PREVIOUS DiPVaC CONFERENCES
DiPVaC6 was held from 12th-14th June 2024 at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (Budapest, Hungary). The conference was called 'Changing Discourses - Aspects of Linguistic, Social and Discourse Variation' and was held in cooperation with DiscourseNet and DiPVaC. The local organisers were Péter Furkó, Csilla Dér, Nóra Csontos, Beáta Kiltz, Mónika Pagony and Virág Zombory. The plenary speakers were Chloé Diskin-Holdaway (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Miklós Kontra (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary) and Manfred Stede (Universität Potsdam, Germany). The winner of the DiPVaC6 best student paper prize was Ben Gibb-Reid (University of York, UK) for his presentation "Creating a functional taxonomy of discourse-pragmatic yeah using inter-rater reliability" (see photo below, top middle).
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DiPVaC5 was held 14th-16th December 2021 in a hybrid format (online and in person at The University of Melbourne). It was organised by Chloé Diskin-Holdaway. The plenary speakers were Derek Denis (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada), Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Celeste Rodríguez Louro & Glenys Collard (The University of Western Australia), and Lesley Stirling (The University of Melbourne) & Ilana Mushin (The University of Queensland). Workshops were held by Alexandra D'Arcy (University of Victoria, Canada) and Mirjam Eiswirth (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany).
In total there were 293 registered attendees, 29 talks, 4 plenaries and 2 workshops. Conference talks were recorded and made available on an online platform. All talks were also live-streamed with live Q&As held across in-person and Zoom audiences.
The winner of the DiPVaC5 best student paper prize was Paloma Cardoso (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil) for her talk "Linguistic, acoustic and facial gestures effects in the inference of the meanings indicated by "(eu) acho que".
Photos from DiPVaC5 are below.
In total there were 293 registered attendees, 29 talks, 4 plenaries and 2 workshops. Conference talks were recorded and made available on an online platform. All talks were also live-streamed with live Q&As held across in-person and Zoom audiences.
The winner of the DiPVaC5 best student paper prize was Paloma Cardoso (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil) for her talk "Linguistic, acoustic and facial gestures effects in the inference of the meanings indicated by "(eu) acho que".
Photos from DiPVaC5 are below.
DiPVaC5 closing ceremony
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Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Ikuko Nakane and Zoom attendees
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DiPVaC5 conference dinner
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DiPVaC 4 was held 28-30 May 2018 at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and was organised by Elizabeth Peterson. The confirmed plenary speakers were: Yael Maschler (University of Haifa, Israel), Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Heike Pichler (Newcastle University, UK).
The winner of the DiPVaC 4 best student paper prize was Mirjam Eiswirth (University of Edinburgh, UK) for her presentation "Listener Responses as a Discourse-Organizational Variable".
Photos from DiPVaC 4 are below.
The winner of the DiPVaC 4 best student paper prize was Mirjam Eiswirth (University of Edinburgh, UK) for her presentation "Listener Responses as a Discourse-Organizational Variable".
Photos from DiPVaC 4 are below.
DiPVaC 3 was held 4-6 May 2016 at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and was organised by Stephen Levey. The confirmed plenary speakers were: Laurel Brinton (University of British Columbia, Canada), Gaétane Dostie (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Suzanne Evans Wagner (Michigan State University, USA).
The winner of the DiPVaC 3 best student paper prize was Claire Childs (Newcastle University, UK) for her presentation "Interviewer effects on negative tag realisations in North-East England".
The winner of the DiPVaC 3 best student paper prize was Claire Childs (Newcastle University, UK) for her presentation "Interviewer effects on negative tag realisations in North-East England".
DiPVaC 2 was held 7-9 April 2014 at Newcastle University, UK. The conference featured plenary talks by Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain, Belgium), Stephen Levey (University of Ottawa, Canada), and Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto, Canada) (pictured in this order below). In addition to some 20 odd individual papers, Ashley Hesson (Michigan State University, USA) and Heike Pichler (Newcastle University, UK) gave a workshop on "Exploring novel impact pathways in variationist research: Discourse variation in healthcare settings." Follow this link for further details.
The winner of the DiPVaC 2 best student paper prize was Chloé Diskin (University College Dublin, Ireland) for her presentation "Acquisition of discourse-pragmatic markers by non-native speakers of Irish English" (pictured at the bottom right with Joseph Kern, Heike Pichler and her gift bag).
The winner of the DiPVaC 2 best student paper prize was Chloé Diskin (University College Dublin, Ireland) for her presentation "Acquisition of discourse-pragmatic markers by non-native speakers of Irish English" (pictured at the bottom right with Joseph Kern, Heike Pichler and her gift bag).
DiPVaC 1 was held 18-20 April 2012 at the University of Salford, UK. The conference featured research workshops and plenary presentations by Kate Beeching (University of West of England, UK), Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary, University of London, UK), Alexandra D'Arcy (University of Victoria, Canada), and Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland). It also featured an "Analysing Spoken English"-workshop for A'level English Langauge teachers which was designed by Sue Fox (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) and Heike Pichler (Newcastle University, UK). Photos are below.
