37.752, Confs: International Doctoral Conference "Legĕre: Raccogliere, Estrarre, Scegliere" - "Legĕre: Gathering, Extracting, Choosing" (Italy)

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Subject: 37.752, Confs: International Doctoral Conference "Legĕre: Raccogliere, Estrarre, Scegliere" - "Legĕre: Gathering, Extracting, Choosing" (Italy)

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Date: 21-Feb-2026
From: Anita Perra [anita.perra at unifi.it]
Subject: International Doctoral Conference "Legĕre: Raccogliere, Estrarre, Scegliere" - "Legĕre: Gathering, Extracting, Choosing"

International Doctoral Conference "Legĕre: Raccogliere, Estrarre,
Scegliere" - "Legĕre: Gathering, Extracting, Choosing"
Short Title: FLUI 2026

Date: 01-Jul-2026 - 03-Jul-2026
Location: Florence, Italy
Contact: Anita Perra
Contact Email: anita.perra at unifi.it
Meeting URL: https://convegnoflui.labdilef.it/edizione-2026

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Submission Deadline: 27-Mar-2026

PhD candidates from the 39th and 40th cycles of the PhD programme in
Philology, Italian Literature, and Linguistics at the University of
Florence (Italy) announce the opening of the Call for Abstracts for
the FLUI 2026 International Doctoral Conference.
In the field of the humanities, the latin verb legĕre, in its meanings
of «to gather», «to extract», and «to choose», is a productive
starting point for multiple research strands. Participants are invited
to reflect on the uses of the verb legĕre and its meanings from a
linguistic perspective, preferably within the Italian and Romance
languages domain, as follows:
1. Reflections on the methods of gathering, selecting, and encoding
linguistic data across all chronological stages, starting from the
creation of descriptive and normative tools of the language, such as
grammars and dictionaries, to the development of oral and written
corpora. Attention also focuses on defining parameters of
representativeness: on the one hand, the selection and treatment of
relevant linguistic phenomena, including lemmatisation choices and the
handling of linguistic variants, neologisms, borrowings, foreignisms,
and polysemous forms; on the other, the typology and design of
corpora, as well as the selection and balancing of sociolinguistic
variables.
2. Investigations related to the sociolinguistic dimension, with
particular attention to strategies for collecting field data and, in
the case of oral data, to the selection of informants as a key factor
in the quality and representativeness of linguistic material. Building
on this, contributions are also welcomed that reflect on methods of
collecting and interpreting linguistic data in spatial terms, from
onomastic research to toponymic surveys, including the development and
use of tools for the spatial representation of data; as well as
reading conceived as the symbolic, social, and cultural interpretation
of linguistic manifestations within urban and non-urban spaces, in
line with Linguistic Landscape approaches.
3. Studies concerning text reading and accessibility, the linguistic
strategies that hinder or facilitate it, and easy-to-read language as
a tool for enhancing access, for instance, to administrative,
healthcare, or legal texts; within this perspective, research
addressing the implementation of new non-discriminatory linguistic
practices and the relationship between language and gender is also
welcome.
4. With regard to Applied Linguistics and the various levels of
analysis, contributions are accepted that discuss qualitative,
quantitative, or mixed approaches, as well as the construction of
data-collection tools such as questionnaires, perceptual and
production experiments, annotation protocols, and automatic data
collection. This section includes works that employ these tools in the
study of minority languages, regional varieties, or multilingual
contexts, demonstrating how they can support rigorous analysis of
linguistic phenomena in experimental settings.
5. In the field of Educational Linguistics, contributions are welcome
that fall within the theoretical and methodological framework of the
teaching of Italian as L1 and L2, beginning with the development of
reading and writing skills as a fundamental aspect in the acquisition
of receptive and productive communicative skills. On this basis,
studies are also accepted that investigate the multimodal dimension of
communication more broadly, such as the relationship between speech
and gesture, or research focusing on old and new forms of digital
textuality.
Please refer to the Conference website for the full Call for Abstracts
and bibliographic references:
https://convegnoflui.labdilef.it/edizione-2026
Guidelines for Participation:
- Call for Abstracts is open to PhD students, early-career
researchers, and scholars who obtained their master’s degree within
the last three years or their PhD within the last five years.
- A maximum of two paper proposals may be submitted: one as sole
author and one co-authored, or two co-authored proposals.
- Presentations will have a maximum duration of 20 minutes. Proposals
in Italian and English are welcome.
- To submit your application, please send an email with the subject
line “PROPOSTA FLUI 2026” to the convegnoflui at labdilef.it address,
attaching an anonymous abstract in PDF format, with a maximum length
of 300 words (the word count excludes the title, tables, figures, and
bibliography). The PDF file must be named after the title of the
proposal.
- Presentations will be held exclusively in person; any exceptions
must be discussed with the Organising Committee. Remote attendance may
be available to non-presenting participants only, and is subject to
further confirmation on the conference website.
- The submission deadline is 27 March 2026. Notifications of
acceptance will be sent in the first week of May.
Keynote speakers will be announced on the conference website in the
next few weeks.
For further information please contact the Organising Committee at
convegnoflui at labdilef.it.

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