MEMBERS - by country
Australia
Burridge, Kate, Monash University, Australia: language change; Germanic languages; discourse markers/particles in English (yeah-no, cos); English markers in Pennsylvania German
Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé, The University of Melbourne, Australia: acquisition of discourse-pragmatic features by recently-arrived migrants to Ireland and Australia (specifically Polish & Chinese L1 speakers) (like, you know, I mean, quotatives)
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, The Australian National University: Sociolinguistic variation in bilinguals in production and perception; English, Russian
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Auslan; Australian English; Indonesian; Javanese
Maree, Claire, The University of Melbourne, Australia: Japanese language; discourse-pragmatic variation and change; self-reference; interactional particles; gender; sexuality & language
Mulder, Jean, University of Melbourne, Australia: discourse-pragmatic variation & change (clause-final but)
Mullan, Kerry, RMIT University, Australia: cross-cultural and intercultural communication; interactional style; discourse analysis, pragmatics, humour in social interaction; French; (Australian) English
Murray, Lee, Monash University, Australia: synchronic, stylistic & discourse-pragmatic variation in Australian English
Qiao, Gan, Australian National University: morphosyntactic variation and change in Australian English; English future temporal reference (be going to vs. will) among migrant groups in Sydney, Australia
Rodriguez Louro, Celeste, University of Western Australia, Australia: preterit/present perfect; tense variation; tense and aspect (quotation; epistemics)
Stirling, Lesley, The University of Melbourne, Australia: conversational style including pausing; narrative; gesture; Australian English; Kala Lagaw Ya
Travis, Catherine, The Australian National University: discourse variables in Australian English; operationalisation of pragmatic constructs; Spanish, English; general extenders, quotatives, discourse like, intensifiers
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; English, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Chinese (quotatives; existentials)
Burridge, Kate, Monash University, Australia: language change; Germanic languages; discourse markers/particles in English (yeah-no, cos); English markers in Pennsylvania German
Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé, The University of Melbourne, Australia: acquisition of discourse-pragmatic features by recently-arrived migrants to Ireland and Australia (specifically Polish & Chinese L1 speakers) (like, you know, I mean, quotatives)
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, The Australian National University: Sociolinguistic variation in bilinguals in production and perception; English, Russian
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Auslan; Australian English; Indonesian; Javanese
Maree, Claire, The University of Melbourne, Australia: Japanese language; discourse-pragmatic variation and change; self-reference; interactional particles; gender; sexuality & language
Mulder, Jean, University of Melbourne, Australia: discourse-pragmatic variation & change (clause-final but)
Mullan, Kerry, RMIT University, Australia: cross-cultural and intercultural communication; interactional style; discourse analysis, pragmatics, humour in social interaction; French; (Australian) English
Murray, Lee, Monash University, Australia: synchronic, stylistic & discourse-pragmatic variation in Australian English
Qiao, Gan, Australian National University: morphosyntactic variation and change in Australian English; English future temporal reference (be going to vs. will) among migrant groups in Sydney, Australia
Rodriguez Louro, Celeste, University of Western Australia, Australia: preterit/present perfect; tense variation; tense and aspect (quotation; epistemics)
Stirling, Lesley, The University of Melbourne, Australia: conversational style including pausing; narrative; gesture; Australian English; Kala Lagaw Ya
Travis, Catherine, The Australian National University: discourse variables in Australian English; operationalisation of pragmatic constructs; Spanish, English; general extenders, quotatives, discourse like, intensifiers
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; English, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Chinese (quotatives; existentials)
Austria
Mazzon, Gabriella, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria: pragmatic values of markers & particles in the history of English (incl. comparison with other languages); pragmaticalization processes; dialogue studies, interpersonal pragmatics, (im)politeness, variational pragmatics, sociopragmatics (now, I'm afraid)
Pflaeging, Jana, University of Salzburg, Austria: discourse analysis; multimodality; diachronic genre change; sociolinguistics; speech perception; language attitudes; sociolinguistic variation (you know, like, um, unfilled pauses)
Schleef, Erik, University of Salzburg, Austria: language variation & change; acquisition & perception of language variation (in particular discourse-pragmatic, phonetic & phonological variation in dialects of the British Isles) (okay, alright, right, now, yeah, tag questions, like, you know; ja, nun, okay, so, gut)
Mazzon, Gabriella, Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria: pragmatic values of markers & particles in the history of English (incl. comparison with other languages); pragmaticalization processes; dialogue studies, interpersonal pragmatics, (im)politeness, variational pragmatics, sociopragmatics (now, I'm afraid)
Pflaeging, Jana, University of Salzburg, Austria: discourse analysis; multimodality; diachronic genre change; sociolinguistics; speech perception; language attitudes; sociolinguistic variation (you know, like, um, unfilled pauses)
Schleef, Erik, University of Salzburg, Austria: language variation & change; acquisition & perception of language variation (in particular discourse-pragmatic, phonetic & phonological variation in dialects of the British Isles) (okay, alright, right, now, yeah, tag questions, like, you know; ja, nun, okay, so, gut)
Belgium
Degand, Liesbeth, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium: discourse markers & connectives in speech & writing; variation in discourse marker meaning in the left & right periphery; operationalisation of discourse marker use; corpus annotation (alors, car, parce que, en fait, donc, puisque, want; omdat, dus, daarom, aangezien, eigenlijk, dan)
Gras, Pedro, University of Antwerp, Belgium: discourse markers in spoken interaction, insubordination (the independent use of typical subordination markers), discourse markers as grammatical constructions, discourse markers and discourse position, construction grammar and constructionalization, interactional approaches to evidentiality (que, si, a ver si, ni, y nada, pues nada, y todo, igual, por lo visto, al parecer)
Degand, Liesbeth, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium: discourse markers & connectives in speech & writing; variation in discourse marker meaning in the left & right periphery; operationalisation of discourse marker use; corpus annotation (alors, car, parce que, en fait, donc, puisque, want; omdat, dus, daarom, aangezien, eigenlijk, dan)
Gras, Pedro, University of Antwerp, Belgium: discourse markers in spoken interaction, insubordination (the independent use of typical subordination markers), discourse markers as grammatical constructions, discourse markers and discourse position, construction grammar and constructionalization, interactional approaches to evidentiality (que, si, a ver si, ni, y nada, pues nada, y todo, igual, por lo visto, al parecer)
Brazil
Cardoso, Paloma, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Pragmatic variation, multimodality, paralinguistic resources, gestures, Brazilian Portuguese
