Hi all,
I'm a PhD student trying to test humans' ability to understand visual metaphors (ads and non-ads). I would be really grateful if someone could spare about 10 minutes for this survey: https://unibodisa.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9yLMIJcxwIbT39Q
Thank you, best wishes
Anna Sofia
It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 12(1) of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free open-access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see 鈥淐URRENT鈥� or 鈥淎LL ISSUES鈥�).
The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/31.
JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA.
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Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology published its 24th issue, devoted to 鈥淭he birth and propagation of Phraseological Units鈥�, in 2024.
Damien Villers
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Wolfgang Mieder
鈥淭he Making of Strange Bedfellows鈥�. A Shakespeare Quotation and Its Propagation of New Proverbs [Full text]
Jean-Claude Anscombre
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The Department of Linguistics at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) is inviting applications for a 5-year post-doctoral position in theoretical linguistics, with focus on formal generative typology, beginning March 2025. The position requires working in Austria.
Areas of responsibility:
- Contribution to research, teaching, and administration in the department
- Independent teaching of courses (four semester hours, typically two 1.5 hour courses)
- Independent r
The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor to begin Fall 2025. We seek candidates with expertise in computational and/or experimental linguistics. The area of specialization is open to any subfield of linguistics. Candidates will provide evidence of inclusive excellence in teaching, a productive record of research, and an ability to involve undergraduates in research. Associate-level candidates should also de
Final Call for Papers:
The goal of this session is to approach DOM from different perspectives, such as:
- linguistic change, both in diachrony and synchrony. The evolution of DOM throughout the history of Spanish has been governed by the scale of animacy and referentiality (Laca 2006). In Old Spanish, DOM was obligatory in canonical position (SVO) with strong pronouns and personal nouns, while in Modern Spanish it is also obligatory with certain (in)definite, human nominal phrases. Furthermo
Call for Speakers:
We are excited to announce that TALC4 will take place from January 17-20, 2025, and we are putting out an open call for speakers!
We are seeking individuals with expertise in fields such as theoretical, corpus, or applied linguistics to present their research or interests to an enthusiastic and curious audience.
Previous presentations have explored diverse topics such as Second Language practices, constructed language (conlang) communities, language revitalization efforts,
Studies on language contact and on any contact-related variety from any theoretical or methodological perspective are welcome. The diversity of the participants' perspectives will contribute to providing multifaceted and novel insights to the field. The conference language is English.
In particular, we encourage contributions regarding the following topics:
- description of contact-related phenomena in any area of grammar;
- field research in contemporary contact settings;
- research on contact
Studies on language contact and on any contact-related variety from any theoretical or methodological perspective are welcome. The diversity of the participants' perspectives will contribute to providing multifaceted and novel insights to the field. The conference language is English.
In particular, we encourage contributions regarding the following topics:
- description of contact-related phenomena in any area of grammar;
- field research in contemporary contact settings;
- research on contact
Call for Papers:
Special issue on Linguistic reasoning in Language Education
Special Issue Editors: Jimmy van Rijt, Utrecht University (j.h.m.vanrijt@uu.nl) and Kristin Denham, Western Washington University (denham@wwu.edu)
Recent studies have empirically explored different aspects of linguistic reasoning, including linguistic inquiry (Denham, 2020; Honda & O鈥� Neil, 2007) the role of linguistic metaconcepts in linguistic reasoning (Van Rijt et al., 2020, 2022), linguistic reasoning quality in
Call for Papers:
The eighth edition of the international Colloque Bisannuel sur la Diachronie de l鈥橝nglais (Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English, CBDA-8) will take place in Tours from May 22nd to May 23rd 2025, hosted by the Universit茅 de Tours (Laboratoire Lig茅rien de Linguistique, 茅quipe VETD-VO) and organised in collaboration with the Universit茅 de Lorraine-Metz (laboratoire InterDisciplinarit茅 dans les 脡tudes Anglophones) and the Universit茅 de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Centre Inte
Call for Papers:
Interested colleagues should submit a 300-word abstract (excl. references) for 20-minute talks by 7 November 2024 to tove@ling.su.se and maria.rosenberg@umu.se. We will make selections and inform all presenters of acceptance of their abstracts before the workshop proposal is submitted to the SLE by 20 November 2024. (If the workshop proposal is accepted, presenters will be asked to submit a 500-word abstract in EasyChair by 15 January 2025.)
As part of the University of Wisconsin RISE initiative (https://rise.wisc.edu/) , Language Sciences (https://langsci.wisc.edu/) and the Information School (https://ischool.wisc.edu/) are seeking excellent candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of linguistic approaches to natural language processing. The selected candidate will have a robust research program taking a computational linguistics approach to natural language processing and will make significant contributions to t
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS & DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
The Departments of Linguistics and Statistics at University of California, Davis jointly invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in Fall 2025. A successful candidate is expected to be active in both departments. We are particularly interested in scholars working on the intersection of linguistics and theoretical foundations of large language models, including topics related to genera
We are delighted that the following speakers have accepted our invitation to present at the workshop:
Kriszta Szendr艖i (Universit盲t Wien)
Lena Borise (CNRS/Universit茅 Paris Cit茅)
Edoardo Cavirani (KU Leuven)
C茅dric Patin (Universit茅 de Lille)
Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford)
Claudia Crocco (Universiteit Gent)
The programme and abstracts can be consulted at: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/sites/llf.cnrs.fr/files/u679/Programme%20Syntax-Prosody%20Workshop.pdf
Participation is free, but please registe
We are delighted that the following speakers have accepted our invitation to present at the workshop:
Kriszta Szendr艖i (Universit盲t Wien)
Lena Borise (CNRS/Universit茅 Paris Cit茅)
Edoardo Cavirani (KU Leuven)
C茅dric Patin (Universit茅 de Lille)
Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford)
Claudia Crocco (Universiteit Gent)
The programme and abstracts can be consulted at: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/sites/llf.cnrs.fr/files/u679/Programme%20Syntax-Prosody%20Workshop.pdf
Participation is free, but please registe
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for the position of Director of the Polish Studies Program, pending budgetary approval. The appointment will be made at the rank of Teaching Assistant Professor and will begin in the fall of 2025. Duties include: (i) teaching Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Polish language, as well as Polish or Polish-comparative literature, cinema, and culture in English at the undergraduate level; and
Final Call for Papers:
Foregrounding the substrate of accountability: Advances and new directions in the study of accounting practices
The study of how members of society display orientation to accountability for normative and deviant courses of action has received considerable attention since Garfinkel鈥檚 (1967) groundbreaking breaching experiments. The now ever-growing body of research includes a wide variety of accounting practices ranging from account solicitations (Schegloff, 1997; Sterpon
The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) seeks to fill tenure-system, open rank faculty positions in Language Science (three positions) and Hearing Science (one position). Applicants with research programs in the area of language development, child or adult language disorders, and/or child or adult language interventions will be prioritized for hire; in addition, applicants with research programs in the area of hearing or balance disorders
The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures in the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for an assistant professor of Second Language Acquisition/ Hispanic Linguistics to begin September 1, 2025.
About the College:
Founded in 1925 as one of the university's four original colleges, the College of Arts & Sciences is comprised of 15 departments and one program, offering a wide variety of courses and programs in the humanities, social and behavi