news and events
bael events
Bonn Applied English Linguistics hosts a number of recurring events including the annual BAEL conference, a crime week focusing on forensic linguistics, and a research day for PhD students and post-doctoral students. Other past events organised by BAEL include the MEEP summer school.
To browse other events previously hosted by BAEL, scroll down to the news archive.
For a list of events hosted by all the departments of the Faculty of Arts, click here.
The website of our institute, the Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies (IAAK), can be found here.
For a list of upcoming talks from the "Forum Linguistik" series, click here.
news archive
All news items and event announcements from January 2018 to the present may be found here:
BAEL news january 2018 - present
To browse through the news archives of previous years, select a year in the list below:
2017
Professor Lawrence M. Solan: Corpus Linguistics and Legal Analysis
Professor Lawrence M. Solan, linguist and lawyer from the Brooklyn Law School--and current Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Bonn -- gave a guest lecture on "Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Analysis" on Monday, December 4th.
Lecture by BAEL's Pawel Sickinger
On November 30th, 2017, Pawel Sickinger gave a guest lecture in the Department of Romance Languages entitled "Mental Models, magic words and linguistic loops -- An embodied perspective on the interaction between concepts and linguistic items."
Guest Speaker Andreas Musolff: Framing Brexit
On Monday, November 20th, 2017, Andreas Musolff from the University of East Anglia and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies joined us to give a guest lecture on "Framing Brexit as a rescue from the 'diseased' heart of Europe".
Career Options for Linguists
The first annual Forum Beruf Applied Linguistics took place on November 15th, 2017. Four former students of our MA Applied Linguistics program talked about where their studies took them and what career options are out there to explore.
Internship opportunity at the Kawa Training Center in Zanzibar
The Kawa Training Center in Zanzibar is offering a special opportunity for students to work at their fully certified and licensed vocational training center, supporting the team in setting up English language classes and teaching English as a foreign language. Volunteers should have a high level of English proficiency and should be willing to stay for about 3 months. Previous English teaching experience is appreciated.
Further information can be found here. Interested students are asked to contact Dr. Susanne Mohr at susanne.mohr[at]uni-bonn.de.
Welcome to our new M.A. students
The semester has started and we are welcoming another group of M.A. Applied Linguistics students. Since 2012, we have had Master's students from over 20 different countries on four continents, making our programme truly international.
We wish everyone a good and successful semester!
Workshop at the University of Bochum Writing Centre
The University of Bochum Writing Centre is organizing a one-day 20th anniversary conference on Friday, September 29th, where BAEL's Dr. Stefanie Pohle will lead a workshop titled "Nutzung von Weblogs in der (Fach-)Lehre." She will share her experience with various feedback processes from her LaMa blog project.
10th Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Cologne
On September 30th, 2017, MA students Sarah Lapacz and Inken Mays and Dr. Stefanie Pohle will give a talk entitled "Who am I, who should I be? -- Three perspectives on peer tutoring in writing: Student, tutor, teacher" at the 10th Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. The conference theme is "Out of Character? Enough is Enough: (Conflicts of) Role in Peer Tutoring" in Cologne.
BAEL in Moscow
Pawel Sickinger went to The Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference in Moscow from September 9th-12th. He gave a presentation entitled, "Exploring the conceptual basis of multilingual language processing". He would like to thank the IAAK students and colleagues who provided the data he presented.
Academic Writing and Digital Media at elearn.nrw
On Friday, September 1st, 2017, BAEL staff member Dr. Stefanie Pohle and Dr. Daniel Spielmann of the University of Frankfurt a.M. led a session on "Blogs und ePortfolios: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben und digitale Medien in der Lehre" at the elearn.nrw conference in Essen.
Ethnologue Soon Available at the University of Bonn
The Ethnologue database will soon be available to students and staff of the University of Bonn. As of October, you will be able to browse and find out more about the languages of the world.
New street name - RCEP
Don't get lost when looking for the RCEP! As of 1st August, the street will no longer be called Walter-Flex-Straße, but Genscherallee. The RCEP is still in the exact same spot.
Research and Technology Workshop
Our annual Research Technology & Software Workshop, offered as part of our MA Applied Linguistics program, took place this past weekend. The participants learned about the advantages and drawbacks of 6 programs that can help with transcription, keylogging, qualitative data analysis, audiovisual recording and editing, and more. They were then given the chance to test these programs in a hands-on environment under the direction of Dr. Stefanie Pohle and 11 student experts.
