Programme: accepted abstracts

You looked for the abstracts in General Paper Session

The Sociolinguistics Symposium will have a very big General Paper Session with more than 200 papers. Here you find an unordered list of all contribuitions in this session. In the final programme, we will, however, group together papers by topic.

"What's the difference between a melody and the bridge?" Exploring professional identity in ensemble music workshops (ID: 1348)
Veronesi, Daniela
"Worlds Apart" - Introducing Dutch newspaper sub-editing practices at a Flemish broadsheet (ID: 1139)
Vandendaele, Astrid
'Había' or 'habían' dos niños en el parque? The pluralization of presentational ‘haber’ in Puerto Rican Spanish (ID: 204)
Claes, Jeroen
30 years later: Change and stability in attitudes towards the dialect in Shetland (ID: 1369)
Durham, Mercedes
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Manifestations of Confidential Language Instructions in the German Press: The Berlin Olympic Games 1936 (ID: 363)
Barbe, Katharina
A case study of language use and code-switching in Computer-Mediated Communication, focusing on MSN Messenger, in Taiwan (ID: 962)
Huang, Li-jung Daphne
A collision of social worlds: racism, anti-Semitism, and Holocaust denial in the David Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd and Deborah Lipstadt trial. (ID: 1380)
Johnson, Alison Jeannette
A comparison of real-time language changes in two Japanese koines (ID: 920)
Asahi, Yoshiyuiki
A sociolinguistic analysis of urban masculinities, language, and violence (ID: 790)
Lawson, Robert George
A tale of one city: Different approaches to regional language primary bilingual education in Strasbourg (ID: 527)
Harrison, Michelle
A trend study of subordinating conjunctions in Acadian French: 1975 - 1990 (ID: 1189)
Beaulieu, Louise
A variant too informal for institutional settings? The case of vowel clusters in Helsinki Finnish (ID: 1032)
Rouhikoski, Anu Kristiina
Abrupt vs. gradual change in immigrant groups: Evidence from morphosyntax (ID: 1131)
Sharma, Devyani
Analyzing the Panel Samples in the Okazaki Survey on Honorifics (ID: 1123)
Matsuda, Kenjiro
Apparent time, real time and an “off the shelf change” - TH-fronting in southeast England (ID: 684)
Holmes Elliott, Sophie
Appropriation and hybridization of English in K-pop: A contact linguistic perspective (ID: 689)
Kim, Hae-Young
Arabic-English code-switching: variables of work and education (ID: 1176)
Fayed, Wafaa Kamel
Assigning blame: new forms in Finnish and their association with urban youth language (ID: 1231)
Peterson, Elizabeth
Assigning responsibility and motivating adolescents in pediatric diabetes care (ID: 1084)
Ottesjö, Cajsa
Authority and authenticity in contemporary spoken Irish: An urban-rural divide? (ID: 725)
O Murchadha, Noel Padraig
Bengali-English Codeswitching: A focus on the third verb in bilingual compound verbs (ID: 917)
Chatterjee, Tridha
Bilingual speech accommodation and compliance: Quantitative measures at a rural Welsh Pharmacy (ID: 1178)
Prys, Myfyr
Black girls talking “white” in South African desegregated schools: language and the (re)production of race (ID: 1297)
McKinney, Carolyn
British Sign Language (BSL) dialects in contact: Investigating the patterns of accommodation and language change (ID: 818)
Stamp, Rose Jane
British press coverage of honour killings: Two case studies (ID: 1038)
Chafai, Habiba
Changing the Town’s Identity? – Language Ideologies and the Debate on Bilingual Language Policies (ID: 1108)
Hiss, Florian
Cities of migration: urbanization and linguistic change in Jeddah (ID: 787)
Al-Essa, Aziza Mohammad
Classroom silence: voices from Japanese EFL learners (ID: 349)
Harumi, Seiko
Climate change cooperation between China and the US – Issues in interdisciplinary research (ID: 1211)
Penz, Hermine
Co-variation and varieties in Dutch ethnolect(s) (ID: 1146)
van Meel, Linda
Code-switching and cohesion: A study of question–response pairs (ID: 867)
Paraskeva, Marilena
Commodifying digital discourse: The interaction between online and offline linguistic practices in urban textscapes (ID: 1018)
LEE, Carmen
Constructing a police apology: an analysis of Scottish police responses to public complaints (ID: 1101)
Friskney, Ruth
