The organizing committee of spraWIEN 3.0 invites students, early-career researchers, and scholars from linguistics and related disciplines to submit abstracts for the spraWIEN 2026 Conference, taking place on 6 June 2026 at the Institute for Linguistics, University of Vienna. (Note: Depending on the number of submissions, the conference may be extended to 7 June 2026, if necessary.)
spraWIEN is a transdisciplinary conference that provides an open and supportive platform for emerging researche
The organizing committee of spraWIEN 3.0 invites students, early-career researchers, and scholars from linguistics and related disciplines to submit abstracts for the spraWIEN 2026 Conference, taking place on 6 June 2026 at the Institute for Linguistics, University of Vienna. (Note: Depending on the number of submissions, the conference may be extended to 7 June 2026, if necessary.)
spraWIEN is a transdisciplinary conference that provides an open and supportive platform for emerging researche
Conference Theme:
This fifth edition of the Globalising Sociolinguistics conference series focusses on the sociolinguistics of formal as well as informal L2 language learning. This year, the conference is organized by the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and will be held in a hybrid format.
Below are some suggestions for themes of the papers.
- Language policing inside and outside the L2 classroom
- Online language learning
- Using the L1 as langu
Workshop Description:
Expressivity is a category in natural languages that concerns the direct expression of emotions and attitudes (in contrast to their description). Expressive meaning can be conveyed at all linguistic level: by lexical expressions, special syntactic constructions, intonation or on the pragmatic level by expressive speech acts.
While expressivity has been approached from many different angles and has been studied in almost all disciplines of linguistics (see the Oxford H
Conference Theme:
This fifth edition of the Globalising Sociolinguistics conference series focusses on the sociolinguistics of formal as well as informal L2 language learning. This year, the conference is organized by the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and will be held in a hybrid format.
Below are some suggestions for themes of the papers.
- Language policing inside and outside the L2 classroom
- Online language learning
- Using the L1 as langu
Workshop Description:
Expressivity is a category in natural languages that concerns the direct expression of emotions and attitudes (in contrast to their description). Expressive meaning can be conveyed at all linguistic level: by lexical expressions, special syntactic constructions, intonation or on the pragmatic level by expressive speech acts.
While expressivity has been approached from many different angles and has been studied in almost all disciplines of linguistics (see the Oxford H
A model for variable pronominal linear orders in Occitan based on feature geometry and Optimality Theory
Robert Mooney
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Information structural interfaces: Case studies from Romance
Guest-editors: Delia Bentley, Simone De Cia
Information structural interfaces: An introduction
Delia Bentley & Simone De Cia
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Gesture and information structure: A case study on gestural topic markers in southern Italo-Romance
Valentina Colasanti & Chiara Marchetiello
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Pictures are a fundamental aspect of how we express ourselves, and cave paintings are among our oldest records of intelligence. Yet, despite their importance, why don't most people feel they can draw, and why are pictures often considered less important than language?
For over 20 years, Neil Cohn has pioneered research around these questions within the fields of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, and this book is the result, heralding a new paradigm of language, drawing, and communicatio
This book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the experiences of faculty, students, and staff at a Canadian university that emphasizes international education, providing an ethnographic lens for understanding globalization and internationalization of higher education on a wider, global scale.
The collaborative work of multiple authors based in different departments and roles within the university offers a holistic picture of current international education policies and practices, and how t
L'ouvrage donne une vue d'ensemble de la recherche actuelle sur les langues cr茅oles 脿 base fran莽aise. Il propose, d'une part, une pr茅sentation comparative de ces cr茅oles et, de l'autre, des descriptions des langues particuli猫res. Parmi les auteurs, on trouve des chercheurs originaires 脿 la fois des territoires cr茅olophones et de l鈥檈xt茅rieur du domaine.
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Across languages, time tends to be understood in terms of space. For instance, we might think of time as an unstoppable train heading towards us when we hear 'holidays are聽coming', or we might imagine time聽as a landscape that we move across as we 'approach the moment of truth'. In this pioneering book, Duffy and Feist bring together research from across disciplines to provide a more nuanced understanding of what metaphor is and how it underpins our conceptualizations of time. Illustrated with a
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This Element investigates the interplay between language, discourse, and materiality by focusing on everyday social practices within corner shops and markets in Sydney, Australia. Drawing on linguistic ethnography and data from interactions involving objects, talk, and people, it explores how discourse and materiality are co-constituted. Employing theoretical perspectives from actor-network theory and the concept of mediational means/tools, the study reconceptualizes the role of non-human entiti
We are still looking for a few contributors to this project specifically for the following chapter headings:
- Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan
- Premodern Language Policy
- Statecraft-diplomacy and Law
I have copied the original call for contributions below.
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Call for Contributors: Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus and Central Asia
We invite chapter proposals for the forthcoming De Gruyter-Brill Handbook of Language Po
I am a student of the Applied Linguistics MA program in Bonn (Germany), currently working on a module-embedded, extensive research project. In this context, I am conducting multiple surveys, for which I am still in need of participants. I am preferably looking for native speakers of English or German, though the official requirement for each survey is a B1 (CEFR) level per language. Links to both versions of the survey can be found below. If you are willing to participate, please choose the surv
We are happy to announce that we have released the second version of the South Slavic CLASSLA-web corpora. The corpus collection contains approximately 38 million texts and 17 billion words, collected from the web in 2024, and covers the full South Slavic language group: Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian. Compared to CLASSLA-web 1.0, the new web corpora are significantly expanded and largely consist of new texts. The corpora are linguistically annotate
The Metagram seminar (https://htl.cnrs.fr/seminaire-metagram/) is a monthly seminar on questions of grammaticography and metagrammaticography. The seminar takes place the second Tuesday of each month, Feb-May and Sept-Dec, in hybrid mode. It is supported by the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics infrastructure project.
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