[Dgkl] CfP 31st LIPP Symposium: Digital Linguistics On- and Offline

Mon Feb 2 13:48:30 UTC 2026

Dear members of the GCLA,

We invite abstract submission to the 31st LIPP Symposium which carries the
title *Digital Linguistics On- and Offline.*

This conference aims to explore how language use is shaped by digital
spaces and how digital tools and data have revolutionized the fields of
linguistics and language learning. Digital linguistics has developed into a
thriving interdisciplinary field at the intersection of pragmatics, media
linguistics, and applied language studies. The multifaceted field includes
research ranging from multimodality (Bateman & Wildfeuer 2014),
contextualization strategies (Androutsopoulos 2023), stance-taking (Du Bois
2007; Merten 2025; Spitzmüller 2013), internet memes (Dancygier &
Vandelanotte 2025), digital identity (Zhao 2005), to the pragmatics of
platform affordances (Bucher & Helmond 2018).

Recent work in multimodal pragmatics (Bülow et al. 2024; Mondada 2016;
Bateman et al. 2017; Wildfeuer et al. 2020) and digital method studies
(Tagg et al. 2017) underscores the need for analytical frameworks that can
account for the complex interplay of linguistic, visual, acoustic, and
interactional resources in digital settings. Moreover, new communication
formats such as livestreams, voice notes, short videos, and reaction
content on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Discord challenge the
divide between factual and fictional discourse (e.g., Burger & Luginbühl
2014; Tschannen & Meier-Vieracker 2024). The linguistic conception of
utterances is also changing with regard to digital communication, e.g., in
chat messages and online communication, where the boundaries between
written and spoken language are increasingly blurring and written language
can certainly assume patterns of oral communication (Crystal 2001; Koch &
Oesterreicher 2011; McCulloch 2019).

At the same time, digital linguistics offers new ways to both collect and
engage with language data. The collection and analysis of data across
digital and hybrid contexts can offer flexible approaches to data
collection and analysis, as well as offering the opportunity to create and
work with large-scale data sets. There is growing interest in how digital
technologies themselves, whether used as research tools or objects of
analysis, shape the research process, including ethical concerns about
consent and algorithmic influence, especially in the age of large language
models (Markham 2015; Caliandro & Gandini 2016).

The conference Digital Linguistics On- and Offline, which will take place 11–13
November 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 these 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:

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   Language practices and social interaction, e.g., online pragmatics and
   communication, stance-taking in digital spaces, identity construction
   through linguistic means in online spaces
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   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

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. If you wish to give a talk or present a poster, please
send your anonymized abstract (max. 500 words, excl. references) to the
following e-mail address symposium at lipp.uni-muenchen.de by April 1st 2026 with
the following information: name, affiliation, preference for talk or poster
in the e-mail. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by mid-May.

For more information, please visit our website under:
https://www.symp.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/

References:

Androutsopoulos, J. (2023). Kontextualisierung digital: Repertoires und
Affordanzen in der schriftbasierten Interaktion. In S. Meier-Vieracker, L.
Bülow, K. Marx, & R. Mroczynski (Eds.), Digitale Pragmatik (pp. 13–38).
Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65373-9_2

Bateman, J. A., & Wildfeuer, J. (2014). A multimodal discourse theory of
visual narrative. Journal of Pragmatics, 74, 180–208.
<https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.10.001>
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.10.001

Bateman, J. A., Wildfeuer, J., & Hiippala, T. (2017). Multimodality:
Foundations, research and analysis – A problem-oriented introduction. De
Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110479898

Bucher, T., & Helmond, A. (2018). The affordances of social media
platforms. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, edited by Jean Burgess,
Thomas Poell, and Alice Marwick

Burger, M., & Luginbühl, M. (2014). Mediensprache: Eine Einführung in
Sprache und Kommunikation in den Medien. 2nd ed. Narr Francke Attempto.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110285925

Caliandro, A., & Gandini, A. (2016). Qualitative research in digital
environments: A research toolkit. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315642161

Crystal, D. (2001). Language and the internet. Cambridge University Press.

Dancygier, B., & Vandelanotte, L. (2025). The Language of Memes: Patterns
of Meaning Across Image and Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108950855

Du Bois, J. W. (2007). The Stance Triangle. In R. Englebretson (Ed.),
Stancetaking
in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction (pp. 139–182). John
Benjamins Publishing Company. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.164.07du

Koch, P. & Oesterreicher, W. (2011). Gesprochene Sprache in der Romania.
Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch. 2nd ed. De Gruyter.

Markham, A. (2015). Remix culture, remix methods: Reframing qualitative
inquiry for social media contexts. In Denzin, N., & Giardina, M.
(Eds.), Qualitative
Inquiry—Past, Present, and Future (pp. 63–81). Left Coast Press.

McCulloch, G. (2019). Because internet - Understanding the new rules of
language. Riverhead Books.

Merten, M.-L. (2025). Stancetaking als Analyseobjekt und
Forschungsperspektive der Germanistischen Linguistik. Einblicke in eine
Grammatik des sozialen Positionierens. In Bubenhofer, N.M. Habermann, H.
Hausendorf, B.-M. Schuster (Eds.). Germanistische Linguistik: Genese,
Zustand und Zukunft eines Faches im Spiegel der RGL. (pp. 135–162). De
Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323725-007

Mondada, L. (2016). Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in
social interaction. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20(3), 336–366.
https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.1_12177

Spitzmüller, J. (2013). Metapragmatik, Indexikalität, soziale
Registrierung. Zur diskursiven Konstruktion sprachideologischer
Positionen. Zeitschrift
für Diskursforschung, 1(3), 263–287. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-97551

Tagg, C., Seargeant, P., & Brown, B. (2017). Taking offence on social
media: Conviviality and communication on Facebook.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56717-4

Tschannen, J. & Meier-Vieracker, S. (2024). Performing Science. Multimodale
Analysen zu Wissenschaftskommunikation auf TikTok. In Jaki, S., Meiler, M.,
Pflaeging, J., & Wildfeuer, J. (Eds.), Multimodalität in Wissensformaten
(pp. 285–322). Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22228

Wildfeuer, J., Bateman, J. & Hiippala, T. (2020). Multimodalität:
Grundlagen, Forschung und Analyse – Eine problemorientierte Einführung.
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110495935

Zhao, S. (2005). The digital self: through the looking glass of
telecopresent others. Symbolic Interaction, 28 (3), 387–405.
https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2005.28.3.387
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