New insights into (socio)linguistic aspects of African Englishes
Dr. Susanne Mohr has published two new articles: "Plural nouns in Tswana English" in World Englishes (early view) and, together with Dunlop Ochieng from the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the Open University of Tanzania, "Language usage in everyday life and in education: current attitudes towards English in Tanzania" in English Today. The former article is concerned with non-standard plurals as found in the Tswana-component of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE). The latter paper is part of a collaborative project on contemporary language attitudes against the backdrop of the Education and Training Policy (Sera ya Elimu na Mafunzo) introduced in Tanzania in 2014.
BAEL at IprA in Belfast, Northern Ireland
The 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IprA) will take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland from July 16th-21st with two contributions from BAEL. Prof. Dr. Klaus P. Schneider will give a talk on "Re-thinking pragmatic variation: The case of service encounters from a modified variational pragmatics perspective." Friederike Sell, Katrin Renkwitz and Prof. Dr. Klaus P. Schneider will present their findings on "Using the functional and lexical levels of requests to measure pragmatic competence: The case of German school students in Canada." Click here to learn more about the conference.
Linguistics Elective at the GAT
Congratulations to the students from our partner school, the Gymnasium zum Altenforst in Troisdorf (GAT), who received certificates for completing an elective course on English linguistics! This course was the product of a year-long cooperation between BAEL and Dr. Marja Meinl of the GAT.
Applied Linguistics in the Helping Professions
Klagenfurt University's Professor Dr. Eva-Maria Graf gave a guest lecture on Friday, July 7th from 10am-12pm in Room B (1.003) on "Coaching, Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Doctor-Patient Interaction: Applied Linguistic Insights into Helping Professions."
Carole Chaski, Ph.D. on Plagiarism and Authorship
On Wednesday, July 5th, Carole Chaski, Ph.D. of George Washington University presented a guest lecture on "Plagiarism and authorship analysis, the modern state of the art in methodology: At the intersection of linguistics, law and economy."
Panel on Urbanized African Sociolinguistics at ECAS7
At the 7th European Conference on African Studies in Basel, Switzerland (June 29th-July 1st), Susanne Mohr and her colleague Helene Steigertahl from Bayreuth University organized a panel on "Urbanized African Sociolinguistics -- Questioning Research Foci" with participants from all over the world. Check out the program here.
English in Tanzania
On June 13th, Dr. Susanne Mohr and her colleague Dr. Dunlop Ochieng from the Open University of Tanzania gave a talk entitled "Contemporary use of and attitudes towards English in multilingual Tanzania" at the 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism in Limerick, Ireland.
2016
Queen's prize
This year's Queen's Prize goes to our former student assistant Hannah Aengenvoort. She was awarded the prize for her BA thesis on "Assessing language attitudes towards Papua New Guinea's language policy in education", which she wrote under the supervision of Dr. Susanne Mohr and Professor Schneider. During the ceremonious opening of the academic year she received her honorary certificate from Bonn University's president. Congratulations to Hannah!
Outreach: project week with secondary school students
For one of our annual outreach activities, we had a group of 10 secondary school students from the CJD Königswinter over to spend a week with us. They gained some insight into the field of pragmatics and carried out their own empirical studies. The week finished off with them presenting their results - we are truly impressed with their projects!
bael at the Kinderuni 2016: "So etwas sagt man doch nicht!" Über Höflichkeit und Sprache
BAEL's Pawel Sickinger gave a talk about Politeness and Language on April 18th, 2016 at Kinderuni, a project of the University of Bonn dedicated to children aged between 8 and 13 years.
For more information on the event click here.
Crime Week 2016
From 20th to 24th June 2016, our annual Crime Week will return to Bonn University for another week full of forensic linguistics. Please click here for the detailed programme.
guest lecture: dr. gladys ansah
We are glad to announce that Dr. Gladys Ansah (University of Ghana) will give a guest lecture about "The effects of traditional discourse norms on democratic discourse in Ghana" in our department (Room 2.015/Konferenzzimmer) on Monday, June 20th, from 12 to 14. All are kindly invited.
baelc5 - a great success
The BAELc5 marked the fifth anniversary of our annual conference. The talks and discussions were truly inspiring and we look forward to the c6 next year. If you are interested in the programme or pictures of the conference, take a look here.
meep summer school
BAEL proudly announces the GAL Research School for Methods in Empirical Pragmatics (MeEP), a three-day summer school for postgraduate students. The MeEP will take place from 12th-14th September 2016 and feature extensive workshops lead by internationally renowned linguists, namely Anne Barron, Michael Haugh, John Kirk and Miriam Locher.
