PLM2011 Programme & Abstracts

This is a pre-final version of our Programme, as of 28 April 2011. PLM2011 Workshop Sessions in italics.

The entire Book of Abstracts is available as a PDF file [2.5 MB]. For individual abstracts, click on the author's name in the programme below.

Saturday, 30 April 2011

17:30 Registration opens; 19:00 Welcome reception (glass of wine)

Sunday, 01 May 2011

Monday; Tuesday

08:00 Registration opens

9:00-9:30

Opening

9:30-10:30

Plenary: Brigitta Busch: Language biographies: exploring dynamics of individual multilingualism in changing social contexts (chaired by Michał Krzyżanowski)

BOUNDARY-WORK AND VALUATION IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

RESULTATIVES. TYPOLOGY, HISTORY, AREALITY AND COGNITION

MIND, DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY

GENERAL SESSION: Discourse Analysis

(chaired by Michał Krzyżanowski)

10:30-11:00

W. Awedyk & C. Hamans: Zabrocki on boundaries: Diacrisis as a solution to boundary problems

N. Nau, K. Stroński & B. Waelchli: Introduction

M. Janowski: Things without a Name

C. Hopkinson: Constructing identities and relationships in British and Czech advertising discourse: a contrastive study

11:00-11:30

H. Pociechina: Slavic Morphophonemics in Panchrony: Across Boundaries

B. Cetnarowska: The mixing of passive and non-passive resultative adjectives in Polish

M. Haładewicz-Grzelak & J. K. Lubos-Kozieł: Discursive creation of Societal Catholicism: a case study of advertising in Silesian Catholic periodicals from the second half of the 19th to early 20th centuries

S. Bennett: But some people ARE ignorant!: A critical analysis of linguistic strategies employed in online articles and subsequent comments below the line

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

BOUNDARY-WORK AND VALUATION IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

RESULTATIVES. TYPOLOGY, HISTORY, AREALITY AND COGNITION

MIND, DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY

GENERAL SESSION: Discourse Analysis

(chaired by Zdzisław Wąsik)

12:00-12:30

L. A. Cariola: Body boundary and primary process language in discourse of religious-mystical and psychotic altered states of consciousness

J. Pakerys: On the polysemy / homonymy of markers of derivational resultatives in Lithuanian

M. Kielar: Grammatical means of expressing valuation in mass media discourse

J. W. Unger: The discursive dynamics of online political activism

12:30-13:00

J. K. Lubos-Kozieł & M. Haładewicz-Grzelak: Visual discourse encounters in the third degree: boundary collapse and fortition in the representations of Licheń’s Holy Icon

D. Krajewska: Resultatives in Basque: a diachronic study

U. Okulska: The role of cultural values in the formation of Late Middle and Early Modern English institutional correspondence

J. Cudomirovic: Media discourse and national identity: The coverage of Serbian national football team matches in the 2010 World Cup in Serbian daily newspapers

13.00-14.00

Lunch break

14:00-15:00

Keynote: Ruth Wodak (chaired by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk)

EXPERIMENTAL AND INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

RESULTATIVES. TYPOLOGY, HISTORY, AREALITY AND COGNITION

MIND, DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY

GENERAL SESSION: Discourse Analysis

(chaired by Zdzisław Wąsik)

15:00-15:30

E. Torgersen: Introduction

P. Tipton: The role of context in experimental approaches to sociolinguistic variation

M. Bavant: Resultatives in Basque and connected issues in different languages

M. Kopytowska: Mediating human experience: frames, conflict, and the Other

E. Winzeler: Well, oh well: Comparing oh well to the independent discourse marker well

15:30-16:00

M. Maegaard & N. Pharao: Exploring the social meaning potentials of phonetic variants – the case of Copenhagen Danish(s)

L. Khokhlova: The evolution of resultatives in Western New Indo-Aryan languages (Hindi, Gujarati, Marwari and Punjabi)

M. Fabiszak: Construal operations in negotiating the tension between individual and collective memory: personal narratives on tesknie.com

M. C. Caimotto: The Italian dream of a ‘white Obama’

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

EXPERIMENTAL AND INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

RESULTATIVES. TYPOLOGY, HISTORY, AREALITY AND COGNITION

GENERAL SESSION: Discourse Analysis

(chaired by Maciej Kielar)

16:30-17:00

L. Clark & K. Watson: Change Point Analysis and language attitudes: measuring reactions to regional variation in real time

K. Stronski: On the development of static participles in Pahari

K. Stadnik: The Self and Society: Individuation in Chaucer

17:00-17:30

B. G. Evans: Investigating the role of phonetic variation in speech processing

B. Waelchli: Toward a typology of resultatives beyond Eurasia

A. Rusinek: The Concept of Semantic Field: In Search of the Father of the Field Theory

17:30-18:00

P. Kerswill: Discussion

General discussion

 

