Description:
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising a position for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in computational linguistics starting August 1st, 2026 (or to be agreed upon).
Desired Profile:
The ideal candidate will have a recognized expertise in computational linguistics and computational modelling of language, based on rigorous analytical and quantitative approach to modelling language, from speech production and comprehension to sentence processi
SUMMARY
Kuniyoshi Kataoka's Language and Body in Place and Space: Discourse of Japanese Rock Climbing was first published in 2023, and then released in paperback in 2025. As the title indicates, the book addresses the complex intertwining of language, physical practice, and spatial orientation within the specialized community of Japanese rock climbers. Its central purpose is to demonstrate that linguistic expressions, especially those related to verticality and direction, are dynamically co-c
CIPL, Comit茅 International Permanent des Linguistes, is delighted to announce an extra round of 5 travel grants for the Abralin InterAb conference March 2-6 in UFPE Recife, Brazil.
The application procedure is as follows
Who is eligible
Advanced students in linguistics without a PhD are eligible to receive a once-only grant of 鈧� 500 to help fund their participation in the Interab conference. Candidates who study or work at UFPE are not eligible, nor are candidates who live in Recife. In the e
The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Georgian Acquisition Sketch鈥�, presented by Nino Tsintsadze, Tinatin Chincharauli, Tamara Kalkhitashvili, and Teona Damenia.
It will be held on Wednesday December 10 as follows:
Berlin = 9 am
Tbilisi = 12 pm
Delhi = 13:30 pm
Tokyo = 5 pm
Melbourne = 7 pm
Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/64017142968?pwd=cvUwbsvmMNL0CQQ3LrOpqWHbawKs4U.1
Meeting ID = 640 1714 2968
Passcode = 8NSu6jn@
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We are pleased to announce the new Version 2 of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM), which is available for download via the project website:
https://linguistics.rub.de/rem
The Reference Corpus of Middle High German (1050鈥�1350) consists of more than two million tokens, providing a mostly complete collection of written records from Early Middle High German (1050鈥�1200) as well as a careful selection of Middle High German texts from 1200 to 1350. The corpus was compiled in the
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the third talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Xavier Villalba (Autonomous University of Barcelona), who will give a talk entitled "Expressivity cross-linguistically: A corpus study of express
The Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG), a research unit of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Porto, invites you to the second event of the new MLAG Seminar Series featuring talks by international researchers on topics of interest to the group. The talk, given by Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele) and entitled "Are Reclaimed Slurs Offensive?" (joint work with Alessandra Zappoli, Nicol貌 D鈥橝gruma, Giulia Giunta, Simone Sulpizio and Filippo Domaneschi). will ta
Recent advances in social media and communication technologies are expanding the scope of computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. New platforms and formats, from short video apps like TikTok to community platforms like Discord, are generating massive volumes of user-generated content and multimodal interactions. Due to their unprecedented popularity, 鈥渢he question of how meaning is produced in these videos is becoming increasingly important鈥� However, systematic approaches to the analysis
Description:
The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Germany. With its six Faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines and its internationally outstanding research profile areas, it enjoys an excellent reputation for its academic achievements. The Department of Linguistics combines typological, historical-comparative and phonetic approaches in the study of communicative interaction and plays a leading role in all collaborative initiatives across the C
Recent advances in social media and communication technologies are expanding the scope of computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. New platforms and formats, from short video apps like TikTok to community platforms like Discord, are generating massive volumes of user-generated content and multimodal interactions. Due to their unprecedented popularity, 鈥渢he question of how meaning is produced in these videos is becoming increasingly important鈥� However, systematic approaches to the analysis
Call for Papers:
The 15th Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference will take place at the University of Salzburg (Austria) from 28 鈥� 30 September 2026.
Confirmed plenary speakers are:
Prof Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison, US)
Prof Micha艂 G艂uszkowski (Toru艅 University, Poland)
Prof Sybille Gro脽e (Heidelberg University, Germany)
The 2026 conference theme is "Spoken and written discourse in historical sources".
Historical sociolinguistics naturally draw
The fourth Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference (SMLC 2026) will take place on 5鈥�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, speech analysis, medical
Die Tagung m枚chte den Fokus auf Fremdsprachenunterricht und Lehrkr盲ftebildung im sich seit der Fr眉hen Neuzeit abzeichnenden 枚ffentlichen, sp盲ter auch staatlichen Schulwesen lenken. Seit der Fr眉hen Neuzeit finden sich etwa in den st盲dtischen Latein-, B眉rger- und Handelsschulen Vorl盲ufer heutiger 枚ffentlicher Schulen, die weiteren Kreisen zug盲nglich waren, bis hin zu einer sich seit dem 18. Jahrhundert in regional unterschiedlichen Auspr盲gungen entwickelnden Unterrichts- und sp盲ter Schulpflicht. I
The fourth Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference (SMLC 2026) will take place on 5鈥�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, speech analysis, medical
2nd Call for Papers:
The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing鈥�26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026.
Scope & Aims:
Language-oriented approaches鈥攕uch as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography鈥攈ave long been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these approaches to scale acro
Die Tagung m枚chte den Fokus auf Fremdsprachenunterricht und Lehrkr盲ftebildung im sich seit der Fr眉hen Neuzeit abzeichnenden 枚ffentlichen, sp盲ter auch staatlichen Schulwesen lenken. Seit der Fr眉hen Neuzeit finden sich etwa in den st盲dtischen Latein-, B眉rger- und Handelsschulen Vorl盲ufer heutiger 枚ffentlicher Schulen, die weiteren Kreisen zug盲nglich waren, bis hin zu einer sich seit dem 18. Jahrhundert in regional unterschiedlichen Auspr盲gungen entwickelnden Unterrichts- und sp盲ter Schulpflicht. I
Other Specialties: English for Academic Purposes,聽Education,聽Rhetoric and Composition
Description:
School of Humanities
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Lecturer in Language and Communication Centre
Young, research intensive, and outward-looking Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world鈥檚 top universities.
The School of Humanities (SoH) at NTU Singapore combines the highest quality research and teaching with practical engagem
Liebe LINGUIST List,
ich bin Paula und mache gerade meinen Bachelor in Sprache und Gesellschaft an der FU Berlin. F眉r meine Abschlussarbeit suche ich noch Teilnehmer*innen f眉r meine Umfrage. Dabei untersuche ich, wie Nutzer*innen sprachlich auf Instagrams algorithmische Content Moderation reagieren.
Zeitaufwand:
Die Teilnahme an der Umfrage dauert ca. 10 Minuten.
Datenschutz:
Alle Daten werden anonymisiert und nur im Rahmen der Bachelorarbeit ausgewertet.
Wen suche ich?/ Who am I
The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Thu, Dec 11th at 10:00 - 11:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Taking back Kven 鈥� Quantity differences in L1 and L2 speech
Antti Saloranta & Leena Maria Heikkola, The Arctic University of Norway
News:
- The webinars continue on Jan 26, 2026 with a special guest talk by Professor Okim Kang (Northern Arizona University). You will find the details and
Este estudio indaga en la variaci贸n pragm谩tica, socioindexical e interindividual del vocativo en el espa帽ol coloquial actual, desde una perspectiva emp铆rica multidimensional. El an谩lisis cualitativo-cuantitativo se fundamenta en las premisas y herramientas cognitivas aportadas por la gram谩tica de construcciones y la socioling眉铆stica cognitiva de la tercera ola, en la que desempe帽a un papel central la noci贸n de la indexicalidad social.
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