13th International Conference

Word, Utterance, Text: Cognitive, Pragmatic and Cultural Aspects 2026

Chelyabinsk State University is pleased to announce that the The 13th International Conference Word, Utterance, Text: Cognitive, Pragmatic and Cultural Aspects will be held in Chelyabinsk, Russia 23–24 April 2026.

The conference will cover a wide range of topics, exploring contemporary approaches in linguistics, language teaching, and translation and interpreting studies. The conference aims to provide a forum for researchers, educators and trainers from different academic and educational institutions to exchange ideas, share practical experience and discuss current trends in language and communication studies.

Download Call for Papers

We welcome contributions for the following thematic sessions

• Discursive construction. Representing reality in the context of global challenges.
• Semantics and pragmatics of text and language units in new linguistic spaces.
• The development and evolution of an individual in shifting cultural and socioeconomic contexts.
• Translation and interpreting studies in the digital age.
• Language teaching and learning. L1 and L2 teaching methodology.

The main conference languages are Russian, English, and Mandarin Chinese. Contributions for the conference proceedings volume are accepted in Russian and English.

Conference Venue

Chelyabinsk State University, 129 ul. Br. Kashirinykh, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Forms of Participation

The conference will be held in person with a hybrid (remote) component for some sessions.

• In-person or remote oral presentation at a plenary session (30 min per presentation).
• In-person or remote oral presentation at a thematic paper session (10 min per presentation).
• Workshops, discussion sessions, public lectures.
• Participation in absentia through paper submission. The paper will be published in the conference proceedings volume following peer review.

Conference Deadlines

Registration forms should be submitted by 15 December 2025 to slovo_csu@mail.ru as a doc/docx file. Please use the registration form included in the Call for Papers. The file name should include the surname of the first author, i.e. Johnes_registration.doc/docx.

Paper submissions should be sent by 20 January 2026 to slovo_csu@mail.ru as a doc/docx file. Please use formatting guidelines listed in the Call for Papers. The file name should include the surname of the first author, i.e. Johnes_paper.doc/docx.

Points to Note

• The Conference programme will be published online.
• The Conference proceedings will be published in an elibrary (RSCI) indexed journal.
• The digital copy of the journal will be published on the conference website and eLibrary.ru.
• All the proposed presentations and papers will undergo peer review. The conference committee reserves the right to decide whether the submitted material is included in the program or conference proceedings. After review, the committee will notify the participants of the decision by email.
• Master’s degree student presentations and/or papers are only accepted if co-authored by an academic advisor. PhD students require letters of recommendation from academic advisors. Poster presentations are encouraged for student researchers.
• For accepted participants from outside Russia, there are no registration or publishing fees. Please, note that accommodation and travel expenses will be borne by the participants.

We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you in Chelyabinsk.

Respectfully yours,
Conference Organizing Committee

Chelyabinsk State University
Faculty of Linguistics and Translation
ul. Br. Kashirinykh, 129
454001 Chelyabinsk, Russia
Tel: +7 (351) 7997149; UTC/GMT +5 hrs
University official website: https://www.csu.ru/en

About

Word, Utterance, Text: Cognitive, Pragmatic and Cultural Aspects is a biennial international conference organised by Chelyabinsk State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia). The conference has become a well-known platform connecting language and linguistics scholars, teachers, professionals and students from all over Russia and across the globe.

Key speakers 2026

Coming soon.

Key speakers 2022

• Baldwin van Gorp, PhD, Professor of journalism and communication management at KU Leuven in Belgium.
• David Gillespie, PhD, Professor at University of Bath in the UK.
• Oksana Issers, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Philology and Media Communications at Omsk State University named after F.M. Dostoevsky in Omsk, Russia.
• Vladimir Karasik, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics at Pushkin State Russian Language Institute in Moscow, Russia.
• Galina Kopnina, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Philology and Journalism of the Institute of Philology and Language Communication at Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
• Tatiana Larina, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages at RUDN University in Moscow, Russia.
• Alla Minyar-Beloroucheva, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of History at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia.
• Elena Tareva, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages at Moscow City Pedagogical University in Moscow, Russia.
• Anatoliy Chudinov, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Intercultural Communication, Rhetoric and Russian as a Foreign Language at Ural State Pedagogical University in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Conference Committee 2022

Committee Chair

• Liliya Nefedova (lingv_faculty@csu.ru), Doctor of Philology, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics and Translation at Chelyabinsk state University in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Committee Vice Chair

• David Gillespie, PhD, Professor at University of Bath in Bath, UK.

Committee Members

• Marina Zagidullina, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Chelyabinsk state University in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
• Evgeny Ivanov, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Mogilev State University named after A.A. Kuleshov in Mogilev, Belarus. 
• Vladimir Karasik, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics at Pushkin State Russian Language Institute in Moscow, Russia.
• Tatiana Larina, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages at RUDN University in Moscow, Russia.
• Ainagul Tumanova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian Philology and World Literature at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.