37.1850, Confs: VIII International LexESP Conference on Language and Communication: Nutrition, Healthcare and Well-being (Spain)

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Date: 19-May-2026
From: Isabel Balteiro [balteiro at ua.es]
Subject: VIII International LexESP Conference on Language and Communication: Nutrition, Healthcare and Well-being


VIII International LexESP Conference on Language and Communication:
Nutrition, Healthcare and Well-being
Short Title: LexESP8

Date: 04-Nov-2026 - 05-Nov-2026
Location: Alicante, Spain
Meeting URL: https://web.ua.es/es/lexesp/pagina-principal.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Lexicography; Morphology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)

Submission Deadline: 30-Jun-2026

The LexESP Research Group at the University of Alicante is pleased to
announce the International Conference on Language, Nutrition and
Health, to be held in November 2026. The event is organized within the
framework of the research project Clear Labels, Healthy Choices:
Literacy, Bilingual Resources and Community Empowerment, which
explores clarity, transparency, and effectiveness in food-related
communication.
In contemporary societies, food labeling, nutritional guidelines, and
health communication play a crucial role in shaping consumer behavior,
public health outcomes, and regulatory practices. Yet the language
used to convey nutritional information is often complex, technical,
culturally embedded, and sometimes misleading. This conference seeks
to bring together scholars and professionals to examine how language
mediates knowledge about nutrition and health across institutional,
professional, and public domains.
We welcome contributions from researchers working in linguistics,
discourse analysis, terminology, translation studies, health
communication, public health, law, marketing, cognitive science, and
related fields.
Suggested Topics:
We invite proposals addressing (but not limited to) the following
themes:
 - Food labelling and plain language
 - Terminology and standardization in nutrition science
 - Risk communication and public understanding of health and
nutritional information
 - Multilingual and intercultural perspectives on food communication
 - Cross-linguistic equivalences in food labels information
 - Regulatory Discourse of Food Labelling
 - The Language of Persuasion in food marketing and advertising
 - Digital communication, nutrition and wellbeing influencers
 - Misinformation and disinformation in food-related contexts
 - Corpus-based approaches to food, health and wellbeing discourse
 - Cognitive and pragmatic approaches to nutritional messaging
 - Multimodality of food packaging
Both theoretical and applied approaches are welcome.
Thematic Areas
1. Language and Communication in (Nutritional) Healthcare
 - Medical communication and healthcare professional–patient
interaction
 - Health literacy and plain language in medical and nutritional
information
 - Translation and interpreting in healthcare and nutritional contexts
 - Multilingual communication in health and nutrition-related services
 - Linguistic barriers to healthcare (and nutritional) access
2. Discourse and Narratives of Food and Nutrition
 - Media discourse on diet, nutrition and healthy lifestyles
 - Narratives of food, body, and well-being
 - Food discourse in social media and digital platforms
 - Language of food marketing and advertising
 - Emotional narratives related to food and eating
3. Culture, Identity and Food Practices
 - Food and diet-related life-styles (e.g., veganism, clean eating,
wellness culture, etc.)
 - Food, language and cultural identity
 - Migration, multilingualism and dietary practices
 - Intergenerational oral and written transmission of food knowledge
and practices: Culinary traditions and community well-being
4. Language Education and Health Education
 - Teaching languages through health and nutrition topics
 - Health and nutrition in CLIL / EMI contexts
 - Development of teaching materials related to nutrition, health and
well-being
 - Language learning and nutrition awareness
 - Multilingual nutrition and health education
5. Language, Behaviour and Health Decision-Making
 - Linguistic and health behaviour
 - Persuasion in public health campaigns
 - Communication strategies promoting healthy eating
 - Risk communication in nutrition and health
 - Language and behavioural change in nutrition contexts
6. Digital Communication, Nutrition and Well-being
 - Social media influencers and nutrition discourse
 - Online misinformation and food myths
 - Digital health communication strategies
 - AI and communication in nutrition and health
 - Online communities: nutrition and wellness discourse
Formats:
 - 20-minute individual papers (+ 10 minutes discussion)
 - Thematic panels (3–4 speakers)
 - Posters
 - Roundtables (by proposal)
The conference may be held over one or two days, depending on the
number of accepted proposals.
Submission Guidelines
 - Abstracts should be 300–400 words (excluding references).
 - Please include: title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and 3–5
keywords.
 -  Submissions will be anonymized for peer review.
 - Working languages: English and Spanish.
Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026
Submissions should be sent to: lexespconferences at gmail.com
Publication Opportunities:
A selection of papers will be considered for publication in an edited
volume or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal or volume
(details to be announced).
Conference fee: Free
The Conference is supported by the research project Clear Labels,
Healthy Choices: Literacy, Bilingual Resources and Community
Empowerment, the Vice-Presidence for Equality, Inclusion and Social
Responsibility, the Department of English Studies, the Faculty of Arts
– University of Alicante, the Interuniversity Institute of Applied
Modern Languages of the Valencian Community and the Sta. Pola Council
Office of Trade, Consumer Affairs and Markets.
Scientific Committee:
Balteiro, Isabel (Universidad de Alicante)
Bocanegra Valle, Ana (Universidad de Cádiz)
Estopà Bagot, Rosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Gutiérrez Rodilla, Bertha (Universidad de Salamanca)
Mapelli, Giovanna (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Molina Plaza, Silvia (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Piccioni, Sara (Università "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara)
Pontrandolfo, Gianluca (Università degli Studi di Trieste)
Ruiz Garrido, Miguel Francisco (Universitat Jaume I)
Santamaría Pérez, Isabel (Universidad de Alicante)
Vargas Sierra, Chelo (Universidad de Alicante)
Organizing Committee:
Main Members:
Balteiro, Isabel (Chair)
Alesón Carbonell, María Amparo
Campos Pardillos, Miguel Ángel
Congost Maestre, Nereida
Del Olmo Ibáñez, María Teresa
Luján Feliu-Pascual, Isabel
Martínez García, Alba
Martínez Milán, María Asunción
Martínez Motos, Raquel
Mykytka, Iryna
Pacheco Baldó, Rosa
Sánchez Fajardo, José Antonio
Sinyashina Sinyashina, Ekaterina
Vicedo Beltrán, Juan Carlos
Support Members:
Cruz Casillas, Josué Ulises
Hayrapetyan, Lilit
Martínez Samper, Anna
Moreno Sadornil, Alejandro
Conference venue: Salón de actos (Edificio Germán Bernácer), Campus
San Vicente del Raspeig – Universidad de Alicante
Contact:
For further information, please contact: lexespconferences at gmail.com
https://web.ua.es/en/lexesp/main-page.html



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