37.1768, Confs: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 6 (Czech Republic)

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Subject: 37.1768, Confs: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 6 (Czech Republic)

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Date: 12-May-2026
From: Jan Chovanec [chovanec at phil.muni.cz]
Subject: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 6


Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 6
Short Title: ADDA 6
Theme: Digital Identities and Online Selves

Date: 26-May-2027 - 28-May-2027
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Contact: Jan Chovanec
Contact Email: adda at phil.muni.cz

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Submission Deadline: 30-Nov-2026

Conference Topic:
The central theme of the conference addresses the link between
identity and the digital sphere, particularly how various identities
are discursively constructed and performed within the diverse
constraints and affordances of various digital platforms. The papers
presented at the conference will apply various approaches to
digitally-mediated discourse analysis, including multimodal studies,
critical linguistics, sociopragmatics, corpus-assisted discourse
analysis etc. that probe the discursive and semiotic resources
relevant to digital identity practices.
The possible topics include, but are not limited to, questions of how
various kinds of platformed identities emerge, and how they are
constructed, manifested, affirmed, (re)negotiated, contested,
challenged, undermined, discredited, abandoned, etc. The focus may be
on how online and offline identities interact, how personal and
institutional identities complement each other, how real and virtual
identities are enacted, how fake and performed identities are
unmasked, how intra-group and inter-group identities are exploited for
bonding and conflict, how frontstage and backstage identities, and any
of the myriad other ways in which various identities are constructed,
indexed, demonstrated and exploited in digital discourse along their
many possible types and dimension.
We are interested not only in how the virtual self is discursively
constructed across digital genres and social media platforms but also
in how various communities – both offline and online – relate across
time and space in digital discourses, and how multiple identities
coexist, possibly complementing or contradicting each other. The
papers will address various types of the digital self (individual /
relational / collective / networked) and their discursive formations,
negotiations and transformations but also the relevant discursive
processes affecting such forms of identities, including their
authentication, legitimation, (de)naturalization, etc. possibly in
view of such relevant issues as discursive positioning, categorization
and othering, performativity, narrativity, visual representation,
discursive change, power and ideology, authority, credibility,
ordinariness, multilingualism, superdiversity, discrimination, hate
speech, etc.
We invite individual papers as well as thematic panels with papers
that address the central theme of the conference, as well as related
issues of interest to scholars of digital discourse analysis.
Abstracts of individual papers should be 250-300 words including
references. Panel proposals (250-500 words) should describe the theme
of the panel and include a first indication of the people the
organizers wish to include in the panel. Panel proposals will be
allotted a maximum of three 90-minute slots with 3 individual
presentations each.
Deadlines:
15 September 2026 – submission of panel proposals
30 September 2026 – notification of panel acceptance
30 November 2026 – submission of abstracts of individual papers
15 January 2027 – notification of acceptance of individual papers
For inquiries, please use the conference email adda at phil.muni.cz.
Registration and further information will be available on the
conference website.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Carmen Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ruth Page (University of Birmingham)
Francisco Yus (University of Alicante)
Janina Wildfeuer (University of Groningen)
Local Organizing Team:
Jan Chovanec (conference chair)
Dominika Beneš Kováčová
Iveta Volfová
Jana Hallová
Sid Campé
Jana Peroutová
Co-convenors:
Patricia Bou-Franche
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich



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