Thursday, 31 July 2025

Keynote

09:00

Jenny Nilsson (ISOF Gothenburg)

Session 2: Discourse markers and particles

10:00	Semra Kızılkaya (Bielefeld University) Semantics, pragmatics and regional variation of inschallah in German
10:45	Coffee break
11:15	Adama Drabo & Martina Drescher (University of Bayreuth) The use of voilà in Cameroonian and Ivorian French: Between discourse structuring and interactional anchoring
12:00	Philip Vergeiner (LMU Munich) The functional spectrum of the particle eh in Austria and beyond
12:45	Lunch break

Session 3: Nominal and pronominal terms of address

14:15	Valentina Concu (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Wendy Valdez & Johan De La Rosa (Universidad del Norte) Navigating social dynamics through nominal terms of address in Colombian Spanish: A variational pragmatics approach
15:00	Gerbrich de Jong & Maria den Hartog (Radboud University) Pronouns of address in a job interview in Dutch and Frisian
15:45	Coffee break
16:15	Janel Zoske (FU Berlin) Regional variation in German address practices

Round Table

16:45

Methods in variational pragmatics

Discussants: Stephan Elspaß (PLUS Salzburg), Ulrike Gut (University of Münster) and Eva Ogiermann (King's College London)

Moderation: Tanja Ackermann & Anne Schröder (Bielefeld University)

Conference Dinner

19:00

Das Wirtshaus 1802 im Bültmannshof (Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 17a, 33615 Bielefeld)