Thursday, 18/10/2018
09.30 – 9.45 Elisabeth Stark: Welcome
10.00 – 10.30 COFFEE BREAK
10.30 – 11.15 Vanessa Jaroski: Beyond ideological and linguistic borders? A critical discourse analysis of news stories about digital communication
11.15 – 12.00 Rodney Jones (University of Reading): GDPR, digital surveillance, and the semiotic coercion of consent
12.00 – 13.30 LUNCH BREAK
13.30 – 14.15 Christina Siever: Emojis in Digital Communication: Facts and Figures from Linguistic Empirical Research
14.15 – 15.00 Jürgen Spitzmüller (University of Vienna): Mediatised Lifeworlds - Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations: Introducing a Research Platform
15.00 – 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 – 16.15 Michael Beißwenger and Steffen Pappert (both University of Duisburg/Essen): Use of emojis in a didactic peer-feedback setting: A pragmatic analysis and description framework
18.30 Conference Dinner
 
Friday, 19/10/2018
9.45 – 10.30 Samuel Felder: Individuals in WhatsApp. Stylistic Variation, Accommodation, Real – Time Change
10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 11.45 Silvia Natale: Understanding of norm(s) in the new media: Attitudes, expectations and habits
11.45 – 12.30 Etienne Morel: Language Design in WhatsApp: Graphical aspects
12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH BREAK
14.00 – 14.45 Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University): Aspects of subject omission in the diary register
14.45 – 15.30 Franziska Stuntebeck: Argument drop in Swiss WhatsApp messages: Descriptive results
15.30 – 16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.00 – 18.00 TEAM MEETING
 
Saturday, 20/10/2018
9.00 – 9.45 Monique Flecken (Max-Plank-Institute, Nijmegen): Influences of aspect on event processing
9.45 – 10.30 Rossella Maraffino: The progressive in language contact. Morphosyntactic variations in a multilingual CMC corpus
10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 11.45 Christiane von Stutterheim (University of Heidelberg): Event unit formation under a cross linguistic perspective
11.45 – 12.45 Elisabeth Stark / all: Closing remarks
12.45 END OF CONFERENCE

Details

What's up, Switzerland? Final Workshop.
WHEN: 18th–20th October 2018, Zurich
WHERE: University of Zurich, KO2-F-152 (Karl Schmid-Strasse 4 cf. Google Maps)

Attendance is free, no inscription necessary