37.863, Confs: Expressivity 2: Social Variation and Processing (Germany)

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Subject: 37.863, Confs: Expressivity 2: Social Variation and Processing (Germany)

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Date: 27-Feb-2026
From: Katharina Turgay [katharina.turgay at ruhr-uni-bochum.de]
Subject: Expressivity 2: Social Variation and Processing


Expressivity 2: Social Variation and Processing
Short Title: Ex2:SoVaPro

Date: 19-Mar-2026 - 20-Mar-2026
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Email: expressivity at rub.de
Meeting URL:
https://www.expressivity.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/expr/expressivity-2-social-variation-and-processing/index.html.en

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics;
Semantics; Sociolinguistics

Workshop Description:
Expressivity is a category in natural languages that concerns the
direct expression of emotions and attitudes (in contrast to their
description). Expressive meaning can be conveyed at all linguistic
level: by lexical expressions, special syntactic constructions,
intonation or on the pragmatic level by expressive speech acts.
While expressivity has been approached from many different angles and
has been studied in almost all disciplines of linguistics (see the
Oxford Handbook of Expressivity to be published by the end of 2025),
there are still a lot of areas in which our knowledge is lacking
behind the progress that has been made in other areas of expressivity.
After a very successful Expressivity 1 workshop in March 2025 on
Variation and Change
(https://www.expressivity.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/expr/expressivity-1-variation-and-change/index.html.en),
we want to focus on Social Variation and Processing for an
Expressivity 2 workshop in March 2026. This workshop aims to bringing
together research on these two axes of research expressivity.
https://www.expressivity.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/expr/expressivity-2-social-variation-and-processing/program.html.en
Program:
Thursday, 19. March 2026 (GB 03/142)
12:00–13:00 – Welcome: Snacks & Coffee
13:00–13:15  – Opening
13:15–14:15  – Filippo Domaneschi [invited talk]: Don’t you know that
you’re toxic? The semantics of reclaimed slurs
14:15–15:00  – Chia-Hsing Sung & Shiao-hui Chan: Swear words stay
strong: The brain doesn’t listen to context
15:00–15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30–16:15 –  Laura Reimer & Andreas Trotzke: The encoding of
emotional polarity in exclamations by the use of dedicated modal
particles and their processing
16:15–17:00 – Nicolaie Dominik Dascalu: Information packaging and the
expressive contribution of evaluative adjectives
17:00–17:45 – Cora Cavirani-Pots & Stef Grondelaers: Expressive
morphology in Curaçaoan Dutch
18:00         – Conference Dinner
Friday, 20. March 2026 (GB 03/142)
09:00–09:45  – Anna Czypionka, Mariya Kharaman, Carsten Eulitz & Laura
Reimer: Processing expressive vs. descriptive meaning:
Neurolinguistic evidence for early differences in lexical access, as
well as robust and long-lasting differences in integration
09:45–10:45 – Justina Berškytė [invited talk]: There's a good girl:
>From ambivalent sexism to benevolent misogny
10:45–11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 – Birgit Rapp: Expressive devices as markers for
polarisation in German rhetorical questions in YouTube comments and
Reddit thread
12:00–12:45 – Yulia Clausen & Tatjana Scheffler: Positive expressivity
and personae construction in German-speaking YouTube fan Communities
12:45–13:15 – Closing Remarks



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