36.3821, Calls: Sociolinguistics and AI (Denmark)

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Subject: 36.3821, Calls: Sociolinguistics and AI (Denmark)

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Date: 11-Dec-2025
From: Sam Goodchild [sag at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: Sociolinguistics and AI


Full Title: Sociolinguistics and AI
Short Title: SLX and AI

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

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

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2026

Call for Papers:
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.
Though not the only form of ‘AI’ around, large language models and
their deployment as part of text-generative tools have come to be seen
as prototypical exemplars of ‘AI’. Language plays a central role in
‘AI’ – not only as part of the discourses surrounding the technology,
but also as part of the technology itself. It is therefore not
surprising that sociolinguists have been keen to explore ‘AI’ from a
range of different perspectives. Many important insights have started
to emerge, but a seemingly endless list of questions concerning the
interface between sociolinguistics and ‘AI’ nevertheless remains to be
explored:
If ‘AI’ is indeed a keyword of our times, then what does
sociolinguistics have to say about it? How can sociolinguistics as a
discipline help us understand the ‘new’ technologies that are being
introduced at breakneck speed? And what about the implications of the
technologies for fundamental human concerns such as identity, social
relations and, indeed, humanity? Is ‘AI’ changing the way we use
language, think about language or think about humans as a languaging
species? Is it changing language itself? Do we need new ways of
conceptualizing the relationship between language, technology and the
environment? Do we need new methods and theories to bring
sociolinguistics into the era of ‘AI’ – or will established approaches
suffice?
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.
Abstract Submission:
The deadline for abstract submission is 30 January 2026. Abstracts
must be submitted in English. Notifications of the outcome of
submissions will be sent out within a month of the submission
deadline. Further details concerning the submission procedure will be
available on the conference web page in due course.
Paper Abstracts:
Abstracts for papers must not exceed 1,800 characters with spaces,
including references (if any). Titles are counted separately and must
not exceed 150 characters with spaces. Presentations will be organised
in 30-minutes slots (20-minute presentation; 5-minute Q&A and 5
minutes for change of presenters/ rooms).
Poster Abstracts:
Abstracts for posters must not exceed 1,800 characters with spaces,
including references (if any). Titles are counted separately and must
not exceed 150 characters with spaces. Conference delegates at all
career stages are encouraged to submit poster abstracts. Posters will
be displayed for the duration of the conference and delegates will be
invited to interact with the posters throughout. A dedicated session
for discussing posters will be part of the conference programme.
Presenters are responsible for printing their own posters (Size: A0).
Number of Contributions:
Contributors may submit a maximum of two abstracts (for
papers/posters) and only be the first author and presenter of one of
them. In addition to being an author/presenter of papers or posters,
delegates may act as panel conveners and/or discussants.
Panel Abstracts:
Panel proposals must be submitted as packages consisting of an overall
panel abstract plus abstracts for each individual paper in the panel.
Each abstract in the package, including the overall panel abstract,
must not exceed 1,800 characters with spaces, including references (if
any). Titles for each abstract are counted separately and must not
exceed 150 characters with spaces. Panel conveners chair their own
sessions and are encouraged to schedule the contributions in a way
that follows the rhythm of regular paper sessions (allowing 5 minutes
for changing rooms before the end of each 30-minute interval).
Regular panels will be allocated 90 minutes and must have at least
three individual contributions. Individual contributions must not
exceed 20 minutes each. Within the allocated timeframe, panel
conveners may consider making a short introduction and inviting a
discussant. A discussant slot may (but need not) count as one of the
three required individual contributions.
Double panels will be allocated 180 minutes and must have at least six
individual contributions. Individual contributions must not exceed 20
minutes each. Within the allocated timeframe, panel conveners may
consider making a short introduction and inviting a discussant. A
discussant slot may (but need not) count as one of the six required
individual contributions.
Organising Committee:
The conference is organised by the AI-UNI research group, based at the
Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP),  at
the University of Copenhagen: Sam Goodchild, Kasper Engholm Jelby,
Jens Christian Borup Green Jensen, Sanne Larsen, Rafael Lomeu Gomes
and Janus Mortensen.
Further Information:
Please visit www.ai-uni.dk for future updates about keynote
presentations, members of the scientific committee, conference fee and
more.
Questions for the organising committee can be sent to
ai-uni at hum.ku.dk.



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