J. César Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University)

Pragmatic variation across highland and lowland pluricentric varieties

Jones Y. Anam (TU Dortmund)

Constructing (in)formal communities. A theoretical perspective on the perception of pronominal address in South African German

Philipp Striedl (University of Zurich)

Conceptualizations of (im)politeness and (in)directness across German speaking regions and countries

Afef Labben (University of Tunis)

Face conceptualizations across dialects of Arabic. A variational pragmatic study

Future directions for variational pragmatics

Discussants: Antje Dammel (University of Münster), Christa Dürscheid (University of Zurich) & Klaus P. Schneider (University of Bonn)

Moderation: Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University) & Horst Simon (FU Berlin)

Conference closing

Moderation: Tanja Ackermann & Anne Schröder (Bielefeld University)