Chloé Diskin-Holdaway

Deadline’s coming up in 2 weeks’ time! Don’t miss your chance for up to $800 to attend the ALS conference.

Deadline is in a few days’ time! Submit your abstracts soon!

Abstract submission deadline extended!

We invite abstracts for papers for presentation at the in-person Annual Conference of the ALS held at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University from 2-5 December 2025.

Extended deadline: 15 July 2025
Notification of acceptance: 22 August 2025

#ALS2025

The ALS Conference is held at Griffith University’s Gold Coast Campus, Southport, QLD, from 2 to 5 December 2025. We invite proposals for masterclasses and themed sessions at the conference.

Submit to: conf@als.asn.au by 1 May 2025
Decisions: 15 May 2025
Details: www.als.asn.au/Conference/2...

Australian Linguistic Society Logo Call for nominations: 2024 Talkley Award The Talkley Award is presented each year to a particular piece or collection of linguistics communication produced by current ALS members (individuals or groups). The Award acknowledges that the discipline of linguistics needs champions to explain its relevance to Australia at large. The winning piece of lingcomm could be a video series, a conversation article, a media interview, a public lecture, a series of meme posts, etc. that has promoted linguistics in the public sphere or explained how linguistic evidence can be used to solve real-life language problems. Please email your nominations (with a sentence or two explaining why the nominated piece should win this year's Talkley) to the ALS postgraduate representative Kate Charlwood (katejc@student.unimelb.edu.au) and cc the president Bill Palmer (bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au). Deadline is 1 November 2024.

Members of the Australian Linguistic Society, the Talkley Awards are now open for nominations. Nominate a particular piece or collection of linguistics communication produced by current ALS members (individuals or groups)! #ALS2025

Australian linguists, we're running a themed session on linguistics undergraduate teaching at ALS in November! Looking forward to hearing your experiences!
als.asn.au/Conference/2...
Happy to be working with a team of absolute legends: Jill Vaughan, Rose Billington, Ksenia Gnevsheva & Jess Kruk

The ALS is offering five scholarships and prizes to provide funding support of up to $5,000 for linguistics research students conducting research in any area of linguistics.

Deadline: 6 May 2024

Find out more here: www.als.asn.au/Pages/ALS/Gr...

Hi there! Are you a graduate student in sociolinguistics who is an LSA member and wants travel funding to attend LSA's Annual Meeting in Philly this year? Consider applying for the Elizabeth Dayton Award! Open now til July 12! www.lsadc.org/elizabeth_da...

Did you know that the Australian Linguistic Society offers accreditation for qualified linguists? Find out more at als.asn.au/Accreditation

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Next Tuesday 2nd April I'll be giving a talk on language attitudes to Australian English @marcsinstitute.bsky.social Research Meeting. I'll be discussing how Australia's increasingly diverse population deals with the concept of an accent being linked to a national identity.

Welcome to Bluesky, Australian Linguistic Society @auslingsoc.bsky.social