Contact between standard accents of English: A multilevel approach to the expanding repertoires of speakers of Scottish Standard English in Edinburgh (ID: 1152)
Schützler, Ole
Contested public spaces in Saint-Petersburg: linguistic practices and social meaning (ID: 1200)
Dussault, Annie Pénélope
Counter-ideological gender performances of female tennis players (ID: 377)
Sznycer, Karolina
Cyberspace bilinguals? On the use of the internet to foster language maintenance in young bilinguals. (ID: 968)
Pauwels, Anne
Different cities and different rapport management (ID: 628)
Fujio, Misa
Discourse markers 1967 and 1996. Individual variation and change (ID: 518)
Sundgren, Eva
Discourse, War and Tourism: mapping aggression against Dubrovnik (ID: 805)
Bertoša, Mislava
Displaying the relevance of identity in interaction (ID: 461)
Raevaara, Liisa
ELF therapy for East European complexes; lifting the burden of native speakerism. (ID: 1328)
Gonerko-Frej, Anna
English-Medium instruction in a multilingual and language-sensitive context. Case study: Antwerp University, Belgium (ID: 442)
van Splunder, Frank
Ethnically marked linguistic landscape of Kazan (ID: 1166)
Rychkov, Sergey Iyrievich
Expressing and negotiating identity in the London Indian Diaspora (ID: 782)
Hundt, Marianne
Falling in love again and again: Marlene Dietrich and the iconization of non-native English (ID: 1241)
Bell, Allan Graham
Folks’ perceptions of language variation and their real world. Evidence from online studies (ID: 1341)
Elspaß, Stephan Johannes
Forensic authorship identification in globalised digital communities of practice: the theoretical and methodological implications of a sociolinguistic approach to analysing authorship in Enron emails (ID: 504)
Wright, David
Formation of pan-immigrant localness in the city: tattooed symbols and personal identities (ID: 910)
Hiramoto, Mie
Frequency effects in English null subjects – don’t ignore the underdog! (ID: 640)
Wagner, Susanne
From Revivalist to Undertaker: New developments in official policies and attitudes to Ireland’s ‘First Language.’ (ID: 869)
Ó Giollagáin, Conchúr
From Seoul to Sydney: Educational Migration and Transnational Families (ID: 901)
LEE, JAMIE SHINHEE
From ‘national’ to ‘economic’: Academic institutions for language-minority students - the case of Nazareth Academic Institute, Israel (ID: 340)
Amit, Aviv
Gender as a vulnerable category in contemporary urban vernaculars involving Turkish and Germanic (ID: 643)
Cornips, Leonie
Giving Meaning to Languages: Language Biographies among Sojourning Native Speaker English Teachers in South Korea and the Discursive Construction of Languages (ID: 1163)
Chesnut, Michael
Good guy – bad guy, deep voice – high voice? On linguistic white and black hats* (ID: 1000)
Müller, Folke
Graciousness in the City: Language, Interdiscursivity and Social governance (ID: 1067)
Lazar, Michelle
Grammaticalisation of social distance marking – the sociolinguistic foundation of a linguistic typology of address pronouns in Europe, past and present. (ID: 495)
Kretzenbacher, Heinz L.
Groupness and place narratives – The importance of “here” in identity constructions of a Guatemalan community (ID: 1096)
Vallentin, Rita Tamara
Handicap Principle? Your Mother's Handicapped! Towards a Rebuttal of the Game-Theoretic Treatment of Politeness in Van Rooy's (2003) (ID: 1421)
Quinley, Jason Cecil
Hip hop from the city and the periphery: Construction of polycentric authenticity (ID: 752)
Westinen, Elina Elisabet
How did ‘man’ become ‘du’, or did it? The sociolinguistics of generic pronoun variation in modern spoken Danish (ID: 727)
Jensen, Torben Juel
How to define a variable? Decisions and their consequences in diachronic sociolinguistic analysis (ID: 718)
Buchstaller, Isabelle
Ideological Directions in Welsh Language Policy: A Discourse Historical Analysis (ID: 280)
Sayers, Dave
Idiosyncratic dimensions of language attitudes (ID: 344)
Santello, Marco
Immigrant Turkish: Emergence of a new dialect caused by language contact? (ID: 711)
Onar Valk, Pelin
In search of language identity among urban youths in ESL context: A study of Ghanaian students of Ghana Institute of Journalism, Accra (ID: 1004)
Dankwa-Apawu, David
In the Face of Blindness: Over/Accommodation of Disability and the Discursive Construction of Agency and Independence (ID: 878)
Everts, Elisa L.