Freitag, Raquel, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Variation in discourse markers, fillers, paralinguistic resources, Brazilian Portuguese
Sousa de Gois, Túlio, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Pragmatic variation, paralinguistic resources, computational linguistics, Brazilian Portuguese
Cardoso, Paloma, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Pragmatic variation, multimodality, paralinguistic resources, gestures, Brazilian Portuguese
Freitag, Raquel, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Variation in discourse markers, fillers, paralinguistic resources, Brazilian Portuguese
Sousa de Gois, Túlio, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Pragmatic variation, paralinguistic resources, computational linguistics, Brazilian Portuguese
Canada
Angermeyer, Philipp Sebastian, York University, Canada: variation in personal pronouns & address forms; variation in the speech of interpreters (reported speech vs. direct translation) (pronoun case; address forms)
Brinton, Laurel J., University of British Columbia, Canada: history of English, pragmatic markers, comment clauses (admittedly; look; I gather, I find, I mean; I daresay, (I) say, (as) you say, that is (to say); (you) see, as/so you see; as it were; what's more, what else; if you choose/like/prefer/want/wish/will, if you ask me, if I may say so; gan, anon,
hwaet, I gesse)
D'Arcy, Alexandra, University of Victoria, Canada: quantitative variationist analysis; diachronic and synchronic patterns of variation; discourse-pragmatic variation and change (discourse like, quotative like)
Derek Denis, University of Toronto Mississauga , Canada: changes to pragmatic markers in Canadian English from a variationist perspective; the role of grammaticalization in pragmatic changes; innovation and diffusion of changes; social meaning of eh in Canadian English (general extenders, utterance-final particles, quotatives, intensifiers)
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (discourse like, quotatives, general extenders)
Lockyer, Dorota, University of British Columbia, Canada: discourse particles; diminutives; corpus linguistic methods; language variation and change; multilingualism; pragmatics; discourse analysis; Translation (intensifiers, analytic markers, interjections; little, small, wee, Lordy, oopsie, (oh) dearie; ojejku, jejku)
Tagliamonte, Sali A., University of Toronto, Canada: language variation & change in discourse-pragmatics (quotative system; tense & aspect in narrative; general extenders; sentence tags)
Angermeyer, Philipp Sebastian, York University, Canada: variation in personal pronouns & address forms; variation in the speech of interpreters (reported speech vs. direct translation) (pronoun case; address forms)
Brinton, Laurel J., University of British Columbia, Canada: history of English, pragmatic markers, comment clauses (admittedly; look; I gather, I find, I mean; I daresay, (I) say, (as) you say, that is (to say); (you) see, as/so you see; as it were; what's more, what else; if you choose/like/prefer/want/wish/will, if you ask me, if I may say so; gan, anon,
hwaet, I gesse)
D'Arcy, Alexandra, University of Victoria, Canada: quantitative variationist analysis; diachronic and synchronic patterns of variation; discourse-pragmatic variation and change (discourse like, quotative like)
Derek Denis, University of Toronto Mississauga , Canada: changes to pragmatic markers in Canadian English from a variationist perspective; the role of grammaticalization in pragmatic changes; innovation and diffusion of changes; social meaning of eh in Canadian English (general extenders, utterance-final particles, quotatives, intensifiers)
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (discourse like, quotatives, general extenders)
Lockyer, Dorota, University of British Columbia, Canada: discourse particles; diminutives; corpus linguistic methods; language variation and change; multilingualism; pragmatics; discourse analysis; Translation (intensifiers, analytic markers, interjections; little, small, wee, Lordy, oopsie, (oh) dearie; ojejku, jejku)
Tagliamonte, Sali A., University of Toronto, Canada: language variation & change in discourse-pragmatics (quotative system; tense & aspect in narrative; general extenders; sentence tags)
China
Mao, Yansheng, Harbin Engineering University, China: discourse-pragmatic variation & change of Chinese and English in cyberspace
Mao, Yansheng, Harbin Engineering University, China: discourse-pragmatic variation & change of Chinese and English in cyberspace
Denmark
Christensen, Tanya Karoli, Lanchart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: semantic variation & how to pursue it theoretically and methodologically; variation in epistemic markers (epistemic adverbs & phrases); approximation as a discourse variable; word-order in subordinate clauses as a foregrounding signal; discourse-pragmatic functions of derivative turned discourse marker (måske 'maybe', selvfølgelig 'of course'; tror jeg ‘I think’, man kan sige ‘you could say’; (-)agtig ‘(-)ish’)
Schoning, Christian, graduate of University of Copenhagen, Denmark: cross-linguistic comparative study of English 'like' and Danish 'sådan' (discourse markers, like, sådan)
Christensen, Tanya Karoli, Lanchart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: semantic variation & how to pursue it theoretically and methodologically; variation in epistemic markers (epistemic adverbs & phrases); approximation as a discourse variable; word-order in subordinate clauses as a foregrounding signal; discourse-pragmatic functions of derivative turned discourse marker (måske 'maybe', selvfølgelig 'of course'; tror jeg ‘I think’, man kan sige ‘you could say’; (-)agtig ‘(-)ish’)
Schoning, Christian, graduate of University of Copenhagen, Denmark: cross-linguistic comparative study of English 'like' and Danish 'sådan' (discourse markers, like, sådan)
Finland
Peterson, Elizabeth, University of Helsinki, Finland: politeness; pragmatics; discourse analysis; pragmatic borrowing; language contact and change; English as a global (contact) language; sociolinguistic variation (please, pliis, jees, c'mon, kiitos, tyyliin, niinku, sillee)
Peterson, Elizabeth, University of Helsinki, Finland: politeness; pragmatics; discourse analysis; pragmatic borrowing; language contact and change; English as a global (contact) language; sociolinguistic variation (please, pliis, jees, c'mon, kiitos, tyyliin, niinku, sillee)
France
Gaudy-Campbell Isabelle, Lorraine University, Metz, France: linguistic analysis of markers in naturally occurring English; prosody; theme/rheme; negation (direct reported speech; question tags; innit, you know, (I) just thought, I don't think, as it were)
Lerat, Stephanie Doyle, Université de Nantes, France: discursive functions of inflectional verbal morphology; online interactions
Lewis, Diana, Aix Marseille University and LPL Research Centre (Laboratoire Parole et Langage), France: discourse coherence; pragmatic markers; adverbs; information structure; current change in English
Richard, Sophie, University of Tours, France: tense/aspect variation in Australian English narratives with a focus on the present perfect (which serves a discourse-pragmatic function, similar to the historical present, in narratives)
Gaudy-Campbell Isabelle, Lorraine University, Metz, France: linguistic analysis of markers in naturally occurring English; prosody; theme/rheme; negation (direct reported speech; question tags; innit, you know, (I) just thought, I don't think, as it were)
Lerat, Stephanie Doyle, Université de Nantes, France: discursive functions of inflectional verbal morphology; online interactions
Lewis, Diana, Aix Marseille University and LPL Research Centre (Laboratoire Parole et Langage), France: discourse coherence; pragmatic markers; adverbs; information structure; current change in English
