7th annual Sociolinguistics Symposium

The 7th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is the central annual research event organized by graduate students in Linguistics, offering a key forum for scholarly exchange across language related fields.

This year’s theme, Between Languages, Between Worlds: Language, Culture, and Global Communication, foregrounds the role of language in shaping cultural connection, social positioning, and senses of belonging in an increasingly interconnected world.

The symposium invites work that examines how individuals and communities navigate linguistic boundaries across social, cultural, and geopolitical contexts, highlighting language as both a resource and a site of negotiation in global communication.