Linguistic Laboratory
The Linguistic Laboratory (LingLab) is a work-in-progress colloquium organized by the Chair of English Linguistics. LingLab showcases ongoing research in English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth and is open to presenters from all stages of academic life (advanced MA students, PhD students, postdocs, visiting researchers, professors).
We meet every second Tuesday of the month between 4 and 6pm (c.t.).
Program WiSe 2023/2024
November 14: Aynur Karimli - Classification of the Use of Online Disagreement Strategies and Their Impoliteness Aspect on Reddit
room: S 120, GWI
December 12: Tatjana Shannon Schnellinger - Online (via Zoom) - Afro-Surinamese Perspectives on Gestural Impoliteness: Gendered and Cultural Perceptions of Kiss-Teeth and Cut-Eye
January 16: Daria Dayter & Sofia Rüdiger - Online (via Zoom) - Magical Affirmations: Affirmative Statements in the Pick-up Artist Paradigm
Previous Programs
SoSe 2023
May 9: Hanwool Choe - Mukbang Where You Eat Alone and Together
June 27: Usman Ahmad - A Descriptive Study of English-Hausa Translations of Legal Documents
July 4: Halide İslamoğlu - An Analysis of Speech Acts Across Englishes: Compliments and Compliment Responses in US American, Canadian, Irish, and Australian Talk Shows
WiSe 2022/2023
November 8: Sofia Rüdiger - Indirect Complaints from a Diachronic Perspective
December 13: Glory Essien Otung - Identities and Power in Colonial Letters: The Case of British Cameroons (1916 - 1961)
January 17: Johannes Trüdinger - Scottish Standard English: A Description of Its Grammar in Relation to Standard English and Standard American English
SoSe 2022
May 10: Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter - Book Launch: The Language of Pick-Up Artists - Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry
June 14: Somaye Akbari - Introducing the Concept of Âberu and an Âberu-Damaging Act in Iranian Political Discourse: Focus on Presidential Debates
July 12: Yannis Wong - From Chaos to Governance: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study on the Media Representations of National Security Law in Hong Kong
WiSe 2021/2022
November 9: Jude Ssempuuma - Code Switching and Translanguaging in the Classroom: Their Implication in the Teaching and Learning of English in Elementary, High and Academic High Schools in Saxony, Germany
December 14: Ryan Fountain - Rethinking Standard Language Ideologies: A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Language Attitudes of Students in English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Programs
January 11: Jocelyne Kenne - Language and Interaction in the Chinese Community in Cameroon: A Sociolinguistic Profile
February 8: Susanne Mühleisen - Puns and Picong, Boasting and Complaining: The Language of Calypso