36.3195, Confs: 8th LRI Workshop for Early-Career Researchers (Italy)

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Date: 21-Oct-2025
From: Aivars Glaznieks [aivars.glaznieks at eurac.edu]
Subject: 8th LRI Workshop for Early-Career Researchers


8th LRI Workshop for Early-Career Researchers
Short Title: LRI 8
Theme: Oral Communication and Plurilingualism

Date: 11-Jun-2026 - 12-Jun-2026
Location: Merano, Italy
Contact Email: lri at eurac.edu
Meeting URL: https://www.lri.eurac.edu/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

The Linguistic Colloquium Language, Region, Identity aims to foster
scientific exchanges within the Alpine region and beyond. It is
specifically targeted at early career researchers (PhD students and
post-docs). The colloquia, jointly organised by a team from six
universities and research centres in Austria, Germany, Italy, and
Switzerland, intend to offer a forum for discussing current and
recently concluded projects. The biennial editions are organised
around three keywords: language, region and identity.
Each Linguistic Colloquium workshop has a specific topic of interest.
The 8th edition will address topics related to oral communication and
plurilingualism. In contexts characterised by territorial
multilingualism and/or increasing levels of linguistic diversity,
language manifests itself as a complex dialogical process involving
multiple resources – registers, varieties, and discourses – which
speakers select to engage in processes of meaning-making, identity
negotiation, and to act upon their realities. With this in mind, we
welcome contributions that deal with orality and spoken language,
focusing in particular on oral communication in connection with:
 - communicative acts within a specific genre of private or
institutional communication, e.g., family talk, communication at
school and university, with public authorities, medical practitioners,
etc.;
 - the linguistic features of spoken language from a
phonetic-phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactical, pragmatic,
or interactional point of view; this may also include the contrast
between different languages and varieties or between spoken and
written languages;
 - the teaching and learning of oral competences in formal and
informal contexts;
 - the positioning of speakers from a sociolinguistic or variational
linguistic perspective;
 - translanguaging and mediation practices among plurilingual speakers
in private or institutional settings;
 - oral communication and spoken language in experiences of mobility
and migration;
 - methodological, epistemological and/or ontological challenges in
research on oral communication and spoken language.
Different languages and varieties in the Alpine region will provide
the focal points of the workshop; however, the workshop is also open
to related topics and projects, including overarching dimensions such
as language ideologies and Artificial Intelligence in connection with
spoken language and orality.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
 - Katrijn Maryns (University of Ghent), Plurilingualism in oral
asylum and migration procedures
 - Fabiana Fazzi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Out-of-school
language teaching and learning
For further information, please refer to the LRI website
http://www.lri.eurac.edu.
Submission of Abstracts:
If you are interested in presenting your research project at the
workshop, submit your anonymised abstract of max. 500 words
(references excluded) via ConfTool
(https://lt.eurac.edu/lri26/conftool/).
Deadline for abstract submission: 15th January 2026
Presentation types: Oral presentation (20 minutes speaking time plus
20 minutes discussion time), poster presentation (including 3 minutes
teaser presentation).
Workshop format: The aim of the workshop is to facilitate constructive
discussion of the projects presented. For this purpose, there will be
20 minutes of discussion time after each presentation.  Posters will
be presented in small groups to promote deeper discussion and
exchange.
Languages: LRI workshops are multilingual. We welcome presentations in
German, English, and Italian.
Fees: None, meals on own account.
Local Organizers:
Aivars Glaznieks, Eurac Research Bolzano, Italy
Marta Guarda, Eurac Research Bolzano, Italy
Giorgia Andreolli, Eurac Research Bolzano, Italy
Stephanie Risse, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Mara Maya Victoria Leonardi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
International Organizers:
Monika Dannerer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Andrea Ender, University of Salzburg, Austria
Peter Mauser, University of Salzburg, Austria
Claudia Maria Riehl, University of Munich, Germany
Regula Schmidlin, University of Fribourg, Switzerland



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