36.3791, Confs: Sociolinguistics and AI (Denmark)

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Subject: 36.3791, Confs: Sociolinguistics and AI (Denmark)

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Date: 08-Dec-2025
From: Sam Goodchild [sag at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: Sociolinguistics and AI


Sociolinguistics and AI
Short Title: SLX and AI

Date: 19-Aug-2026 - 21-Aug-2026
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact: Sam Goodchild
Contact Email: sag at hum.ku.dk
Meeting URL: http://www.ai-uni.dk/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Jan-2026

We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics
and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between
19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event.
As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made
available to the general public, ‘AI’ seems to be every­where. Strong
in connotation, weak in deno­tation, and deeply entangled in
contradictory dis­courses of desire and anxiety, profit and
preju­dice, power and injustice, capitalism and en­vironmentalism,
‘AI’ has – for better and for worse – become a keyword of our times. A
range of different technologies branded in­dis­criminately as ‘AI’
have ac­quired a discur­sive and material presence in the social
world, affecting the lives of millions of people around the globe, in
different ways and with different consequences.
Against this background, we are pleased to in­vite submissions for the
conference Socio­lin­guistics and AI, hosted by the AI-UNI group at
the University of Copenhagen, 19–21 August 2026. The conference is an
in-person event. We welcome contributions from all research traditions
associated with the field of socio­linguistics, including but not
limited to (and in no particular order): sociocultural linguistics,
interactional socio­lin­guistics, ethnometh­od­ology and conversa­tion
analysis, linguistic ethnography, linguis­tic anthropology, (critical)
discourse studies, language policy and plan­ning, social semi­otics,
variationist socio­linguistics, educa­tional linguistics, and
eco­linguistics.
Contributions should address ‘AI’ in some re­spect while clearly
relating it to themes and issues commonly addressed within
socio­linguistics, including but not limited to: multi­lingualism,
social interaction, language and power, agency, identity, language and
edu­ca­tion, (language) ideologies, minoritised lan­guages, heritage
languages, linguistic di­ver­sity, language policy and planning,
lan­guage variation and change, (de)standardi­sation,
(de)co­loniality, language policy and plan­ning, the An­thropocene,
mediatisation and socio­linguistic change.
We particularly encourage submissions that report on empirical work,
but we also wel­come papers that are methodological or theo­retical in
nature. We accept submission of abstracts for papers, posters, and
panels. Abstract submission opens in January 2026 and the deadline for
abstract submission is 30th January 2026.
More information on ai.uni.dk.
Questions regarding the conference can be sent to the conference
organisers at ai-uni at hum.ku.dk



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