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EPICS XII seeks to bring together practitioners in pragmatics and discourse analysis who are interested in the interaction between these two disciplines for the analysis of digital communication and discourse for a variety of practices and in distinct sites.

CADAAD is an open and inclusive community of scholars critically engaged with discourse and its role in society. Rooted in inter- and trans-disciplinary research, CADAAD brings together perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the complex relationship between language, power, and ideology. Our biennial conferences serve as key moments for dialogue, collaboration, and the sharing of innovative research in critical discourse studies. The 2026 conference in Valladolid marks the 20th anniversary of the conference series, and it will continue this tradition, offering a dynamic space for scholars at all stages—including PhD students and early career researchers—to present their work and engage with a global network of critical discourse analysts.

European Society for the Study of English

The rapid development of AI and its integration into translator training and translation practices have led to numerous changes in both academia (Bada & Schumacher, 2024; Loock, 2025) and the translation industry (Girletti & Lefer, 2024), hence a need for trainees and professionals to adapt to an ever-changing field. The necessity of mastering new AI skills, namely prompt engineering (He, 2024: 316), leads both lecturers and professionals to reinvent themselves more than ever. Although the recent AI developments have led to the use of MT for many text types that were considered, until recently, to be AI-resistant, human intervention is still needed to maintain professional quality standards, particularly for literary translation (Hansen & Esperança-Rodier, 2022: 185), creative domains (dubbing, subtitling, localisation) (e.g. Jiménez-Crespo, 2024: 18) and specialised translation (terminology management, polysemy) (Kübler et al., 2024).

This seminar will explore how ecological challenges and social threats—including those arising from military conflicts and the ecological and social destruction caused by war—are represented and negotiated in a wide range of ecological texts and discourses. We will investigate how such texts, whether literary or non-literary, verbal or multimodal, contemporary or historical, reflect concerns related to environmental degradation, climate change, and socio-political instability. Equally, the seminar will focus on how these texts and discourses not only depict crises but also engage in forms of resistance, propose practical solutions, and promote positive environmental and social change. Participants will examine how language shapes our understanding of ecological issues and how discourse can serve as a catalyst for action.

Internet memes and other forms of social media discourse have attracted scholarly interest across a range of disciplines for their role in establishing and maintaining social relationships and in shaping public opinion (e.g. Shifman 2014, Milner 2016, Wiggins 2019). Linguistic approaches, studying how language and image combine in ways that resemble linguistic constructions, have also gained prominence (e.g. Dancygier & Vandelanotte 2017, 2025b; Lou 2017; Zenner & Geeraerts 2018), as have studies of the humorous and emotional aspects involved (e.g. Piata 2020; Zappavigna & Logi 2024; Dancygier & Vandelanotte 2025a). In this seminar, we want to address the use of English, often alongside images and emoji, in examples of various types of metadiscourse ‘in’ social media – self-reflexive forms of the discourse itself – but also ‘on’ or ‘about’ social media – i.e. discussions that emerge in society on social media usage.

La géographie linguistique est une méthode de recherche sur les dialectes développée à la fin du XIXe siècle afin de vérifier les hypothèses à propos de l’évolution des changements linguistiques sur la base de la représentation cartographique de la langue. Depuis son apparition, de nombreux changements se sont produits dans l’étude des variations linguistiques et dans la production d’atlas linguistiques. Les changements les plus notables ont eu lieu au cours des dernières décennies grâce à l’application de nouvelles technologies à la compilation et au traitement de l’information linguistique ainsi qu’au processus de représentation cartographique des données. Ces changements ont conduit à un renouvellement de la méthode, ainsi qu’à un intérêt croissant pour la numérisation des premiers atlas publiés et à l’émergence de nouveaux projets géolinguistiques qui visent à cette fin. Le I Congrès International de Géolinguistique Romane a donc pour but de réunir des experts, de jeunes chercheurs, des étudiants et tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la géographie linguistique des variétés romanes.

Animamos a participar a los miembros de la Asociación de Historia de la Lengua Española (AHLE), así como a todos los investigadores interesados en los estudios diacrónicos del español. En el horizonte del V Centenario de la Universidad de Granada, se rendirá homenaje a su fundador (Carlos V) y a uno de sus alumnos más ilustres (Federico García Lorca). El Siglo de Oro y la Edad de Plata de la lengua española ocuparán un lugar destacado del Congreso, en el que se conmemorarán los 40 años de la AHLE.