Further information about the MeEP
guest lecture: professor anita fetzer
We are glad to announce that Professor Anita Fetzer (University of Augsburg) will give a guest lecture about "The Pragmatics of Political Discourse" in our department (lecture hall XVII) on Wednesday, May 11th, from 10 to 12. All are kindly invited.
"Interconnections between Culture and Behaviour: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
Our Chair, Prof. Schneider, was invited to give a presentation at "Interconnections between Culture and Behaviour: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" on Feb, 19th 2016 at Warwick University. At this conference, he shed light on this topic from a linguistic perspective.
2015
Crime Week with Dr. Alison Johnson
From 8th to 12th June 2015, Dr. Alison Johnson (University of Leeds) will return to Bonn University for another week full of forensic linguistics. Please click herefor more information.
Guest lecture Prof. Dr. Anne Schröder
On Monday, 27th April 2015, Prof. Dr. Anne Schröder (University of Bielefeld) will give a guest lecture on "The Dynamics of English in Namibia". The talk will take place in Room 1.003 (Room B) in the English Department, Regina-Pacis-Weg 5, from 12 to 2 pm. Everybody interested is welcome to join.
ACiME conference 2015
From 12-14th September 2015, the ACiME team will hold a conference on "Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment" in Sofia, Bulgaria and it is still possible to submit abstracts (deadline: 15th March). Please click here for the official conference call on LinguistList and here for further information on the project. The project now also has its own website with all relevant information.
BAELc4
A great thanks to all the participants of the fourth annual Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference. We had a wonderful time and hope to welcome you back next year!
Please click here for further information on the conference.
English studies at "Hochschultage 2015"
At the "Hochschultage" at Bonn University, the IAAK will present its study programs to prospective new students. On Tuesday, 24.02.2015, four brief presentations will cover different aspects of English studies, including a talk on Applied Linguistics by Pawel Sickinger. The presentations start at 3pm at lecture hall 9 in the university's main building.
Official homepage for the "Hochschultage" (German)
“Mama Zimbi, pls help me!”
Our student assistant Elisabeth Hampel has published her study on "Gender differences in (im)politeness in Ghanaian Enlish advice-giving on Facebook" in the Journal of Politeness Research. Congratulations!
Press release by the University of Bonn (in German)
New article by Pawel Sickinger and Klaus P. Schneider
Linguistica has published Pawel Sickinger's and Prof. Dr. Klaus P. Schneider's new article on "Pragmatic competence and the CEFR: pragmatic profiling as a link between theory and language use"! Abstract and full PDF are available here.
2014
Dies Academicus talk
On Wednesday, 3rd December 2014, Pawel Sickinger and Elina Löwen gave a talk on "Schule und Sprachwissenschaft - Zwei Welten ohne Berührungspunkte?" in the context of Bonn University's Dies Academicus.
Queen's Prize for Inken Mays
Congratulations to our M.A. student and student assistant Inken Mays who has been awarded the Queen's Prize for her bachelor thesis on requesting in Welsh English and English English. Please click here to view a short video podcast introducing this year's prize winners.
Pawel Sickinger's dissertation project
Congratulations to our researcher Pawel Sickinger! The University of Bonn has published an article about his dissertation project (article in German). He has also been interviewed by DRadio Wissen on his work - please click here to listen to the interview from 27th August (interview in German). On 22nd October 2014, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger has also published an article on the project. The most recent article was published on 11th November 2014 in General-Anzeiger Bonn.
Linguistics & Crime week
We had the honour to welcome Dr Alison Johnson (University of Leeds), expert in forensic linguistics and former police officer, for our annual Linguistics & Crime week. She was with us for the entire week between 7th and 11th July 2014, granting us some fascinating insights into the world of forensic linguistics. Please click here for more information on the crime week.
New book release
The latest publication in the "Handbook of Pragmatics" series is now available at De Gruyter. Volume editors Klaus P. Schneider and Anne Barron present Handbook of Pragmatics 3: "Pragmatics of Discourse".
