MEMBERS - by language
Arabic
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)
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
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)
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
Armenian
Jivanyan, Hasmik, University of Geneva, Switzerland: causal connectives in French and Armenian
Jivanyan, Hasmik, University of Geneva, Switzerland: causal connectives in French and Armenian
Auslan
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Auslan.
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Auslan.
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
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change in a Brazilian immigrant koine in Japan (tag questions, né)
Sousa de Gois, Túlio, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Pragmatic variation, paralinguistic resources, computational linguistics, Brazilian Portuguese
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; Brazilian Portuguese (quotatives; existentials).
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
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change in a Brazilian immigrant koine in Japan (tag questions, né)
Sousa de Gois, Túlio, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil: Pragmatic variation, paralinguistic resources, computational linguistics, Brazilian Portuguese
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; Brazilian Portuguese (quotatives; existentials).
Cham
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
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
Chinese
Mao, Yansheng, Harbin Engineering University, China: discourse-pragmatic variation & change of Chinese and English in cyberspace.
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; Chinese (quotatives; existentials).
Mao, Yansheng, Harbin Engineering University, China: discourse-pragmatic variation & change of Chinese and English in cyberspace.
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; Chinese (quotatives; existentials).
Danish
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)
Dutch
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 (omdat, dus, daarom, aangezien, eigenlijk, dan)
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 (omdat, dus, daarom, aangezien, eigenlijk, dan)
English
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)
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, tails, general extenders)
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
Amador-Moreno, Carolina, University of Extremadura, Spain: Irish English; historical pragmatics; contrastive pragmatics Spanish-English (like, sure, and, arrah, troth, be like)
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)
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)
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)
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, like)
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)
Burridge, Kate, Monash University, Australia: language change; discourse markers/particles in English (yeah-no, cos); English markers in Pennsylvania German
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)
Britain, David, Universität Bern, Switzerland: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change(general extenders, high-rising terminals)
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)
Cameron, Richard, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: variationist sociolinguistic, change in progress (and something)
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)
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)
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)
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)
De Felice, Rachele, University College London, UK: corpus pragmatics, pragmatic features of e-mail language
Denis, Derek 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)
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)
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)
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
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
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)
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)
Gibb-Reid Benjamin, University of York, UK: phonetics and distribution of discourse markers, forensic speech science; discourse-pragmatic variables as potential speaker discriminants (like, yeah, just)
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, The Australian National University: Sociolinguistic variation in bilinguals in production and perception; English
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
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)
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)
Hofmockel, Carolin, University of Augsburg, Germany: pragmatic markers, modal particles, sociocultural variation, syntactic variation, syntax-pragmatics interface (but)
Jamieson, Elyse, University of Edinburgh, UK: syntax-pragmatics interface, non-canonical questions, language variation and change, Scots (tag questions)
Jucker, Andreas H., University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; historical pragmatics; terms of address; compliments, insults, apologies, greetings (well)
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
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)
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)
Lerat, Stephanie Doyle, Université de Nantes, France: discursive functions of inflectional verbal morphology; online interactions
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)
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (discourse like, quotatives, general extenders)
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
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)
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)
Lutzky, Ursula, Birmingham City University, UK: corpus linguistic methods; historical pragmatics; sociopragmatics; discourse analysis; expressives (marry, well, why, what, pray, meanwhile; interjections, surprise markers)
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Australian English.
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change in Palauan English (address forms and discourse markers; e.g., dude, man, bro, ollei, cherrang, charrach; and you know).
