Dear all,

Please find below the first call for papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference, 2026.

Best wishes, Gavin Brookes

Call for Papers

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 8th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (#CADS 2026). This conference will be hosted by Lancaster University, UK from Tuesday 23rd June to Thursday 25th June 2026.

The Corpora and Discourse International Conference showcases research that combines corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in all forms and under all names. Our key objective is to bring together researchers who are interested in how discourse(s) are structured, patterned, and received, and who use corpus linguistics as part of this work.

Keynote speakers:

We are delighted to announce our confirmed keynote speakers:

* Matteo Fuolihttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/fuoli-matteo (University of Birmingham, UK) * Brian Kinghttps://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) * Michaela Mahlberghttps://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/person/prof-dr-michaela-mahlberg/ (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) * Elena Seminohttps://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino (Lancaster University, UK)

The call for papers opens on 2 September 2025 and closes on 16 November 2025.

We welcome abstracts for both oral presentations and poster presentations reporting on work at the intersections of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, broadly conceived. Contributions might address, but certainly do not need to be limited to, the following areas:

* academic, scientific, technological and medical discourse(s); * comparative studies; * discourse(s) and identities; * discourse(s) in language acquisition, language learning and teaching; * discursive and/or language change over time (including historical analyses); * discourse(s) and social issues (e.g., health, the environment, gender and sexuality, technology, politics and polycrises); * figurative language in discourse (e.g. metaphor, metonymy, irony); * institutional discourse(s); * intercultural discourses; * language ideology and policy; * media, social media, new media and hybrid text types; * methodological innovations in corpus and discourse analysis approaches; * multimodality and corpora; * reflective contributions on the assumptions, practices, ethical dilemmas and implications of corpus and discourse analysis research; * corpus stylistics and literary discourse; * translation studies and discourse(s).

Submission information:

As this is an in-person only conference, all presenting participants must attend the conference in person.

Oral presentations should present research that is either completed or that is ongoing with some substantial results. Research that is a work in progress and that is yet to yield substantial results is welcome in the form of a poster presentation.

Oral presentations will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion.

For oral/poster presentations, please submit an unstructured abstract of up to 4000 characters (including references).

Abstracts should be submitted in the form on this page: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/call-for-papers/

(the form is also accessible directly here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qkm2sqPKA1)

Please format your in-text references and bibliography in Chicago Citation Style.

Key dates:

* The call for papers opens on 2 September 2025. * The deadline for abstract submission is 16 November 2025. * Notification of acceptance (or rejection) will be sent out mid January 2026. * Registration opens on 2 February 2026. * Registration closes on 1 June 2026. * The conference will take place from 23 to 25 June 2026.