Purpose

Language is the heart of all disciplines, and no discipline 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 that suggests the interdisciplinary nature of linguistics has been flourishing, such as language research based on historical documents (linguistics x bibliography), language education targeting non-native speakers (linguistics x pedagogy), and corpus development and utilization (linguistics x information technology), and it can be said that understanding of the importance of interdisciplinary research is increasing even more. On the other hand, research on linguistics in Japan has been growing in popularity. On the other hand, linguistics research in Japan is still dominated by a one-person research style. Without connections with researchers in other fields, it is impossible to gain excellent knowledge of the latest developments in the field, and high quality interdisciplinary research is not possible.

It is against this backdrop that the Society for Interdisciplinary Linguistics (SILS) was established as an international-scale research gathering. While focusing on research in linguistics, we aim to create international and interdisciplinary human networks and produce more impactful research results by bringing together researchers in a variety of related fields to engage in discussions.