Monday, 02 May 2011

Sunday; Tuesday

9:00-10:00

Plenary: Peter Trudgill: Societies of intimates, social dynamics, and mature phenomena (chaired by Jarosław Weckwerth)

NARRATIVES IN INTERACTION

THE SYNTAX OF INFINITIVES AND GERUNDS

GENERAL SESSION

SATELLITE SESSION: DISCOURSE IN CELTIC (MINORITY) LANGUAGES

10:00-10:30

K. Ciepiela: Situated narratives as a tool kit for identity performance

SPECIAL FEATURE

Invited speaker: I. Landau: Explaining Partial Control: A Tale of Denial and Repression [10:00-11:00]

E. McKendry: A New Irish? Problems of communication in modern Irish media and new speakers

10:30-11:00

J. Pawelczyk: ‘No stories, no self’ : Narrative as an interactional accomplishment in the psychotherapy session

G. Ó Domagáin: Where are your nouns? A discussion of the dichotomy between the lexicon of L1 speakers and L2 speakers in Irish

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

NARRATIVES IN INTERACTION

THE SYNTAX OF INFINITIVES AND GERUNDS

GENERAL SESSION: Philosophy and language

(chaired by Yishai Tobin)

SATELLITE SESSION: DISCOURSE IN CELTIC (MINORITY) LANGUAGES

11:30-12:00

A. Kielkiewicz-Janowiak: Narratives in intergenerational communication

J. Witkoś: Control across an object: a Late Merge approach

N. Ritt: Grammar, accommodation and the uni-directionality of grammaticalisation

S. Heinz: Welsh: Between stability and fragility - consolidated status, increasing linguistic insecurity - a socio-linguistic paradox?

12:00-12:30

N. Schleicher: Gendered narratives

P. Cegłowski: (Non-)Obligatory Control and the syntax of -nie/-cie nominals in Polish

D. Lipowska: Naming Game and homonymy–synonymy puzzle

M. Hornsby: Colli iaith neu newid iaith? Changes in the Welsh language in the 21st century

12:30-13:00

E. Glapka: Stories of bridal and feminine experience – the production of gendered narratives in the context of media reception

S. Minor: Control via Agree

B. Konat: Philosophical assumptions in cognitive and generative linguistics

H. Glyn Lewis: Language resilience and shift outside formal educational contexts: The Good News and the Bad News

13:00-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-14:45

Special event: Presentation of "The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics" (moderated by Peter Trudgill)

THE SYNTAX OF INFINITIVES AND GERUNDS

GENERAL SESSION: Phonetics & Phonology

(chaired by Paul Kerswill)

SATELLITE SESSION: DISCOURSE IN CELTIC (MINORITY) LANGUAGES

14:45-15:15

P. Herbeck: On Adjunct Control, Overt Subjects, and the Theory of Empty Categories

T. Kuczmarski: Speaker Adaptation Technique in Building Personalized Speech Synthesis for Individuals with Progressive Speech Loss

J. Price: The Irish Language in the Museum: the potential of micro-level actions for language support and maintenance

15:15-15:45

K. Yoshimoto: Japanese tokoro-clause constructions do not involve backward control

L. Ballard: Akan Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory

C. Anderson: Mapping the dialects of Ireland - a cross-linguistic approach

15:45-16:15

Coffee break

GENERAL SESSION

(chaired by Jarosław Weckwerth)

THE SYNTAX OF INFINITIVES AND GERUNDS

GENERAL SESSION: Phonetics & Phonology

(chaired by Paul Kerswill)

SATELLITE SESSION: DISCOURSE IN CELTIC (MINORITY) LANGUAGES

16:15-16:45

N. H. Hilton, C. Gooskens & R. Van Bezooijen: Attitudes towards Frisian in the Netherlands

S. Żychliński: Evidence against locative experiencers in Polish

M. Rominiecka: Persuasive nature of phonostylistic processes in political discourse on the example of speeches and interviews given by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. A study within the framework of Natural Phonology

G. Quentel: Celtic Roots in the Neology of the South Brythonic Languages

16:45-17:15

A. Sandach: The attitudes of Finns towards dialect literature

A. Madeira & A. Fiéis: Tense and restructuring: control predicates in the diachrony of Portuguese

P. Orzechowska: Competing factors in consonant cluster formation

 

17:15-17:45

M. Sheehan & M. C. Parafita Couto: Optional inflected infinitives in Portuguese and Galician

19:30

Conference party at the Brovaria

 

Tuesday, 03 May 2011

Sunday; Monday

9:00-10:00

Plenary: Dafydd Gibbon: Speech technology in the context of applied sociolinguistics in Africa (chaired by Joanna Pawelczyk)

PERSPECTIVES ON PROXIMIZATION: RECOGNIZING BOUNDARIES, BUILDING BRIDGES

GENERAL SESSION: Sociolinguistics

(chaired by Michael Hornsby)

