Full Title: 45th Colloquium of the International Society for Functional Linguistics
Short Title: SILF

Date: 02-Oct-2024 - 05-Oct-2024
Location: Olomouc, Czech Republic
Contact Person: Magdaléna Lapúniková
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Czech (ces)
English (eng)
French (fra)

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

Colloquium of the International Society for Functional Linguistics (SILF – Société Internationale de Linguistique Fonctionnelle) traditionally gathers philologists and researchers in functional linguistics from all around the world. The 45th year of this significant meeting takes place in the Czech Republic at Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, on 2–5 October 2024.

In close collaboration with the SILF office, the organizers from Palacký University have defined two main conference topics – "Language and Media" and "Europe of Languages". Additionally, the conference participants are invited to present their papers in the thematic session called "Grammaticalization and Dynamic Synchrony" and in the workshop devoted to semiotics, as well as to introduce individual topics broadening horizons in various linguistic disciplines.

Call for Papers:

The main topics of the conference include:

- Language and Media
- Europe of Languages
- Grammaticalization and Dynamic Synchrony

In addition to these thematic sessions, the conference participants are invited to present their own individual topics. The abstracts are to be sent to [email protected] by April 21, 2024. They should not exceed the A4 page size and must contain the following: title; name of the participant; affiliation; e-mail address. Please specify whether your paper is proposed for the main thematic sessions, or it concerns an individual topic. The notification of acceptance can be expected in May 2024.