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.
conference: 2023
diversity
July 7th-8th, 2023
conference location: University Forum (FIW), Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn
keynote speakers: Jo Angouri (University of Warwick) and Elizabeth Stokoe (London School of Economics and Political Science)
previous bael conferences
language and/in tourism
June 24th-25th, 2022
conference location: IAAK, Bonn
keynote speaker: Susanne Mohr (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
applied linguistics
June 10th-12th, 2021 
conference location: online, via Zoom
keynote speaker: Juliane House (University of Hamburg),
J. César Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University Bloomington),
Klaus P. Schneider (University of Bonn)
More information on the BAELc10
digital pragmatics & cmc
November 27, 2020
conference location: online, via Zoom
keynote speaker: Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)
More information on the BAELc9
language assessment
June 28th-29th, 2019
keynote speaker: 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
Click here for more details
language learning and teaching
May 4th-5th, 2018
keynote speakers: Susanne Niemeier (Koblenz) and Christopher J. Hall (York)
click here for more details
variation in discourse
May 12th-13th, 2017
keynote speaker: Jo Angouri (University of Warwick)
click here for more details
language use, culture and politeness
June 3rd-4th, 2016
keynote speaker: Helen Spencer-Oatey (University of Warwick)
click here for more details
variation in language and communication
June 19th-20th, 2015
keynote speaker: Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich)
click here for more details
intercultural communication
May 23rd-24th, 2014
keynote speaker: Anne Barron (Leuphana University, Lüneburg)
click here for more details
variational pragmatics
June 7th-8th, 2013
keynote speaker: Markus Bieswanger (University of Bayreuth)
click here for more details
pragmatics and beyond: investigating varieties, processes and functions of language
January 28th, 2012
click here for more details
