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NAME:<\/span><\/b> Chlo\u00e9 DISKIN-HOLDAWAY <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

INSTITUTION:<\/span><\/b> The University of Melbourne, Australia <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSHORT BIOGRAPHY:<\/strong><\/summary>\nShe is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics of the University of Melbourne. Her research areas are sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, discourse-pragmatic variation, language attitudes and ideologies, and discourse analysis, with special focus on the sociolinguistics of migration and globalization. She is current chair of the Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) Research Network.\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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TITLE:<\/span><\/b> Integrating phonetics and discourse-pragmatic variation: the case of just<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nABSTRACT:<\/strong><\/summary>\nDiscourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs) are commonly studied as lemmas, with much focus on their distributional and functional patterns (see e.g., Beeching 2016; Pichler 2016; Peterson et al. 2022) and comparatively less attention paid to their phonetic realization. Notable exceptions include Drager (2011), who found that quotative versus non-quotative like had different phonetic realizations, and Tamminga (2014), who found that function word like (including DPM like) was more advanced in a sound change in \/ai\/ than like as a lexical verb. These findings suggest that grammaticalization processes may be implicated in phonetic variation or sound change.\n

\nThis paper presents findings from recent collaborative work on just in Australian (AusE) and New Zealand English (NZE) from my work with the Canberra Corpus Collective (see e.g., CCC 2019). We aim to investigate whether discourse-pragmatic change in just has proceeded in line with, or independently, of a sound change in AusE and NZE, whereby the vowel in STRUT has become more like the vowel in KIT. We extract over 11,000 tokens of just from the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) Corpus (Gordon, Maclagan, & Hay 2007) and the Sydney Speaks corpus (e.g., Grama, Travis & Gonzalez Ochoa 2021) which include 722 speakers with years of birth ranging from the 1850s to the 2000s. \n

\nWe find that the youngest speakers in the corpora have higher frequencies of just overall. They also have high proportions of just like, just sort of and just because (see also Bender & Kathol 2001) \u2013 collocates that are absent among the older speakers. The findings align with a parallel phonetic analysis showing that these \u2018newer\u2019 collocational uses are more likely to be implicated in the sound change than STRUT vowels found in other lemmas. This shows that words such as just that have expansive functions and have undergone extensive grammaticalization may have different phonetic profiles that can shed light on variation and change.\n

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\nREFERENCES:<\/strong><\/summary>\nBeeching, K. (2016). Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction. Cambridge University Press.
\nBender, E., & Kathol, A. (2001). Constructional effects of just because . . . doesn’t mean . . . Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 27(1), 13-26.
\nCanberra Corpus Collective \u2013 CCC (2019) [Diskin, C., J. Hay, K. Drager, P. Foulkes, K. Gnevsheva, J. Grama, J. Brand, C. Travis, D. Loakes, G. Docherty, E. Sheard, and S. Gonzalez] The emergence of the discourse-pragmatic marker \u2018just\u2019: linking changes in usage to changes in pronunciation. Presented at the Linguistic Society of New Zealand conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
\nDrager, K. K. (2011). Sociophonetic variation and the lemma. Journal of Phonetics, 39(4), 694-707.
\nGrama, J., Travis, C., & Gonzalez Ochoa, S. (2021). Ethnic variation in real time: Change in Australian English diphthongs. In H. Van de Velde, N.H. Hilton and R. Knooihuizen (Eds.), Language Variation & European Perspectives VIII (pp. 292-314). John Benjamins.
\nGordon E., Maclagan M., Hay J. (2007). The ONZE corpus. In Beal J.C., Corrigan K.P., Moisl H.L. (Eds.) Creating and digitizing language corpora (pp.82-104). Palgrave Macmillan.
\nPeterson, E., Hiltunen, T., & Kern, J. (Eds.). (2022). Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change: Theory, Innovations, Contact. Cambridge University Press.
\nPichler, H. (2016). Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English: New methods and insights. Cambridge University Press.
\nTamminga, M. (2014). Sound change without frequency effects: Ramifications for phonological theory. Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. R. E. Santana-LaBarge, 457-465. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.\n
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NAME:<\/span><\/b> Mikl\u00f3s KONTRA<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

