37.470, Confs: 31st LIPP Symposium (Germany)

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Date: 02-Feb-2026
From: Nicole Benker [Nicole.Benker at campus.lmu.de]
Subject: 31st LIPP Symposium

31st LIPP Symposium
Theme: Digital Linguistics On- and Offline

Date: 11-Nov-2026 - 13-Nov-2026
Location: Munich, Germany
Meeting URL: https://www.symp.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Apr-2026

This conference aims to explore how language use is shaped by digital
spaces and how digital tools and data have revolutionized the fields
of linguistics and language learning. Digital linguistics has
developed into a thriving interdisciplinary field at the intersection
of pragmatics, media linguistics, and applied language studies. The
multifaceted field includes research ranging from multimodality
(Bateman & Wildfeuer 2014), contextualization strategies
(Androutsopoulos 2023), stance-taking (Du Bois 2007; Merten 2025;
Spitzmüller 2013), internet memes (Dancygier & Vandelanotte 2025),
digital identity (Zhao 2005), to the pragmatics of platform
affordances (Bucher & Helmond 2018).
Recent work in multimodal pragmatics (Bülow et al. 2024; Mondada 2016;
Bateman et al. 2017; Wildfeuer et al. 2020) and digital method studies
(Tagg et al. 2017) underscores the need for analytical frameworks that
can account for the complex interplay of linguistic, visual, acoustic,
and interactional resources in digital settings. Moreover, new
communication formats such as livestreams, voice notes, short videos,
and reaction content on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Discord
challenge the divide between factual and fictional discourse (e.g.,
Burger & Luginbühl 2014; Tschannen & Meier-Vieracker 2024). The
linguistic conception of utterances is also changing with regard to
digital communication, e.g., in chat messages and online
communication, where the boundaries between written and spoken
language are increasingly blurring and written language can certainly
assume patterns of oral communication (Crystal 2001; Koch &
Oesterreicher 2011; McCulloch 2019).
At the same time, digital linguistics offers new ways to both collect
and engage with language data. The collection and analysis of data
across digital and hybrid contexts can offer flexible approaches to
data collection and analysis, as well as offering the opportunity to
create and work with large-scale data sets. There is growing interest
in how digital technologies themselves, whether used as research tools
or objects of analysis, shape the research process, including ethical
concerns about consent and algorithmic influence, especially in the
age of large language models (Markham 2015; Caliandro & Gandini 2016).
The conference Digital Linguistics On- and Offline, which will take
place 11–13 November 2026 in Munich, provides an interdisciplinary
platform for researchers working on different aspects of digital
linguistics and communication. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and
methodological contributions that explore these dynamics of language
and communication in online contexts as well as online methods to
collect and archive on- and offline data. The contributions can focus
on, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Language practices and social interaction, e.g., online pragmatics
and communication, stance-taking in digital spaces, identity
construction through linguistic means in online spaces
- Language and media environments, e.g., multimodality in digital
contexts, linguistic variation and change online, platform-specific
language use (e.g., TikTok, Twitter, Reddit)
- Methods and tools of digital linguistics, e.g., digital fieldwork
methods on- and offline, analysis tools and AI-based approaches,
digital data repositories, archives and corpora
- Applications, e.g., online teaching, digital didactics and pedagogy,
online outreach and science communication
Presentations on any language or variety are welcome. While the main
language of the conference will be English, abstracts may be submitted
in English or German. If you wish to give a talk or present a poster,
please send your anonymized abstract (max. 500 words, excl.
references) to the following e-mail address
symposium at lipp.uni-muenchen.de by April 1st 2026 with the following
information: name, affiliation, preference for talk or poster in the
e-mail. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by mid-May.
References:
Androutsopoulos, J. (2023). Kontextualisierung digital: Repertoires
und Affordanzen in der schriftbasierten Interaktion. In S.
Meier-Vieracker, L. Bülow, K. Marx, & R. Mroczynski (Eds.), Digitale
Pragmatik (pp. 13–38). Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65373-9_2
Bateman, J. A., & Wildfeuer, J. (2014). A multimodal discourse theory
of visual narrative. Journal of Pragmatics, 74, 180–208.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.10.001
Bateman, J. A., Wildfeuer, J., & Hiippala, T. (2017). Multimodality:
Foundations, research and analysis – A problem-oriented introduction.
De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110479898
Bucher, T., & Helmond, A. (2018). The affordances of social media
platforms. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, edited by Jean
Burgess, Thomas Poell, and Alice Marwick
Burger, M., & Luginbühl, M. (2014). Mediensprache: Eine Einführung in
Sprache und Kommunikation in den Medien. 2nd ed. Narr Francke
Attempto. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110285925
Caliandro, A., & Gandini, A. (2016). Qualitative research in digital
environments: A research toolkit. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315642161
Crystal, D. (2001). Language and the internet. Cambridge University
Press.
Dancygier, B., & Vandelanotte, L. (2025). The Language of Memes:
Patterns of Meaning Across Image and Text. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108950855
Du Bois, J. W. (2007). The Stance Triangle. In R. Englebretson (Ed.),
Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction (pp.
139–182). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.164.07du
Koch, P. & Oesterreicher, W. (2011). Gesprochene Sprache in der
Romania. Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch. 2nd ed. De Gruyter.
Markham, A. (2015). Remix culture, remix methods: Reframing
qualitative inquiry for social media contexts. In Denzin, N., &
Giardina, M. (Eds.), Qualitative Inquiry—Past, Present, and Future
(pp. 63–81). Left Coast Press.
McCulloch, G. (2019). Because internet - Understanding the new rules
of language. Riverhead Books.
Merten, M.-L. (2025). Stancetaking als Analyseobjekt und
Forschungsperspektive der Germanistischen Linguistik. Einblicke in
eine Grammatik des sozialen Positionierens. In Bubenhofer, N.M.
Habermann, H. Hausendorf, B.-M. Schuster (Eds.). Germanistische
Linguistik: Genese, Zustand und Zukunft eines Faches im Spiegel der
RGL. (pp. 135–162). De Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323725-007
Mondada, L. (2016). Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body
in social interaction. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20(3), 336–366.
https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.1_12177
Spitzmüller, J. (2013). Metapragmatik, Indexikalität, soziale
Registrierung. Zur diskursiven Konstruktion sprachideologischer
Positionen. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, 1(3), 263–287.
https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-97551
Tagg, C., Seargeant, P., & Brown, B. (2017). Taking offence on social
media: Conviviality and communication on Facebook.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56717-4
Tschannen, J. & Meier-Vieracker, S. (2024). Performing Science.
Multimodale Analysen zu Wissenschaftskommunikation auf TikTok. In
Jaki, S., Meiler, M., Pflaeging, J., & Wildfeuer, J. (Eds.),
Multimodalität in Wissensformaten (pp. 285–322). Lang.
https://doi.org/10.3726/b22228
Wildfeuer, J., Bateman, J. & Hiippala, T. (2020). Multimodalität:
Grundlagen, Forschung und Analyse – Eine problemorientierte
Einführung. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110495935
Zhao, S. (2005). The digital self: through the looking glass of
telecopresent others. Symbolic Interaction, 28 (3), 387–405.
https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2005.28.3.387

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