The Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change conference (SLCVC 2025) is the first international conferenceo on language contact, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities.

Submission Guidelines

We will be inviting abstracts on original research on any topic related to language contact/translanguaging, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities. All submissions will be reviewed. 

List of Topics

• Language contact/translanguaging between sign languages
• Language/contact/translanguaging between signed and spoken/written languages
• Sociolinguistic variation in sign languages
• Language change in signing communities

Committees

Organizing committee

• Adam Schembri
• Marta Morgado

Invited Speakers

• Lina Hou
• Annelies Kusters
• Marta Morgado

Venue

The conference will be held in the Alan Walters Building at the University of Birmingham.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to a.schembri@bham.ac.uk & m.morgado@bham.ac.uk