Topics & Subtopics

Topics and Subtopics — SENALA #3 2026

Theme: Bersua dan Bersuara: Bahasa sebagai Ruang Identitas dan Penguatan Kesehatan Mental

Encountering and Voicing: Language as a Space for Identity and Mental Health Empowerment

SENALA #3 welcomes theoretical, empirical, applied, and interdisciplinary papers related to language, identity, communication, and mental health.

01. Psycholinguistics, Emotion, Language Processing, and Self-Expression

Language production and comprehension, emotion and cognition, language acquisition, verbal expression, psychological processes, and individual communication.

02. Clinical Linguistics, Speech Disorders, and Communication Diversity

Clinical linguistics, language and speech disorders, dyslexia, aphasia, autism-related communication, speech therapy, and inclusive communication.

03. Sociolinguistics, Language, Identity, and Cultural Diversity

Language variation, multilingualism, language attitudes, social identity, youth language, language and community, and linguistic discrimination.

04. Pragmatics, Interpersonal Relationships, and Social Communication

Politeness, impoliteness, speech acts, interpersonal communication, empathy, conflict, bullying, and language in social interaction.

05. Discourse Analysis, Gender Representation, and Identity Construction

Critical discourse analysis, narrative and identity, gender discourse, representation, ideology, power relations, and mental-health narratives.

06. Digital Linguistics, Media, and Contemporary Identity

Social-media discourse, digital identity, cyberbullying, online communities, algorithmic communication, digital mental-health discourse, multimodality, and artificial intelligence.

Last update: 3 October 2026