36.3873, Confs: Social Meaning and Grammar (Switzerland)

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Subject: 36.3873, Confs: Social Meaning and Grammar (Switzerland)

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Date: 16-Dec-2025
From: Andreas Trotzke [trotzke at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Social Meaning and Grammar


Social Meaning and Grammar

Date: 10-Feb-2026 - 11-Feb-2026
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Meeting URL:
https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Social Meaning and Grammar
University of Zurich
February 10-11, 2026
Organizers: Laura Reimer & Andreas Trotzke
https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html
February 10, 2026
09:30 - 10:30   Elin McCready: "Self-locating in social space"
10:30 - 11:00   Ruon Wang: "Negative politeness two ways: The
convergent pronominals of politeness and contempt"
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00   Holden Härtl: "Poisoned politeness: The degree of face
threat in verbal irony"
12:00 - 12:30   Regine Eckardt: "The socio-pragmatics of German du/ihr
- Sie"
12:30 - 13:00   Taylor Martinez & Kyle Rawlins: "Weakened dogwhistles"
13:00 - 14:30   Lunch break
14:30 - 15:00   Elsi Kaiser, Claire Benét Post, Deborah Ho, Haley Hsu,
Meona Khetrapal, Madeline Rouse & Sabrina Soto: "Social meaning and
linguistic form: Consequences for pronoun resolution"
15:00 - 15:30   Nico Lehmann: "The impersonal use of second person
markers across registers in German and Yucatec Maya"
15:30 - 16:00   Baptiste Bersier, Diana Mazzarella & Sandrine
Zufferey: "Factors affecting the perception of criticisms in the
workplace: A judgment study in French"
16:00 - 16:30   Coffee break
 
16:30 - 17:00   Semra Kizilkaya: "Social indexicality, grammatical
function and regional variation of inshallah in German"
17:00 - 18:00   Marina Terkourafi: "The meanings of social meaning"
19:00 - Conference dinner
February 11, 2026
09:30 - 10:30   Paul Portner: "Social relations as modal anchors"
10:30 - 11:00   Colin Davis & Hyewon Jang: "Anti-honorific agreement
in Korean: An experimental and theoretical investigation"
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00   Anna Kocher: "Experimenting on commitments and beliefs
in Spanish"
12:00 - 12:30   Manfred Krifka: "Mitigation and strengthening
assertions and the social effects on speaker’s reputation of
trustworthiness"
12:30 - 13:00   Hanna Bazanava: "Non-standard derivation of Russian
feminitives as inference of social meaning"
13:00 - 15:00   Lunch break + Poster session + Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30   Riccardo Giomi, Daniel Van Olmen & Denise van Oers:
"Insults as a sentence type"
15:30 - 16:00   Tobias Ungerer, Michael Pleyer, Stefan Hartmann &
Theresa Matzinger: "Social meaning and grammar in artificial language
learning experiments: A case study on extravagance and conformity"
16:00 - 16:15   Break
 
16:15 - 16:45   Ana Clara Polakof: "The social meaning of pejorative
demonstratives"
16:45 - 17:45   Emma Moore: "Meaning, markedness and the social life
of syntax"
17:45 - 18:00   Laura Reimer & Andreas Trotzke: "Summary and outlook"
POSTERS
Marisa Brook
"Traditions versus innovations: Inter-dialectal accommodation as
social meaning in a small online group"
Jordan Chark
"Pushing the upper bound: Modified universal quantifiers and exception
tolerance"
Julia Demina
"Indirect requests as grammaticized social updates: A cross-linguistic
study"
Chiara Diener & Andreas Trotzke
"The German particle mal in interaction"
Kurt Erbach
"Gestures with social meaning"
Rita Faria
"The impoliteness of shifting forms of address"
Sumedha Gupta
"Allocutivity in Bangla: Particles, politeness and pragmatics"
Rebecca Karrer
"A distancing effect: Reframing the communicative function of the
German werden-passive and its social dimension"
Nazlıcan Konyar
"'Heard but not Experienced'": Analyzing Turkish evidentiality
S. Y. S. Kwok
"Slogans 4 Social Meaning: The semantics and pragmatics of slogans"
Miriam Neuhausen
"'Sometimes I’m kinda Dutchified, that’s true, but I try to speak
English': Lexicogrammar and belonging in Mennonite English
Laura Reimer & Andreas Trotzke
"Social Grammar: The acquisition path of speech act syntax"
Anna Viola Sáfrány, Anna Kamenetski, Natalia Jardon Perez, Eva
Wittenberg
"The social life of aspect: The Hungarian prefix meg- affects
interpersonal dynamics"



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