Language of the Third Millennium XIV
Short Title: LTMXIV
Theme: The Multimodal Turn in Communication

Date: 18-Mar-2026 - 20-Mar-2026
Location: Krakow, Poland
Meeting URL: https://tertium.edu.pl/en/konferencje-tertium/jezyk-trzeciego-tysiaclecia-xiv-zwrot-ku-multimodalnosci-w-komunikacji/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Submission Deadline: 30-Nov-2025

We are pleased to announce the upcoming 14th edition of our conference Language of the Third Millennium, to be held on 18-20 March 2026.The conference aims to create a forum dedicated to the exploration of the interplay of modes—linguistic, visual, gestural, spatial, aural, and beyond—in meaning-making processes across a wide range of communicative contexts

The importance of multimodality becomes evident in everyday life, strongly tied to dynamic media contexts and influenced by the online environment, highlighting the complexities of contemporary language use. In the digital age, multimodality has gained particular relevance across manifold fields of study, such as pragmatics, semiotics, communication studies, media studies, education, and translation studies, to name but a few. Therefore, the conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse theoretical and methodological backgrounds to encourage debate on how multiple semiotic resources are orchestrated in broadly conceived human interaction, media, and digital communication. The event is directed primarily at linguists, translators, modern philologists, and other researchers in related fields, including PhD students. The conference is also open to practitioners who wish to join in discussions on multimodality, such as language teachers.

We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have expressed their agreement to present plenary lectures during the conference:
- Charles Forceville, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (to be confirmed)
- Janina Wildfeuer, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Michał Szawerna, prof. UWr, University of Wrocław, Poland
- Iwona Loewe, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland