2034 - Membership (FDB import)
Schweizerische Sprachwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Regular member
2034 - Membership (FDB import)
Swiss Association of University Teachers of English, Regular member
2034 - Membership (FDB import)
VALS-ASLA: Vereinigung für Angewandten Linguistik in der Schweiz, Regular member
2024 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Plenary: Health Discourse and Interpersonal Pragmatics in (Computer-Mediated) Communication: Some Inroads.” EnTRetextos
2024 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Plenary: Politeness Research and its Theoretical Interface: Insights from Fictional Data and Health communication research.” Paper presented at the Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
2023 - Membership (FDB import)
Cambridge University Press, Elements in Pragmatics, Editorial board
2023 - Membership (FDB import)
Journal of Pragmatics, Special Issues Editor
2023 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Pragmatics of fiction: applications in the classroom, Colloquium, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
2022 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Pseudo-live comments on K-Drama videos: Fan engagement with the cultural other, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Freiburg, Germany
2022 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Engaging with the cultural other: Fan translations of Korean TV drama on Viki from a pragmatic perspective, Jornada sobre la pragmàtica de la traducció des de la perspectiva del català, University of Leipzig, Germany
2022 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Learning about Korea(n) by engaging with K-drama: Fan translations and timed comments on Viki, Korean program, invited lecture, Oxford University, UK
2022 - Invited Presentations (imported)
"what does hyung mean please?": Moments of teaching and learning about Korean (im)politeness on an online streaming platform of Korean TV drama, Sociolinguistics Symposium, Ghent University, Belgium
2022 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Pragmatics and CMC: Discussing relational work of fictional characters online, Lecture series, KAIST, South Korea
2022 - Invited Presentations (imported)
MA in Digital Humanities - Reflections on the challenges of developing a new study program, Staff Colloquium, Korea University, South Korea
2022 - Invited Presentations (imported)
MA in Digital Humanities - from digital native to skilled expert? Reflections on the challenges of developing a new study program, Staff Colloquium, KAIST, South Korea
2022 - Other Activities
Visiting Professor KU, Korea University
2022 - Membership (FDB import)
Korean Journal of Medical Education, Member of editorial board
2021 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Discussing relational work of fictional characters online, Linguistischen Kolloquium (LingKoll), Bayreuth University, invited talk
2021 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Plenary: "Were they not formal before?": The Pragmatics of fiction in translated relational work scenes of Korean TV drama and its uptake in timed comments, IPrA - International Pragmatics Association Meeting, Winterthur, ZHAW
2021 - Other Activities
Pragmatics of Translation, International Symposium on im/politeness and i-mean
2021 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Relational work negotiations in fiction and their uptake: Communal viewing of K(orean)-Drama on a streaming platform, Linguistics Research Seminar Series, Huddersfield University, UK
2021 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Input and discussion on pragmatics, Round table Swiss Pragmatics: past, present, future, Zoom, UniBe, UniNe, UniFri
2020 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Politeness and relational work in fiction, a linguistic approach, Themenwoche, Gymnasium Münsterhof
2020 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Interpersonal pragmatics in fiction: Approaching politeness from a lay translation perspective in K-drama, DISCOG (plenary invitation), Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - Other Activities
Subtitling in Action: Pragmatic Processes of Intersemiotic Translation, Korea University, English Department
2019 - Membership (FDB import)
Journal of Pragmatics, Associate editor
2019 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Mehrsprachigkeit in Literatur und Film, Seniorenuniversität, University of Basel
2019 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Politeness in K-drama fiction: From subtitling challenges to fan negotiations of culture (plenary talk), Language in modern discourse practices, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Avenues into pragmatics: From politeness to identity construction, online and offline, Pragmatics Seminar, guest lecture, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
2019 - Invited Presentations (imported)
The pragmatics of fiction: Making Korean TV drama accessible to an international audience, Semiosis Lecture, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea
2019 - Invited Presentations (imported)
The Pragmatics of Fiction: From the challenges of politeness translations to the negotiation of culture in viewer comments on K-drama, Research in English studies, Guest lecture series, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
2019 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Weaving voices in online communal TV watching of K-drama: English as a lingua franca, relational work and identity construction, iMean, plenary talk, Wellington, New Zealand
