31st LIPP Symposium: Digital Linguistics On- and Offline
The conference Digital Linguistics On- and Offline, which will take place November 11-13, 2026 in Munich, provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on different aspects of digital linguistics and communication. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions that explore the dynamics of language and communication in online contexts as well as online methods to collect and archive on- and offline data. The contributions can focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Language practices and social interaction, e.g., online pragmatics and communication, stance-taking in digital spaces, identity construction through linguistic means in online spaces
- Language and media environments, e.g., multimodality in digital contexts, linguistic variation and change online, platform-specific language use (e.g., TikTok, Twitter, Reddit)
- Methods and tools of digital linguistics, e.g., digital fieldwork methods on- and offline, analysis tools and AI-based approaches, digital data repositories, archives and corpora
- Applications, e.g., online teaching, digital didactics and pedagogy, online outreach and science communication
For a more detailed description, please reference the full Call for Papers here.
Submission information
If you wish to give a talk or present a poster, please send your anonymized abstract (max. 500 words, excl. references) to symposium@lipp.uni-muenchen.de by April 1st, 2026 with the following information in the e-mail: name, affiliation, preference for talk or poster.
Presentations on any language or variety are welcome.
While the main language of the conference will be English, abstracts may be submitted in English or German.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by mid-May.