Tagungen und Workshops zum Thema Sprachwissenschaft

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

The meeting aims at bringing together researchers who work on the interface between phonetics and other (linguistic) domains or aspects, such as, e.g., phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics. Contributions focusing on speech production and/or perception and connecting empirical findings to theoretical issues are welcome.

NOR Research Group at the University of the Basque Country

The 18th International Conference on Minority Languages, to be held in Bilbao (Basque Country) from 24th to 26th March 2021, is organized by the NOR Research Group at the University of the Basque Country. It will deal with the subject of minority or small languages and minority speakers all over the world. It aims to create a dialogue among disciplines by asking how minority languages are facing those challenging new multilingual and multicultural circumstances, and how minority speakers are negotiating and reinventing minority linguistic resources in moving locally and globally.

In this workshop, we aim to discuss various manifestations of linguistic variation and language contact between Latin and other languages of the Roman Republic and of the Roman Empire, which accompanied the intense exchanges of artefacts, material products, literary motives and ideas through the Ancient Mediterranean.

Historical Linguistics

SEALS (Southeast Asian Linguistics Society)

The scope of SEALS includes all main subfields of theoretical linguistics (e.g., phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, orthography, etc., but excluding applied linguistics, such as language teaching or SLA/FLA). SEALS has a geographic focus on the languages of the Greater Southeast Asian region, including Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia and bordering regions of south China and eastern parts of India (but no further). The language families of the region include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai/Kradai, and Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman. Papers outside of this geographic and linguistic scope will not be considered.

Ce colloque international et interdisciplinaire devrait offrir aux participant/es la possibilité de mettre en relation les différentes approches, perspectives et traditions scientifiques utilisées par les chercheurs/ses issus/es de différents pays. Il vise à établir un dialogue entre les disciplines de la linguistique, de la sémiotique, des sciences de l’information et de la communication, de l’histoire, de la sociologie, des sciences de l’éducation. Par ailleurs, ce colloque souhaite accorder une place importante aux jeunes chercheurs/ses en leur donnant la possibilité de présenter leurs travaux en cours ou leur projet de recherche, de participer à des discussions et de commencer à développer un réseau international avec d’autres jeunes chercheurs/ses ou des chercheurs/ses confirmé/es. Nous les invitons vivement à soumettre des propositions de communication et/ou à participer à la table ronde.

The 2021 DSNA conference will be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, or CU as the locals call it. The conference host is lexicographer Orin Hargraves, long-time DSNA member and past president; our faculty sponsor is Laura Michaelis-Cummings,Chair of Linguistics at CU. The Dictionary Society of North America has held biennial meetings since 1977. Bringing together scholars of lexicography and professional lexicographers, the conference is an important event for anyone interested in modern dictionary research and practices. Speakers must be DSNA members; nonmembers should apply for membership when they receive their acceptance to speak.

ISLE 6 will be hosted by the University of Eastern Finland School of Humanities.

Digitalization is undoubtedly one of the great revolutions in human history. Technologization and digitalization make it possible that massive amounts of linguistic data, past and present, are available through various channels. These data can be combined, annotated, mined and visualized using high-powered computing. For several decades, English linguistics has been at the forefront of this revolution in the humanities, as evinced for instance in the development and use of digital corpora and in the quantitative turn in the field. While we recognize these past achievements, ISLE 6 seeks to assess the impact of digitalization in English linguistics and in the study of its varieties. We hope to be a venue for state-of-the-art presentations that highlight how digitalization can (or cannot) benefit the study of English linguistics and how it could help us understand its past and present and possibly predict its future paths.

The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics area of the PCA welcomes research on any language attitude or language-related popular culture topic. Presentations cover a wide variety of language and linguistic phenomena in the context of popular culture or popular beliefs.

The goal of the ParadigMo workshops is to identify and discuss fundamental issues of paradigm-based approaches to Word-Formation modeling.

Department of English, City University of Hong Kong

The study of Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication has progressed rapidly over the past thirty years. Recent developments suggest emerging needs for English language learners that require more sensitive conceptual frameworks and methodologies. The pervasive use of digital media has led to the development of academic and professional practices that are multimodal, plurilingual and often seek to engage diversified audiences. At the same time, technology and new methods have become readily available to study LSP and Professional Communication in a widening range of settings from increasingly diverse angles, shedding light on complexity that understandably once lay beyond the standard analytical purview. The use of digital technologies along with theoretical and methodological developments in areas including multimodal discourse analysis, multimodal interaction, gesture studies, and embodied cognitive science have revolutionized our understanding of specialized language and communication. The 6th international conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association aims to develop a high resolution picture of how our field is dealing with these scientific and technological advances.

Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

L’Association canadienne de linguistique, qui a été fondée en 1954, a pour but de promouvoir l’étude des langues et de la linguistique au Canada.

The Canadian Linguistic Association, which was founded in 1954, has as its aim the promotion of the study of languages and linguistics in Canada.

ICSLS-2021 aims to provide a forum for the exchange of the most recent research findings and ideas in the field of second language learning, teaching, and testing; and to establish, develop, and expand the network of language teachers, students, and researchers in second language studies field worldwide.

SLA - Applied Linguistics - ELT - Measurement - Assessment and Testing - Psycholinguistics - ESP/EAP - CALL/MALL - Teacher Education - Pragmatics - Materials Development - Discourse Analysis - Semantics

NLP4IF is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute or hamper the free flow of information on the Internet, their impact, and to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are controlled by any forms of censorship.

Computational Linguistics

This is the third edition in the 'Approaches to Migration, Language & Identity' conference series. It is organised by Charlotte Taylor and Stuart Dunmore at the University of Sussex and will be held ONLINE. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of the intersection between migration, language and identity whether focussed on migration discourses, language practices, legal policy or the ideologies embedded and revealed within them. We also welcome reflexive work which challenges and advances how we investigate these topics, and work which highlights potential impact and proposes methods for stakeholder involvement. The conference is conceived as an interdisciplinary event and we warmly invite abstract submissions for papers addressing language and identity in relation to migration from colleagues across a range of disciplines including, but not limited to: education, intercultural communication, law, literary studies, linguistics, geography, history, memory studies, migration studies, psychology, sociology, translation studies. We also warmly welcome contributions from colleagues working outside academia.

The conference will be hosted by the Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France

NooJ is a free, open source software promoted by the METASHARE European programme and protected by a GPL restricted license. It runs on Windows Operating System (.NET framework) and on Macos, LINUX and UNIX Operating Systems (JAVA Virtual Machine). There are over 20 linguistic modules that can already be freely downloaded for NooJ, as well as its manual, references, video tutorials in Arabic, Belarusian, Croatian, English, Italian and Spanish, etc.

The annual Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference (LangUE) brings together postgraduate students from around the world to present and discuss current research, results and problems from various fields of linguistics. We are delighted that the 15th LangUE will take place as a two day conference on 10 and 11 June 2021 exclusively online. We aim to provide an ideal networking environment and welcome all levels of study including PhD students, Post-Docs, Master and Bachelor students. Participation at LangUE 2021 will be free.

The aim of this conference is to assess the state of contrastive linguistics in 2022 while paying tribute to the major contribution of Jacqueline Guillemin-Flescher, who has trained many contrastive linguists, in France as well as in the rest of Europe.

A conference in the honour and in presence of Jacqueline Guillemin-Flescher.

The Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Research Group is pleased to announce that its thirteenth international conference – APLL13 – will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh on 10-12 June, 2021. Owing to the current pandemic and the unpredictability of travel restrictions, we plan to hold APLL13 in a fully-online format. We will provide more information on how this will work closer to the date. The purpose of the APLL conferences is to provide a venue for presentation of the best current research on Austronesian and Papuan languages and linguistics, and to promote collaboration and research in this area.

SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organised by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) as well as the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the data innovation alliance. SwissText 2021 is part of the “Networking Event Series - Natural Language Processing” funded by InnoSuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. It is supported by more than 10 universities and scientific associations.

The workshop invites submissions on any (theoretical or computational) topic concerning NLI

Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier

Language and territory both conceptually refer to social structuring, space and a sense of belonging. A historical approach to these notions reveals innovation and new practices in the societies that shape them. They are also highly polysemic terms with differing semantic contours according to usage, context, aims. The representations they embody are sustained by underlying links and structures. Together, they evoke exchanges, movements, blending, but also withdrawal and conflict. They are an invitation to travel, to creativity, to self-expression or to encounters with the Other. This colloquium will discuss the different ways that languages and territories are linked, and will show the political, social and economic stakes that arise from the relationships between them. Above all, these terms refer to men and women with their social practices and representations, at the core of the logic of territoriality. New territories give rise to new language practices, which, in turn, create new spaces, discourse and meaning.

Eugenio Coseriu (1921-2002) was one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century. His language theory has had an important impact on contemporary Romance and General Linguistics. In several branches of linguistics (such as the theory of language change, pragmatics and text linguistics, variational linguistics or semantics), Coseriu’s proposals of the 1950s can be considered groundbreaking, however, even if several of his linguistic concepts have become part of the canon of linguistics, others have remained largely unknown at least outside the circle of Coseriu’s disciples. The centenary of his birth in 2021 will be the occasion for the celebration of an international conference jointly organized at two Universities: Zurich (Switzerland) and Tubingen (Germany).

History of Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Typology

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers representing different theoretical paradigms and discuss most recent developments in the area of nominalizations with special emphasis on their interactions with inflection and compounding.

PSLLT is the only annual conference in North America focussed on second language pronunciation learning and teaching. It has a strong reputation for bringing together leading researchers and practitioners and results in a widely referenced conference proceedings publication. For 2021, the conference will be held virtually, which we hope will open it up to many new participants who have not previously been able to attend a PSLLT conference.

Rice University, Houston,

The Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication at Rice University invites you to submit a proposal to 6th CLIC (Online) Conference “After COVID: Language, Diversity, and Social Justice.” The 6th CLIC Conference invites researchers and practitioners to reflect on experiences and consequences of the health crisis caused by a world-wide pandemic and its effects on issues of social justice and diversity in the teaching of second languages and multilingualism in general. Through the lens of language analysis, we seek to understand (a) the renewed interest in multilingualism and second language learning in an increasingly multimodal communication environment (e.g., new media and technology) and, in turn, (b) how this new perspective on language/multilingualism can have an effect on second language learning and teaching practices.

The Education University of Hong Kong

Technology influences language, people, and society as a whole. The ILTAL 2021 conference aims to explore how technology has impacted policy, curriculum, and pedagogy in language education and how it will impact the future of language policy and practice and our society, in general. The conference aims to create an ideal platform for researchers, teacher trainers, policymakers, principals, teachers, and graduate students to discuss, exchange, and share their research, experience, and ideas about all aspects of language policy, practice, and technology in education.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia

PaPE 2021 will be the latest installment of the PaPE conference series, aimed at exploring different disciplinary approaches to all areas of phonetics and phonology, including interdisciplinary research which investigate the sound properties of language from multiple perspectives: neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and speech technologies.

The eighth installment of the TripleA workshop for semantic fieldworkers will be held fully online, in the week of June 21–27, 2021 (precise dates and schedule TBD), organized by the National University of Singapore. The TripleA workshop series provides a forum and community for the study of the semantics of understudied languages of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania.

A workshop on language acquisition in Copenhagen is jointly organized by the Center for Language Technology (University of Copenhagen), Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (Chinese University of Hong Kong, CUHK) and University of Cambridge-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism. The workshop aims to provide an international platform for researchers to exchange recent findings and discuss current and future research directions for language acquisition across diverse contexts. We especially encourage contributions on the special theme “multimodality and child language acquisition”, but other topics related to language acquisition are welcome too.

The theme of IGALA11 2021 is Language and the Geopolitics of Gender. With this theme, we aim to highlight the geopolitical dimensions of language, gender and sexuality scholarship. Our goal is to showcase research on configurations of language, gender and sexuality from a diverse range of cultural, linguistic and geographical contexts, and in particular work that engages with issues of coloniality, globalisation, migration, (trans)nationalism and/or modernity. We also aim to encourage discussions of methodological and epistemological diversity, and of the broader dynamics of knowledge creation and dissemination in our field.

Universities Nebrija and Complutense de Madrid

In 2021 the 14th meeting of the international Symposium on (Im)Politeness and the 7th meeting of the biannual iMean(interaction and meaning)conference will be merged for a meeting on the ''pragmatics of translation'' on 24-26 June, 2021.

Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

This workshop is dedicated to the work of Bob Ladd, one of the pioneers of Laboratory Phonology and the first president of the Association of Laboratory Phonology. The theme of the workshop reflects Bob's interest in the form and nature of phonological representations and their relation ''to the physical manifestations of speech and the cognitive processes that underlie them'' (in his words). His research on this broad theme has dealt with a number of topics; though perhaps the best known has been his contribution to intonational phonology and the relation between abstract phonological representations of tone and their phonetic manifestation, his research has also addressed the more general issue of the role of phonetic evidence in phonology, the problematic nature of systematic phonetics, the treatment of gradience, and duality of patterning. Contributions to this workshop, from researchers who have collaborated with Bob during his career and/or been strongly influenced by his research, will focus on these themes.

Linguistic Theories; Phonetics; Phonology

This workshop is a satellite event to Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) 2021 and provides a platform for the growing community of researchers studying prosody in contact to share findings, discuss methodological issues, and debate the theoretical implications of their work. There will be oral presentations, covering both synchronic and diachronic aspects of prosody in contact, anchored around keynote papers from invited speakers and framework discussion. Abstracts for papers are invited on all aspects of prosody in contact languages, including pitch-related, temporal and spectral phenomena, and on all language varieties, including those spoken by diaspora communities.

Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics

COM2021 will be followed by the Symposium of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism (ECSPM) on the 28-29 June 2021 that will also take place online.

Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

The third International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL 3) will be held in Madrid in June of 2021. The original series started in Amsterdam 1986 and in 2015 merged with the Italian series of colloquia on Greek linguistics to start the new regular series of colloquia held every three years. The first joint colloquium took place in Rome, Università Tor Vergata. The second one was organized by the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2018. The next one will be hosted by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in 2021. This series of colloquia tries to provide an international forum of high level scientific standard to present ongoing research or results already reached by scholars in the field of Ancient Greek linguistics.

The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM)

Theoretical and methodological aspects of metaphor - Metaphor in cross-cultural communication - Metaphor and Mental Space Theory - Metaphor in discourse - Multimodal metaphor - Metaphor in gesture and other modes/spaces of expression - Metaphor and translation - Metaphor in learner language and education

The 33rd meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-33) 第33屆北美漢語語言學會議 will be held virtually on June 24-25, 2021. NACCL-33 invites abstracts in all subfields of Chinese linguistics, including but not limited to, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, dialectology, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

Phonetics; Phonology; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Sino-Tibetan

Our timely inter-disciplinary two-day conference is the first of its kind to examine mutual intelligibility from cultural and cognitive as well as linguistic perspectives. By bringing together researchers from a range of fields, this workshop aims to provide a foundation for the development of multi-disciplinary research projects on mutual intelligibility. The goal is to gain a broader understanding of this significant and complex global phenomenon, and identify how various theoretical and empirical research methods can be combined in future research.

Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Translation

In 2021 the 13th meeting of the international Symposium on (Im)Politeness and the 7th meeting of the biannual iMean (interaction and meaning) conference will be merged for a meeting on the “pragmatics of translation” on 24-26 June, 2021. We will invite papers on translation outcomes and processes which highlight a pragmatic angle of understanding the transfer of language phenomena across cultures and intra-culturally. We approach translation from a broad perspective, including written textual translation from source to target language as well as other modalities such as signing, simultaneous translation or audiovisual translation by professional and lay people. We also include topics such as explaining meaning to each other or translating sensual experience into language.

It is our pleasure to announce the 5th International Conference “Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics” (APAP) to be he held in Lublin (June 25-27, 2021). APAP is a biennial event organized by two Polish universities: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) and John Paul II Catholic University (KUL) which intends to provide a forum for sharing theoretical, empirical and pedagogical findings on all aspects of phonetics and phonology, with particular attention paid to how the two domains of research relate to each other.

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

The conference, organized by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), is open to all topics relevant to linguistic pragmatics, conceived broadly as the interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, cultural) science of language use.

Critical Cultural Studies, Communication and Linguistics Studies, Literary Humanities, Civic, Political, and Community Studies, Past and Present in the Humanistic Education, 2021 Special Focus: Critical Thinking, Soft Skills, and Technology

Anthropologie,    Politikwissenschaft

Association LSP Teachers at Higher Education Institutions in Croatia

French Phonology Network (RFP)

The expression of motion events is a multifaceted phenomenon that lies at the confluence of morphology, lexical semantics, syntax, discourse and pragmatics. Recent research has probed into its composite nature, revealing how it is underpinned by language-specific constellations of interacting factors (Beavers, Levin et al. 2010). The aim of this conference is to further explore these factors, with particular emphasis on the role of the verb and crosslinguistic comparison, while encouraging different approaches (Levin 1993, Aurnague 2011, Stosic 2019) to share their views on the matter.

The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is informed by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that “if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers” (1992: 64).

The topic of eLex 2021 is going to be “post-editing lexicography”. Digital lexicography has progressed over the past 30 years up to the point where large parts of entries in a new dictionary (such as headword lists, inflections, translations or example sentences) may be drafted automatically from a sufficiently large and sufficiently annotated text corpus. This technological progress leads to new methodological approaches where most editorial work consists of post-editing of automatically created content – similarly to post-editing of machine translated texts.

The term crosslinguistic influence, introduced by Michael Sharwood-Smith (1983), was suggested as an alternative to transfer, given the behaviorist connotations of the latter. Subsequently, generativist and cognitivist approaches rejected contrastive analysis and the idea of the influence of the L1 on an L2, and research focussed henceforth more on difficulties intrinsic to the L2, as well as L2 learners’ internal cognitive processes.

The meeting is organised by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the Masaryk University of Brno and the Departments of Humanities and Culture and Society of the University of Palermo.

The aim of the meeting is to promote discussion and exchange among researchers who, from any theoretical perspective, are interested in the different forms and functions within modality and/or in contiguous domains such as directivity or evidentiality.

ICLaVE|11 takes place at the University of Vienna, Austria, with kind support from the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE, is one of the most important fora for research in the area of language variation in Europe. It aims at bringing together scholars of languages and language varieties spoken in Europe with the purpose of discussing empirical, methodological and theoretical issues in the study of language variation and change on the continent.

