10-11 March 2027
Zurich, Switzerland
Submission Deadline: 30 October 2026
Most research on AI and language tests what the model produces. This workshop asks what multilingual speakers do with it. Generative AI answers in dozens of languages, yet it organises them like a drop-down menu: one language at a time, each treated as uniform. Multilingual speakers move across languages, varieties and registers. What happens when the two meet?
The workshop brings together empirical work from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies and related fields on what multilingual speakers do with these systems, what the systems do to multilingual practices, and whether the concepts we use to describe multilingual interaction still hold when one participant is a machine. Contributions are organised around four strands: practices, language ideologies, concepts, and methods. Ethnographic approaches are particularly welcome. Data may be in any language.