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 A1: Enregisterement and stereotyping of regional varieties

Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Dionysis Goutsos

Session B1: Multimodal discourse-analytic approaches

Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Barbra Meek

11:15-11:45

Sofia Lampropoulou, Paul Cooper, Camila Montiel McCann & Rachel Byrne
The “Scouse bird”: Enregistered dialect, gender and social identity on Twitter(47.9 KB)

Mie Hiramoto & Vincent Pak
Uncritically queer: Queer speech and visual semiotics of okama characters in shōnen anime(45.2 KB)

11:45-12:15

Natalie Braber
“Ey up mi duck?” Awareness and commodification of local dialect in the East Midlands(37.2 KB)
[ONLINE]

Maeve Eberhardt
Fat and fabulous? Body positivity on the neoliberal screen(68.9 KB)

12:15-12:45

Shane Walshe
Brogues and blarney: The representation of Irish speech in American comics(70.4 KB)

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(75.2 KB)[HYBRID]

12:45-14:15

Lunch break (University canteen – Mensa Austraße)

Session A2: Enregisterement, stereotyping, and humor

Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Irene Ranzato

Session B2: Stylization and representation of identity in lyrics

Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Paul Flanagan

14:15-14:45

Anika Gerfer & Lisa Jansen
“Di game show bout spellin’ and ting”: Performance, production, and parody of stereotypes in Jamaican Countdown(72.3 KB)

Monika Konert-Panek
The sociolinguistic bricolage of punk rock: Identity performance, localism vs. globalism and frequency effects in stylisation(73.8 KB)

14:45-15:15

Johanna Gerwin
The role of dialect in comedy performances: Focus on humour and enregisterment(64.9 KB)

Ayano Watanabe
Grammatical variability of British pop music: Competing explanatory models(68.0 KB)
[ONLINE]

15:15-15:45

Luca Valleriani
“Am I bovvered?” Accent enregisterment through humour in The Catherine Tate Show(71.9 KB)

Andrew Moody

Mock(ing) English in Japanese political satire: Kuwata Keisuke’s "Abe Road" reimagining The Beatles "Abbey Road"(134.3 KB)

15:45-16:15

Coffee break (on site)

Session A3: Multimodal stylization

Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Christian Mair

Session B3: Stylization and representation of identity in lyrics (ctd.)

Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Lisa Jansen

16:15-16:45

Derek Denis & Vidhya Elango
Stylized performance, mediation, and the circulation of Multicultural Toronto English(66.0 KB)
[HYBRID]

Daniel Duncan & Mary Robinson
If Blink-182 went country: Genre convention and stylization in cover song(66.3 KB)s

16:45-17:15

Susan Reichelt
Computer-mediated communication as telecinematic discourse(67.4 KB)

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(65.4 KB)

17:15-17:45

Irene Theodoropoulou
“Let me be Giannis”: Styl(iz)ing NBA’s Greek freak in pop culture(28.0 KB)

Marina Dossena
Ghost riders in the text: Lyrics and language profiles through time(66.4 KB)
[ONLINE]

17:45-18:15

Manfred Krug
Binary or diversity? A multimodal approach to Michael Jackson's music video "Black or White"(46.8 KB)

Andy Gibson
The Phonetics of Popular Song (PoPS) corpus: Exploring sociophonetic variation in pop and hip hop from New Zealand and the USA(74.8 KB)
[ONLINE]

19:00

Networking event/informal get-together (Fässla brewery pub)

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 A4: Variation, change, and globalization

Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Manfred Krug

Session B4: Multilingualism, language ideology, and raciolinguistics

Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Susan Reichelt

11:15-11:45

Dionysis Goutsos
Politeness devices in film language: Diachronic evidence from the Corpus of Greek Film Dialogue(128.2 KB)

Barbra Meek & Monika Bednarek
Language use in Indigenous-authored television series: A comparison of US and Australian contexts(67.4 KB)
[HYBRID]

11:45-12:15

Tianxiao Wang & Yuhan Lin
Variation is the way to perfection: Imperfect rhyming in Chinese hip-hop(62.5 KB)
[ONLINE]

Christoph Schubert
Social stereotypes of Hispanics in Hollywood: A cognitive-linguistic look at popular comedy films(40.8 KB)

12:15-12:45

Christian Mair
Migration, media, and the globalisation of Nigerian Pidgin in the 21st century(65.8 KB)

Irene Ranzato
(Non)standard voices in films and TV: The case of butlers and governesses(68.0 KB)

12:45-14:15

Lunch break (University canteen – Mensa Austraße)

Session A5: Pop culture, youth language, and applied aspects

Room: SP17/01.05
Chair: Shane Walshe

Session B5: Discourse analysis, folk linguistics and prescriptivism

Room: SP17/01.18
Chair: Anika Gerfer

14:15-14:45

Anastasia Stamou
From the demonization to the “celebration” of youth voices? Evidence from Greek audiovisual fiction(64.6 KB)

Nadiya Kiss
"Be brave like Ukraine": Traditional ethnic and western elements in the pop-culture resistance against Russia's war in Ukraine(41.9 KB)

14:45-15:15

Jamie Shinhee Lee
K-pop stars and Korean language teaching on YouTube(71.3 KB)

[ONLINE]

Jane Hodson
Sherlock the “Grammar Nazi”: Using YouTube comments to explore popular attitudes towards prescriptivism(71.6 KB)

15:15-15:45

Conference closing and coffee

Room: SP17/00.13

17:00

Guided tour (Meeting point: Grüner Markt)

19:30

Conference dinner (Restaurant Kleehof in der Gärtnerstadt)