Second Call for Papers: Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026)
We invite submissions to the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL2026) and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (CALD-pseudo 2026), to be
Buorisboahtem / Buerie b氓eteme/ Welcome to the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium at Nord University, Bod酶, Norway!
On 4鈥�5 November 2026, the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS 7) will be held at Nord University in Bod酶, Norway.
The symposium is the continuation of a series of international symposia previously held in Troms酶 2006 and 2009, in Freiburg 2017, in Uppsala 2019, in Tartu 2022, and in Helsinki 2024. The purpose of the symposium is to give scholars an opportunity to present curr
Other Specialties: Dialectology, Language Variation and Change
Description:
Prof David Britain is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher/Teacher to work in the Modern English Linguistics section of the Department of English at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The job role involves BA and MA teaching and thesis supervision (30%), administration for the section and the Department (10%) and research (60%). The position is for up to 4 years (non-renewable) and begins on 1st August 2026.
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This dissertation explores the syntax of subsententials in Hindi/Urdu (H/U), with an empirical focus on sluicing and fragment answers. Such phenomena represent instances where all clausal material is unpronounced, except for a (wh-)phrase (e.g., A: Who did John see? B: Mary.). With evidence from various connectivity effects, I argue that a non-structuralist analysis of such configurations, which does not assume the presence of tacit material, is untenable. Rather, subsententials in this language
We are seeking FIVE highly motivated PhD researchers to join the team of CURLEW (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales). CURLEW is a four-year project (from August 2026) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the International Co-Investigator Scheme with the UK鈥檚 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). It is a collaboration between David Britain (Bern, PI), Paul Foulkes (York), Adrian Leemann (Bern) and Da
Other Specialties: Natural Language Processing,
Description:
As an AI Language Engineer you contribute your expertise in language and computational linguistics to develop and fine-tune natural language processing (NLP) systems to ensure they accurately understand and generate human language. You work with other teams to optimize language models that power various AI applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop natural language processing code specific to French (Canadian) language
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I-LanD Journal 鈥� Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Call for Papers for Special Issue (1/2026)
The Politics of Emotions: Discourse, Media, Digital Spaces
Guest editors: Alexandra Palau (Universit茅 Bourgogne Europe), Denis Jamet-Coup茅 (Universit茅 Jean Moulin Lyon 3) and Alma-Pierre Bonnet (Universit茅 Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Call for Papers:
This special issue of the I-LanD Journal aims to reflect on the use of emotions in political discourse, be it in a
Other Specialties: Dialectology, Language Variation and Change
Description:
We are seeking TWO highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to join the team of CURLEW (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales). CURLEW is a four-year project (from August 2026) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the International Co-Investigator Scheme with the UK鈥檚 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). It is a collab
Meu nome 茅 Julia Bertocchi e sou estudante da Universidade de Bolonha (It谩lia). Este estudo faz parte de um projeto desenvolvido em parceria com a Universidade Jean Jaur猫s, em Toulouse (Fran莽a), para a minha disserta莽茫o de mestrado.
Convido falantes nativos de portugu锚s brasileiro a participarem de uma pesquisa online que leva cerca de 10 minutos para ser conclu铆da.
Durante a atividade, os participantes dever茫o julgar frases em portugu锚s brasileiro, indicando o quanto elas soam naturais ou a
I鈥檇 like to briefly share news about GRAPHIA, an EU-funded project that may be of interest to linguists working with language data, digital corpora, lexical resources, and open research infrastructures.
GRAPHIA is building a comprehensive Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Knowledge Graph, with the aim of connecting fragmented research data across disciplines, repositories, and formats. For linguistics in particular, this includes linking corpora, lexicons, annotations, publications, metada
Other Specialties: Eye-tracking, prosody
Description:
Reference no.: 2026/009. The start date is 1st April 2026 or soon thereafter. The position is available until the end of 2029. In principle, this position can be divided into two part-time positions.
The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful research university with approximately 10,000 stu- dents. The campus university鈥檚 architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a sense of community among
Building on the logical tradition of possible world semantics, this innovative book explores the rich and diverse empirical domain of modality in language, offering an ambitious theory of linguistic modality as indicative of uncertainty. It covers a wide variety of languages ranging from English, Greek, Italian and French, to Native American and Asian languages, and studies modals alongside evidentials, questions, and imperatives, to enable a deeper understanding of modality. The authors introdu
Historical Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society in its historical dimension. This is the first textbook to introduce this vibrant field, based on examples and case studies taken from a variety of languages. Chapters begin with clear explanations of core concepts, which are then applied to historical contexts from different languages, such as English, French, Hindi and Mandarin. The volume uses several pedagogical methods, allowing readers to gain a deepe
The majority of children acquire language effortlessly but approximately 10% of all children find it difficult especially in the early or preschool years with consequences for many aspects of their subsequent development and experience: literacy, social skills, educational qualifications, mental health and employment. With contributions from an international team of researchers, this book is the first to draw together a series of new analyses of data related to children's language development, p
Focus: Recent developments in empirical translation process research (TPR), interpreting, and localization.
Description:
This five-day hybrid TPR workshop focuses on recent developments in empirical translation process research (TPR), interpreting, and localization. The workshop is targeted at students, early-career researchers, as well as young scholars in Translation Studies, Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences, and Digital Humanities. Participants will be introduced to the CRITT Translati
In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation, in which only the body (not the mind, not the spirit, not the sense) of the source text survives. Smash these two brilliant theorists' ideas together and arguably what emerges is a zombie theory of translation: zombies, after all, are m
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
Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories can vary depending on the historian/translator who recounts the facts. Translating His-stories focuses on how women 鈥� Jen Bervin, Patience Agbabi, Caroline Bergvall, Erin Mour茅, and many others 鈥� dare to translate stories previously told by men. In line with contemporary theories of translation, these
2024. 102 pp.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Five Paradigms About Language Use In Africa
Djouroukoro Diallo,Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Billian Otundo, Bert van Pinxteren, Addisalem T. Yallew
Articles
Partir des obstacles pour concevoir l鈥檈nseignement de la lecture dans les classes de CP au Burkina Faso
Cheick F茅lix Bobodo Ouedraogo
Officialisation des langues nationales - enjeux et d茅fis pour le Burkina Faso
Mamadou Lamine Sanogo
Postcolonial Englishes moving towards/past endono
Call for Papers:
Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023).
The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on Por