Richard, Sophie, University of Tours, France: tense/aspect variation in Australian English narratives with a focus on the present perfect (which serves a discourse-pragmatic function, similar to the historical present, in narratives)
Germany
Barron, Anne, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany: intralingual pragmatic variation; variational pragmatics (tag questions)
Beltrama, Andrea, University of Konstanz, Germany: integrating theoretical semantics/pragmatics; social indexicality/social meaning; intensification; discourse particles; experimental methods; intensifiers across languages (totallly, -issimo, like)
Haselow, Alexander, University of Rostock, Germany: conversation analysis; discourse-pragmatic markers in spoken vs. written language; functional variation of discourse markers in utterance-initial vs. -final position; grammar of spoken discourse (final particles: actually, anyway, but, even, so, then, though)
Hofmockel, Carolin, University of Augsburg, Germany: pragmatic markers, modal particles, sociocultural variation, syntactic variation, syntax-pragmatics interface (but)
Leuckert, Sven, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany: information structure (with a focus on topicalization); discourse markers in Learner Englishes; non-canonical syntax (in particular in L2 and learner varieties)
Rüdiger, Sofia, University of Bayreuth, Germany: corpus-linguistic perspectives on discourse markers; discourse-pragmatic variation in Asian Englishes (particularly the English spoken by South Koreans); non-canonical syntax
Scheffler, Tatjana, University of Potsdam, Germany: formal semantic/pragmatic analysis of discourse markers; discourse variability in social media and across media; pragmatic intra-speaker variability; corpus-linguistic analyses; computational modelling (connectives, tag questions, particles)
Westphal, Michael, Kiel University, Germany: tag questions, variational pragmatics, sociolinguistics (variant & invariant question tags, right, you know, OK, eh, Trinidadian English/Creole particles, Tagalog particle)
Hungary
Dér, Csilla Ilona, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary & HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary: discourse markers and their combinations in Hungarian, insubordinate (independent) clauses, interjections, backchannel responses, syntax-pragmatics interface, variational pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis (discourse markers, insubordinate (independent) clauses, interjections, backchannel responses)
Furko, Peter, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary: contrastive study of discourse markers; discourse annotation; variational pragmatics; diachronic pragmatics; conversation analysis; gender and genre variation (evidential markers, reformulation markers, general extenders)
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification; English, Turkish, Hungarian
Barron, Anne, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany: intralingual pragmatic variation; variational pragmatics (tag questions)
Beltrama, Andrea, University of Konstanz, Germany: integrating theoretical semantics/pragmatics; social indexicality/social meaning; intensification; discourse particles; experimental methods; intensifiers across languages (totallly, -issimo, like)
Haselow, Alexander, University of Rostock, Germany: conversation analysis; discourse-pragmatic markers in spoken vs. written language; functional variation of discourse markers in utterance-initial vs. -final position; grammar of spoken discourse (final particles: actually, anyway, but, even, so, then, though)
Hofmockel, Carolin, University of Augsburg, Germany: pragmatic markers, modal particles, sociocultural variation, syntactic variation, syntax-pragmatics interface (but)
Leuckert, Sven, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany: information structure (with a focus on topicalization); discourse markers in Learner Englishes; non-canonical syntax (in particular in L2 and learner varieties)
Rüdiger, Sofia, University of Bayreuth, Germany: corpus-linguistic perspectives on discourse markers; discourse-pragmatic variation in Asian Englishes (particularly the English spoken by South Koreans); non-canonical syntax
Scheffler, Tatjana, University of Potsdam, Germany: formal semantic/pragmatic analysis of discourse markers; discourse variability in social media and across media; pragmatic intra-speaker variability; corpus-linguistic analyses; computational modelling (connectives, tag questions, particles)
Westphal, Michael, Kiel University, Germany: tag questions, variational pragmatics, sociolinguistics (variant & invariant question tags, right, you know, OK, eh, Trinidadian English/Creole particles, Tagalog particle)
Hungary
Dér, Csilla Ilona, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary & HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary: discourse markers and their combinations in Hungarian, insubordinate (independent) clauses, interjections, backchannel responses, syntax-pragmatics interface, variational pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis (discourse markers, insubordinate (independent) clauses, interjections, backchannel responses)
Furko, Peter, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary: contrastive study of discourse markers; discourse annotation; variational pragmatics; diachronic pragmatics; conversation analysis; gender and genre variation (evidential markers, reformulation markers, general extenders)
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification; English, Turkish, Hungarian
India
Chakravarty, Urjani, Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India: media discourse, generation-based interaction, discourse particles of Indo-Aryan (standard and endangered) languages (compared with Germanic and Romance Languages), and the multilingual discourse-pragmatics interface, especially with regards to Indian grammatical traditions
Chakravarty, Urjani, Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India: media discourse, generation-based interaction, discourse particles of Indo-Aryan (standard and endangered) languages (compared with Germanic and Romance Languages), and the multilingual discourse-pragmatics interface, especially with regards to Indian grammatical traditions
Ireland
Clancy, Brian, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland: small corpora; variational pragmatics; pragmatic markers; modal particles; terms of address; spoken Irish English (now, like, shur, you know, I suppose)
Regan, Vera, University College Dublin, Ireland: L2 acquisition of discourse-pragmatic variables in Ireland, France & Canada; discourse-pragmatic variation in multilingualm naturalistic and immersion settings (discourse like, quotative like)
Clancy, Brian, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland: small corpora; variational pragmatics; pragmatic markers; modal particles; terms of address; spoken Irish English (now, like, shur, you know, I suppose)
Regan, Vera, University College Dublin, Ireland: L2 acquisition of discourse-pragmatic variables in Ireland, France & Canada; discourse-pragmatic variation in multilingualm naturalistic and immersion settings (discourse like, quotative like)
Israel
Maschler, Yael, University of Haifa, Israel: Discourse markers in Hebrew and English; cross-linguistic studies of discourse markers in French, Swedish, Estonian, Italian, Arabic. Hebrew: ke'ilu ‘like’; nu 'well, go on', bekitsur 'anyway', tov 'fine', be'emet ‘really, actually, indeed’, naxon ‘right/true’, lo yode'a / lo yoda'at ‘(I) don’t know’, 'ani lo mevin/a ‘I don’t understand’, ya'ani /ya'anu 'I mean', 'ata ro'e / 'at ro'a 'you see', 'at/a lo mevin/a 'you don't understand', clicks employed as discourse markers.
