Symposium 2026

Welcome !

We are pleased to announce the 31st LIPP Symposium, to be held from November 11 to 13, 2026, at the Philologicum in Munich, organized by members of the Graduate School Language & Literature of LMU Munich. The theme of this year’s symposium is “Digital linguistics: On- and Offline”.

Keynote Speakers
[in alphabetical order]

Jannis Androutsopoulos (Hamburg)
  • Professor of German Studies and Media Linguistics
  • Research interests:
    • Media sociolinguistics
    • Multilingualism
    • Computer-mediated communication
Lars Bülow (Munich)
  • Chair of German Studies
  • Research interests:
    • Variational and sociolinguistics
    • Text- and media linguistics
    • Theories of language change
    • Pragmatics
    • Corpus pragmatics
    • Language in law
    • Literary linguistics
Janina Wildfeuer (Groningen)
  • Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Linguistics
  • Research interests:
    • Multimodality
    • Semiotics
    • Text and discourse analysis
    • Discourse semantics
    • Media analysis
    • (multimodal) AI