How would you communicate the idea of "house", "city", "borders", or "country" without using words?
Territory is a concept shared across all human cultures, yet the way we conceive and represent it varies significantly across languages and lived experiences. Take part in our survey and draw your own visual symbols for a set of territory-related concepts!
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We are pleased to invite proposals for a Special Issue of the CALICO Journal (Volume 45), scheduled for publication in October 2028.
With this call, we seek one or more guest editors to lead an issue centered on a timely and compelling topic that aligns with the journal鈥檚 scope and advances the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
Proposal Guidelines:
If you are interested in serving as a guest editor, please include the following in your proposal:
- Name(s) and Affil
This conference explores how language education can respond coherently and effectively to the complex sociolinguistic environments shaped by migration, global mobility, multilingualism, and large student cohorts. A central focus is Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) as a pedagogical framework capable of addressing these dynamics, placed in dialogue with discipline-informed traditions including ELF, LSP, LAP, LSAP, EMI, and CLIL.
The conference welcomes contributions on the teaching and learn
The organizing committee of the 9th International Conference on the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language (鈥淐olloque FLE 2027鈥�) is seeking abstracts presenting the results of structured research. This conference is intended for both specialists of FLE (French as a foreign language) and teaching of French to non-native speakers. The conference will provide an opportunity to explore diverse and complementary approaches to teaching.
Abstracts are accepted in French, English, and Spanish. The
Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language) is a biannual open-access peer-reviewed academic journal covering research and critical discussion about all aspects of language, linguistics, applied linguistics, and learning and teaching of foreign languages. We are particularly interested in articles written by academics from diverse backgrounds and regions, especially those from underrepresented countries and regions.
The journal is in English, with each article including a Turkish abstract
This conference explores how language education can respond coherently and effectively to the complex sociolinguistic environments shaped by migration, global mobility, multilingualism, and large student cohorts. A central focus is Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) as a pedagogical framework capable of addressing these dynamics, placed in dialogue with discipline-informed traditions including ELF, LSP, LAP, LSAP, EMI, and CLIL.
The conference welcomes contributions on the teaching and learn
The organizing committee of the 9th International Conference on the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language (鈥淐olloque FLE 2027鈥�) is seeking abstracts presenting the results of structured research. This conference is intended for both specialists of FLE (French as a foreign language) and teaching of French to non-native speakers. The conference will provide an opportunity to explore diverse and complementary approaches to teaching.
Abstracts are accepted in French, English, and Spanish. The
Call for Papers:
The conference on "The Syntax of Nominal Copular Clauses: Cross-linguistic description and formal theories'" (SyNCC) is part of the AHRC/DFG-funded SynCop project (http://syncop.info). It will focus on the syntax and semantics of sentences with a nominal predicate, aiming for a discussion with both breadth and depth. The immediate goal of the conference is to bring together both theoretical insights from in-depth analysis and a broadening of the empirical landscape to include
Call for Papers:
The 3rd SMOG International Conference on Syntax and Semantics (ICSS@GKNU), hosted by the Society of Modern Grammar (SMOG), will take place at GyeongKuk National University in Andong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea, from August 18鈥�20, 2026.
ICSS@GKNU is an annual conference that brings together generative linguists from East Asia and around the world to present and discuss current research on generative syntax and its interfaces. In addition to regular presentations, the confer
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Covid-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures is an edited volume in the John Benjamins Publishing Company series Metaphor in Language, Cognition and Communication. It was edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zolt谩n K枚vecses and contains 13 chapters. These 13 chapters discuss Covid discourse across all continents except Antarctica, although European discourse is the most frequently discussed.
The book is split into five sections: Metaphor in mainstream newsp
This Element aims to provide evidence-based, research-informed applications of translanguaging pedagogies across various multilingual classroom contexts. By offering both theoretical implications and specific examples of translanguaging in action, the Element aims to help educators to implement translanguaging pedagogy that challenges monolingual norms in educational institutions. The Element also explores new theoretical notions derived from translanguaging, such as translanguaging sub-spaces,
This Element highlights the role of constraints in shaping multilingualism. It discusses their conceptualisation, starting from Michel de Certeau's view of action in everyday life, and operationalisation for the study of migrants. The results of the research conducted among Gambian migrants in Italy show not only constraints but also the tactics to inhabit them, as well as non-language related aspects, for example suffering, which are grouped into five clusters. These are (1) lack of support; (2
KITE is a multilingual virtual platform designed as a linguistic and cultural first-aid kit for people in humanitarian emergencies. It therefore serves as an initial language immersion experience for migrants and refugees with no prior knowledge of the host country鈥檚 language, facilitating their first interactions within the community and promoting their linguistic adaptation and genuine integration. This platform contains six basic tools:
- KITE 1. Arriving in a host country: essential info
Description:
Project Description:
The position is part of the DFG-funded project Learning Linguistic Inferences and Their Alternatives (PIs: Jacopo Romoli and Yulia Zinova, Heinrich-Heine-Universit盲t D眉sseldorf). The project investigates how language models learn linguistic inferences 鈥� including implicatures, presuppositions, implicated presuppositions, free choice, and distributive inferences 鈥� and whether training on one inference type facilitates learning of others. Combining theoretic
The conference continues the tradition of previous events on linguistic (im)politeness hosted by the Argo Research Centre. Following the respective conferences on cinema, TV series and theatre, this year鈥檚 edition aims to investigate (im)politeness in fictional and scientific texts that use the page as their medium from a philological, linguistic and literary point of view.
Since the idea of textuality has gradually encompassed a wide spectrum of written forms, the term 鈥減age鈥� is understood a
For its 20th anniversary, Lexis 鈥� Journal in English Lexicology 鈥� will publish its 30th issue in 2028. It will be edited by Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa, Italy) and Jos茅 A. S谩nchez Fajardo (University of Alicante, Spain) and will deal with the topic 鈥淵outh Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English鈥�.
Youth Slang and Word-Formation in Digital English
Over the past two decades, the rapid expansion of social media platforms has profoundly transformed linguistic practices, particularly
Focus: Alongside the theoretical seminars, the Training School includes practical workshops designed to foster the direct acquisition of operational skills.
Participants will take part in practical sessions held at different venues: workshops on fragmentology and image processing as well as on digital survey methods applied to inscribed supports at the Seminario Vescovile and the Museo Maffeiano, then a final session on imaging techniques and 2D/3D applications to the Biblioteca Capitolare her
The conference continues the tradition of previous events on linguistic (im)politeness hosted by the Argo Research Centre. Following the respective conferences on cinema, TV series and theatre, this year鈥檚 edition aims to investigate (im)politeness in fictional and scientific texts that use the page as their medium from a philological, linguistic and literary point of view.
Since the idea of textuality has gradually encompassed a wide spectrum of written forms, the term 鈥減age鈥� is understood a
Title: Reinstating Authorship and Human Agency in Translation
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College's Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor (695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) / Zoom
RSVP: https://forms.gle/UvgmfZuryC6DQefL8
In the face of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and automated language production, the question of authorship returns with urgency. Reinstating human agency in translation means renewing attention to the social, pragmatic,
RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France鈥檚 premier annual conference for formal linguistics, coorganised by Universit茅s Paris 8 and Paris Cit茅 will take place at Paris Cit茅 on June 3鈥�5 2026. Registration information will soon be available via the conference website, https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order, venue specifics, and the like will be found there too.
Our invited speakers are:
- Colin Phillips (University o