36.1648, Confs: Wordplay and Exclusion (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1648, Confs: Wordplay and Exclusion (Germany)

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Date: 23-May-2025
From: Esme Winter-Froemel [esme.winter-froemel at uni-wuerzburg.de]
Subject: Wordplay and Exclusion


Wordplay and Exclusion

Date: 30-May-2025 - 31-May-2025
Location: Würzburg / online, Germany
Contact: Esme Winter-Froemel
Contact Email: esme.winter-froemel at uni-wuerzburg.de
Meeting URL:
https://www.neuphil.uni-wuerzburg.de/romanistik/team/winter-froemel/wordplay-and-exclusion-30-05-31-05-2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature;
Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Workshop Programme:
All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST).
Friday, 30 May 2025
14.15–14.30 Introduction
14.30–15.00 Daniel Kölligan (JMU Würzburg): Wordplay and exclusion in
ancient Greek epic and the magical papyri
15.00–15.30 Haoran Liu (Université de Lorraine, Metz): Wordplay as a
tool of building an online community on X founded on connivence
15.30–16.00 Matthias Hausmann (JMU Würzburg): Words that (should not!)
exclude: Scientific explanations in science fiction and in Villiers de
l’Isle-Adam’s Eve future
16.00–16.30 Coffee break
16.30–17.30 Stéphane Hardy (Universität Siegen): Secret argots and
exclusion: The case of Parisian largonji du louchébem and Pertuisien
louchébeum / Argots secrets et exclusion : le cas du largonji du
louchébem parisien et du louchébeum pertuisien (the paper will be
presented in French, the discussion will be in French & English)
17.30–18.00 Patrice Clarke (The University of the West Indies, St
Augustine): Di muor yu luk, di les yu si: Wordplay, Duplicity, and
Exclusion in Dancehall Songs
18.00–18.15 Interim summary
Saturday, 31 May 2025
9.15–9.30 Warm-up
9.30–10.30 Michael Haugh & Wei-Lin Melody Chang (University of
Queensland): The paradoxical role of jocular wordplay in intercultural
L1-L2 initial interactions
10.30–11.00 Mauro LeDonne & Silvia Cacchiani (University for
Foreigners of Perugia & University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): From
irony to exclusion: Blends and related word-formation processes in
Italian political discourse
11.00–11.30 Coffee break
11.30–12.00 Gordana Lalić-Krstin & Nadežda Silaški (University of Novi
Sad & University of Belgrade): Protests, puns and placards: humor and
wordplay in Serbia’s 2024-2025 student uprising
12.30–13.00 Esme Winter-Froemel (JMU Würzburg): Fun, but not for
everyone: Exclusion in multiple-addressed wordplay traditions in
French
13.00–13.30 Final discussion
Registration:
The workshop will take place in an online format. Participation is
free. Please register by Wednesday 28 May 2025 (11 am CEST) by sending
an e-mail with your name and your contact information to
silvia.feser at uni-wuerzburg.de.
The link to access the workshop and presentations will be sent out to
the participants shortly before the workshop.
For more information on where to submit abstracts, please visit the
conference website:
https://www.neuphil.uni-wuerzburg.de/romanistik/team/winter-froemel/wordplay-and-exclusion-30-05-31-05-2025/



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