Interaction, Pragmatics and Variation in Pluricentric Languages. A comparative study of communicative patterns in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish (ID: 663)
Wide, Camilla
Investigating Sociolinguistic Receptivity (ID: 873)
Benson, Erica J.
Investigating bilingualism / multilingualism in immigrant families in Cyprus (ID: 1287)
Kontouli, Demetra
Involvement in monologues (ID: 1121)
Frobenius, Maximiliane
Italian as a foreign language: a matter of varieties of standard Italian (ID: 741)
Tabaku Sörman, Entela
Ja es būtu smuks, es gribētu būt meitene! (‘If I were pretty, I would want to be a girl!’) Debating transsexualism in the Latvian parliament (ID: 544)
Chojnicka, Joanna
Kurdish-Arabic/English Code Switching among Educated Kurds in Dohuk-Kurdistan/Iraq: A Sociolinguistic Study (ID: 264)
Sallo, Ibrahim Khidhir
Language Policy in Nicosia-Cyprus, the Last Divided Capital of Europe: Removing political barriers, creating spaces for peace through mother tongue + 2 Policy (ID: 1089)
GUNEY, Afet
Language against the city: Promoting a rural dialect through criticism and ironic use of urban forms (ID: 579)
Strand, Thea R.
Language biographies and cultural identity of students with a Russian migration background at the university of Oldenburg (ID: 1255)
Kirsch, Kathrin
Language conflict as a local practice. Understanding the dynamics between Nynorsk and Bokmål in suburban areas of Western Norway. (ID: 1117)
Brunstad, Endre
Language ideologies with regard to English in China: an analysis of institutional discourses (ID: 479)
Pan, Lin
Language planning in Norway and Flanders: a comparative analysis. (ID: 760)
Belsack, Els A.F.
Language policies among Albanian immigrant families in Greece (ID: 505)
Chatzidaki, Aspassia
Language policy in private sector businesses in Wales (ID: 425)
Haidinger, Elisabeth
Language variation in the urban north west of England - The reoccurrence of /h/ (ID: 1419)
Jansen, Sandra
Languages at a Crossroads: Multilingual, Multimodal ‘Speech Acts’ in Singapore (ID: 1306)
Nelson, Mark Evan
Laughter and stance in social research interviews (ID: 1283)
Myers, Greg
Learning to Swear in Japanese: An Analysis of Popular Resources (ID: 469)
Jackson, Lachlan Rigby
Linguistic (super-)diversity as an educational challenge in urban schools (ID: 346)
Wiese, Heike
Linguistic Variation and the Emergence of a National Standard in 19th Century Icelandic (ID: 1305)
Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur
Linguistic and Ethnic Diversity in Black New York (ID: 1245)
Shousterman, Cara Lynn
Longitudinal changes in language competence, attitude, and use in the transition from primary to secondary education in a Catalan sociolinguistic environment (ID: 1224)
Comajoan, Llorenç
Maybe intimate, but not identical: evaluating bilinguals’ language competences in a longitudinal study in a deeply bilingualised context (ID: 1070)
Sendra i Rovira, Montserrat
Mediating urban vs. rural female identities in Greek television (ID: 333)
Stamou, Anastasia G.
Multilingual Play in the Linguistic Landscape of Taipei (ID: 440)
Curtin, Melissa L.
