2nd International Conference
on Contemporary Bilingual Lexicography (BIL.LEX26)
University of Granada, 25-27 May 2026
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Following the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Bilingual Lexicography held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Granada on June 2023, we are pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Bilingual Lexicography (BIL.LEX26). It will be held on 25-27 May 2026 at the same venue.
This conference continue the research into recent bilingual dictionaries, focusing on one of the gaps identified in studies of Spanish lexicography.
Taking into account the points described in Pablo Núñez 2021 (https://doi.org/10.17561/rilex.4.3, http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72233) about marginalised languages in the historiography of Spanish lexicography, this conference aims to promote studies on recent bilingual lexicography of Spanish with other non-majority languages.
– Overall or cuantitative studies on the recent lexicography of Spanish and other non-majority languages (preferably works published from the 1990s to the present day).
– Panoramic studies (with the possibility of including earlier periods) on bilingual lexicography of Spanish with other Eastern European, Central European, Baltic or Scandinavian language(s).
– Comprehensive studies of contemporary bilingual lexicography of Spanish and other non-majority or non-Western languages (Asian, African, Oceanic ones), including periods from earlier eras if these have not previously been studied.
These will be the priority lines. However, studies analysing bilingual or multilingual lexicographical repertoires with Spanish that have been no studied, especially manuscripts, as well as other aspects on recent bilingual lexicography of Spanish with minority languages not necessarily historiographical–such as editorial and commercial aspects, or lexicographers’ careers–could be proposed.
Studies on current digital lexicography in Spanish and the use of AI may also be accepted.
As there are other specific conferences for the study of Missionary Linguistics, bilingual lexicographies of Spanish with Amerindian languages are excluded here, excepted panoramic studies on recent bilingual lexicography (1990s onwards) which could be proposed.
The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 20, so proposals received will be evaluated and those most relevant to the lines proposed will be selected. The selection of the papers will be carried out by a process of blind peer review by the Scientific Committee of the Conference.
A link will be provided to enable online communication and to facilitate virtual attendance at the event.
The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Granada on 26 and 27 May 2026. It is the organisation’s will that there will be more conferences on bilingual Spanish Lexicography in future years.
Participation as a speaker is free of charge.
Attendance at the conference is also free of charge, subject to prior registration via email luispablo@go.ugr.es.
Papers will be published, after a selection and peer review process, as a monograph in a high quality journal or as a monograph in a well-positioned publishing house.
The conference is accompanied by the bibliographic exhibition ‘The Dictionaries of the Royal Spanish Academy: Academic Work through its Dictionaries’ at the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, which features copies of works published by this institution, as well as other works produced by academic institutions belonging to ASALE, alongside examples of some lexicographical studies.
Submission of proposals
The deadline for submitting proposals will remain open until 17 May 2026. Acknowledgement of receipt will be given and notification of acceptance or rejection of the proposal will be given within the following five days.
Send your proposal to luispablo@go.ugr.es and please include : first name and SURNAME, home institution (official name in the original language and English, if the institution is not based in the Spanish/English-speaking world), ORCID, contact email address; title of the paper ; an abstract of the proposal in the language of presentation and English, and an indication of whether attendance will be in person or online.
Dates
Deadline for submission of proposals: May 17th 2026
Date of the conference: May 25-27th 2026
Official language(s) of the event
Spanish/English/French
Organising Committee
Luis Pablo Núñez (director, University of Granada)
Organising Entity
Department of Spanish Language
Faculty of Humanities, University of Granada.
Research Group “The Spanish Lexicon and Discourse”
(UGR-Junta de Andalucía HUM-265)
Scientific Committe
M.ª del Carmen Ávila Martín (University of Granada)
Justo Bolekia Boleká (University of Salamanca)
Elena Dal Maso (Università Ca’ Foscari, Italy)
Erla Erlendsdóttir (Iceland University)
Menghsuan Ku (古孟玄) (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Ivana Lončar (Zadar University, Croacia)
David Porcel Bueno (University of Granada)
Doina Repede (University of Granada)
Daniel Sáez Rivera (University of Granada)
Marcin Sosinski (University of Granada)
Anna Zholobova (University of Granada)
Address
University of Granada
Faculty of Humanities
Campus Cartuja s/n
E-18071 Granada, Spain
Book of abstracts (download PDF)
Programme (Download Conference programme PDF)
Streaming (live free access):
https://ovextranet.ugr.es/SRC_SALVEUGR/accesos/acceso.jsp?rama=seminario&IDSALA=23001639 (login: 117464)
Invited lecture:
Prof. Dr. Marco Antonio Lovón Cueva
(Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos [UNMSM] y Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú [PUCP])
« Aimarisms in the dictionaries of the Royal Spanish Academy »
Opening lecture:
Tony Lozano Palacios, Salvador Valera Hernández (Universidad de Granada) « LEXIS English<>Spanish Dictionary : A Lifetime Devoted to Lexicography »
Tatyana Martinova (Universidad de Granada)
« Lexicography in Transition: The Integration of Digital Technologies into Printed Bilingual Dictionaries »
Claudia Sánchez Asenjo (Universidad de Salamanca)
« Current Spanish-Romanian Bilingual Lexicography: From the Publishing Perspective to the New Approach of Digital Humanities »
Alfonso Rascón Caballero (Universidad de Vilnius / Vilnius universitetas) « The Lithuanian-Spanish Online Dictionary: A Resource for Lithuanian Learners of Spanish »
Doina Repede (Universidad de Granada)
« Digital Lexicography and Python. The Development of “DICcom. Dictionary of Spanish communication verbs” »
Chunyi Lei (Universidad de Granada)
« An Analysis of Contemporary Chinese-Spanish Lexicography Production : The The Commercial Press Publishing House »
Heriberto López Moreno (Universidad de Granada)
« A Comparative Approach to Bilingual Lexicography: Spanish–Fang and Portuguese–Changana (19th, 20th and 21st Centuries) »
Elisa Serna Martínez (Universidad de Granada)
« Between Patwa, Jamaican English and Caribbean Varieties of Spanish: Lexicographical Gaps and Cultural Mediation »
Yoselin Quispe Mendivil (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú, y Universidad de Sevilla)
« Plurilingual Toponymic Dictionary (Quechua, Aymara and Spanish) of Chalhuanca and Cotaruse Regions (Apurímac, Peru): A Proposal from Cognitive Semantics »
Ivana Lončar (Sveučilište u Zadru / Universidad de Zadar), Miguel Ángel Lucena Romero (Universidad de Granada)
« Lex-UNIZD: A Multilingual Dictionary of Beekeeping »
Ángel Huete-García (Universidad Rovira i Virgili / Universitat Rovira i Virgili) « Towards AI-Assisted Diachronic Bilingual Lexicography »
Ewa Stala (Universidad Jaguelónica de Cracovia / Uniwersytet Jagielloński) « A Short Outline of the History of Polish-Spanish Lexicography »
Luis Pablo Núñez (Universidad de Granada)
« The History of Spanish-Turkish Bilingual Dictionaries from a Publishing Perspective »
Closing lecture:
Prof. Dr. Eduardo J. Jacinto García (Universidad de Córdoba)
« The Technical Bilingual Dictionary: Types and Functions »
