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Spoken and Written Discourse in Historical Sources

For over two decades, the BICLCE conference series has been a forum for researchers who are interested in the linguistics of contemporary English. It is open to different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Previous conferences were held in Edinburgh (2005), Toulouse (2007), London (2009), Osnabrück (2011), Austin TX (2013), Madison WI (2015), Vigo (2017), Bamberg (2019), Ljubljana (2022) and Alicante (2024). BICLCE 2026 wishes to continue this long-standing tradition of exploring contemporary English.

In 2008, the Departments of Romance Studies and of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Innsbruck assumed responsibility for this series of conferences, originally founded in 1987 by Professor Gerd Wotjak in Leipzig. It is one of the few international events dedicated entirely to contrastive linguistics. As in previous editions, papers may address both theoretical and applied aspects of contrastive linguistics between Romance languages and German, as well as between different Romance languages. Contributions focusing on contrasts between Romance languages and other languages are also welcome.

DiPVaC is a biennial international conference series showcasing cutting-edge, primarily quantitative research on variation and change in what are broadly termed discourse-pragmatic features: this includes (but is not limited to) research on discourse markers or pragmatic particles whose primary functions are interpersonal and textual (e.g., well, like, you know, comme, alors, doch, zwar, diciamo, dakedo, etc.), tag questions, silence, filled pauses, adjectives, adverbs, and general extenders.