37.2124, Confs: WOCAL Workshop: Interfacts and Multimodality (Austria)

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Date: 17-Jun-2026
From: Madeline Ladore [madeline.ladore at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: WOCAL Workshop: Interfacts and Multimodality


WOCAL Workshop: Interfacts and Multimodality

Date: 07-Jul-2027 - 10-Jul-2027
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact: Madeline Ladore
Contact Email: youngafricanistresearchnetwork at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://univie.eventsair.com/wocal2027/workshop-2

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories

Submission Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

The Young Africanists Research Network (YARN) invites submissions for
the workshop Interfaces and Multimodality, to be held as part of WOCAL
(12th edition), taking place in Vienna from Wednesday, July 7 to
Saturday, July 10, 2027.
This workshop intends to provide a venue for discussion of how African
languages can contribute to the understanding of the interaction and
overlap of varying linguistic domains. Multimodality (seen as the
interface between speech and gesture) in particular serves to provide
insights into how we understand grammar, especially concerning
linearization, lexical specifications, as well as the role of signs
and gestures in information structure. Empirical research on African
languages not only provide descriptive insights into these
(understudied) languages, but also to correct and enrich theoretical
generalizations (Newman, 2010). A central objective of the workshop is
to highlight how new empirical data from African languages can refine
our existing understanding of the interfaces of language.
Themes of interest include all work on interfaces and multimodality,
including, but not limited to:
 - Phonology-morphology
 - Phonology-syntax
 - Morphology-syntax
 - Morphology-semantics
 - Syntax-semantics
 - Syntax-pragmatics
 - Semantics-pragmatics
 - Multimodality
 - Gesture-speech
 - Gesture-sign
We especially encourage empirically-based investigations regardless of
the chosen methodology (corpus, fieldwork, experiments, etc.). We also
welcome other interdisciplinary approaches and work on multilingualism
and psycholinguistics, insofar as they shed light on linguistic
interfaces or multimodality.
This workshop seeks to create a supportive and collaborative
environment in which young researchers can share ongoing work,
exchange methodological perspectives, and learn from approaches across
subfields. As such, we encourage submissions from early-career
researchers, including Master students, PhD candidates, and early
postdoctoral scholars working on African languages.
Important Information:
Workshop: Interfaces and Multimodality
Conference: WOCAL 12
Date: Wednesday July 7 – Saturday July 10, 2027
Location: Vienna, Austria
Abstract submission deadline: July 31, 2026
Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026
Abstract submission (500 words maximum, in French, English or an
African language)
Submission portal: https://univie.eventsair.com/wocal2027/submission
YARN website: https://youngafricanists.wordpress.com/
More information here:
https://univie.eventsair.com/wocal2027/workshop-2



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