Program

8.30 – 16.00

Registration

University of Helsinki Main Building

Fabianinkatu 33, Ground floor

9.00

Welcome

9.15

Keynote Lecture: Prof. Jan-Ola Östman introduced by Chloé Diskin                

Coffee

(included in the registration fee)

11.00

Panel 1: You know

Chair: Turo Hiltunen

Péter Furkó & Csilla Dér. A variational pragmatic approach to reformulation markers in English and Hungarian

Erik Schleef. Social meanings of discourse markers and disfluent speech

Chloé Diskin. The discourse-pragmatic marker ‘you know’ in two native and two non-native varieties of English

12.30

Lunch at Restaurant Sunn

Aleksanterinkatu 26

(included in the registration fee)

14.00

Panel 2: Um and Uh

Chair: Olli Silvennoinen

Derek Denis & Tim Gadanidis. Before the rise of um

Timothy Gadanidis. Um, about that, uh, variable: uh and um in teen instant messaging

Gunnel Tottie. Variation and change among pragmatic markers as planners in American English

15.30

Coffee

(included in the registration fee)

16.00

Panel 3: Hesitation

Chair: Elizabeth Peterson

Minna Korhonen & Cara Penry Williams. Discursive like across apparent time in Australian English

Katri Priiki. Toi and tota – from a pronoun to a particle

Sumintra Maklai. The Thai Pragmatic Particle di: Corpus Analysis and the Use of di compared to si by Native Thai Speakers

Jukka Tyrkkö. Expressive pseudo-masculine particles in the history of American English: A corpus-based account

18.00

University reception in Lehtisali

University of Helsinki Main Building, 2nd floor

8.00 - 17.00

Information desk open

Fabianinkatu 33, Ground floor

8.15 - 9.00

Open Business Meeting at Think Corner

Yliopistonkatu 4

9.00

Keynote Lecture: Prof. Yael Maschler introduced by Jan Lindström

10.00

Coffee

(included in the registration fee)

10.30

Panel 4: Responding and agreeing

Chair: Liesbeth Degand

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen. The role of historical pragmatics in the uses of response particles. The case of French.

Lorella Viola. On the diachrony of giusto? (right?) in Italian: A new discoursivization?

Yulia Clausen, Tatjana Scheffler & Manfred Stede. Variability of German Question Tags

Mirjam Eiswirth. Inter-speaker accommodation on backchannels in narratives

12.30

Lunch

Catering by the University restaurant UniCafe

(included in the registration fee)

University Main building, 2nd floor

13.30

Panel 5: Modifying

Chair: Heike Pichler

Karin Aijmer. ‘And it was all like weird’ – Some new uses of intensifiers in contemporary British speech

Sali Tagliamonte & Katharina Pabst. Cool system, lovely patterns, awesome results: A cross-variety comparison of adjectives of positive evaluation

Susan Reichelt. Discourse Values as indicators of pragmaticalization in Spoken British English – a diachronic view

Laurel J. Brinton & Daniela Kolbe-Hanna. “It's just a little weird, is all” – The development and use of sentence-final is all

15.30

Coffee

(included in the registration fee)

15.45

Panel 6: Language contact

Chair: Derek Denis

Joseph Kern. General Extenders in English and Spanish among Southern Arizona Bilinguals

Eline Zenner & Tom Ruette. The borrowability of English swearwords in Dutch: a variationist approach

Gisle Andersen. Oh my god! / Herregud! What governs speakers’ choices of borrowed vs. domestic forms of discourse-pragmatic variables?

17.30

Keynote Lecture: Prof. Terttu Nevalainen introduced by Gisle Andersen

19.00 - 23.00

Dinner at Coconut Street

Mariankatu 23

The dinner venue is reserved until 23.00

8.00 - 12.00

Information desk open

Fabianinkatu 33, Ground floor

9.00

Panel 7: Connecting

Chair: Eline Zenner

Helene Blondeau, Raymond Mougeon & Mireille Tremblay. Variation and change in real time in two French-Canadian communities

Mitsuko Izutsu & Katsunobu Izutsu. Cross-varietal differences in prospective/retrospective preference: the perception of final connectives by Irish and American English speakers

Laura Rupp. Three vernacular determiners in York English: evidence for discourse-pragmatic factors in grammaticalization trajectories

10.30

Coffee + sandwich

(included in the registration fee)

11.00

Panel 8: Cross-language comparisons

Chair: Elizabeth Peterson

Sofía Pérez, Pedro Gras & Frank Brisard. Insubordination and intralinguistic variation: a quantitative corpus analysis of insubordinate subjunctive complement clauses in varieties of Spanish

Stephen Levey, Salvatore Digesto, Mélissa Chiasson-Léger, Ariane Dei Tos Cardenuto & Sarah Lefebvre. Putting the Romance back into reported speech: Evidence from Quebec French, Acadian French, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian

Liesbeth Degand, Ludivine Crible & Karolina Grzech. A multi-dimensional, multi-functional and multilingual account of discourse marker variation

12.30-13.30

Keynote Lecture: Dr. Heike Pichler introduced by Elizabeth Peterson

Followed by closing address