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Summer Schools: CSLS Summer School: Language, Politics, Power. / Switzerland

The CSLS Summer School - Language, Politics, Power, is an interactive two-day event that includes guest lectures and workshops with: • Rodney Jones, University of Reading • Geert Jacobs, University of Gent • Mi-Cha Flubacher, Zurich University of Applied Sciences In addition to guest lectures and workshops with our invited speakers, participants have the opportunity to engage in discussion and receive feedback on their own research in groups, network with other scholars and meet peers. The Sum http://dlvr.it/T6228K

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Calls: Applied Linguistics / CALR Linguistics Journal (Jrnl)

Call for Papers: Language controversies have been the focus of much debate in recent studies (Lobin, 2021; Jabeen, Chandio & Qasim, 2020; Progovac, 2019). Bouchard (2018) proposes that controversies in applied linguistics are the result of clashes between different theoretical approaches. Research-based debates on the nature of language acquisition, the extent and influence of L1 on L2, the relationship between language and thought, the existence of universal grammar, the role of language in so http://dlvr.it/T6227C

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Calls: The 28th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL)

Call for Papers:  15 May 2024: Deadline for submission of abstract  21 June 2024: Selected applicants informed  31 July 2024: Deadline for extended version of accepted abstract  25-27 September 2024: Conference dates  28 September: Excursion to a local community Please submit your abstracts of 600 - 800 words on EasyChair at this address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxviii2024 http://dlvr.it/T61xyW

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Calls: 17th Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages

Call for Papers: The deadline for abstract submissions is extended until April 30, 2024. http://dlvr.it/T61xxb

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Calls: 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it 2024)

Final Call for Papers: XPRAG.it 2024 DEADLINE EXTENSION We inform you that the deadline for submitting to the 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference - XPRAG.it 2024 has been extended from April 30, 2024 to May 5, 2024. Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/xpragit2024/xprag-it-2024?authuser=0 Further submission information below. DEADLINE EXTENSION - MAY 5, 2024 We look forward to welcoming you to the beautiful Venice Lido! Giorgio Arcara (San Camillo Hospital IRCCS, Ve http://dlvr.it/T61xwy

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Calls: Analysis of Linguistic VAriation for BEtter Tools

Call for Papers: Deadline Extension : April 30th Call for Papers: Analysis of Linguistic VAriation for BEtter Tools (ALVABET) within the LLcD 2024 Conference (https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/) Workshop Variation plays a particularly important role in linguistic change, since every change stem from a state of variation; but each state of variation does not necessarily end up with a change: the new variant can disappear, or variation can linger but in different contexts. Access to sufficient http://dlvr.it/T61tbc

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Calls: Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century

Call for Papers: MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome proposals from all disciplines concerned with the study of written language, writing systems, and their implementation in information systems. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to: * Epistemology of grapholinguistics: history, onomastics, topics, interaction with other disciplines * Foundations of grapholinguistics, graphemics and graphetics * History and typology of writing systems, comparative graphemics/graphetics * Semiotics http://dlvr.it/T61tbZ

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Calls: Workshop at LLcD Conference: "Applicative Uses of Spatial Markers: Typological and Diachronic Perspectives"

Call for Papers: Aims of the workshop: The workshop will bring together linguists working on these issues, either on the basis of historical corpus data for languages with written records or based on first-hand data collected in the field for those languages that do not have historical data. We invite language-specific contributions, as well as cross-linguistic or areal studies. More specifically, the questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: ̶ What type of spat http://dlvr.it/T61tZb

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Calls: International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2025

Call for Papers: 1st Call for Workshop Proposals (COLING 2025): https://coling2025.org/calls/workshop_proposals/ This is the first Call for Workshops for the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (https://coling2025.org/), scheduled to take place from 19th to 24th January 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi ( http://dlvr.it/T61pXf

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Calls: Flexible Syntax 2024

Final Call for Papers: Flexible Syntax shares with minimalism (Chomsky 2005) and other generative theories the idea that the architecture of the grammar is modular, and that syntax is one of the modules. It subscribes to the idea that the atomic units in syntax are heads and features, and the only syntactic operations are Merge and a relation between unvalued and valued features, Agree. It maintains that word order patterns, regularities and constraints can be successfully derived from some key http://dlvr.it/T61pXX

