
The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity, edited by Katharina Turgay and Daniel Gutzmann, was published at the end of 2025 by Oxford University Press.

On October 30, Daniel Gutzmann gave a talk on Multitables (and multiquestions): The common ground in multiagentive contexts at the Colloquium of the CRC Common Ground.

Daniel Gutzmann presented the newly founded journal Meaning: a journal of linguistics and philosophy at the Sinn und Bedeutung 30 conference at the University of Frankfurt.

Katharina Turgay, Daniel Gutzmann, and Kristina Liefke have founded a new journal at the intersection of linguistic semantics/pragmatics and philosophy of language: Meaning: a journal of linguistics and philosophy.

On September 18 and 19, the Open Texture Workshop took place at Bielefeld University, where Daniel Gutzmann participated with his contribution Mechanisms for semantic creativity: What we can learn from diachronic semantics.

Katharina Turgay, together with Sandra Döring (University of Leipzig), organized the double panel Between Observation and Evaluation: Linguistics and Language Didactics in Dialogue, in which Daniel Gutzmann also participated with two contributions.

On May 14, Kalle Glauch successfully defended his dissertation Expressive Meaning and Emotional Valence with the grade summa cum laude. Our warmest congratulations!

The new textbook by Katharina Turgay and Daniel Gutzmann offers an introduction to semantics, especially (but not only) for teachers and students that aim to become teachers.

Kalle Glauch presents a talk on “The influence of valence on the interpretation of expressive adjectives” at the EPITHETS & STAL-2025 Workshop on March 8.

The workshop Expressivity: Variation and Change (Ex:VaC) took place from March 5–7 as part of the DGfS 2025 conference at the University of Mainz and was organized by Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay.