RELATED EVENTS
Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė organised a workshop entitled 'Pragmatic markers and clause peripheries' at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in Leipzig, Germany. They were interested in papers from all linguistic frameworks that deal with pragmatic markers and the impact of left versus right periphery on their functions and forms, from a synchronic or diachronic perspective and within a language or across languages.
Sven Leuckert and Sofia Rüdiger organised one of the pre-conference workshops at the ICAME 39 conference in 2018 (University of Tampere, Finland; May 30 – June 3, 2018). The workshop, called 'Discourse markers in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A corpus-linguistic perspective', focused on the functions and origins of discourse markers in the Outer and Expanding Circles. Taking a corpus-linguistic perspective, the contributions shed new light on the study of discourse markers.
Andreas H. Jucker and Klaus P. Schneider organised a panel on 'Pragmatic variation and pragmatic variables' at the fourteenth International Pragmatics Association conference (IPrA 14), 26-31 July 2015, Antwerp, Belgium.
As part of the International Pragmatics Association conference (IPrA 13, 8-13 September 2013, New Delhi, India), Liesbeth Degand and Elizabeth Closs Traugott organised a panel on 'The pragmatic role of elements at the RP' which aimed to build on and test recent proposals that LP and RP discourse markers have different functions. The panel featured several papers by members of the DiPVaC research network which addressed the role of RP discourse markers from a range of theoretical perspectives, based on spoken and written data, and across a wide range of Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
Photo of IPrA 13 panel members:
Top row (from left to right periphery): Liesbeth Degand (panel co-organiser), Kate Beeching, Kerstin Fischer (discussant), Dina El Zarka, Katsunobu Izutsu, Yap Foong Ha, Elizabeth Traugott (panel co-organiser).
Front row (from left to right): Heike Pichelr, Noriko O. Onodera, Yuko Higashiizumi.
Top row (from left to right periphery): Liesbeth Degand (panel co-organiser), Kate Beeching, Kerstin Fischer (discussant), Dina El Zarka, Katsunobu Izutsu, Yap Foong Ha, Elizabeth Traugott (panel co-organiser).
Front row (from left to right): Heike Pichelr, Noriko O. Onodera, Yuko Higashiizumi.
As part of the i-mean 3 conference (18-20 April 2013, University of West of England, UK), Kate Beeching convened a panel on 'The role of identity in discourse-pragmatic variation and change'. The panel featured several papers by members of the DiPVaC research network. It provided an important platform for re-assessing the role of social identity in discourse-pragmatic variation and change, and for sharing innovative methodologies and new findings.