Abstract
<jats:p xml:lang="en">The volume originates from the doctoral conference “Forms and Models of Contact in Linguistics, Literature and Philology” (Pescara, 18-19 January 2024) and continues the interdisciplinary reflection initiated on that occasion. The first section examines linguistic contact as a heuristic paradigm serving to relate historical, social and cultural dimensions, from migratory multilingualism to historical jargons and the dynamics concerning minority languages. The second section investigates contact as a critical category within philological and literary practices, highlighting its versatility and interpretive potential in the analysis of texts, traditions and imaginaries through rewritings, receptions, linguistic variation, aesthetic hybridizations and transmedial intersections.</jats:p>