Second plenary at #Sympol12 about to start: Daniel Z. Kádár: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions: A New Look at ‘Polite’ Forms.

Jonathan Culpeper Jonathan Culpeper at #Sympol12 just starting on a broad overview of (im)politeness studies. Exciting!

#IAUPE2019 conference opening to start soon

The conference venue out in the sticks #iaupe2019

Peter Trudgill in his plenary at #iaupe2019 suggesting that phonetic erosion can be the initiating factor in grammaticalization.

Peter Trudgill‘s plenary at #iaupe2019

Peter Trudgill at #iaupe2019 argues that in East Anglian English the verb to do has become a conjunction, as in “Don’t you put her proper name in, do she’ll pull both on us for libel.”

The Pragmatics panel at #IAUPE2019 waiting for dinner at Stary Rynek in Poznan.

Wenn man von Helvetismen spricht, hat man meist nur die deutschsprachige Schweiz im Blick. Wie sieht es aber mit den anderen Sprachregionen der Schweiz aus? Hier eine sehr schöne Karte aus der Ausstellung «Helvetismen-Sprachspezialitäten» des Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel.

#jobs Two academic positions at the University of Vienna: a tenure-Track Professorship in the field of English Corpus Linguistics and quantitative Analysis, and a post of University Professor of Applied Linguistics of Contemporary English. essenglish.org/jobs

#cfp Multimodal Im/politeness: Gesture, Sign and Spatial Configurations. University of Zurich, Switzerland, 23 October 2020. essenglish.org/cfp/conf2010/#…

#ESSE 15th ESSE Conference 2020 in Lyon. Situation update on 20 March 2020. The organizing committee is continuing preparing for the event. It has been decided to postpone the opening of the registration procedure. esse2020lyon.fr/en

Just published: Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day bit.ly/3bM6god

Brauchen wir dafür ein Emoji? Das vielleicht nicht, aber wir brauchen ein Wort für diese neue Begrüßungsvariante. Das Verb *ellbögeln* ist schon besetzt (= sich vordrängeln) und *sich mit dem Ellenbogen begrüßen* ist viel zu umständlich. Vorschläge?

AddThis | Home authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S03… A new (OA) paper on uh and um: Staley, Larssyn, and Andreas H. Jucker. (2021) “The uh deconstructed pumpkin pie”: The use of uh and um in Los Angeles restaurant server talk. Journal of Pragmatics 172, 21-34. doi.org/10.1016/j.prag…

And there is a launching discount:

I created a Google Spreadsheet for us to share the links of the IPrA panels while the system is down. Please share! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… #IPrA2021 #EMCA #coreilca

Happy to report a new open access publication on Pragmatics in translation doi.org/10.1017/978100… with Dasha Dayter and Thomas Messerli

Happy to report a new open access publication on Fiction and Pragmatics doi.org/10.1017/978100…

NEW BOOK _Multimodal Im/politeness_, co-edited with Andreas H. Jucker and Lucien Brown