Please note that on Wednesday, 4th May, registration (08:15-09:15), as well as the first morning session of the conference (09:15-13:00), will take place in Alex Trebek Alumni Hall, 157, Séraphin-Marion Private. After lunch on 4th May, we shall return to Desmarais 12102, 55 Laurier. This will be the location for the rest of the conference (please see the downloadable map for major conference locations).
WEDNESDAY, 4TH May 2016 |
8:15 |
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Registration opens |
9:15 - 9:30 |
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Conference opening |
Quotatives | Chair: Laura Kastronic |
9:30 - 10:30 |
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Shana Poplack, Plenary 1 |
10:30 - 11:00 |
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Hélène Blondeau
Nouveau regard sur les formes d'introduction de discours direct dans le français parlé à Montréal |
11:00 - 11:30 |
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COFFEE |
Regional & Geographical Variation I: Canadian English | Chair: Laura Kastronic |
11:30 - 12:00 |
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Sali Tagliamonte & Bridget Jankowski
Up north here: Discourse-pragmatic deixis in Northen Ontario
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12:00 - 12:30 |
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Derek Denis, Martina Wilschko & Alexandra D'Arcy
Deconstructed multifunctionality: Confirmational variation in Canadian English through time |
12:30 - 13:00 |
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Sali Tagliamonte & Bridget Jankowski
Oh yeah okay: Discourse markers on the outer rim |
13:00 - 14:00 |
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LUNCH room 436 Salon Monet, Hamelin Hall (formerly Arts Hall) |
Discourse Markers on the right periphery | Chair: Nahed Mourad |
14:00 - 14:30 |
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Claire Childs
Interviewer effects on negative tag realisations in North-East England |
14:30 - 15:00 |
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Yuko Higashiizumi
On the regular developmental path of discourse-pragmatic markers in Japanese: The case of ageku “finally” |
Semantic and social variation |
15:00 - 15:30 |
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Kate Beeching
Semantic equivalence and metacommenting, if you like |
15:30 - 16:00 |
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COFFEE |
The semantic-pragmatic interface | Chair: Nahed Mourad |
16:00 - 16:30 |
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Andrea Beltrama
Totally between semantic and social variation
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16:30 - 17:30 |
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Gaétane Dostie, Plenary 2
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THURSDAY, 5TH May 2016 |
Methodological & analytical issues | Chair: Basile Roussel |
9:00 - 10:00 |
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Suzanne Evans Wagner, Plenary 3 |
10:00 - 10:30 |
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Heike Pichler
The multiple variables of innit: Achieving full accountability in discourse-pragmatic variation and change research |
10:30 - 11:00 |
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Liesbeth Degand
TextLink Presentation |
11:00 - 11:30 |
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COFFEE |
Language contact | Chair: Basile Roussel |
11:30 - 12:00 |
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Ana Carvalho & Joseph Kern
A discourse-pragmatic feature in contact: Portuguese-Spanish bilinguals' use of tag questions
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12:00 - 12:30 |
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Kazuko Matsumoto & David Britain
Dream goal. If I have the brain ollei, I want to be a lawyer. Nativisation of a newly emerging postcolonial English variety in Palau
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12:30 - 13:00 |
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Joseph Kern & Claire Julia Lozano
On the borrowing of discourse markers: Evidence from Arizona Spanish |
13:00 - 14:00 |
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LUNCH room 436 Salon Monet, Hamelin Hall (formerly Arts Hall) |
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change in Romance Languages 1 | Chair: Salvio Digesto |
14:00 - 14:30 |
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Liesbeth Degand & Anne Catherine Simon
Variation of discourse markers across a multi-genre corpus of spoken French: Annotating function and meaning
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14:30 - 15:00 |
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Giulio Scivoletto
Sicilian pragmatic marker arà: variation and social meaning
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15:00 - 15:30 |
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Juliette Delahaie & Immaculada Solis Garcia
Stratégies d'accord en français et en espagnol. Étude quantitative et systémique des marqueurs discursifs
oui/voilà/d'accord et sì/vale/claro |
15:30 - 16:00 |
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COFFEE |
Regional & Geographical Variation II: Irish English | Chair: Nahed Mourad |
16:00 - 16:30 |
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Carolina Amador-Moreno & Kevin McCafferty
"Sure they won't forget you there no more than at home": Exploring the history of SURE as a pragmatic marker
in Irish English |
16:30 - 17:00 |
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Chloe Diskin
Quantifying variation in the functions of discourse-pragmatic markers among native and nonnative speakers in Dublin, Ireland |
17:00 - 17:30 |
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Daniela Kolbe-Hanna
Multifunctional I think in SPICE Ireland and VOICE Canada
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17:30 - 18:00 |
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BUSINESS MEETING Followed by conference dinner 19:00-LATE, Sidedoor, 18 York St, Ottawa |
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FRIDAY, 6TH May 2016 |
9:00 - 10:00 |
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Laurel Brinton, Plenary 4 |
T.B.C. | Chair: Basile Roussel |
10:00 - 10:30 |
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Gisle Andersen
Discourse topic markers in Norwegian: A corpus-based study of pragmatic variation
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10:30 - 11:00 |
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Gerard van Herk, Bethany Thompson & Karen Fitzgerald
"Um, I need to show you the real me": Discourse markers in drag performance |
11:00 - 11:30 |
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COFFEE |
Hesitation Phenomena | Chair: Laura Kastronic |
11:30 - 12:00 |
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Gunnel Tottie
Uh, um and pauses as "evidence of speech-productive labor"
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12:00 - 12:30 |
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Darcey Browning
Hesitation via hashtag placement: Patterns of delay discourse markers in survivor stories Kastronic
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12:30 - 13:00 |
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Irina Zaykovskaya & Zachary Miller
When lecturers hesitate: Does the hesitation function of "lecturer's OK" exist? |
13:00 - 14:00 |
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LUNCH room 436 Salon Monet, Hamelin Hall (formerly Arts Hall) |
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change in Romance Languages 2 | Chair: Salvio Digesto |
14:00 - 14:30 |
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Giulio Scivoletto on behalf of Chiara Ghezzi
Variation and change between grazie and gran mercé: Politeness markers and pragmatic borrowing in the history of Italian
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14:30 - 15:00 |
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Peter Furko
Stance taking across languages, regional varieties and registers: a contrastive study of English 'I think' and Hungarian 'asszem' |
15:00 - 15:30 |
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COFFEE |
Epistemic Markers | Chair: Nahed Mourad |
15:30 - 16:00 |
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Asela Reig
Epistemic markers igual and igual y in Mexican Spanish: A case of pragmatic variation
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16:00 - 16:30 |
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Marie Reetz
L'idéologie de métal- Un marqueur graphico-discursif dans le discours de guerre au Japon 1931-1945
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16:30 |
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