REEL Day 2021
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Program
Please also check the program page in the English Linguistics blog.
13.00 Welcome
13.15-13.30
"Ahm jast fahn or I’m just fine?" Auditory and acoustic analyses of young Southern speakers’ pronunciation of PRICE
Hanna Weis & the class American Accents (Mainz)
13.30-13.45
13.45-14.00
14.15-15.30 Parallel sessions
Room 1: Euphemism
- 14.15-14.30: Is a loser always a loser? How use-conditional meanings of apparent insults vary in different syntactic environments and emotionally-loaded contexts
- Form, Muris, & Hessberger (Frankfurt)
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides
- 14.30-14.45 The euphemism in political speeches: An analysis of the use of the word war and the meaning behind it
- Preissler, Buera, Franke, Loth & Agirbas (Frankfurt)
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides
- 14.45-15.00: "Just use the nice words” – Society’s idea of sex as a taboo topic and the resulting usage of euphemism in different age groups
- Fleckenstein, Uddin, Mecks & De Nobile (Frankfurt)
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides
- 15.00-15.15: “I am not pro-abortion; I am pro-choice”: How euphemisms shape political discussions of abortion
- Khúc, Mahmud, Ockernahl, Salewski, Spellerberg & Stoddard (Frankfurt)
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides
Room 2: Emotion
- 14.15-14.30: Clown
- Julian Form, Mario Muris, Zion Hessberger (Frankfurt)
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides
- 14.30-14.45 Determining sentiment: A sentence sentiment analysis in political discourse from speeches by Boris Johnson regarding SARS-CoV-2
- Dominik Preissler, Florencia Buera, Pascal Franke, Patrizia Loth, Sena Nur Agirbas
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides
- 14.45-15.00
- (Frankfurt)
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides
- 15.00-15.15
- (Frankfurt)
- Abstract, slides
- Abstract, slides