Workshops

The main part of BCL2026's programme will consist of fifteen workshops, selected by the Program Committee after peer review.

Their abstracts in both English and Czech can be found as PDF files via the links provided in the workshops' titles.

1) Discourse structure and coherence relations

Organisers: Šárka Zikánová (Charles University, Prague), Jana Pešková (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice)

Invited speaker: Andrea Hudáková

Workshop languages: English

Keywords: Discouse relations; information structure; coreference; anaphora; corpus linguistics; psycholinguistics

2) How are you doing, heritage languages? How Czech and other heritage languages are sustained and studied in different countries across Europe

Organisers: Barbara Mertins (TU Dortmund), Marie Boccou Kestřánková (Charles University, Prague)

Workshop languages: Czech and English

Keywords: Czech as a heritage language; bilingualism; language policies; input in the heritage language

3) Cognitive and constructional approaches to language

Organisers: Michal Láznička (Charles University, Prague), Michaela Martinková (Palacký University, Olomouc)

Invited speaker: Mirjam Fried

Workshop languages: English

Keywords: Construction Grammar; cognitive linguistics; frame semantics; usage-based approaches to language

4) Folk linguistics: concepts of language and their impact on society

Organisers: Martin Beneš (Czech Language Institute CAS), Hana Dufková (Charles University, Prague), Helena Láznička (Charles University, Prague)

Invited speaker: Gabriela Múcsková

Workshop languages: Czech and Slovak

Keywords: Folk linguistics; lay linguistics; language usage; attitudes of speakers; public

5) Historical sociolinguistics: a new energy for the diachronic study of language

Organisers: Alena A. Fidlerová (Charles University, Prague), Pavel Kosek (Masaryk University, Brno)

Invited speaker: Marek Nekula

Workshop languages: English

Keywords: Historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; language history "from below"; language contact and multilingualism; language standardization

6) Linguistic aspects of translation and interpreting: current crossroads

Organisers: Renata Kamenická (Masaryk University, Brno), Vanda Obdržálková (Charles University, Prague)

Workshop languages: Czech and Slovak

Keywords: Translation; linguistic aspects; synchronous research; machine translation; postediting

7) Grammatical properties of verbs of motion (not only) from a comparative perspective

Organisers: Lucie Saicová Římalová (Charles University, Prague), Karolína Skwarska (Slavic Institute CAS)

Workshop languages: Czech, Slovak and English

Keywords: Verbs of motion; valency; aspect; grammaticalization

8) The semantic-pragmatic dimension as a challenge for linguistic description

Organisers: Barbora Štěpánková (Charles University, Prague), Marie Mikulová (Charles University, Prague), Markéta Janebová (Palacký University, Olomouc)

Workshop languages: Czech, Slovak and English

Keywords: Pragmatics; semantics; context; language data; data annotation

9) Contemporary Ukrainian migration: sociolinguistic perspectives

Organisers: Tamah Sherman (Czech Language Institute CAS), Olha Doloh (Slavic Institue CAS)

Workshop languages: Czech, Slovak and English

Klíčová slova: Ukranian migration; language repertoires; language biographies; language management; family language planning

10) Word order: theoretical and empirical perspectives

Organisers: Angelika Kiss (Charles University, Prague), Radek Šimík (Charles University, Prague)

Invited speaker: Marieke Schouwstra

Workshop languages: English

Keywords: Word order; syntax; semantics; pragmatics

11) The dynamics of the linguistic representation of gender across language communities

Organisers: Helena Özörencik (Czech Language Institute CAS), Klára Dvořáková (Czech Language Institute CAS)

Invited speaker: Boris Kern

Workshop language: English

Keywords: Gender; linguistic reprezentation; language usage; language processing; language management

12) L2 learning and procesing

Organisers: Monika Kučerová (Institute of Psychology CAS), Daniel Kopecký (Palacký University, Olomouc), Maroš Filip (Institute of Psychology CAS & Charles University, Prague)

Workshop languages: Czech, Slovak and English

Keywords: Additional language processing; L2 production; L2 perception; language learning; bilingualism

13) Current issues in phraseological research

Organisers: Marie Kopřivová (Charles University, Prague), Kateřina Šichová (Regensburg University)

Workshop languages: Czech

Keywords: Phraseology; phraseography; phraseodidactics; Construction Grammar; corpus linguistics

14) Production and comprehension of Czech as a native language across the lifespan

Organisers: Markéta Ceháková (Charles University, Prague), Anna Chromá (Charles University, Prague)

Invited speaker: Jan Chromý

Workshop languages: English

Keywords: Czech; cross-linguistic comparison; speech and language processing; first language acquisition; psycholinguistics

15) Neologisms and sociolectisms in a complex perspective

Organisers: Michaela Lišková (Czech Language Institute CAS), Alena Němcová Polická (Masaryk University Brno)

Invited speaker: Zuzana Hildenbrand

Workshop languages: Czech

Keywords: Neologisms; sociolectisms; lexicon; lexicology; lexicography

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