Maschler, Yael, University of Haifa, Israel: Discourse markers in Hebrew and English; cross-linguistic studies of discourse markers in French, Swedish, Estonian, Italian, Arabic. Hebrew: ke'ilu ‘like’; nu 'well, go on', bekitsur 'anyway', tov 'fine', be'emet ‘really, actually, indeed’, naxon ‘right/true’, lo yode'a / lo yoda'at ‘(I) don’t know’, 'ani lo mevin/a ‘I don’t understand’, ya'ani /ya'anu 'I mean', 'ata ro'e / 'at ro'a 'you see', 'at/a lo mevin/a 'you don't understand', clicks employed as discourse markers.
Italy
Ghezzi, Chiara, University of Bergamo, Italy: evolution of discourse-pragmatic variables from old to contemporary Italian; age-based variation and change of discourse-pragmatic variables; social meaning of discourse-pragmatic variables; left and right periphery and pragmatic markers (cioè, tipo, un po', guarda, va’, dai; age, em, quaeso; prego, grazie; merci)
Scivoletto, Giulio, University of Catania (Italy): contact, variation and change in discourse markers in Sicilian and Italian (Sicilian arà, mentri, bì, Italian mentri)
Ghezzi, Chiara, University of Bergamo, Italy: evolution of discourse-pragmatic variables from old to contemporary Italian; age-based variation and change of discourse-pragmatic variables; social meaning of discourse-pragmatic variables; left and right periphery and pragmatic markers (cioè, tipo, un po', guarda, va’, dai; age, em, quaeso; prego, grazie; merci)
Scivoletto, Giulio, University of Catania (Italy): contact, variation and change in discourse markers in Sicilian and Italian (Sicilian arà, mentri, bì, Italian mentri)
Japan
Clos Lopez, Ruben, University of the Ryukyus, Japan: regional pragmatic variation, speech act of comforting, ethnopragmatics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics of East Asian languages, contrastive pragmatics
Higashiizumi, Yuko, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan: history of connectives & discourse-pragmatic markers; emergence of discourse-pragmatic makers in the left & right periphery; insubordination (because; kara & node 'because'; daro(o)/desho(o) '(I) guess')
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: discourse-pragmatic variation & change in contact varieties, such as Palauan Japanese (tag questions, sho, desho, daro), Palauan English (address forms and discourse markers; e.g., ollei, cherrang, charrach, dude, man, bro; and you know) and Brazilian immigrant koine in Japan (tag questions, né ).
Onodera, Noriko O., Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan: discourse markers, pragmatic markers; synchronic and diachronic analysis of DMs/PMs; form-to-function (function-to-form) mapping (diachronic pragmatics); periphery (utterance-initial and final positions); grammaticalization, inter)subjectification, constructionalization (demo, dakedo, dakara, d-connectives, koto, final na-elements)
Shibasaki, Reijirou, Meiji University, Japan: discourse studies, grammaticalization; insubordination in Ryukyuan/Okinawan and present-day Japanese; variations & expansions of 'shell noun'-constructions
Clos Lopez, Ruben, University of the Ryukyus, Japan: regional pragmatic variation, speech act of comforting, ethnopragmatics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics of East Asian languages, contrastive pragmatics
Higashiizumi, Yuko, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan: history of connectives & discourse-pragmatic markers; emergence of discourse-pragmatic makers in the left & right periphery; insubordination (because; kara & node 'because'; daro(o)/desho(o) '(I) guess')
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: discourse-pragmatic variation & change in contact varieties, such as Palauan Japanese (tag questions, sho, desho, daro), Palauan English (address forms and discourse markers; e.g., ollei, cherrang, charrach, dude, man, bro; and you know) and Brazilian immigrant koine in Japan (tag questions, né ).