BAELc3
The Third Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference took place at Bonn University from 23rd to 24th May 2014. The keynote was held by Prof. Dr. Anne Barron (Leuphana University, Lüneburg).
Conference photos and programme
Guest lecture Janet Holmes
On Wednesday, 4th June 2014, Janet Holmes (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) will give a guest lecture on "Variational Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics: Sociopragmatic Dimensions of Workplace Talk". The talk will take place in lecture hall XVII from 10am to 12 pm. Everybody interested is welcome to join.
2013
ACiME presentation at the Dies Academicus
On the Dies Academicus, 4th December 2013, Dr. Mariya Chankova (South-West University "N. Rilski", Bulgaria), Esther Breuer, and Michelle Kühnel presented BAEL's latest research project, "Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment" (ACiME), funded by the Humboldt Foundation. We would like to thank the audience for their participation and their many interesting questions and ideas.
(from left to right: Esther Breuer, Dr. Mariya Chankova, Michelle Kühnel)
Further information on the ACiME project.
Talk by Dr. Mariya Chankova
On 9th December 2013, 10am-12pm, room 1.002, Dr. Mariya Chankova (assistant professor at South-West University "N. Rilski", Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) will give a talk on "Who needs speech act theory anyway?". This talk is public and everyone interested is welcome to join.
Workshop "Quantitative Methods"
On Friday, 13th and Saturday, 14th December 2013, a statistics workshop for 2nd year MA Applied Linguistics students will take place at the English Department. However, there are still about 12 additional slots left for 1st year MA and 3rd year BA students who want to gain an insight into statistics in the context of empirical research studies in linguistics.
Prof. Schneider elected president of "Deutscher Anglistenverband"
Prof. Schneider has been elected president of the German Society for the Study of English ("Deutscher Anglistenverband").
New book release: Pragmatics of Speech Actions
The latest publication in the "Handbook of Pragmatics" series, co-edited by Klaus P. Schneider, is now available at De Gruyter. Volume editors Marina Sbisà and Ken Turner present Handbook of Pragmatics 2: "Pragmatics of Speech Actions.
Presentations MA "Research Trends"
On Monday, 8th July, and Friday, 12th July, Esther Breuer and Susanne Mohr will give presentations in the MA Applied Linguistics module "Research Trends":
Monday, 8th July, 4-6pm, room A: "First Language versus Foreign Language" - Esther Breuer
Friday, 12th July, 10am-12pm, conference room: "The visual-gestural modality and beyond: Mouth actions in Irish Sign Language and their (socio)linguistic context" - Susanne Mohr
Both presentations are open to the public and everyone interested is welcome to join.
BAELc2 wrap-up
The BAELc2 conference last weekend has been a full success and a great experience for us organizers. The BAEL team would like to thank everyone for their attendance, contributions and some very interesting encounters. We are already looking forward to hosting BAELc3 next year.
You can see the conference programme and some impressions here: BAELc2
BAEL Linguistics & Crime
From 24 to 28 June, BAEL welcomes Dr. Alison Johnson (University of Leeds), international expert in forensic linguistics and former police officer. She will join us for a theme week on linguistics and crime, including a talk titled 'Rape, Murder and Blackmail: All in a day's work'. For more information on the crime week click here.
Guest lecture by Prof. Gila Schauer
On Monday, June 10, we are pleased to welcome Prof. Gila Schauer (University of Erfurt) for a guest lecture titled: "Interlanguage pragmatics: what do learners need to know and what do teachers need to teach?" The lecture - which is part of the lecture series "Language Use in Interaction" - takes place in lecture hall 17 from 10-12am. Visitors are welcome!
BAELc2 - Second Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference
On 7th and 8th June 2013, the Second Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference with a special focus on Variational Pragmatics will take place at the University of Bonn. The keynote will be held by Markus Bieswanger (University of Bayreuth).
Conference programme and more information
New book release: Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication
The latest publication in the "Handbook of Pragmatics" series, co-edited by Klaus P. Schneider, is now available at De Gruyter. Volume editors Susan Herring, Dieter Stein, and Tuija Virtanen present Handbook of Pragmatics 9: "Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication."
BAEL presentation at the English Profile Seminar in Cambridge
Bonn Applied English Linguistics gave a presentation at the English Profile seminar no. 14 in Cambridge, talking about the importance of pragmatic competence and methods for assessing it ins learners. We also presented the BAEL research project PRA.PRO including some sample results from previous studies.
