Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Keynote
| 09:15 |
Welcome and introduction Moderation: Tanja Ackermann & Anne Schröder (Bielefeld University) |
| 09:30 |
Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University) Variational (im)politeness and the corpus-based approach |
Session 1: Speech acts
| 10:30 |
Sabrina Guhe (PLUS Salzburg) A corpus-based study of the expression of negativity in German online reviews |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 |
Gerhard Matheus (Bielefeld University) Do cultural factors influence the exchange of compliments? The case of rural and urban Namibia |
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12:15 |
Anke Lensch (University of Cologne) "You don't thank your family." Intergenerational differences in the expression of gratitude in the English-speaking Sri Lankian Tamil diaspora |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Sandie Fitchat & Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University) Regional variation in Namibian English pragmatics. Contrasting data from rural and metropolitan contexts |
| 15:15 |
Henrik Discher (FU Berlin) & Laura Fischlhammer (PLUS Salzburg) Diachronic and diatopic variation in German requests. High-imposition contexts since the 19th century |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 |
Claudia Lange (TU Dresden) Exploring the pragmatics of Indian English(es) |
| 17:15 |
Anne Schröder & Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University) Two perspectives on Namibian English pragmatics. Contrastive and intracultural aspects of Pragmatic Profiling |