Workshop programme

All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Friday, 30 May 2025

14.15–14.30 Introduction
14.30–15.00 Daniel Kölligan (JMU Würzburg): Wordplay and exclusion in ancient Greek epic and the magical papyri
15.00–15.30 Haoran Liu (Université de Lorraine, Metz): Wordplay as a tool of building an online community on X founded on connivence
15.30–16.00 Matthias Hausmann (JMU Würzburg): Words that (should not!) exclude: Scientific explanations in science fiction and in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Eve future
16.00–16.30 Coffee break
16.30–17.30 Stéphane Hardy (Universität Siegen): Secret argots and exclusion: The case of Parisian largonji du louchébem and Pertuisien louchébeum / Argots secrets et exclusion : le cas du largonji du louchébem parisien et du louchébeum pertuisien (the paper will be presented in French, the discussion will be in French & English)
17.30–18.00 Patrice Clarke (The University of the West Indies, St Augustine): Di muor yu luk, di les yu si: Wordplay, Duplicity, and Exclusion in Dancehall Songs
18.00–18.15 Interim summary

Saturday, 31 May 2025

9.15–9.30 Warm-up
9.30–10.30 Michael Haugh & Wei-Lin Melody Chang (University of Queensland): The paradoxical role of jocular wordplay in intercultural L1-L2 initial interactions
10.30–11.00 Mauro LeDonne & Silvia Cacchiani (University for Foreigners of Perugia & University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): From irony to exclusion: Blends and related word-formation processes in Italian political discourse
11.00–11.30 Coffee break
11.30–12.00 Gordana Lalić-Krstin & Nadežda Silaški (University of Novi Sad & University of Belgrade): Protests, puns and placards: humor and wordplay in Serbia’s 2024-2025 student uprising
12.30–13.00 Esme Winter-Froemel (JMU Würzburg): Fun, but not for everyone: Exclusion in multiple-addressed wordplay traditions in French
13.00–13.30 Final discussion

Registration

The workshop will take place in an online format. Participation is free. Please register by Wednesday 28 May 2025 (11 am CEST) by sending an e-mail with your name and contact information to silvia.feser@uni-wuerzburg.de.
The link to access the workshop will be sent out to the participants shortly before the workshop.