The First International Conference on Sicilian Dialectology, a major event of the Festival of Sicilian Dialects 2021, has been conceived as a moment of knowledge sharing and discussion among scholars interested in the different domains of the study of the Italo-Romance varieties spoken in Sicily.

This year's conference theme - Global Dialect Laboratories in Multilingual Ecologies - focusses on the development of English around the world, especially in urban and densely populated multilingual territories. Contributions to the conference will explore the status, variability, and development of English in such urban multilingual settings. We invite papers and posters from the areas of multilingual development, language acquisition, language contact, and World Englishes. CuTLi serves as a forum that is open to original and unconventional approaches, aiming to facilitate a fruitful discussion and exchange of ideas. In particular, we wish to give young researchers (Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD students) the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from an expert audience and well-known scholars in the field.

University of Warsaw (Poland)

The conference theme, “Bilingualism in Flux”, presents bilingualism as a dynamic and multifaceted phenomenon existing on a continuum. The in flux part of the theme is a twofold concept. First, it is understood as relating to non-linguistic circumstances that foster not only diverse, but also transient bilingual communities throughout the world. Nowadays, new waves of migration influence the linguistic status quo and enrich existing environments. Second, it pertains to the very processes taking place in language, a dynamic entity prone to changes. The fluctuating circumstances entail linguistic consequences reflected in the development of the second and further languages, cross-linguistic influence, language attrition, incomplete acquisition, and maintenance of heritage languages. Finally, the conference leitmotif highlights not only the local changes presently taking place in Poland, but also the country’s linguistic heritage.

Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL)

Following the IW-FDG tradition, this workshop will be devoted to the discussion of a specific aspect of the model – the topic this time being modification – with the purpose of (i) developing and improving the theory of FDG (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2008) and (ii) publishing a collection of the papers discussed during the workshop. Previous workshops have all resulted in the publication of a special issue or collected volume in a respected journal or book series.

Ideologies regarding the social value of languages and discourses are contested, especially in times of political polarisation. Whether it be political rhetoric valorising certain languages over others in social media messages of populist leaders, activism promoting the revitalisation of minoritised languages or the hegemony of colonial languages in academic publishing, we can observe how language ideologies are constructed, and how they permeate every public domain. With this conference, we aim to explore the intersections between language ideology and political discourse, understanding both notions in their broadest terms, and to find tactical solutions to prevent a language ideological meltdown of political discourse; i.e. a politicisation of essential understandings of language as belonging to specific people and not to others. The conference thus aims to open up a critical space in which we can explore ideological discourses that make the indexical links between language and politics meaningful, aiming, ultimately, to reposition ourselves and our research within the very same political discourse that we investigate.

LFG21 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.

WSC6 is organized by the Department of Linguistics, and the Southeast Asian Linguistics Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.

Despite the tremendous advance in the field in the past few decades, our theoretical understanding of sound change has been largely limited to segmental phenomena. The 6th Workshop on Sound Change (WSC6) will be held at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok during July 14-16, 2021 around the theme of ''Naturalness of Tonal and Prosodic change.'' In addition to oral and poster presentations, WCS6 will feature a series of half and full-day satellite workshops on July 13, 2021.

The 11th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2021) will take place in the week of 13–17 July 2021, hosted online by the University of Limerick. Corpus Linguistics is a biennial conference which has been running since 2001 and has previously been hosted by Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Birmingham and Cardiff University.

The present colloquium is the first of the planned annual colloquium on Chinese language and dialects that is jointly organized by SOAS University of London and Humboldt University of Berlin, with the aim to promote studies on Chinese language and dialects in Europe and world-wide.

Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS), UCL / China Association for Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CATIC)

To understand the entirety and complexity of translation and interpreting as social interaction, it is important to explore the interplay between translators’ and interpreters’ affect, behaviour and cognition, be it from the theoretical, empirical, or methodological perspective.

The Federation Internationale des Langues et Litteratures Modernes (FILLM), a UNESCO affiliate in charge of promoting languages, literatures, and cultures organizes an International Congress every three years. The next FILLM Congress, the 28th in the series, will be held in Europe at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria from 18 July to 21 July, 2021 under the theme of Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective.

