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Die 44. Fr眉hjahrskonferenz zur Erforschung des Fremdsprachenunterrichts besch盲ftigte sich mit Konzepten, Lehrveranstaltungsformaten und Tools der fremd- und zweitsprachendidaktischen Hochschullehre und diskutierte leitende Prinzipien ihrer Gestaltung sowie Kriterien, anhand derer die Qualit盲t der Lehre in den Fremd- und Zweitsprachendidaktiken bemessen werden kann. Ebenfalls in den Blick genommen wurden die Fort- und Weiterbildung von bereits praxiserfahrenen Lehrpersonen bzw. Quer-/Seiteneinste
The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association is seeking presentations on any language attitude or language-related popular culture topic, such as:
鈥 the language attitudes of X (for example, new baby greeting cards, truck drivers, student writers, first generation
immigrants, etc.)
鈥 issues with prescriptivism
鈥 language and advertising or other media;
鈥 professional, corporate, or other industry-related language;
鈥 dialect, code-switching, or histo
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions on current and recently finished phonetic research within the empirical tradition, and/or demonstrations of new applications or methods within the field of speech science.
Abstracts will be anonymized for review and judged for empirical or practical relevance, clarity and completeness (i.e. research question, hypotheses, methods, availability of results, and 鈥揺specially for new methods/software- possible applications).
If you have a contribution, in Engl
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
鈥 Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora
鈥 Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects
鈥 Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating Arabic Dialects
鈥 Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects
鈥 Dialect Identification and Classification
鈥 Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects
鈥 Machine Translation involv
Corpora and AI for inductive learning: Theory and practice
Guest Editors: Eniko Csomay, Reka R. Jablonkai, and Hui Sun
Inductive learning has been used as an umbrella term to refer to a range of instructional methods including discovery learning, problem-based learning, case-based learning, etc. While deductive learning starts with explanation of general principles followed by learners applying them to specific cases, inductive learning begins with specific observations, problems, and case stu
Final Call for Papers:
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VENUE
TLT 2024 will take place at the guest house of Universit盲t Hamburg. In order to support rich discussions and networking, TLT 2024 will primarily be an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live / synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel.
Universit盲t Hamburg and its guest house are conveniently located near the Dammtor train station / metro station Ste
Call for Papers:
We invite original research submissions in all areas of Cognitive Science such as Computational Cognitive Science | Cognitive Neuroscience | Cognitive Psychology | Philosophy of Mind | Psycholinguistics and Language Sciences
Topics include but are not limited to:
Perception & Attention; Motor Control & Action; Judgment & Decision Making; Reasoning; Emotion & Affect; Learning; Memory; Speech and Acoustics; Language Acquisition and Deficits; Language Processing & Production; Hum
Invited Talks
(a) Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti
Professor of Linguistics and language acquisition, Psychology Dept., Universit脿 degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Prof. M. T. Guasti studies language acquisition in different populations of children (monolingual, bilingual, children with cochlear implant, with specific language disorders, with dyslexia and with autism). She is interested in the interface between phonology-syntax, the acquisition of morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics. She al
Call for Papers:
The study of cross-linguistic variability between languages has been a central question in linguistic theory and has delivered important insights on language. This focus on cross-linguistic variation is essential for formulating and testing linguistic theories: A theory of grammar should be a theory of all possible human grammars. Similarly, a theory of the psychology of language should be based on cross-linguistic evidence: Although grammars are language-specific, speakers' mi
2nd Call for Papers:
In recent years, the intersection of data science, digital humanities, and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a fertile ground for groundbreaking research, innovation, and exploration. The theme of the 2nd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities 鈥 Generative Artificial Intelligence for Text and Multimodal Data (DDHUM2024) underscores the pivotal role that generative AI plays in transforming the landscape of humanities research and schola
The School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies seeks applications for a "Professorship (m/f/x) in English Didactics with a focus on Language Education/Teaching salary scale W2" at the Institute for English and American Studies at the earliest opportunity.