Mao, Yansheng, Harbin Engineering University, China: discourse-pragmatic variation & change of Chinese and English in cyberspace
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)
Méndez Naya, Belén, University of Santiago de Compostela: historical linguistics; development of discourse markers and intensifiers (discourse markers; intensifiers)
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; (Australian) English
Murray, Lee, Monash University, Australia: synchronic, stylistic & discourse-pragmatic variation in Australian English
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification
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
Pabst, Katharina, University of Buffalo, US: discourse-pragmatic variation among children & young adults; the role of identity in discourse-pragmatic variation
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)
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
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
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)
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)
Ríos García, Carmen, University of Liverpool, UK: hedging and repair in conversation, mediated communication, discourse markers, L2 pragmatics
Rodriguez Louro, Celeste, University of Western Australia, Australia: preterit/present perfect; tense variation; tense and aspect (quotation; epistemics)
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
Rüegg, Larssyn, University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; thanks responses; offers; terms of address; discourse markers; filled pauses (uh, um, ah)
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)
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)
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)
Schoning, Christian, graduate of University of Copenhagen, Denmark: cross-linguistic comparative study of English 'like' and Danish 'sådan' (discourse markers, like, sådan)
Shibasaki, Reijirou, Meiji University, Japan: discourse studies, grammaticalization; insubordination in Ryukyuan/Okinawan and present-day Japanese; variations & expansions of 'shell noun'-constructions
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)
Stirling, Lesley, The University of Melbourne, Australia: conversational style including pausing; narrative; gesture; Australian English.
Tagliamonte, Sali A., University of Toronto, Canada: language variation & change in discourse-pragmatics (quotative system; tense & aspect in narrative; general extenders; sentence tags)
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)
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)
Travis, Catherine, The Australian National University: discourse variables in Australian English; operationalisation of pragmatic constructs; English; general extenders, quotatives, discourse like, intensifiers
Truesdale, Sarah M., Auckland University, NZ: variation in acquisition (L1 and L2 English) (discourse like)
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)
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; English (quotatives; existentials).
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)
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)
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
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)
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, tails, general extenders)
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
Amador-Moreno, Carolina, University of Extremadura, Spain: Irish English; historical pragmatics; contrastive pragmatics Spanish-English (like, sure, and, arrah, troth, be like)
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)
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)
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)
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, like)
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)
Burridge, Kate, Monash University, Australia: language change; discourse markers/particles in English (yeah-no, cos); English markers in Pennsylvania German
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)
Britain, David, Universität Bern, Switzerland: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change(general extenders, high-rising terminals)
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)
Cameron, Richard, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: variationist sociolinguistic, change in progress (and something)
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)
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)
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)
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)
De Felice, Rachele, University College London, UK: corpus pragmatics, pragmatic features of e-mail language
Denis, Derek 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)
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)
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)
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
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
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)
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)
Gibb-Reid Benjamin, University of York, UK: phonetics and distribution of discourse markers, forensic speech science; discourse-pragmatic variables as potential speaker discriminants (like, yeah, just)
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, The Australian National University: Sociolinguistic variation in bilinguals in production and perception; English
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
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)
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)
Hofmockel, Carolin, University of Augsburg, Germany: pragmatic markers, modal particles, sociocultural variation, syntactic variation, syntax-pragmatics interface (but)
Jamieson, Elyse, University of Edinburgh, UK: syntax-pragmatics interface, non-canonical questions, language variation and change, Scots (tag questions)
Jucker, Andreas H., University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; historical pragmatics; terms of address; compliments, insults, apologies, greetings (well)
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
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)
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)
Lerat, Stephanie Doyle, Université de Nantes, France: discursive functions of inflectional verbal morphology; online interactions
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)
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (discourse like, quotatives, general extenders)
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
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)
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)
Lutzky, Ursula, Birmingham City University, UK: corpus linguistic methods; historical pragmatics; sociopragmatics; discourse analysis; expressives (marry, well, why, what, pray, meanwhile; interjections, surprise markers)
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Australian English.
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change in Palauan English (address forms and discourse markers; e.g., dude, man, bro, ollei, cherrang, charrach; and you know).
