Free virtual panel discussion: LGBTIAQ+ Lexicography in the Oxford English Dictionary
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http://tiny.cc/OED-LGBTIAQ-lex-LL
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
05:00 PM BST | 04:00 PM GMT 12:00 PM EDT | 09:00 AM PDT
Join OED editors guest speakers for a virtual discussion where they will delve into the world of queer vocabulary and its representation in dictionaries. This event will explore the evolution, documentation, the impact of queer language on mainstream vernacular
DiscoMatiX returns for 2025! We are excited to host a talk from Diana Mazzarella (University of Neuch芒tel) on "Understanding irony (mis)understanding" on Tues 13th May, 16:00 CEST. The talk will be hosted on Zoom; as usual, please email discomatix.group@gmail.com in advance to get the meeting link. We hope to see many of you there! Further information about DiscoMatiX can be found on our website: https://discomatix.github.io/
Abstract:
Verbal irony typically involves making a statement that
The INCLUSIVE project at the University of Salamanca is launching a call for posters for an exhibition dedicated to the dissemination, transfer, and outreach of work related to trans* identities in university settings, with particular attention to issues of communication, language, and inclusion. This call is open to students, university staff, researchers, and LGTBIQ+ collectives from any university or organisation. Submissions do not need to be unpublished.
Proposals can be submitted betwee
I recently had to retire a very ancient Mac computer running Mac OS 10.13 on which I was able to type in IPA using SIL keyboard drivers and SIL fonts or any Unicode font. Now on the new machine, I'm running Mac OS 15 and the SIL keyboard drivers don't work. I have also installed the Keyman utility along with two IPA keyboards, and those also don't work.
If I can't type in IPA, I'm really in trouble. SIL have provided no advice that worked, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix the pr
McLing is very happy to welcome Myriam Lapierre as an incoming faculty member in the 9I制作厂免费 Linguistics Department. Myriam will be officially joining us in January 2026. Myriam鈥檚 research combines phonological theory, original fieldwork, articulatory and perceptual phonetics and in-depth typological surveys. Her theoretical work centers on formal models of representational phonology and, in particular, […]
Description:
The Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate. Responsibilities include managing community partnerships with Michigan middle schools, developing lesson plans for grades 5-10, manuscript preparation, and project maintenance. This is a fixed-term, annual year position beginning August 15, 2025 and is renewable contingent on performance and funding.
The successful applicant will join the
The ERC Consolidator project 鈥淩ise and Demise of Industrial Modernity鈥� (RiDe) at the University of Tartu (Estonia) is looking to fill a fully funded PhD position, broadly in environmental studies/social science, particularly in sustainability transitions studies.
The project is based on the Deep Transitions framework from the sustainability transitions field. It seeks to develop a new theory about the acceleration, crisis and possible transformation of industrial modernity: a set of ideas, i
Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality.
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Invited speakers:
Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universit盲t Frankfurt)
Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College)
Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New York Univers
Date: 8-9 May, 2025, fully digital
Location: fully digital, hotested at CEHUM/ELACH, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Coordinator: Dr. Eva-Maria Roessler (LTE, CEHUM, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)
Contact: evamariaroessler@elach.uminho.pt
Workshop Language: English
Student Support: Gloria Reis de Oliveira (University of Porto), Montserrat Esther Ruiz Bonet (University of Minho), Vitor Pellissari Zardo (University of Porto)
Technical Support: Pedro Rafael Bernardo Medeiros (ELAC
Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality.
