36.2844, Confs: Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026 (Switzerland)

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Subject: 36.2844, Confs: Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026 (Switzerland)

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Date: 22-Sep-2025
From: Andreas Trotzke [trotzke at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026


Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026
Short Title: LiDi 2026

Date: 13-Apr-2026 - 14-Apr-2026
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Meeting URL: https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/lidi2026.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition

Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

Linguistics at school in a European perspective (LiDi 2026)
University of Zurich
April 13-14, 2026
Confirmed speakers:
Ann-Marie Moser (University of Zurich)
Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona)
Tom Rankin (Masaryk University Brno)
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
Jimmy van Rijt (Utrecht University)
Organizers:
Angelika Golegos & Andreas Trotzke
Europe’s linguistic landscape is increasingly diverse. It encompasses
standardized national languages (taught to both L1 and L2 learners),
regional minority languages and dialects, home and heritage languages,
as well as learned/taught foreign non-European languages. Language
education has been a key pillar in European education policy, which
endorses the importance of plurilingual and intercultural education
for democratic culture. In addition to the longstanding policy aim of
European Union citizens gaining proficiency in two additional
languages, an important principle of the recommendation relates to
language awareness.
The 8th edition of the LiDi conference series focuses on a specific
perspective to raise such language awareness in the European education
systems, which can be summarized as linguistic awareness—an approach
where contents and insights of the academic discipline of linguistics
(both theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics) are adapted to
pre-university language classrooms. Linguistic awareness will
ultimately result in language awareness, which advances the students’
consciousness of different forms and functions of language and
promotes analytical, critical, and science-based thinking.
The workshop will bring together leading experts who are already
involved in relevant initiatives in their own countries, but who do
not yet have a joint platform to cooperate and interact with each
other at a European level. The goal is to shift the focus from views
where knowledge about language is mostly regarded as an instrument
(subservient to the development of literacy) to a perspective valuing
knowledge about linguistic concepts itself for their societal and
cultural significance.
Therefore, we seek contributions from a wide range of linguistic
subfields, including but not limited to the following questions:
 - Variation and Change (social and multilingual): How can we help
student teachers and schoolteachers understand the broad linguistic
concepts of language variation and change (including dialects and
sociolects)? How can we address linguistic discrimination in various
European societies, and how can it be overcome?
 - Linguistic Form (phonology and morpho-syntax): How can we make
fundamental aspects of language structure accessible to language
education? How can we best bust the myth that language structure is
linear and introduce basic concepts of hierarchical structure?
 - Linguistic Meaning (semantics and pragmatics): How can we teach the
underlying principles of ‘meaning’ in pre-university classrooms? We
are particularly interested in connecting linguistic ways to analyze
linguistic meaning with phenomena we encounter in the digital world,
such as generative AI tools (ChatGPT) or fake news.
Submission Guidelines:
We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks (20
presentation + 10 discussion). Submissions should not exceed two A4
pages (incl. references + examples), 12pt. single-spaced, with 2.5cm
(= one-inch) margins on all sides. Either PDF or Word format is
accepted. Please upload your abstracts at:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LiDi2026/ by the deadline
listed below.
Submission deadline: December 1, 2025
Notification: January 5, 2026
Workshop: April 13-14, 2026



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