INSTITUTION:<\/span><\/b>  <\/span>K\u00e1roli G\u00e1sp\u00e1r University of the Reformed Church in Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TITLE:<\/span><\/b> <\/span>The life and difficult death of the mother-tongue question as a means of linguistic genocide in Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In memory of
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940\u20132023)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nABSTRACT:<\/strong><\/summary>\nIn memory of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940\u20132023)<\/em>

\nBased on the United Nations\u2019 preparatory work for the Genocide Convention (1948), Skutnabb-Kangas (2000: 311\u2013318) defined linguistic genocide as killing a language without killing its speakers (as in physical genocide) or (through passivity) letting a language die. For decades before the 2022 census, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office used a mother-tongue question which collapsed Romani-speakers and Boyash-speakers as cig\u00e1nyok<\/em> \u2018Gypsy language speakers\u2019. The Census Bureau thus effectively invisibilized both the Romani- and the Boyash-speakers (over 50 000 adults), which is the worst case of linguistic genocide in Hungary (Kontra 2019: 102\u2013106).
\n\tIn agreement with Eckert (2000: 74), who urged (socio)linguists to discover meanings, rather than presuppose them, I will analyze the various meanings of the term anyanyelv<\/em> \u2018mother-tongue\u2019 as used in a Hungarian encyclopedia (1936), four important Hungarian dictionaries, and the Census Bureau \u2013 contrasting them with mother tongue<\/em> as defined by Skutnabb-Kangas (2000: 105 ff.), using the criteria of origin, identification, competence, and function. I will also show the similarities and important dissimilarities in the meanings of anyanyelv<\/em> as used by Croatia-Hungarians and Hungary-Hungarians. Apart from the lessons of linguistic racism (May 2023), this story shows how intentional linguistic manipulation can thrive for decades.\n
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Eckert, Penelope 2000. Linguistic variation as social practice<\/em>. Oxford: Blackwell.
Kontra, Mikl\u00f3s 2019. Felel\u0151s nyelv\u00e9szet<\/em>. Budapest: Gondolat Kiad\u00f3.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/mek.oszk.hu\/22400\/22434\/22434.pdf
<\/a><\/span>May, Stephen 2023. Linguistic racism: Origins and implications. Ethnicities<\/em>, Volume\u00a023,\u00a0<\/span>Issue\u00a05: 651\u2013661.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/epub\/10.1177\/14687968231193072
<\/a><\/span>Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove 2000. Linguistic Genocide in Education \u2013 or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? <\/em>Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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NAME:<\/span><\/b> Manfred STEDE <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

INSTITUTION:<\/span><\/b> University of Potsdam\/Germany <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSHORT BIOGRAPHY:<\/strong><\/summary>\nProfessor of applied computational linguistics at Potsdam University. His research areas are discourse structure and automatic text understanding, currently with special focus on social sciences. Ongoing projects deal with rhetorical aspects of argumentation, the automatic evaluation of argumentative student essays, and the examination of conflict development in the UN Security Council.\n

