2026 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Pagmatics of Translation. Paper presented at the 'Issues in Applied Linguistics' Webinar Series, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
2024 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Identity construction online from Facebook to Viki fandom through an interpersonal pragmatics lens. Paper presented at the "Online Selves – Self Online -- Online Lecture Series"
2023 - Keynote-Referate
Pragmatics and Politeness. Keynote presented at the Meeting of the Pragmatics Association of Nigeria, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria.
2023 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Andreas Jucker and Miriam Locher: Fiction, speech acts and multimodality: How characters do things with gestures. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Köln.
2023 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Politeness Discourses from a Lay and Expert Perspective. Paper presented at the Ringvorlesung: Kommuniation linguistisch analysiren: Sprache, Interaction und Medien, University of Basel.
2023 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: “OMG I ship them like crazy”: Acts of self-positioning through evaluations in Korean TV-drama fan comments. Paper presented at the IPrA, Brussels.
2023 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: Panel: It’s not what you are like, it’s what you like: Appraisal, stance and evaluation in online fandom. Paper presented at the IPrA, Brussels.
2023 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Pragmatics of Fiction: Applications in the Classroom.
2022 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Digital Humanities Curricula Development.
2022 - other unspecified Contributions
Locher, Miriam und Bollag, Julian: Swiss English or English as a Lingua Franca in Switzerland? Publications on English in Switzerland (Bibliography compiled for the 75th-SAUTE anniversary). https://english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/research/research-projects/english-in-switzerland/
2022 - other unspecified Contributions
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam A. (2022, January 1). Thinking about translation – activities for the English classroom. https://english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/research/research-projects/thinking-about-translation-activities-for-the-english-classroom/
2021 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: Commenting while watching: Synchronous and pseudo-synchronous text-based engagement with and about audiovisual artefacts. Panel convened at IPrA, ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland.
2021 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: Contrastive analysis of English fan and professional subtitles of Korean TV Drama. Paper presented at the Symposium of Im/Politeness and i-mean, University of Basel.
2021 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: “This is not the place to bother people about BTS”: Interaction within timed comments on the video streaming platform Viki. Paper presented at IPrA, ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland.
2021 - Talks in Workshops
Round table Swiss Pragmatics: past, present, future (Input and discussion). Online Workshop organized by Thierry Herman (UNINE & UNIL), Jérôme Jacquin (UNIL), Steve Oswald (UNIFR) & Sandrine Zufferey (UNIBE).
2020 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: Joint K-Drama Viewing: Community building through fan subtitling and timed comments on Viki. Paper presented at the Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series, University of Valencia, Spain.
2020 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: Positioning yourself as a Korean Drama fan online: Korean lexical borrowing in multilingual timed comments. Paper presented at the Applied Linguistics in the Digital Age. Vals-Asla Meeting 2020, University of Neuchâtel.
2019 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher: ‘Lol while you watch’ How participatory viewers do humour in comments on Korean TV drama. Paper presented at the International Pragmatics Association, Hong Kong.
2019 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Viewer meta-comments on relational work in Korean tv drama. Paper presented at the Symposium of Politeness, Cambridge, UK.
2018 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Moments of relational work in English fan translations of Korean tv drama: “Okay, unni. (Unni = sign of respect or ‘older sister’ from a girl)”.
2018 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Participatory watching of telecinematic fiction in an international drama viewing platform.
2018 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Relational work and participation structures in interlingual subtitling from the perspective of pragmatics of fiction.
2018 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Evidence of relational work online: Conflict and (dis)agreement.
2017 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Interpersonal pragmatics: a relational lens on online health practices.
2016 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Language and Health Online: Trust, credibility, information- and advice-giving.
2016 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
mixed methodology approach for studying interpersonal pragmatics in computer-mediated health practices.
2016 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Interpersonal Pragmatics and Advice in E-Health Contexts.
2016 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Interpersonal pragmatics - Beziehungsarbeit - (Un)Höflichkeit: Synergien und neue Fragen.
2015 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
“How can people be so angry with me when I’m so harmless?” or how language impacts identity construction in email counseling.
2015 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Questions in and about Interpersonal Pragmatics.
2015 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thurnherr, Franziska, Rudolf von Rohr, Marie-Thérèse, & Locher, Miriam A.: Linguistic expert creation in online health practices
2015 - Invited Talks and Presentations
"beau, me and hubby quit cold turkey too": The functions of 'narratives' in two written online health contexts, presentation.
2015 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Interpersonal Pragmatics – Relational Work – (Im)politeness.
2015 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Typing Yourself Healthy.
2015 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Typing yourself healthy. Online health communication from an interpersonal pragmatics perspective.
2015 - Additional Oral Contributions
Typing yourself healthy. Online health communication from an interpersonal pragmatics perspective. Typing Yourself Healthy.
2014 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Locher, Miriam A., & Jucker, Andreas H. (2014). Space and virtual interaction in second life. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, Jyväskylä, Finland.
2014 - Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
Thurnherr, Franziska, Rudolf von Rohr, Marie-Thérèse, & Locher, Miriam A. (2014). Studying identity construction in written health practices with a mixed methodology approach. Paper presented at the 4th ALAPP (Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice) Conference 2014, Geneva.
2014 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Interpersonal pragmatics: Studying the relational aspect of language. Paper presented at the Invited presenation at the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. (invited)
2014 - Invited Talks and Presentations
Interpersonal pragmatics: Studying the relational aspect of language. Paper presented at the Invited presenation at the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. (invited)
