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Talk Series: Diversity in Linguistics

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

We are currently looking for presenters for the 2023/2024 edition of our talk series! If you want to present your work, sign up here:

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Upcoming Talks

The talk series is currently on seasonal break. New talks will be announced here in due time.

Talk Series 2023/2024

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

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

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

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

28 February 2024
Pauline Reiß
Pitch please! Prosaische und phonetische Änderung im Stimmton IN- vs. OUT-of-Drag

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

24 April 2024
Sevena Olgar
Feature Effectiveness in Authorship Attribution

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

to be announced
Viktoria Schneider
Eventuality-related nominalizations

to be announced
Dominic Schmitz
From s/he to they: The semantics of third-person pronouns in English

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 | cancelled due to connection issues

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 | download slides

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 | download slides

Extra

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