Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 14 November 2024 at 15.15 – 17.00 in Kramer (M220, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

Dr. Liz Marsden, postdoctoral researcher the English Department, will give a talk on reflections and findings from her 3-year postdoc at the university. Liz will be leaving our university at the end of this month, so this is the final opportunity to hear her talk about the newest in digital pragmatics. Her talk is titled “Digital Discourse and Online Community Building: Reflections and Findings from my 3-year Postdoc”.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

The SPREMI seminars are open to all!

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 3 October 2024 at 15.15 – 17.00 in Panorama (B301, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

Olli Silvennoinen, University Lecturer in English Language at Åbo Akademi University, will give a talk on the exploratory study of the adverb construction going forward.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 12 September 2024 at 15.15 – 17.00 in Panorama (B301, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

Lieselotte Anderwald, professor of English linguistics at the University of Kiel, Germany, will give a talk on the process of “non-standardization” and stigmatization of ain’t from a historical perspective. The title of the talk is “Non-standardization: On the historical enregisterment of ain’t in 19th century American newspapers.”

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI in Thursday 2 May, 2024, at 15:15-17 in Helikon (A201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is doctoral researcher Aino Malmivirta (English Language and Literature, ÅAU.), who will be presenting her topic “I’ve got something very strange to tell you: On the development of possessives have got and got“.

Further information can be found in the abtract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 7 March, 2024, at 15:15-17 in Källan (C201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is postdoctoral researcher Elizabeth Marsden (English Language and Literature, ÅAU.), who will present her topic “A multi-layered relationship: How GIF embedded text contributes to meaning in replies“.

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Monday 13 November, 2023, at 16:15-18 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

Professor Marta Dynel from Łódź University (Poland) will present her topic “Building political hashtag affinity spaces: #HaStatoPutin vs. #FuckPutin”.

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Wednesday 19 October, 2023, at 15:15-17 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

The speaker of the day is PhD candidate Kukka-Maaria Wessman from the University of Turku. Her topic is “Visual aphorisms as stance-driven multimodal Internet memes”.

Further information can be found in the abstract

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everybody is welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Monday 2 October, 2023, at 4 pm in Källan (C201, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

The speaker of the day is professor emeritus Jan-Ola Östman (Scandinavian Languages, University of Helsinki). His topic is “Construction Grammar Forty Years After – Constructions all the way up!”.

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everybody is welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 23 March at 15.15-17 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

The speaker of the day is docent Janne Skaffari (English Department, University of Turku). His topic is multilingualism in written texts, and the title of his talk is “Flags out for multilingualism: managing the ‘other’ language in manuscripts.” Abstract

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everybody is welcome!

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 3 November, 2022, at 3 pm in Kramer (M220).

Associate Professor Carmen Lee from the Chinese University of Hong Kong will present her work on ¨Online Aggression as a Discourse Practice¨

Further information can be found in the abstract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)