37.88, Confs: Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century 2026 (United Kingdom)

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Date: 07-Jan-2026
From: Haralambous Yannis [yannis.haralambous at imt-atlantique.fr]
Subject: Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century 2026


Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century 2026
Short Title: G21C 2026

Date: 24-Jun-2026 - 26-Jun-2026
Location: Reading, United Kingdom
Contact: Haralambous Yannis
Contact Email: yannis.haralambous at imt-atlantique.fr
Meeting URL: https://grafematik2026.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Writing Systems

Submission Deadline: 26-Jan-2026

G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century), also known as
/gʁafematik/, is a biennial academic conference that convenes scholars
from disciplines engaged with grapholinguistics and, more broadly, the
systematic study of writing systems and their manifestation in written
communication. The conference seeks to examine the current state of
scholarship in this domain and to assess the significance of writing
and writing systems within adjacent disciplines, including computer
science, communication studies, linguistics, typography, psychology,
and pedagogy. Of particular concern is the investigation of the
expanding influence of Unicode and its implications for the future of
literacy and textual practices in human societies.
Reflecting the diversity of scholarly perspectives on writing systems,
G21C is fundamentally interdisciplinary in orientation. The conference
welcomes submissions from researchers across information technology,
language and communication studies, graphic communication, and the
social sciences.
G21C endeavors to establish a forum for discourse on the varied
approaches to writing systems, with particular emphasis on fostering
dialogue between linguistic, informatic, and other disciplinary
frameworks. The conference provides a venue for scholarly inquiry into
terminology, methodology, and theoretical paradigms relevant to the
delineation of an emerging interdisciplinary research area that
intersects with substantial practical developments in writing system
implementation.



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