Traditionally, editions of the CILH pay tribute to renowned researchers in the field whose work contributes to the building and innovation in concepts and methods related to Historical Linguistics. The V CILH: Diachronic constellations continues this tradition and, in this edition, honors professors Charlotte Galves and Mary Kato, who were the founders and diffusers in the area of ​​Historical Linguistics in Brazil. Galves and Kato worked on formal ​​diachronic syntax: the first with strong interaction with the areas of corpus linguistics and on the interface between syntax and prosody; and the second in interface with sociolinguistics and studies on language acquisition. “Navigation” and “travel” are metaphors present in the work of the honorees, and in line with their legacy, the V CILH: Diachronic constellations aims to navigate in this legacy by offering a space for qualified debate on linguistic phenomena related to linguistic change and the variability of languages; at the same time, it seeks to value the memory of the work of these important researchers for the new generations of researchers from Brazil and beyond. To this end, the event will feature: conferences, short courses, homage sessions, workshop sessions covering different areas of linguistics and philology, as well as general sessions and poster sessions.

The biennial DEON conferences are designed to promote interdisciplinary cooperation amongst scholars interested in linking the formal-logical study of normative concepts, normative language and normative systems with computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, organization theory and law. In addition to the general theme of the DEON conferences, DEON 2020/21 will encourage a special focus on the topic: Norms in Social Perspective.

Informationstheorie und Grundlagen der Informatik,    Kommunikationswissenschaft

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London

Tel.: [2107277979];     Email: comela2021@comela.me

Linguistics, Anthropology, Language

We plan to use the conference as a platform to further develop a collaborative community around human-computer interaction issues in speech and language technology, with a specific interest in theory-based and applied scientific issues in the field of speech and text-based conversational user interfaces.

Benutzerschnittstellen, User Experience,    Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache, Computerlinguistik

Past work in HPSG covered diverse aspects of negation in different languages, as shown, for example, by the proceedings volumes of previous HPSG conferences. For this workshop, we invite contributions from all areas of grammatical description, including (but not limited to) phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, to continue this rich tradition.

Under the auspices of FoLLI the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year in a different European country. It takes place over two weeks in the European Summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at both the introductory and advanced levels, attracting around 400 participants each year from all the world. The main focus of the program of the summer schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis in human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited lectures.

Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache, Computerlinguistik,    Allgemeine und fachübergreifende Veranstaltugen in Informatik

The 16th International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) will take place on August 4-6, 2021, a virtual conference organized by York University in Toronto, Canada.

University of Edinburgh, UK

Over several decades, the Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium has become established as a valuable forum for the dissemination and discussion of research findings among linguists investigating the languages that belong to the Nilo-Saharan language family.

Modelling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the topic of the MWE workshop organised by the MWE section of SIGLEX in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Although much progress has been made in the field, MWE processing in end-user NLP tasks is currently under-explored, and most studies still introduce MWEs as future work. Nonetheless, there are recent studies in which MWEs gained particular attention in end-user applications, including machine translation (Zaninello & Birch 2020), text simplification (Kochmar et al. 2020, Liu & Hwa 2016), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al. 2019, Christiansen & Arnon 2017), social media mining (Maisto et al. 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al. 2020, Caselli et al. 2020).

Human language changes over time, driven by the dual needs of adapting to ongoing sociocultural and technological development in the world and facilitating efficient communication. In particular, novel words are coined or borrowed from other languages, while obsolete words slide into obscurity. Similarly, words may acquire novel meanings or lose existing meanings. This workshop explores these phenomena by bringing to bear state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language.

Today, the unprecedented quantity of easily accessible data on social, political, and economic processes offers ground-breaking potential in guiding data-driven analysis in social and human sciences and in driving informed policy-making processes. The need for precise and high-quality information about a wide variety of events ranging from political violence, environmental catastrophes, and conflict, to international economic and health crises has rapidly escalated (Porta and Diani, 2015; Coleman et al. 2014). Governments, multilateral organizations, local and global NGOs, and social movements present an increasing demand for this data to prevent or resolve conflicts, provide relief for those that are afflicted, or improve the lives of and protect citizens in a variety of ways. For instance, Black Lives Matter protests[1] and conflict in Syria[2] events are only two examples where we must understand, analyze, and improve the real-life situations using such data.

Informations & Wissensmanagement, Big Data Computing,    Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache, Computerlinguistik

The goal of this workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners from the entire NLP cycle, from annotation and benchmarking to modeling and applications, and to provide an umbrella for the development, discussion and standardization of the study of understanding implicit and underspecified language.

The field of natural language semantics has undergone what some refer to as an ‘experimental turn’ and is arguably currently undergoing a ‘computational turn’. By expanding the toolbox available to the semanticist, these two turns have the effect of expanding the phenomena that can be explained and the varieties of semantic explanation that can be offered.