Onodera, Noriko O., Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan: discourse markers, pragmatic markers; synchronic and diachronic analysis of DMs/PMs; form-to-function (function-to-form) mapping (diachronic pragmatics); periphery (utterance-initial and final positions); grammaticalization, inter)subjectification, constructionalization (demo, dakedo, dakara, d-connectives, koto, final na-elements)
Shibasaki, Reijirou, Meiji University, Japan: discourse studies, grammaticalization; insubordination in Ryukyuan/Okinawan and present-day Japanese; variations & expansions of 'shell noun'-constructions
Lithuania
Gobekci, Erika, Vytautas Magnus university, Lithuania: contrastive pragmatics; semantics; discourse analysis; cross-cultural and intercultural communication; language contacts; sociolinguistics; face-to-face communication; politeness; speech acts; nonverbal communication. Lithuanian, Russian, English, Turkish (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
Šinkūnienė, Jolanta, Vilnius University, Lithuania: contrastive pragmatics (Lithuanian-English), semantics-pragmatics interface, semantic change, (inter)subjectification, epistemic and evidential markers, imperatives as pragmatic markers (matyt, rodos / atrodo / regis vs seem, žiūrėk vs look, klausyk vs listen, indeed, actually)
Gobekci, Erika, Vytautas Magnus university, Lithuania: contrastive pragmatics; semantics; discourse analysis; cross-cultural and intercultural communication; language contacts; sociolinguistics; face-to-face communication; politeness; speech acts; nonverbal communication. Lithuanian, Russian, English, Turkish (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
Šinkūnienė, Jolanta, Vilnius University, Lithuania: contrastive pragmatics (Lithuanian-English), semantics-pragmatics interface, semantic change, (inter)subjectification, epistemic and evidential markers, imperatives as pragmatic markers (matyt, rodos / atrodo / regis vs seem, žiūrėk vs look, klausyk vs listen, indeed, actually)
Macedonia
Kusevska, Marija, Goce Delcev University, Stip, Republic of Macedonia: face-to-face communication; speech acts (requests, apologies); politeness (disagreement, mitigation); contrastive pragmatics (English-Macedonian); second language acquisition (pa, ama, da ne)
Kusevska, Marija, Goce Delcev University, Stip, Republic of Macedonia: face-to-face communication; speech acts (requests, apologies); politeness (disagreement, mitigation); contrastive pragmatics (English-Macedonian); second language acquisition (pa, ama, da ne)
Malaysia
Aazam, Fareeha, University of Malaya, Malaysia: social media discourse, discursive practice, discourse in Higher Education
Aazam, Fareeha, University of Malaya, Malaysia: social media discourse, discursive practice, discourse in Higher Education
Mexico
Reig, Asela, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico: morpho-syntactic variation involving discourse-pragmatic meaning; variation in direct object (null) pronouns & pronouns with clausal antecedents; social meaning & socio-pragmatic variation in the use of discourse markers and epistemic markers in Spanish (igual, lo que pasa es que, ahora sí que, al final/por fin/finalmente, digo, de repente)
Reig, Asela, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico: morpho-syntactic variation involving discourse-pragmatic meaning; variation in direct object (null) pronouns & pronouns with clausal antecedents; social meaning & socio-pragmatic variation in the use of discourse markers and epistemic markers in Spanish (igual, lo que pasa es que, ahora sí que, al final/por fin/finalmente, digo, de repente)
Netherlands
Fernandez, Raquel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: computational & corpus analysis; dialogue acts; turn-taking; disfluencies & filled pauses; audience design, style accommodation
Rupp, Laura, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands: grammatical features of varieties of English and how these can be accounted for by a joint perspective from historical linguistics, language variation and change & discourse-pragmatics; using features of the grammar of English varieties to assess grammatical theorizing about discourse-pragmatic properties; determiners (definite article reduction, complex demonstratives, zero article); agreement (Northern Subject Rule)
Viola, Lorella, Utrecht University, Netherlands: evolution &development of discourse-pragmatic variables from old to contemporary Italian; influence of English on Italian discourse-pragmatic variables; discoursivization (giusto?, si?, non c’è problema, esatto)
Fernandez, Raquel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: computational & corpus analysis; dialogue acts; turn-taking; disfluencies & filled pauses; audience design, style accommodation
Rupp, Laura, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands: grammatical features of varieties of English and how these can be accounted for by a joint perspective from historical linguistics, language variation and change & discourse-pragmatics; using features of the grammar of English varieties to assess grammatical theorizing about discourse-pragmatic properties; determiners (definite article reduction, complex demonstratives, zero article); agreement (Northern Subject Rule)
Viola, Lorella, Utrecht University, Netherlands: evolution &development of discourse-pragmatic variables from old to contemporary Italian; influence of English on Italian discourse-pragmatic variables; discoursivization (giusto?, si?, non c’è problema, esatto)
New Zealand
Truesdale, Sarah M., Auckland University, NZ: variation in acquisition (L1 and L2 English) (discourse like)
Truesdale, Sarah M., Auckland University, NZ: variation in acquisition (L1 and L2 English) (discourse like)
Norway
Andersen, Gisle, Norwegian School of NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway: corpus linguistic methods; pragmatics; discourse analysis; pragmatic borrowing and discourse-pragmatic neologisms; sociolinguistic variation (like, innit, cos, tags)
Andersen, Gisle, Norwegian School of NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway: corpus linguistic methods; pragmatics; discourse analysis; pragmatic borrowing and discourse-pragmatic neologisms; sociolinguistic variation (like, innit, cos, tags)
Saudi Arabia
Almossa, Amereh, University of York (UK), and Princes Nourah Bint Abdurahman University (Saudi Arabia): discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Arabic (ya3ni / I mean/it means, MA: 2ADRI: / I don't know, tayyib / well/okay; intensification in Arabic)
Almossa, Amereh, University of York (UK), and Princes Nourah Bint Abdurahman University (Saudi Arabia): discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Arabic (ya3ni / I mean/it means, MA: 2ADRI: / I don't know, tayyib / well/okay; intensification in Arabic)
Spain
Amador-Moreno, Carolina, University of Extremadura, Spain: Irish English; historical pragmatics; contrastive pragmatics Spanish-English (like, sure, and, arrah, troth, be like; anda, venga,ya, oye, claro)
Lavid López, Julia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain: English and Spanish contrastive analysis and corpus annotation of discourse markers
Lastres-López, Cristina, University of Seville, Spain: language variation, corpus pragmatics, contrastive pragmatics English-Spanish-French (if, si, tag questions)
López-Couso, María José, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain: language variation and change; pragmatic markers; epistemic/evidential markers; (inter)subjectification; grammaticalisation, constructionalisation, (paren)theticals (English chances are, odds are, namely, methinks, like-parentheticals, probably, perhaps, maybe, may-adverbs, it seems; Spanish dizque; Galician disque, seica)
Méndez Naya, Belén, University of Santiago de Compostela: historical linguistics; development of discourse markers and intensifiers (discourse markers; intensifiers)
Amador-Moreno, Carolina, University of Extremadura, Spain: Irish English; historical pragmatics; contrastive pragmatics Spanish-English (like, sure, and, arrah, troth, be like; anda, venga,ya, oye, claro)
Lavid López, Julia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain: English and Spanish contrastive analysis and corpus annotation of discourse markers
Lastres-López, Cristina, University of Seville, Spain: language variation, corpus pragmatics, contrastive pragmatics English-Spanish-French (if, si, tag questions)
López-Couso, María José, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain: language variation and change; pragmatic markers; epistemic/evidential markers; (inter)subjectification; grammaticalisation, constructionalisation, (paren)theticals (English chances are, odds are, namely, methinks, like-parentheticals, probably, perhaps, maybe, may-adverbs, it seems; Spanish dizque; Galician disque, seica)
Méndez Naya, Belén, University of Santiago de Compostela: historical linguistics; development of discourse markers and intensifiers (discourse markers; intensifiers)
Sweden
Aijmer, Karin, University of Gothenberg, Sweden: pragmatic markers, modal particles; conversational routines (well, now, oh, ah, actually, look, listen, in fact, indeed, sort of, kind of, the fact is, I think, of course; gärna, alltså, ju, nog, väl; tails, general extenders )
Aijmer, Karin, University of Gothenberg, Sweden: pragmatic markers, modal particles; conversational routines (well, now, oh, ah, actually, look, listen, in fact, indeed, sort of, kind of, the fact is, I think, of course; gärna, alltså, ju, nog, väl; tails, general extenders )
Switzerland
Britain, David, Universität Bern, Switzerland: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (desho, general extenders, high-rising terminals)
Jivanyan, Hasmik, University of Geneva, Switzerland: causal connectives in French and Armenian
Jucker, Andreas H., University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; historical pragmatics; terms of address; compliments, insults, apologies, greetings (well)
Rüegg, Larssyn, University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; thanks responses; offers; terms of address; discourse markers; filled pauses (uh, um, ah)
Tottie, Gunnel, University of Zürich, Switzerland: variation & change in the use of uh and um, specifically their development (from filled pause to words via use as PMs?) and their co-variation with bona fide PMs (uh, um, well, you know, I mean)
Britain, David, Universität Bern, Switzerland: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (desho, general extenders, high-rising terminals)
Jivanyan, Hasmik, University of Geneva, Switzerland: causal connectives in French and Armenian
Jucker, Andreas H., University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; historical pragmatics; terms of address; compliments, insults, apologies, greetings (well)
Rüegg, Larssyn, University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; thanks responses; offers; terms of address; discourse markers; filled pauses (uh, um, ah)
Tottie, Gunnel, University of Zürich, Switzerland: variation & change in the use of uh and um, specifically their development (from filled pause to words via use as PMs?) and their co-variation with bona fide PMs (uh, um, well, you know, I mean)
Trinidad and Tobago
Drayton, Kathy-Ann, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine: variation & change in address forms (familiarizers) in Trinidadian English/Creole (hoss, dread, breds, boss, boy) and other Caribbean Englishes/Creoles (e.g. St. Lucian gassa); grammaticalization of address forms to other discourse-pragmatic markers; child acquisition of discourse-pragmatic markers
Drayton, Kathy-Ann, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine: variation & change in address forms (familiarizers) in Trinidadian English/Creole (hoss, dread, breds, boss, boy) and other Caribbean Englishes/Creoles (e.g. St. Lucian gassa); grammaticalization of address forms to other discourse-pragmatic markers; child acquisition of discourse-pragmatic markers
Turkey
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
UK
Al Amer, Hadeel, University of Reading, UK: interpersonal politeness in Saudi medical education within EMI contexts; politeness strategies; emotional expression; discourse markers; interactional dynamics in EMI settings
Almossa, Amereh, University of York (UK), and Princes Nourah Bint Abdurahman University (Saudi Arabia): discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Arabic (ya3ni / I mean/it means, MA: 2ADRI: / I don't know, tayyib / well/okay; intensification in Arabic)
Barbieri, Federica, Swansea University, UK: corpus-based approaches to sociolinguistic and discourse-pragmatic variation; lexico-grammatical variation; discourse-pragmatic variation and register variation; sub-registers; involvement, stance; classroom discourse, institutional discourse (quotatives, general extenders)
Beeching, Kate, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK: (historical) semantic change, sociolinguistic salience and teachability of markers in English and French (well, you know, just, sort of, I mean, like, then, though; c'est-à-dire, enfin, hein, juste, quand même, quoi, si tu veux/si vous voulez)
Brook, Marisa, University of Essex, UK: discourse-pragmatic & morpho-syntactic variation and change (quotatives)
Bueno-Amaro, Joaquín, Newcastle University, UK: discourse-pragmatic variation in Tyneside teenage talk; language change propelled by teenagers (intensifiers; quotatives; canny, dead, Tyneside like, quotative be like, quotative go, obviously, literally, actually)
Cheshire, Jenny, Queen Mary University of London, UK: language variation and change including variation and change in discourse-pragmatic features (general extenders, like, quotatives, sitll)
Childs, Claire, University of York, UK: grammatical and discourse-pragmatic variation and change; English dialect syntax (tag questions; intensifiers)
Connors, Marianne, University of Exeter, UK: French discourse markers in film &TV dialogue; translations of French discourse markers into British English (subtitling); role of discourse markers facework/politeness (écoute, enfin)
De Felice, Rachele, University College London, UK: corpus pragmatics, pragmatic features of e-mail language
Eiswirth, Mirjam, University of Edinburgh: listener responses as a discourse-organisational variable; accounting for interactional structure in analyses of discourse-pragmatic variation (listener responses/ backchannels)
Evans, Mel, University of Birmingham, UK: orality/written modes & influence of (and on) DMs; Early Modern English
Gibb-Reid Benjamin, University of York, UK: phonetics and distribution of discourse markers, forensic speech science; discourse-pragmatic variables as potential speaker discriminants; English (like, yeah, just)
Jamieson, Elyse, University of Edinburgh, UK: syntax-pragmatics interface, non-canonical questions, language variation and change, Scots (tag questions)
Kirk, John, Belfast, UK: Irish & Scottish English; corpus linguistics; syntax (especially tense, aspect and modality); pragmatic discourse markers; annotation schemes; SPICE-Ireland (kind of, sort of, sorry, I don’t know and other first-person PDMs)
Lutzky, Ursula, Birmingham City University, UK: corpus linguistic methods; historical pragmatics; sociopragmatics; discourse analysis; expressives (marry, well, why, what, pray, meanwhile; interjections, surprise markers)
Onder-Ozdemir, Neslihan, The University of Sheffield, UK: English for Specific/Academic Purposes, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, contrastive pragmatics, interpersonal and textual discourse markers particularly in the field of medicine and engineering.
