This small international conference combines three perspectives:
Chemnitz students present their BA and MA projects to a wider audience,
international scholars present their experience through special funding from Alexander-von-Humboldt and DAAD - this year young scholars from Western Balkans through our project Truths -, and
international ERASMUS partners add their own specific approaches to widen the perspective
Together we would like to show that empirical studies in language variation are a fascinating topic when they emphasize cultural dimensions of (Digital) English around the world. We try to combine socio-, corpus- and cognitive-linguistic perspectives and stress multiple methodological approaches to current research and applications, especially in English language teaching and academic writing.
Josef Schmied (Chemnitz): Introduction of International Guests
9:30
Uncertainty, Confidence, Trust in Academic and Journalistic Writing
(Chair: Marina Ivanova)
Josef Schmied & Marina Ivanova (Chemnitz, Germany): Uncertainty in Postgraduate Training and Supervision:
A Needs Analysis for Online Course Development
Radmila Palinkašević (Vršac, Serbia): In Times of Uncertainty Who Can We Trust? – Discourse Analysis of Government Announcements in Serbia in the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Marigona Sefedini (Kosova & Chemnitz): Uncertainty to Distrust: Humour in Ardian Gola’s Facebook Posts on the Covid-19 Pandemics
Anja Tošić (Niš, Serbia): How Feigning Certainty is Used by the Serbian Media for the Promotion of News
Marta Giallombardo (Modena, Italy) Ten Years of Representing Foreign Fighters in News Discourse: From 2011 to 2021
12:00
Lunch Break
15:00
"Cool" Methods for Chemnitz BA and MA Theses
(Chair: Dana Ebermann)
Josef Schmied: Introduction of International Guests
Max Dapper (BA): Hedging in Linguistics and Cultural Studies: Comparing Hedging Devices in Magister and Master Theses by German Students of English
Huimin He (MA): A Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Humour in Stand-up Comedy
Michelle Klein (MA): The Influence of Subtitles on Academic Performance: an Eye-Tracking Study
Natalie Bleyl (MA): Modal and Verbs as Hedging Devices in Native and Non-Native Academic Writing: Gender Differences in BAWE Corpus
Christin Reuter (BA): The Potential of Psychophysiological Methods in Language Research: Measuring Reactions to FTAs in Computer-Mediated Learner Feedback
