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Editors Takako Kawabata tk70@soas.ac.uk Daniela Cesiri daniela.cesiri@unive.it Call for Abstracts Overview and scope Language and food both function as semiotic systems that rely on shared conventions to convey meaning and to organize social life. As Roland Barthes (2008: 24) argued, food is not simply nourishment but “a system of communication, a body of images, a protocol of usages, situations, and behavior.” In much the same way, language is never a neutral tool. It structures

Medical Humanities: Languages in contact, Linguistic Justice, and Health Equity Editors: Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Ingrid Cobos López, Tirant lo Blanch Description of the work: Medical/Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that brings together the humanities, social sciences, and medicine. This approach aims to understand and address people's experiences with health, illness, care, and medical practice itself from multiple perspectives. Intending to guarantee access to healthcare

As part of GRAPHIA, a European research project working to make Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) data easier to discover, connect, and reuse through a shared knowledge graph, we are looking for your suggestions. We believe that for linguistics researchers, this work is especially relevant. Linguistic data—corpora, lexicons, annotations, grammars, language resources, and metadata—often exists in rich but siloed forms across projects and infrastructures. Knowledge graphs provide a way to

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Bikol Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Louward Allen Zubiri. It will be held on Tuesday February 10 (Americas, Europe) and Wednesday February 11 (Australia) as follows: Los Angeles = 2 pm Tuesday Feb. 10 Mexico City = 4 pm Tuesday Feb. 10 New York = 5 pm Tuesday Feb. 10 Berlin = 11 pm Tuesday Feb. 10 Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday Feb. 11 Zoom link = https://anu.zoom.us/j/86372174150?pwd=MHQDwhItsinIBR9

The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Tue, Feb 10th at 11:00 - 12:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Please check how your time zone relates to Helsinki time. Tensions around the teaching and testing of oral proficiency in English as a lingua franca Sheryl Cooke (British Council) Language is a wonderfully dynamic, malleable tool to express human thought and creativity. As a global lingu

The Metagram seminar (https://htl.cnrs.fr/seminaire-metagram/) is a monthly seminar on questions of grammaticography and metagrammaticography. The seminar takes place the second Tuesday of each month, Feb-May and Sept-Dec, in hybrid mode. It is supported by the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics infrastructure project. The seminar is one of two strands within a research project, “Developing (meta)grammaticographical methods”, coordinated by Aimée Lahaussois and Yvonne Treis, which centers a

Join our PhD Series session: Applying for a PhD – Weighing Your Options. Got PhD offers? Congratulations! But now comes the tricky part — how do you choose between them? In this session, we’ll walk you through key things to consider, including: - City vs. university - Academic fit vs. level of support - Large departments vs. small departments Join the last instalment of the LAGB PSC's applying to Linguistics PhDs series: weighing your offers. Where will we walk you through our decis

Call for Expressions of Interest: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships The Linguistics Section of the Department of Humanities at the University of Pavia (Italy) (https://studiumanistici.dip.unipv.it/it/ricerca/le-sezioni/linguistica-teorica-e-applicata) encourages expressions of interest for applications alongside a local research supervisor to the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (MSCA PF) financed by the European Commission from excellent post

The Marica De Vincenzi Foundation has announced a call for one post-doctoral fellowship. The fellowship is open to researchers with Italian citizenship and supports 12 months of psycholinguistic post-doctoral research abroad (i.e. outside Italy), renewable for an additional 12 months. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2026, at noon. Download the call: https://lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/incarichi-post-doc/dipsco-dipartimento-di-psicologia-e-scienze-cognitive-bando-di-selezione-il-conferimen

I am pleased to invite you to contribute a research chapter to an upcoming edited volume to be published by one of the top international publishers. The volume aims to bring together high-quality, original research contributions from scholars and practitioners in the field. Upon publication, the volume will be submitted for indexing in Scopus. The details of previous edited volumes indexed in Scopus are given below for your reference. Recent Books: https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Technolo

As of volume 50 (2026) Editor Michele Gazzola (Ulster University) will succeed François Grin (Université de Genève) as Editor-in-Chief of the John Benjamins journal Language Problems & Language Planning. François Grin will remain member of the board. LPLP also welcomes Antonio Leoni de León (University of Costa Rica) as new Editor. Language Problems and Language Planning (LPLP) is a peer-reviewed international and multilingual journal which focuses on language issues and the challenges they r

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the fifth talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University), who will give a talk entitled "Why Do Mantras Move Us?" (see the abstract below). The event will take place o

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics Edited by Pia Sundqvist, Liss Kerstin Sylvén, and Hayo Reinders In Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics, the aim is to shed light on this region with its fascinating linguistic landscape and long tradition of language learning and teaching research. People from the Nordics—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, including relevant territories—have always needed to be knowledgeable in ot

Upcoming webinar: Enacting translanguaging in a Ghanaian multilingual classroom - Code choices in minority language classrooms. Friday, 6 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT. Presenters: David Dankwa-Apawu, University of Media, Arts and Communication, Accra; Yvonne Agbetsoamedo, University of Ghana, Legon; Elvis ResCue, University of Birmingham, UK Register via https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5158c609-2abc-4ef6-88fb-2efa28d061b9@d400387a-212f-43ea-ac7f-77aa12d7977e In the multilingual cl

As of volume 17 (2026), Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta) will succeed Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (University of Oregon) and join Editors K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University), Hongyin Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) and Li Wei (UCL IOE, UK) as Executive Editor of the John Benjamins journal Chinese Language and Discourse. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt will remain member of the board. Furthermore, we welcome on board Associate Editor Shuangyun Yao (Central China Normal University), Assistant Edit