2012
BAEL presentation at Dies Academicus
English is a universal means of communication in multi-national organisations where it is used by many non-native speakers. Even though their overall competence is outstanding, communicative challenges may still arise. These challenges may be of high costs to the organisations.
At this semester's Dies Academicus (December 5, 2012) we presented our new research project "Business English in International Organisations" (BEIO). The talk was held by Terry Haggerty, SAP manager in the UK and the initiator of this project, together with Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf and Katharina Weber, researchers from Bonn Applied English Linguistics.
New book release: Cognitive Pragmatics
The latest publication in the "Handbook of Pragmatics" series, co-edited by Klaus P. Schneider, is now available at De Gruyter. Volume editor Hans-Jörg Schmid present Handbook of Pragmatics 4: "Cognitive Pragmatics."
New M.A. Applied Linguistics
We are excited to see our new interdisciplinary master's program "M.A. Applied Linguistics" start now and would like to welcome all of our new master students. Note that classes for this program begin in the second week of the semester (Oct 16).
Frequently asked questions (faqs)
First BAEL Conference: Pragmatics and Beyond
On Saturday, January 28, 2012 we held our first conference, Pragmatics and Beyond - Investigating varieties, processes and functions of language.
Thanks to all speakers for their great presentations and to our visitors. We hope you enjoyed the conference and to see you again next time.
About the conference programme
2011
New book release: Pragmatics of Society
The latest publication in the "Handbook of Pragmatics" series, co-edited by Klaus P. Schneider, is now available at De Gruyter. Volume editors Gisle Andersen and Karin Aijmer present Handbook of Pragmatics 5: "Pragmatics of Society.
BAEL presentation at Dies Academicus
When it comes to writing emails to a professor, students often hesitate. Which form of greeting is appropriate and which is too formal? And how do the recipients really perceive these emails?
We will present results from our research project "Emerging E-mail Etiquette" (EEE) at this semester's Dies Academicus, December 7, 2011. The presentation takes place in HS II of the Hauptgebäude from 11 - 12 o'clock (c.t.).
Stepin announces raffle winners among Canada exchange students
Our cooperation partner Stepin raffled off three Musicload coupons among all students of the Canada Highschool exchange programme who participated in every QEU survey over the past year.
Congratulations to Alexandra B. (Mahlow), Jonas L. (Dresden) and Sophie G. (Wuppertal) - and many thanks to Stepin for providing the coupons!
Two PhD scholarships at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Anne Barron, Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and former assistant professor at BAEL, is looking for two PhD students in the area of interlanguage pragmatics and variational pragmatics.
Applicants are required to have a Master's degree or equivalent (e.g. Magister) in English Studies, linguistics or a related field, with an above-average grade.
Guest Lecture on German Names
The lecture period is coming to an end, and one last time BAEL and Linguistisches Forum present a guest lecture in the lecture series "Sprachwelten". This time Dr. Tobias Vogelfänger will give a talk titled: "Zum baldigen Comeback der Lehramtsstudiengänge: Linguistik an der Schnittstelle Schule/Hochschule - das Beispiel Personennamen".
Join us for this event on July 11, 2-4pm in lecture hall XVII (IAAK).
Guest lecture Silvia Ulivi
The next talk in our guest lecture series "Sprachwelten", presented by BAEL and Linguistisches Forum, will be held by Silvia Ulivi, MA: "Zugmäßig fährt hier alles planmäßig: eine profimäßige Organisation!" Wortbildungsmittel zwischen Komposition und Derivation.
Come and join us on July 4, 2-4pm in lecture hall XVII (IAAK).
Talk on positive evaluations and compliments
BAEL team member Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf will talk about positive evaluations and compliments next Monday, June 27, 2-4pm in seminar room D.
Her talk is part of our lecture series "Sprachwelten", presented by BAEL and Linguistisches Forum.
2010
BAEL presentation at Dies Academicus
In cooperation with the Linguistisches Forum the BAEL team presented two of our ongoing research projects at this semester's Dies Academicus.
The presentation was given from 11am to 1pm on 8 December in lecture hall 17 of the IAAK (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie).
Info about the research projects
Recent event: lecture series "Linguistisches Forum"
This winter semester’s lecture series “Linguistisches Forum” focused on empirical methods in linguistics. BAEL staff members presented their own as well as the chair’s research projects. As usual the lectures were open to all: students, lecturers and visitors alike.