Mao, Yansheng, Harbin Engineering University, China: discourse-pragmatic variation & change of Chinese and English in cyberspace
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)
Méndez Naya, Belén, University of Santiago de Compostela: historical linguistics; development of discourse markers and intensifiers (discourse markers; intensifiers)
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; (Australian) English
Murray, Lee, Monash University, Australia: synchronic, stylistic & discourse-pragmatic variation in Australian English
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification
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
Pabst, Katharina, University of Buffalo, US: discourse-pragmatic variation among children & young adults; the role of identity in discourse-pragmatic variation
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)
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
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
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)
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)
Ríos García, Carmen, University of Liverpool, UK: hedging and repair in conversation, mediated communication, discourse markers, L2 pragmatics
Rodriguez Louro, Celeste, University of Western Australia, Australia: preterit/present perfect; tense variation; tense and aspect (quotation; epistemics)
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
Rüegg, Larssyn, University of Zurich, Switzerland: variational pragmatics; thanks responses; offers; terms of address; discourse markers; filled pauses (uh, um, ah)
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)
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)
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)
Schoning, Christian, graduate of University of Copenhagen, Denmark: cross-linguistic comparative study of English 'like' and Danish 'sådan' (discourse markers, like, sådan)
Shibasaki, Reijirou, Meiji University, Japan: discourse studies, grammaticalization; insubordination in Ryukyuan/Okinawan and present-day Japanese; variations & expansions of 'shell noun'-constructions
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)
Stirling, Lesley, The University of Melbourne, Australia: conversational style including pausing; narrative; gesture; Australian English.
Tagliamonte, Sali A., University of Toronto, Canada: language variation & change in discourse-pragmatics (quotative system; tense & aspect in narrative; general extenders; sentence tags)
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)
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)
Travis, Catherine, The Australian National University: discourse variables in Australian English; operationalisation of pragmatic constructs; English; general extenders, quotatives, discourse like, intensifiers
Truesdale, Sarah M., Auckland University, NZ: variation in acquisition (L1 and L2 English) (discourse like)
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)
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; English (quotatives; existentials).
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)
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)
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
Finnish
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)
Peterson, Elizabeth, University of Helsinki, Finland: politeness; pragmatics; discourse analysis; pragmatic borrowing; language contact and change; English as a global (contact) language; sociolinguistic variation (pliis, jees, c'mon, kiitos, tyyliin, niinku, sillee)
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)
Peterson, Elizabeth, University of Helsinki, Finland: politeness; pragmatics; discourse analysis; pragmatic borrowing; language contact and change; English as a global (contact) language; sociolinguistic variation (pliis, jees, c'mon, kiitos, tyyliin, niinku, sillee)
French
Beeching, Kate, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK: (historical) semantic change, sociolinguistic salience and teachability of markers in English and French (c'est-à-dire, enfin, hein, juste, quand même, quoi, si tu veux/si vous voulez)
Cheshire, Jenny, Queen Mary University of London, UK: language variation and change including variation and change in discourse-pragmatic features (general extenders, quotatives)
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)
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)
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)
Jivanyan, Hasmik, University of Geneva, Switzerland: causal connectives in French and Armenian
Lastres-López, Cristina, University of Seville, Spain: language variation, corpus pragmatics, contrastive pragmatics English-Spanish-French (if, si, tag questions)
Lerat, Stephanie Doyle, Université de Nantes, France: discursive functions of inflectional verbal morphology; online
interactions
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (quotatives)
Mullan, Kerry, RMIT University, Australia: cross-cultural and intercultural communication; interactional style; discourse analysis, pragmatics, humour in social interaction; French
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)
Secova, Maria, Birkbeck/Queen Mary University London, UK: discourse-pragmatics, spoken French, sociolinguistic
variation and change, age grading (general extenders, quotatives, discourse markers)
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)
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
Beeching, Kate, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK: (historical) semantic change, sociolinguistic salience and teachability of markers in English and French (c'est-à-dire, enfin, hein, juste, quand même, quoi, si tu veux/si vous voulez)
Cheshire, Jenny, Queen Mary University of London, UK: language variation and change including variation and change in discourse-pragmatic features (general extenders, quotatives)
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)
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)
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)
Jivanyan, Hasmik, University of Geneva, Switzerland: causal connectives in French and Armenian