The Extensive Reading Foundation is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Extensive Reading Around the World (ERAW-2021), to be held online from 13-15 August 2021. This event is a stepping stone towards the Sixth Extensive Reading World Congress, (ERWC6) which has been rescheduled for August 2022 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

As the world has become more global in unprecedented ways, the ability to communicate in multiple languages has become a prized characteristic. Multilingualism has, however, been the majority experience for most of human history. The second ever Small-Scale Multilingualism (SSML2) conference aims to recentre the notion of multilingualism as a natural and typical state of human societies and aims to shift multilingualism into the centre of the academic field of linguistics. We want to think more expansively about what constitutes SSML, and focus on the term “small-scale” as a means to “pay attention to detail”, and “take a look at individuals and localised communities”. Multilingualism is simultaneously a description of an environment and individuals who make up the tapestry of many modes of communicating, including spoken and signed languages. It is in this spirit of inclusion and attention to individuals that we seek funding to experiment with innovative forms of conferencing that would expand accessibility to people from multiple locations, and with diverse needs.

The 22nd Biennial Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL22) will be held at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan on 16-18 August 2021 (arrival and banquet on 16 August 2021; conference presentations on 17-18 August 2021). This will be the fourth international academic fest focusing on Korean since the merger of the Harvard-ISOKL (Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics) into the ICKL (International Circle of Korean Linguistics), and also be the first ICKL conference in Taiwan.

The international conference ICCG11 will take place at the University of Antwerp (UAntwerpen), Belgium, 18-20 August 2020. ICCG11 will cover a broad range of topics related to various constructionist approaches to language, including but not limited to cognitive construction grammar, embodied construction grammar, fluid construction grammar, radical construction grammar, sign based construction grammar, frame semantics. The conference also acts as a forum of discussion between different approaches. The theme of this edition of the conference is the following: how do constructions model language in minds, communities, or computers? Submissions for presentations, posters, or workshops are particularly welcomed along the lines of this theme, but submissions may also be related to other aspects of constructionist linguistics.

Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Text are important sources of information and communication in diverse domains. The intelligent, efficient and secure use of this information requires, in most cases, the transformation of unstructured textual data into data sets with some structure, and organized according to an appropriate schema that follows the semantics of an application domain. Indeed, solving the problems of modern society requires interdisciplinary research and information cross-referencing, thus surpassing the simple provision of unstructured data. There is a need for representations that are more flexible, subtle and context-sensitive, which can also be easily accessible via consultation tools and evolve according to these principles. In this context, consultation requires robust and efficient processing of requests, which may involve information analysis, with quality, consistency, and privacy preservation guarantees. Knowledge bases can be built as these new generation infrastructures which support data science queries on a user-friendly framework and are capable of providing the required machinery for advised decision-making.

We are pleased to announce the 15th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH15), to be held at the University of Pécs, Hungary, from 25 to 26 August 2021. The main session of ICSH will be followed on 27 August by a special Workshop on the Structure of Uralic Languages (WSUL), hosted at the same venue.

This conference provides a venue for researchers coming from traditionally distinct fields, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, experimental phonetics, syntax and pragmatics, who work on the relationship between linguistic variation, in its widest sense, and language processing. A main theme of this year’s conference will be the processing of linguistic and indexical variation by bi- and multilingual individuals.

We are holding the Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) 60th Anniversary Commemoration Week under the theme of “Reflection and Reconnection” from 25 to 29 August in 2021. Following the 48th JACET Summer Seminar (Online, 25-26 August 2021), the JACET 60th Commemorative International Convention (Online, 27-29 August 2021) will take place with the theme of “English Language Education to Endure Changing Times: Facing the Reality of Society 5.0”.

Organized for the first time in Berkeley in 1999, then successively in Edinburgh (2001), Göteborg (2003), Aix-en-Provence (2005), Tokyo (2010), Stockholm (2013), Edinburgh (2015), Stockholm (2017), and Budapest (2019), the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshops gather specialists interested in questions linked with fluency and disfluencies.

The theme of the conference will be Morphological Theory and Typology. Languages display remarkable diversity in how and to what extent they make use of morphology. Because of this, it is crucial to explore the morphological structures of a wide variety of languages, especially those that are understudied. This is necessary to ensuring that the morphological theories that we develop are grounded in the empirical data that we observe. Conversely, linguistic theory and computational modeling inform our understanding of morphological diversity by allowing hypotheses about underlying causes of typological distributions to be tested. While morphological typology and morphological theory have not always been in close dialogue, we view such dialogue as important to the advancement of both fields. The conference theme is designed to highlight work that brings understudied and otherwise diverse languages to bear on morphological theory, and theory to bear on morphological typology. We encourage submissions reflecting different theoretical and methodological approaches, the latter including but not limited to fieldwork, corpus methods, and computational modeling.

The multidisciplinary KLAARA conference is the venue for researchers interested in the study of EtR languages and accessible communication. The conference aims to advance research and networking on modified language used for communication with people who have various difficulties in understanding standard forms of language. Studies from different disciplinary perspectives (social sciences, linguistics, special education, visual communication, translation studies, information design) will be presented and discussed.

