Programme

Beyond academic programs for academic exchanges, social programs will also be held during the evening hours for a more personal exchange. 

Academic programs

Thursday

8:30 Registration

  9:00 

Welcome 

  9:15

Keynote

Jakob Leimgruber: English in the Asian (Expanding) Circle
10:15 coffee break
10:45

Florence Daniel , Foluke O. Unuabonah  & Abiola Fifelola: Sorry as a pragmatic marker in Ghanaian and Ugandan Englishes: A corpus-based approach (Zoom)
11:15

Debra Ziegeler: Negative retentionism or co-optation? English final discourse particles in New Englishes 
11:45

Toyese Najeem Dahunsi, Ayobami Adetoro Afolabi,  Oluwayomi Rosemary Olaniyan &  Richard Akano: Distrust in discourse? A comparative study of commentary pragmatic markers in parallel English corpora of selected African countries (Zoom)                                                                                                                                                     

12:15-13:45 lunch
13:45

Keynote

Eric Anchimbe: Societal norms and communicative acts in a collectivist society: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective
14:45 coffee break
15:15

Lisa Lehen: Integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches in the study of DISAGREEMENTS in Hong Kong
15:45

Guyanne Wilson : Speech Acts by Trinidadian Influencers on TikTok
16:15

Ulrike Gut, Foluke Unuabonah, Florence Daniel, Anika Gerfer, Rotimi Oladipupo & Folajimi Oyebola: The role of social and linguistic factors in the production of Nigerian English speech acts
19:00

Conference Dinner

at Le Feu, Schlossplatz 48

 

Friday
  9:30

Keynote

Anne Schröder: An Ethnographically Grounded Approach to Pragmatic Variation: Establishing a Pragmatic Profile of Namibian English
 10:30 coffee break
 11:00

Dominik Schoppa: Metapragmatic variation across the New Englishes: The use of the meta-illocutionary lexicon in British, Hong Kong, and Kenyan English
 11:30

Julia Degenhardt: Tag Questions in South Asian Englishes
 12:00

Michael Westphal: The perception of multilingual question tags in Nigeria and Trinidad
12:30-14:00 lunch
14:00

Oluwateniola Oluwabukola Kupolati & Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah: Identity and attitude towards borrowed discourse-pragmatic features in Nigerian English (Zoom)
14:30

Rotimi Oladipupo & Aderonke Akinola: Omo, what are you waiting for?: The discourse-pragmatic imports of omo in Nigerian English (Zoom)
15:00

Robert Fuchs: Variation in the linguistic expression of persuasion across New and Old Englishes
15:30

Final discussion and conference closing

 

Social programme

A warming-up meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m., on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at the Hier & Jetzt, Bismarckallee 5-11, Münster.

 

The conference dinner will take place Thursday, August 17, at 7:00 p.m at Le Feu, Schlossplatz 48, Münster.

Additionally, Münster offers many lovely places where you can have a drink.