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SwiSca VI: Preliminary program



Thursday, 23 May 2019
Friday, 24 May 2019
08.30
Coffee and registration
08.30
Coffee
09.00

Welcome address
Kristy Beers Fägersten
09.00
An international investigation of the worldwide use and meaning of the f-word (project presentation)
Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld & Elsa Kristiansen
09.15
The historical shift in the pragmatics of insults  Erik Falk, Uppsala University

09.15
Professions associated with swearing -according to informants  Robert Moncrief, Helsinki University
09.45
More than before? Swearing on the Danish debate forum Nationen in 2012 and 2017 Marianne Rathje, Southern Denmark University
09.45
Does swearing slow us down or speed us up? A comparison of descriptive and expressive adjectives in sentence processing   Stanley Donahoo, University of Arizona
10.15
Dictionary of Norwegian cursing: Norsk banneordbok  Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld, Oslo University
10.15
Socio-semantic variation in English swearing using online perception experiments   Matthew Hunt, Queen Mary University of London
10.45
BREAK
11.00
Who said what where? Reactions to swearing in the tabloid media Minna Hjort, Helsinki University
11.00
Swear words are bad – Another case of déjà poo? Jelena Ilic Plauc, University of Tuzla
11.30
The effect of swearwords in subtitled and dubbed films  Eva Eppler & Lucia Briechle, Roehampton University
11.30
 “I swear by God, I have to poo.”  Karin Senter, Uppsala University

12.00
LUNCH
13.15
(Title TBA)  Karyn Stapleton, Ulster University

13.15
Attitudes to and perceptions of swearing in discussion forums  Katariina Kaski, Helsinki University
13.45
Keynote lecture
(Title TBA)
Richard Stephens, Keele University
13.45
Making sense of the social meanings of damn, hitto and perkele in Finnish Elizabeth Peterson & Johanna Vaattovaara, Helsinki University
15.00
BREAK
14.15
Closing remarks
15.30
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16.30
Workshop: Swearing and social media Michael Gauthier, University Lyon II & Steven Coats, Oulu University
14.30
SwiSca network meeting
Afternoon coffee
18.30
Dinner
15.30
End of symposium
 
Abstracts will be posted at a later date.

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