INTERSPEECH 2021 will take place at BVV Brno Trade Fair Center ranking among the largest exhibition centers in Europe. The complex opened in 1928 and established the tradition of large exhibitions and trade fairs held in Brno. The Tutorial day and some satellite events will take place at Brno University of Technology Faculty of Information Technology (BUT FIT) that offers the charm of a 13th century monastery recently reconstructed and decently combined with modern, award-winning, architecture.

Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and University of Athens

SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics and seeks to attract the submission of workshop proposals on specialized linguistic areas.

University of The Philippines Diliman and GLOCAL SOAS University of London

The (SCOPUS / ISI indexed) GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2021, The third GLOCAL CALA, September 1-4, 2021 at the University of The Philippines Diliman, The Philippines, symbolizes a significant leap forward for Asian Linguistic Anthropology, and for Linguistic Anthropology in general, from the highly successful GLOCAL CALA 2019 (Cambodia) and GLOCAL CALA 2020 (Malaysia), to further problematize perspectives on and praxis in Asian Linguistics, Anthropology and Society.

Email: cala2021.upd@up.edu.ph

Linguistics, Anthropology, Language, Social sciences, Sociology, Arts, Poetry, Culture, Multiculturalism, Asian Studies, Discourse, Globalization, Gender Studies, Multidisciplinary Studies, Islamic Studies, Interdisciplinary studies

Anthropologie,    Soziologie

The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings. The thematic focus of Protolang is on delineating the genetic, anatomical, neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological requirements for evolving (proto)language. Sign use, tools, cooperative breeding, pointing, vocalisation, intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis, planning and navigation are among many examples of such possible factors.

Kommunikationswissenschaft,    Psychologie

This workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL) has a broad scope and embraces all approaches that are based on natural language and apply restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been called simplified language, plain language, formalized language, processable language, fragments of language, phraseologies, conceptual authoring, language generation, and guided natural language interfaces.

The workshop Micro-variation in Multilingualism is hosted by the AcqVA (Acquisition, Variation & Attrition) research group and the project MiMS (Microvariation in Multilingual acquisition & attrition Situations), funded by the Research Council of Norway.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on micro-variation in bi- and multilingual populations on topics that are (directly or indirectly) related to the questions investigated in MiMS.

University of Padua (Italy), Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies

The international conference for Learner Corpus Research (LCR) is is organised under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association (https://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/), which brings together researchers, language instructors and software developers with a common interest in the use of learner corpora for research on second language acquisition, as well as for the enhancement of language pedagogy and language assessment. The conference takes place every two years.

University of Nairobi and GLOCAL SOAS University of London

The (SCOPUS / ISI indexed) GLOCAL African Assembly for Linguistic Anthropology 2021, The second GLOCAL AFALA, October 13-16, 2021 at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, in collaboration with SOAS, University of London, and over 200 other global institutions, symbolizes a significant leap forward for African Linguistic Anthropology, and for Linguistic Anthropology in general, from the highly successful Previous GLOCAL Conferences globally, to further problematize perspectives on and praxis in African Linguistics, Anthropology and Society. Keynote Speakers: Prof Helga Schroeder, Professor Humphrey Jeremiah Ojwang

Email: afala2021@uonbi.ac.ke

Africa, Linguistics, Anthropology, Language, Social sciences, Sociology, Arts, Poetry, Culture, Multiculturalism, African Studies, Discourse, Globalization, Gender Studies, Multidisciplinary Studies, Interdisciplinary studies

The Association for Korean Studies in Europe

Pixel

The 14th edition of the Innovation in Language Learning International Conference will take place on 11-12 November 2021. The objective of the Conference is to promote transnational cooperation and share good practice in the field of the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to Language Learning and Teaching. The Innovation in Language Learning Conference is also an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current language learning projects and innovative initiatives.

Tel.: [+39 055 489 700];     Email: conference@pixel-online.net

Education, Language, Higher Education, E-learning, ICT, Online learning, Language for Specific Purposes, Special Needs, Language Skills Development, Teacher Training, Media, Communication.

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

This conference begins with the notion that English is today used by about 1.5 billion people, less than a third of whom speak it as their first language. This minority-majority reversal has significantly impacted the grammatical characteristics of English, the demographics of the Anglophone population, the domains in which English is used, and attitudes towards the language, which has been described both as a venue for increased global communication and as a cultural and economic predator. The history of the language is being rewritten as well, from one defined by conventional periodization and the triumph of English as a Germanic language, to one that has reoriented the historical and contemporary significance of the language’s traditional homelands. The Once and Future English asks the question: How will English’s present and past look to future speakers?