Wednesday 17 March 2021
| 11.30-12.00 | Conference opening by Prof. Dr. Gita Deneckere, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy |
SESSION 1 – Language and the law |
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| 12.00-12.30 | Marie Jacobs “Is this what I said?”: On the entextualisation of asylum narratives within legal consultations |
| 12.30-13.00 | Ryan Reynaert The construction of ordinariness in interpreter-mediated police interviews with suspects |
| 13.00-14.00 LUNCH | |
SESSION 2 – Language in discourse |
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| 14.00-14.30 | Sofie Verkest Speaking the language: Looking for interpretive decisions of expert sources in the news production process |
| 14.30-15.00 | Jorge Disseldorp Migration discourse: Discursive ‘othering’ in the press, a theoretical perspective |
| 15.00-15.10 BREAK | |
| 15.10-15.40 | Seppe Goddaert Science as a means or an end: The construction of science in a multiorganizational, citizen science context |
| 15.40-16.10 | Haiyan Huang (in collab. with Katrien De Graeve, Ellen van Praet) Subversive gender performativity? Gender identity construction and gender norms embodiment by the Chinese e-commerce livestreamer Lipstick King Jiaqi Li |
| 16.10-16.20 BREAK | |
SESSION 3 – Experimental methods in language studies |
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| 16.20-16.50 | Giuseppe Magistro Experimental approaches to diachronic pragmatics: A case study |
| 16.50-17.20 | Mieke Slim (in collab. with Peter Lauwers and Robert J. Hartsuiker) Are logical representations quantifier-specific? Evidence from priming for a non-quantifier-specific representation of scope |
| 17.20-17.50 | Bruna Da Silva Specialized digital frame-based lexicography from a perspective of dictionary use research |
Thursday 18 March 2021
SESSION 4 – Communication and the workplace |
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| 9.30-10.00 | Greet De Baets (in collab. with Sofie Decock and Ellen Van Praet) Recipient design in intercultural business communication: Aikido as litmus test |
| 10.00-10.30 | Ellen Soens (in collab. with An-Sofie Claeys) Social media guidelines in the workplace: Stimulating or restricting employee social media use? |
| 10.30-10.45 BREAK | |
SESSION 5 – Language productivity |
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| 10.45-11.15 | Sven Van Hulle 25 ways to start an event in Spanish: The productivity of the inchoative construction |
| 11.15-11.45 | Margot Van den Heede Het interesseert me geen ene je-weet-wel: Minimizing strategies in present-day Dutch |
| 11.45-12.15 | Joren Somers Investigating the productivity of the Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat construction in German and Icelandic |
| 12.15-13.15 LUNCH | |
SESSION 6 – Language in education |
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| 13.15-13.45 | Mari Alger (in collab. with June Eyckmans) “I took physical lessons for granted”: A case study exploring students’ interpersonal interactions in online synchronous lessons during the outbreak of COVID-19 |
| 13.45-14.15 | Alexander De Soete Studying multilingualism in South African tertiary education: Mixed-method approaches to translanguaging research |
| 14.15-14.45 | Shauny Seynhaeve Interaction in online classes: The experience of newly arrived migrant students |
| 14.45-15.00 BREAK | |
SESSION 7 – Typology and language contact |
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| 15.00-15.30 | Eline Daveloose Playing ping-pong with ce in Cappadocian: From simple connective to continuative/topic-shifting connective as an example of functional transfer from Turkish |
| 15.30-16.00 | Mihaela Ilioaia Plăcea ‘please’ – a tendency toward canonical marking of subjects in Romanian? |
| 16.30-17.30 CLOSING DRINK | |