linguistics

Conversation Analysis Research Workshop 

“Formulations” in spoken interaction propose an understanding of some state of affairs — of what another person has been telling or doing. This workshop examines a broad range of such sequences in which an understanding is formulated in conversation and then accepted or rejected. Such sequences allow us to trace how shared meaning and understanding is constructed in everyday interaction. 

ALERT: DUE TO FLIGHT CANCELLATION, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IF YOU WERE HOPING TO COME, YOU CAN READ UP ON NINA VYATKINA'S RESEARCH ONLINE. WE KNOW; IT'S NOT THE SAME THING.

In 1517, Martin Luther published the Ninety-Five Theses, and 2017, "The Luther Year," celebrates the 500th anniversary of this beginning of the Reformation. Luther’s German translation of the Bible has remained influential to this day; his hymns are still sung; and many still use his proverbs. But does all this make him the inventor of High German?

The German Studies Forum aims to

The German Studies Forum aims to

As digital gaming has increased in popularity and become a global practice, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) researchers and second and foreign language (L2) educators have begun reconsidering games as potential L2 teaching and learning (L2TL) resources.

This is the annual conference of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Keynote Speakers are Prof. Dr. Beate Henn-Memmesheimer from Universität Mannheim and German filmmaker and artist Marc Bauder. You can read more about it over at their website.

The Waterloo Colloquium on Language Teaching and Learning is the final part of the Certificate in University Language Teaching (CULT) workshops held this term. All are welcome to attend. Please download the schedule here.

Poster: On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom Poster (PDF)

On Friday, November 25, 2011, Tanya Romaniuk and Susan Ehrlich from York University held an informative talk entitled On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom. 

Poster: Salvaging History Poster (PDF)

Alexander Freund gave an informative lecture on “Salvaging History: Can We Learn Anything from (Really Bad) 1970s Oral History Interviews?” on September 21^st2012.

Alexander Freund is the holder of the Chair of German-Canadian studies and co-director of the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg.