Conference presentations
Upcoming
July 9–14, 2023
The 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Belgium
[accepted for presentation:]
Lena Ekberg, Ellen Bijvoet & Jan-Ola Östman: “It is our duty to secure our own customs” – Attitudes about migrants, language learning and dialect use in the rural North of Europe.
Tomas Lehecka & Jan-Ola Östman: Pragmaticists’ views on what laypeople should know about language
Annelie Ädel & Jan-Ola Östman: “You may feel a few butterflies in your stomach the first time walking out on a frozen lake”: Balancing between positive and negative risk in adventure tourism discourse from “arctic Lapland”
Jan-Ola Östman & Helena Halmari: Expressions of responsibility in the last statements by inmates on death row
May 18–21, 2023
The 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG12), Prague, Czechia, 18–21 May, 2023
[submitted]
Jan-Ola Östman & Tomas Lehecka: Constructional preference: The case of question formation
2022
July 7–8, 2022
ALA2022: The 16th Conference of the Association for Language Awareness: Language Awareness for the next 30 years, São Paulo, Brasilia
Tomas Lehecka & Jan-Ola Östman, Zoom-presentation:
“Establishing what linguists think everyone should know about language”
May 12–14, 2022
XLVIII Kielitieteen päivät: Kontaktit, korpukset ja variaatio ['The 48th Conference on Finnish Linguistics'], Turku, University of Turku, Finland
Presentation by Tomas Lehecka and Jan-Ola Östman:
Alueellinen vaihtelu kielitieteilijöiden vastaauksissa kysymykseen "Mitä kaikkien tulisi tietää kielestä?" ['Areal variation in linguists' responses to the question "What should everyone know about language?"']
May 4-6, 2022
Svenskans beskrivning 38 [Conference on the description of Swedish], Örebro University, Sweden
Presentation by Tomas Lehecka and Jan-Ola Östman:
Könsskillnader i språkvetares åsikter om vad allmänheten bör veta om språk ['Gender differences in linguists' opinions about what the general public should know about language']
February 10-11, 2022
Lund University, Swedish and linguistics, Sweden
Annual conference on Grammatik i Fokus / Grammar in focus Zoom presentation by Tomas Lehecka and Jan-Ola Östman
"What grammarians think laypeople should know about language"
January 6-9, 2022
LSA Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
January 7, Session on "Public Understanding of Linguistics"
Zoom presentation by Tomas Lehecka and Jan-Ola Östman
"What everyone should know about language"
2021
December 14, 2021
Zoom workshop, University of Oulu, Finland; Language and Literature
Workshop on Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North
Ellen Bijvoet & Jan-Ola Östman, presentation and discussion of "Views on language, identity and integration among Dutch and Finnish migrants to the Swedish countryside"
December 10-11 ,2021
Dalarna University, Tällberg, Sweden
Catharina Nyström Höög, Anneli Ädel & Jan-Ola Östman, co-org. of Workshop on Risk and Responsibility
- presentations and discussion (hybrid)
September 21-22, 2021
KVAB Conference on The language of debate and communication about climate change, Paleis der Academiën Brussel & Campus Arenberg Leuven, Belgium: Activiteit in het kader van de Denkerscyclus Taal & Klimaat
Jan-Ola Östman, presentation:
"Responsibility for the climate – in the eyes of adolescents"
August 18-20, 2021
University of Antwerp, Belgium
iccg11 – The Eleventh International Conference on Construction Grammar
Jan-Ola Östman, presentation:
"Construction Discourse: Furthering the Firthian and Pikean legacies"
June 27–July 2, 2021
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Winterthur, Switzerland
17th International Pragmatics Conference
Jan-Ola Östman, Catharina Nyström Höög & Annelie Ädel, org. of Panel on "Discourse perspectives on Risk and Responsibility" – Introduction to the panel
Annelie Ädel, Catharina Nyström Höög &Jan-Ola Östman –presentation in the panel on Discourse Perspectives on Risk and Responsibility: "Risk and responsibility: Voices from low-risk workplaces"
Jan-Ola Östman, "On being a sister theory: Construction Discourse as a mediator between Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics/FrameNet" – presentation in Panel on "Interactional Frames and Language Resource Development", org. by Kyoko Ohara & Miriam Petruck.
