Events

We are a group of PhDs and Post-docs who have open conversations about our current R struggles and successes. We also encourage members to introduce a helpful function that they’ve recently used to others. In the past, these have been e.g. case_when() or packages such as gtsummary. As such, meetings are therefore not necessarily designed to learn the very basics, but they are ideal to expand your horizon once you’ve wrapped your brain around the initial steps in R.
Although this is a meeting that we started in the Ruhr region, we welcome new members from anywhere and are looking to continue our sessions online for the foreseeable future.

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Wiebke Ahlers, Mirjam Eiswirth, Christian Paga
Dr. Wiebke Ahlers
wiebke.ahlers@tu-dortmund.de

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25.01.2022
15:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr

Vortrag

Sociolinguistics Lab
Brownbag Speaker Series: Raymond Hickey
The Sociolinguistics of Dublin English

The purpose of this talk will be to discuss ongoing sociolinguistic change in the capital of Ireland, Dublin. For many reasons speech in Dublin has changed and is continuing to change, evolving into n...

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08.02.2022
15:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
Brownbag Speaker Series: Alexandre Bergs
The cognitive costs and benefits of being creative with language

Linguistic innovations are part and parcel of creative language use and language change. Speakers innovate new forms of pronunciation, such as shtrong [ʃtrɔŋ] instead of strong [strɔŋ], they create ne...

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22.02.2022
15:00 Uhr - 16:30 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
Brownbag Speaker Series: Laurel MacKenzie
Tracking stylistic variation over a very long lifespan

Few lifespan studies are able to capture their speaker using more than one style, something that has been identified as a methodological confound in lifespan work, since it can be difficult to disenta...

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08.03.2022
15:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
Brownbag Speaker Series: Alexandre Duchêne
Quantifying Speakers in an Era of Calculation

Quantification is in many ways seductive (Engle Marry; 2016): it creates the impression that we can understand objectively the world and organize it through indicators, comparison and categorization. ...

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30.03.2022
13:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr

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Wiebke Ahlers, Mirjam Eiswirth, Christian Paga
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27.04.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Prof. Em. Dr. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Usage guides and the complaint tradition: “Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels”?

Based on the question posed by C.B. van Haeringen in 1956 about where Dutch stands in relation to German and English, this paper will address the same question, this time focussing on the complaint tr...

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27.04.2022
13:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr

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Wiebke Ahlers, Mirjam Eiswirth, Christian Paga
RuhR Workshop

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11.05.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Gilles Baro, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Wearing French: The Consumption of Gendered Language Attitudes on T-shirts

The mobile textuality of clothing, particularly t-shirts has gained quite significant interest in the last few years. First studied from a cultural perspective (Cullum-Swan & Manning, 1994) in terms o...

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25.05.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Christiane Alexandra Nsom, Universität zu Köln
Exploring Directives on the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon

Signs are crucial means of communication in human environment. The current work investigates directives on the Linguistic Landscape of both public and private domains in Cameroon from a language polic...

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01.06.2022
13:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr

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Wiebke Ahlers, Mirjam Eiswirth, Christian Paga
RuhR Workshop

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08.06.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Professor Dr. Kazuko Matsumoto (University of Tokyo) & Professor Dr. David Britain (Bern University)
A panel study of the obsolescence of a Pacific Japanese colonial koiné

This paper reports early results from our research on structural obsolescence in the postcolonial Japanese variety spoken on Palau in the Western Pacific (hereafter PJ). During Japanese rule (1914-194...

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22.06.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Katie Von Holzen, Department of English Linguistics at the University of Braunschweig (Germany)
doyouunderstandwhatimsaying : How learners break into speech stream segmentation

One of the first tasks of language acquisition is to identify words in the incoming speech stream (word segmentation). This presents a challenge to the learner, as speech does not contain any ostensiv...

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06.07.2022
13:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr

Workshop

Wiebke Ahlers, Mirjam Eiswirth, Christian Paga
RuhR Workshop

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20.07.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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Sociolinguistics Lab
LinguisTisch: Dr. Guyanne Wilson, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Investigating attitudes and ideologies in diverse data sets: Choral singing and memes

In Trinidad, an English-lexifier creole, Trinidad English Creole (TEC), is spoken alongside a local variety of standardized English, Trinidadian Standardized English (TSE). Early work on language atti...

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05.09.2022
11:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr

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Linguistic Hauntings and the Discursive Chronotopes of Waste
Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

This talk emerges from my own recent turn to waste as an attempt to consider what kind of contribution sociocultural linguists might make to the interdisciplinary field of discard studies (see Thurlo...

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05.09.2022
13:30 Uhr - 15:30 Uhr

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Messy Methods and the Semiotics of (Urban) Waste
Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow

In this hands-on workshop, and following on from my more conceptual talk earlier in the day, I will introduce my own approach to so-called messy methods (cf Law, 2004). In short, messy methods is abou...

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08.11.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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LinguisTisch: Dr. Melody Ann Ross, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Subverting Silence, Contriving Community; Competing ideologies of place-making in the graffiti-scape of two neighborhoods in Hawai‘i

There is little research on the rich linguistic landscape of Hawai‘i (but see Higgins 2015), and fewer still on graffiti practices in that landscape (but see Innala and Ernulf 1992, Kato 2018). Hawai‘...

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15.11.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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LinguisTisch: Johanna Mechler, M.A.
Investigating age effects in sociolinguistic perception: Experimental data from Tyneside English

Panel studies have added valuable insights into the social and linguistic constraints that govern speakers’ linguistic malleability across their lifespan (e.g., Wagner 2012, Buchstaller et al. 2017, B...

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22.11.2022
14:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr

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LinguisTisch: Dr. James Grama, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Quantifying the creole continuum: A sociophonetic approach to variation and change in Hawaiʻi Creole vowels

The creole continuum (DeCamp 1971) is a model that accounts for variation in many creole contexts, whereby speakers (and linguistic features) vary along a continuum bounded between two polar lects: a ...

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