Lastres-López, Cristina, University of Seville, Spain: language variation, corpus pragmatics, contrastive pragmatics English-Spanish-French (if, si, tag questions)
Lerat, Stephanie Doyle, Université de Nantes, France: discursive functions of inflectional verbal morphology; online
interactions
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (quotatives)
Mullan, Kerry, RMIT University, Australia: cross-cultural and intercultural communication; interactional style; discourse analysis, pragmatics, humour in social interaction; French
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)
Secova, Maria, Birkbeck/Queen Mary University London, UK: discourse-pragmatics, spoken French, sociolinguistic
variation and change, age grading (general extenders, quotatives, discourse markers)
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)
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
Gacilian
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)
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)
German
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
Burridge, Kate, Monash University, Australia: language change; Germanic languages; English markers in Pennsylvania German
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)
Schleef, Erik, University of Manchester, UK: language variation & change; acquisition & perception of language variation (in particular discourse-pragmatic, phonetic & phonological variation in dialects of the British Isles) (ja, nun, okay, so, gut)
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
Burridge, Kate, Monash University, Australia: language change; Germanic languages; English markers in Pennsylvania German
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)
Schleef, Erik, University of Manchester, UK: language variation & change; acquisition & perception of language variation (in particular discourse-pragmatic, phonetic & phonological variation in dialects of the British Isles) (ja, nun, okay, so, gut)
Haitian Creole
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)
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)
Hebrew
Maschler, Yael, University of Haifa, Israel: Discourse markers in 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: 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.
Hungarian
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)
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
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification
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)
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
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification
Indo-Aryan languages
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
Indonesian
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Indonesian.
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Indonesian.
Italian
Beltrama, Andrea, University of Konstanz, Germany: integrating theoretical semantics/pragmatics; social indexicality/social meaning; intensification; discourse particles; experimental methods; intensifiers across languages (-issimo)
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)
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)
Beltrama, Andrea, University of Konstanz, Germany: integrating theoretical semantics/pragmatics; social indexicality/social meaning; intensification; discourse particles; experimental methods; intensifiers across languages (-issimo)
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)
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)
Jamaican Creole
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)
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)
Japanese
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')
Maree, Claire, The University of Melbourne, Australia: Japanese language; discourse-pragmatic variation and change; self-reference; interactional particles; gender; sexuality & language
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (tag questions, sho, desho, daro).
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')
Maree, Claire, The University of Melbourne, Australia: Japanese language; discourse-pragmatic variation and change; self-reference; interactional particles; gender; sexuality & language
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (tag questions, sho, desho, daro).
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
Javanese
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Javanese.
Manns, Howie, Monash University, Australia: discourse markers/particles; alignment; language contact; Javanese.
Kala Lagaw Ya
Stirling, Lesley, The University of Melbourne, Australia: conversational style including pausing; narrative; gesture; Kala Lagaw Ya.
Stirling, Lesley, The University of Melbourne, Australia: conversational style including pausing; narrative; gesture; Kala Lagaw Ya.
Korean
Ahn, Heeyoung, Harvard University, USA: Korean connectives & sentence-concluding endings; (inter)subjectification of Korean discourse features
Ahn, Heeyoung, Harvard University, USA: Korean connectives & sentence-concluding endings; (inter)subjectification of Korean discourse features
Latin
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)
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)
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)
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)
Lithuanian
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
Macedonian
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)
Norwegian
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, general extenders, interjections, discourse topic markers)
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)
Norwegian
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, general extenders, interjections, discourse topic markers)
Palauan English
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (address forms and discourse markers; e.g., ollei, cherrang, charrach, dude, man, bro; and you know).
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (address forms and discourse markers; e.g., ollei, cherrang, charrach, dude, man, bro; and you know).
Palauan Japanese
Britain, David, Universität Bern, Switzerland: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (desho)
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (tag questions, sho, desho, daro).