Outreach at BAEL
A final presentation just marked the end of this year's school project for five pupils from the Christophorus School (CJD) in Königswinter. The project is part of the cooperation between the IAAK and CJD, and was initiated by BAEL.
About this year's school project
SPICE-Ireland now available
We are now in possession of the SPICE-Ireland corpus (Systems of Pragmatic annotation for the spoken component of ICE-Ireland), which provides pragmatic and discourse annotation to the spoken part of ICE-Ireland.
Dissertation on Black South African English now available
Verena Minow, former research assistant at BAEL, has published her dissertation on Black South African English which you can now order here:
Variation in the Grammar of Black South African English
Dies Academicus May 2010 - Report
The Dies Academicus on May 19th has seen another open house at the RCEP, but this time around with a slightly different setup. BAEL presented ongoing projects and let visitors have a hand at some authentic linguistic research work.
2009
Dies Academicus Winter semester 2009/10
This semester, BAEL's workshop in the Research Centre for Empirical Pragmatics (RCEP) on Dies Academicus was only one part of a larger series of events.
The day started with the screening of the US documentary "The Linguists", which attracted many interested visitors despite the early hour.
Guest lecture by Miriam Locher
In the course of the "Linguistics and everyday life" lecture series of Bonn Applied English Linguistics, Miriam A. Locher (University of Basel) gave the first lecture on December 1, 2009, titled "'Come on, I am not a moron' - Theorising impoliteness online" (HS XVII, 10-12).
After a concise overview on previous research in the field of politeness and relational work in general, Professor Locher defined the key concepts of the research area that have emerged from it and provided some concrete examples for their representation in the context of internet-based communication.
"Multikulti-Knigge" with Prof. Schneider on Australian radio
Prof. Schneider has been featured in an ongoing series on intercultural communication by Australian radio station SBS.
The final part is now online, closing the series with some anecdotal accounts.
Master’s Programme in English Linguistics
The application period has been extended until Friday, September 4!
The Department of English, American and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany is offering a newly accredited Master’s programme in English Linguistics.
This new taught MA programme focuses on the English language in its social, cultural and historical contexts world-wide.
For additional information please contact bael(at)uni-bonn.de
11th International Pragmatics Conference (IPRA)
Professor Schneider gave two talks at the 11th International Pragmatics Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Together with Anne Barron he presented the opening talk "Cultural Scripts and politic behaviour across varieties of English" to the panel Im/politeness across Englishes, convened by Derek Bousfield and Michael Haugh.
The second talk, "'Exactly, yes, that's right': Sequential features of listener activities in small talk" closed the panel Listener activities, convened by Neal R. Norrick and Kerstin Fischer.
RCEP Open Day featured in The Wire
Open House at the Research Center for Empirical Pragmatics – Once Again the RCEP Welcomes Visitors into its Humble Halls
After two successful open days during the last year, the Research Centre for Empirical Pragmatics has continued its recent tradition of inviting students to learn about its inner workings.
June 2009 - Guest lecture by Magnus Levin
Magnus Levin, senior lecturer at Växjö University, will give a lecture entitled Change and Variation in the English Verb Phrase in Room 2.015 of the English Seminar on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at 10 a.m. (c.t.).
May 2009 - Dies Academicus: open house at the RCEP
On May 27, 10 a.m., the BAEL-Team once again welcomed visitors at the Research Centre for Empirical Pragmatics (RCEP). In the course of the Dies Academicus we presented group projects where visitors could actively explore empirical research methods used in applied linguistics.
February 2009 - Guest lecture by Professor Paul Chilton
Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) gave a lecture entitled Space, Time and the Possible - Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address on Thursday, February 5, 2009.
January 2009 - Guest lecture by Professor Ingo Plag
Professor Ingo Plag (University of Siegen) gave a lecture entitled "Why morning páper, but júry selection? - The variability of compound stress in English" in HS XVII of the English Seminar on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.
2008
December 2008 - Open house at the RCEP
The second open day at the RCEP was a full success again, attracting students as well as other interested visitors.
October 2008 - ISLE 2008
Professor Schneider (with Wolfram Bublitz, Anita Fetzer and Neal R. Norrick) held the workshop "Spoken English in contexts: Parameters and interfaces." at ISLE 2008: The First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English. The conference took place at the University of Freiburg, Germany, 8-11 October 2008.