THE SEMIOTIC SELF IN COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTIONS

10:00-10:30

P. Cap: Introduction: Proximization as a construct and a methodological tool

M. B. Paradowski: Investigating the social dynamics of language spread: shifting from field work to social media

P. Durst-Andersen: From Bühler's organon model of language to the speaker- and hearer-oriented models of human communication

10:30-11:00

P. Cap: Time in proximization theory

M. Ramoniene: Urban Home Languages: New Trends in Lithuania

P. Gąsiorowski: How language serves the self and how the self serves language in return

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

PERSPECTIVES ON PROXIMIZATION: RECOGNIZING BOUNDARIES, BUILDING BRIDGES

GENERAL SESSION: Sociolinguistics

(chaired by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak)

THE SEMIOTIC SELF IN COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTIONS

11:30-12:00

P. Chilton: Deictic Space theory (DST): the fundamental theory and its applications

A. Prikhodkine: Covert prestige, dialect variation and social dynamics: a case of “intermediate professions”

K. Krawczak: Meaning construction: Between subjectivity and intersubjectivity

12:00-12:30

B. Kaal & A. Cienki: A discourse space model for identifying perspective in Dutch party manifestos

R. Tomášková: Advertising Education: Interpersonal Aspects in the Genre of the Internet University Presentations

J. Zaprucki: The ecological self: On the literary construction of local identity under the influence of the natural and cultural environment in the Karkonosze-Mountain region

12:30-13:00

L. F. Llamas: Blending times, politics and ideology. A text-world theory approach to the study of legitimisation. The case of northern Ireland

M. Dzysiuk: The self-image under construction: the impact of advertising on the emergence of eating disorders

13.00-14.00

Lunch break

14:00-15:30

POSTER SESSION (For names and abstracts, see below)

(chaired by Małgorzata Kul)

PERSPECTIVES ON PROXIMIZATION: RECOGNIZING BOUNDARIES, BUILDING BRIDGES

GENERAL SESSION

(chaired by Bartosz Wiland)

THE SEMIOTIC SELF IN COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTIONS

15:30-16:00

M. Kopytowska: Proximization, mediatization, and news discourse

M. Tanase-Dogaru: On the ‘Double-DP’ Qualitative Construction in Romanian

E. Wąsik: Speech as a semiotic extension of the self

16:00-16:30

Y. Tobin & A. Stern Perez: A sign-oriented perspective of proximization in the narratives of Israeli bus drivers who experienced terrorist attacks

P. Korpal: Omission in simultaneous interpreting as a conscious decision made by an interpreter

J. Szymańska: Pragmatic aspects of the self as a communicator: on the textual interchangeability of sender and receiver roles in academic discourse

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

PERSPECTIVES ON PROXIMIZATION: RECOGNIZING BOUNDARIES, BUILDING BRIDGES

THE SEMIOTIC SELF IN COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTIONS

17:00-17:30

P. Cap & M. Kopytowska: Perspectives on proximization: recognizing boundaries, building bridges - Discussion [17:00-18:00]

A. Stępkowska: Societal multilingualism: collective aspects of communication

17:30-18:00

R. Lanigan: Communicology Paradigms of Self: The Perspectives Model of Interpersonal Communication

18:00-18:30

Z. Wąsik: From language to the communicating self as an object of linguistic studies

 

Posters

M. Berizzi: Deontic modality in the Italian dialects: the case of the verb toccare ('touch')

M. Borowiak-Dostatnia: Do we train properly? The Language and technology tandem in the curricula of European universities

D. Clement: Glottal stops and tones in Gaelic and Danish

E. Even-Simkin and Y. Tobin: Semantic integrality of the IVA-Ablaut verbs in the resultative context

A. Gonerko-Frej: Enriched or endangered? Global identity issues in EFL in Poland

R.A. Islam: Reduplication in Urdu

G. Krynicki: Phonetic errors of Polish learners of English and 80-20 rule

J. Łucka: Conceptual metaphors in the discourse of the European Parliament

A. Marczak: Constraints and natural preferences in Polish English stress acquisition

G. Michalski: Autosegmental morphophonemic velar palatalisations in Polish

B. Pastuszek-Lipinska, B. Kamińska-Kolarczyk and E. Wielgat: Effectiveness of melodic intonation therapy - Preliminary results from four patients

N. Perkova: The plurality of participants in Latvian: sa-derivatives, reciprocity and comitatives

M. Połczyńska, A. Drużdż, A. Czarczyńska-Orchowska and M. Moryc: Secondary biomedical factors causing language and speech disorders after ischemic stroke

J.T. Ramonaite: The development of utterances in a native-like L2 acquisition: A case study of internationally adopted 11-year-old

E. Trutkowski: Referential null subjects in German

G. Zapletalová: Social and cognitive contexts of prepared speeches: The impact of individual and collective aspects on the social dynamics of conference presentations and their discussions