37.1725, Confs: Pop Cultural Linguistics: Researching and Theorizing Performed Language (Italy)

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Subject: 37.1725, Confs: Pop Cultural Linguistics: Researching and Theorizing Performed Language (Italy)

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Date: 08-May-2026
From: Valentin Werner [valentin.werner at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: Pop Cultural Linguistics: Researching and Theorizing Performed Language


Pop Cultural Linguistics: Researching and Theorizing Performed
Language
Short Title: PCL 2027

Date: 25-Feb-2027 - 26-Feb-2027
Location: Lecce, Italy
Contact Email: pop2027 at unisalento.it
Meeting URL: https://pop2027.unisalento.it

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Sep-2026

The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as
songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is
becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous
reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of
contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant
social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language,
as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has
received increased attention, and that the linguistic analysis of
relevant uses has established itself as a branch of research known as
Pop Cultural Linguistics, dedicated to the study of performed language
and its specific conditions of production and reception in relevant
contexts. Within this emerging paradigm, approaches that focus on the
interaction of linguistic, social, and cultural factors play a
particularly important role, among other things to highlight that
pop-cultural artifacts are not simply commercial (entertainment)
products but always also convey and construct social meaning. Another
evident form of interaction in these artifacts occurs with other
modalities (music, images, gestures, etc.) and the overall
meaning-making potential these multimodal ensembles create.
To take account of the increasing relevance attributed to the study of
performed language and to highlight how current research contributes
to its analysis and theorization, the conference "Pop Cultural
Linguistics: Researching and Theorizing Performed Language" invites
contributions from all linguistic subdisciplines (comprising, for
example, sociolinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, register studies,
cognitive linguistics, translation studies, applied linguistics, etc.)
using qualitative and quantitative as well as multi-method approaches
(corpus analysis, conversation analysis, surveys, discourse analysis,
etc.).
Please submit your abstracts via the conference page before 15
September 2026.



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