Call for Papers: Meeting Description: The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) is the oldest student-run linguistics organization in the United States. This academic year, CLS will host its 62nd Annual Meeting (CLS 62), to be held from April 17 through April 19, 2026 at the University of Chicago. Upholding a longstanding tradition, the conference serves as a forum for leading scholars and researchers from around the world to engage in the exchange of ideas across all areas of linguistics. CLS is

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Sign languages have been shown to favor two-handed forms to express plural meanings, and in this paper we investigate whether this pattern is similarly found in silent gestures improvised by hearing n...

Plenary Speakers: Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden) Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool, UK) Catherina Nyström Höög (Stockholm University, Sweden) Brian Walker (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Call for Papers: Although it has its roots in classical rhetoric, modern stylistics arose from the Russian formalist literary critical movement of the early twentieth century, from which emerged the notion of defamiliarization that is central to the stylistic concept of foregrounding.