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)
“Scaling the nexus: How online and offline blend together, and what’s in there for linguistics”
Professor of German Studies and Media Linguistics
Research interests:
Media sociolinguistics
Multilingualism
Computer-mediated communication
Lars Bülow (Munich)
“Memes als metapragmatische Kommentare zum Sprachgebrauch des Piefkes in Österreich”
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)
“Unpacking Multimodality: Material, canvases and semiotic modes – and the specific case of short video content”
Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Linguistics
