Pragmasophia 5 (2026) Organized by: Alessandro Capone Mitchell Green Igor Douven Pietro Perconti Junior Organizers: Roberto Graci https://pragmasophia2026.wordpress.com/ https://alessandro-capone-pragmatics.webnode.it/ Abstracts should be sent to acapone@unime.it and to the workshops/panels organizers by January 30th, 2026 (the sooner, the better). Themes and Topics 鈥� Pragmatics and Philosophy: This conference explores the intersection of pragmatics and philosophy, focusing on

EVOLANG XVI workshop 'A Window into Ursch枚pfung: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages' (April 7, 2026; organized by Maria Flaksman, Alexandra Bagasheva, and Maruszka Meindard) welcomes talk and/or poster submissions on (1) imitative words / ideophones in ancient and reconstructed languages, (2) diachronic research on onomatopoeia and ideophones, (3) comparative research on onomatopoeia / ideophones in world languages, (4) recurrent patterns in (sound)imitation in spoken languages, (5) un

The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics is pleased to announce the 6th Conference on the Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL6), to be held on June 24-26, 2026 in Budapest. The Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL) is a biennial conference that first took place in Oulu in 2015. Its goal is to provide a forum where researchers of Uralic languages working in different paradigms could exchange ideas and discuss their research and data. For further information on the SOUL conference series please visit ht

The Virtual Institute for Afrikaans (VivA), in collaboration with local and international partners, is pleased to host the fourth edition of the Small Languages, Big Ideas (SLBI) conference 鈥� this time with a fresh southern perspective. Join us in Gauteng, one of the linguistically and culturally vibrant provinces of South Africa, as we bring the focus to Germanic dialects, microvariation, and linguistic diversity across continents. This edition of SLBI highlights dialects as windows into lan

We invite proposals for oral presentation sessions as part of SALC10 in Ume氓, on 23-25 June 2026 (https://www.salc10.com/ ). The theme of the conference is Language, Cognition, and Learning. While contributions directly addressing this theme are particularly encouraged, the conference also welcomes papers on language and cognition more broadly. Topics for oral presentations may include (but are not limited to): - Language acquisition and cognition - Cognitive perspectives on education an

El Departamento de Estudios Hisp谩nicos de la Universidad Maria Curie-Sk艂odowska (Polonia) tiene el placer de invitar a todos los especialistas en Traducci贸n y/o Interpretaci贸n especializada(s) al III Simposio Internacional de Traducci贸n e Interpretaci贸n especializadas, que se celebrar谩 en l铆nea los d铆as 19 y 20 de marzo de 2026. En esta edici贸n, contamos con el patrocinio honor铆fico de la Embajada de Colombia y de la Embajada de Espa帽a. Las conferencias plenarias correr谩n a cargo de reputados

Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea Convenors: Jan German (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) jan.german@uj.edu.pl Dariusz Piwowarczyk (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) dariusz.piwowarczyk@uj.edu.pl Religious terminology provides a unique window into processes of language contact, borrowing, adaptation, and semantic change. Across time and space, languages regarded as sacred 鈥� such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, or Hebrew 鈥� ha

The 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held at EACL in March 2026 in Rabat, Morocco as a two-day workshop with one on-site and one online day. Organizers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 is the tenth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humaniti

Meeting Description: The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) is the oldest student-run linguistics organization in the United States. This academic year, CLS will host its 62nd Annual Meeting (CLS 62), to be held from April 17 through April 19, 2026 at the University of Chicago. Upholding a longstanding tradition, the conference serves as a forum for leading scholars and researchers from around the world to engage in the exchange of ideas across all areas of linguistics. CLS is particularly commit

This seminar will explore how ecological challenges and social threats鈥攊ncluding those arising from military conflicts and the ecological and social destruction caused by war鈥攁re represented and negotiated in a wide range of ecological texts and discourses. We will investigate how such texts, whether literary or non-literary, verbal or multimodal, contemporary or historical, reflect concerns related to environmental degradation, climate change, and socio-political instability. Equally, the semin

Plenary Speakers: Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden) Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool, UK) Catherina Nystr枚m H枚枚g (Stockholm University, Sweden) Brian Walker (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Call for Papers: Although it has its roots in classical rhetoric, modern stylistics arose from the Russian formalist literary critical movement of the early twentieth century, from which emerged the notion of defamiliarization that is central to the stylistic concept of foregrounding.

