English Language and Linguistics - Our CASEs
Welcome to Chemnitz Africa/Asia Symposium on English (CASE)
In this postgraduate research symposium, PhD candidates present their current research projects in 10-20-minute papers. This serves as a starting point for internal scholarly discussions of concrete research projects, problems and solutions. Together with our international visiting scholars, we provide a forum to help our PhD candidates with writing their doctoral dissertations or pursuing their scholarly presentations and publications.
Standing on the shoulders of giants: in memoriam John Spencer (February 2017)
CASE24/1: April 26, 4-5.30? BBB
Magda Williams: Thesis coherence: a critical discussion
Josef Schmied: Brainstorming on
Specialised: Specialised discourse with bots/agents? Beyond ChatGPT in academic English
Popular: Language partner ChatGPT? Affordances and difficulties of autonomous language learning in the AI era.
Comments on Progress Reports, Plans for Summer Semester
CASE23/6: December 5, 2-4 BBB
Marina Ivanova and Sven Albrecht: Dress rehearsal for their PhD
CASE23/5: July 14-15, AvH Heizhaus Conference
meet with many old and new friends, esp. from Africa
CASE23/4: July 11, 5pm, PhD Viva Xinlei Zhang
Xinlei Zhang will defend her PhD thesis Gradient Metaphoricity of the Preposition in: Corpus-based Approaches to Chinese Academic Writing in English!
CASE23/3: June 8, 2-4 catching up - final efforts BBB
Xinlei Zhang Dress rehearsal for her PhD
briefly, all PhD project plans compared
CASE23/2: May 15-26, AvH Linguistic Marathon: Brno - Klagenfurt - Padova - Modena - Verona
research projects compared
CASE23/1: February 28, Tuesday, 15-17, BBB
- Xinlei Zhang
- Jessica Dheskali:
Investigating the Use of Claim and Argue in Chinese Master and PhD Theses
CASE22/4: December 20, Tuesday, 15-16, BBB
"Taking stock": Discussion of workplans
CASE22/3: September 6, Tuesday, 9-13, W044
PhD student projects Chemnitz and international guests (Ostpartner Brno)
Josef/Olga TOKEN project
Josef/Marina invitation to contribute to REAL19 on "Confident an Trust on- and off-line"
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/ling/NEWS4SEE/News4SEE2022.php#pub
Daniel, Chris, Jessica, Xinlei, Jacinta
CASE22/2: July 15/16, Friday/Saturday Heizhaus!!!
CoConTrust Project special (international student conference) with many international guests, including our current DAAD project for PhD students on Saturday:
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/ling/CultLangConference2022.php#Saturday
CASE22/1: February 8, Tuesday, 3-5:30 pm, BBB
Josef Schmied: Report on current projects
Guo Ya: new presentation software
Federica Modafferi: The construction of COVID-19 vaccine sentiment in online media
"Taking stock": Discussion of workplans
Please send me your PhD progress reports (1 page incl. time till submission) by February 1st!!!
CASE21/6: November 25, Thursday, 3-5:30 pm, project!!! BBB
CoConTrust Project special (international student conference) with digital guests as presenters from Brno (CR) and Lagos (Nigeria):
- Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova:
Showing confidence and trustworthiness in printed and video research article's abstracts - Jan Chovenec:
Trust in academic publishing - Ibukun Filani:
Deconstructing credibility in Nigerian COVID-19 Cartoons
CASE21/5: November 23, Tuesday, 3-5:30 pm, BBB
Brief (5-10 min) personal Presentation and Progress Reports
Presentations (20 min):
- Marina Ivanova & Christopher Williams
Czech English features: Recording experience in Brno and first insights - Magdalena Williams
- Daniel Ajayi
CASE21/4 Special: Interview data collection and processing": October 12, Tuesday, 3-5:30 pm, Rh39/233
Reports & Discussion with Chris Williams (Brno/CR), Sven Albrecht, Marina Ivanova
CASE21/3=Project Conference online: July 16, Friday, 2-6:30 pm, BBB
- Introduction: Constructing Confidence and Trust Online: technical affordances and online professional identities (Josef Schmied)
- PhD project presentations
- Ibukun Filani (Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor, Nigeria) Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity: a pragmatic analysis.
