Bonn Talks on Recent Trends in Applied Linguistics
*Using mixed methods to analyze stance: A variationist approach *
Dr. Katharina Pabst, Radboud University Nijmegen
Friday, July 18, 2.15 pm - 3.45 pm CEST
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In this talk, I will introduce a framework for coding speaker stance
(i.e., the way individuals position themselves towards an interaction)
that I developed with colleagues from the University of Toronto. Our
framework, which combines insights from variationist sociolinguistics
and pragmatics, is based on pragmatic tests that offer a replicable way
of capturing an interactional phenomenon such as stance quantitatively.
Drawing on two case studies of complementizer (that) – i.e., the
variation between overt that and zero in sentences such as I think
(that) linguistic variation is fun – I discuss challenges and
opportunities of using this framework, as well as its implications for
the study of language and social meaning.
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Head of Department and Professor of English
Linguistics | Department of English, American and Celtic Studies |
University of Bonn | Rabinstr. 8 53113 Bonn, Germany |
https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RFuchs |
https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/people/chair/prof-dr-robert-fuchs |
https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/
*Recent publications:*
Coats, S., Basile, A., Morin, C. & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *The YouTube
Corpus of Singapore English Podcasts*. /English World-Wide/
Fuchs, R. et al. (to appear). *Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in
L2 English varieties world-wide: A corpus-based study
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000737>*.
/Lingua/.
Fuchs, R., Wiltshire, C. & Sarmah, P. (to appear). *The role of English
in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India
<https://www.academia.edu/125365118/The_role_of_English_in_the_linguistic_ecology_of_Northeast_India>*.
In P. Siemund, et al. (Eds.), /World Englishes in their Local
Multilingual Ecologies/. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lange, C., & Fuchs, R. (to appear). *English in India*. In R. Hickey &
K. Burridge (Eds.), /New Cambridge History of the English Language/.
Cambridge: CUP.
Fuchs, R. (2025). *Influencing people around the globe - The linguistic
expression of persuasion across varieties of English worldwide*
<https://www.academia.edu/107491904/Influencing_people_around_the_globe_The_linguistic_expression_of_persuasion_across_varieties_of_English_worldwide_In_Dayter_Daria_and_Sofia>.
In D. Dayter, & S. Rüdiger (Eds.), /Manipulation, Influence, and
Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language/, 135-156.
Cambridge: CUP.
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