ISLE 7 Conference Program

Pre-conference workshops

Session 1
 32-208 (ISLE7 staff)32-20932-210 (ISLE7 staff)32-211 (ISLE7 staff)
9:00-9:30“People’s poetry”, “dustbin language” and everywhere in between  — the ins and outs of English slanguage (K. Burridge & H. Manns) Lexical Variation within World Englishes
(P. Peters)
Satellite event
Text Analysis Tools
S. Musgrave Welcome and Introduction to
Jupyter notebooks
9:30-10:00A. Laugesen
Australian Historical Lexicography and the Challenges of Australian Slang
 T. Bernaisch
Empirical traces of the pragmatic nativisation of Sri Lankan English
S. Hames
Discursis
10:00-10:30I. Burke
“Google it, mate”: a comparative study of antagonistic mate in Australian and British English
 R. Fuchs
All the wallahs in the godown: Diachronic Change in Indian English Lexis
10:30-11:00C. Krafzik
How Aussies Swear: Comparing Anglo-Celtic, Chinese and Italian Australians
 P. Peters & P. Peters
Indian and Sri Lankan English
B. Foley
Tools for geolocation
11:00-11:30Tea Break
Session 2
 32-208 (ISLE7 staff)32-20932-210 (ISLE7 staff)32-211 (ISLE7 staff)
 “People’s poetry”, “dustbin language” and everywhere in between  — the ins and outs of English slanguage (K. Burridge & H. Manns) Lexical Variation within World Englishes
(P. Peters)
Satellite event
Text Analysis Tools
(S. Musgrave, S. Hames, & B. Foley, Ch. Sun)
11:30-12:00K. Allan
The royal warrant on writing ‘fuck’
 L. Lising & P. Peters
Discourse markers in Philippine Englishes
Ch. Sun
ATAP tool showcase: Quotation Tool, Semantic Tagger, Document Similarity
12:00-12:30D. Hughes
Can I get an F in the chat for Australian slang?
 A. Smith
Changing attitudes to immigration – a study into parliamentary and newspaper discourse
12:30-13:00K. Burridge
Longevity of slang
 B. Purser
Adverbs of evidentiality in Australian English
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
Session 3
 32-208 (ISLE7 staff)32-209 (ISLE7 staff)32-210 (ISLE7 staff)32-211 (ISLE7 staff)
 “People’s poetry”, “dustbin language” and everywhere in between  — the ins and outs of English slanguage (K. Burridge & H. Manns)Challenges and New Directions in English Corpus Linguistics in Australia
(M. Bednarek, P. Crosthwaite & M. Schweinberger)
Lexical Variation within World Englishes
(P. Peters)
 
14:00-14:30S. Musgrave
Creativity and performativity in Australian slang (WiP)
M. Bednarek, P. Crosthwaite & M. Schweinberger
Introduction (Start 14:15)
R. Fuchs
Global variation in the linguistic expression of persuasion
 
14:30-15:00H. Manns
What to do when a slang’s not a slang: Australian slang and Javanese Boso Walikan
C. Carvalho & P. Pinto Corpus Linguistics contributions to the elaboration of teaching activities
to develop EFL Listening skills
C. A. Basile
Modal BETTER: a corpus-based investigation in World Englishes
 
