36.1772, Confs: Linguistic Patterns of Textual Organization Across Registers (DGfS 2026 Workshop) (Germany)

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Date: 05-Jun-2025
From: Stella Neumann [stella.neumann at ifaar.rwth-aachen.de]
Subject: Linguistic Patterns of Textual Organization Across Registers (DGfS 2026 Workshop)


Linguistic Patterns of Textual Organization Across Registers (DGfS
2026 Workshop)

Date: 24-Feb-2026 - 27-Feb-2026
Location: Trier, Germany
Contact: Stella Neumann
Contact Email: dgfs2026-quantor at collocations.de
Meeting URL: https://quantor-project.github.io/dgfs2026.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 17-Aug-2025

Description:
Register refers to linguistic patterns associated with particular
situational contexts (Seoane & Biber, 2021, p. 2) where the linguistic
patterns are clusters of features having a greater-than random
likelihood to co-occur. In register studies, the focus has
traditionally been on the aggregative analysis of lexico-grammatical
features in entire texts, thus neglecting the dynamic unfolding of
situations – linked by the above definition to register – over time.
However, the situational characterisation of a text as unfolding over
time should not only allow predictions about characteristic linguistic
features but also when these features can be expected to occur in the
unfolding text. In linguistics, this sequential character has been
mainly linked to genre, defined as a goal-oriented activity enacting
social practices of a culture that exhibits a recurring structure in
the form of stages or moves (Swales, 1990, Martin & Rose, 2008). These
approaches, however, tend to neglect the well-documented linguistic
variation across registers, as well as recent progress in large
language models (LLM), which have been applied to text structure
segmentation (e.g. Braud et al., 2023).
This workshop aims to bring together research from all three fields –
register, genre, and computational linguistics – to explore the
interface between them and the possibility of integrating the temporal
dynamics of textual organisation with the situational patterning
reflected in register.
We invite theoretical and empirical submissions that cover the
cross-section of register studies with linguistic approaches such as
rhetorical structure theory, genre/move analysis, interactional
linguistics and computational approaches to discourse structure as
well as quantitative linguistics and LLM research.
Submissions:
Please submit your abstract by e-mail to
dgfs2026-quantor at collocations.de. Abstracts should not exceed 1 page
(DIN A4, 2.5 cm margins, 12 pt font, 1.5 line spacing). References
should follow the APA7 citation style. Presentations will be 20
minutes with 10 minutes for discussion.
Note that at DGfS conferences, delegates are not allowed to present
their work at multiple workshops (but they may be listed as co-authors
of other talks at the conference).
Important Dates:
17 Aug 2025 - Deadline for abstract submission
15 Sep 2025 - Notification of acceptance
24–27 Feb 2026 - Conference
Organisation:
Stephanie Evert, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen University
Gerold Schneider, University of Zürich
Contact: dgfs2026-quantor at collocations.de
References:
Braud, C., Liu, Y. J., Metheniti, E., Muller, P., Rivière, L.,
Rutherford, A., and Zeldes, A. 2023. The DISRPT 2023 shared task on
elementary discourse unit segmentation, connective detection, and
relation classification. In Proceedings of the 3rd Shared Task on
Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2023), 1–21.
Toronto: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Martin, J. R., & Rose, D. (2008). Genre relations: Mapping culture.
Equinox.
Seoane, E., & Biber, D. 2021. A corpus-based approach to register
variation. In E. Seoane & D. Biber (Eds.), Corpus-based approaches to
register variation, 2–17. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Swales, J. M. 1990. Genre Analysis. English in Academic and Research
Settings. Cambridge: CUP.



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