Penry Williams, Cara, University of Derby, UK: discourse-pragmatic variables (clause-final but, general extenders, sort of, like, oh)
Pichler, Heike, Newcastle University, UK: methods in discourse variation analysis; form-function correlations in the use of discourse-pragmatic variables; diffusion of discourse-pragmatic innovations; discourse-pragmatic change and grammaticalization; discourse-pragmatic change in language contact settings (I dunno, I don't think, innit, question tags, innit, general extenders)
Pintzuk, Susan, University of York, UK: the role of informational structure in syntactic change in the history of English
Ríos García, Carmen, University of Liverpool, UK: hedging and repair in conversation, mediated communication, discourse markers, L2 pragmatics
Secova, Maria, Birkbeck/Queen Mary University London, UK: discourse-pragmatics, spoken French, sociolinguistic variation and change, age grading (general extenders, quotatives, discourse markers)
Waters, Cathleen, University of Leicester, UK: variation and change; cross-dialectal studies; adverb and adverb-like features (actually, really, now)
Weston, John, Queen Mary University of London, UK: interaction between (meta-)ideology & discourse; quantitative approaches to analysing coordinated action of multiple linguistic variables at different linguistic levels; generalizations of the sociolinguistic variable to include discourse-pragmatic features; the role of epistemological commitments in the variable use of modal & evidential features in expressions of epistemic stance; discourses of knowledge organizations; Academic English (modal verbs and adverbs, hedges & intensifiers, generalizers & restrictors, subjectifiers & objectifiers, approximators & equators)
Al Amer, Hadeel, University of Reading, UK: interpersonal politeness in Saudi medical education within EMI contexts; politeness strategies; emotional expression; discourse markers; interactional dynamics in EMI settings
Almossa, Amereh, University of York (UK), and Princes Nourah Bint Abdurahman University (Saudi Arabia): discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Arabic (ya3ni / I mean/it means, MA: 2ADRI: / I don't know, tayyib / well/okay; intensification in Arabic)
Barbieri, Federica, Swansea University, UK: corpus-based approaches to sociolinguistic and discourse-pragmatic variation; lexico-grammatical variation; discourse-pragmatic variation and register variation; sub-registers; involvement, stance; classroom discourse, institutional discourse (quotatives, general extenders)
Beeching, Kate, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK: (historical) semantic change, sociolinguistic salience and teachability of markers in English and French (well, you know, just, sort of, I mean, like, then, though; c'est-à-dire, enfin, hein, juste, quand même, quoi, si tu veux/si vous voulez)
Brook, Marisa, University of Essex, UK: discourse-pragmatic & morpho-syntactic variation and change (quotatives)
Bueno-Amaro, Joaquín, Newcastle University, UK: discourse-pragmatic variation in Tyneside teenage talk; language change propelled by teenagers (intensifiers; quotatives; canny, dead, Tyneside like, quotative be like, quotative go, obviously, literally, actually)
Cheshire, Jenny, Queen Mary University of London, UK: language variation and change including variation and change in discourse-pragmatic features (general extenders, like, quotatives, sitll)
Childs, Claire, University of York, UK: grammatical and discourse-pragmatic variation and change; English dialect syntax (tag questions; intensifiers)
Connors, Marianne, University of Exeter, UK: French discourse markers in film &TV dialogue; translations of French discourse markers into British English (subtitling); role of discourse markers facework/politeness (écoute, enfin)
De Felice, Rachele, University College London, UK: corpus pragmatics, pragmatic features of e-mail language
Eiswirth, Mirjam, University of Edinburgh: listener responses as a discourse-organisational variable; accounting for interactional structure in analyses of discourse-pragmatic variation (listener responses/ backchannels)
Evans, Mel, University of Birmingham, UK: orality/written modes & influence of (and on) DMs; Early Modern English
Gibb-Reid Benjamin, University of York, UK: phonetics and distribution of discourse markers, forensic speech science; discourse-pragmatic variables as potential speaker discriminants; English (like, yeah, just)
Jamieson, Elyse, University of Edinburgh, UK: syntax-pragmatics interface, non-canonical questions, language variation and change, Scots (tag questions)
Kirk, John, Belfast, UK: Irish & Scottish English; corpus linguistics; syntax (especially tense, aspect and modality); pragmatic discourse markers; annotation schemes; SPICE-Ireland (kind of, sort of, sorry, I don’t know and other first-person PDMs)
Lutzky, Ursula, Birmingham City University, UK: corpus linguistic methods; historical pragmatics; sociopragmatics; discourse analysis; expressives (marry, well, why, what, pray, meanwhile; interjections, surprise markers)
Onder-Ozdemir, Neslihan, The University of Sheffield, UK: English for Specific/Academic Purposes, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, contrastive pragmatics, interpersonal and textual discourse markers particularly in the field of medicine and engineering.