15:00-15:30 P. Crosthwaite
An introduction to CorpusMate
R. P. Romasanta
Looking at the effect of language contact across varieties of English worldwide
Panel Discussion
The Combination of Tradition and Computation in the Study of Scottish Historical Correspondence (M. Dossena & Ch. Elsweiler)
15:30-16:00Tea Break
Session 4
 32-208 (ISLE7 staff)32-209 (ISLE7 staff)32-210 (ISLE7 staff)32-211 (ISLE7 staff)
 Panel Discussion Female childhoods. Linguistic approaches to the silent and
obscure years of women in English (auto-) biographical discourse, 1750-1900
(P. Tejada Caller)
Challenges and New Directions in English Corpus Linguistics in Australia
(M. Bednarek, P. Crosthwaite & M. Schweinberger)
Lexical Variation within World Englishes
(P. Peters)
Panel Discussion
The Combination of Tradition and Computation in the Study of Scottish Historical Correspondence (M. Dossena & Ch. Elsweiler)
16:00-16:30P. Tejada Caller
Introduction
G. Plaza Tejedor, N. Calvo Cortés Trained as a domestic servant in her girlhood”: girls’ lives in Australian
female biographical discourse
M. Ruiz-Quesada
Biography and Black Female Childhood in the ODNB
I. de la Cruz Cabanillas, J. Ruano- García
Exploring the ODNB component of the FemChildLing Corpus: The case of female Glaswegian voices
R. Yin & M. Schweinberger
A corpus-based acoustic analysis of vowel production by L1-Chinese learners and native speakers of English
J. Neels, S. Leuckert, A. Lohmann
Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes: Assessing trajectories, areal patterns and rates of change with synchronic corpora
16:30-17:00H. Caple
Challenges for constructing corpora from Australian historical newspapers
A. Bohmann
The discursive construction of gender: Verb phrases with SHE/HE subjects in different varieties of English
17:00-17:30M. Kemble Emotionality in corpora: A mixed- method approach to analyse affect in Australian sports news coverage 
17:30-18:00P. Tejada Caller & J. López Narváez Social paths as discourse topics in the construction of 19th c British
female childhoods
M. Nadales
The bride was just eighteen years old”: A preliminary analysis of the linguistic construction of female childhood in biographic discourse
between 1881-1890
C. Bray
Applying decolonial research principles in corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and issues
  

 

