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The position will have a scientific orientation within the field of speech therapy, with a focus on motor aspects, in particular disorders concerning the oral-lingual-facial sphere (including facial paralysis), oral feeding, swallowing, speech and/or fluency in children and/or adults. The successful candidate will have a teaching load of 2 hours per week (at Bachelor's and Master's level), and will supervise doctoral students and Master's projects.
In addition, he/she will:
- demonstrate an int
* Do you have a PhD in Applied Linguistics or similar?
* Have you got an interest in a permanent, full-time role based in Kelburn?
* Are you experienced as an effective teacher of English as a second or foreign language?
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Te聽Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington聽is currently recruiting a permanent, full-time P奴kenga/P奴kenga Matua - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Academic on Principal Pathway).
Key Responsibilities:聽
* Conducti
SUMMARY
Approximately sixty years after the founding in 1901 of the first American Department of Linguistics in Berkeley, California, the Moscow-based predecessor to the International Linguistics Olympiad was born, demonstrating the growing importance of the linguistic sciences to the world. Although the position of linguistics within academia, alongside its theoretical and applied preoccupations, has changed over time, a generalized interest in linguistic analysis has remained stable among lin
SUMMARY
The book, Modality in Contact: Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes, examines the operation of modality (of necessity and strong obligation) in New World Englishes, with a special focus on Singaporean English (SgE). Its author, Carmelo Alessandro Basile, addresses three key questions, namely: (a) do English modal constructions of necessity and obligation exhibit similar behaviours geographically; (b) are the substrate languages the sole driving forces behind the restructuring of th
Starting Fall 2025, Florida State University鈥檚 MS degree in Data Science will introduce a new major: Computational Linguistics. The new major positions students for success in a rapidly evolving field, where expertise in language technology and data science drives career potential across industries. For more information, see https://mll.fsu.edu/programs/linguistics/graduate/datascience .
In this newsletter:
LDC 2025 membership discounts now available
Approaching deadline for Spring 2025 data scholarship applications
LDC closed for Winter Break December 25-January 1
New publications:
MATERIAL Farsi-English Language Pack
Abstract Meaning Representation 3.0 鈥 Machine Translations
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LDC 2025 membership discounts now available
Now through March 3, 2025, current 2024 members receive a 10% discount for renewing their membership, and new or retur
Application Deadline: March 15, 2025 | Program Dates: June 16-August 8, 2025. | Learn more at wisli.wisc.edu.
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What is WISLI?
鈥 High-quality, proficiency-based programs for 30+ languages!
鈥 Accelerated virtual courses for real-world language use.
鈥 One year of language gains in 8 weeks聽while earning 8 college credits.
鈥 Open to undergrads, grad students, and adult learners.
鈥 Multiple funding opportunities available!
Berlin Training Series in Language Documentation and Archiving 2025
June 30 - July 4, 2025
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is offering in-person training in Language Documentation and Archiving from Monday, June 30th through Friday, July 4th, 2025. The training will take place in Berlin, Germany at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
The training will cover the following topics:
鈥 Language Documentation theory & methods
鈥 Understanding and creating archival col
Dear colleagues,
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme is offering an online training series in Language Documentation and Archiving from March 6 to June 12, 2025. Applications to participate in the training series are due 30 January 2025.
Please see the call below for more information. Please help this call reach a broader audience for this series by sharing it with your students, colleagues, and others who may be interested in the training.
Best wishes,
The ELDP Training Team
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Dear colleagues,
In the past few months, I鈥檝e written a series of articles addressed to the general public about the weaponization of language and linguistics in the context of the war on Gaza, including viewpoint discrimination and censorship in that context (see links below). These articles were written with Noam Chomsky鈥檚 article 鈥淭he Responsibility of Intellectuals鈥 in mind (see link below). I am hoping to turn the ideas in these articles into a monograph. So I very much look forward to an
Dear colleagues,
We cordially invite colleagues who are (or have been) affiliated with university language departments across Europe to take part in our survey on universities as language policy actors and to fill in our questionnaire.
In the project 鈥滳losing and opening doors鈥 we are investigating the closure of university language training or research programs and the reduction of their resources, as well as the new openings in universities' language training in Europe in the 21st century.
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2024. iii, 131 pp.
Articles
North Korean propaganda and counterpropaganda on YouTube: Attribute agendas and relationships with network strengths
Seok Kang | pp.鈥133鈥155
Unearthing the disabling perplexities of a Filipino PLHIV online community on X鈥檚 #PLHIVDiaries as socially shared inquiry fostering pakikipagkapwa
George Vincent F. Gamayo, Yhna Therese P. Santos, Vonn Vincent V. Tanchuan & Juven Ni帽o A. Villacastin | pp.鈥156鈥179
Evolvement and use of stigmatized expressions in computer-med
Call for Papers:
Our contemporary world is characterised by different forms of migration and mobility: people migrate for work, education and family, they might have to leave a place for political or economic reasons, or they might flee wars, ecological disasters or terrorism. These migrants feel the need to adapt to their new homelands, not least to their language(s) and their culture(s). They need to renegotiate their identity, incorporating new elements and preserving others they have brough
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Kellogg College, Oxford are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Phonetics.
The post is offered on a full-time basis, available from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are welcomed from well qualified candidates working on Phonetics in any theoretical tradition or traditions.
The Chair for Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Modern Languages, Goethe University Frankfurt, invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher position (65% of a full time position) funded for three years. The position is available starting March 2025, with the salary grade determined by the collective agreement applicable to Goethe University.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will pursue a Ph.D. degree wi
Call for Papers:
The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, literature, translation studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and education with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary discussions and facilitating a deeper understanding of the conference themes, which can include but are not limited to:
Linguistics
鈥 Discourse Studies
鈥 Language and Cultural Identity
鈥 Minorities in Iraq
鈥 Endangered Language
鈥 Nostalgia and
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Sarah Hopkyns, Lecturer in TESOL and International Education, University of St. Andrews, UK
Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and English, Hamad Bin Khalifah University, Qatar
Instructions
Individual Submissions: Individual proposals should include an abstract (250-word maximum), email, affiliation and a short biography (max. 100 words) of presenter(s).
Email submissions to both Dr. Marta Tryzna (Tryzna.M@gust.edu.kw)
and Dr. Jennifer Lofkrantz (L
Greetings, Linguists!
The staff of the LINGUIST List is taking its annual holiday break from Saturday, December 21, 2024 to January 5, 2025. During this time, there will be no new postings.
We will resume normal operations on Monday, January 6, 2025.
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O evento contar谩 com as seguintes apresenta莽玫es:
11h10 鈥 Developing a Task-Based Spoken Corpus for Researching, Teaching, and Assessing Pragmatics 鈥 Stefania Ferrari (Universit脿 del Piemonte Orientale, It谩lia)
11h40 鈥 AI Meets Pragmatic Annotation: LadderWeb vs ChatGPT 鈥 Nicola Brocca (Universit盲t Innsbruck, 脕ustria)
12h10 鈥 Un Corpus Multilingue per lo Studio di Richieste: Metodi e Strumenti 鈥 Elisabetta Santoro (Universidade de S茫o Paulo) e Elena Nuzzo (Universit脿 degli Studi Roma Tre)
For questions, please reach out to us at worela2025@gmail.com