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This book uses semiotics to study the design of a selection of banknotes and coins currently circulating in the American and European continents. Its purpose is to argue how the iconography used to decorate them draws on pre-existing social discourses and meaning.
Moreover, it aims to show how currency design is an enunciative praxis and hence, an activity shaped by cultural conventions that can be approached as a specific discursive genre.
In a nutshell, the book demonstrates how, beyond
The choice between BE and GET as auxiliary verbs, as in 鈥淪he was promoted鈥� vs 鈥淪he got promoted鈥�, is a central, grammatical feature, yet the many proposed nuances conditioning this phenomenon have escaped large-scale empirical validation to date. This book fills this gap, using multivariate statistical analyses of several large corpora to explore different factors determining the choice of English passive auxiliary.
Addressing both diachronic developments (using the Corpus of Historical Ameri
Integrating aspects of Chinese culture with modern theories of language, this book puts forward a new approach to ecolinguistics: harmonious discourse analysis (HDA).
Supplementing existing approaches to eco-discourse analysis, HDA aims to diversify the landscape of ecolinguistic studies by promoting cultural inclusiveness and ecological education. While enabling readers to embrace alternative approaches and discourses in the analysis of a variety of Chinese-context-based examples, it equally
The Fifth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (P筛F 2026) will be held at Princeton University on May 15鈥揗ay 16, 2026. The theme for P筛F 2026 is "Register and subtonal features."
In recent decades, two major lines of research in tonal phonology have been concerned with 1) whether to represent tonal categories as tonal primitives or with subtonal features, and 2) how to account for registral effects like upstep and downstep. There has been considerable diversity in the treatment of regist
ILANSCO 2026 brings together scholars examining the evolving relationships among language, society, cognition, and landscapes. Building on the success of the inaugural ILANSCO 2024 conference in Z眉rich, the 2026 meeting will focus on the theme 鈥淓merging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict.鈥� This year鈥檚 edition highlights landscapes understood as contested, transforming, and frontier spaces shaped by linguistic, cultural, political, and ecological forces.
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Other Specialties: Cognitive linguistics
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Discipline: Linguistique cognitive
Fonctions: l'enseignement, la recherche, le service 脿 la collectivit茅 et la direction p茅dagogique
Exigence:
1. 脢tre titulaire d'un Doctorat en linguistique ou dans une discipline connexe;
2. Poss茅der une sp茅cialisation en phon茅tique constitue un atout.
Exp茅rience:
1. Avoir de l'exp茅rience en enseignement en linguistique aux trois cycles d鈥櫭﹖udes;
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The Fifth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (P筛F 2026) will be held at Princeton University on May 15鈥揗ay 16, 2026. The theme for P筛F 2026 is "Register and subtonal features."
In recent decades, two major lines of research in tonal phonology have been concerned with 1) whether to represent tonal categories as tonal primitives or with subtonal features, and 2) how to account for registral effects like upstep and downstep. There has been considerable diversity in the treatment of regist
ILANSCO 2026 brings together scholars examining the evolving relationships among language, society, cognition, and landscapes. Building on the success of the inaugural ILANSCO 2024 conference in Z眉rich, the 2026 meeting will focus on the theme 鈥淓merging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict.鈥� This year鈥檚 edition highlights landscapes understood as contested, transforming, and frontier spaces shaped by linguistic, cultural, political, and ecological forces.
We invite contributions e
Call for Papers:
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna is pleased to announce The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization (WOHL2026), to be held on July 1-3, 2026. This conference brings together linguists working on linearization, headedness and word order from various perspectives: theoretical, experimental, psychological, typological and diachronic. The conference includes a main session (July 1 and 2) and a one-day workshop (July 3) dedicated to t
Call for Papers:
Deadline Extension: 21 December 2025
LVMH brings together researchers exploring the rich landscape of minority languages, heritage languages, and other non-standard varieties. This free-for-all, open-access-friendly, three-day in-person event aims to advance our theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge of linguistic diversity beyond standard language norms.
We invite submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes in heritage grammars, mi
Call for Papers:
Organis茅 pour la premi猫re fois en 2006, le colloque Les fran莽ais d鈥檌ci en est 脿 sa dixi猫me 茅dition et f锚tera donc 脿 cette occasion en 2026 son vingti猫me anniversaire.
Ce colloque bisannuel offre aux chercheuses et chercheurs, professeures et professeurs qui s鈥檌nt茅ressent aux vari茅t茅s de fran莽ais et 脿 la francophonie nord-am茅ricaine une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs r茅flexions en la mati猫re, quelles que soient les approches th茅oriques et m茅thodologiques mobil
Description:
The Hale research group in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University seeks an outstanding postdoctoral fellow to begin July 1, 2026 for a one-year initial, contract-renewable appointment. The primary responsibility of the appointee will be to analyze naturalistic MEG data, with an aim of shedding light on the cross-linguistic Mechanisms underlying Human Sentence Processing.
Required Qualifications:
- PhD in an area of cognitive science or a closely neig
We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between 19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event.
As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made available to the general public, 鈥楢I鈥� seems to be every颅where. Strong in connotation, weak in deno颅tation, and deeply entangled in contradictory dis颅courses of desire and anxiety, profit and preju颅dice, power and injusti
Studies in the Cognitive Science of Language at McMaster University
The vibrant graduate program in the Cognitive Science of Language is welcoming applications from excellent students with degrees in Linguistics, Psychology, Computer Science, Cognitive Science or related areas. Based in the department of Linguistics and Languages, the program is interdisciplinary and includes faculty from Humanities, Science, and Health Sciences. The program has a strong research orientation with expertise in
The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) at the University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for a PhD position in a project that probes the neural correlates for sentence planning cross-linguistically. The project is embedded in the NCCR Evolving Language (www.evolvinglanguage.ch), a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language and draws on expertise from t
We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between 19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event.
As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made available to the general public, 鈥楢I鈥� seems to be every颅where. Strong in connotation, weak in deno颅tation, and deeply entangled in contradictory dis颅courses of desire and anxiety, profit and preju颅dice, power and injusti
Focus: Trans-Himilayan Historical Linguistics
Description:
The Summer School for Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages (SSATH), hosted by the Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, is a two-week long summer school that features courses in ancient languages and historical linguistics within the scope of the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family, and weekend workshops on two more languages. This year, the courses will include: Old Tibetan, Reconstructing Proto-(Western)-Kho-Bwa, Tan
Focus: Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
Arabic
Bengali
Burmese
Dari
Filipino
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Indonesian
Javanese
Kazakh
Khmer
Lao
Marathi
Nepali
Pashto
Persian
Portuguese
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Sinhala
Tajik
Tamil
Thai
Tibetan
Turkish
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Yoruba
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Applications for WISLI 2026 Now Open! | Program Dates: June 15 - August 7, 2026
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A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect the existence of 鈥減aradoxical realities鈥�.
Adopting a novel method for the study of conflict, framed in the cognitive linguistic tradition within Critical Discourse Studies, the book explains how conflict may be discursively created by relying on the study of four main construal operations. Grounded in examples specific to Northern Irela