baelc1: first bonn applied english linguistics conference
The conference took place on Saturday, January 28th, from 10 - 17h in the Conference Room. The focus of the conference was "Pragmatics and Beyond – Investigating varieties, processes and functions of language."
- 10 am - 11 am
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Linguistic relativity: A pragmatic perspective on a philosophical issue
Pawel Sickinger (Bonn)
- 11 am - 12 pm
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The influence of L1 on second language writing processes
Esther Breuer (Cologne)
- 12 pm - 1 pm
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Form and function of positive remarks: How speakers of American English evaluate their surroundings in everyday conversations
Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf (Bonn, Bochum)
- 2 pm - 3 pm
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Impoliteness in Postcolonial Englishes: Focus on Kenya
Verena Minow (Bochum)
- 3 pm - 4 pm
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A methodological comparison of directive speech acts in American and British English: Discourse completion tasks versus conversational data
Ilka Flöck (Oldenburg)
- 4 pm - 5 pm
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Quantifying pragmatics: Building corpora to identify or verify form-function patterns
Gregor Geiermann (Bonn)
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