Welcome and introduction

Moderation: Tanja Ackermann & Anne Schröder (Bielefeld University)

Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)

Variational (im)politeness and the corpus-based approach

Sabrina Guhe (PLUS Salzburg)

A corpus-based study of the expression of negativity in German online reviews

Gerhard Matheus (Bielefeld University)

Do cultural factors influence the exchange of compliments? The case of rural and urban Namibia

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 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

Sandie Fitchat & Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University)

Regional variation in Namibian English pragmatics. Contrasting data from rural and metropolitan contexts

Henrik Discher (FU Berlin) & Laura Fischlhammer (PLUS Salzburg)

Diachronic and diatopic variation in German requests. High-imposition contexts since the 19th century

Claudia Lange (TU Dresden)

Exploring the pragmatics of Indian English(es)

Anne Schröder & Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University)

Two perspectives on Namibian English pragmatics. Contrastive and intracultural aspects of Pragmatic Profiling