2019 - Other Activities
Subtitling in Action: Pragmatic Processes of Intersemiotic Translation, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Reflexives Schreiben in medizinischen Zusammenhängen, Reden über Gesundheit und Krankheit, University of Zurich
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Language and health online: Typing yourself healthy, First International Conference on Internet Pragmatics (plenary), Fuzhou, China
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Identity construction, relational work and politeness: Theoretical developments within interpersonal pragmatics, Invited lecture, Xi'an University of Foreign Studies, Xi'an China
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Identity construction, relational work and politeness: Theoretical developments within interpersonal pragmatics, Invited lecture, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Identity construction, relational work and politeness: Theoretical developments within interpersonal pragmatics, Invited lecture, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Reflective writing in medical practice: A linguistic case study, Invited lecture, Beihang University, Beijing, China
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Identity construction, relational work and politeness: Theoretical developments within interpersonal pragmatics, Invited lecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2018 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Reflective writing in medical practice: A linguistic case study, Invited lecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2017 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Reflexives Schreiben in medizinischen Zusammenhängen, Sprache im Kontext von Trauer und Lebensende, Göttingen
2016 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Meta-discussions on Swiss politeness in German speaking online newspaper commentaries, LIAR IV Conference, Manchester UK
2016 - Membership (FDB import)
Swiss Association of University Teachers of English, Board member as secretary, webmaster, ESSU editor and delegate to the SAGW
2016 - Other Activities
Language and health online: Typing yourself healthy, Department of Language and Literatures
2015 - Other Activities
Health communication (China Scholarship Council), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2015 - Other Activities
(Im)politeness in place: constructing private property in a local linguistic landscape (SCIEX exchange), University of Preov, Slovakia
2015 - Other Activities
Healthcare communication (Edinburgh Royal Society Visiting Fellowship), University of Stirling, Scotland
2015 - Membership (FDB import)
COMET: Communication, Medicine and Ethics Society, www.cometsociety.com
2015 - Membership (FDB import)
International Pragmatics Association, http://ipra.ua.ac.be/
2015 - Membership (FDB import)
Linguistik Online (http://www.linguistik-online.de/), Member on the board of consulting editors
2015 - Membership (FDB import)
The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (Benjamins) (http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=P%26bns), Member on the editorial board
2014 - Other Activities
SAEC, Sociosemiotic aspects of electronic communication (SCIEX fellow), University of Preov, Slovakia
2014 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Interpersonal pragmatics: Studying the relational aspect of language, Forschungskolloquium, University of Bielefeld, Germany
2014 - Membership (FDB import)
Journal of Pragmatics, Member of the advisory board
2014 - Other Activities
SWELL Conference 2014, SWELL: Swiss Work in English Linguistics
2013 - Membership (FDB import)
Multilingua (http://www.degruyter.de/journals/jpr/detailEn.cfm), Member on the advisory board
2013 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Raum und Interaktion im Second Life, Interaktion im virtuellen Raum - Raum in der virtuellen Interaktion, University of Zurich
2013 - Invited Presentations (imported)
The relational aspect of language. Avenues of research, Deutscher Anglistentag 2013, University of Konstanz, Germany
2013 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Relational work and the display of multilingualism in two Facebook groups, Facework and Social Media, University of Hildesheim, Germany
2013 - Other Activities
Symposium: Narrative Matters in Literature, Linguistics, Psychology and Medicine, SNF-Project "'Life beyond writing': Illness Narratives"
2013 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Forty Years of Politeness Research, The History of Pragmatics Lecture Series, University of Zurich
2013 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Humor in microblogging: Exploiting humor strategies for identity construction in two Facebook Groups, Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laughter. 3rd International Symposium: Entertainment Discourse beyond Humour Studies, Lodz, Poland
2012 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Relational work and the display of multilingualism in two Facebook groups, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2012 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Emotions and relational work, Department of Linguistics, Research Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Canada
2012 - Invited Presentations (imported)
The interpersonal aspect of language use -- or why politeness matters, Junior Fellow Speaker Series, University of British Columbia, St. John's College, Canada
2012 - Invited Presentations (imported)
