Thursday, 30 March 2023 |
| 8:30 | Conference registration desk opens Room: SP17/00.12 |
09:45-10:00 | Conference opening – Cecelia Cutler, Andrew Moody & Valentin Werner Including a welcome note by Prof. Pascal Fischer (director of the Institute of English and American Studies) Room: SP17/00.13 |
10:00-11:00 | Keynote 1 – Robin Queen: The performance and performativity of taboo language in fictional audiovisual media Room: SP17/00.13
Chair: Cecelia Cutler |
11:00-11:15 | Coffee break (on site) |
| Session 1a: Enregisterement and stereotyping of regional varieties Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Dionysis Goutsos | Session 1b: Multimodal discourse-analytic approaches Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Barbra Meek
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11:15-11:45 | Sofia Lampropoulou, Paul Cooper, Camila Montiel McCann & Rachel Byrne
The “Scouse bird”: Enregistered dialect, gender and social identity on Twitter | Mie Hiramoto & Vincent Pak
Uncritically queer: Queer speech and visual semiotics of okama characters in shōnen anime |
11:45-12:15 | Natalie Braber
“Ey up mi duck?” Awareness and commodification of local dialect in the East Midlands
[ONLINE] | Maeve Eberhardt
Fat and fabulous? Body positivity on the neoliberal screen |
12:15-12:45 | Shane Walshe
Brogues and blarney: The representation of Irish speech in American comics | Paul Flanagan & Harry Parkin
“Love no-one but your children”: An analysis of multimodal meaning-making in the construction of powerful female characters in HBO’s Game of Thrones [HYBRID] |
12:45-14:15 | Lunch break (University canteen – Mensa Austraße) |
| Session 2a: Enregisterement, stereotyping, and humor Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Irene Ranzato
| Session 2b: Stylization and representation of identity in lyrics Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Paul Flanagan
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14:15-14:45 | Anika Gerfer & Lisa Jansen
“Di game show bout spellin’ and ting”: Performance, production, and parody of stereotypes in Jamaican Countdown | Andy Gibson
The Phonetics of Popular Song (PoPS) corpus: Exploring sociophonetic variation in pop and hip hop from New Zealand and the USA
[ONLINE] |
14:45-15:15 | Johanna Gerwin
The role of dialect in comedy performances: Focus on humour and enregisterment | Ayano Watanabe
Grammatical variability of British pop music: Competing explanatory models
[ONLINE] |
15:15-15:45 | Luca Valleriani
“Am I bovvered?” Accent enregisterment through humour in The Catherine Tate Show | Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
Singing to a genre: Multimodal indexing and variable rhoticity in British Americana |
15:45-16:15 | Coffee break (on site) |
| Session 3a: Multimodal stylization Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Christian Mair
| Session 3b: Stylization and representation of identity in lyrics (ctd.) Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
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16:15-16:45 | Derek Denis & Vidhya Elango
Stylized performance, mediation, and the circulation of Multicultural Toronto English
[HYBRID] | Daniel Duncan & Mary Robinson
If Blink-182 went country: Genre convention and stylization in cover songs |
16:45-17:15 | Susan Reichelt
Computer mediated communication as telecinematic discourse | Paul Flanagan
Common People: Institutional and vernacular norms in the vocal performances of Jarvis Cocker and James Dean Bradfield during the Britpop era 1994–1998 |
17:15-17:45 | Irene Theodoropoulou
“Let me be Giannis”: Styl(iz)ing NBA’s Greek Freak in pop culture | Monika Konert-Panek
The sociolinguistic bricolage of punk rock: Identity performance, localism vs. globalism and frequency effects in stylisation |
17:45-18:15 | Manfred Krug
“It don’t matter if ya black or white” – or does it? A multimodal approach to Michael Jackson | Marina Dossena
Ghost riders in the text: Lyrics and language profiles through time
[ONLINE] |
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19:00 | Networking event/informal get-together (Fässla brewery pub) |
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Friday, 31 March 2023 |
09:45-10:00 | Announcements Room: SP17/00.13 |
10:00-11:00 | Keynote 2 – Joe Trotta: Scripted speech: The data speaks, but what does it say? Room: SP17/00.13
Chair: Valentin Werner |
11:00-11:15 | Coffee break (on site) |
| Session 4a: Variation, change, and globalization Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Manfred Krug
| Session 4b: Multilingualism, language ideology, and raciolinguistics Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Susan Reichelt
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11:15-11:45 | Dionysos Goutsos
Politeness devices in film language: Diachronic evidence from the Corpus of Greek Film Dialogue | Barbra Meek & Monika Bednarek
Language use in Indigenous-authored television series: A comparison of US and Australian contexts
[HYBRID] |
11:45-12:15 | Tianxiao Wang & Yuhan Lin
Variation is the way to perfection: Imperfect rhyming in Chinese hip-hop
[ONLINE] | Christoph Schubert
Social stereotypes of Hispanics in Hollywood: A cognitive-linguistic look at popular comedy films |
12:15-12:45 | Christian Mair
Migration, media, and the globalisation of Nigerian Pidgin in the 21st century | Irene Ranzato
(Non)standard voices in films and TV: The case of butlers and governesses |
12:45-14:15 | Lunch break (University canteen – Mensa Austraße) |
| Session 5a: Pop culture, youth language, and applied aspects Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Shane Walshe
| Session 5b: Discourse analysis, folk linguistics and prescriptivism Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Anika Gerfer
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14:15-14:45 | Anastasia Stamou
From the demonization to the “celebration” of youth voices? Evidence from Greek audiovisual fiction | Nadiya Kiss
"Be brave like Ukraine": Traditional ethnic and western elements in the pop-culture resistance against Russia's war in Ukraine |
14:45-15:15 | Jamie Shinshee Lee
K-pop stars and Korean language teaching on YouTube
[ONLINE] | Jane Hodson
Sherlock the “Grammar Nazi”: Using YouTube comments to explore popular attitudes towards prescriptivism |
15:15-15:45 | Conference closing and coffee Room: SP17/00.13 |
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17:00 | Guided tour (Meeting point: Grüner Markt) |
19:30 | Conference dinner (Restaurant Kleehof in der Gärtnerstadt) |