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Invited speakers:
Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universit盲t Frankfurt)
Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College)
Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New York Univers
Call for Papers:
Background
Over the past three decades, the official stance on the Amazigh language (Tamazight) and culture in North Africa has undergone significant transformations. Political upheavals, coupled with the rise of linguistic human rights, have contributed to a shift in attitudes towards Tamazight in the region. In Morocco, the ascension of King Mohamed VI in 1999 marked a pivotal moment in state policies towards the Amazigh language and culture. In 2001, the language was reco
Date: 8-9 May, 2025, fully digital
Location: fully digital, hotested at CEHUM/ELACH, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Coordinator: Dr. Eva-Maria Roessler (LTE, CEHUM, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)
Contact: evamariaroessler@elach.uminho.pt
Workshop Language: English
Student Support: Gloria Reis de Oliveira (University of Porto), Montserrat Esther Ruiz Bonet (University of Minho), Vitor Pellissari Zardo (University of Porto)
Technical Support: Pedro Rafael Bernardo Medeiros (ELAC
New Insights on Demonstratives
A workshop accompanying ICSH17
13 June 2025, Debrecen, Hungary
9:20 Opening
Session 1
9:30 鈥� 10:10 Nicholas Bunderson-Toler: Understanding paths of grammaticalization in NSKY demonstratives through frames of reference: From exophoric roots to cohesion particles
10:10 鈥� 10:50 Maria Reile, Renate Pajusalu, Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa: The Estonian demonstrative "too" in between a personal and a demonstrative pronoun
10:50 鈥� 11:10 Coffee break
Session 2
New Insights on Demonstratives
A workshop accompanying ICSH17
13 June 2025, Debrecen, Hungary
9:20 Opening
Session 1
9:30 鈥� 10:10 Nicholas Bunderson-Toler: Understanding paths of grammaticalization in NSKY demonstratives through frames of reference: From exophoric roots to cohesion particles
10:10 鈥� 10:50 Maria Reile, Renate Pajusalu, Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa: The Estonian demonstrative "too" in between a personal and a demonstrative pronoun
10:50 鈥� 11:10 Coffee break
Session 2
17th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian: ICSH17*
11-12 June 2025, Debrecen, Hungary
11 June 2025
9:30 registration
10:00-10:10 opening
10:10-10:50 B谩lint J贸zsef Ugrin, 脕gnes Luk谩cs Exploring Grammatical Sensitivity in Hungarian: Insights from an Individual Differences Perspective
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11:30-12:10
Preserving the original idea, the fifth edition of CIFRE is also organized by doctoral and postdoctoral students of the Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Arts, Palack媒 University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Our objective is to provide a safe and inspiring space for the students of Master鈥檚 and Doctor鈥檚 degree of Romance Philologies where they can gain experience with presenting and defending their research topics in an international environment. It is also an opportunity to make contact w
17th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian: ICSH17*
11-12 June 2025, Debrecen, Hungary
11 June 2025
9:30 registration
10:00-10:10 opening
10:10-10:50 B谩lint J贸zsef Ugrin, 脕gnes Luk谩cs Exploring Grammatical Sensitivity in Hungarian: Insights from an Individual Differences Perspective
10:50-11:30 Aliz Huszics, Bal谩zs Sur谩nyi Noncanonical syntax paired with noncanonical interpretation: A preliminary judgment study of Hungarian subpart of additive focus fronting
11:30-12:10
Preserving the original idea, the fifth edition of CIFRE is also organized by doctoral and postdoctoral students of the Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Arts, Palack媒 University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Our objective is to provide a safe and inspiring space for the students of Master鈥檚 and Doctor鈥檚 degree of Romance Philologies where they can gain experience with presenting and defending their research topics in an international environment. It is also an opportunity to make contact w
The Department of Languages and Literature (School of Humanities and Social Sciences) of the University of Nicosia is pleased to announce the Advances in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition: Heritage Language Acquisition and Learning international conference, the fourth edition of the ASeFoLA series.
ASeFoLA 2025 will take place online on 24 May 2025.
Keynote speakers:
-Johanne Paradis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Alberta
-Charles B. Chang, Professor of Linguistics, City Uni
Program is now online! https://lingcologne.uni-koeln.de/program
In both signed and spoken conversations, recipients continuously provide multimodal feedback to the signer or speaker. This feedback may take the form of manual signs, such as yes, spoken forms like mm or yeah, hand gestures, or non-manual visual cues such as head nods, eyebrow movements, or smiles. These feedback signals serve several important conversational functions: they can demonstrate the recipient鈥檚 active engagement, com