June 14–16, 2021
MultiLing, University of Oslo, Norway
The 12th International Conference on Nordic and General Linguistics (ICNGL12)
Tomás Lehecka & Jan-Ola Östman, presentation:
"What people (don't) know about language"
June 7–10, 2021
e-Sociolinguistics Symposium 23
University of Hong Kong
Marion Kwiatkowski & Jan-Ola Östman, org. of Panel/Workshop on "Unsettling the NORMs: The Sociolinguistics of immigration to the countryside" + Introduction to the panel
Ellen Bijvoet & Jan-Ola Östman, presentation:
"Talkin' 'bout my integration: Finnish and Dutch migrants to the Swedish countryside in search of identities"
May 6–7, 2021
Åbo Akademi, Vaasa, Finland
Conference: Svenskan i Finland 19
Presentation:
"Plats och ställe på vykort till och från Wasa/Nikolaistad 1900–1920: Om framväxten av 'Det Moderna'" ['Space and place on postcards to and from Wasa/Nikolaistad 1900–1920: On the emergence of Modernity']
2020
September 16–18, 2020
NTNU Trondheim, Norway; Digital event
ALAPP 2020 – 10th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
Annelie Ädel, Catharina Nyström Höög & Jan-Ola Östman, joint presentation:
“In case of emergency: A responsibility perspective on evacuation practices”
2019
June 9–14, 2019
Hong Kong
IPrA's Sixteenth International Pragmatics Conference
Org.: International Pragmatics Association & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Co-organizer with Yoshiko Matsumoto of panel on "Identity perspectives from peripheries"
June 9–14, 2019
Hong Kong
IPrA's Sixteenth International Pragmatics Conference
Org.: International Pragmatics Association & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Presentation: "A glocal perspective on language function and identity: Regionalization, co-integration, ambivalence, and responsibility"
2018
September 27-28, 2018
Slimig2018: The 3rd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration
Sestri Levante (Genoa), Italy
Org.: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures of the University of Turin, Italy
Conference presentation together with Lena Ekberg:
"Identity construction and the narration of “the third position” among immigrants in rural Swedish-language Finland"
July 16-18, 2018
ICCG10: Tenth International Conference on Construction Grammar
Org.: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
Conference presentation:
"On the (ir)relevance of 'proper' for noun phrases"
January 18-19
Conference on Language, place and periphery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Org.: The two research projects Dialect in the Periphery (D:PEF) and Language and Place - Language Variation in Rural and Urban Denmark (LaPUR)
Conference presentation:
"The role of Wellerisms in construing imagined village communities"
2017
October 25-27
Svenskans Beskrivning 36, Uppsala, Sweden
Org.: Department of Scandinavian Languages
Invited presentation at the workshop on "Konstruktionsgrammatik på svenska" ['Construction Grammar in Swedish'] (organized by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Steffen Höder & Joel Olofsson):
"Utsikten från periferin; eller, 'Bara för att jag jobbar med lådor betyder inte att variabilitet blir i skymundan'” ['The view from the periphery; or, "Just because I work with boxes doesn't mean I leave variability in the dark"']
July 16-21
The 15th International Pragmatics Conference; Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Org.: International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Panel organization:
"Responsibility, migration, and integration"
July 16-21
The 15th International Pragmatics Conference; Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Org.: International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Presentation:
"The semantics and pragmatics of being responsible: Integration in a dialect of a minority language in a rural area"
July 16-21
The 15th International Pragmatics Conference; Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Org.: International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Presentation with Leila Mattfolk:
"Introducing the Proper-Name-Phrase construction: Pragmatic perspectives on the apposition-epithet controversy in grammar"
July 16-21
The 15th International Pragmatics Conference; Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Org.: International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Discussant in panel on Language, mobility and work, org. by Melissa G. Moyer & Gema Rubio Carbonero
June 6-9
The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE 9, Malaga
Org.: Universidad de Málaga
Presentation with Lena Ekberg:
"The multifariousness of “the third position”: identity construction and dialect acquisition among immigrants in rural areas"
2016
May 11-13
Svenskans beskrivning 35; Göteborg, Sweden
Presentation together with Lena Ekberg:
"Medlare - eller dubbelt marginaliserad? Identitetskonstruktion hos immigranter i Österbotten" ['Mediator - or doubly marginalized? Identity construction among immigrants in Ostrobothnia']
© Jan-Ola Östman 2023