BAELc1: First Bonn Applied English Linguistics conference
The conference took place on Saturday, January 28th, from 10 - 17h in the Conference Room. The focus of the conference was "Pragmatics and Beyond – Investigating varieties, processes and functions of language."
Dates and registration
Saturday, 28. January 2012
11:00 am - 05:00 pm
Programme
10 am - 11 am
Linguistic relativity: A pragmatic perspective on a philosophical issue
Pawel Sickinger (Bonn)
11 am - 12 pm
The influence of L1 on second language writing processes
Esther Breuer (Cologne)
12 pm - 1 pm
Form and function of positive remarks: How speakers of American English evaluate their surroundings in everyday conversations
Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf (Bonn, Bochum)
2 pm - 3 pm
Impoliteness in Postcolonial Englishes: Focus on Kenya
Verena Minow (Bochum)
3 pm - 4 pm
A methodological comparison of directive speech acts in American and British English: Discourse completion tasks versus conversational data
Ilka Flöck (Oldenburg)
4 pm - 5 pm
Quantifying pragmatics: Building corpora to identify or verify form-function patterns
Gregor Geiermann (Bonn)