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) |
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 |
12:15 |
Anke Lensch (University of Cologne) |
13:00 | Lunch break |
14:30 |
Anne Schröder & Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University) |
15:15 |
Henrik Discher (FU Berlin) & Laura Fischlhammer (PLUS Salzburg) |
16:00 | Coffee break |
16:30 |
Claudia Lange (TU Dresden) |
17:15 |
Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University) & Sandie Fitchat (Swakopmund) |
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) |
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) |
15:00 |
Gerbrich de Jong & Maria den Hartog (Radboud University) |
15:45 | Coffee break |
16:15 |
Janel Zoske (FU Berlin) |
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 Y. Anam (TU Dortmund) |
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 Labben (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 | Brauhaus Joh. Albrecht (Hagenbruchstraße 8, 33602 Bielefeld) |