Session 1
9:45-10:00Welcome address by the organizers
(32-215)
10:00-11:001st Keynote: Catherine Travis
The intersection of ethnicity and social class in language variation and change
(32-215)
11:00-11:30Tea Break
Session 2
 32-209 (Chair: Isabelle Burke) 32-210 (Chair: Pam Peters)32-211 (Chair: Peter Crosthwaite) 
11:30-12:00C. Paolini, H. Cuyckens, S. Marzo, D. Speelman & B. Szmrecsanyi
Give me a break: another dative alternation study, but one enriched with distributional semantics
M. Clews
A swampful of quackers: reimagining Australian English dialect formation
M. Laitinen & M.Fatemi
New approaches to (digital) social networks
12:00-12:30S. Hackert, C. Laliberté, R. Mailhammer, D. Wengle & R. Zeidan
Past tense marking in English on Croker Island: implications for variation and change in English
Th. Poulton & K. Burridge
“Kinships of sound-to-sense” in the senses:
Case study in the English Smell Lexicon
B. Busse, N. Dumrukcic, S. Du Bois & I. Kleiber
Corpus-Based Network Analysis of Onomastic References in 17th-Century Grammar Writing
12:30-13:00E. Jorgensen, A. Margetts, I. Burke & H. Sheppard
Speech and gesture in the expression of caused motion events in Australian English
J. Walker
The Sound (Not) Heard Round the World: A Cross-Variety Comparison of (t/d)-Deletion
S. Grossenbacher & D. Britain
Dialect transmission on the move: nomadic communities, dialect acquisition and sociolinguistic sedentarism
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
Session 3
 32-209 (Chair: James Walker) 32-210 (Chair: David Britain) 32-211 (Chair: Sophie DuBois) 
14:00-14:30Ch. Mair
Nigerian Pidgin as an Informal World Language
K. Hirano
A Linguistic Change and its Directional Shift among British Residents in Japan
O. Schützler
Variable vowel contrasts in Scottish Standard English: Social factors and implicational hierarchies
14:30-15:00A. A. Vela-Rodrigo
100% crowdfunded! A study on phraseology for successful scientific communication in an emerging digital genre
J. Landmann
Recent Metaphors of Brexit in the British press: A linguistic analysis based on the Financial Times
G. Schneider & P. Ronan
Representations of Ireland in the British Parliament
15:00-15:30S. Hartmann & T. Ungerer Language, schmanguage: The multimodal semantics of English shm-reduplicationN. Braber & V. Howard
Utilising technology to safeguard linguistic heritage: Celebrating Varieties in Nottinghamshire
G. Schneider & P. Ronan (Lightning talk) What does ChatGPT know about linguistics?
15:30-16:00Tea Break
16:00-17:002nd Keynote: Brian Joseph
pickpocket Compounds in English: Foreign and Marginal but Productive and Expressive
(32-215)
17:00-17:15Elen Le Foll: Hogg Prize Presentation
(32-215)
17:15-18:15Karen Corrigan: LE president's address
(32-215)
18:30-20:30Opening Reception in the GCI Atrium (Drinks & Snacks)
Online Activity for remote attendees
Session 1
10:00-11:003rd Keynote: Stefan Gries
A critique of conflation in corpus linguistics, and a forward-looking practical application to keywords analysis
(32-215)
11:00-11:30Tea Break
Session 2
 32-209 (Chair: Carolin Krafzik)32-210 (Chair: Robert Mailhammer) 32-211 (Chair: Helen Caple) 
11:30-12:00M. Fatemi & M. Laitinen
Your words and network ties could reveal your location
A. Moehle
Podcasts as a new frontier of blended spoken and written speech modality
I. Burke
Sarcastic shutdown or solidarity-builder? The discourse-pragmatic marker yeah-no in Australian English conversation
12:00-12:30M. Schweinberger, M. Fatemi, S. Hames,
M. Haugh, M. Laitinen, P. Rautionaho & M. Takahashi
Who swears most – and in what social settings?
Z. Xu
Exploring functional variations of cultural metaphors in the works of Ha Jin and Zhu Dake
A. Margetts & I. Burke
Bring me a cup of tea and "deliver those cattle" – Lexicalisation and construction of caused accompanied motion in Australian English
12:30-13:00M. Nakayasu & M. Shiina
Trial record of King Charles I: Space, time, history and discourse in an Early Modern courtroom
J. Schilling & R. Fuchs
Keywords UK
A. Schramm & M. Salomon-Amend Nature’s mirror: Psycholinguistic evidence of conceptual iconicity in time in language
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
Session 3
 32-209 (Chair: Howie Manns) 32-210 (Chair: Melissa Kemble) 32-211 (Chair: Masoud Fatemi) 
14:00-14:30N. Matsumoto
The distinction between the try-and-V and try-to-V sequences
R. Yi
Assessing the Manner of Speech A Study of English-Mandarin Chinese Remote Interpreting in Australian Courts
S. Riegler
Targeting pragmatic functions: additional annotation for VOICE
14:30-15:00B. Leclercq
May and might as post-modal markers of concession
M. Shakir & D. Deuber
Code-switching in South Asian online English conversations
A. Inoue
What take priority - Grammatical correctness or semantic interpretation?
15:00-15:30M. Mittendorfer
Discourse functions and placement: an analysis of dislocation in English
T. Zhou & Sh. Mansor
A Comparative Study Of Rhetorical Strategies And Their Influencing Factors In The Monologue Verbal Humor Of Chinese And English Talk Shows
Z. Wu
Quantifying syntactic gradience: rethinking words and word classes
15:30-16:00W. Yizhou, C. O'Shannessy, R. Bundgaard- Nielsen, & V. Davis
Stop voicing contrast in English spoken by Aboriginal speakers in Central Australia
A. Ong & R. McKenzie
Does language matter in Mental Health?: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of Mental Health in the Newspapers and Public Forum in Malaysia
J. Schilling & R. Fuchs Pandemic Talk: Identifying keywords and phrases in British COVID-19 Twitter and newspaper discourse
16:00-17:00Tea Break
17:00 - 18:004th Keynote: Jonathan Culpeper
Shakespeare’s Language and the English Language
(32-215)
18:00 - 18:30Drinks & Snacks
18:30 - 20:00General Assembly
(32-215)
Session 1
10:00-11:005th Keynote: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Unravelling the mystery of the Nun Study: the interplay between prediction, neural noise and linguistic complexity
(32-215)
11:00-11:30Tea Break
Session 2
 32-208 (Chair: Chiara Paolini) 32-209 (Chair: Adam Smith) 32-210 (Chair: Simon Musgrave) 32-211 (ISLE7 staff)
 
