Linguistics

Encontra-se aberto um concurso para a atribuição de cinco bolsas de investigação (BI) para Estudantes de Doutoramento para o exercício de atividades de investigação científica em Ciências da Linguagem, no âmbito do Contrato-Programa de Financiamento Plurianual de Unidades de I&D 2020-2023 estabelecido entre a FCT, a FLUP e o CLUP, no âmbito do financiamento programático (Ref. UIDP/00022/2020). The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP) hereby opens this Call for Appli

DiLCo, the international research network on “Digital Language Variation in Context”, is delighted to host the following events throughout the autumn 2023: DiLCo Methods Day 2023, 6 October 2023 (on-site in Hamburg and webinar streaming) Our annual methods workshop, DiLCo Methods Day, comes on Friday, 6 October from 09-17 CEST on-site in Hamburg and in webinar streaming. Dedicated to “Methods for online/offline nexus analysis”, this year’s workshop features four presentations and a panel discu

Dear colleagues, I am reaching out to share information about an application that has been under development over the past year as part of the ABSTRACTION project (ERC-2021-STG-101039777). The application, known as Word Ladders, is now available for download on mobile devices and is owned by the University of Bologna. For Android users: Download from Google Play --> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.synesthesia.abstraction&pli=1 For Apple users: Download from the App Store --> h

Time and Date: Friday November 10th, 3pm – 5pm EST (12pm PST, 8pm GMT) Presenters: Mira Ariel and Anna Papafragou As time goes on, pragmatic theoreticians are becoming increasingly aware of the need for experimental evidence to back up their theories. However, the gap between theory and experimental practice remains large. Both for theoreticians and experimentalists, digesting pragmatic theory and developing concrete testable hypotheses is no easy task. This workshop is intended to help brid

Calls for applications: Ensure your spot by signing up today to run your Wikipedia assignment this fall! Find out how you and your students can change the world one word at a time by visiting teach.wikiedu.org. Attend an upcoming workshop! Attend one of our upcoming workshops to learn more about this unique pedagogical opportunity. Click here to register for a session: https://wikiedu.org/webinars/ The next one will be Tuesday, August 30 at 9:00 AM Pacific. Wiki Education's support is fully f

English for Specific Purposes is calling for applications for the Student Editorial Board (SEB) 2023-2024. SEB members will be invited to work on at least two editorial peer reviews over the year, supported by the Associate Editors. Joining the SEB will enable students to experience and participate directly in the peer review process, as well as providing them with an insight into the workflow of an academic journal. For more information about the role, please read this recently published articl

The American Philosophical Society’s Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research invites applications from doctoral students to support the cost of travel, equipment, and other expenses related to field research. Deadline: November 15, 2023 Award: up to $5,000 Contact: Linda Musumeci, Director of Grants and Fellowships, American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 E-mail: LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org Phone: (215) 440-3429 Web: https://www.amphilsoc.org/gr

The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants to fund research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans in the continental United States and Canada. The funds are intended for such extra costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants’ fees. Deadline: March 1, 2024 Award: up to $3,500 Contact: Linda Musumeci, Director of Grants and Fellowships, American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 191

The American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. The Society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who hav

FREE ONLINE EVENT WITH MULTILINGUAL MATTERS AUTHOR JPB GERALD. Friday 1 September 2023 Time: 9am EST / 2pm UK Join Multilingual Matters for a conversation between JPB Gerald, author of Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness, and MM Editorial Director Anna Roderick. Make sure to get your questions ready for the audience Q&A! To attend this free event, all you need to do is sign up here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7116916807663/WN_F1GEM9epR

Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) is an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, and evaluative and expressive terms in general, from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature, and in particular from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. Its main aim is to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challeng

This is a call for papers for the project Springer Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Iran and Shared Spheres in Homelands and Diasporas (Springer Nature/Series Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics). This handbook welcomes scholars from all social and human science disciplines to contribute to linguistic anthropological studies. The scope of this handbook, thus, is vast and encompasses a wide range of topics and areas of investigation. The following list is only a selection of topi

In this newsletter: LDC at Interspeech 2023 LDC releases speech activity detector Fall 2023 LDC Data Scholarship Program New publications: 2019 OpenSAT Public Safety Communications Simulation Samrómur Queries Icelandic Speech 1.0 ________________________________________ LDC at Interspeech 2023 LDC is happy to be back in person as an exhibitor and longtime supporter of Interspeech, taking place this year August 20-24 in Dublin, Ireland. Stop by Stand A2 to say hello and learn about the latest d

Webinar time: 16:00 - 17:30 CEST (Berlin, Johannesburg) (this is 10 am in New York; 2 pm Accra; 3 pm Lagos, London; 5 pm Nairobi). Zoom link (registration not necessary): https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63863239013?pwd=THNraXpKM3U5cXRIOU1HSDAvZDM3UT09 Meeting ID: 638 6323 9013. Passcode: pAkt*fW1 Presenter: Prof Dr Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The sociolinguistic profile of most African nations is both multiglossic, a precolonial legacy, and diglossic, a colonial le

*** We apologise for any cross-posting*** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Elements, Government and Licensing: Developments in phonology edited by Florian Breit, Yuko Yoshida, and Connor Youngberg. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3KFUhwB ******************************************* Elements, Government and Licensing Developments in phonology Edited by Florian Breit, Yuko Yoshida, and Connor Youngberg. Fre

The continued elaboration of social media platforms and affordances has created multiple ways for individuals and communities to express, construct, and negotiate identities and cultures (Vásquez & Liska, 2023). Studies show how multilingual and transnational populations, for example, navigate their use of languages to forge a sense of belonging in two countries (Lam & Christiansen, 2022), explore literacies in both languages (Noguerón-Liu and Hogan, 2017; Skerrett, 2018), create social aff

