The symposium will again be held in conjunction with ILLS this year, celebrating a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. The theme will be 鈥淓xpanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond the Boundaries,鈥� which invites us to critically explore and transcend the limits of conventional frameworks, redefining what it means to study language in its dynamic, boundary-crossing forms.
Please note, you are welcome to submit abstracts to both SOSY and ILLS, however the same abstract w
Call for Papers:
ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to any and all submissions relating to language and linguistics. The conference theme for ILLS17 is 鈥淒ialogues for Change: Intersections of Language, Learning, and Society鈥�. Submissions related to this theme are especially encouraged, though submissions are not limited to this theme. We primarily encourage submissions from graduate and undergraduate students. We hold that an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and a collaborative ap
Call for Papers:
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Clicca qui per la call completa: https://eventi.unibo.it/researchdit2025/call-for-papers-ita
Le proposte potranno essere declinate in una o pi霉 delle seguenti tematiche di ricerca, da intendersi in maniera non limitante:
1. Politiche e pratiche linguistiche sensibili alle diversit脿: comprensibilit脿, accessibilit脿, approcci transfemministi in linguistica, interpretazione e traduzione;
2. Comunicazione transculturale: plurilinguismo, intercomprensione, pratiche pedagogiche
Call for Papers:
We invite abstracts addressing topics related to the main theme, 鈥淕enre-based approaches to academic and specialized languages: from analysis to pedagogy鈥�, and to the following subfields:
鈥� Genre and SLA
鈥� Genre and language pedagogy
鈥� Genre and academic language
鈥� Genre and specialized language / language for specific purposes
鈥� Genre and NLP
We welcome contributions about languages other than English and French.
Abstracts (in English,鈥痓etween 300 and 500 words, excludi
For more information, please visit the conference website.
For more information, please visit the conference website.
Volunteer Research Opportunity for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032)
Ad-hoc Group 1 on Education for IDIL (2022-2032) is seeking volunteers with diverse language skills for a short-term research project. As a language intern, you'll dedicate approximately 10 hours to help identify key contacts (policymakers and Indigenous community members) and analyze educational policies/initiatives that support IDIL鈥檚 objectives. These goals include promoting inclusive, equita
We are seeking a paid archival intern to join our team. This intern will play a key role in managing our growing language archive, ensuring that new contributions are ingested, organized, and made accessible to the public. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in digital archiving, metadata management, and community engagement, all while contributing to the preservation of global linguistic diversity.
As our archival intern, you will:
- Ingest New Contributions: Manage the integrat
Call for Papers:
We are delighted to announce that the 23rd International Symposium of Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition (PALA) 2025 will be held in face-to-face mode at the Paderborn University, Germany, on the 18th and19th of September, 2025. The symposium focuses on research and developments related to processability approaches to language acquisition, particularly second language acquisition and bilingualism/ multilingualism research.
We welcome submissions addressing theor
Internship Opportunity: Sociolinguistic Voice Analysis Intern
About Destined AI:
Destined AI is dedicated to detecting and mitigating unwanted bias in artificial intelligence systems. We are at the forefront of ethical AI development, working with ethically sourced, fully consented datasets to promote fairness and inclusivity in AI models.
Internship Description:
We have curated a dataset of 2,500 unique voices and their accompanying voice recordings. Our goal is to identify sociolinguistic c
Call for Papers:
We welcome individual presentations in English, Spanish, or Portuguese that address the conference theme and/or any of the listed subfields. Individual presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Please submit proposals to the following link:
https://forms.gle/TgeYHAAd2AzsVf8q9.
The first submission deadline is Friday, December 15, 2023 but we will accept proposals until January 20.
Kaleidoscope will be an in-person conference, but will offer the opportunity of a vi
2nd Call for Papers:
We invite contributions dealing with multi-standard languages as well as sub-national varieties of a language. We especially encourage contributions dealing with lesser-studied languages and varieties. Topics to be explored include, but are not restricted to:
- Cross-varietal comparisons of pragmatic variables
- The importance of the national, sub-national, or local level in pragmatics
- The social, cultural and ethnic dimension of geographical contrast in pragmatics
- Mea
Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Summer Undergraduate Internships
The Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Undergraduate Summer Internship provides an opportunity for three undergraduates to conduct research, to explore career possibilities in archives and special collections, and to learn about advanced training in Native American and Indigenous Studies and related fields. This eight-week paid internship program at the American Philosophical Society鈥檚 Library & Museum in
The Department of Linguistics at Swarthmore College invites applications for a full time Visiting Assistant Professor in semantics. Starting with the fall semester of 2025, this is a three-year appointment. Reappointment may be possible.
The ideal candidate will have a primary specialization in formal semantics and will also be able to teach undergraduate-level courses in one or more of pragmatics, computational linguistics, experimental and/or quantitative methods, field methods, language acqu
The position will have a scientific orientation within the field of speech therapy, with a focus on motor aspects, in particular disorders concerning the oral-lingual-facial sphere (including facial paralysis), oral feeding, swallowing, speech and/or fluency in children and/or adults. The successful candidate will have a teaching load of 2 hours per week (at Bachelor's and Master's level), and will supervise doctoral students and Master's projects.
In addition, he/she will:
- demonstrate an int
* Do you have a PhD in Applied Linguistics or similar?
* Have you got an interest in a permanent, full-time role based in Kelburn?
* Are you experienced as an effective teacher of English as a second or foreign language?
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Te聽Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington聽is currently recruiting a permanent, full-time P奴kenga/P奴kenga Matua - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Academic on Principal Pathway).
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* Conducti
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Approximately sixty years after the founding in 1901 of the first American Department of Linguistics in Berkeley, California, the Moscow-based predecessor to the International Linguistics Olympiad was born, demonstrating the growing importance of the linguistic sciences to the world. Although the position of linguistics within academia, alongside its theoretical and applied preoccupations, has changed over time, a generalized interest in linguistic analysis has remained stable among lin
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The book, Modality in Contact: Necessity and Obligation in New Englishes, examines the operation of modality (of necessity and strong obligation) in New World Englishes, with a special focus on Singaporean English (SgE). Its author, Carmelo Alessandro Basile, addresses three key questions, namely: (a) do English modal constructions of necessity and obligation exhibit similar behaviours geographically; (b) are the substrate languages the sole driving forces behind the restructuring of th
Starting Fall 2025, Florida State University鈥檚 MS degree in Data Science will introduce a new major: Computational Linguistics. The new major positions students for success in a rapidly evolving field, where expertise in language technology and data science drives career potential across industries. For more information, see https://mll.fsu.edu/programs/linguistics/graduate/datascience .
In this newsletter:
LDC 2025 membership discounts now available
Approaching deadline for Spring 2025 data scholarship applications
LDC closed for Winter Break December 25-January 1
New publications:
MATERIAL Farsi-English Language Pack
Abstract Meaning Representation 3.0 鈥� Machine Translations
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Now through March 3, 2025, current 2024 members receive a 10% discount for renewing their membership, and new or retur