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Calls: Linguistics in a New Era: Discourse, Methods, and Technologies in the Contemporary Landscape

Call for Papers: COLDOC 2024 - Doctoral Colloquium for Young Researchers MoDyCo UMR 7114 CNRS Université Paris Nanterre October 14th and 15th Linguistics in a New Era: Discourse, Methods, and Technologies in the Contemporary Landscape ColDoc is a biennial international colloquium organized by MoDyCo laboratory (UMR 7114 - CNRS/Université Paris Nanterre) aimed at young researchers and doctoral students in linguistics. For its 15th edition, ColDoc proposes to address an overview of linguistics http://dlvr.it/T61pWt

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TOC: Metaphor and the Social World Vol. 14, No. 1 (2024)

2024. iv, 187 pp. Table of Contents ARTICLES A qualitative study of endometriosis-related pain: Metaphorical expressions beyond physical damage Giorgia Andreolli pp. 1–21 The raw and the (over)cooked: states are physical qualities Travis Ashby, Omar Lizardo, Dustin S. Stoltz & Michael Lee Wood pp. 22–42 Are religion metaphors anti‑revolutionary? Metaphors of climate scepticism in France Anaïs Augé pp. 43–63 Military metaphors in the discourses of the pandemic in two post-Yugoslav states: http://dlvr.it/T61ZYK

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TOC: Gesture Vol. 22, No. 1 (2023)

2023. iii, 120 pp. Table of Contents ARTICLES Weakest link or strongest link? The effects of different types of linking gestures on learning Andrea Marquardt Donovan, Sarah A. Brown & Martha W. Alibali pp. 1–38 The road to language through gesture: The longitudinal case of parent-child interactions in deaf children Beatrijs Wille, Hilde Nyffels & Olga Capirci pp. 39–61 Demographic, neuropsychological, and speech variables that impact iconic and supplementary-to-speech gesturing in aphasia http://dlvr.it/T61ZXZ

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TOC: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Vol. 34, No. 2 (2024)

2024. iii, 158 pp. Table of Contents ARTICLES Delving into suggestion speech acts in Chinese authoritative academic discourse: A cognitive pragmatic perspective Ke Li & Wenyu Liu pp. 161–189 Requests for concrete actions in interaction: How support workers manage client participation in mental health rehabilitation Camilla Lindholm, Jenny Paananen, Melisa Stevanovic, Elina Weiste & Taina Valkeapää pp. 190–214 ‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’: The sociocultural context of verbal http://dlvr.it/T61Tgq

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All: Obituary for Janez Orešnik (1935 - 2024)

Janez Orešnik got his BA in English and comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Ljubljana in 1958. He completed his Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics also at the University of Ljubljana in 1965. He conducted some of his pre-doctoral studies at the University of Copenhagen (1959–1961) and the University of Zagreb (1962–1963), and continued with post-doctoral research at the University of Reykjavik (1965–1966), and Harvard University (1969–1970). From 1961 to 1989 he was employed a http://dlvr.it/T61TgK

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Review: Sociolinguistics: Pulcini (2023)

SUMMARY This book provides an up-to-date overview of the influence of English on Italian, exploring the historical, social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of the contact between Italy and English-speaking countries. Types of English-induced borrowings are presented on the basis of quantitative and qualitative information provided by Italian lexicographic sources and corpus-based evidence. Criteria of currency and frequency are discussed with reference to a multilingual project (GLAD – Global http://dlvr.it/T61TfX

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Fund: Poll 1: Results

Dear Linguist List readers, Thank you to everyone who participated in our first poll! The time for collecting votes has ended. We gave four examples of anadromes and asked you to choose your favorite or submit one not listed. Of the four examples we gave, the anadrome "stressed : desserts" came in 1st place with 42.9% of the votes. In second place came "raven : nevar (English : Spanish - 'to snow')" with 24.5% of the votes. We received many submissions of anadromes from our readers. Here are http://dlvr.it/T61H8X