The professorship involves planning and carrying out research in the field of English language education/teaching as well as teaching duties covering all Bachelor and Master鈥檚 degree programmes. In view of the rapid changes in teaching and lea
Work Location: On-site in Wroclaw or Krakow, Poland
Start Date: As soon as possible
Target language: English (en-GB), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese
We also accept applications for other European languages for the given profile
As an Associate Linguist, you will provide linguistic expertise for developing NLP tools for the target language. You will be involved in annotation, creating grammar rules, formulating language templates, finding patterns, and evaluating existing data. Full training on to
This Sunday, August 11 is the application deadline to teach with the Wikipedia assignment this fall!
Apply today to receive your custom course plan, student trainings, tools that will track your students' work, and our staff support 鈥 all provided free of charge by nonprofit Wiki Education to instructors in U.S. and Canada-based postsecondary institutions.
To apply:
Visit the dashboard (dashboard.wikiedu.org) to create your Wikipedia account, then follow the prompts to take the self-paced orie
Presentation titles and speakers
Individual variation in speech perception and production by Brazilian Portuguese-Japanese bilinguals
Tim Lam茅ris (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
title TBA
Kook-Hee Gil (University of Sheffield, UK)
In plain sight鈥攃lues to earlier stages of the Japanese language
Peter Hendriks (Australian National University, Australia)
title TBA
Mary Shin Kim (University of Hawai鈥檌 at Manoa)
Fostering intercultural competence of learners of Japanese and Korean: Rapport
The Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary Philology / 小芯胁褉械屑械薪邪 褎懈谢芯谢芯谐懈褬邪 invites you to send articles for the December issue of the journal.
The Journal of Contemporary Philology (JCP) is an international electronic peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly articles on all aspects of linguistics, applied linguistics, literature and cultural studies. The journal tries to attract high quality articles that present original research, pertaining to experimental work, theory, methodo
Babel: The Language Magazine is currently seeking new contributions to our regular Lives in Language feature. Babel is a quarterly magazine about languages and linguistics, aimed at a non-specialist readership.
Each Lives in Language article provides an introduction to the life and work of a significant (deceased) linguist, in between 1,000 and 1,500 words.
We have profiled 32 linguists so far (see the list below). If you would like to write a 1,000 to 1,500-word feature on a linguist, please
Call for Papers:
(Im)politeness: Regional variation (organized by Jonathan Culpeper, Mathew Gillings, Isolde van Dorst)
A relatively recent development within pragmatics has been the evolution of a new subfield known as 鈥渧ariational pragmatics鈥. Stemming from Schneider and Barron (2008), the field operates at the intersection of pragmatics and dialectology and aims to examine how different pragmatic features vary according to a range of different social variables. This work has typically focus
2024. v, 158 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Terminology, ideology and discourse
Katia Peruzzo & Paola Catenaccio
pp.鈥1鈥10
Articles
Term circulation and connotation: A corpus-based study of connotative meanings of terms through the lens of determinologisation
Julie Humbert-Droz
pp.鈥11鈥34
Climate knowledge or climate debate? Using word embeddings and Critical Discourse Analysis to compare expert and media representations of climate knowledge
Pauline Bureau
pp.鈥35鈥57
Terminology, popula
2024. iii, 122 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles 鈥 Art铆culos 鈥 Aufs盲tze 鈥 Artikoloj
The role of identification criteria in language: The Croatian case
Igor Iva拧kovi膰
pp.鈥1鈥25
Language-based capabilities to conceptualise linguistic justice
Cecilia Gialdini
pp.鈥26鈥47
M膩ori loanwords in New Zealand English: What can a picture-naming task reveal for language planning?
Andreea S. Calude, Eline Zenner, Laura Rosseel & H膿mi Whaanga
pp.鈥48鈥74
Legalities of language use in linguistic landscaping: Exa
Timed to align with the UN's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 9 and framed within the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, De Gruyter Mouton is pleased to announce a special collection exploring Indigenous languages through their documentation, revitalization, education and culture.
For one month (until September 10, 2024), we are offering free access to a selection of book chapters and journal articles on the following topics:
鈥 Language Revitalization an