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Gestures are integral to spoken language. However, much of modern linguistic enquiry has been based on analyses of language as text. This book is situated in the turn towards face-to-face interaction as the primary source of linguistic data. Taking a cognitive and usage-based approach, it provides data-driven investigations of the conventions of spontaneous conversation, going beyond linguistic features of utterances to include manual gestures, head movements, shoulder shrugs, postural shifts, e

SUMMARY In The Discursive Construction of Veganism: An Ecolinguistics Approach, Mario Leto offers both an academic analysis of the discursive representations of veganism and a practical toolkit for vegan advocacy. Published in 2026 as part of the Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics series, the book draws on critical discourse analysis (CDA), ecolinguistics, and positive discourse analysis (PDA) to examine how veganism is constructed, challenged, and defended across a range of media. Leto's

Description: We are looking for trained phoneticians (PhD students, postdocs, MA candidates with strong IPA background) for paid, remote, part-time work transcribing English audio of non-native speakers. The task: Each item is a short English audio clip (a few seconds), produced by either a native or an L2 speaker. For each clip the annotator provides: 1. A broad phonemic transcription in IPA, reflecting what is actually heard rather than the orthographic target. Conventions follow a

Description: The position: A 3-year postdoctoral fellow position is available at the Department for Language and Literature, Volda University College (https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303726/postdoctoral-fellow-in-psycholinguistics-multilectalism-and-language-processing). The position is affiliated with the research project Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading (MInDReading): Neurocognitive and Behavioral Effects of Dialect Exposure on Literacy Development. MInDReading

Atras Journal, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access publication from the Faculty of Letters, Languages, and Arts, University of Saida Dr Moulay Tahar, Algeria, invites original and unpublished research manuscripts for its upcoming Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2027). We seek high-quality contributions from scholars worldwide that advance knowledge and foster critical reflection across a broad spectrum of disciplines. Key Submission Deadline: November 20, 2026 Scope of the Journal:

Call for Papers: The Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) focuses on building cumulative knowledge in linguistics through reproducible, robust, and replicable research findings. Building on the success of WoReLa 1 in Frankfurt, this second workshop aims to further our understanding of the factors that contribute to (a lack of) replicability in the language sciences, and to identify effective strategies to improve how linguistic research is conducted. For WoReLa 2

Palabra y silencio se implican mutuamente. Se enlazan en la respiraci贸n, y as铆 tambi茅n conviven en cada parte del lenguaje. Hay silencios propios de los fonemas, de los morfemas, de las palabras y de las oraciones, y el silencio aparece en refranes, en la conversaci贸n y en el discurso p煤blico. De hecho, a la par del desarrollo del lenguaje artificial, en los 煤ltimos a帽os creci贸 tambi茅n el inter茅s acad茅mico por distintas formas de 鈥渟ilencio verbal鈥� (Ephratt 2008, 2016, 2022). En abril de 2025

We are pleased to announce that the 7th ESP Conference will take place at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The conference will include paper presentations and invited plenary talks. The 7th International ESP Conference welcomes ESP professionals and scholars from across the world to meet in Ankara on November 6-7, 2026, for a premier conference experience. Scholars and educators will engage in professional development and explore a wide range of topics relevant to teaching

Call for Papers: This workshop is organized as part of the DGfS 49th Annual Conference 2027 'Language under the Microscope 鈥� Observation, Analysis, Theory' Workshop Description: Clitic pronouns and agreement markers are traditionally treated as distinct elements of grammar: clitics as (deficient) pronouns, agreement as a purely morphological reflex of syntactic relations. However, a growing body of work has pointed to systematic similarities between them, raising the question of whether

Call for Papers: This workshop is organized as part of the World Congress of African Linguistics 鈥� WOCAL 12, 2027 Workshop Description: Object marking has long been central to debates about the nature of agreement and clitic doubling. While traditionally treated as distinct phenomena, a growing body of work has shown that the empirical picture is more complex and that the distinction is often difficult to maintain (Jaeggli 1982; Borer 1984; Sportiche 1996; Roberts 2010; Kramer 2012; Zel

Call for Papers: This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2027). NOTE: the submission deadline has been extended to July 31, 2026. Workshop Description: Information Structure (IS) is a broad domain of linguistic inquiry, addressing how speakers organize and present information in discourse. Crucially, languages employ a wide range of strategies across (morpho)syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and prosody to package information

More than two decades ago, Michael Erard, a linguist and writer, set out to marry the linguist鈥檚 fascination with language to the journalist鈥檚 fascination with story. Could he go beyond the usual cliches and engage with language where and how it鈥檚 actually used and studied? In journalism, a "beat" is an area or topic to which a journalist brings their expertise. "The Language Beat: Essays and Reporting on Language and Life" collects 42 of Erard鈥檚 long-form features, reports, essays and review

Call for Papers: The 40th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 40) is officially calling for papers! This milestone 40th-anniversary event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 10鈥�12, 2026, hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU). PACLIC is a premier annual international conference that has brought together researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing for four deca

Yapen Island in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia, is home to a small group of closely related Papuan languages: the Yawa-Saweru languages. Up until now, the Yawa-Saweru languages have remained largely undescribed and there is no scholarly consensus on the genetic affiliations of the family. Even though multiple attempts at establishing genetic relationships have been made, such hypotheses cannot be properly evaluated without detailed descriptions of the language family and rigorous bottom-up reconstr

Across Early Modern Europe, far-reaching social, political, and economic changes gave rise to efforts to shape and standardise vernacular languages. In the Low Countries, these efforts took shape in the first Dutch spelling guides, grammars, and dictionaries, which set out tentative norms for a standard written language. At the same time, printed newspapers emerged as a new and widely read medium, reaching audiences across social classes, and potentially serving not only to spread the news, but

Call for Papers: The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoust

We invite colleagues interested in participating in the panel 鈥淭he Pragmatics of Humour in Pop(ular) Culture" to send an expression of interest, together with a provisional title and an abstract (max. 500 words), to Michelle Weckermann (michelle.weckermann@uni-a.de) and Christian Hoffmann (christian.hoffmann@uni-a.de) by 30 September 2026. Participants will then be asked to submit their abstract through the official IPrA 2027 submission platform by 15 October 2026. The Pragmatics of Humour

As aging populations and multilingual societies continue to grow worldwide (Navaneetham and Arunachalam 2025), communication involving multilingual persons living with dementia has become an increasingly important (Schneider Ward, Karl & Rzitki 2026; Schneider 2023; Karl 2021), yet still under-researched area. We aim to bring together researchers working on multilingualism and dementia across different linguistic, cultural, institutional, and methodological contexts. We particularly welcome

We invite submissions to our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥� Please submit your abstract (maximum 500 words) through the conference website (https://ipra2027.exordo.com/login) by October 15, 2026. In Step 4 (鈥淭opics鈥�), please select our panel, 鈥淟anguage, Conflict, and Aggression in Contemporary Communication.鈥� An active IPrA membership is required both to submit an abstract and to participate in the conference. Please note that each person may be

Call for Papers: The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems鈥� knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the 鈥渕ore is better鈥� paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content,