CASE21/2: June 1, Tuesday, 3-5 pm, BBB
- Introduction: meet DAAD Balkan project partners (Josef Schmied)
- Discussion of PhD projects (Marina Ivanova)
- "dress rehearsal" Xinlei Zhang Chemnitz):
Gradient Metaphoricity of the Preposition in: A Corpus-based Comparison of Chinese and British Academic Writing - Q & A
CASE21/1: February 2, Tuesday, 3-5:30 pm, BBB
Brief (5-10 min) personal Presentation and Progress Report for special guest
- Sven Albrecht (Chemnitz):
D03: Credibility Through Non-native Language Varieties in Conversational Pedagogical Agents Spotlight Progress Update - Marina Ivanova (Chemnitz):
Perceptions of English word stress cues: ERP evidence from speakers of Slavonic Englishes - Dana Ebermann (Chemnitz):
Working title: Hate speech on social media platforms during the US presidential elections - Jessica Dheskali (Chemnitz):
Metalanguage in Chinese Master and Doctoral Theses: Project Report - Xinlei Zhang (Chemnitz):
Gradient Metaphoricity of the Preposition in: A Corpus-based Comparison of Chinese and British Academic Writing - Guo Ya (SYSU and Chemnitz):
The Clause Complexing System of Chinese Students’ Academic Writing - Magda Williams (Nottingham):
PhD Dissertation Writing: A Case of Hedges in Academic Writing by Polish, German and English PhD Candidates - Zeenat Zumra (Tanzania and Chemnitz):
Conversational Code-Switching: Examining Code-Switching Behavior in Multilingual Speakers in Tanzania - Daniel Ajayi (Nigeria, AvH Chemnitz):
"Were kii solo bi eleyi": Language Therapy, and Construction of Mental Health in Migerian Orthodox and Unorthodox Psychiatric Homes - Marta Giallombardo (Modena and Chemnitz): Ten Years of Representing Foreign Fighters in News Discourse: from 2011 to 2021
N.N. - Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (Nigeria, AvH Chemnitz):
N.N.
CASE20/7 together with Modena PhD students: December 15, Tuesday, 5-6 pm, BBB
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Evaluation of Modena Summer School Webinars: Concepts, Methods, Presentations
http://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/digital-communication-and-digital-humanities-2020-lecture-series-multimodality-and-transmediality/videos/ - Marina Ivanova (Chemnitz):
ELR4P1 What the APA teaches us outside citation and formatting
CASE20/6: October 27, Tuesday, 2-4 pm, BBB
- brief personal Progress Report
- Modena Seminars so far
- intensive discussion of Panel:
22/10/20 2-3.30 pmGeoffrey Williams(University of Bretagne Sud)Bernd Meyer (Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies Mainz)Panel: “Challenges of corpus compilation and annotation” Rubbish In, Rubbish Out: Building corpora that represent something in languageAnnotation as theory: metadata, annotations and other layers of information for multilingual spoken language corpora
CASE20/5: October - December
Please take part in Webinars organised by our Parters here: http://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/ C U there!!
CASE20/4: July 10, Friday, 9 am-12 noon and 3-4:30 pm, BBB
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/ling/CultLangConference2020.php
with young scolars from Northern Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo.
CASE20/3: June 20, Monday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Rh39/233 / via BBB
Josef Schmied (Chemnitz):
From Uncertainty to Confidence and Trust: Concepts and Examples
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/ling/NEWS4SEE/News4SEE2020.php#WS
CASE20/2: May 11+18+25, Monday, 10:00-11:00 am via BBB
editing Xinlei Zhang's thesis as a Model:
11th: abstract1 vs abstract2 recording
18th: overall structure1 vs. strcture2 recording
25th: summary1 vs. summary2 recording
Please find earlier CASEs in our archive
Our CASE Documentation
Our Visiting Scholars
We have had the great honour to welcome the regular participation of international friends and colleagues. e.g.
- Prof. Albertus Van Rooy
(North-West University, South Africa) - Prof. Marina Bondi
(University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) - Prof. Daniel Nkemleke
(University of Yaoundé I., Cameroon) - Dr. Tunde Opeibi
(University of Lagos, Nigeria)