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Events

We regularly plan workshops for different topics, conferences, or other interesting events. You can find information on them here.

Guest Lecture by Dr. Martin Schweinberger
Rabinstraße 8
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
The paper presented in this talk takes a corpus-based approach to analyze vulgar language in online communication across 20 English-speaking regions based on ...
Workshop “Democratisation, roles, and discourse”
Rabinstraße 8
Whole Day
This workshop aimed to explore the intricate relationship between language use, societal roles, and the processes of democratization in various contexts. The ...
12th Bonn Applied English Linguistics conference
University Forum (FIW), ...
Whole Day
The 12th iteration of the BAEL conference took place on Friday, July 7th, and Saturday, July 8th, 2023. The focus of this year’s conference was on ...
Poster Workshop
IAAK
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
In preparation for the upcoming BAELc12, we held a small poster workshop. This way, the students can start preparing their posters for the conference and get ...

News

Published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Hanna Bruns, a PhD candiate under Prof. Kranich's supervision, has recently published a paper based on her Master's thesis. It is titled "“That’s all it takes to be trans”: counter-strategies to hetero- and transnormative discourse on YouTube" and can be found open access via De Gruyter.

Svenja Kranich organised a panel and presented with Hanna Bruns.

The 18th International Pragmatics Conference was held in Brussels, Belgium, from 9 to 14 July 2023. Svenja Kranich organised a panel called "English address terms in a globalized world: Socio-cultural impact on recent language variation and change". Additionally, Svenja Kranich held a talk with Hanna Bruns titled "Democratization effects on nominal address terms – Sir and Guys in 20th and 21st century American English". 

Hanna Bruns also presented on her own a talk called "Connecting socio-cultural developments and language change: Recent variation in gender-inclusivity in the USA and the UK"

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