11:30-12:00A. Nawaz
Student Writers and Scholarly Publishing: Studying Linguistic Variations between Novice Writing and an Award-Winning Publication
M. Bednarek & B. Meek
Language and identity in Australian and US Indigenous-authored television series
A. Mikhaylova & E. Brownlow
Narrative discourse structure in literate Russian-English child bilinguals in Australia
L. Wilde & J. Dzubak
Case Studies for Using WordCruncher to Analyze Linguistic Variation in Corpora
12:00-12:30D. Britain & H. Hedegard
No one thinks twice: variation, change and the personal compound determinative doublets –body and – one in Falkland Island English
Th. Van Hoey, M. H. Gardner, B. Szmrecsanyi
Grammatical variation in English is not so difficult
Y. Li
Vocabulary knowledge and use:
Lexical features in Chinese EFL
learners’ writing
12:30-13:00H. Hedegard & D. Britain
A multidimensional vowel analysis of PRICE and MOUTH in Falkland Island English
A. Rauhut
Distance-based measures of co- occurrence and dispersion: stability and application
M. Clews
Getting Cinderella to the ball: towards a corpus of 19th-century Australian English letters
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
Session 3
 32-208 (Chair: TBA)
 
32-209 (Chair: Monika Bednarek) 32-210 (Chair: Alexander Rauhut) 32-211 (ISLE7 staff)
 
14:00-14:30J. Leimgruber & S. Rüdiger Discourse-Pragmatic 'Like' in East Asian Englishes: Focus on TaiwanY. Yang
The corpus-based error correction in a classroom-based tertiary FL
learning context in China: Learners’
experiences and perceptions
S. Dollinger
On unaddressed bias when “Combining Tradition and Computation”: the case of hegemonic academic discourse in DCHP-3 and beyond
G. Schneider
Introducing the Text Crunching Center and the Linguistic Research Infrastructure
14:30-15:00R. Bottini
Topic familiarity in L2 spoken exams: Exploring lexical complexity in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus
F. Berner
The very problem - the problem of using very as a diagnostic for modifiability
J. Davydova
Tracking global English changes through local data: Intensifiers in German Learner English
15:00-15:30D. Kenzhekeyeva (Lightning talk) The accentedness,
comprehensibility, and intelligibility of English varieties by German and Kazakh speakers
A. A. Flores Hernandez (Lightning talk)
A corpus-based reference list as a morphological-profiler tool
L. Stvan (Lightning talk)
“Forget what you know about eggs”: Forms of myth busting in
American health discourse
15:30-16:00Tea Break
Session 4
 32-208 (Chair: Simon Musgrave) 32-209 (Chair: Mikko Laitinen) 32-210 (Gerry Docherty) 32-211 (ISLE7 staff)
 
16:00-16:30R. Hickey
Lifespan Change in 20th Century Irish English
V. W. S. Tse & A. J. Theng
English isn't her native language: Defensive metalinguistic commentary and the limits of tolerance
Y. T. Yu
Media representations of China amid COVID-19: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
M. Schweinberger
An Introduction to the Resources provided by LADAL - the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory
16:30-17:00B. Clancy & E. Vaughan
Facilitating intimacy through the use of pragmatic markers: A corpus examination of First Dates Ireland
A. A. Flores Hernandez Morphologically complex words production, testing and processing
in English learners
J. Schilling & R. Fuchs
On Wars, Waves and Monsters: Metaphors in British COVID-19 Newspaper and Social Media Discourse
17:30 - 17:45Break
17:45-18:456th Keynote: Jennifer Hay
The stories we tell: narrative and phonetic stability in retold stories recorded 7 years apart
(32-215)
18:45-19:00Farewell Note
(32-215)
19:30-22:00Conference Dinner (Saint Lucy's)
Online Activity for remote attendees
Post-Conference Activities
(sign-up possible during the conference)
Option A: A Marvellous Brisbane City Botanical Gardens Walk
Option B: A Beautiful Ferry / CityCat Trip to Bretts Wharf and Hamilton
Option C: A Fabulous Queensland Museum Visit with a Subsequent Unforgettable South Bank Stroll