Call for contributions for a Special Issue (2026): Critical Glossary of AI Terminology

2025-11-14

This Special Issue of "AI-Linguistica" (2026) seeks to develop a critical glossary of the terms currently shaping discourse on “artificial intelligence” across academic, media, regulatory and public spheres. The goal is not simply to define these terms, but to critically analyze their origin and historical development, their denotative and connotative meanings, their similarities and differences across Romance and Germanic languages etc. and to propose alternative terms to improve clarity and solve ethical concerns.

“AI-Linguistica” invites short contributions (3,000-6,000 words) focused on a single term or a cluster of closely related terms. The list of possible terms to consider includes the following entries: ability; artificial intelligence(s); corpus / data / LLM; language model; agent / assistant / chatbot; alignment; hallucination / confabulation; bias; prompt; training / learning; body / embodiment; imitation / emulation; (low) resource languages; token / tokenization etc.). The list is not exhaustive: please feel free to propose other relevant terms.

Tentative timeline

  • Submission of an abstract (500 words + references) to anna-maria.decesare@tu-dresden.de indicating the term(s) and languages analyzed + 5 keywords clarifying the approach and methodology: 20.12.2025
  • Notification of acceptance: 20.01.2026
  • Full submission to AI-Linguistica’s platform: 31.03.2026
  • Double blind peer-review: April-May 2026
  • Notification of peer-review evaluation: 1.6.2026
  • Publication: as soon as the revisions have been implemented and the stylesheet has been applied to the final text version.

 Final submission form

  • Abstract: 150-200 words + 5 keywords
  • Length: 3,000-6,000 words (including notes and references)
  • Languages: Italian, French, Spanish, English or German