The aim of this eleventh issue of the journal Langue(s) & Parole is to bring together articles that focus on the situated process of language acquisition by adolescents, a population that is largely underrepresented in second language acquisition research. Of the 89 classroom studies that Collins and Mu帽oz (2016) identified in the Modern Language Journal between 2001 and 2014, only 15, or 17%, focused on adolescents in secondary education, compared to 75% on adults. Adolescence will therefore be
Visual signs permeate all areas of communication, from everyday life to science, art, technology, and education. In signed languages as well as in certain written languages, comics, infographics, protest signs, or emoji-based communication, iconic language enables the transmission of complex content through visual resemblance, drawing on cultural models embedded in specific media and social contexts. Iconic communication operates neither as purely arbitrary nor as universally intelligible 鈥� it i
We are pleased to announce the following Call for Papers for the International Conference 鈥淭ranslating Latin in the Contemporary World鈥�, to be held in June, 11-12, 2026, at the University of Bologna (Italy).
The conference will address the topic of translation of Latin texts into modern languages 鈥� both natural and computer-based 鈥� by combining theoretical, historical, and cultural perspectives on translation. The goal is to bring together scholars from translation studies, classics, modern l
This conference is the third of the DiLegMa series, after editions hosted in Paris in 2024 and in Bern in 2025. The conference aims to bring together descriptive/documentary linguists who engage with legacy materials on their language (or language group) of specialization. Hosted by Universit茅 Paris Cit茅's Histoire des th茅ories linguistiques research group, the conference will provide opportunities for exchange with historians of linguistics, and its themes are therefore situated at the interfac
On 7-9 May 2026, the Romanian Lectureship and the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Salamanca, together with the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest are organising the RoSal conference, 80 years of Romanian Studies at the University of Salamanca, which celebrates the introduction of Romanian language courses at this institution in 1946.
The conference is aimed at the scientific community in Romania, Spain and other countries and is open to any topic related to Romanian
Review of Linguistics and Oral History
Reviewer: Philemon Victor Gomwalk
Book Title: Linguistics and Oral History
Editor: Chris Fitzgerald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Publication: 2025
Summary
Chris Fitzgerald鈥檚 edited volume is organized into twelve (12) chapters. These chapters broadly explore the intersection of linguistics and oral history, covering topics such as the role of memory and language, the interpretation of transcription practices, and the challen
Title: Linguistic Landscapes
Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Author(s): Jeffrey L. Kallen
Reviewer: Teresa Wai See Ong
Summary
Written by Jeffrey L. Kallen, Linguistic Landscapes: A Sociolinguistic Approach, contains eight chapters that provides a holistic understanding of the development of the field of linguistic landscapes using various methodologies and approaches with photographic evidence drawn from thre
Other Specialties: NLP experience: text classification, sentiment analysis, linguistic feature extraction
Description:
Build production NLP algorithms that detect cognitive biases (anchoring, confirmation bias, groupthink) in real-time corporate meeting transcripts. You'll create linguistic feature extraction pipelines that integrate with AI-powered meeting analytics serving Fortune 500 decision-makers.
Deliverables (4-week sprint):
- Bias detection algorithm specifications for 3 prio
elingUP Journal - Call For Papers 2026
Centre for Linguistics of the University of Porto
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto
elingUP (https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/elingUP) is an online journal specifically designed for students of linguistics and interdisciplinary areas. The journal aims to encourage scientific research in this field and promote studies carried out by students. As such, we welcome unpublished research papers and/or critical reviews from 1st, 2nd, and
Call for Papers:
Meeting Description:
The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) is the oldest student-run linguistics organization in the United States. This academic year, CLS will host its 62nd Annual Meeting (CLS 62), to be held from April 17 through April 19, 2026 at the University of Chicago. Upholding a longstanding tradition, the conference serves as a forum for leading scholars and researchers from around the world to engage in the exchange of ideas across all areas of linguistics. CLS is
Call for Papers:
Announcement re: ICOP L2 Conference 2026, which will be held at Newcastle University, UK. 24-26 August 2026.
https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icop-l2-26/
Abstract submission is now open. Please submit through our abstract submission portal:
https://forms.gle/rz7KruELWrzjVrFY6
Submission deadline is 20th February 2026.
We are excited to welcome our plenary speakers:
- Silvia Kunitz, Link枚ping University: Task-based interactions: A research-informed and practice-orie
Final Call for Papers:
Wir m枚chten an den verl盲ngerten Call for Papers f眉r das 26. Norddeutsche Linguistische Kolloquium am 26. und 27. M盲rz 2026 in Hildesheim erinnern (siehe unten). Es k枚nnen noch bis zum 30. November 2025 Abstracts eingereicht werden.
Das NLK bietet seit 1989 insbesondere Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen aller linguistischer Teilbereiche die M枚glichkeit zum inhaltlichen und methodischen Austausch und zur Vernetzung. Der Fokus liegt auf der Diskussion laufender Projekte u
There is a growing body of research on the effects of bilingualism in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Across studies, there is now broad consensus that exposure to two (or more) languages does not have detrimental effects on either language development or core autistic traits. Instead, bilingualism can even prove helpful in some domains. At the same time, research in this area faces important challenges, including how to capture the considerable heterogeneity within ASD, the wide r
The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set:
https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day.
If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to t
Final Call for Papers:
This workshop aims to bring together linguists working on exclamatives which cooccur with a complementizer, as well as scholars who work on epistemic modal adverbs in exclamations. The workshop is programmed within the research project The syntactic and interpretative properties of certain modality expressions in Basque: discourse particles, modality adverbs, exclamative force and its relation with complementizers, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovatio
There is a growing body of research on the effects of bilingualism in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Across studies, there is now broad consensus that exposure to two (or more) languages does not have detrimental effects on either language development or core autistic traits. Instead, bilingualism can even prove helpful in some domains. At the same time, research in this area faces important challenges, including how to capture the considerable heterogeneity within ASD, the wide r
The program for NARNiHS 2026 -- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics -- is now set:
https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3160
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans for a full day of robust discussion of Historical Sociolinguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting on 9 January 2026. And then all are welcome to join us for the NARNiHS General Meeting the next day.
If you can't make it to the conference, check out the abstracts linked to t
After the successful 5th edition in Kolding in 2024, the 6th international conference Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning (TDL6) will take place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, on 14鈥�16 October 2026.
TDL6 brings together researchers exploring second language learning through usage-based, empirical, and theoretically grounded approaches. These perspectives view language as an embodied, semiotic, and interactional system, and understa
After the successful 5th edition in Kolding in 2024, the 6th international conference Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning (TDL6) will take place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, on 14鈥�16 October 2026.
TDL6 brings together researchers exploring second language learning through usage-based, empirical, and theoretically grounded approaches. These perspectives view language as an embodied, semiotic, and interactional system, and understa
This issue of RANAM (Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Am茅ricaines) aims at exploring the expression of volition, wish and/or desire in English, in all its manifestations. Several levels of analysis can therefore be of interest: lexical, phraseological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic.
It will thus be possible to study the various existing linguistic forms expressing volition and its degrees from a lexical and/or phraseological point of view: lexical words such as the three given in the title, but