2026 Call for publications in the UVigo series ‘Lingua’ 1. Justification The Lingua Research Institute (iLingua) opens the series ‘Lingua’ in the Publications Service of the University of Vigo, with the aim of creating an editorial space for the publication of monographs and collective works on research in languages and linguistics. Priority will be given to publication proposals that fall within iLingua’s lines of research (https://ilingua.uvigo.gal/investigacion/), although original pro

We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for a proposed edited book, Human-AI Interaction: Discourse and Interactional Perspectives. Please refer to the Call for Chapters (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/people/y-li/call-for-chapters-human-ai-interaction-discourse-and-interactional-perspectives.pdf) for more details. This volume seeks to articulate current knowledge and emerging research agendas in the study of human-AI interaction, while illustrating how socially situated approaches to

Reading with NARNiHS Reading Group Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The inaugural session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 10:00 am US Central time / 5:00 pm CET and features Don Tuten with his very recent work on early representations of Romance vernacular in legal documents. Reading with NARNiHS is an exciting new venue for engagement with cutting-edge work i

The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support linguistics communication projects that bring pop linguistics to broader audiences in new and engaging ways. The grants also include a mentoring meeting with Gretchen McCulloch, Lauren Gawne, and/or an experienced lingcommer who we have personally selected to be relevant to your project to ask your lingcomm process questions, and promotion of your project to our lingthusiastic audience. We have six $300 LingComm Grants on any topic related t

Mikael: Kääntämisen ja tulkkauksen tutkimuksen aikakauslehti / Finsk tidskrift för översättnings- och tolkningsforskning / Finnish Journal of Translation and Interpreting Studies FI: Ehdota teemanumeroa SE: Föreslå ett temanummer för Mikael (se nedan) EN: Call for proposals: Thematic issue of Mikael (see below) Ehdota teemanumeroa Kääntämisen ja tulkkauksen tutkimuksen aikakauslehti Mikaeliin Mikael: Kääntämisen ja tulkkauksen tutkimuksen aikakauslehti (ISSN: 1797-3112) on vuodesta

I’d like to briefly share news about GRAPHIA, an EU-funded project that may be of interest to linguists working with language data, digital corpora, lexical resources, and open research infrastructures. GRAPHIA is building a comprehensive Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Knowledge Graph, with the aim of connecting fragmented research data across disciplines, repositories, and formats. For linguistics in particular, this includes linking corpora, lexicons, annotations, publications, metada

The scientific network Argument Alternations across Languages (DFG grant no. 560538798) addresses argument structure alternations found in applicative and ditransitive constructions. While linguists currently have a good understanding of how core grammatical functions (such as subjects and various types of objects) are related to events, the relationship of so-called applied arguments to events is less well understood, esp. in light of the morphosyntactic alternations found with applied argument

We are pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Workshop on Linguistic Theories and the Teaching of L2/L3/Ln to take place on February 6th 2026. This year’s edition focuses on curricular documents and their relationship with linguistic theories and language pedagogy, and will bring together researchers and practitioners to reflect on the role of curricular documents in language teaching. The workshop will present experiences in the design of curricular frameworks for adult additional

The concluding workshop of the PRIN 2022 project "Racconta - Narrative competences and literacy development between internal variation and plurilingualism" will take place at the University of Bologna, Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, on January 30, 2026. The project involved the Universities of Bologna and Turin and investigated the maturation of narrative competences as part of literacy development during the secondary school years, focusing on strategies of cohesion a

We are pleased to announce an upcoming volume on “Interdisciplinary, cross-lingual, diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the emergence and interpretation of multiword expression meanings”, which will be published by Springer. We now invite article contributions to this peer-reviewed volume. We welcome contributions from computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and all other disciplines taking empirically grounded approaches to linguistic phenomena. TOPIC OVERVIEW Multiword expre

In this newsletter: Renew your LDC membership today New publications: CALLHOME Japanese Second Edition CALLHOME Japanese Lexicon Second Edition MATERIAL Swahili-English Language Pack ________________________________________ Renew your LDC membership today The importance of curated resources for language-related education, research, and technology development drives LDC’s mission to create them, to accept data contributions from researchers across the globe, and to broadly share su

This dataset was collected for the following 1997 monograph: Kortmann, Bernd. 1997. Adverbial subordination: A typology and history of adverbial subordinators based on European languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110812428/html) Thirty years after the completion of the book manuscript Adverbial subordination, the bulk of the database forming the empirical foundation for this monograph is made available to the research community. So most

The Nordic Speech Research Forum celebrates its second anniversary with a special guest talk on Mon, Jan 26th at 16:30 - 17:30 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. L2 Intelligibility in the Contexts of AI and Globalization Okim Kang, Northern Arizona University The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Appli

Starting with volume 12 (2026), Tove Larsson (Northern Arizona University) will succeed Sandra Götz (Philipps University Marburg) and join Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain) as editor of the John Benjamins journal International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. Sandra Götz will remain member of the board. IJLCR also welcomes Kyra Larsen (Northern Arizona University) as new Editorial Assistant and Rachel Rubin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) as new Review Editor. The International

The Center for Language Acquisition at Penn State is excited to announce the 2026 CALPER Professional Development Webinar Series - Advances in World Language Pedagogy. These four free webinars feature leading scholars. The first webinar, held on on Thursday, January 29th (4:00-5:30pm Eastern Standard Time), features a talk by Kevin McManus (University of Pittsburgh) on L1 Use in the Language Classroom. Attendees can register at: http://tinyurl.com/CALPERWebinarsSP26 Subsequent webinars are