possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Language variation and change

• Language and mobility

• Language as a local practice

• Multilingualism/Polylanguaging and superdiversity

• English as a Lingua Franca in the polylingual world

• Language and class

• Language and gender

• Linguistic landscape

• Multimodality

• Identity practices in the social media

• Style

• Language in the media

• Language and advertising

• Language and economy

• Language ideologies

• Dialectology

• New developments in pidgin and creole linguistics

• Language policy, language planning

• Educational linguistics

• Linguisitics

• Sociolinguistics of language education

• Forensic sociolinguistics

• Critical Discourse Analysis

• Cognitive sociolinguistics