bael conferences
Each year, the Bonn Applied English Linguistics chair hosts a conference during the summer semester. Aimed specifically at postgraduate, PhD, and post-doc students, with an emphasis on pragmatics and other areas of applied linguistics, the conference is a place where young linguists can showcase their empirical research projects and network with other researchers in the field.
upcoming conference: may 8th-9th, 2020
digital pragmatics & cmc
May 8th-9th, 2020
conference location: Universitätsforum, Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn
keynote speaker: Professor Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University
More information to follow in the coming months!
previous bael conferences
language assessment
June 28th-29th, 2019
keynote speaker: Professor Carsten Roever, University of Melbourne
discussion panel: Bringing pragmatics into the classroom: Prospects for language teaching and testing, with teachers Marja Meinl, Timo Brede, and Anne Nickel
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language learning and teaching
May 4th-5th, 2018
keynote speakers: Prof. Dr Susanne Niemeier (Koblenz) and Prof. Dr Christopher J. Hall (York)
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variation in discourse
May 12th-13th, 2017
keynote speaker: Jo Angouri (University of Warwick)
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language use, culture and politeness
June 3rd-4th, 2016
keynote speaker: Helen Spencer-Oatey (University of Warwick)
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variation in language and communication
June 19th-20th, 2015
keynote speaker: Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich)
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intercultural communication
May 23rd-24th, 2014
keynote speaker: Anne Barron (Leuphana University, Lüneburg)
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variational pragmatics
June 7th-8th, 2013
keynote speaker: Markus Bieswanger (University of Bayreuth)
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pragmatics and beyond: investigating varieties, processes and functions of language
January 28th, 2012
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