Please find below the call for papers for a conference entitled Identity Construction and English(es) from the Margins that will be organised at the Universit茅 de Lorraine (Metz campus) on 28-29 May 2026.
We are very pleased to announce that we will be welcoming the following keynote speakers during the event:
- Lucy Jones (University of Nottingham)
- Erez Levon (University of Bern)
Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 18 December 2025
Abstracts are to be submitted via the conf
We are announcing the launch of 鈥淢eaning: a journal of linguistics and philosophy鈥�: a new Diamond Open Access journal that fosters highest-quality, cutting-edge research on the study of meaning. It places itself at the intersection of philosophy of language and linguistic semantics & pragmatics, and is open to work in logic, psychology, and cognitive science that address the study of meaning in language.
Meaning is completely scholar-led and -owned and publisher-independent. It is supported a
Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025: Full Program & Book of Abstracts Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the full program for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25) is now available.
This online conference, organized by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, will take place from October 22-24, 2025.
View the full program here:
DUMPLING is a short-form fast paced informal conference organized by Bo臒azi莽i University's Linguistics Society (BULING). This is the 1st of our planned to be biannual conference. This conference is heavily inspired by LSA's 5 Minute Linguists. We invite undergrad students from all around the world for quick, clear and interesting "infodumps" of linguistics fields of their choice. There are 6 speakers, each getting 5 minutes of oral presentation and a 5 minute Q&A part. There will be no online or
Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025: Full Program & Book of Abstracts Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the full program for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25) is now available.
This online conference, organized by the Chair of English and Digital Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and held under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, will take place from October 22-24, 2025.
View the full program here:
DUMPLING is a short-form fast paced informal conference organized by Bo臒azi莽i University's Linguistics Society (BULING). This is the 1st of our planned to be biannual conference. This conference is heavily inspired by LSA's 5 Minute Linguists. We invite undergrad students from all around the world for quick, clear and interesting "infodumps" of linguistics fields of their choice. There are 6 speakers, each getting 5 minutes of oral presentation and a 5 minute Q&A part. There will be no online or
Call for Papers:
Focus of the Conference:
This conference invites contributions that explore the communicative practices through which specialized knowledge is disseminated by experts in and across digitally-mediated contexts. Particular attention is given to proposals which examine the processes of recontextualization involved in adapting specialized knowledge so that it is accessible, understandable and acceptable to multiple audiences. Contributions may approach recontextualization and di
2nd Call for Papers:
Workshop: Aspiration in Language
Part of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language
University of Cologne, 3-4 December 2025
We invite abstracts for a two-day workshop on Aspiration in Language, which will take place on 3rd and 4th December 2025 at the University of Cologne within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 Prominence in Language (CRC 1252: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/).
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on aspiration
Call for Papers:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and scholars to submit abstracts for the 3rd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM 2025), centered on the theme Text and Multimodal Data Processing for Sustainable Development.
This hybrid event aims to explore the challenges and opportunities involved in working with diverse data sources in the Digital Humanities. DDHUM 2025 will focus on making humanities data more accessible and fostering collaborative, data-dri
Call for Papers:
Abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) should be sent to Natalia Levshina (natalia.levshina@ru.nl) and Nicole Katzir (nicole.katzir@gmail.com) by November 10th.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of text data to learn statistical patterns in language, and able to generate, process, and predict human(-like) text. As discussions at the recent SLE meeting and other venues demonstrate, the rise of LLMs has maj
Chosun HK Global Fellowship 鈥� Call for Applications For Advanced-Stage Research Projects
The Chosun University HK Research Group invites applications for the HK Global Fellowship, open to undergraduate and graduate students who wish to bring an existing research project to a submission-ready stage with dedicated mentorship.
Fellowship Period:
November 15, 2025 鈥� February 15, 2026 (3 months)
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Purpose:
This fellowship is designed for applicants wit
Special Issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, July 2027
Call for Proposals
Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) is now entertaining proposals for the thematic issue of Volume 49:3, to be published in July 2027. Thematic issues of SSLA focus on areas of current interest and are an excellent venue to bring together in one issue numerous approaches to a problem or methodology in the field of SLA. For special issue examples, see previous special volumes of SSLA. For examples
Description:
The Department of English at Louisiana State University seeks an Instructor to teach courses in spoken and/or written English to international students. Our spoken English courses seek to develop and improve general spoken English skills (pronunciation, stress, intonation, and rhythm), overall comprehensibility, and interaction skills for international teaching assistants. Our English as a Second Language composition courses are designed to improve international students鈥� grammar
Editors:
Lisa Lehnen (JMU W眉rzburg, lisa.lehnen@uni-wuerzburg.de)
Theresa Neumaier (TU Dortmund, University, theresa.neumaier@tu-dortmund.de)
Ninja Schulz (JMU W眉rzburg, ninja.schulz@uni-wuerzburg.de)
Correspondence provides a rich data source for studies in historical sociolinguistics, genre analysis, language variation and change. However, to fully exploit the potential of the data, it is important to be aware of external factors relevant for their production and acknowledge the options
Watch on-demand: Building NLP for Complex Languages
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In this 60-minute recording, you鈥檒l gain practical insights into developing NLP tools for languages like Finnish through the Kielikone journey. Discover how domain data, morphology, and language structure impact technologies such as machine translation and proofreading, as explained by l
We are pleased to announce that the first German-English bilingual corpus is now available on the CHILDES platform.
This longitudinal and dense corpus contains transcripts of spontaneous child鈥揳dult interaction involving three bilingual children. At present, only the data from Fion are available, with the remaining children鈥檚 corpora to be added in the near future.
The Fion corpus spans the period from age 2;3 to 3;11, comprising 211 hours of recordings with 53,372 child utterances and 120,5
Corpus Sense is a new web-based platform for corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. The application is free to use for academic purposes, and access can be requested via the Contact page on the website: https://corpus-sense.app
Corpus Sense has been designed to support both research and teaching, offering a user-friendly interface alongside powerful NLP tools. Its main features include:
- Corpus management: Upload, organize, and share corpora securely.
- Concordancing & KWIC: Explore ke
Running since 2018, the Language Policy Forum is an international conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from around the world, working across the broad field of language policy. It is organised by the Language Policy Special Interest Group within the British Association of Applied Linguistics (https://langpol.ac.uk).
Location: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Plenary speakers:
- Lily Chimuanya, Covenant University, Nigeria
- Andrew Shorten, University of L
Running since 2018, the Language Policy Forum is an international conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from around the world, working across the broad field of language policy. It is organised by the Language Policy Special Interest Group within the British Association of Applied Linguistics (https://langpol.ac.uk).
Location: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Plenary speakers:
- Lily Chimuanya, Covenant University, Nigeria
- Andrew Shorten, University of L
We are pleased to announce that the next Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be organised and hosted by Universidad de Valladolid.
The conference will take place from 8-10 July 2026.
The 2026 edition marks the 20th anniversary of CADAAD. Under the theme Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies, we invite scholars to reflect on the evolution of the field and the ways in which different methodo