'Life (beyond) writing: Illness narrative': Reflective writing of BA medical students - First results, Department of English, Research Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Canada
2012 - Other Activities
Sabbatical, 'Illness Narratives' and 'Language and Health Online', University of British Columbia, Canada
2012 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Discussant: "Wissen über Handlunsmuster" / "Sprachliche Effizienz", Workshop Sprachdiversität in Arbeitsprozessen: Lingua franca Deutsch/ Lingua franca Englisch in internationalen Unternehmen II, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Departement Angewandte Linguistik
2011 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Facebook status updates: Linguistic identity construction and acts of positioning, From Pamphlets to Blogs, Universität Heidelberg
2011 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Linguistic identity construction in two focus groups of Facebookers, Invited lecture in colloquium, York St. John, UK
2011 - Invited Presentations (imported)
The role of emotions in a discursive approach to relational work, Towards a Discursive Pragmatics, Sheffield, UK
2011 - Other Activities
Identities in conflict? Constructing personal and professional identities in the public/private sphere of social media (UWE sabbatical), University of the West of England, UK
2011 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Facebook status updates in two focus groups, Blockseminar "Sprache & Medialität", 7./8. Februar 2011, Universität Zürich, Englisches Seminar
2011 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Lingua Franca Englisch, diskutiert anhand eines Sprachbeispiels aus der Arbeitswelt, Workshop Sprachdiversität in Arbeitsprozessen: Lingua franca Deutsch/ Lingua franca Englisch in internationalen Unternehmen, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Departement Angewandte Linguistik
2010 - Other Activities
Workshop: English in the media, Organised with Prof. Didier Maillat and Prof. Jürg Schwyter; invited speakers: J. Androutsopoulos, J. Chambers, S. Sundar, CUSO Doctoral Program in English Language and Literature (http://english.cuso.ch/presentation-du-programme/)
2010 - Other Activities
Language and Health (Prof. Boothe, Prof. Schulz, Prof. Sarangi), English seminar, University of Basel
2010 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Weltsprache English?, Seniorenuniversität, Basel
2010 - Other Activities
JASGIL Conference; keynote speaker: Prof. Salikoko Mufwene, EUCOR Anglistik (Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Freiburg, Basel)
2010 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Emotional display in online disagreements, The Fifth Symposium on Politeness, Basel
2010 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Language, identity and 'acts of positioning' in Facebook: Preliminary results of a pilot study, The Fifth Symposium on Politeness, Basel
2010 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Panel organisor "Disagreement on and offline", with Jo Angouri, The Fifth Symposium on Politeness, Basel
2010 - Other Activities
The Fifth International Symposium on Politeness, Englisches Seminar
2010 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Politeness research from past to future, with a special focus on the discursive approach, EPICS IV, Sevilla, Spain
2010 - Other Activities
Best practice workshop with Prof. Dennis Preston, SWELL: Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (www.swell.unibas.ch)
2009 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Beziehungsarbeit ('relational work') im Internet, Interdisziplinären Linguistischen Kolloquium (ILKA), Universität Augsburg
2009 - Invited Presentations (imported)
`Come on, I am not a moron' -- Theorising impoliteness online, Research Seminar on Applied Linguistics, Bonn
2009 - Other Activities
Best Practice Workshop with Prof. David Britain, University of Essex, SWELL: Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (www.swell.unibas.ch)
2009 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Politeness research: past, present, future, Forschungskolloquiums Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2009 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Facebook and relational work: A report on a pilot study, Sociolinguistic Festival, Lecture Series, Wellington, NZ
2009 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Internet health advice columns: How to study relational work online, Sociolinguistic Festival, Lecture Series, Wellington, NZ
2009 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Relational work'and its usefulness for applied linguistics, Sociolinguistic Festival, Lecture Series, Wellington, NZ
2009 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Health on the Web: Computer-mediated Communication, Colloquium of the Institute of Communication and Health, University of Lugano
2008 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Advice Online: How to study variation in advice-giving, Cross-institutional Research Group, Language in Professions, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
2008 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Advice Online, Invitation to speak on corpus linguistics methodology with respect to "Advice Online", CLARET, a post-graduate workshop, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
2007 - Invited Presentations (imported)
Investigating impoliteness: The interface between relational work and identity construction, The Third International Symposium on Politeness, University of Leeds,UK
2001 - Other
Lazarus-Preis for the PhD Dissertation, University of Berne
