This issue of Status Quaestionis seeks to investigate contemporary political communication from a sociolinguistic perspective, with particular attention to the phenomena of post-truth and populist discourse. In recent years, the relationship between language, politics, and society has been profoundly reshaped by the impact of social media, the spread of polarizing narratives, and the erosion of the traditional link between factual truth and public credibility. In this context, where 鈥渇ake news鈥�,
Angesichts der tiefgreifenden Wandlungsprozesse, die die heutige Geisteswissenschaft allgemein und die Romanistik im Besonderen pr盲gen, lohnt es sich, den Begriff des Kontinuums neu zu beleuchten.
Die Systematisierung von Forschungsgegenst盲nden, Daten, Texten, Erfahrungen鈥� stellt einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens dar. In diesem Zusammenhang kommen wir f眉r die Beschreibung von zueinander in Relation stehenden Entit盲ten immer wieder auf die Idee des Kontinuums zur眉ck. Dabei ge
Call for Papers:
We are very excited to announce the call for abstract for the Young Researchers' Conference on Negation, taking place in Frankfurt am Main, 7鈥�8 May 2026!
The conference has two main goals:
- to foster exchange among doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on negation,
- and to explore negation from a wide range of theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Call for Abstracts:
We are pleased to open the call for talks and posters, inviting young researchers to s
Angesichts der tiefgreifenden Wandlungsprozesse, die die heutige Geisteswissenschaft allgemein und die Romanistik im Besonderen pr盲gen, lohnt es sich, den Begriff des Kontinuums neu zu beleuchten.
Die Systematisierung von Forschungsgegenst盲nden, Daten, Texten, Erfahrungen鈥� stellt einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens dar. In diesem Zusammenhang kommen wir f眉r die Beschreibung von zueinander in Relation stehenden Entit盲ten immer wieder auf die Idee des Kontinuums zur眉ck. Dabei ge
Call for Papers:
Overview:
The inaugural SilkRoadNLP workshop provides a platform for advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) for the Iranian linguistic family鈥攁 diverse group of languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and the Caucasus. We welcome work that bridges computational methods with linguistic, social, and cultural perspectives to ensure that the technologies shaping the future of language reflect this region鈥檚 diversit
APLL is a conference for the presentation of research on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages.
Invited Speakers:
- Mary Walworth
- Yusuf Sawaki
We invite you to present at APLL18 on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
To apply for a timeslot for your talk, please send us an abstract of your topic. Abstracts can be up to one A4 page, including everything excep
APLL is a conference for the presentation of research on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages.
Invited Speakers:
- Mary Walworth
- Yusuf Sawaki
We invite you to present at APLL18 on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
To apply for a timeslot for your talk, please send us an abstract of your topic. Abstracts can be up to one A4 page, including everything excep
As part of the 鈥渕ercOLID矛鈥� series of Italian Linguistics seminars, the OLID Research Unit (Osservatorio sul Lessico Italiano e Dialettale) of the University of Florence is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Lorenzo Coveri (Emeritus Professor at the University of Genoa and member of the Accademia della Crusca).
In his talk, 鈥淒a ganzo a cool a top. The Dialect in Youth Language,鈥� Professor Coveri will explore how dialects and regional varieties influence contemporary youth speech, tracing t
2nd Call for Papers:
We are pleased to share the third invitation for submissions to the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, to be hosted at University of Warwick, 8th-10th April 2026.
Submissions are welcome in any area of phonetics. We look forward to bringing together excellent, inspiring, and thought-provoking work on phonetic theory, application, and practice, as well as collaborations between phonetics and other disciplines and fields.
Abstracts are inv
While love and desire are often treated as personal and private matters, they are also sites of conflict, negotiation, and power. Historically, controlling expressions of desire has been used to enforce social hierarchies, gender norms, and colonial power. Even today, conflicts over consent, domestic violence, LGBTQ+ rights, and cross-cultural misunderstandings reveal the urgent need to better understand how love and desire are communicated. Addressing these questions is not only of academic int
Num茅ro th茅matique de la revue, coordonn茅 par Florentina Fredet, Christos Nikou et Sandrine Wachs
La didactique du rythme en enseignement/apprentissage du FLE
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The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universit盲t Erlangen-N眉rnberg is seeking to appoint 1 doctoral researcher for project 13: Pseudo-coordination with motion verbs in the Romance Languages: a CxG-Perspective.
The PhD researchers will be employed on a 65% basis on an E13 scale (which amounts to a starting salary of about 鈧�3000 per month before tax) for three years, starting as soon as possible.
More details about the Projects
While love and desire are often treated as personal and private matters, they are also sites of conflict, negotiation, and power. Historically, controlling expressions of desire has been used to enforce social hierarchies, gender norms, and colonial power. Even today, conflicts over consent, domestic violence, LGBTQ+ rights, and cross-cultural misunderstandings reveal the urgent need to better understand how love and desire are communicated. Addressing these questions is not only of academic int
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Researchers Bodo Winter and Francesca Strik-Lievers have added another volume to the Cambridge UP series, Elements in Cognitive Linguistics. This Element is a comprehensive, accurate and updated inquiry into the study of linguistic synesthesia. The phenomenon of linguistic synesthesia consists of the combination of expressions associated with different senses, which creates a conflict between modalities whose uneven distribution in the data is well worth studying. To do so, Winter & S
The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is meeting Thursday, October 30 at 4PM in DS-1950* on the UQAM campus, followed by a social happy hour. Talks include: The event is open to all linguists across Montreal! If you鈥檇 like to join the mailing list, please email willie.myers@mail.mcgill.ca.
Anthropogenic ecosystem changes are affecting many societies, which are experiencing biodiversity loss as well as the arrival and proliferation of unfamiliar life forms. The adaptation of human activities to these changes is a rich field of study for both the humanities and the life sciences.
Organised to mark the LACITO laboratory's fiftieth anniversary, this conference seeks to explore ecological upheavals from the perspective of language.
Keynote Speakers:
- Aung Si, linguist (University
Anthropogenic ecosystem changes are affecting many societies, which are experiencing biodiversity loss as well as the arrival and proliferation of unfamiliar life forms. The adaptation of human activities to these changes is a rich field of study for both the humanities and the life sciences.
Organised to mark the LACITO laboratory's fiftieth anniversary, this conference seeks to explore ecological upheavals from the perspective of language.
Keynote Speakers:
- Aung Si, linguist (University
At the Daedalus Lab, University of Murcia (Spain) we are offering a four-year position to complete a PhD within the MULTIFLOW project (funded by Spain's Ministry of Science), modeling statistical patterns in the multimodality of language with AI. The position is also associated to opportunities in our new Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in multimodal data science (MULTICOM), among other projects.
The application deadline is November 13, 2025.
Fully funded PhD (FPI) 鈥� Multimodal Language Model
The Talyshi language is one of the Northwestern Iranian languages, alongside Gilaki, Mazandarani, Gorani, Zazaki, and others. It is spoken in the southwestern Caspian region on both sides of the Iran-Azerbaijan border. Researchers distinguish three main dialects: Nothern (primarily spoken in the Republic of Azerbaijan and adjacent areas of Iran's Gilan and Ardabil provinces), Central and Southern (both spoken in the aforementioned provinces).
This publication includes manuscripts collected by B
The study attempts to classify all the sounds found in Kangri language by its phonetics and phonology and to discuss morphological and syntactic properties of the language. The study also explores the changes that occur in the structure of the language while showing the properties of verb-agreement and ergativity. The study was conducted in the Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh where 鈥楰angri鈥� is used as a lingua franca. This language can be classified as a lesser known language since not muc