The AFLS annual conference, for its 2026 edition, is organized in Lyon by the ICAR laboratory (UMR 5191), with the support of the ENS of Lyon, the University of Lyon 2, and the CNRS. The conference will be hosted from October 20 to 22, by the ENS of Lyon, on the Descartes campus.

Given the specialization of the ICAR laboratory in the multidimensional analysis of language use, apprehended in a tool-based manner on large corpora of oral interactional and textual data, the conference will, among other things, provide an opportunity to reflect on the use of corpora with new tools (including artificial intelligence), and on the articulation between qualitative and quantitative approaches.

The following themes will be addressed:

• Documentation and description of varieties of French and regional dialects
• Diachronic, diatopic, diastratic, diaphasic variations
• Didactics and/or acquisition of French L2, bilingualism
• Aspects of theoretical and applied French linguistics
• French in contexts of linguistic diversity
• Corpus linguistics in French: methodologies and tools
• Language policies, action on the status and corpus of French
  

Two workshops will also be devoted to:

• Prefabrication in interaction
• Expression of the future

 

Any contribution falling within one of these workshops or dealing with one or more of these themes, as well as any aspect of the theoretical or applied linguistics of French, is welcome.

You are invited to submit a paper proposal, in English or French, for:

• a communication (individual or group) (20 minutes and 10 minutes of discussion)
  

or/and

• a panel on one of the themes proposed above (maximum of 4 speakers).

Anonymised proposals for papers must be written in the language in which the paper will be presented, and submitted here, no later than 4 May 2026.

Proposals for individual papers are limited to 300 words + references.

Panel proposals are limited to 300 words + references per speaker. Please indicate the proposal of each speaker in this format: speaker 1, abstract, references; Speaker 2, summary, references, etc. A panel proposal will therefore include all the interventions.

An individual may submit several paper proposals, but only one submission individually. A participant in the conference will not be able to present several papers alone.

Timeline:

February 18, 2026 - May 4, 2026: Submission of proposals
June 22, 2026: Notification of acceptance/rejection
June 22, 2026 - September 15, 2026: registration at a reduced rate
From September 16, 2026: full price registration