The 21st International Congress of Linguists commenced at 11 a.m. on Sunday at the MTP Poznań Expo. The event is held every five years in a different country. This year, the Congress is co-organised by Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

- "The theme of the Congress in 2024 in Poznań is Languages - Communities - Technologies Languages - Communities - Technologies". - says Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, AMU Vice-Rector for Research and Chair of the ICL 2024 Organising Committee - "The theme covers, firstly, a broad range of research fields within linguistics such as phonetics and phonology, history of language, lexicology and lexicography, corpus linguistics, translation studies, syntax and morphology, and so on. Conversely, it deals with interdisciplinary topics extending disciplines such as sociology, psychology, computer science and medicine. The linguists participating in the Congress will tackle socially relevant subjects, e.g. the role of language for artificial intelligence, linguistic diversity, ways of documenting languages and the threat to the world's languages, multilingualism - responding to the question of whether it is worth learning more than one language, or how language and emotions are processed in the human brain. A group of sign language interpreters will cover the session on sign languages," - Prof Dziubalska-Kołaczyk concluded.

The Congress opened on Sunday 8, September and will continue until 14 September. More information on the event can be found at https://icl2024poznan.pl/