La C谩tedra global Nebrija del Espa帽ol como lengua de migrantes y refugiados organiza, el pr贸ximo 12 de noviembre de 2025, la XI edici贸n de esta jornada, en la que se proponen diferentes actividades de divulgaci贸n cient铆fica relacionadas con la ense帽anza de espa帽ol en contextos migratorios. Desde una perspectiva integradora y cr铆tica, la jornada se plantea como un espacio de reflexi贸n y di谩logo para docentes, investigadores, estudiantes y profesionales del 谩rea. La jornada se integra en las ac

Now in its 79th year, the KFLC has a proud tradition of welcoming scholars of language, literary, and cultural studies to Lexington, Kentucky to present original scholarship. Founded in 1948, the KFLC is one of the country's longest-running literary, linguistics, pedagogy, and technology conferences. Our event takes place each April at the University of Kentucky campus. Call for Papers: The KFLC 2026 Executive Committee is proud to open sessions devoted to the presentation of scholarly

This workshop aims to bring together linguists working on exclamatives which cooccur with a complementizer, as well as scholars who work on epistemic modal adverbs in exclamations. The workshop is programmed within the research project The syntactic and interpretative properties of certain modality expressions in Basque: discourse particles, modality adverbs, exclamative force and its relation with complementizers, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Specifically, we are in

Prominence relations establish a ranking between linguistic units, such as prosodic units, arguments of a verb, and discourse referents. Prominence is one of the key notions in language and communication: it accounts, for instance, for prosodic highlighting and for the building of linguistic structure and discourse representations. The CRC 1252 Prominence in Language (University of Cologne) investigates the role of prominence from an interdisciplinary linguistic perspective, involving phonology

A workshop on artificial intelligence methods will be organized in conjunction with the Evolang 2026 conference in Plovdiv, held from April 7-10, 2026. We invite two-page abstracts in the Evolang format about recent and ongoing work on language evolution that employs AI techniques in any form - be it for agent-based modeling, data analysis, computational linguistics, modeling of linguistic behavior with LLMs, or any other application. The abstracts should pay special attention to the AI-methods

El espa帽ol, una de las lenguas m谩s habladas del mundo y lengua oficial en numerosas instituciones internacionales, ocupa un lugar cada vez m谩s relevante en los 谩mbitos educativos y culturales de Europa. En Serbia, su presencia ha crecido de manera sostenida en las 煤ltimas d茅cadas, tanto en el terreno acad茅mico como en el cultural, consolid谩ndose como una herramienta clave para el di谩logo intercultural, la cooperaci贸n internacional y el acceso al conocimiento. Bajo el lema 鈥淓l espa帽ol: puente

You are warmly invited to submit an abstract for a symposium organized by the BAAL Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group. Date: 4th December 2025 (Thu) Time: 9.30 am - 5 pm UK time Platform: MS Teams Keynote speaker: Prof James Thomas, UCL Tentative title: How to select and evaluate AI tools for evidence syntheses? The symposium will begin with an opening keynote (1 hour), followed by (parallel) paper presentation sessions throughout the day. Each paper pre

We invite applications for a 'seminar' (i.e. a theme session or workshop, in ESSE parlance) at the next conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The general conference website is at https://www.esse2026.com. The website with further information (including illustrations of the theme) and submission platform for this seminar is at https://metasocial.unamur.be. The convenors are Lieven Vandelanotte (University of Namur & KU Leu

The 48th GLOW Conference will take place on April 21-23, 2026, at the University of Siena (Italy) and will be followed by a satellite workshop to be held at the University of Florence (see separate call). Main session: Abstracts are invited for 18 long talks and for 60 posters, to be presented in person, on the formal analysis of natural languages, as well as on theoretically informed experimental work or corpus-based research. While there is no pre-determined theme, we encourage submissi