36.3878, FYI: Call for Contributions to Anthology: Privacy, Identity and Linguistics – Deidentification, Pseudonymisation, Anonymisation in Linguistics (Jrnl)

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Date: 16-Dec-2025
From: Therese Lindström Tiedemann [therese.lindstromtiedemann at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Call for Contributions to Anthology: Privacy, Identity and Linguistics – Deidentification, Pseudonymisation, Anonymisation in Linguistics


Privacy, Identity and Linguistics – Deidentification,
Pseudonymisation, Anonymisation in Linguistics
Editors: Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Lisa Södergård
We would like to invite contributions to an anthology about privacy,
identity and linguistics. Contributions should be about how linguists
are (and have been) anonymising or pseudonymising their data, how
participants (and people mentioned) are affected by different means to
protect personal and sensitive information, and finally, how
linguistic research is affected now, and in the future, by the use of
different deidentification techniques.
We invite contributions in English which discuss these issues and
others related to the topic of privacy, identity and linguistics. We
are particularly interested in discussions which concern languages,
including dialects and minority languages, in northern Europe, but
also invite chapters on other languages and on general linguistics. We
suggest that contributions could concern the following or similar
issues:
 - Which information you are currently replacing, but also how and why
this is done?
 - How personal information in data and metadata has been treated in
your area of linguistics historically
 - How replacements of personal and/or sensitive information affect
the usability of data in your area of linguistics and the validity of
any conclusions
 - How replacements of personal and/or sensitive information might
affect results in your area of linguistics
 - How replacements (might) affect the semantics or pragmatics of the
linguistic data as well as the perception and readability of the data
 - How replacements of personal and/or sensitive information might
affect the participants in research in your area of linguistics,
including pro’s and con’s of letting participants choose whether and
how their personal information should be obscured in the data
 - How researchers can navigate between their different
responsibilities: protecting individuals from harm, while also
acknowledging their contributions to the research, and doing reliable
linguistic research that can be important to society.
For a chance to contribute to the volume please submit a title by the
30th January 2026, and a 500-word abstract (excluding references) plus
an outline of your proposed chapter by the 30th March 2026
(https://forms.office.com/e/bSCvAidQFf). First chapter drafts 30th
September 2026. Abstracts and chapters will be peer-reviewed. We are
currently primarily considering one of De Gruyter Brill's series as a
publication venue. The anthology is done as part of the research
environment Mormor Karl (https://mormor-karl.github.io), financed by
the Swedish Research Council.
Contact Information:
Therese Lindström Tiedemann, senior university lecturer, University of
Helsinki (Finland)
Lisa Södergård, PhD student, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Full call:
https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/cfp-privacy-identity-linguistics/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)
                     Finnish (fin)
                     Norwegian (nor)
                     Swedish (swe)
                     Swedish Sign Language (swl)

Language Family(ies): East Scandinavian
                      European Deaf Sign Languages
                      Finno-Ugric
                      West Scandinavian



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