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Talk Series: Diversity in Linguistics

The talk series “Diversity in Linguistics” focusses on linguists from diverse social and linguistic backgrounds and their work on a wide range of topics. As an association, we aim to provide space for diverse perspectives on linguistic topics.

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Talk Series 2024/2025

27 November 2024
Leah Nieber
Phonetic research beyond the binary

18 December 2024
Dominic Schmitz
Comprehension difficulty renders the -er suffix in generic masculines longer than in specific masculines

29 January 2025
Sol Tovar
Queering the linguistics classroom

26 February 2025
Christin Schütze
Gender coordinates: A two-dimensional tool for gender typicality scores of epicene nouns

26 March 2025
Samira Ochs & Jan Oliver Rüdiger
Das Queere Korpus: Aufbau und Beispielanalysen

30 April 2025
Annika Tjuka
Animal bodies, human minds: Cultural variations in body perception (working title)

28 May 2025
to be announced

25 June 2025
to be announced

Talk Series 2023/2024

15 November 2023
Muhadj Wisam Adnan
Sprache und Migration: Sprachvariation in der arabischen Diaspora in Deutschland

29 November 2023
Isabeau Lettow
Aspektualität in Deutsch und Deutscher Gebärdensprache (DGS) – ein Vergleich | Slides

13 December 2023
Philo Schäfer
Er, sie, ? – Sprechen über nichtbinäre Personen & geschlechtsneutrale Pronomen in Medien und Wissenschaft | Slides

31 January 2024
Dana Roemling
Tracing Identity through Language: Geolinguistic Profiling in Forensic Linguistic Authorship Analysis | Abstract | Slides

28 February 2024
This talk was cancelled.

27 March 2024
Christin Schütze & Aylin Braunewell
Nicht zu vereinbaren? Empirische Annäherung an die Kompatibilität von epizönen Personenbezeichnungen mit genderbewusster und Leichter Sprache | Abstract

24 April 2024
Sevena Olgar
Feature Effectiveness in Authorship Attribution | Abstract

29 May 2024
This talk was cancelled.

19 June 2024
Dominic Schmitz
Gender star semantics and comprehension from a linear discriminative learning perspective | Abstract

31 July 2024
Barbara Kovačić
My Croatian is better than yours – Language Ideology and Attitude by the example of BCMS

Talk Series 2022/2023

26 July 2023
Rachid Iseksioui
The minimal derivation of simple clause in Amazighe language

14 June 2023
Lena Völkening
“Mit natürlichem Sprachwandel hat Gendersprache nicht das Geringste zu tun”? Inwiefern sich die Sprache beim Gendern anders wandelt, als sie es normalerweise tut

31 May 2023
Muhadj Wisnam
Sprache und Migration: Sprachvariation in der arabischen Diaspora in Deutschland

17 May 2023
Julia Pawels
‚Fake News‘ oder ‚Falschnachrichten‘? Lexikalische Zweifelsfälle bei neologistischen (Quasi-)Synonymen

27 April 2023
Alexander Clemen
Alex, Alex, or Alex – Do ambiguous first names cause referential failure effects?

29 March 2023
Jannis Schwarzbach
High Valyrian and Greenberg‘s Universals

22 February 2023
Hannah Prendecky
‘Bullshitting’ aus einer metapragmatischen Perspektive | Folien

08 February 2023
René Foidl
Sprache in kolonialen Kontexten: Eine qualitative Analyse kolonialer Einflüsse auf das (sprachliche) Leben der Wounaan in Bogotá

25 January 2023
Anna Stein
Probabilistic reduction and the mental lexicon

14 December 2022
Mogens Mastracchio
Some causative verbs are lighter than others | Abstract

30 November 2022
Dominic Schmitz, Viktoria Schneider & Janina Esser
Generic masculines in German – Why all teachers are masculine | Folien

Extra

28 September 2021
Natascha Rohde
“Who knew that gender social utopia looks like this, right?”