Other Specialties: Gesture
Description:
The AHRC-DFG-funded QuBiSM project (Questions, Bias, Multimodality: Negotiating Meaning in Interaction) invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position. The project, headed by PIs Dr Johannes Heim (Aberdeen), Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp (Cologne) and Dr Rebecca Woods (Newcastle), will examine the prosody and co-speech gesture associated with negative questions in English and German, as well as their acquisition.
The position will
As of Volume 41 Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris) will succeed Kyoko Ohara (Keio University, Japan) and Jan-Ola 脰stman (University of Helsinki, Finland), and join Mirjam Fried (Charles University, Czech Republic) as editor of the bookseries Constructional Approaches to Language. Kyoko Ohara and Jan-Ola 脰stman will remain member of the Advisory Board.
The Constructional Approaches to Language (CAL) series brings together research conducted within different constructional
The ninth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 12th May 2025 at 5pm BST. Minyue Wang (Lancaster University) will present on 鈥淎 Corpus-Based Study on the Grammaticalization Paths of the Chinese Classifier鈥� 鏋� m茅i鈥�.
Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 9th May and the link for this can be accessed here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBatMxbT5jTyRuTz3BD-_P5XYmWpFE8lniyUruelqgi0oSVQ/viewform
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Some readers may find the latest issue (vol. 37, no. 1) of the journal Parall猫les of interest. It is a special issue devoted to the role of gesture in interpreting. It features nine papers covering a range of topics and language combinations, as well as theoretical, methodological, and practical considerations related to the use of gesture in spoken-to-spoken and signed-to-spoken language interpreting. The journal is open access and the articles can be found here: https://www.paralleles.unige.ch
Linguists and language enthusiasts in the Washington DC area may be interested in attending this upcoming free event at Planet Word museum in Washington DC. The Language Science Fair is an event for the general public featuring activities, talks, puzzles, crafts, and prizes, all about language science! Hosted by the Language Science Station at Planet Word, the Fair brings together scientists and curious minds to celebrate how language works, from the way we produce and perceive language, to how
Morrobolam is a Lamalamic (Paman < Pama-Nyungan) language of Cape York Peninsula in north-eastern Australia. Like other languages in the region, it has unusual sound and word structures by Australian standards. This dictionary provides a detailed analysis of the forms, meanings and uses of Morrobolam words, generously illustrated with example sentences from texts. It is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and other scientists, but can also be used as a practical guide to the language, for
Description:
The Center for Language Science (CLS) in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State seeks a Human Research Technologist to assist in the operations and research of the labs within CLS.
The CLS is an interdisciplinary group of linguists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, speech-language pathologists, speech scientists, and cognitive neuroscientists who share an interest in language acquisition and bilingualism. CLS researchers employ a variety of methods including behavioral
Other Specialties: Humanities, Social Sciences, Computer Science or related fields
Description:
We are happy to announce that the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities is launching a call for applications for 3 postdoctoral research fellows in Digital Humanities, at the Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS), funded by the European Union.
DigiTS is aimed at carrying out cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research using modern digital methods applied to textual data in Humani
Description:
As an Associate Linguist, you will provide linguistic expertise for developing NLP tools for the target language. You will be involved in annotation, creating grammar rules, formulating language templates, finding patterns, and evaluating existing data. Full training on tools and processes will be provided.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Annotation
- Creating grammar rules
- Formulating language templates
- Finding patterns
- Evaluating existing data
REQUIREMENTS
- We are loo
The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List.
If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below:
Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request
Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account.
Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select.
Step
Other Specialties: Multilingualism
Description:
Starting from October 1, 2025, the section of English Linguistics in English and American Studies at TU Braunschweig is looking for a
Postdoc in English Linguistics (m/f/d)
(part-time 50%-75% - German pay scale TV-L EG 13)
The Postdoc position is for a period of 3 years initially, subject to a successful evaluation of progress at the end of the first year. The successful applicant will pursue further academic qualifications, e.g., a
Description:
Position Start Date: August 1, 2026
Required Degree: PhD or its foreign equivalent
The required degree must be completed by the start date.
Experience:
Experience teaching Spanish at the university level and performing scholarly research. Fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English is also required.
Duties/Expectations:
The successful candidate will be expected to:
1. Teach six courses per year. These include service courses that are required for a va
The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice 鈥� people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic performances, interweaving foo
ACCENT VARIATION AND CHANGE
'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and to
The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice 鈥� people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic performances, interweaving foo
ACCENT VARIATION AND CHANGE
'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and to
This hybrid event will bring together cutting-edge research, innovative practices, and theoretical perspectives on the ethical and responsible integration of AI in the learning and teaching of languages and cultures and applied linguistics. The conference theme draws inspiration from the鈥疭hifting Power project鈥痺hich itself was inspired by the thinking of Pratyusha Kalluri of the鈥疪adical AI Network. Asking whether AI is good or fair is not the right question, she holds.鈥疘nstead, we should鈥痵eek鈥痶o
Genitives and Possession in Contact
Online workshop - 13th June 2025
Much has been written on the topic of possession in general (Heine, 1997; Nichols, 1988, among others), in the last 15 years there have also been several publications that have discussed the influence of language contact on possession-related phenomena, such as on split possession in European languages (Stolz, et al. 2008), predicative possession in Slavic (McAnallen, 2011) or attributive possession in Tunisian Arabic (Saya
This hybrid event will bring together cutting-edge research, innovative practices, and theoretical perspectives on the ethical and responsible integration of AI in the learning and teaching of languages and cultures and applied linguistics. The conference theme draws inspiration from the鈥疭hifting Power project鈥痺hich itself was inspired by the thinking of Pratyusha Kalluri of the鈥疪adical AI Network. Asking whether AI is good or fair is not the right question, she holds.鈥疘nstead, we should鈥痵eek鈥痶o
Genitives and Possession in Contact
Online workshop - 13th June 2025
Much has been written on the topic of possession in general (Heine, 1997; Nichols, 1988, among others), in the last 15 years there have also been several publications that have discussed the influence of language contact on possession-related phenomena, such as on split possession in European languages (Stolz, et al. 2008), predicative possession in Slavic (McAnallen, 2011) or attributive possession in Tunisian Arabic (Saya