Final call for symposia:
Deadline September 16 / Call for individual papers and posters will open September 18.
The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15) will take place on 9-13 June 2025 in Donostia-San Sebasti谩n (Spain), hosted by the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
The conference theme of is The Different Faces of Bilingualism. This broad theme for is aimed at meeting ISB鈥檚 mission to create a space for researchers with a diverse range of interests to share t
Call for Papers:
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages & Linguistics (MMLL) and the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies (CCGS) are pleased to announce the 17th International Conference of Greek Linguistics to be held at the University of Cambridge on 23-26 September 2025.
ICGL has been held every two years since 1993 and focuses on all aspects of the linguistic study of Greek, from Ancient to Modern. A small number of thematic workshops will be held as part of the conference. We invite co
Call for Papers:
Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics, published by Edinburgh University Press, print ISSN: 2755-1911, online ISSN: 2755-192X.
Special issue on 鈥淎nalyzing Contemporary Arab political discourse: Interdisciplinary approaches.鈥�
Guest Editors: Emad Abdul-Latif and Zeinab Taha
During the first quarter of the 21st century, the Arab world witnessed radical political transformations that affected millions of people. It was subjected to foreign military invasions in Iraq and Libya. Intern
Call for Papers:
To this end, we invite abstracts that show the connection between pragmatics and political discourse, with an emphasis on the linguistic techniques activists and legislators use to manufacture dissent or consent; how language affects political results by shedding light on practical methods for organising, persuading and enacting change; how speech acts act as accelerators for societal reform by examining case studies from various cultural contexts.
Presentation Format
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Call for Papers:
Relevant abstracts of no more than 800 words (excl. references) should be sent to Robin Meyer (robin.meyer@unil.ch) by 21 October 2024 in PDF format.
Please note that ICHL workshops are in most cases restricted to 6 papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be given as part of the ICHL general sessions. Should there be sufficient interest for an extended workshop (up to 12 papers), we will lobby the local organisers to permit this format.
2nd Call for Papers:
The Universities of Teacher Education of the Grisons, Lucerne, Valais and Ticino (Switzerland) and the consortium 鈥淢ultilingualism as a Chance鈥� invite proposals for a three-day international conference titled 鈥淢ultilingualism and Minority Languages in a Global Context鈥� to be held on 21鈥�23 May 2025 in Davos, Switzerland.
This conference aims to provide a platform for exploring and understanding the multifaceted dimensions of multilingualism, translanguaging and linguistic m
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