Multilingual Sámi children as authors: examining multimodal literacy practices in a multilingual Sámi classroom (ID: 978)
Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne Kristiina
Multilingual spaces – Istanbul, Barcelona, Hamburg (ID: 1375)
Rehbein, Götz Jochen
Multilingual university students’ identity construction through academic language and literacy, and multilingual social practices (ID: 1298)
Hayashi, Hisako
Multilingualism and immigrants in US cities: a depiction of language use in fictional movies. (ID: 1324)
Tharani, Soraya Sultan
Multilingualism in Tokyo: Balancing exoticism and accessibility (ID: 1095)
Hagiwara, Akiko
Murrinh Patha Youthspeak: The Urbanisation of a Hunter-Gatherer Language (ID: 246)
Mansfield, John
Mutual Understanding in Typologically Distant Languages: Lingua receptiva in Estonian/Russian task-oriented dialogues (ID: 648)
ten Thije, Jan D.
NEG and AUX contractions in ELF: social, contextual, and functional variation (ID: 976)
Schekulin, Claudio
NGOs as transnational communities: Interdiscursive chains and institutional narratives in an Emmaus chapter in Barcelona (ID: 723)
Garrido, Maria Rosa
Narrative and the city: negotiating identities in urban tales (ID: 272)
Flannery, Mércia Santana
National identity, language ideology, and contemporary discourses (ID: 273)
martin-rubio, xavier
Negotiating sign language-in-education policies: Determining educational contexts for deaf students in the US (ID: 1133)
Compton, Sarah Elaine
Negotiation of meaning in intercultural contexts: A new form of assessment (ID: 1401)
Timpe, Veronika
Neither British nor Trinidadian: Referee Design and Stylisation in choral singing in Trinidad (ID: 551)
Wilson, Guyanne Alexis
Non-Nativeness and Ethnocentricism: Examining Modern-Day Socialisation (ID: 875)
Todd, Richard
Non-commercial advertising in Prague: promoting social issues in the public space (ID: 1022)
Kaderka, Petr
Of Presidents and Protestors: discursive strategies in Chile’s educational conflict (ID: 1431)
Paffey, Darren James
Old vs. new Vuosaari: A name-based split of a suburb as a resource for constructing local identities (ID: 981)
Lappalainen, Hanna
On the social and linguistic roles of women in big cities: a case study of Brazilian magazine (ID: 1269)
Brandão, Renata Rodrigues
Place shapes identity – a case from Georgia's Greek community (ID: 994)
Höfler, Concha Maria
Political party affiliation and phonetic variation in the vowels of Scottish politicians (ID: 1335)
Hall-Lew, Lauren
Positioning as Transmigrants: Language and Identity among Indian Tamil youths in Hong Kong (ID: 1396)
Lui, Hong Yee Kelvin
Power and identity negotiations in language interactions between trabajadoras del hogar and employers in Lima Peru (ID: 1370)
de los Heros, Susana
Pragmatic Differences of Clarification Request in English and Japanese (ID: 929)
Tsuda, Sanae
Pronominal Syncretism in the Urban Area of Brasília - Brazil’s Capital (ID: 1437)
Pereira Scherre, Maria Marta
Putting Greece in a plaster cast: The recent history of an old metaphor (ID: 339)
Tsakona, Villy
Pygmalion a la Berlinois (ID: 243)
Conolly-Smith, Peter Jonathan
Question-Answer Sequences in English Conversation and Japanese Conversation: From a perspective of Intercultural Communication Skills (ID: 755)
Shigemitsu, Yuka
Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education (ID: 577)
Selleck, Charlotte Louise Rachel
Reassessing the role of sociolinguistic variables in neuroimaging studies of multilingualism (ID: 546)
Struys, Esli
Resemiotizing Climate Change: Remixing and Recontextualisation as Subversive Discourse Strategies on YouTube (ID: 1253)
Tereick, Jana
Retirement as a “language related major life event” and its consequences on the multilingualism of migrants (ID: 323)
Krakenberger, Etna Rosa
Revitalisation through Documentation - the Case of Wilamowicean, a Micro-Minority Language in Southern Poland (ID: 671)
Wicherkiewicz, Tomasz
Revitalizing Indian Languages: A Case Study of Marathi (ID: 1274)
Thorat, Ashok Rangnath
Role Interaction in a Vertical Relationship: An Analysis of Questions in Japanese Teacher-Student Conversations (ID: 1012)
Ueno, Kishiko
Second language learning and cultural exchange in Australian schools: An intergenerational undertaking (ID: 639)
Lambert, Brigitte Elisabeth
Sign language diversity in Indonesian deaf communities (ID: 1104)
Palfreyman, Nick
Slexipedia: A Corpus-based Analysis of the Word-Formation Processes and Social Use of a Second Life-specific Code (ID: 830)
Abdullah, Ashraf Riadh
Slow on the Outbound und Stau in Richtung Wedding: Construing Metropolitan Traffic Reports (ID: 402)
Macdonald, Doris M.
