Building on the success of SpS2025, this symposium brings together researchers exploring how meaning is negotiated, enacted, and interpreted in interaction across diverse social and cultural settings. With a focus on sociopragmatics, understood as how social norms and cultural expectations shape language use, the event highlights how participants draw on linguistic and semiotic resources to accomplish social actions, construct identities, and manage relationships in context.

The theme invites contributions that explore interaction across both established and evolving environments, including face-to-face encounters, institutional settings, and digitally mediated spaces. While the symposium places particular value on research grounded in established or well-documented settings, it also encourages engagement with emerging contexts. Contributions examining sociopragmatics in both first language (L1) and second language (L2) contexts are especially encouraged. By foregrounding practices, identities, and contexts, the event aims to foster dialogue across methodological and theoretical perspectives and deepen our understanding of how social meaning is dynamically constructed in interaction.

Bringing together leading scholars, educators, and early-career researchers, the symposium invites contributions on a wide range of topics, including politeness, speech acts, conversational implicature, intercultural communication, and digital pragmatics. It also seeks to include work on diverse languages and regions, with the aim of fostering a genuinely global dialogue on sociopragmatic research.

The symposium seeks to advance understanding of how language functions in context while providing a friendly, supportive, and collegial environment for participants to share their research, exchange ideas, and develop collaborative connections.