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Published in 2025, Patricia Kolaiti鈥檚 second book, 鈥淟iterature and Art as Cognitive Objects: From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Actions,鈥� aims to transmit a multidisciplinary approach to contemporary criticisms of literature and arts. Kolaiti鈥檚 work aims to pave the way for further research in the study of literature and art to conjunct with cognitive sciences and explore the possibility of merging cognitive theories with literary and artworks as objects, perhaps leading to di
Editors
Takako Kawabata
tk70@soas.ac.uk
Daniela Cesiri
daniela.cesiri@unive.it
Call for Abstracts
Overview and scope
Language and food both function as semiotic systems that rely on shared conventions to convey meaning and to organize social life. As Roland Barthes (2008: 24) argued, food is not simply nourishment but 鈥渁 system of communication, a body of images, a protocol of usages, situations, and behavior.鈥� In much the same way, language is never a neutral tool. It structures
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The Department of Linguistics seeks applications for a lecturer in linguistics, with a focus on teaching and advising in formal semantics. The ability to teach and advise students in another area in addition to semantics is a plus. The lecturer will be responsible for teaching four courses in this area (two per semester). We anticipate a mix of graduate and undergraduate courses, to include semantics courses at both levels, and courses possibly from among the following: an underg
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Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language鈥揗usic Connection
Date and Time:
Thursday, June 25, 2026
1:00鈥�4:30 pm
Location:
Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, Canada
Satellite Workshop of LabPhon 20
Pitch is central to both language and music, yet the relationship between linguistic and musical pitch remains under-theorized within laboratory phonology. While LabPhon has long advanced the experimental study of tone and intonation, explicit cross-domain research
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How do we persuade someone to act against their initial intentions? How do we reshape what they think about an issue?
Language is our most powerful tool for influence. We use it to convince, persuade, cajole, and coax, often without even realizing it. Words mold opinions, shift attitudes, and guide behavior. This symposium places the persuasive power of language at its very core.
Linguists have traditionally examined the workings of persuasive language in institutionali