Program

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Thursday,

May 23, 2013

Friday,

May 24, 2013

Saturday,

May 25, 2013

09:30am-10:00am

Arrival of the conference participants

Linguistic Strategies for the Realization of Face Work in Italian Tweets

(Nadine Rentel)

“Es una lástima que trolls anónimos estén ensuciando el blog con comentarios racistas y ofensivos” – The Collaborative Construction of an Outsider in the Blogosphere of Latin American Immigrants to Québec, Canada

(Bettina Kluge)

10:00am-10:30am

Guided city tour †

(10:30am -noon)

Speak Your Mind, but Watch Your Mouth: Complaints in CouchSurfing References

(Daria Dayter / Sofia Rüdiger)

Folk Linguistics in French Online Forums: Face Work Strategies in the Negotiation of Expert-Layman Relations

(Melanie Kunkel)

10:30am-11:00am

Coffee break

Coffee break

11:00am-11:30am

Shared Face and Face Enhancing Behaviour in Social Media: Commenting on the Spanish Goalkeeper’s Tears on YouTube

(Kristina Bedijs)

On the Role of Politeness in Online Tutoring. Utterance and Perception of Face Threats in Learning Contexts

(Gesa Linnemann / Benjamin Brummernhenrich / Regina Jucks)

11:30am-

noon

“You Sound Very Talented” – Negotiating Face and Doing Face Work in Online Message Boards

(Jenny Arendholz)

TBA

(Patricia Yazigi)

noon-

02:00pm

Lunch

Lunch

Resume of the Conference

(Kristina Bedijs, Christiane Maaß/ Gudrun Held) Lunch – Departure of the conference participants

02:00pm-02:30pm

Introduction

(Kristina Bedijs / Christiane Maaß / Gudrun Held)

Politeness and Face Work in Discussion Boards

(Claus Ehrhardt)

02:30pm-03:00pm

Relational Work and the Display of Multilingualism in Two Facebook Groups

(Miriam Locher / Brook Bolander)

Face Work in French and Italian Online Comments

(Verena Thaler)

03:00pm-03:30pm

Coffee break

Coffee break

03:30pm-04:00pm

Figura or Face – Critical Remarks on Two Socio-Pragmatic Key-Concepts and Study of Some Virtual Negotiation-Strategies in Italian Online-Postings Concerning the Reactions to the Schettino Conflict

(Gudrun Held)

“Gracias eres un amorrrrrrrrrr”: Face Work in Spanish Internet Forum Communication

(Christiane Maaß)

04:00pm-04:30pm

Face Work and Flaming in Social Media

(Uta Helfrich)

Multimodality of Facework in Spanish Internet Forum Communication

(Uta Fröhlich)

04:30pm-05:00pm

Visit to the “Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum” for participants who arrive early *

(04:30pm-06:00pm)

Coffee break

Coffee break

05:00pm-05:30pm

Language Perception, Subject Emergence and Face Work in French Linguistic Discussion Boards

(Martina Schrader-Kniffki)

„Hofnarr“ and „Bürgerschreck“ versus „kamir-batir“ and „barakobamas“ – Face Work Strategies, Stylization and Representation in Russian and German Discussion Boards (zeit.de, spiegel.de, gazeta.ru, kommersant.ru)

(Beatrix Kreß)

05:30pm-06:00pm

Resume of the Day

(Kristina Bedijs / Christiane Maaß / Gudrun Held)

Resume of the Day

(Kristina Bedijs / Christiane Maaß / Gudrun Held)

06:00 pm

Supper in the restaurant “NIL im Museum”

Shuttle service to downtown Hildesheim for supper

Shuttle service to downtown Hildesheim for supper