Expressivity 2: Program

Thursday, 19. March 2026 (GB 03/142)

• 12:00–13:00 – Welcome: Snacks & Coffee

• 13:00–13:15  – Opening

• 13:15–14:15  – Filippo Domaneschi [invited talk]
  Don’t you know that you’re toxic? The semantics of reclaimed slurs

• 14:15–15:00  – Chia-Hsing Sung & Shiao-hui Chan
  Swear words stay strong: The brain doesn’t listen to context

• 15:00–15:30 – Coffee Break

• 15:30–16:15 –  Maik Thalmann
  From intuition to inference: Clustering participant variation in presupposition projection

• 16:15–17:00 – Nicolaie Dominik Dascalu
  Information packaging and the expressive contribution of evaluative adjectives

• 17:00–17:45 – Cora Cavirani-Pots & Stef Grondelaers
  Expressive morphology in Curaçaoan Dutch

• 18:30–            – Conference Dinner at Nandy's

Friday, 20. March 2026 (GB 03/142)

• 09:00–09:45  – Anna Czypionka, Mariya Kharaman, Carsten Eulitz & Laura Reimer
  Processing expressive vs. descriptive meaning: Neurolinguistic evidence for early differences in lexical access, as well as robust and long-lasting differences in integration


• 09:45–10:45 – Justina Berškytė [invited talk]
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• 10:45–11:15 – Coffee Break
   
• 11:15–12:00 – Birgit Rapp
  Expressive devices as markers for polarisation in German rhetorical questions in YouTube comments and Reddit thread

• 12:00–12:45 – Yulia Clausen & Tatjana Scheffler
  Positive expressivity and personae construction in German-speaking YouTube fan Communities
   
• 12:45–13:15 – Closing Remarks