Programme: What the HEL – The 5th SwiSca Symposium on Swearing

What the HEL? – The 5th SwiSca Symposium on Swearing 

23-24 November 2017, University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki, main building, Fabianinkatu 33, 2^nd floor, lecture hall 2 (konsistorin sali)

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Programme (updated 19/11/1017)

Thursday

9.30-10.00	WELCOME & INTRODUCTION (Minna Hjort and Elizabeth Peterson)
SESSION 1	Persuasive swearing
10.00-10.30	Kristy Beers Fägersten, Södertörn University: Swear words for Sale
10.30-11.00	Minna Hjort, University of Helsinki: Taboo in the Tabloids – Swearing celebrities and translating journalists
11.00-11.30	Anne Ketola, University of Tampere: From foul English to foul Finnish: Examining the translation of Adam Mansbach's Go the Fuck to Sleep
11.30-12.00	Jutta Rosenberg, Oscar Winberg, Åbo Akademi: Inflammable language and insults in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign
12.00-13.30	LUNCH BREAK
13.30-14.00	Marianne Rathje, University of Southern Denmark: Attitudes to Danish swearwords and abusive terms in two generations
SESSION 2	Online swearing
14.00-14.30	Katariina Kaski, University of Turku: Different forms of swearing in discussion forums in Sweden and Finland
14.30-15.00	Elizabeth Peterson, Saija Havukunnas, University of Helsinki, Johanna Vaattovaara, University of Tampere: Social meanings/acceptability of English-sourced swearing in Finnish
15.00-15.30	COFFEE BREAK
15.30-16.00	Steven Coats, University of Oulu: English-language profanity on Twitter in the Nordics
SESSION 3	Keynote
16.00-17.00	Karyn Stapleton, Ulster University: Swearing, social interaction, and identity: Current and future research directions
19.30-	Dinner

Friday

	Please note! Schedule change due to cancellation
10.00-10.30	COFFEE AND WELCOME
SESSION 4	Swearing and multilingualism
10.30-11.00	Hanna Lantto, University of Eastern Finland: Why do the Basques swear in Spanish? Swearing and language contact in the Basque Country?
11.00-11.30	Robert Moncrief, University of Helsinki: 'Do you have any other comments? Fuck this!' An Overview of a Questionnaire on the Perception and Use of Swearing among English/EFL teachers/students
11.30-12.00	BOOK PRESENTATION Kristy Beers Fägersten, Karyn Stapleton & Marianne Rathje: New publications in swearing research
12.00-13.30	LUNCH
SESSION 5	The swearing lexicon
13.30-14.00	Stephen Coffey, University of Pisa: Phonically derived substitutes of potentially offensive lexical items in modern English: two corpus-based studies
14.00-14.30	Stanley Donahoo, University of Arizona: Dirty minds:  Language comprehension insights from lexical decision tasks
14.30-15.00	Jarkko Kauppinen, Finnish Institute for the Languages of Finland: Swearing in Old Literary Finnish
15.00-15.30	CLOSING WORDS
15.30-16.00	SwiSca meeting

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