Program

DiPVaC4

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Venue:
Consistorium Hall in the University of Helsinki Main Building, 2nd floor.

Address:
Fabianinkatu 33 (accessible entrance)

May 28

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
10.30	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

May 29

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

May 30

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