TUESDAY – 15 October 2019

8.15-8.45	REGISTRATION
8.45-9.00	Opening & welcome
9.00-10.00	Invited speaker: LIESBETH DEGAND University of Louvain, Belgium Contextual constraints on discourse marker use
10.00-11.00	Hands-on session: LUDIVINE CRIBLE University of Edinburgh, U.K. Discourse markers and other signals: annotation and analysis
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-13.30	SESSION 1 – ISSUES OF PRAGMATICALISATION (1) Carmen Mîrzea Vasile – University of Bucharest, Romania On the pragmaticalization of the adverb neapărat (necessarily) Valentina Cojocaru – Romanian Academy Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest, Romania Some pragmatic aspects of the adverbial phrase de-amu from the Romanian variety spoken in Moldova Roxana Preda – University of Bucharest, Romania         Un marqueur discursif récent en roumain : dacă e – typologie, valeurs pragmatiques, aspects sociolinguistiques Mihaela Ionescu (Mladenovici) – University of Bucharest, Romania             Actually: the concealed lever
13.30-15.00	Lunch break
15.00-16.30	SESSION 2 – THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF DISCOURSE MARKERS Regina Zieleke – Universität zu Köln, Germany The combinability of German contrastive connectives Sofiana I. Lindemann – Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania Specialindefinites as discourse markers. Evidence from English and German Anca-Marina Velicu – University of Bucharest, Romania Are (inferential) DMs more or less (cognitively) salient as (purely) descriptive referential words? The argument from translation
16.30-17.00	Coffee break
17.00-18.00	SESSION 3 – DISCOURSE MARKERS IN SPOKEN INTERACTION Marinela Bota – University of Bucharest, Romania        Pragmatic aspects of the discourse marker ozcă             Cristina Andreea Stan – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania The Romanian marker păi and its English equivalent well in professional spoken interaction
19.30	Social dinner (meeting point: Piața Revoluției / Revolution square – Equestrian statue of King Charles I – see map here)

WEDNESDAY – 16 October 2019

8.30-9.00	REGISTRATION
9.00-10.00	Invited speaker: MANFRED STEDE University of Potsdam, Germany From connectives to discourse relations – an analysis of CONTRAST
10.00-11.00	SESSION 4 – DISCOURSE MARKERS IN USE Liana Pop – Babeș-Bolyai University  of Cluj-Napoca, Romania The oral description and its markers: a corpus-based analysis Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin, Monica Vasileanu – Romanian Academy Institute of Linguistics                Romanian Anglicisms: from fully-fledged lexical items to discourse markers
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-13.30	SESSION 5 – ISSUES OF PRAGMATICALISATION (2) Andra Vasilescu – University of Bucharest, Romania Reloaded for an update: uită-te! (vb.imper. look at…!) vs uite! (interj. look!/here!) Cecilia-Mihaela Popescu – University of Craiova, Romania           Mersi, apropo, pardon en roumain actuel: de l’étymologie à la pragmatique lexicale Sorina-Alexandra Silivestru – University of Bucharest, Romania The use of hashtag in Facebook status updates Claudia Timoci – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania Les verbes parenthétiques en roumain parlé
13.30-15.00	Lunch break
15.00-16.30	SESSION 6 – DISCOURSE MARKERS: VARIATION ACROSS REGISTERS Rodica Zafiu – University of Bucharest, Romania                 Le marqueur discursif de fapt (en fait): variation selon les registres de langue et les types de textes Ana Vučićević, Katarina Subanović – University of Kragujevac, Serbia Interactive metadiscourse in academic book reviews in Serbian and English: subgenre variation Liliana Hoinărescu – Romanian Academy Institute of Linguistics, Romania Epistemic certainty and metalinguistic of truth in political discourse
16.30-17.00	Coffee break
17.00-18.30	SESSION 7 – PRAGMATIC MARKERS IN RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE Luminița Hoarţă Cărăușu – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania A taxonomy of the pragmatic markers within the current Romanian religious discourse Andrea di Manno – La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Translating connectors: the case of Old Church Slavonic Anamaria Grecu – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania Metadiscourse functions and markers in current religious discourse (catechesis)
18.30-19.45	Closing remarks

THURSDAY, 17 October 2019

Social activity – Guided walking tour of Old Bucharest (from approx. 9.30-10.00 to approx. 12.30-13.00)