2nd Call for Papers: The deadline to submit asbtracts for the Parameters of Language Staging (PLS8) conference has been extended from October 3rd, 2025 to October 17th, 2025. The call for papers is available at pls8.sciencesconf.org. This edition addresses the staging of discourse and the forms and functions of staged discourse, with a particular focus on spoken/multimodal data. Our guest speakers are Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Gaëlle Planchenault (Simon Frase