37.1980, Confs: Laughter Workshop 2027 (Germany)

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Subject: 37.1980, Confs: Laughter Workshop 2027 (Germany)

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Date: 02-Jun-2026
From: Loulou Kosmala [loulou.kosmala at u-pec.fr]
Subject: Laughter Workshop 2027


Laughter Workshop 2027

Date: 02-Apr-2027 - 03-Apr-2027
Location: Saarland, Germany

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

We are delighted to invite submissions for the next edition of the
Laughter Workshop, which will take place at Saarland University
(Germany) on 2–3 April 2027.
We welcome extended abstracts (2 pages of text + 1 page for references
and figures) reporting completed studies and/or substantial
work-in-progress related to laughter and other non-verbal
vocalisations in both spoken and signed languages.
Research themes include (but are not limited to):
 - Articulation, acoustics and perception
 - Gesture, sign, facial expressions and other bodily behaviour
 - Interaction and pragmatics
 - Affective and evaluative meanings
 - Social perception and organisation
 - Disfluency
 - Technology applications
Previous editions have featured work in Conversation Analysis,
Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, Gesture
Studies, Computer Science, Human-Robot and Human-Machine Interaction,
Forensic Speech Science, Psychology, Sociolinguistics, L2 Learning,
and Health and Clinical Applications.
Important Dates:
 - Call for papers opens: 1 September 2026
 - Submission deadline: 23 November 2026
 - Notification of outcomes: 18 January 2027
Further information on the submission format, templates, and
submission platform will be announced during the summer.
Organising Committee:
 - Marina N. Cantarutti (University of York, UK)
 - Loulou Kosmala (Université Paris-Est Créteil, France)
 - Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Germany)
For enquiries: lw2027 at googlegroups.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lw2027/home



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