By undergraduates, for undergraduates, the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB) is the world’s only journal publishing solely undergraduate research in all areas of linguistics. We are very happy to announce the publication of our first Early Access paper and first instalment in Vol. 2, Issue 2: Complexity and the Phonological Turing Machine by Louis Van Steene (University of Cambridge). Taking a minimalist perspective, this paper evaluates the Chomskyan fram

Despite growing interest in language ideology and metalinguistic discourse (e.g., Mar-Molinero & Stevenson, 2006; Duchêne & Heller, 2007; Johnson & Tommaso, 2010; Hollington & Storch, 2016; Lane, Costa & De Korne, 2017; Gal & Irvine, 2019; Costa & Connor, 2019), most dedicated, wide-ranging volumes and journal special issues are from the turn of the century, some twenty years ago (Schieffelin, Woolard & Kroskrity, 1998; Blommaert, 1999; Kroskrity, 2000; Dirven, Hawkins & Sandikcioglu, 2001; Gal

Volume Editors: Pascal Hohaus and Jan-Friso Heeren Link: https://brill.com/display/title/68259?language=en Twenty-first century processes, such as globalization and digitization, pose various challenges for primary, secondary, and post-secondary teacher education at both the formal and informal education levels. These challenges are addressed by innovators in the field of teacher education, i.e. teacher educators, pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, scholars and policy-makers. This edit

Hmm, well the email subject says "this year's survey" but technically it's kinda more like last year's survey. We ran the survey in late 2022 but it seriously took me this long to cobble it together into a report, such is life! Hopefully it's been worth the wait. If it hasn't, I will personally issue a full refund. Anyway, in late 2022 we ran the survey and a real number of actual people completed it, thereby giving us a fully rigorous and unarguably scientific gauge of how every sociolinguist

Extended CfP for Health Communication & Inclusivity In response to several queries for extensions of the CfP for the volume Healthcare, language and inclusivity, the deadline of the CfP has been extended until the 31st August. We hope that this will make it more manageable in this period. The CfP is copied below. Kayo Kondo (Durham University) Andreas Musolff (University of East Anglia) Sara Vilar-Lluch (University of Nottingham) Taochen Zhou (University of Nottingham) *** CfP: Healthcare, la

Dear Scholars and Researchers, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming edited special issue in the journal Cadernos de Linguistica published by the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin) with the following title: Beyond Letters: Perspectives on the Effects of Illiteracy from Linguistics and Beyond. We invite you to contribute to this volume and share your research findings and insights in the field of illiteracy and linguistics. Illiteracy's theoretical interest in

Researcher Good morning everyone, my name is Elianeth Tinjacá and I'm applying for a Master degree in Applied Linguistics in ELE at the Universidad Nebrija, in Spain. I'm interested in checking the emotional perception of students of a foreign language, especially those who are Spanish learners. Also, I would like to test this corpus which contains real utterances based on the way colombian people express emotions such as happiness and sadness. Project Description and Corpus. This current resea

Liebe Kollegen und Kolleginnen, liebe Emerging Linguists, wir sind ein Verein für Studierende von Studierenden sprachwissenschaftlicher Studien. Als junge Linguist:innen haben wir uns entschieden, in Österreich ein Netzwerk zu gründen, um Gleichgesinnten aus dem Bereich der Linguistik und benachbarter Disziplinen die Möglichkeit zu geben, Ideen auszutauschen. So entstand der Verein Emerging Linguists (https://emerginglinguists.org/), der erste österreichische Verein, der den Nachwuchs aus allen

Researcher Introduction My name is Li Lin and I got my PhD in Applied Linguistics from Massy University, New Zealand. Currently I work at Zhejiang International Studies University. My main research interests are corpus linguistics and learner corpus research. I am particularly interested in spoken corpus design and construction and how corpora may be applied to other fields of linguistics, such as language teaching and learning. Project Description and Invitation A spoken corpus is a collection

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce a video interview with Igor Mel'čuk. The interview was done by Ian Mackenze. Ian has published papers with Professor Mel'čuk, and he is also a professional film maker (see rimba.com). The film is copyrighted by Ian and can only be used for non-commercial purposes. It is a little over two hours long, and it is unedited. Ian and I both agree that the interview works well as is. The first hour is on lexicology, and the s

After 18 months’ work on the Innsbruck online interface of Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary (EDD; 1898-1905), its new version 4.0 has now been published. This brand-new version represents the final phase of a project that has been carried out by Manfred Markus and his team at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) since 2006. Free availability and usability EDD Online is licenced under Creative Commons Licence CC-BY 4.0. This means that we need you to accept the following term of use: You mus

Dear colleagues, We are seeking contributions for a special collection on "Mental Health, Discourse, and Stigma" in the journal BMC Psychology. The special collection seeks to publish sociolinguistic work on mental health and stigma. Contributions are expected to utilize established methods in sociolinguistics such as discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and corpus linguistics (amongst others). We especially welcome papers from the Global South and non-Anglophone contexts. The published

Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships at NEH The Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships are offered as part of a joint, multi-year funding program of NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages. DLI-DEL Fellowships support individuals (not institutional or collaborative projects) who are junior or s

English for Specific Purposes is calling for applications for the Student Editorial Board (SEB) 2023-2024. SEB members will be invited to work on at least two editorial peer reviews over the year, supported by the Associate Editors. Joining the SEB will enable students to experience and participate directly in the peer review process, as well as providing them with an insight into the workflow of an academic journal. For more information about the role, please read this recently published articl