Thursday, 31 July 2025
Keynote
| 09:00 |
Jenny Nilsson (ISOF Gothenburg) Does pragmatic behavior vary across geographical space? |
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 |
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12:00 |
Philipp Vergeiner (LMU Munich) The functional spectrum of the particle eh in Austria and beyond |
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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) |