37.1140, Confs: Global, Areal, Local: Spontaneous Speech Across Scientific Cultures in French-, German-, English-, and Italian- Speaking Europe (France)

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Date: 18-Mar-2026
From: Liubov Patrukhina [liubov.patrukhina at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Global, Areal, Local: Spontaneous Speech Across Scientific Cultures in French-, German-, English-, and Italian- Speaking Europe


Global, Areal, Local: Spontaneous Speech Across Scientific Cultures in
French-, German-, English-, and Italian- Speaking Europe

Date: 03-Dec-2026 - 05-Dec-2026
Location: Toulouse, France
Contact: Liubov Patrukhina, Jeanne Vigneron-Bosbach, Laurie Dekhissi,
Florine Berthe, Nicolò Calpestrati
Contact Email: colloque.toulouse.2026 at gmail.com
Meeting URL:
https://www.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/recherche/colloques/global-areal-local-oral-spontane-a-travers-differentes-cultures-scientifiques-en-europe-francophone-germanophone-anglophone-et-italophone

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     German (deu)
                     Italian (ita)
Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Submission Deadline: 03-Apr-2026

Keynote Speakers (confirmed) :
Zoe Boughton (University of Exeter)
Christian Fandrych (Universität Leipzig)
Ulrike Freywald (Universität Münster)
Caterina Mauri (Università di Bologna)
Aliyah Morgenstern (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
In contemporary linguistic research, the study of spoken discourse is
a dynamic field. Its theoretical and methodological foundations have
been shaped by diverse scientific traditions, often grounded in
specific linguistic and cultural contexts. This diversity is reflected
in the breadth of work, research projects, and scientific events
devoted to the description of spoken discourse, which draw on a wide
variety of methodological and theoretical approaches. This
international conference builds on a line of inquiry initiated during
two study days organised in Toulouse (2022) and Poitiers (2023),
devoted to the linguistics and didactics of spoken discourse in
French-speaking Europe. The contributions to these events were
published in a thematic issue of Cahiers d'Études Germaniques (N° 89).
This coming conference, co-organised by three French universities and
research units (Toulouse, Poitiers, Pau) and one Italian university
(Siena), aims to reinforce the epistemological dimension of the
project and is part of regional and international dynamics.
The aim of this conference is to provide a comparative overview of the
approaches applied to the analysis of spontaneous speech at different
levels (global, areal, and local) within four major European
linguistic areas (French-speaking, German-speaking, English-speaking,
and Italian-speaking). The conference intends to explore the
cross-influences, adaptations, and even resistances elicited by the
prevalent theories of spontaneous speech analysis, which often have an
anglophone background, within European scientific cultures (while not
excluding other frameworks, our focus will be primarily on
Conversation Analysis / Interactional Linguistics, Variationist
approaches, and Discourse Analysis).
Research Axes and Suggested Sections:
This conference aims to explore five areas of research on spoken
discourse, which may be approached from different theoretical
frameworks and methodologies. In order to foster fruitful exchanges
among participants, we would like to establish a framework for
reflection, which can be summarised in two main epistemological
questions:
    1. Circulations and Transfers of Theories: Importation,
Adaptation, Rejection, or Reformulation of Theories
This axis invites participants to examine how theories travel across
linguistic and cultural contexts: in what ways are terms, concepts,
and models imported, adapted, challenged, or reformulated in specific
contexts? It also seeks to identify the conditions that foster these
circulations or, conversely, constrain them. Finally, it aims to
explore how these adopted approaches, theories, or methodologies are
reflected in scholarly work.
    2. Research Practices and Scientific Collaboration within and
across Areas
This axis invites discussions on research practices, often rooted in
local contexts, as well as on forms of scientific collaboration within
a single linguistic area or across different areas. Particular
emphasis will be given to contributions drawing on comparable corpora,
studies examining how researchers position themselves in relation to
the three levels of analysis addressed by this conference (global,
areal, local), and papers reflecting on the scientific cultures to
which researchers belong.
Within each axis, participants will be free to draw on an oral or
multimodal corpus and on a linguistic phenomenon of their choice,
provided they adopt a reflexive stance on the scientific culture
framing their work and foreground the theories and methods they use.
Each panel session will be introduced by a keynote lecture delivered
by a specialist in the field, based at a university in one of the
conference’s partner countries (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy,
France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom).
Session 1: Interfaces between different levels of analysis for spoken
discourse
Session 2: Annotation and transcription of spoken corpora across
different scientific cultures
Session 3:Methodological approaches to multimodality
Session 4: Variational and Variationist sociolinguistic perspectives
on spoken discourse
Session 5: Contrastive approaches to spoken corpora and their use in
language teaching
The scientific committee particularly welcomes proposals that combine
linguistic analysis and epistemological reflection: the circulation or
redefinition of methodological approaches, divergences between
disciplinary traditions, or the impact of areal context on the
adoption of tools or concepts. Proposals that address variation
(diastratic, diaphasic, or diatopic), to interactional management, or
to language practices will also be valued, especially those that offer
perspectives open to cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary, or
cross-cultural comparison.
Dates and Submission Guidelines:
Proposals (title, keywords, and an abstract of no more than 500 words,
excluding references) should be accompanied by a short
bio-bibliographical note indicating the author’s status, institutional
affiliation, and major publications. Doctoral candidates and master’s
students are also welcome to submit a poster proposal instead of an
abstract.
Submissions should be sent before April 3, 2026 to
colloque.toulouse.2026 at gmail.com.
Languages of the conference: German, English, French and Italian.
Organised by:
Liubov Patrukhina, CREG (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, France),
Jeanne Vigneron-Bosbach & Laurie Dekhissi, FoReLLIS (Université de
Poitiers, France),
Florine Berthe, ALTER (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour,
France)
Nicolò Calpestrati, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (Unistrasi -
Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italie)



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