Purpose

Language is the core of all academic disciplines; no field of study can be understood without language. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that linguistics is the field most suited to interdisciplinary research. In recent years, research highlighting linguistics' interdisciplinary nature has flourished, such as historical language studies based on archival materials (linguistics × philology), language education for non-native speakers (linguistics × education), and corpus development and utilization (linguistics × information engineering). This demonstrates a growing recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary research. However, within Japan, the dominant research style in linguistics remains largely individualistic. Without connections to researchers in other fields, it is impossible to gain excellent insights into the latest trends in those fields, and high-quality interdisciplinary research cannot be expected.

The Society for Interdisciplinary Linguistics (SIL) is an international research gathering launched against this backdrop. While centering on linguistic research, it aims to form international and interdisciplinary networks by bringing together researchers from various related fields for repeated discussions, thereby creating more impactful research outcomes.