KRE címer

Conference Programme

Changing Discourses – Aspects of Linguistic, Social and Discourse Variation

International Conference Organized by Károli Gáspár University in Cooperation with
DiscourseNet and DiPVaC Research Network

12 June 2024 (WEDNESDAY)

8.45 Registration opens

9.15 Conference Opening

9.30–11.30 Section 1 (chair: Stephen Levey)

9.30-10.00 LEVEY, Stephen: Learning to sound like a native speaker: Evidence from discourse-pragmatic variation and change

10.00-10.30 ZIĘBA, Anna: Metaverse Metamorphosis: A Critical Exploration of Advertising Discourse and Societal Dynamics in the Digital Realm

10.30-11.00 KOCSIS, Dóra – KUNA, Ágnes: Discursive patterns of self-justification in conflict narratives of doctors and nurses and its impact on conflict outcomes

11.00-11.30 LABRENZ, Annika: Variability and variation in epistemic stance markers: A corpus study of German stance expressions across situation- and speaker-related factors

11.30-13.30 lunch break

Optional: 12:30-13:20 Guided tour in the Károlyi-Csekonics Palace, the venue of the conference

13.30-15.30 Section 2 (chair: Ben Gibb-Reid)

13.30-14.00 GIBB-REID, Ben – DISKIN-HOLDAWAY, Chloé: Creating a functional taxonomy of discourse-pragmatic yeah using inter-rater reliability

14.00-14.30 SCHLEEF, Erik – MACKAY, Brad – PFLAEGING, Jana: Awareness and Sociolinguistic Monitoring: Comparing (ing), (t), Like, You Know and Pauses

14.30-15.00 VARGA, Mónika: „Horribly friendly” – Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Middle Hungarian registers: the case of negative emotive words and intensifiers

15.00-15.30 DÉR, Csilla Ilona: Variations of independent (insubordinate) clauses with metalinguistic function in Hungarian

15.30-16.00 coffee break

16.00-18.00 First plenary session (chairs: Péter Furkó and Csilla Dér)

16.00-17.00 KONTRA, Miklós: The life and difficult death of the mother-tongue question as a means of linguistic genocide in Hungary

17.00-18.00 STEDE, Manfred: Climate Change in Politics: The Case of the German Bundestag

13 June 2024 (THURSDAY)

8.30 Registration opens

9.00-10.30 DiPVaC Open Business Meeting

10.30-11.30 Second plenary session (chair: Péter Furkó)

DISKIN-HOLDAWAY, Chloé: Integrating phonetics and discourse-pragmatic variation: the case of just

11.30-13.30 lunch break

13.30-15.00 Section 3 (chair: Raniah Al Mufarreh)

13.30-14.00 AL MUFARREH, Raniah: Unveiling Humblebragging Among Arab Influencers

14.00-14.30 DALAMU, Taofeek O.: Advertising Agenda: An Expression of Multimodality Landscapes

14.30-15.00 SEBŐK, Melinda: Pragmatic aspects of silence in János Pilinszky’s art

15.00-15.30 CARDOSO, Paloma Batista: Negativas: a prototype for searching and classifying negative structures with ‘não’ in speech data

15.30-16.00 coffee break

16.00-17.30 Section 4 (chair: Károly Nagy)

16.00-16.30 NAGY, Károly: The critical analysis of construction of Turkish national identity in the English translation of the 2016 Republic Day Speech of Recep Tayyip Erdogan

16.30-17.00 KONOPKA, Adam: Linguistic transformations of public discourse birth control in communist Poland. Discursive study of press articles from 1956-1989

17.00-17.30 PRESTON, Dennis: Discourse Change: Not So Fast

17.45 Student Award Ceremony

14 June 2024 (Friday) Sightseeing