Jan-Ola Östman

Conference presentations

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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']