\nHe studied Computer Science and Linguistics at TU Berlin 1985-89; M.Sc. in Computer Science, Purdue Univ.\/Indiana, 1990; PhD at Univ. of Toronto Computer Science, 1996; Research assistant in Computational Linguistics projects at TU 1995-2001; since 2001, professor at Potsdam University.\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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TITLE:<\/span><\/b> Climate Change in Politics: The Case of the German Bundestag<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nABSTRACT:<\/strong><\/summary>\nClimate change is a topic that by now has become almost a constant in the political discourse in many societies. In my talk, I will discuss the communication about climate done by German members of parliament in the period 2017-2021. We assembled a corpus from three sources: The Tweets delivered by the politicians; the speeches given in the Bundestag; and the official press releases issued by the parliamentary groups (factions). All material was filtered for the climate change topic. We study the differences in opinions and arguments on the three channels, as well as the developments over time, and also take a look at the behavior of „the public” in the same time period, using Google Trends as a proxy for the changing popularity of relevant terms.
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NAME:<\/span><\/b> Csilla D<\/span>\u00c9R<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INSTITUTION:<\/span><\/b> <\/span>K\u00e1roli G\u00e1sp\u00e1r University of the Reformed Church in Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSHORT BIOGRAPHY:<\/strong><\/summary>\nCsilla Ilona D\u00c9R is habilitated associate professor at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics, K\u00e1roli G\u00e1sp\u00e1r University of the Reformed Church, and (co-)founder and (co-)leader of the Research Group in Pragmatics. She also works as a senior research fellow at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. \n

\nHer main research interests are the synchronic and diachronic description of discourse markers and independent clauses in Hungarian and the pragmatics of spontaneous spoken language.\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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TITLE:<\/span><\/b> Variations of independent (insubordinate) clauses with metalinguistic function in Hungarian<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nABSTRACT:<\/strong><\/summary>\nIn many languages of the world, independent (insubordinate) clauses can have a metalinguistic function.<\/span> These constructions \u201care used to make comments or to provide<\/span> explanations on the content of certain stretches of discourse\u201d (Lastres-L\u00f3pez 2020: 75), among which we will analyze the ones referring to the language activity itself. In Hungarian, there are such clauses both among complement (1) and conditional insubordinate clauses (2), but their detailed description has not yet been done:
<\/span>(1) Ariadn\u00e9m, hogy \u00a0\u00a0 finoman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fejezzem\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ki \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 magam<\/strong>,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>that \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 midly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 express\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 vpfx\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 myself.Acc<\/p>\n

az az\u00f3ta eltelt t\u00f6bb mint k\u00e9t h\u00e9tben fokozta az iramot. <\/em>(MNSz2, #2477864, doc#114, lit)
\u2019Ariadne, to put it mildly<\/strong>, has picked up the pace in the more than two weeks since then\u2019<\/p>\n

(2) Veszek egy pisztolyt. V\u00e9g\u00fcl is \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0 ha \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 m\u00e1r \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 itt \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tartunk<\/strong> \u2013,
<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 if\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 already\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 here\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 be.Ind.Prs.Pl1<\/p>\n

vesz\u00e9lyeztetett lenn\u00e9k, mert az \u00fajs\u00e1g\u00edr\u00f3kat biztos sokan vesz\u00e9lyeztetik<\/em>\u00a0(MNSz2, #133906500,doc#1045, press)
\u2019I’ll buy a gun. After all, speaking of which<\/strong>, I would be at risk, because journalists are certainly endangered by many people\u2019
Corpus analyzes are performed on the 1.5 million word database of MNSz2 (Hungarian Gigaword Corpus) in six subcorpora (written and spoken press, literature, official, scientific, personal).<\/span> We use two types of methods:
1) We examine the independent clauses starting with Hogy<\/em> \u2018that\u2019 and Ha<\/em> \u2018if\u2019 in the random sample of 500 hits containing any form (both finite and non-finite versions) of the following verbs of saying: mond<\/em> ‘to speak’, besz\u00e9l<\/em> ‘to speak’, k\u00e9rdez<\/em> \u2018to ask\u2019,
v\u00e1laszol<\/em> \u2018to answer\u2019, felel<\/em> \u2018to answer’, \u00f6sszefoglal<\/em> \u2018to sum up\u2019, fogalmaz<\/em> ‘to formulate’.
2) Using a special CQL query (based on the hypothesis that most insubordinate sentences are usually short in Hungarian), we search for metalinguistic insubordinate clauses \u2013 containing 4, 5 or 6 words after the conjunctions \u2013 in the whole material of MNSz2.
We seek answers to the following questions:<\/span><\/p>\n