BAEL Conferences

Each year, the Bonn Applied English Linguistics chair hosts a conference during the summer term. Aimed specifically at postgraduate, PhD, and post-doc students, with an emphasis on pragmatics and other areas of applied linguistics, the conference is a place where young linguists can showcase their empirical research projects and network with other researchers in the field.

c14 - Corpus Approaches to Applied Linguistics

Date:
July 11th - 12th, 2025

Conference location:
University Forum (FIW),
Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Valentin Werner (Universität Bamberg) and Dr. Isobelle Clarke

c13 - Studying World Englishes, Teaching World Englishes

Date:
July 5th-6th, 2024

Conference location:
University Forum (FIW),
Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn

Keynote speakers:
Dr. Guyanne Wilson (University College London) and Prof. Dr. Michael Westphal (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

c12 - Diversity

Date:
July 7th-8th, 2023

Conference location:
University Forum (FIW),
Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn

Keynote speakers:
Jo Angouri (University of Warwick) and
Elizabeth Stokoe (London School of Economics and Political Science)

c11 - Language and/in Tourism

Date:
June 24th-25th, 2022

Conference location:
IAAK, Bonn

Keynote speaker:
Susanne Mohr (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

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c10 - Applied Linguistics

Date:
June 10th-12th, 2021

Conference location:
online, via Zoom

Keynote speakers:
J. César Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University Bloomington),
Juliane House (University of Hamburg),
Klaus P. Schneider (University of Bonn)

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c9 - Digital Pragmatics & CMC

Date:
November 27th, 2020

Conference location:
online, via Zoom

Keynote speaker:
Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)

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c8 - Language Assessment

Date:
June 28th-29th, 2019

Conference location:
IAAK, Bonn

Keynote speaker: Carsten Roever (University of Melbourne)

Discussion panel:
Bringing pragmatics into the classroom: Prospects for language teaching and testing, with teachers Marja Meinl, Timo Brede, and Anne Nickel

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c7 - Language Learning and Teaching

Date:
May 4th-5th, 2018

Conference location: University Forum (FIW),
Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn

Keynote speakers:
Susanne Niemeier (Koblenz) and
Christopher J. Hall (York)

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c6 - Variation in Discourse

Date:
May 12th-13th, 2017

Conference location: University Forum (FIW), Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn

Keynote speaker:
Jo Angouri (University of Warwick)

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c5 - Language Use, Culture and Politeness

Date:
June 3rd-4th, 2016

Conference location: IAAK, Bonn

Keynote speaker:
Helen Spencer-Oatey (University of Warwick)

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c4 - Variation in Language and Communication

Date:
June 19th-20th, 2015

Conference location: IAAK, Bonn

Keynote speaker:
Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich)

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c3 - Intercultural Communication

Date:
May 23rd-24th, 2014

Conference location: IAAK, Bonn

Keynote speaker: Anne Barron (Leuphana University, Lüneburg)

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c2 - Variational Pragmatics

Date:
June 7th-8th, 2013

Conference location: IAAK, Bonn

Keynote speaker: Markus Bieswanger (University of Bayreuth)

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c1 - Pragmatics and Beyond: Investigating Varieties, Processes and Functions of Language

Date:
January 28th, 2012

Conference location: IAAK, Bonn

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BAEL Conferences

c14 - Corpus Approaches to Applied Linguistics

c13 - Studying World Englishes, Teaching World Englishes

c12 - Diversity

c11 - Language and/in Tourism

c10 - Applied Linguistics

c9 - Digital Pragmatics & CMC

c8 - Language Assessment

c7 - Language Learning and Teaching

c6 - Variation in Discourse

c5 - Language Use, Culture and Politeness

c4 - Variation in Language and Communication

c3 - Intercultural Communication

c2 - Variational Pragmatics

c1 - Pragmatics and Beyond: Investigating Varieties, Processes and Functions of Language

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