The Sociolinguistics Symposium is an initiative of UK-based sociolinguists who identified the need for a platform where they would share their research findings and discuss language related issues. Since its inception in 1976, the symposium has grown to be the largest conference of sociolinguistics in the world. It typically attracts between 600 and 1200 delegates. The symposium is held biennially and has been hosted in various parts of the world.
Significantly, in 2024 the 25th Sociolingui
The 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic, invites linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and researchers from related fields to submit papers for presentation on February 20鈥�23, 2026. This year鈥檚 special theme is Event Cognition.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
David Beaver (The University of Texas at Austin)
Oliver Bott (Bielefeld University)
Marcin W膮gi
The Sociolinguistics Symposium is an initiative of UK-based sociolinguists who identified the need for a platform where they would share their research findings and discuss language related issues. Since its inception in 1976, the symposium has grown to be the largest conference of sociolinguistics in the world. It typically attracts between 600 and 1200 delegates. The symposium is held biennially and has been hosted in various parts of the world.
Significantly, in 2024 the 25th Sociolingui
The 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic, invites linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and researchers from related fields to submit papers for presentation on February 20鈥�23, 2026. This year鈥檚 special theme is Event Cognition.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
David Beaver (The University of Texas at Austin)
Oliver Bott (Bielefeld University)
Marcin W膮gi
Description:
As a Linguist/Speech Data Verifier, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the capabilities of AI-driven speech recognition and generation assistants.
Role Responsibilities:
In this role, you will listen to short audio recordings in the target language (German, French, Italian) and review, correct, refine, and/or expand pre-annotated descriptions/labels to accurately reflect voice characteristics and speech delivery.
Job Requirements:
- Idiomatic fluency in target
In the realm of research pertaining to the science of literacy and literacy development, the issue of dyslexia looms large in the developed world, and there are voluminous numbers of studies and papers regarding the disorder and its treatment. In such an information-deluged environment, it is difficult to imagine that yet another edited volume on the subject could be worthy of particular attention 鈥� especially when said volume鈥檚 chapter submissions are largely restricted to evidence from studies
The LingTransformer of Gauss:AI Global is happy to announce the workshop series "Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to Theory"
Website: https://gaussaiglobal.com/LingTransformer
The announcement is also available at: https://www.manova-ai.com/workshops
(Gauss:AI Global is a subsidiary of MANOVA AI.)
Format: Hybrid (onsite in Vienna, Austria, and online)
Frequency: Regular series 鈥� 8 thematic workshops in 4 cumulative blocks (March鈥揓une 2026) and a final conference in October 202
Other Specialties: Foreign/Second language teaching
Description:
We are looking for an outstanding researcher in the area of Instructed Second Language Learning of the target language English. Teaching, course development and supervision will cover educational linguistics and language teaching and learning research. The position requires a background in both linguistics and foreign language teaching methodology. The ideal candidate has an excellent research profile and submits an expos茅 on
Call for PhD position applications
General Information
Title of the offer: Thesis offer (M/F) - Cognitive aspects of language contact in the Balkan language area
Place of work: Nice
Release date: 06/11/2025
Name of scientific responsible / Supervisor: Se莽kin Arslan
Type of contract: CDD PhD student/doctoral contract
Contract duration: 36 months
Start date of the position: Open until filled, applications preferred before March 2026.
Work shift: Full time
Host institute: Centre na
The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will be "An in-progress look at the Murrinhpatha Acquisition Sketch鈥�, presented by Lucinda Davidson.
It will be held on Tuesday November 11 (Americas/Europe) and Wednesday November 12 (Australia) as follows:
Los Angeles = 2 pm Tuesday Nov. 11
Mexico City = 4 pm Tuesday Nov. 11
New York = 5 pm Tuesday Nov. 11
Berlin = 11 pm Tuesday Nov. 11
Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday Nov. 12
Zoom link + https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/84392783612?pwd=0dXizAQJd8
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 second talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Claire Horisk (University of Missouri), who will give a talk entitled "Derogatory Speech: Conversations, Hearers, and Listeners" (see the abstra
Dans le cadre d'une recherche de th猫se, on recherche des participants motiv茅s pour une courte 茅tude en ligne. L鈥櫭﹖ude consiste en deux t芒ches d鈥櫭﹙aluation de mots, pour une dur茅e totale d鈥檈nviron 15 minutes. Pour participer 脿 l鈥櫭﹖ude, il faut que :
- Vous soyez locuteurs natifs du fran莽ais, peu importe si monolingues ou multilingues.
- Vous n鈥檃yez pas d鈥檃nt茅c茅dents de troubles du langage.
- Vous soyez connect茅s depuis un ordinateur (aucun dispositif mobile accept茅).
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SUMMARY
Containing seven chapters ranging from six to forty pages, Weaponizing Language examines how 鈥榣inguistic trickery鈥� is employed by Hindus on the political right鈥攖hrough 鈥渟logans, speeches, writings, parliamentary debates, laws, social media, and media interviews鈥� (p. 19)鈥�-to demonize and legislate against Muslims in India while simultaneously reinforcing Hindutva (鈥楬indu Nationalism鈥�). Numerous examples are provided in English, whether original or translated, to illustrate these rhetor
Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, Nov 11, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Josh will present his work. Presenter: Josh Lee Topic: High vowel devoicing in Seoul Korean spontaneous speech All relevant documents (presentation schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) are available on this Google Drive.
Convernors:
- Eva Skope膷kov谩 (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) skopecko@kan.zcu.cz
- Emanuela Tenca (UniCamillus, Italy) emanuela.tenca@unicamillus.org
鈥淭he rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century.鈥� (Rose et al., 2021, p. 157). Over the last two decades, this issue has been addressed in a considerable body of rese
Convernors:
- Eva Skope膷kov谩 (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) skopecko@kan.zcu.cz
- Emanuela Tenca (UniCamillus, Italy) emanuela.tenca@unicamillus.org
鈥淭he rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century.鈥� (Rose et al., 2021, p. 157). Over the last two decades, this issue has been addressed in a considerable body of rese
2nd Call for Papers:
Organizers:
Angelika Golegos & Andreas Trotzke
Confirmed speakers:
Ann-Marie Moser (University of Zurich)
Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona)
Tom Rankin (Masaryk University Brno)
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
Jimmy van Rijt (Utrecht University)
Europe鈥檚 linguistic landscape is increasingly diverse. It encompasses standardized national languages (taught to both L1 and L2 learners), regional minority languages and dialects, home and heritage language
The Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) is an annual conference held in UCSB's Department of Linguistics. This conference brings linguists, language activists, and community members together to learn about and advocate for the endangered indigenous languages of North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. This conference aims to introduce community members to the world of linguistics, as well as to contribute to an inclusive, positive culture within the field of linguistics itse
Half a century after Aumann鈥檚 鈥淎greeing to Disagree鈥� (1976), this workshop revisits agreement theorems, common knowledge, and related frameworks at the interface of game theory, economics, logic, and language.
Opening day: honorary participation and talk by Robert J. Aumann.
Invited/featured speakers include: Galit Ashkenazi-Golan, Mathias Beiglb枚ck, John Geanakoplos (TBC), Ani Guerdjikova, Alia Gizatullina, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Michael Greinecker, Ziv Hellman, Roni Katzir, Yoram Moses,
The Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) is an annual conference held in UCSB's Department of Linguistics. This conference brings linguists, language activists, and community members together to learn about and advocate for the endangered indigenous languages of North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. This conference aims to introduce community members to the world of linguistics, as well as to contribute to an inclusive, positive culture within the field of linguistics itse