Penry Williams, Cara, University of Derby, UK: discourse-pragmatic variables (clause-final but, general extenders, sort of, like, oh)
Pichler, Heike, Newcastle University, UK: methods in discourse variation analysis; form-function correlations in the use of discourse-pragmatic variables; diffusion of discourse-pragmatic innovations; discourse-pragmatic change and grammaticalization; discourse-pragmatic change in language contact settings (I dunno, I don't think, innit, question tags, innit, general extenders)
Pintzuk, Susan, University of York, UK: the role of informational structure in syntactic change in the history of English
Ríos García, Carmen, University of Liverpool, UK: hedging and repair in conversation, mediated communication, discourse markers, L2 pragmatics
Secova, Maria, Birkbeck/Queen Mary University London, UK: discourse-pragmatics, spoken French, sociolinguistic variation and change, age grading (general extenders, quotatives, discourse markers)
Waters, Cathleen, University of Leicester, UK: variation and change; cross-dialectal studies; adverb and adverb-like features (actually, really, now)
Weston, John, Queen Mary University of London, UK: interaction between (meta-)ideology & discourse; quantitative approaches to analysing coordinated action of multiple linguistic variables at different linguistic levels; generalizations of the sociolinguistic variable to include discourse-pragmatic features; the role of epistemological commitments in the variable use of modal & evidential features in expressions of epistemic stance; discourses of knowledge organizations; Academic English (modal verbs and adverbs, hedges & intensifiers, generalizers & restrictors, subjectifiers & objectifiers, approximators & equators)
USA
Acton, Eric, Stanford University, USA: social meaning & socio-pragmatic variation in the use of demonstratives, determiners, pronouns & filled pauses; relation between form, function, use & meaning (uh, um)
Ahn, Heeyoung, Harvard University, USA: Korean connectives & sentence-concluding endings; (inter)subjectification of Korean discourse features
Beck, Hanno, The University at Buffalo, USA: conventional and conversational implicatures; modal particles in German; subjective use of language; vague gradable adjectives; the QUD model of discourse; discourse functions of the tough-construction
Cameron, Richard, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: variationist sociolinguistic, change in progress (null-pronoun subject expressions; direct quotations, and something)
Cukor-Avila, Patricia, University of North Texas, USA: discourse-pragmatic & gramatical variation and change in African American Vernacular English; tense and aspect; transmission and diffusion; language across the life-span; style; narrative discourse (quotatives)
Drager, Katie K., University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA: identity construction; link between phonetic detail and lexical information in speech production and speech perception (discourse like)
Hesson, Ashley, Michigan State University, USA: discourse-pragmatic variation in physician-patient speech; variation across the lifespan; quantitative methods for the study of pragmatic variation (general extenders, pitch contours, deontic modality)
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
Pabst, Katharina, University of Buffalo, US: discourse-pragmatic variation among children & young adults; the role of identity in discourse-pragmatic variation
Paulson, Dave, Temple University, USA: language acquisition & socialization; language ideologies; multilingualism; fictive kin-terms for pronoun reference; tone; discourse organization; material & semiotic ecologies of language-in-use
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Stanford University, USA: constructionalization & how to account for the development of discourse-pragmatic markers from the perspective of this model; pragmatic implicatures as enablers of change; testing hypotheses about correlations between pragmatic marker meanings and position at left or right periphery of the clause (indeed, in fact, actually, no doubt, surely, besides)
Tyler, Joseph, Morehead State University, USA: prosody and discourse marking, prosodic correlates of discourse structure, prosodic disambiguation of discourse, prosodic and lexical cues to coherence interpretation; experimental and corpus approaches to final rising pitch
Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Michigan State University, USA: methods for coding and quantifying discourse-pragmatic
variables; cross-dialectal studies; discourse-pragmatic variation across the lifespan (general extenders; adverb placement; future temporal reference; quotatives; intensifiers)
Acton, Eric, Stanford University, USA: social meaning & socio-pragmatic variation in the use of demonstratives, determiners, pronouns & filled pauses; relation between form, function, use & meaning (uh, um)
Ahn, Heeyoung, Harvard University, USA: Korean connectives & sentence-concluding endings; (inter)subjectification of Korean discourse features
Beck, Hanno, The University at Buffalo, USA: conventional and conversational implicatures; modal particles in German; subjective use of language; vague gradable adjectives; the QUD model of discourse; discourse functions of the tough-construction
Cameron, Richard, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: variationist sociolinguistic, change in progress (null-pronoun subject expressions; direct quotations, and something)
Cukor-Avila, Patricia, University of North Texas, USA: discourse-pragmatic & gramatical variation and change in African American Vernacular English; tense and aspect; transmission and diffusion; language across the life-span; style; narrative discourse (quotatives)
Drager, Katie K., University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA: identity construction; link between phonetic detail and lexical information in speech production and speech perception (discourse like)
Hesson, Ashley, Michigan State University, USA: discourse-pragmatic variation in physician-patient speech; variation across the lifespan; quantitative methods for the study of pragmatic variation (general extenders, pitch contours, deontic modality)
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
Pabst, Katharina, University of Buffalo, US: discourse-pragmatic variation among children & young adults; the role of identity in discourse-pragmatic variation
Paulson, Dave, Temple University, USA: language acquisition & socialization; language ideologies; multilingualism; fictive kin-terms for pronoun reference; tone; discourse organization; material & semiotic ecologies of language-in-use
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Stanford University, USA: constructionalization & how to account for the development of discourse-pragmatic markers from the perspective of this model; pragmatic implicatures as enablers of change; testing hypotheses about correlations between pragmatic marker meanings and position at left or right periphery of the clause (indeed, in fact, actually, no doubt, surely, besides)
Tyler, Joseph, Morehead State University, USA: prosody and discourse marking, prosodic correlates of discourse structure, prosodic disambiguation of discourse, prosodic and lexical cues to coherence interpretation; experimental and corpus approaches to final rising pitch
Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Michigan State University, USA: methods for coding and quantifying discourse-pragmatic
variables; cross-dialectal studies; discourse-pragmatic variation across the lifespan (general extenders; adverb placement; future temporal reference; quotatives; intensifiers)