September 2008 - 10 years of Applied English Linguistics at Bonn University
Ten years ago, the English Department of Bonn University decided to convert a chair in English Literature into a chair in Applied English Linguistics.
At that time, there were seven professors of literature in the department, but only one professor of modern linguistics and one professor of historical linguistics and medieval literature. On the retirement of Professor Dr. Rainer Lengeler, it was decided to turn his chair into the chair of applied linguistics.
The holder of this new chair was expected to participate in all programmes offered by the department at the time. In particular, the new professor was expected to act as head of the programme “English and Translating”, to teach linguistics in the interdisciplinary North American Studies Programme, and to conduct research into varieties of English.
The new chair in Applied English Linguistics was offered to Prof. Dr. Klaus P. Schneider, then lecturer at University College Dublin, Ireland. In September 1998, Professor Schneider started working at Bonn University.
August 2008 - 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
Professor Schneider presented the paper “‘Same, but different’: Miscommunication between native speakers of the same language.” at AILA 2008: The 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 24-29 August 2008.
July 2008 - Guest Lecture by Thomas Wedde
Thomas Wedde, CEO of docConsult GmbH, a member company of the euroscript International group, gave a lecture entitled "Der Babelfisch der TechDok - Eine Einführung in die Translation Memory Technologie" in Room A of the English Seminar at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1, 2008.
June 2008 - Guest Lecture by Dr. Bróna Murphy
Dr. Bróna Murphy (University College Dublin) gave a lecture entitled "Variational pragmatics: insights into hedging from the perspective of age and gender" in Room A of the English Seminar at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 3, 2008.
More on Variational Pragmatics.
May 2008 - Open house at the RCEP
The first open day at the RCEP was a full success, attracting many students of linguistics as well as other interested visitors.
May 2008 - BAEL book out
The book "Variational Pragmatics: A Focus on Regional Varieties in Pluricentric Languages", edited by Professor Schneider and Dr. Anne Barron, is now available in John Benjamins' "Pragmatics & Beyond New Series".
April 2008 - 17th Sociolinguistics Symposium
Professor Schneider and Dr. Anne Barron will chair the themed panel “Pragmatic variation: The interplay of micro-social and macro-social factors.” at the 17th Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3-5 April 2008.
March 2008 - BAEL on air
Professor Schneider has been interviewed on Small talk by the "Radiowerkstatt Bonn". The interview was broadcast by Radio Bonn/Rhein-Sieg (FM 91,2 - 98,9 - 107,9) on March 30, at 20:04 hrs.
2007
December 2007 - Guest Lecture by Professor Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
On Thursday, 20 December 2007, Professor Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (University of Ghent, Belgium), gave a lecture titled "Using the ICE-GB for a semantic-pragmatic study of English adverbs".
October 2007 - Spotlight on thesis of Lisanna Görtz
Lisanna's thesis, "Changes in the Justificatory Rhetoric of George W. Bush in the Course of the Iraq conflict 2002-2004", did not only earn her the perfect grade, but media attention as well.
The german newspaper Rheinischer Merkur summarised her findings in an article titled "Fakten gegen ein Klischee", which appeared in the section "Wissenschaft und Praxis" on October 25, 2007.
October 2007 - DGFF-Kongress in Giessen
Professor Schneider presented an invited paper “Teaching intercultural competence and pragmatic variation.” in the section “Educational Linguistics”, organised by Friederike Klippel and Joybrato Mukherjee.
The DGFF-Kongress 2007 took place at the University of Giessen, Germany.
August 2007 - IAUPE Conference
2007 IAUPE Conference (Lund, 6-10 August 2007)
Professor Schneider presented an invited paper “Small talk in English: Recurrent patterns and diverging norms.” for the section “Discourse Linguistics” on Tuesday, August 7th.
Click here for the IAUPE 2007 Conference website.
July 2007 - IPrA Conference
10th International Pragmatics Conference (Göteborg, 8-13 July 2007)
Professor Schneider chaired the panel "Variational pragmatics: a focus on region, age and gender" on Friday, July 13th. Click here for the International Pragmatics Association's (IPrA) website with the complete program.
January 2007 - Anéla Junior research meeting
Verena Minow and Susanne Strubel spoke at the International Research Meeting for Junior Applied Linguists, January 24-26, which took place at University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Both gave an overview of their current PhD research projects.
