Programme

Provisional Program

November 20th 2025 

9h15 opening words

9h30 Ad Foolen (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) : “Loaded language in woke discourse”

10h Lieven Vandelanotte (Université de Namur & KU Leuven, Belgium) & Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia, UK) :  “Performing emotions in discourse across image and text”

10h30-11h Coffee Break 

 11h Ismaël Pozner, Gil van Mulders & Louis de Saussure (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) : “Fleshing out meaning: Understanding with experiences”

 11h30-12h30 KEYNOTE speaker:  Laura Alba-Juez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain) “I’ll never call him dad again” : Emotional inferences and embodiment in the Giselle Pélicot sexual assault case in France. 

12h30-14h00 LUNCH

14h Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel (Sorbonne University, INSPE de Paris, France), Christelle Dodane (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France) & Aliyah Morgenstern (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France) : “Embodied negation: a developmental perspective on a French child’s coordination of action, gesture, and speech”

14h30 Aurore Vincenti (Independent researcher, France) : “‘No’ a short word for a big job:  the somatic and political implications of setting boundaries”

 15h00 Virginie Iché (University of Montpellier Paul Valéry, France) : “The Pleasure of Offense in 21st-Century Stand-up Comedy Specials: A (Multimodal) Pragmatic Analysis of Louis CK and Dave Chappelle”

15h30-16h Coffee break 

 16h00 Anne Holm (Linnaeus University, Sweden) : “Mediating Authenticity: Multilingualism and Metaphoric Gestures as Communicative Resources in Spoken Word Poetry”

 16h30 Amandine Vattaire (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, France) : “Characters of Sonic Bodies: The Enactive Potential of Expressivity in Audiobooks”

17h00 Jean-Rémi Lapaire (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France) : “Engaging the ‘phenomenal body’ in language learning” 

 19h30 Dinner in Town

 November 21th 2025

 9h KEYNOTE speaker Christopher HART (Lancaster University, UK) : “The Embodied Performance of Right-Wing Populism”

10h Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy) : “Translating the Body: Italian Criminal Discourse in English Subtitles”

10h30 Steffen Wöll (Leipzig University, Germany) : “Speaking, Seeing, Touching, Dying: Transforming the Body through (Visual) Language in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome”

11h-11h30 Coffee break

11h30 Amalia Cotoi (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Roumania) : “Linguistic Bodies During Covid-19 in Contemporary Novels”

 12h Gi Taek Ryoo (Chungbuk National University, Korea) : “Feeling the Climate Crisis: The Affective Dimension of Experimental Language”

12h30-14h00 LUNCH

14h00 KEYNOTE speaker Ezequiel A. Di Paolo (Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain) : “The historicity of linguistic bodies”

15h00 Aliyah Morgenstern (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France) Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel (Sorbonne University & INSPE, France) & al : “Embodied Language and Multimodal Coordination in French Family Dinners”

15h30 Solenn Delannoye (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) :  "The expression and embodiment of surprise in adult-child interaction: A medium for socialization"

16h-16h30 Coffee break  

16h30 Cédric Sarré (Sorbonne University, INSPE, France) : “‘Working on my poker face!’ Multimodal manifestations of self-conscious emotions in technology-mediated talk-in-interaction”

17h00 Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris University, France) : “Exploring Perlocutionary Effects and Expressive Communication in Coach-Athlete Interactions: A Linguistic Study of Table Tennis Coaching”