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

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

Anne Schröder & Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University)

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

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)

Pawel Sickinger (Bielefeld University) & Sandie Fitchat (Swakopmund)

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

Jenny Nilsson (ISOF Gothenburg)

Does pragmatic behavior vary across geographical space?

Semra Kızılkaya (Bielefeld University)

Semantics, pragmatics and regional variation of inschallah in German

Adama Drabo & Martina Drescher (University of Bayreuth)

The use of voilà in Cameroonian and Ivorian French: Between discourse structuring and interactional anchoring

12:00

 Philip Vergeiner (LMU Munich)

The functional spectrum of the particle eh in Austria and beyond

12:45

Lunch break

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

Gerbrich de Jong & Maria den Hartog (Radboud University)

Pronouns of address in a job interview in Dutch and Frisian

Janel Zoske (FU Berlin)

Regional variation in German address practices

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)

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)