Law is interpreted and implemented by many hands. Some of them belong to judges, legislators, or lawyers鈥攂ut many belong to nurses, teachers, municipal officials, or department heads: professionals who encounter law not in courtrooms or casebooks, but in institutional documents, contracts, checklists, and internal protocols. These actors do not interpret law as legal theorists or as abstract "laypeople," but as role-bound individuals embedded in specific organizational contexts. Their understand
Law is interpreted and implemented by many hands. Some of them belong to judges, legislators, or lawyers鈥攂ut many belong to nurses, teachers, municipal officials, or department heads: professionals who encounter law not in courtrooms or casebooks, but in institutional documents, contracts, checklists, and internal protocols. These actors do not interpret law as legal theorists or as abstract "laypeople," but as role-bound individuals embedded in specific organizational contexts. Their understand
We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. We focus especially on new methodologies and new corpora, with languag
We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. We focus especially on new methodologies and new corpora, with languag
The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
To be held in Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including exciting keynotes from Roberto Navigli and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, a free-form discussion on the role of meaning representations in the age of LLMs, and the social dinner on August 4. The registration form is available at https:/
We are delighted to announce that the 8th Prescriptivism Conference will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place in Brussels on 24-26 June 2026.
Building on the success of previous conferences held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017), Vigo (2021), and Aix-en-Provence (2024), this edition continues the tradition of exploring prescriptivism in its many historical, cultural, and linguistic manifestations. The theme of the
The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations
To be held in Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including exciting keynotes from Roberto Navigli and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, a free-form discussion on the role of meaning representations in the age of LLMs, and the social dinner on August 4. The registration form is available at https:/
We are delighted to announce that the 8th Prescriptivism Conference will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place in Brussels on 24-26 June 2026.
Building on the success of previous conferences held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017), Vigo (2021), and Aix-en-Provence (2024), this edition continues the tradition of exploring prescriptivism in its many historical, cultural, and linguistic manifestations. The theme of the
We are pleased to announce the OCP23 Satellite Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology to be held on 13 January at the University of Cambridge.
Phonological representations minimally assume linearly ordered elements, and have been augmented to include hierarchical structure like prosodic categories and non-linear structure like autosegmental tiers. McCarthy鈥檚 (1988:84) often quoted adage, 鈥渋f the representations are right, then the rules will follow鈥� implies the anal
We are pleased to announce the OCP23 Satellite Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology to be held on 13 January at the University of Cambridge.
Phonological representations minimally assume linearly ordered elements, and have been augmented to include hierarchical structure like prosodic categories and non-linear structure like autosegmental tiers. McCarthy鈥檚 (1988:84) often quoted adage, 鈥渋f the representations are right, then the rules will follow鈥� implies the anal
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The National Institute of Education (NIE) is among the world鈥檚 top education institutes, recognised for its excellence in teacher education and educational research. NIE has played a key and pivotal role in shaping and developing Singapore鈥檚 teaching profession and landscape through evidence-informed, practice-focused and values-based programmes and initiatives.
An autonomous institute situated within the research-intensive Nanyang Technological University, NIE is consistent
Description:
The National Institute of Education (NIE) is among the world鈥檚 top education institutes, recognised for its excellence in teacher education and educational research. NIE has played a key and pivotal role in shaping and developing Singapore鈥檚 teaching profession and landscape through evidence-informed, practice-focused and values-based programmes and initiatives.
An autonomous institute situated within the research-intensive Nanyang Technological University, NIE is consistent
We invite chapter proposals for a new edited volume exploring Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Physical Education (CLIL-PE) (De Gruyter) across pre-primary, primary, secondary, and tertiary contexts. This volume aims to bring together foundational theoretical, empirical, and practice-based perspectives, as well as insights into Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for educators working in CLIL-PE.
CLIL is understood here in its broade
Meeting Description:
Venue: The International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Construction will be held at the Universitat de Barcelona, at the Facultat de Filologia i Comunicaci贸, located in the very heart of the city. Dates 22-23 January 2026
Organisers: Anna Pineda (Universitat de Barcelona) and Monica Irimia (Universit脿 degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Invited Speakers:
Michela Cennamo (Universit脿 di Napoli Federico II)
Alexandra Cornilescu (Universitatea din Bucure葯ti)
Javier
Migration has long been a defining force of globalization, but its impact is experienced unequally across different regions. The Global South, in particular, bears the brunt of migration鈥檚 complex social, economic, and linguistic ramifications. Whether driven by economic disparity, political unrest, or digital labor economies, migration reconfigures how language functions. It not only serves as a medium of communication, but it is used as a tool of power, negotiation, resistance, and identity fo
Migration has long been a defining force of globalization, but its impact is experienced unequally across different regions. The Global South, in particular, bears the brunt of migration鈥檚 complex social, economic, and linguistic ramifications. Whether driven by economic disparity, political unrest, or digital labor economies, migration reconfigures how language functions. It not only serves as a medium of communication, but it is used as a tool of power, negotiation, resistance, and identity fo
This Digital Studies in Language and Literature Special Issue invites work that explores how writer identity is shaped, challenged, or reclaimed in the GenAI era. We particularly highlight the impact of GenAI on how identity is expressed in written discourse across academic, creative, multilingual, and educational contexts. This includes how generative tools influence features such as authorial voice, stylistic idiosyncrasy, and linguistic diversity as elements often overwritten by the standardi
2nd Call for Papers:
Background:
Migration into and within Africa has been increasingly motivated by social, political, educational and economic purposes. Movements of peoples in contemporary times, en-masse or in smaller groups have an impact on language practices in multilingual Africa. These movements raise a number of interesting questions such as; What changes are there in contexts where different languages come into contact as a result of different people mobility? How mobile are langu
The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List.
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The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and the (very general) structure of the world are in some sense dependent on the existence and the structure of language. The interest of the thesis is that, since human language is an evolved, empirical phenomenon, it would be surprising and significant if the world, which existed long before human bein