Wednesday 5th June
11.00-12.30 Registration
12.30-12.45 Welcome and opening of the conference by Susan Fitzmaurice
12.45-14.15 Session 1: Gender
Horst Simon - Politeness and Sex in the Second Person
Agnieszka Szuba, Theresa Redl & Helen de Hoop - Does grammatical gender matter in addressing? Exploring the effect of gender marking on processing of second-person singular Polish verbs
Irene María Moyna - Address variation as a mitigation strategy in Uruguayan Spanish
14.15-14.45 Tea, coffee, and sandwiches
14.45-15.45 Session 2: Mediated contrasts
Hanna Lappalainen & Ildikó Vecsernyés - Comparing address practices in Finnish and Hungarian Talent programmes
Chiara Ghezzi - Apologies as forms of address: Italian scusa in Spanish translations
15.45-16.00 Tea and coffee
16.00-17.30 Session 3: Service encounters: contrasts
Doris Schüpbach - Address in Switzerland: German - French - Italian
Christophe Gagne - A comparative study of nominal forms of address in French and English
Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh - Variation of Address Terms among Jordanian University Students
Thursday 6th June
9.30-10.30 Session 4: Methodology
Hanna Lappalainen - Future of T and V forms in Finland in the light of the new interview corpus
Agnese Bresin - Investigating regional variation in Italian address practices. Methodological challenges
10.30-11.00 Tea and coffee
11.00-12.00 Session 5: Approaches
Víctor Fernández-Mallat - Forms of address in interaction: evidence from Chilean Spanish
Roel Vismans - Addressing the future, politely
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Session 6: Diachronic developments
Sascha Gaglia - What a contrastive analysis of copula sentences can tell us about the development of the Romance pronominal address systems
Akiko Okamura - Change in politeness strategies through the use of Japanese address forms over the past 40 years
Annick Paternoster - The addressee as a non-you: Requests and deictic shields in nineteenth-century Italian conduct books
14.30-15.00 Tea and coffee
15.00-16.30 Session 7: Mediated and unmediated service encounters
Nicole Baumgarten - It doesn’t matter, dear. The ‘shut-up’ function of endearments in service encounters on the telephone in northern England
Leo Kretzenbacher & Susanne Hensel-Börner - Sales encounters and pronominal address in German: a survey
Maria Elena Placencia - ‘Hola amigo quiero la Hércules …’ The use of address forms in e-service encounters from a variational pragmatics perspective
19.00-22.00 Conference dinner at Aagrah on Leopold Square
Friday 7th June
9.00-10.30 Session 8: Language contact
Bettina Kluge - Meet and greet in Spanish – address and introductions at international conferences in the Spanish-speaking world
Michael Newman & Víctor Fernández-Mallat - 2PS Address in a Context of Language and Dialect Contact: Evidence from New York City Spanish
Leo Kretzenbacher, Doris Schüpbach, Catrin Norrby, John Hajek - Nominal address and introduction in three national varieties of German-based English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
10.30-11.00 Tea and coffee
11.00-12.30 Session 9: Pronominal address: Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian
Michaela Jechova - Pronominal addressing in Catalan and European Portuguese
Andreana Marchi - The "ungrammatical" use of 'tu' in Brazilian Portuguese: a new and widespread linguistic phenomenon
Terell Morgan & Scott Schwenter - Asymmetry in second-person plural reference: The seemingly intractable cases of Romanian and European Portuguese
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Session 10: Historical sociolinguistics
Emily Reed - Pronominal address in Anglo French dialogues at the turn of the 15th Century: a site of pragmatic difficulty?
Piera Molinelli - Italian Lei as contact-induced form of address: fake news and language policy during Fascism
14.30-15.00 Tea and coffee
15.00-16.00 Session 11: Dramatic data
Monika Wozniak - “Donna, fa silenzio!” Forms of Address in Original and Translated Italian Films Set in the Renaissance Era
Anouk Buyle - Don't talk like that, my dear: my's functional profile in address formulae
16.00-16.30 Conference closing
