Seminar Tahunan Lingustik (SETALI) is an international linguistics conference jointly organized by the Linguistics Department of the School of Postgraduate Studies Indonesia University of Education, and the UPI Commissariat of Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia, an Indonesian linguistics organization. The conference aims to provide space for national and international experts and practitioners who have a keen interest on language related phenomena to disseminate and share ideas related to the current issues in the study of language. In addition, this conference is also an attempt to give respond to the increasingly complex challenges involving language in this era of globalization.

Theme of this conference concerns today’s language existence, especially in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0. The IR 4.0 is a trending term reflecting current technological advances that affect daily life resulting in beneficial progress as well as disruptions. Therefore, this 7^th SETALI conference will entertain ideas of how language can play a critical role to face the challenges of this rapid development of technology. Language planners, language practitioners, and language experts are expected to contribute their ideas in scientific writing and present it at this linguistics conference.