The paper is a description of both fields and how they interact in discourse; their usage and use, plus the misuse of the term SEMANTICS when it is actually PRAGMATICS at play.
One of my best and most admired friends, former and now retired professor of Linguistics at the. University of London expressed disagreements with my specific thesis. As a result of that I decided to turn to other experts in the pertinent fields for their opinions; in other words , do they agree or disagree with m
Focus: Methodology of Corpus Linguistics and statistics, especially as applied to the English Language.
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The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running our 12th Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics online from 25-27 June 2025.
This Summer School is an accessible and inspiring introductory course in Corpus Linguistics for students of linguistics and students of the English language.
The course will be taught online over three days in
Going Romance is a European conference series that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of current linguistic theorising and experimental research. Over the past 30 years, it has evolved into a major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.
Besides the main sessions, the conference includes a workshop on 鈥淕ender in Romance languages鈥�, exploring how formal approaches can inform communication policies.
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The JENom workshop series aims to bring together researchers who are interested in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations. This year, JENom 11 takes place in Graz (Austria) on July 3-4, 2025, and is organized by the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Graz. The workshop program is available on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/jenom-nominalizations/program.
Invited speakers:
Predrag Kova膷evi膰 (University of Novi Sad)
Rossella Varvara (University of Pavia
The JENom workshop series aims to bring together researchers who are interested in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations. This year, JENom 11 takes place in Graz (Austria) on July 3-4, 2025, and is organized by the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Graz. The workshop program is available on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/jenom-nominalizations/program.
Invited speakers:
Predrag Kova膷evi膰 (University of Novi Sad)
Rossella Varvara (University of Pavia
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We are seeking proposals for a one-day symposium in November 2025 on (foreign) language teacher identity within various sociocultural, institutional, and policy-driven contexts. Language teacher identity (LTI) is a crucial aspect of teacher development and professionalization, which is dynamic and multifaceted in nature. This conference, which is held in-person and at Paderborn University, aims to explore the evolving nature of LTI, examining how educators construct, negotiat
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We invite abstracts for papers for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society held at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University from 2-5 December 2025. The conference will be held in person. We welcome papers on all aspects of linguistics.
Confirmed keynotes:
Professor Chris Davis, Western Sydney University
Professor Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland
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We are pleased to inform you that the 11th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) will be held from 3rd to 5th July 2026 in Austria, at the University of Klagenfurt.
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LaMiCus (Language, Mind, Culture and Society), an international open-access online journal of the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association, is currently accepting submissions for its 2025 issue (no. 9). The journal鈥檚 aim is to promote high quality research in cognitive linguistics, as well as at the intersection of cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, cultural linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Research on languages and cultures other than English is highly encouraged. L
The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the 16th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2025 Paris, to be held on 22-24 October 2025 in Paris, France. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications.
The Linguistics 2025 Paris conference envisions a vibrant platform for collaboration and
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The 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 .
(CfP, extended deadline paper/abstract submission: 28th May 2025, 23:59 CEST)
The conference (https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ ) brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social scie
The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the 16th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2025 Paris, to be held on 22-24 October 2025 in Paris, France. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications.
The Linguistics 2025 Paris conference envisions a vibrant platform for collaboration and