Nathalie Bauer
Nathalie Bauer is a research associate in a project on personal reference at the University of Münster funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her research interests include applied conversation analysis and grammar in spoken language. In her PhD project, she studied interactions in medical contexts from a conversation analytic perspective and has made the abstract concept of empathy linguistically analyzable.
Plenary talk: Zwischen Intersubjektivität und Progressivität: Interaktionale Perspektiven auf Empathie in medizinischen Gesprächen (held in German)
Alexander Bergs
Alexander Bergs is Full Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at Osnabrück University. His research interests include, among others, language variation and change, constructional approaches to language, the role of context in language, the syntax/pragmatics interface, and cognitive poetics. His works include several authored and edited books, amongst others Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics, Constructions and Language Change, the two-volume Handbook of English Historical Linguistics (ed. with Laurel Brinton), as well as the textbook Understanding Language Change (with Kate Burridge).
Plenary talk: That’s so Mike Myers. Not. A few (random) thoughts on language and creativity (held in English)