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We are delighted to announce the winners of the Journal of Pragmatics Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career Award for 2023:
Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja (Tampere University, Finland) for the article: Demonstrating and checking understanding 鈥 Bodily-visual resources in action formation and ascription
Ibi Reichl (University of East Anglia, UK) for the article: A closer look at refusers鈥 counters: Benefactive changes, design constraints, and interpersonal implications
Congratulations to the
The Editors of Ampersand are pleased to announce that the winners of the 2023 Best Paper Award are Roberto Filippi and Peter Bright for their article 鈥淎 cross-sectional developmental approach to bilingualism: Exploring neurocognitive effects across the lifespan鈥. The winning article was selected by the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors and Editorial Board Members based on its originality, scientific quality and global impact. Congratulations to the winning authors!
Wray & Grace (2007) propose that esotericity and exotericity in languages is the default setting within the language evolution model. It is a product of specific social and cultural conditions. According to Scontras (2023), the Adjective Hierarchy is universal across languages of the world, without paying attention to one of evolutionary factors, i.e. whether they are esoteric or exoteric.
In order to answer the research questions above, we run an Adjective Phrase Experiment (APE) in several la
2nd Call for Papers:
The deadline for submissions is extended until Sunday, October 6, 2024, 23:59 (CEST).
We invite abstract submissions for both oral presentations (20-minute talk plus additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion) and poster presentations. We welcome abstracts from a broad field of linguistic subfields (e.g., language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/ phonology, semantics/ pragmatics, syntax) and methodologies (e.g., computational, experimental, fieldwork, theoretic
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The topics include but are not limited to:
鈥 Medical discourse
鈥 Terminology and terminography
鈥 Semantic approaches to the language of medicine
鈥 New trends and innovations in teaching and learning
鈥 Second/foreign language acquisition in the medical context
鈥 Teaching and assessment challenges
鈥 Translation studies
鈥 Language of medicine and new technologies
鈥 Medical communication
鈥 Intercultural studies: culture, ethics, identity, society
鈥 Intercultural communication
鈥 Eth
The Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for our Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition PhD program.
The goal of the PhD program is to create independent and insightful researchers capable of using analytical and empirical methods to understand the acquisition, use, and maintenance of additional languages. Our unique program provides students with a theoretical grounding in applied linguistics, coupled with broad
The Department of English at Northern Arizona University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Applied Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor.
This position will reinforce our international reputation as one of the top programs in Applied Linguistics and will increase our capacity to offer high-level training to students and to successfully prepare them for competitive careers in industry and academia. The new hire will be a highly productive scholar with a strong and grow
The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics. The ideal candidate is expected to establish a research program that empirically investigates the intersection of society and language use. We are particularly interested in scholars whose work looks at those who speak, use, and learn more than one language, dialect, or variety. A successful candidate will employ quantitative, empirical, computatio
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Leitidee des Workshops ist der Flipped Classroom: Die Teilnehmenden arbeiten sich vor dem gemeinsamen Kurs individuell in die Theorie und die Lehrbeispiele ein; daf眉r steht das Lehrbuch 芦Angewandte Linguistik f眉r Sprachberufe禄 (ZHAW, 2024, Mouton de Gruyter) sowie ein MOOC bei EdX zur Verf眉gung. Im Kurs selbst stellen die Teilnehmenden aktuelle Forschungsfragen und methodische Herausforderungen aus ihren Projekten in kurzen Pitches vor. In Coaching-Sessions besprechen die Teiln
2nd Call for Papers:
The Pavia local organizing committee reminds you that the deadline for submitting papers to the Global WordNet Conference 2025 (Pavia, 27-31 January 2025) is set for 7 October 2024. Please refer to the first call for papers for conference topics and further instructions. The call for papers can be found here: https://unipv-larl.github.io/GWC2025/cfp.html
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We are very pleased to announce the launching of the Special Issue in Languages under the title 鈥淐urrent Issues in Ellipsis and Ellipsis Mismatch: Studies in Japanese and Beyond鈥.
So much progress has been made to pave the way toward a better understanding of the nature and mechanism of ellipsis phenomena in Japanese, both in terms of the coverage of data and theoretical advances. In fact, investigations of ellipsis in Japanese have continued to play an integral role in shapi
Call for Papers:
Abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) should be sent to Matthias Urban
(matthias.urban@cnrs.fr) by the end of November 15th CET
The workshop invites different types of presentations:
With the goal of obtaining a better comparative view on language ecologies and their
diachronic dynamics at local and regional scales, presentations may sketch the
characteristics of a specific regional language ecology and explore how it relates to the
creation and maintenance of the
2nd Call for Papers:
We invite panel contributions addressing the above and related issues/questions for presentations and discussions. We will negotiate the actual form of the panel as a group to make the best use of the allotted time. If you are interested, contact us at tono@ualberta.ca or nakagawanatuko@gmail.com.
Abstracts (min. 250 and max. 500 words) for panel contributions need to be submitted via the IPrA conference website (https://pragmatics.international/page/Brisbane2025) by 1 Nov
This panel is being organised by the investigators of the Australia Research Council-funded project 鈥楥onversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia鈥 (Ilana Mushin, Joe Blythe, Rod Gardner, and Lesley Stirling ) and presents an opportunity to report findings from our investigations into turn-taking to date, and to collaborate with others working on similar research questions. The International Pragmatics Association conference is being held in Brisbane, Australia, 22-27 June 2025.
We are a network of multidisciplinary researchers funded by COST (https://www.cost.eu/) for conducting several types of networking activities within the MultiplEYE project: Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research. The goal is to support the development of a large multilingual eye tracking corpus and enable researchers to collect data by sharing infrastructure and their knowledge between various fields, including linguistics, psycholog
TITLE: The Linguistic Landscape of Higher Education Internationalization
The goal of the current edited volume therefore is to explore how higher education institutions across various
geographical contexts adopt and integrate the English language to achieve successful internationalization. It seeks to
examine stakeholders' expectations and the realities of internationalization, focusing on language policies, local cultures,
digital advancements, and legal and ethical dimensions. By doing so, it
Papers with a focus on regional variation in English are invited 鈥 particularly when they relate to diachronic variability as captured in the conference theme. Papers can also have a more explicit focus on any of the conference subthemes listed here.
World Englishes and Applied Linguistics
World Englishes and Corpus Linguistics
World Englishes and Cultural Linguistics
World Englishes and Discourse Analysis
World Englishes and Education
World Englishes and Intercultural Communication
World Engli
2nd Call for Papers:
We invite submissions on current and recently finished phonetic research within the empirical tradition, and/or demonstrations of new applications or methods within the field of speech science.
Abstracts will be anonymized for review and judged for empirical or practical relevance, clarity and completeness (i.e. research question, hypotheses, methods, availability of results, and 鈥揺specially for new methods/software- possible applications).
If you have a contribution, in
2nd Call for Papers:
The call requests submissions of resources, tools, and methods that can be used to study linguistic change within the German language. If accepted, the content will be presented in a poster presentation and published in a short article afterwards. The language of the presentation and publication is German. The full call follows in German:
Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2025: 鈥濪eutsch im Wandel鈥
Die Jahrestagung 2025 des Instituts f眉r Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim s
Final Call for Papers:
Deadline extended until 30th September 2024, 23.59 CET.
Please visit the website linked below for submission details.