DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGE.
CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN LINGUISTICS
20 – 21 November 2025

We warmly invite you to participate in the international conference:

DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGE.
CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN LINGUISTICS

The dynamic development of contemporary linguistics opens up a wide range of possibilities for investigating the many dimensions of linguistic diversity – its communicative manifestations as well as digital representations. Today’s media landscape, encompassing both traditional and digital formats, offers a vibrant environment in which language undergoes significant transformations and new forms of multimodal communication emerge.

Language is a living and dynamic system that does not exist in a single and uniform form. Its rich diversity is reflected in a multitude of varieties shaped by social, cultural, geographic, and historical influences. One of the key aspects of this diversity lies in regional, dialectal, and sociolectal variations that not only affect patterns of speech but also express the identities of specific social groups.

These and other developing areas of linguistic research inspire innovative approaches and new insights that contribute to a deeper understanding of language in its many contexts and forms. In light of this, we invite proposals addressing the following thematic panels:

PANEL 1: Language and Media – Dimensions of Diversity

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• Linguistic and cultural diversity in media discourse

• Diversity of communication codes on social media platforms

• Varied forms of communication (media genres and formats: traditional and digital)

• Diversity in registers and language styles in media

• Axiolinguistic phenomena in the media space (inclusive language, language of exclusion, and hate speech)

• Language norms and digital media

• Multilingualism and code-switching in media communication

• New forms of linguistic expression in online communities

• The role of new media in language education (glottodidactics)

This panel welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between language and media in the context of diversity – understood both as linguistic variation (stylistic, register-based, social, cultural) and as diversity in communication methods. Contributions are invited from linguists, media scholars, researchers of intercultural communication, and related fields.

PANEL 2: Sociolinguistic and Dialectological Approaches to Language

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• Diversity of spoken languages: regional, dialectal, and sociolectal variations

• Recent developments in national languages and their territorially and socially conditioned varieties

• Language contact in borderland and multicultural areas

• Representations of linguistic interaction among people from various cultural and different nationalities in everyday communication

• Multifunctionality of colloquial language

• Official and unofficial toponyms and anthroponyms in regional and social varieties of language

PANEL 3: Language and Culture – Axiological and Figurative Dimensions

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• Language as a reflection of a culture’s value system

• The influence of language on how different cultural groups perceive reality

• Linguistic constructions conveying culturally specific concepts

• Diversity of concepts and idioms across national contexts

• The relationship between metaphor and culture

• How different cultures adopt similar concepts and express them in distinct linguistic forms

• The impact of intercultural contact on vocabulary expansion