Program
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Warming up
| 19:00 | Jivino Enoteca (Obernstraße 51, 33602 Bielefeld) |
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 |
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) |
Keynote
| 09:30 |
J. César Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University) Pragmatic variation across highland and lowland pluricentric varieties |
Session 4: Metapragmatics
| 10:30 |
Jones Anam (TU Dortmund) Constructing (in)formal communities. Language ideologies on pronominal address in Southern African German |
| 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:45 |
Philipp Striedl (University of Zurich) Conceptualizations of (im)politeness and (in)directness across German speaking regions and countries |
| 12:15 |
Afef Laben & Nadia Hamrouni (University of Tunis) Face conceptualizations across dialects of Arabic. A variational pragmatic study |
Round Table
| 13:00 |
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) |
| 14:00 |
Conference closing Moderation: Tanja Ackermann & Anne Schröder (Bielefeld University) |
Beer Garden
| 14:45 | Location will be announced soon |