Call for papers
CL2025 welcomes submissions for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops that engage in some way with the tools, methods, and techniques of corpus linguistics. The conference welcomes a wide array of scholarship in corpus linguistics and particularly encourages the submission of interdisciplinary work on the following themes:
CORPUS METHODS
Innovation in corpus design, construction, and annotation
New tools
New analytical techniques
New theoretical frameworks
Critical evaluation of existing tools, techniques, and frameworks
Replication studies
APPLICATIONS OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Forensic linguistics
Stylistics
Discourse analysis
Digital communication and social media
Lexicography
Social mobility
Business communication, marketing, entrepreneurship, and enterprise
Policy development
Health and wellbeing
Climate, environment, and sustainability
Pedagogical applications of corpus linguistics
Language learning, teaching, and assessment
The teaching of corpus linguistics as a discipline
VARIATION AND VARIETIES
Underrepresented languages and language varieties
Multilingualism and translanguaging
Intercultural communication
Contrastive analysis
Translation
Sociolinguistics and language change
Multimodal communication
Genre, register, and textual variation
CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Applications of (generative) AI in corpus design and construction
Applications of (generative) AI in corpus analysis
Corpus-based evaluation of AI-generated language
Submission guidelines
Paper, poster, and thematic panel abstracts, and pre-conference workshop proposals, should be submitted via the CL2025 ConfTool Pro submission point by 17th January 2025. The language of the conference is English. We especially encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Paper presentations are especially suitable for submissions that report on completed research, or research in progress for which at least some substantial results have been generated.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including list of references).
Abstracts should report on the background, research questions, data, methods, results, and implications of the research, as appropriate to the nature of the paper.
All accepted papers will be allocated a 25-minute presentation slot (20-minute presentation plus 5 minutes for Q+A).
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Poster presentations are especially suitable for submissions that report on planned/early-stage/work-in-progress research for which substantive results may not have yet been generated.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including list of references).
Abstracts may report on the background, research questions, data, methods, (provisional) results, and (potential) contributions of the research, as appropriate.
Authors of accepted poster presentations will have the option to have their poster printed locally (for a small additional fee).
THEMATIC PANELS
Thematic panels are extended sessions that relate to a single coherent theme. To ensure synchronisation of the parallel sessions, panels must be divided into 30-minute blocks (25 minutes + 5 minutes changeover), each comprising, for example, a paper presentation or discussion session (e.g. speaker roundtable, extended Q+A).
Submissions should take the form of a single abstract on behalf of all speakers on the panel, detailing the overall motivation for the panel, individual contributions, and the proposed panel structure.
Proposals are welcome for panels ranging from 1.5 hours (3 blocks) to 3 hours (6 blocks) in length.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 1,000 words (not including list of references).
Authors are encouraged to direct informal enquiries to the CL2025 organising committee (corpuslinguistics2025@gmail.com) prior to submission.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
CL2025 will be preceded by a workshop day on Monday 30th June 2025. Workshops are practical sessions that offer participants hands-on experience in corpus linguistics. Workshops are typically pedagogical in nature, teaching participants useful skills in corpus linguistics such as corpus design, data collection, analytical techniques, or the use of a specific tool. Proposals are welcome for short workshops (1.5 hours), half-day workshops (3 hours), and full-day workshops (7 hours, including 1-hour break for lunch).
Proposals should be a maximum of 1,000 words (not including list of references).
Proposals should describe the context, rationale, aims, format, and the pre-requisite level of experience of participants.
Proposals should specify the maximum number of participants and technical requirements (e.g. computer lab, software).
Authors are encouraged to direct informal enquiries to the CL2025 organising committee (corpuslinguistics2025@gmail.com) prior to submission.
REVIEW PROCESS
Paper, poster, and thematic panel abstracts will be subject to double-anonymous peer review by the CL2025 programme committee. Authors must take reasonable steps to ensure the anonymity of abstracts; however, anonymisation/redaction of self-citations should be avoided.
Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the CL2025 organising committee.
KEY DATES
Submission deadline: 17th January 2025
Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2025
Early bird registration deadline: 2nd May 2025
Conference dates: 1st – 4th July 2025