Social networks and real-time analysis. A case-study of South Estonian (ID: 1321)
Mets, Mari
Sociolinguistic aspects and language contact. Evidence from a minority language in Italy (ID: 1343)
Perta, Carmela
Sound Change and Indexicality: Loss of Onset Velar Nasal in Shanghainese (ID: 1168)
Zhou, Yiwen
Speaker's linguistic awareness: a definition according to the variant type (ID: 824)
da Hora, Dermeval
Spoken Signs and Literal Hailing: The case of Tannoyance (ID: 508)
Mooney, Annabelle
Super-diversity and self-employment: The language use of ethnic entrepreneurs (ID: 756)
Serwe, Stefan Karl
Swearing in three generations of spoken Danish (ID: 563)
Rathje, Marianne
THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES UPON ONLINE LANGUAGE USE: THE EXPERIENCE OF WELSH-ENGLISH BILITERATES ON TWITTER (ID: 793)
Johnson, Ian James
Talk-about-language as discursive practice in formal bilingual meetings (ID: 475)
Koskela, Merja
Testing the Dynamic Model: An analysis of letters to Hong Kong’s English newspapers (1842-2009) (ID: 883)
Evans, Stephen
The Functions of Russian in the Emerging Polish-Russian Mixed Code in Lithuania (ID: 1173)
Brazyte, Brigita
The Interaction of Language Policy, Minority Languages & New Media: Facebook (ID: 1327)
Lenihan, Aoife
The Sociolinguistic Reconstruction of Generational and Communal Patterns of Change in Late Fifteenth-Century English Correspondence (ID: 312)
Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel
The Sociolinguistics of Organizational Styling (ID: 221)
Wee, Lionel
The acquisition of attitudes by Flemish adolescents: a quantitative investigation (ID: 1205)
De Vogelaer, Gunther
The discourse of protest: Frames of identity, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity (ID: 935)
Kasanga, Luanga Adrien
The dynamics of family decision-making in intercultural prenatal screening (ID: 1071)
Zayts, Olga A.
The language of racism and anti-racism: constructing ideology on the web (ID: 1049)
Ioannidou, Elena
The nail that sticks up: A critical discussion of gender bias in Japanese organizations (ID: 404)
Parish, Lori Michele
The only way is /s/: Doing gender and constructing class in the southeast of England (ID: 423)
Levon, Erez
The role of English as an online lingua franca: code choice and translocality on social network sites (ID: 784)
Tagg, Caroline
The role of language policy in linguistic landscape changes in a rural area of the Free State Province of South Africa (ID: 248)
du Plessis, Lodewyk Theodorus
The role of linguistic perception and attitude in the socio-spatial construction of the city of Lima (ID: 992)
Bürki, Yvette
The role represented by gender in Brazilian Portuguese: a study of linguistic and social profiles (ID: 1240)
Medeiros, Carolina Salgado Lacerda
The transformation of a cityscape: Representation, symbolism, exclusion in public signs (ID: 932)
Kasanga, Luanga Adrien
The transitional generation: a border group in language shift (ID: 1085)
Ravindranath, Maya
The transmission of the Moroccan Arabic language in France : a comparative study of the declared practices and the real practices in two families. (ID: 1030)
ABOURAHIM BOUAISSI, MAHA
The usage of the Ghamdi diphthongs by Ghamdi migrants in the city of Makka: between preservation and variation (ID: 206)
Alghamdi, Najla Manie
The world in our classrooms: Using language diversity as possibility in the urban classroom (ID: 326)
Lotherington, Heather
Tim(ing) is of the Essence: The Construction of Political Identity in U.S. Presidential Primary Debates (ID: 974)
Sclafani, Jennifer
To be or not to be ethnicist: Language contact and identity in South Korea (ID: 1199)
Hadzantonis, Dimitrios Michael
Tracing the vernacular roots of contemporary global practices: the case of everyday photography online. (ID: 1310)
Barton, David
Transnational Youth Language in Berlin: German and English in the Construction of Identity (ID: 251)
Fuller`, Janet M.
University towns as centres for social language planning agency: the Flemish case in the 19th century (ID: 1429)
Germeys, Kim
Unraveling the myth of legendary violins: Linguistic construction of the mythical value of Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu (ID: 693)
Kubota, Mitsuo
Urban varieties in contact: The case of Viennese Monophthongisation. (ID: 1342)
Moosmüller, Sylvia
Variation in the use of the complementizer che in two different areas of Italy (ID: 642)
Golovko, Ekaterina
What do teachers regard as linguistic competence? (ID: 977)
Mayr, Katharina
What makes a small language a survivor? language ideologies and multilingualism at Warruwi Community, Australia (ID: 891)
Singer, Ruth Jennifer
What’s in a word? Lexical choices by Welsh/English bilinguals in the workplace (ID: 1390)
Robert, Elen
Where is class in sociolinguistics research? (ID: 335)
Block, David Martin
Workplace environment and observer's paradox - "I'm still me!" (ID: 857)
Chalupnik, Malgorzata
World Englishes and the trouble with multilingualism (ID: 215)
Leimgruber, Jakob
Youth language in the city: Sociolinguistic description and comparison of youth language in Meknes (Morocco) and Tripoli (Libya) (ID: 677)
Ziamari, karima
‘A BADGE OF EUROPEANNESS IF YOU LIKE’: SHAPING IDENTITY THROUGH THE EU’s INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE ON MULTILINGUALISM (ID: 373)
Zappettini, Franco
‘Genetics Just Got Personal’: Personal Genomics as Social Interaction (ID: 683)
Jones, Rodney Hale
‘I have been properly brought up.’ Changing forms of address in Dutch (ID: 230)
Vismans, Roel
‘It’s all a bit sporkly…’: ‘New Pronunciation’ of southern Irish English in radio advertising (ID: 764)
O'Sullivan, Joan
‘What about the signs and everything?’ Representing the place of Welsh in urban Wales through TV comedy drama (ID: 1296)
Davies, Bethan Lyn
“A little island with no natural resources”: The geographical grounding of national narratives in Singapore (ID: 701)
Weninger, Csilla
“Inside the Brussels bubble” – A linguistic-ethnographic study into the effect of multilingualism on foreign news coverage about Belgium (ID: 1145)
Van Praet, Ellen
“It’s not like anywhere else”: Language and distinctiveness on the Isles of Scilly (ID: 569)
Moore, Emma
“Kong Girl”: Intersubjectivity, Indexicality and Commodification in Hong Kong (ID: 720)
Tang, Yuen-Man
“Pure genius kid!”: The sociolinguistics of performance of a Limerick city comedy duo. (ID: 1015)
Vaughan, Elaine Claire
“The Guys Would Like To Have A Lady:” The Co-Construction of Gender and Professional Identity in Interviews Between Employers and Female Engineering Students (ID: 1366)
Reissner-Roubicek, Sophie
“They’re putting it in English for the tourists, they’re just making it easier.” (ID: 1190)
Atkinson, David Jonathan
“We Are Made of How and What We Have Learned”: Recognizing and Conceptualizing Own Identities through Online Discussions by Korean Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language (ID: 909)
Shimazu, Momoyo
“Where you at? Where you going?”: Prosodic Rhythm in the Verbal Strategy ‘Marking’ (ID: 1361)
Nielsen, Rasmus
“You're not the boss of me!” Service calls to a public transport company (ID: 347)
Orthaber, Sara
”Y como no entras dentro de ninguna de las categorías eres, pues, algo un poco exótico” Categorization and identity construction in the narratives of three Latin American migrants in Oslo. (ID: 1175)
Pájaro, Verónica

Sociolinguistics Symposium 19

Programme: accepted abstracts