Britain, David, Universität Bern, Switzerland: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (desho)
Matsumoto, Kazuko, University of Tokyo, Japan: social & linguistic embedding of discourse-pragmatic variation & change (tag questions, sho, desho, daro).
Polish
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)
Lockyer, Dorota,University of British Columbia,Canada: discourse particles; diminutives; corpus linguistic methods; language variation & change; multilingualism; pragmatics; discourse analysis; translation (intensifiers, analytic markers, interjections; little, small, wee, Lordy, oopsie, (oh) dearie)
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)
Lockyer, Dorota,University of British Columbia,Canada: discourse particles; diminutives; corpus linguistic methods; language variation & change; multilingualism; pragmatics; discourse analysis; translation (intensifiers, analytic markers, interjections; little, small, wee, Lordy, oopsie, (oh) dearie)
Portuguese
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (quotatives)
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
Levey, Stephen, University of Ottawa, Canada: discourse-pragmatic variation & change; tense-switching (quotatives)
Russian
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)
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, The Australian National University: Sociolinguistic variation in bilinguals in production and perception; Russian
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
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)
Gnevsheva, Ksenia, The Australian National University: Sociolinguistic variation in bilinguals in production and perception; Russian
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
Slovak
Secova, Maria, Birkbeck/Queen Mary University London, UK: discourse-pragmatics, spoken French, sociolinguistic variation and change, age grading (general extenders, quotatives, discourse markers)
Secova, Maria, Birkbeck/Queen Mary University London, UK: discourse-pragmatics, spoken French, sociolinguistic variation and change, age grading (general extenders, quotatives, discourse markers)
Spanish
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)
Amador-Moreno, Carolina, University of Extremadura, Spain: Irish English; historical pragmatics; contrastive pragmatics Spanish-English (anda, venga,ya, oye, claro)
Cameron, Richard, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: variationist sociolinguistic, change in progress (null-pronoun subject expressions; direct quotations)
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)
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
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)
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)
Ríos García, Carmen, University of Liverpool, UK: hedging and repair in conversation, mediated communication, discourse markers, L2 pragmatics
Rodriguez Louro, Celeste, University of Western Australia, Australia: preterit/present perfect; tense variation (quotation; epistemics)
Travis, Catherine, The Australian National University: operationalisation of pragmatic constructs; Spanish, general extenders, quotatives, intensifiers
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)
Amador-Moreno, Carolina, University of Extremadura, Spain: Irish English; historical pragmatics; contrastive pragmatics Spanish-English (anda, venga,ya, oye, claro)
Cameron, Richard, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: variationist sociolinguistic, change in progress (null-pronoun subject expressions; direct quotations)
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)
Kern, Joseph, University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA: discourse markers, quotatives (como, Spanish quotatives)
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)
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)
Ríos García, Carmen, University of Liverpool, UK: hedging and repair in conversation, mediated communication, discourse markers, L2 pragmatics
Rodriguez Louro, Celeste, University of Western Australia, Australia: preterit/present perfect; tense variation (quotation; epistemics)
Travis, Catherine, The Australian National University: operationalisation of pragmatic constructs; Spanish, general extenders, quotatives, intensifiers
Swedish
Aijmer, Karin, University of Gothenberg, Sweden: pragmatic markers, modal particles; conversational routines (gärna, alltså, ju, nog, väl, general extenders)
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; Swedish (quotatives; existentials).
Aijmer, Karin, University of Gothenberg, Sweden: pragmatic markers, modal particles; conversational routines (gärna, alltså, ju, nog, väl, general extenders)
Walker, James, LaTrobe University, Australia: Sociolinguistic variation and change; discourse-pragmatic variables; Swedish (quotatives; existentials).
Turkish
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
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 (greetings, farewells, forms of address, gestures)
Nagy, Károly, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary: critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, ideology identification
Zouaoui, Mehdi, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey: back-chanelling in non-native speaker discourse
Vietnamese
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
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